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"Old but Vigorous 老当益壮 (lǎo dāng yì zhuàng)"
Who is he:
Quite possibly the oldest general by age in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. By the time of his fatal injury that he sustained in combat, Huang Zhong was already 75 years old. His age is probably exaggerated, much like many of the other details in the story. In fact, no record exists that could determine his age. The legend of Huang Zhong is, therefore, 80% influenced by Romance of the Three Kingdoms and not so much by true history. Nonetheless, Huang Zhong was an incredible general, very powerful in combat and deadly accurate with the bow and arrow. The game makers of San Guo Sha 三国杀 really put his attacking abilities to the extreme! More about his character abilities below.
Character ability: " Fearsome Archer 烈弓 (liè gōng)"
After selecting a player as the target of your ATTACK 杀 in your action phase, you can disallow this ATTACK 杀 to be responded with DODGE 闪 under the following circumstances:
1. The number of on-hand cards of the target player is greater or equal to your current units of health.
2. The number of on-hand cards of the target player is smaller or equal to your attack range.
Synergistic Partners:
Wei Yan 魏延 (Colleague since serving Han Xuan 韩玄)
Difference from Normal SanGuoSha:
The ability description is slightly changed to clarify the timing to activate "Fearsome Archer". If you are not a stickler for fine details in wording, the ability is essentially the same.
Ability's Relation to Story:
I wonder if the game makers are helping Huang Zhong make up for his age by giving him such an extreme character ability. Nothing close to this kind of combat prowess (where enemies cannot escape his attacks) is described in the story. A thin link to the story is possible when you consider that Huang Zhong is a celebrated archer. Perhaps the game makers wanted to give this famous archer the advantage by matching his weapon. Read about his matching weapon below.
In fact, Luo Guanzhong portrayed Huang Zhong as an outstanding archer. When Huang Zhong was first introduced in the story, he was said to able to bend the three-hundred-pound bow and possessed perfect accuracy. When he fought Guan Yu 关羽, he managed to fake Guan Yu twice with his bow, and then he shot an arrow that could kill Guan Yu instantly. However, he did not want to kill Guan Yu since Guan Yu spared his life once, so he shot an arrow that stoke the plume of Guan Yu's helmet intentionally. Wow!
According to Zhuo You Zhi magazine, the two pre-requisites of "Fearsome Archer" referred to two of Huang Zhong's characteristics. Long attack range referred to his marksmanship, while low health refers to his age. When one of these pre-requisites was fulfilled, he could strike his enemy with his marksmanship.


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Your screen is to small to play this online game.
This is a simple mid air combat game where you take control of a WWI fighter plane and destroy all of the enemy planes. The challenge is to survive for as long as you can as the enemy units continue to stop you. Try to avoid getting hit by the enemy plane/fire or you'll lose fuel and might even crash. Just keep your eyes on the power indicated by the meter at the top while playing the game. Complete a series of dangerous missions then challenge the evil Red Baron for supremacy of the skies. Enjoy the game!
Use your mouse to control the plane and to fire. Drop Bombs with Space Bar (2nd level and onwards).
Do you like to fly in an airplane, and also to play a free online flash game? If you are in the same mood as us today, you probably would like to play the free online Hostile Skies browser game right now. Am I right? ;)
David Morgan reveals what it is really like to be a jet fighter pilot in this vivid memoir from the Falklands War. In 1982, David Morgan was an RAF officer, on secondment to the Royal Navy, when the Argentine invasion took place. He flew in the first British air strike against the enemy positions around Port Stanley, the raid memorably described by BBC reporter Brian Hanrahan who "counted them all out, and counted them all back." But three out of 30 British pilots were killed during the first week. Morgan was first on the scene at Bluff Cove, where Argentine jets had bombed the landing ships Sir Tristram and Sir Galahad, with great loss of life. He and his wingman pounced on four enemy Skyhawk fighter-bombers: he shot down two, his wingman hit the third; the fourth managed to escape after jettisoning his weapons and drop tanks.
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Art Full Of Gratitude
Eat Your Art Out Chandler was a success. Thank you to all those who went and ate their "art" out. It was wonderful to see the community supporting the arts. A special thank you to all of the restaurants and their staff who participated. We can't wait for next year! In the meantime, please continue to go out to eat and support the restaurants who graciously supported us.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
February is Fantastic
February is just around the corner. The month is full of celebration, love and of course great shows. Before we know it, Valentine's day will be here. So now is the time to pre-plan how you will celebrate this month. How about a fantastic show at the Arts Center? Yes, we think it is a brilliant idea as well.
The first weekend in February kicks off with death defying stunts, twisting contortionists. precision stunts and jaw dropping acts. The Golden Dragon Acrobats represent the best of a time honored tradition that began more than twenty-five centuries ago. The Golden Dragons are recognized throughout the United States and abroad as the premiere Chinese acrobatic touring company of today. This show is sure to be filled with traditional dance, spectacular costumes, ancient and contemporary music and theatrical techniques to present a show of breathtaking skill and spellbinding beauty. Purchase tickets here.
The following weekend, on February 9, Mr. Las Vegas (Wayne Newton) will entertain our audience. Wayne has performed live, at last count, to more than 30 million people. He has epitomized the talent, glamor and energy that are Las Vegas. He is a master at showmanship. He sizes up audiences as he goes, tailoring shows to fit their moods, until he's given them their money's worth. The songs change and the show gets re-worked, but Wayne's basic approach is the same. Wayne says, "I know what it means to save your money to go see someone perform, and I'll work as hard as I have to, to try and make sure they enjoy it." Purchase tickets here.
Prepare your abs for some laughing as we approach the 15th of February. The Southern 6'2" Hall of Fame speaker, Jeanne Robertson, will tickle your funny bone. Jeanne is a professional speaker who specializes in hilarious humor based on her life experiences. Speaking to thousands of people annually, she utilizes her positively funny style to illustrate that a sense of humor is much more than a laughing matter. It is a strategy for success. She believes that this humor attitude can be developed and improved, and she outlines how to do so while captivating audiences with funny, original stories. Purchase tickets here.
The following day, February 16, the Pushcart Players take the stage an all-new production of "Happily Ever After… A Cinderella Tale." It is known to most of us as "Cinderella," but they've named it "Happily Ever After…A Cinderella Tale." It seems that we are never too old, nor do we ever grow tired of hearing this beloved story. Perhaps it is because it's about overcoming adversity…about dreaming dreams and about goodness, generosity and compassion. And, perhaps because it's also about things that can help us learn and grow, such as the unbecoming nature of bully behavior; the importance of making good choices and being responsible for the choices we make. Whatever the reasons, audiences love the music, the magic and the funny, beautiful and zany characters in our story. It's a wondrous journey from long, long ago – to happily ever after. Purchase tickets here.
As we jump into the next weekend, don't let those abs go soft. Emmy Award winning comedienne, Vicki Lawrence, and Mama will be here. Vicki is one of the most beloved television personalities of her generation as a part of the now-legendary cast of the Carol Burnett Show. Ms. Lawrence will take the stage first. "We have designed a show that is a mixture of stand-up comedy, music and my observations about real life." When "Mama" takes the stage next, Ms. Lawrence says, "I think people will get a kick out of the things "Mama" has an opinion about. Where "Mama" is concerned, expect the unexpected. There's really nothing she can't do," she says. Purchase tickets here.
And to finish off the month we will celebrate with a day full of food. February 26 is Eat Your Art Out Chandler. This is a community event that brings together Chandler restaurants, arts patrons and corporate sponsors for one day to show their support for the arts in Chandler. Funds from Eat Your Art Out Chandler support various programs at the Center including headline entertainment, the Free Summer Concert Series and the Connecting Kidz programs. Restaurants help by donating a percentage of their proceeds to the Chandler Center for the Arts on that day. You help by eating at one or more of the participating restaurants.
So pull out your calendar and "pencil" us in. February is bound to be a great month.
Vintage Dine
Food, Glorious Food! It's Artsy Fartsy Foodies Tuesday and we have another great Eat Your Art Out Chandler restaurant to introduce. Today we are exploring Vintage 95.
As you pull up to the Vintage 95 building you can instantly sense the rich history imbedded in the walls. In 1926, the building was originally Chandler's first Post Office. Since then, the building has been used for a variety of businesses. Today it holds the deliciously classic Vintage 95.
The idea for Vintage 95 came when owners, Gavin Jacobs, Craig Hills, and Tricia Hills united to realize a vision of creativity and passion. This vision turned into the sophisticated and inviting atmosphere enticing anyone to come in and dine. Vintage 95's food and beverage program consists of contemporary American with a twist on the classics.* In conducting our research we explored the menu. Each menu is filled with gems of delight, for example the Mexican Chocolate Mousse which is served with a Chili Dusted Chocolate Truffle (yes please!).
From Sunday brunch to a Tuesday evening and beyond, Vintage 95 is committed to giving their guests amazing service, delicious food, and an unsurpassed selection of wine to the city of Chandler. For your next meal out, swing by Vintage 95 and explore their menu.
Don't forget to visit them for dinner on Tuesday, Febraury 26 (Eat Your Art Out Chandler)!
95 W. Boston Street
Chandler, AZ 85225
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Vintage95
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Vintage95Lounge
Please support the restaurants who support us! When you grab lunch or go out to dinner, try one of the participating Eat Your Art Out Chandler Restaurants.
On a side note…
Restaurants can still sign up for Eat Your Art Out Chandler on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. If your favorite restaurant is not on the list, let us know and we will contact them to see if they would like to participate. Bon Appétit!
*All historical information was selected from http://www.vintage95.com/story.html


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A little over two months away, though I'm thinking most fans don't think of the wait as "little," Game of Thrones released a bunch of new images to get us even more excited for Season 6.
These images have of course been carefully chosen not to drop any major hints at what is to come, but that doesn't mean they are not worth having a look. Anyways, you don't need me to sell it just have a look at the beautiful images below.
After you've stopped drooling, mark your calendars as Game of Thrones returns for its sixth season on April 24th.
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"I understand that my clients are seeking, and deserve, risk mitigation strategies for their workforce in conjunction with aggressive and efficient representation in litigation. I aim to understand my clients' business from a big picture perspective so that I can both defend their decisions from yesterday and effectively guide them on decisions for tomorrow."
— Katharine Batista
Ms. Batista is a Labor & Employment attorney that assists her clients when deciding issues like: If my employee has exhausted her FMLA leave and remains out, am I required to hold her position open? Can I terminate my employee for testing positive for marijuana? Will this non-compete agreement be enforced? She helps her clients answer these and similar questions, and vigorously defends their decisions. She represents businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, banks, retailers and health care providers, in the spectrum of employment and labor claims. Specifically, Ms. Batista successfully defends employers against claims of discrimination and harassment, retaliation, wrongful terminations and wage and hour violations. An employee's post-separation conduct often requires legal advice and action too. Ms. Batista commonly represents her clients in bringing actions for breach of restrictive covenants and contractual interference, as well as defends them against such claims. Employment and labor law is ever changing. Employers need to feel secure in how they manage their employees so they can focus on their business. Ms. Batista affords her clients that security.
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- Counsels her clients on employee issues such as hiring and termination, disability and medical leave, use of social media, internal complaints, overtime and classification issues, union disputes and non-competition agreements;
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- Presents and trains on topics such as employment law basics, managing sick and injured employees, sexual harassment, internal investigations, Department of Labor audits, legislative and regulatory changes and emerging employment law trends.
Ms. Batista serves on the Board of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management where she plans the programming and presents on employment law topics. In 2017, 2018, and 2019, Ms. Batista was selected by SuperLawyers to the 2017, 2018, and 2019 Pennsylvania Rising Stars list.
- Obtained summary judgment for national bank in breach of contact action filed by former employee seeking substantial severance pay;
- Successfully defended national auto parts retail company in federal court against claims of national origin and race discrimination;
- Obtained summary judgment for national bank in breach of contract action for alleged unpaid recruiting fees;
- Revised and implemented internal investigation policy and process for responding to internal complaints for global chemical and engineering company;
- Successfully enforced arbitration agreement and obtained dismissal of federal court litigation for national department store;
- Successfully advised international company being investigated by department of labor, which was resolved without company owing back wages or a lawsuit being initiated;
- Obtained summary judgment for emergency management and security company against claims of sex harassment and retaliation in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family Medical Leave Act; and
- Obtained affirmation of district court decision granting summary judgment for industrial manufacturer in matter alleging workers compensation retaliation and disability discrimination.
Before joining Offit Kurman, Ms. Batista worked at a national employment and labor law firm, representing management exclusively. During her tenure there, Ms. Batista completed a secondment as the only in-house employment and labor counsel at a global chemical, science and engineering company. Ms. Batista also practiced general litigation at a prominent mid-sized firm in Stamford, Connecticut. Before entering private practice, Ms. Batista clerked at the Connecticut Appellate Court for the Honorable Richard A. Robinson, now Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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A group of people believed to be Ahmadiyah followers fight back as Indonesian mainstream Muslims try to attack their mosque in Manislor village, Kuningan district, on Thursday. (AFP Photo/Yonda)
Ahmadiyah Clashes Continue in Indonesia
As the standoff between West Java villagers and followers of the Ahmadiyah sect entered its fourth day, the Ministry of Religious Affairs said it was trying to mediate the week-long dispute, which flared into violence again on Thursday.
Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said the tension was essentially a "political problem." He did not elaborate further but urged the warring parties to settle their dispute peacefully.
"Differences of opinion over religion should not be solved with violence but through discussion," he said.
The Ahmadiyah is perceived as a deviant sect by mainstream Islam. The government has stopped the group from worshiping in public but has fallen short of banning it altogether.
After a failed attempt to seal the sect's mosques in a village in Kuningan on Monday, police and the Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) followed through with the closures on Wednesday, meeting fierce resistance.
"Government officials have an obligation to protect citizens without looking at their beliefs," Ifdhal Kasim, the chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) told the Jakarta Globe on Thursday. "Sealing their house of worship is against the Constitution."
Ahmadiyah followers and security forces clashed again on Thursday as groups opposed to the sect joined local police and Mobile Brigade (Brimob) units trying to close several mosques.
Groups claiming to support a pure form of Islam against the Ahmadiyah gathered around the entrance to Manis Lor village in Kuningan in the morning, following the sealing of eight Ahmadiyah mosques in the village, a local police officer said.
"At first, the anti-Ahmadiyah groups pelted the mosque with stones. The followers of Ahmadiyah were angry because their mosque was attacked, and there was fighting," the officer said of Thursday's violence, which reportedly stopped just after midday prayers. Ifdhal said Ahmadiyah followers were the real victims in the violence.
"They face many forms of discrimination. Their access to education and livelihood is limited and at the same time they are facing a government that facilitates the discrimination," he said.
Bonar Tigor Naipospos, deputy chairman of the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy, said the state should guarantee religious freedom to all, including the Ahmadiyah.
The group is often a target of orthodox Muslims worldwide because of its claim that the sect's founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, is the last prophet, a view many consider blasphemy.
The government passed a decree in 2008 prohibiting the sect from practicing its faith in public or trying to convert others to its beliefs. [**]
According to Setara, which monitors religious tolerance, the past month has seen a sharp increase in acts of violence against the Ahmadiyah, especially in West Java.
"The use of public pressure and regional government power has been a systematic pattern in violations of religious freedom recently," Bonar said.
The Kuningan district government has used pressure groups to back its effort to close the Ahmadiyah mosques in Manis Lor, but Bonar doubts they are local villagers. "According to our sources, these people did not come from Kuningan, but from other areas such as Ciamis and Tasikmalaya," he said.
Bonar urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to show his commitment to pluralism by speaking out against the violence.
The statement is erroneous. Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian did not make any such claim of being last prophet. Please visit Alislam.org/messiah for further info.


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Personalized Ornaments For You *Review #christmas2016
Personalized Ornaments For You, not only had an ornament for 9 names, but actually had a selection of several!
I looked in the Family and Large Groups section to find my ornaments. They have thought of everything from single parent families to those who want to include their cats and dogs.
You can even have a group of twelve or more on an ornament.
I ordered easily online, double checking my names and making sure everything was in order. I had the ornaments on my door step in 2 days!!! I was truly amazed at the quick turn around and shipment. They were wrapped in bubble wrap and came packaged very well.
There are over 7,000 ornaments to choose from! There is honestly something for everyone on your list. Now that I have one with all of our names on it, I think it would be a fun tradition to get each of the kids one with their own name on it each year as a keepsake.
I was very impressed with the quality of the ornament and the price. It is rather heavy and breakable, so I put it on my fire place mantle rather than hang it on the tree with a toddler and cat. It is simply gorgeous.
There is even room for you to write a sentiment on the back if you are gifting these to someone.
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Cyrus Chestnut born on January 17, 1963, in Baltimore, Maryland; son of McDonald (a retired post office employee and church organist) and Flossie (a city social services worker and church choir director). Chestnut started his musical career at the age of six, playing piano at Mount Calvary Baptist Church in hometown. By age nine, he was studying classical music at Peabody Institute. In 1985, Chestnut earned a degree in jazz composition and arranging from Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music. While at Berklee, Chestnut was awarded the Eubie Blake Fellowship (1982), the Quincy Jones Scholarship (1983), and the Oscar Peterson Scholarship (1984).
Chestnut toured as pianist for Jon Hendricks, 1986-88; Terrence Blanchard, 1988-90; Donald Harrison, 1988-90; Wynton Marsalis, 1991; and the Betty Carter Trio, 1991-93. His association with Carter, which began in '91, significantly affected his outlook and approach to music, confirming his already iconoclastic instincts. Carter advised him to "take chances" and "play things I've never heard," Chestnut says.
In 1993, at the age of 30, Chestnut signed with Atlantic Records, releasing the critically-acclaimed Revelation (1993), followed by The Dark Before The Dawn (1994) (the album debuted in the sixth spot on the Billboard Jazz Charts), Earth Stories (1995) and then Cyrus Chestnut (1998). Chestnut has also performed and/or recorded with, Freddy Cole, Bette Midler, Jon Hendricks, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Scott, Chick Corea, Isaac Hayes, Kevin Mahogany, Dizzy Gillespie, and opera diva Kathleen Battle, most notably on the Sony Classical recording "So Many Stars". Their shared church roots resulted in such a positive chemistry between Battle and Chestnut that he then joined the star soprano on a Fall 1996 U.S. Tour. Later that same year came Blessed Quietness: A Collection of Hymns, Spirituals and Carols (1996), a reverently assembled album of traditional numbers deeply instilled with the gospel and blues Chestnut grew up listening to. In addition to appearing on the soundtrack to director Robert Altman's 1996 feature film "Kansas City", Cyrus also made his big screen debut portraying a Count Basie-inspired pianist.
In 2000, Chestnut collaborated with Vanessa L. Williams, Brian McKnight, The Manhattan Transfer and The Boys' Choir of Harlem on A Charlie Brown Christmas. In 2001, he released Soul Food featuring bassist Christian McBride, drummer Lewis Nash and special guest soloists including James Carter, Stefon Harris, Wycliffe Gordon and Marcus Printup. This acclaimed album was included in Down Beat's list of the best records of 2002 and ascended to "Top 10" on the Jazz Charts. Chestnut continually tours with his trio, playing live at jazz festivals around the world as well as clubs and concert halls. His leadership and prowess as a soloist has also led him to be a first call for the piano chair in many big bands including the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, and Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra.
In 2006, Chestnut released his first album Genuine Chestnut on TelArc Records. On it he is accompanied by his regular trio which includes Michael Hawkins, bass and Neal Smith, drums. Additional artists on board for this session include Russell Malone, guitar and Steven Kroon, percussion. Includes satisfying jazz interpretations of some well known pop numbers of the past half century, including If, the early 70s soft-rock ballad by Bread. This song has been with me ever since the sixth grade, Chestnut recalls. I had to play it for my English teacher's wedding. I've played it in many and various contexts. I actually played it in a Top 40 band when I was just out of school. A lot of time has passed, but then recently I just started thinking about it again. Best of all, he plays gospel tunes with a heartfelt fervor that never descends into sentimentality. Chestnut's own "Mason Dixon Line" is one of the album's high points, a joyful bebop number that makes you hope he'll someday do a whole album of Bud Powell compositions. The album's relentless, midtempo pleasantness makes it easy to stop paying attention by about halfway through, but every time you catch yourself drifting and start listening closely again, you'll notice something else wonderful.


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Today, Tom and I are discussing our top ten "gateway" books/authors! :)
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely ladies at The Broke and the Bookish! -J & T
10. John Grisham (Jess)
Grisham led to other popular fiction authors, and I haven't stopped reading to this day!
9. Cormac McCarthy (Tom)
It's the first time I started enjoying literary fiction, and I haven't stopped reading every since!
8. Suzanne Collins (Jess)
I can never forget how blown away I was while reading, marveling over all the details about District 12, the bleakness of Katniss's life, and the drama of the games.
7. Maureen Johnson (Tom)
I was wrong. This book was amazing, and totally showed me why YA is so popular. Since reading Maureen Johnson, I'm now game to read any YA that now comes my way!
6. Nancy Mitford (Jess)
It's hilarious, memorable, and has made me totally more open to reading more British humor.
(Seriously, if you guys haven't read this book, please do!)
5. John Le Carre (Tom)
Since then, I'm always a game for a good spy book!
4. Jack Finney (Jess)
His About Time is still one of my favorite sci-fi books, and I totally credit Finney for helping me discover more authors like Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke.
3. Victor Hugo (Tom)
Since then, I've moved on to Dickens and other classic fiction!
2. Baroness Orczy (Jess)
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New Yorkers who recently celebrated gay marriage and health insurance companies are looking into benefits to see what changes will be made. Chris Hawley and Michael Hall of the Associated Press wrote about this in their article "NYers ask how gay marriage will affect benefits." Many people hope to add their same sex spouse to their insurance plans and save money. But some companies who compare health insurance plans before and after New York legalized gay marriage won't be making any changes at all. There are employers who put restrictions on domestic partner benefits and it remains to be seen if and how these restrictions will be changed now that the marriage is legal.
With well over 40,000 same sex couples in New York, the question of how legalized marriage will affect health insurance benefits is important. Many of the couples are already legally married in other places, but now that their marriages are legal in New York, insurance and tax consequences will follow. State taxes will be reduced and offer savings for the newly married and those whose unions are now legal in New York. But because their unions are not recognized federally, the differences between state and federal taxes will become more complicated. Health insurance, taxes, adoption and estate selling are the most common financial changes that will occur with the new laws, but other areas of life will be affected as well.
Couples who are married do not get taxed on their employer's contribution to health plans from companies like Aultcare health insurance, for the costs to cover their spouse. Even if same sex couples were able to get their partner covered under their health insurance plan, as is the case in about one-third of businesses, the working spouse was taxed on the employer contributions toward their partner's coverage. Now that their marriages are legal in New York, same sex couples will see savings from this tax. But those who maybe weren't planning on getting married could risk losing same sex domestic partnership benefits now that they can legally get married. It might force some couples to get married once they compare health insurance benefits that could be lost if they don't, but not all companies will force people to marry to keep their benefits. There are quite a few changes that same sex couples, businesses, and the government will have to figure out with gay marriage legalization in New York.


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Palladium has been staging record highs for the better part of the last seven months, outstripping even the most bullish forecasts made during 2018 as a supply squeeze inflated the metal's price.
Palladium has been staging record highs for the better part of the last seven months, outstripping even the most bullish forecasts made during 2018 as a supply squeeze inflated the metal's price.
Recession woes have spread over the investment environment of late and the latest developments in debt markets have hit financial equities hardest. An acute selloff across equity markets spurred leveraged short-selling as investors are bracing for a dismal earnings season. The Brazilian administration is facing an uphill political struggle to fix a burdening social security system while the U.S. dollar closed the list after a dovish central bank decision. Check our previous trends edition at Trending: Transport Equities Up Despite Lack of Progress on Trade
Supply Constraints Take Palladium to Uncharted Territory
The precious metal widely used in the automotive industry has nearly doubled in value since last August as a demand-fueled rally continued with supply woes in an already tight market. Palladium has seen its viewership rise 75% over the last week as prices hit a new record, breaking the $1,600 per ounce barrier.
Most recently, a Russian ban on several metal exports hit the palladium market and supported prices despite an estimated slowdown in vehicle sales. The world's top palladium producer is weighing a ban on precious metals scrap and tailings to promote domestic refining of the materials. Another impetus for its price, the Chinese stimulus plan may spur demand even further as the Asian behemoth hosts the largest auto market.
The record run for the metal primarily used by automakers for catalytic converter manufacturing has also been backed by several mining strikes in the world's second largest producer, South Africa. Nearly 60% of the global palladium production goes into catalytic converters and 95% of the vehicles sold in Europe are equipped with such a device.
A play into the palladium territory, Aberdeen Standard Physical Palladium Shares ETF (PALL A) stands to gain over the long run from a perfect secular backdrop for the metal's bull run stemmed from an ever-tightening cycle of vehicle emissions regulation. Despite losing some ground over the last few days, a reaction to growing fears of a recession, the ETF still holds a nearly 13% year-to-date performance. Use our "head to head comparison tool":http://etfdb.com/tool/etf-comparison to compare two ETFs such as (PALL A) and (EZA B+) on a variety of criteria such as performance, AUM, trading volume and expenses.


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Red Velvet will be making a comeback at the end of this month. Look forward to a brand new album.
The group will release their 5th mini-album, "RBB", on November 30th. The 6-track album will contain the lead track, "RBB (Really Bad Boy)", written by Kenzie.
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- Taste
- RBB (Really Bad Boy) [English vers.]
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If you decide to take part you will be invited to attend the cardiovascular laboratory at the Tom Reilly Building.
Briefly, the first visit will last 30 minutes, where you will be familiarised with the equipment, and we will measure your height and weight and undertake short incremental fitness test in order to determine your individual intensity for the further exercise visits. The next visits (two for men, four for women) will last approximately three hours and we will use ultrasound to scan an artery in your arm (the brachial artery) and take a small blood sample before and after the exercise (10min, 1h, 2h, 24h). The exercise will last 20-30 minutes.
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The results are in: Thousands of people shared their experiences about shopping for auto insurance in a national study, and Erie Insurance was awarded "Highest Satisfaction with the Auto Insurance Purchase Experience."
Erie Insurance earned the highest score among auto insurers in providing a satisfying purchase experience in 2019, with a score of 917 on a 1,000-point scale. The industry average was 852.
ERIE has ranked highest in the study consecutively since 2013.
"This recognition speaks directly to the importance of an insurance agent in the shopping experience. The guidance, insight and personal attention ERIE agents give to their customers is not something that can be replicated online," said Tim NeCastro, president and CEO of Erie Insurance. "To receive this distinction for the seventh consecutive year is a tremendous honor."
The U.S. Insurance Shopping Study measures auto insurance shopping, purchase behavior and purchase experience satisfaction among customers who recently purchased insurance. Satisfaction is measured on three factors (in order of importance):
- Price: How customers rate their new auto insurance provider on the price of the policy given the level of coverage. (Read more: What Determines the Price of My Auto Insurance?)
- Distribution channel: How customers rate their experience interacting with their new auto provider's agent, call center reps and website. (Read more: 6 Reasons You'll Love Having an Independent Insurance Agent)
- Policy offerings: How customers rate the variety of coverage options, the degree to which their needs are met and the ease of obtaining a new policy. (Read more: Your Ultimate Guide to Understanding Auto Insurance)
The J.D. Power 2019 U.S. Insurance Shopping Study SM provides an in-depth look at the auto insurance policy selection process. It explores why customers shop, their attitudes toward and perceptions of auto insurance brands and how they make their final purchase decision.
The study is based on responses from more than 14,400 insurance customers who requested an auto insurance price quote from at least one competitive insurer in the past nine months and includes more than 38,800 unique customer evaluations of insurers. The study was fielded in April, July and October 2018 and January 2019.


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Grounds Cafe, Top Lodge, Fineshade Woods
Millie and I were attending one of the Stamford and Peterborough Sling Library sessions at Top Lodge, Fineshade Woods so I decided to try out the cafe there.
First things first, it's important to know that there are parking charges here (£1.50 for 3 hours or £4 all day) which you can pay using cash or by phone using the PaySmarti system. If you plan on visiting regularly then it may be worth buying a 'Discovery Pass' for £30 a year then you can park for free. There's more than just a cafe here so you can easily spend 3 hours or more walking one of the trails, letting your children play in the large play area, using the bird hide or becoming a Gruffalo spotter using the augmented reality app.
Access into the cafe is really easy and there's so much space between the tables that you will have no difficulty in pushing the pram around or finding somewhere to leave it. There's also a conservatory-style area with seating and picnic tables outside so finding a table shouldn't be a problem. It was really quiet when I was there but I can imagine it gets pretty busy at times.
There were four wooden highchairs which were clean with working straps (hooray!). They were a teeny bit low for the table but this didn't seem to bother Millie and she had no trouble having her snack. It's easier for Millie to use this style of highchair now she is much more stable so it doesn't fill me with dread anymore but if you're little one is a wobbly, then it might be worth using a highchair insert.
I was impressed with the menu here as it consisted of a large range of drinks, gelato, sandwiches, toasties, soup, muffins, cakes and cookies. When I placed my order, I was being a little fussy and asked if they could do a vanilla latte frappe without the vanilla and the lady said this was definitely possible (it wasn't possible at the cafe I was at a few days before!). She then asked if I would prefer the latte over ice rather than blended. As this is currently my favourite drink, I was over the moon! She was really friendly and went out of her way to deal with my fussy request. I also ordered a blueberry muffin which was really tasty. Although Millie had her own snack, she kept looking at my muffin longingly so I gave in and let her try some. As you can see from the picture below, she loved it!
Millie was due a bottle so I made it using hot water from my flask and went to ask for some cold water to cool it down. I stood in the queue behind a lady and her son who were waiting for their order when a gentleman who worked there saw me waiting, came over from his table where he was working on his iPad and asked if I needed some water. Later on, the same gentleman helped a lady who was struggling to open the door as she had a pram and two small children with her. What amazing customer service especially considering he wasn't even serving!
After Millie and I had finished eating (and Millie had covered the floor in crumbs), I started using a wipe to clean up the mess. The gentleman told me not to worry but I insisted and carried on. I always do my best to clear up as Millie makes a real mess and it isn't fair on the staff to have to clean it all up. The gentleman told me he was happy to see someone making the effort as they have some people who come in with babies and children who leave behind so much mess. Come on mummies and daddies, at least make a bit of an effort to clear up the worst of it! On my way out, he also helped me with the door. It's people like that who make me come back to cafes as they make you feel so welcome.
On my way back to the car, I noticed on the doors that both the ladies and gents toilets contain changing facilities. Obviously I didn't check the gents but in the ladies, outside the cubicles, there was a pull down changing table with safety strap. You can just about squeeze the pram in there but that could then make it difficult for others to access the cubicles and sinks so it's best to leave the pram outside. It's great that both the ladies and gents had a changing table but I much prefer a bit of privacy so wasn't overly struck on the changing table being in the main part of the bathroom.
This cafe had lots of positives and Millie and I have decided we will definitely be back and will be bringing Daddy and the dog too so we can go for a lovely walk and then pop in to the cafe for a drink and a bit of a food. The only downside really was that once I was in the cafe, I lost my mobile phone signal (BT) and there was no wifi but then again, it was quite nice to be cut off from the world! I've given this cafe a rating of 'very good' as I was really pleased with the friendliness and helpfulness of the staff and the ease of access.


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Leaf Links is a golf course situated on a chain of islands in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Leaf Links is located west to Vice Point and is entirely divided by the Vice City River. Copious amount of miniature bridges interconnect Leaf Links to each other and to other city districts. Leaf Links also serves as a lesser-known mythical location.
Leaf Links is based on Normandy Shores Golf Course in Miami. However, it may be based Leith Links in Edinburgh, where Rockstar North is located, along with the fact that the game of golf originated from the same region. The Leaf Links is the sole wooded region in Vice City, originating myths like Bridge Trolls and Bigfoot. One of the Cement Shoe Men can also be found west to the Leaf Links. Players have also reported to have sighted the Sea Monster and Megalodon Shark around the island.


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Teenager burnt as firework thrown through window
A Norwich teenager was burnt after a firework was thrown through the window of his mother's home and set fire to the carpet.
A neighbour said the family, who live in Rolleston Close, were forced to flee their property as it filled with black smoke.
It is understood that the victim's 13-year-old son was burnt during the incident, which happened at about 8.30pm on Thursday, November 1.
A 33-year-old woman, who lives nearby, said: "I was upstairs at the time and the next thing I know I heard a lot of shouting.
"They came over to get help from my husband as he is an ex-fireman. There was a lot of smoke in the house and the carpet was on fire.
"They were very shocked about it all. No one has a clue who did it."
• Police are appealing for anyone with information to contact PC Richard Walker at Earlham Police Station on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.


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This professor of Middle Eastern history walks into a bar in Fez, Morocco right from the get-go, Mark LeVine's "Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam" is not your typical dry academic slog. (Did I mention he's also a longhaired Jewish rock guitarist whose bio lists gigs with Mick Jagger and Dr. John?) So when somebody in that hotel bar starts talking up the local punk and metal scenes, an incredulous LeVine is hooked. "There are Muslim punks? In Morocco?" Quicker than you can whistle "Rock the Casbah," he's on the trail of Western-influenced underground music movements that have blossomed under authoritarian regimes across the Middle East and North Africa.
Going to meet the seven-string guitarist Marz of Hate Suffocation, a Cairo band, LeVine confesses sheepishly, "I still couldn't tell the difference between death, doom, black, melodic, symphonic, grind-core, hard-core, thrash and half a dozen other styles." (Marz explains that his group plays a cross between death and black metal: "But it's not blackened death metal!") Despite a certain amount of scholarly dogma that goes with the territory here any combination of "neoliberal" and "globalization" is as ominous an epithet as Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" "Heavy Metal Islam" offers the hit-and-run (as well as hit-and-miss) pleasures of a lively road trip. Practicing a first-person brand of shuttle diplomacy as he moves between countries and cultures, musicians and Islamic activists, LeVine manages to unpack enough cross-cultural incongruities to mount his own mosh pit follow-up to "You Don't Mess With the Zohan."
An ex-Mossad hairdresser is scarcely more anomalous than disheveled Moroccan riot grrrls, virtuoso Egyptian metalheads, Lebanese "muhajababes" (young women wearing full head scarves, army fatigues, tight black T-shirts and Hezbollah wristbands), Tupac-influenced Palestinian M.C.'s, "the Israeli Oriental death-doom metal band Orphaned Land" (complete with a devoted Arab following) and rapt Iranian Iron Maiden acolytes. A participatory, hands-on guy, LeVine not only meets and eats with Muslim headbangers, he jams with them in apartments, studios and outdoor festivals, taking in the food and the noise and the people as if it were all a movable metal feast.
Eagerly seizing on the stereotype-busting possibilities of "an 18-year-old from Casablanca with spiked hair, or a 20-year-old from Dubai wearing goth makeup," LeVine would like us to see them as the faces of an emerging Muslim world, potentially a much less monochromatic place than the one represented on TV by the usual "Death to America" brigades. "Heavy Metal Islam" turns the notion of irreconcilable differences between Islam and the West on its head, appealing to the universality of youth culture as "a model for communication and cooperation" in the Internet age. LeVine reckons the likes of Metallica and Slayer provide a brute lingua franca that knows no borders, opening up breathing room in cloistered societies, gradually undermining rigid belief systems a benign, bottom-up brand of globalization as opposed to the ruthless corporate or state-sponsored kind.
It's that old-time Lennon/Bono rock idealism reimagined for a post-Cannibal Corpse world, and that's winning on a case-by-case basis. In lands where playing "satanic" music or even attending semi-clandestine concerts can get you thrown in jail (actually charged with things like "shaking the foundations of Islam"), there's something truly heartening about the Moroccan thrash girls Mystik Moods striving to break through centuries-old sexist taboos, or Hate Suffocation trying to carve out a niche to play music and "be left alone by both the government and society." In theocratic Iran, when Arthimoth's leader wears a T-shirt reading "Your God Is Dead," he's risking a fate much worse than being suspended from school or getting dirty looks at the mall.
"Heavy Metal Islam" gets trapped by its good intentions whenever it attempts to shoehorn the headbangers' intransigence into preconceived political slots. Metal music, however you parse it, is dystopian in the extreme: hyper-aggressively embracing the death instinct, regimented chaos, deliriously fetishized morbidity. Call it cathartic, sure, even a way of keeping sane in an insane world (as one performer here says, "We play heavy metal because our lives are heavy metal"), but don't confuse it with "If I Had a Hammer." Unless it's a hammer of the nihilist gods aimed at your forehead not to hammer out justice or a warning or "the common struggle for democracy and economic equality," but to crack your skull open, scrape out your pulverized brains and feed them to the wolverines.
Even though these antisocial bands want no part of hard-liners like the mystical Justice and Spirituality Association in Morocco or the spooky Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (and the disdain is often mutual), LeVine thinks if they could all put aside their petty differences and work together, they could start a domino effect in the Middle East like the one that toppled the Eastern bloc. (He's like the straight arrow in comic books who'd invariably look around at the scene of Armageddon and say with a sigh, "If only we could have harnessed their mutant energy for goodness.") The punch line of LeVine's informative, valuable and moderately mad book is twofold: this conscientious anti-imperialist has written a swell tract in favor of large-scale cultural imperialism a Marshall Amps Plan and his program is undoubtedly the first to enlist death metal as the spearhead of a new Peace Corps(e).


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I stood at the gas pump, stressed and overwhelmed. It had been a crazily busy day. It was way past the kids' bedtime, but they hadn't had a proper dinner yet, the pile of laundry waiting to be folded was beginning to look like Mt. Everest, and I had hours and hours of other things I wanted to get done while Joshua was out of town.
Suppressing a sigh, I opened the van door. As I sank into my seat, a sweet chorus of little voices called out, "We love you Mother dear!"
Tears sprang to my eyes and the stress of the day faded into joy. The kids thought their "surprise" was hilarious, so the rest of the way home alternated between saying "We love you, Mother dear!" and "Happy Birthday" and then bursting into fits of giggles. [It's nowhere near my birthday.]
An hour and a half later, tummies were filled, the kids were tucked in bed, a few urgent things done, and the laundry mountain was tamed. And it was time for bed. The hours of other things I really wanted to do would have to wait.
Embracing the Sacrifices Motherhood Demands
Each day seemed to end with the list of things I wanted to do growing, not shrinking. Even with the sweet echo of my children's voices ringing in my ear, I struggled with feeling sorry for myself.
Motherhood is delightful, but it also demands sacrifice. As a mom, your time, your figure, your sleep, and your money get sacrificed for your children's sake. Often your hobbies drop down the list of priorities to about the same level as scrubbing the shower.
It's easy to resent the need for sacrifice.
But sacrifice is at the heart of life as Christians. Whether we're single or married, mothers or not, our time and figure and sleep aren't really our own anyway.
Paul couldn't have made it any clearer when he wrote, "You are not your own. You were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body." and "present your body as a living sacrifice". (1 Cor. 6: 19-20 & Rom. 12:1)
If mothering little ones is how God has called us to serve Him in at the moment, then that's where we will be called to sacrifice ourselves. And even when it feels like we're sacrificing a lot, just a glance at what Jesus sacrificed to redeem us, makes any sacrifice seem hardly worthy of the name "sacrifice".
Sacrifice and Joyful Motherhood
I'd be the biggest hypocrite ever if I claimed to have this sacrifice thing down. I don't. I like my sleep (and when I don't get enough sleep, turn into a grouchy monster — or spend every moment praying for grace not to.)
The point of sacrifice isn't that it's easy, but that it's what we're called to as we follow our Lord Jesus who sacrificed everything for us. Looking to Him and embracing the sacrifices He's asked us to make frees us to be joyful mothers, even when we never seem to have time for "our" to-do lists.


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Archive for August 2011
Meta-startup: Memetic evolution in high gear
Quite an interesting development, I think, reported in the NY Times by David Freedman:
Hari Kaur has been teaching yoga for 20 years as a private instructor and at other people's studios, most recently in New York, but it was only late last year that she decided she wanted to start her own Jazz Yoga school — the world's first, as far as she knew. What she didn't know was much about how to start and run a business.
But one of her students happened to be an experienced entrepreneur who had recently started his fourth company, and he gave her some smart-sounding advice on funding, marketing and leasing a space. When she came up with more questions, he told her she ought to check out that latest business of his, which happened to be a free online service focused on … how to start a company.
Web-based tools are becoming nearly essential to many aspects of running a business, so why not bring them into the process of creating and executing a business plan? That's the idea behind Wicked Start, the brain child of Bryan Janeczko, the yoga student. Mr. Janeczko had been a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and then on his own, and later did a stint as a vice president at J.P. Morgan. But his real entrepreneurial awakening occurred, he said, when in 2003 he set out to found a company that delivered meals to dieters: "I thought, 'I'm smart, I have an M.B.A., how hard could this be?'"
You know the answer to that one. . .
Continue reading. (I love recursion.)
Interesting Pilates lesson
I'm (very) gradually becoming aware of how these movements and exercises work. One interesting lesson today: at the end of the exercise, recovery must be as controlled and balanced as the exercise itself. For example, I was standing with "Cossack arms" (folded in front of me as if for a Russian dance) in front of the Wunda chair, standing with one foot on the ground, the other, heel raised, ball of foot on the springboard. The exercise is to stand straight, and move the springboard up and down, while you are completely balanced.
I do a number of these, and then when the exercise was over, I raised the springboard, then relaxed and went floppy and got off.
No. Wrong. Instead, raise the springboard, then remain balanced with muscles working to maintain stance, remove foot from springboard once the board has returned to its rest position and place foot next to the unmoving foot, all the while maintaining posture and control.
Very different. The instructor said that a lot of learning takes place in the controlled finish of the exercise and that sometimes that finish is the point of the exercise: you do the movements to get your body ready to hit that note, as it were.
This reminds me of the flashcard idea that you continue to keep a flashcard in the current session until you get it right, even if you're down to that one card, saying the answer, looking, getting it wrong, then do the card again—you don't top until you get the answer right because at that instant, getting the answer right sort of cements the answer in place.
Interesting look at Libertarianism
Fascinating column—especially, I imagine, for Libertarians.
I make common cause with Liberatarians on some issues, but sharply diverge on others (the social safety net, for example: essential, in my view; completely inappropriate, in the Libertarian view).
The US military and Hollywood
Interesting column by David Sirota in Salon. I had already realized that some movies are little more than lengthy recruiting ads, but the strength of the US military's grip on Hollywood is instructive as the US moves strongly right. The military always plays a major role in authoritarian governments.
Sirota's column begins:
Yesterday, I had a big article in the Sunday Washington Post looking at the long-term legacy of "Top Gun" – a film that turned 25 years old this summer. This is part of my unofficial beat reporting on the Military-Entertainment Complex – reporting I first started a few years back as part of the research for my book "Back to Our Future."
For too long, the media has ignored the relationship between Hollywood and the Pentagon. Knowing this, I figured my Washington Post piece would vanish into the ether. However, to my surprise, it came out in the same week that the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal provided stunning new details about how the shadowy relationship between Hollywood and the Pentagon is setting new standards for government-subsidized propaganda.
Hollywood As Complicit As Ever
First and foremost, both the Times and Journal tells us that collusion between the military and Hollywood – including allowing Pentagon officials to line edit scripts – is once again on the rise, with new television programs and movies slated to celebrate the Navy SEALs. They also give us up-to-date proof that major Hollywood directors remain more than happy to ideologically slant their films in precisely the pro-war, pro-militarist direction that the Pentagon demands in exchange for taxpayer-subsidized access to military hardware.
The Journal, for instance, quotes director Peter Berg saying that his upcoming cinematic tribute to the SEALs was approved by Pentagon-compliant studio execs specifically because the project avoids any nuanced take on the politics of war. "The idea of a good old-fashioned combat yarn, in which the politics are very clear – we support these men – was more appealing to them," he said, noting that his film will be "an unabashed tribute to the courage of (the SEALs)." . . .
Profits before environment
Very interesting column in the NY Times by Mark Bittman:
I wasn't surprised when the administration of George W. Bush sacrificed the environment for corporate profits. But when the same thing happens under a Democratic administration, it's depressing. With little or no public input, policies that benefit corporations regardless of the consequences continue to be enacted.
No wonder an April 2010 poll from the Pew Research Center found that about only 20 percent of Americans have faith in the government (it's one thing upon which the left and right and maybe even the center agree). But maybe this is nothing new: as Glenda Farrell, as Genevieve "Gen" Larkin, put it in "Gold Diggers of 1937," "It's so hard to be good under the capitalistic system."
But is anyone in power even trying? Last winter, the Department of Agriculture deregulated Monsanto's genetically modified alfalfa, despite concerns about cross-pollination of non-genetically modified crops. It then defied a court order banning the planting of genetically modified sugar beets pending completion of an environmental impact study.
Monsanto engineers these plants and makes Roundup, the herbicide they resist. But Roundup-ready crops don't increase long-term yields, a host of farmers are now dealing with "superweeds" and there is worry about superbugs, nearly all courtesy of Monsanto. In fact, this system doesn't contribute to much of anything except Monsanto's bottom line. Yet Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack gave Monsanto the nod, perhaps yielding to pressure from the White House.
The United States exerts that same kind of pressure abroad. WikiLeaks cables show that U.S. "biotechnology outreach programs" have promoted genetically modified crops in Africa, Asia and South America; they've also revealed that diplomats schemed toretaliate against any European Union countries that oppose those crops.
Sacrificing the environment for profits didn't stop with Bush, and it doesn't stop with genetically modified organisms. Take, for example, the . . .
I think the problem is that capitalism makes all decisions based on the impact on profit. Unfortunately, that's too narrow a basis, but the rapid evolution of the memes "capitalism" and "corporation" have resulted in corporations that simply cannot consider any other basis for decisions, even legally: they MUST increase shareholder value. Indeed, as we saw with the Pinto and the Ford Motor Company, corporations now are perfectly willing to break the law if the cost of breaking the law is significantly less, overall, than the profit achieved by breaking the law. Ford knew that they would be sued for designing a car that would burst into flames in a low-impact collision, immolating the occupants, but their calculations showed that the profits of building the car in that way would far exceed what they were likely have to pay in jury awards or settlements. So they went ahead with it, and people died.
And, of course, there are companies who directly realize a profit from selling products harmful to health and ultimately lethal: tobacco leaps to mind. But that side of the equation is a trivial cost to the company in comparison to the profits they can reap—plus there's always hope of undermining the law by gaining greater control of the legislative branch.
Basically, corporations are willing to do ANYTHING—even things immoral, unethical, dishonest, and/or illegal—if doing that will increase their profits. And they're getting better and better at it, and now have the funds to basically purchase control of the US government—they've long since had a secure hold on most state governments.
One of our own terrorists
Terrorism seems to come along with nation formation—proponents for Israel's nationhood used terrorism on the British, and of course we know about Hamas and Hezbollah (and others) using terrorism on the Israelis. Northern Ireland had both Protestant and Catholic terrorists busy at work. And the US has its own terrorists, notably John Brown of pre-Civil-War fame.
But I hadn't really understood that Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys were, for all practical reasons, terrorists. A recent biography clarifies:
Ethan Allen: His Life and Times
by Willard Sterne Randall
A review by Robert K. Landers
By 1771, a conflict over frontier settlements in what is today Vermont had begun to turn violent. Colonial officials in New York, eager to profit from making land grants in the territory between Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River, refused to recognize grants already made there by the New Hampshire colony. The Hampshire settlers themselves, meanwhile, were determined to hold on to their property and not pay twice for it. Ethan Allen, a major property owner in the region known as the New Hampshire Grants, emerged as the leader of the opposition to New York's efforts.
In June 1771, getting word that a New York surveyor was running lines in the woods 20 miles away, Allen and some of his followers went to the scene. Dressed as Indians, with soot-blackened faces, they threatened to kill the "Yorker" — who fled with his crew. Later that year, Allen formally organized the "Green Mountain Boys" to defend the Hampshire settlements and scotch any New York-backed settlements. He and his "boys" torched fences and haystacks as warnings to New York settlers reluctant to leave; in October, the Green Mountain Boys burned down the cabin of a Yorker who refused to depart.
In Ethan Allen, historian Willard Sterne Randall cites the behavior by the nascent folk hero and his men — who in extreme cases flogged defiant Yorkers — and links it with "the tactics of intimidation used by ten thousand Sons of Liberty in the period before the Revolution" to raise "an unsettling question: was America founded, at least in part, on terrorism?" Mr. Randall does not attempt an answer, however.
The author and his publisher call Ethan Allen a "founding father," presumably to appeal to all those readers with a seemingly insatiable appetite for books about those so designated, but if Allen was a founding father, it was of Vermont, not of the United States. Still, by my reading of Mr. Randall's exhaustively researched and insightful (but overly long) biography, Allen did make two significant contributions to the war for independence, each the result, directly or indirectly, of his recklessness.
The first was what many considered a premature attack on . . .
Censored by the CIA (to hide its failures)
Laura Miller has an interesting post at Salon:
News that the CIA has demanded "extensive cuts" from a forthcoming book by former FBI agent Ali Soufan made the front page of the New York Times last week. But Soufan's isn't the only recent memoir to earn the intelligence agency's wrath by, in part, criticizing its use of brutal interrogation techniques in the decade since 9/11. There's also "The Interrogator," by Glenn Carle, a 23-year CIA veteran who was given the task of questioning a purported al-Qaida kingpin in 2002. Carle's book was published earlier this summer with many passages — and occasionally entire pages — blocked out with black bars to show where the agency had insisted on redactions.
Soufan has called many of the CIA's excisions from his own book "ridiculous," pointing out that some of the "classified" information is a matter of public record and appears in the 9/11 report and even in a memoir by former CIA director George Tenet. Carle had a similar experience; "The Interrogator" is laced with caustic footnotes explaining that redacted passages revealed the agency's incompetence, rather than sensitive information.
When I reviewed Carle's book in July, I made a few guesses about facts the author was obliged to leave out of "The Interrogator." Less than a day had passed before I learned that most of my guesses were wrong. Readers sent me helpful emails with links to articles supplying all the missing details, including the identity of the detainee Carle interrogated, a man he eventually came to believe was innocent.
If the CIA is trying to prevent information in Soufan's and Carle's manuscripts from reaching the public, they've obviously already failed. If anything, the agency's efforts to censor these and other books only seem likely to inflame interest in the forbidden material, which will surface anyway. Does the CIA's power to vet the writings of former government employees have any teeth in the Internet age? I decided to call up Carle to ask about his experience with the agency's censors.
Carle explained that an author negotiates the approval of his or her book with the CIA's Publications Review Board, a handful of staffers who coordinate input submitted by several agency departments. "My goal was not to piss them off to the extent that I couldn't get anything that I wanted," he said. "Their goal was to intimidate me. That was quite clear."
Because Carle knew and even respected some individuals on the board, he felt that its members were exceptionally (and perhaps recklessly) candid with him. At one point, a man standing next to him at a urinal remarked, "Don't you realize that people could go to jail for this?" referring to passages in "The Interrogator" where Carle alludes to detention and interrogation practices he regards as illegal.
The two things a former CIA officer is instructed to keep secret, Carle says, are "sources and methods." However, like Soufan, he soon discovered that the PRB had no intention of stopping there. "They told me, 'We will not allow you to take the reader into the interrogation room. We will not allow you to make the prisoner a human being. To the extent that we can, we will take out anything that gives him a personality.' I couldn't say I saw fear in his eyes, or that he was a middle-aged man. They had no right to take that out. But they did."
Like Soufan, Carle complained when the PRB insisted on cutting information from his book that was already common knowledge. Two reasons are offered for such demands. One is the "mosaic theory of classification," characterized by Carle as "one of the most harmful consequences of eight years of the Bush administration. And that is not a partisan statement." According to Carle, "The White House freaked out after Michael Scheuer's book ["Imperial Hubris" (2004), originally published anonymously] came out. They thought the CIA was out to get them. Bush said, 'I don't want anything to come out of the agency. Shut this down.'"
The mosaic theory alleges that pieces of information that may seem innocuous enough on their own — including material that has already been cleared by the CIA — can, when combined with similar pieces of information, present a potential threat that might be of use to the enemy. "By that rationale," Carle observed, "you should take every chemistry textbook out of every high school in America."
To get around the PRB's objections, Carle had to resort to some unusual tactics. When forbidden to describe in much detail the bombed-out wasteland surrounding one overseas prison where he worked (because this would reveal the location to be Afghanistan, a fact obvious to any informed reader), he ended up quoting T.S. Eliot. "They forced me to be more pretentious than I actually am," Carle joked.
The other justification the agency commonly offers for redacting material is . . .
Continue reading. I stick with my earlier characterization: "CIA" means "Criminals in Action." At the end of the column appear these links:
Further reading:
The New York Times reports on CIA efforts to censor Ali Soufan's book, "The Black Banners."
Salon's review of "The Interrogator: An Education" by Glenn Carle
Salon's review of "Imperial Hubris: How the West Is Losing the War on Terror" by Michael Schueur


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