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(Forewarned is forearmed) I believe in God but you can absolutely 100% read and understand this with no concept of the Christian God, or any god, as a reality…
You know those times when you have heard something so many times it stopped being meaningful or making sense and then all of a sudden, you have a breakthrough?
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Throughout my life, I've heard the Bible verse, Matthew 6:25-34 preached to me over and over again. You can read it at the bottom of this, I copied it for your ease of finding.
People have preached or taught to me over and over again that we SHOULDN'T be afraid and we SHOULDN'T worry, and that being anxious is not what God wants for us. Over and over again I've heard this to the point that I've kinda grown hard to it.
Because I know that if God really didn't want me to be anxious or fearful and if he's really All Powerful, then he could just take it away. Miraculously.
So yeah yeah, God wants me to trust him and he wants me to not be afraid. Ok, cool.
Well, this weekend I was at a Women's Ministry Retreat that I go to every year and I saw that this passage was the focus for the weekend and I just sorta started to roll my eyes and got into a mindset of "well here we go again."
But I know the speaker personally, and she's a wonderful person, and I wanted to trust that she knew what she was doing by bringing this up again.
So I decided I would actually listen instead of just glossing over the whole thing and going home while pretending it was pleasant.
And she said something I'd never heard before. She finally said something that sounds more reasonable to me as an explanation for why this was written down- than anyone has ever explained it before.
She told us that we are absolutely, 100% allowed to feel fear. That fear was created to be felt by us and isn't inherently bad. That fear can help us do miraculous things in extraordinary settings and that a measure of anxiety can give us awareness of our situation to prevent and help us prepare for certain things.
But that we're not to live in fear, because every single day we're given by God exactly the things we need to get through that day. We're not given them before that day, and possibly the same things that we were given today will not work tomorrow. But every day we are given exactly what we need to get through the day.
Because at the end of the day, as long as we're alive, we've had everything we need. And if we're dead, well, everyone dies. God makes no one immortal.
We are to only think about the things that are right in front of us, we are only to think about "What am I dealing with today and just today?" We are only meant to be waiting on the day in front of us. Because God gives us everything we need to equip ourselves for every day on its own. All we have to do are the things given to us to do (keep an appointment we made, go to work, avail ourselves of modern medicine if we are infirm, eat our food, give change to a homeless person we see, breathe the air, go to sleep) each day and the rest of it is not our concern. Our concern is not what the homeless man does with our change or what the doctor will say in six months when we return, or what we're going to eat next week when everyone has to be someplace different at dinner time… just exactly what is happening today.
Essentially the things she said over two days come down to this quote that she gave us at the end of our booklets…
"... a large part of faith ... consists of just refusing anxious thoughts .. . refusing to think about worrying things, refusing to think of the future in that wrong sense. The devil and all adverse circumstances will do their utmost to make me do so, but having faith means that I shall say: 'No; I refuse to be worried. I have done my reasonable service; I have done what I believed to be right and legitimate, and beyond that I will not think at all.' That is faith, and it is particularly true with regard to the future. When the devil comes with his insinuations, injecting them into you—all the fiery darts of the evil one—say, 'No; I am not interested. The God whom I am trusting for today, I will trust for tomorrow. I refuse to listen; I will not think your thoughts.' Faith is refusing to be burdened because we have cast our burden upon the Lord. May He, in His infinite grace, give us wisdom and grace to implement these simple principles and thereby rejoice in Him day by day."
(D. Martyn Lloyd Jones)
(D. Martyn Lloyd Jones)
So, and now especially when I've spent so much time railing endlessly about my troubles. About medical insurance, about steady and gainful employment, about relationship anxieties and on and on and on…
Sufficient for today are the troubles for today. Tomorrow's troubles can wait until tomorrow. What do I need to do today? Today I need to sleep. Tomorrow I need to make a plan but I don't need to anticipate that plan tonight, I don't have everything I need to make it tonight. I'll get everything I need in the morning.
I am only equipped to deal with the things in front of me today. No amount of anxiety will change the future. The future will come and when it is the present, I will be uniquely equipped to handle it that day.
Matthew 6- 25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.


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One of my morning haunts online is a site called "AlterNet." Often one can find interesting viewpoints and usually more truthful political news and information there than is found on mainstream news sites. Sometimes, though, I find horrid examples of what is so wrong with this country. Such is the case with today's offerings.
WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE AND SITUATIONS… can't wait to read it now, huh?
Marriage and Sex
Ted takes on controversy once again.
Ted says: Sex is a selfish act no matter who does it or where, including within marriage!
Living In Sin…
Fornication: voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other. (dictionary.com)
Adultery: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than his or her lawful spouse.
Old-fashioned words. Old Testament, even. Both are popular sports in America. Americans wallow in them, like the David Duchovney show Californication.
The question of "living together" vs. "marriage" is a question of sexual activity, not sharing the same dwelling. "Living together" is an extended euphemism from "sleeping together." Call it what it is.
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Welcome back bitcoin freaks. In the previous episode, we created a multi-sig transaction. Go back to that blog post if you don't know what
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Our code works. The transaction was made. The problem is that it handle only a theoretical use case when both private keys owners use the same machine to sign the transaction. We need to handle a real life situation when they use different machines. They have to be able to sign the transaction and send signatures to each other.


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Another Leak Image of Rumored Nexus 6 aka "Shamu"
Earlier I posted the first alleged image leak of the next Nexus Phone, which expected to be called as Nexus 6. The newest so-called Shamu image leak shown above displays the About Phone screen with the following interesting information:
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The Phobos Grunt was supposed to have been a curse-breaker. The Russians have had a hard time sending probes to Mars since, oh, 1960. Everyone they've sent up has gone wrong in some for or fashion. Nineteen of them in total over the past five decades.
But Phobos Grunt was going to be different. It was going to work.
The Russians were going to be the first to put a probe onto a Martian moon, and then they were going to bring part of it home with samples for analysis. It was going to be the biggest Martian endeavor since the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. It was going to break their curse and put them back on the bleeding edge of space exploration.
Notice how I'm talking about all of this in past tense? Was? Were? Yeah, there's a reason for that.
See the area with the blue on that map above? If you live within any of those lines you might want to take care this Sunday when the Phobos Grunt comes burning back down through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. Four hundred plus pounds of the thing are expected to survive reentry, and while the Earth is mostly water, they can't guarantee it won't come down on your head.
Just what happened to the great Russian hope? No one's really sure. The Phobos Grunt hit Earth orbit in November and then sort of stalled out and went dead. They weren't able to stir the probe back to life, and the orbit's been decaying ever since. I'm just glad it didn't hit anything while it was up there. We don't need any more debris up there.
So this Sunday, keep your eyes up and your head down. Michael Bay doesn't need any reason to make an Armageddon 2.


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A totally kickass blog post on warrior women in ancient Ireland, by the awesome Ali Isaac. Our ancestors lived by fierce loyalty as well as equality: we could learn a thing or two. What is remembered lives!
Warrior Women of Ireland
Irish mythology is riddled with powerful women, yet they are quite an enigma. On the one hand, we have feisty Queens like Medb, fearsome Goddesses like the Morrigan, gifted healers like Airmid, female smiths like Brigid, respected Druidesses like Bodhmall, and knowledgeable lawgivers like Brigid Brethach. On the other, we have the helpless heroines such as Etain, Deirdre, and Grainne, who seemingly did little but lure men with their beauty into tragedy and catastrophe.
We already know from the Brehon Laws that in ancient Ireland, women enjoyed far greater freedoms than those elsewhere. A woman could enjoy equal status with her husband in marriage; she had the right to divorce him if he did not fulfil his marital obligations, and if so, she was entitled to take with her all her own possessions and half of their joint property, plus a portion for damages. Women were also…
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It sounds strange to talk about promoting a medium- you never hear anyone saying "Hey, check out this cool new thing called television!"- but podcasts barely existed ten years ago. And for a media format that was born during the social revolution, it seems only natural that we're taking to new and emerging platforms to get the word out.
The beauty of podcasting is that it's a playground for anyone. Small indie operations can find just as much popularity as shows with large networks and organisations behind them, and for this March, podcasters are coming together to share the love for their platform.
Informally led by NPR, but joined by groups including Gimlet, WBEZ, Night Vale Presents, ESPN, Earwolf and many more, the Try Podcast (#trypod) campaign is asking for people to shout out about the shows they love. And it's almost endearing to see how kind #trypod is- it's not a competition or a scheme for one specific network to get ahead.
"It's about working together across the industry, growing the overall pie," Israel Smith, Sr. Director of Promotion at NPR told Podblasts.
80% of people don't listen to podcasts. These poor wretches need you. Tell a friend to #trypod today. You will be making the world better.
— Roman Mars (@romanmars) March 1, 2017
We're only a week into March, but with the amount of activity we've been seeing online, we asked Smith about the response to #trypod so far:
"[We're] absolutely delighted. I was thinking this morning, watching the Twitter stream, there's a real validation of the power and the deeply personal place that podcasts and podcasts hosts play in peoples lives."
Love your friends? Love podcasts? Introduce a real-life friend to the podcast friends you listen to. Tell us what you shared. #trypod ❤ pic.twitter.com/KIVmNn036N
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And heading into the rest of March, the #trypod campaign seems like it can only keep growing. It's win-win-win, podcast creators get more listeners to their shows, current listeners get new recommendations, and more people are introduced to the medium.
Throughout the month, names you know and love from podcasting will be helping to spread the word through their podcasts, as well as videos and social media. Everyone who loves podcasts is encouraged to get involved with #trypod, and we've been loving all the recommendations you've been sending us through Twitter and Facebook over the past few days.
For any podcasters looking to get in on #trypod, feel free to get in touch with Israel Smith at NPR to chat about the campaign. That email address is below.
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What Is an Unsecured Loan?
An unsecured loan is a loan that is issued and supported only by the borrower's creditworthiness, rather than by any type of collateral. Unsecured loans—sometimes referred to as signature loans or personal loans—are approved without the use of property or other assets as collateral. The terms of such loans, including approval and receipt, are therefore most often contingent on the borrower's credit score. Typically, borrowers must have high credit scores to be approved for certain unsecured loans. A credit score is a numerical representation of a borrower's ability to pay back debt and reflects a consumer's creditworthiness based on their credit history.
Unsecured Loan
How an Unsecured Loan Works
An unsecured loan stands in contrast to a secured loan, in which a borrower pledges some type of asset as collateral for the loan. The pledged assets increase the lender's "security" for providing the loan. Examples of secured loans include mortgages or car loans. On the other hand, unsecured loans are riskier for lenders, and as a result, typically come with higher interest rates. Unsecured loans also require higher credit scores than secured loans. In some instances, lenders will allow loan applicants with insufficient credit to provide a cosigner, who can take on the legal obligation to fulfill a debt should the borrower default. Default occurs when a borrower fails to repay the interest and principal payments of a loan or debt.
Key Takeaways
- An unsecured loan is a loan that's supported only by the borrower's creditworthiness, rather than by any type of collateral.
- Unsecured loans are sometimes referred to as personal or signature loans since they don't use property or other assets as collateral.
- Unsecured loans are riskier for lenders than secured loans resulting in higher interest rates and require higher credit scores.
Types of Unsecured Loans
Unsecured loans include credit cards, student loans, and personal loans—all of which can be revolving or term loans.
- A revolving loan is a loan that has a credit limit that can be spent, repaid, and spent again. Examples of revolving unsecured loans include credit cards and personal lines of credit.
- A term loan, in contrast, is a loan that the borrower repays in equal installments until the loan is paid off at the end of its term. While these types of loans are often affiliated with secured loans, there are also unsecured term loans.
- A consolidation loan to pay off credit cards or a signature loan from a bank would be considered an unsecured term loan.
There's ample data to suggest that the unsecured loan market is growing, powered partly by new financial technology. In a December 2018 consumer credit report, TransUnion projected that credit card balances in the United States would rise 4% in 2019 to $840 billion. The projections also included personal loan balances, which are expected to increase by 20% to an all-time high of $156.3 billion by the end of 2019.
The past decade has seen the rise of peer-to-peer lending via online and mobile lenders, coinciding with a sharp increase in unsecured loans. In another report, TransUnion found that "fintechs," or financial technology firms, accounted for 38% of unsecured personal loan balances in 2018, up from just 5% in 2013.
Because they are riskier for lenders, unsecured loans typically have higher interest rates and require higher credit scores than secured loans.
An Unsecured Loan vs. a Payday Loan
Alternative lenders, such as payday lenders or companies that offer merchant cash advances, do not offer secured loans in the traditional sense of the phrase. Their loans are not secured by tangible collateral as mortgages and car loans are. However, these lenders take other measures to secure repayment.
In particular, payday lenders require that borrowers give them a postdated check or agree to an automatic withdrawal from their checking accounts to repay the loan. Many online merchant cash advance lenders require the borrower to pay a certain percentage of online sales through a payment processing service such as PayPal. These loans are considered unsecured even though they are partially secured.
Special Considerations for an Unsecured Loan
If a borrower defaults on a secured loan, the lender can repossess the collateral to recoup the losses. In contrast, if a borrower defaults on an unsecured loan, the lender cannot claim any property. However, the lender can take other actions, such as commissioning a collection agency to collect the debt or taking the borrower to court. If the court rules in the lender's favor, the borrower's wages may be garnished. Also, a lien may be placed on the borrower's home, or the borrower may be otherwise ordered to pay the debt.


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Wireless! Wireless! Wireless!
It seems society is going wireless. In an ever growing attempt to be free of cords, of cable clutter, of standing still, we look to the Wi-Fi vs Ethernet question to provide a solution. We want to be connected, but we don't want to be tied up to a particular spot.
One example of going wireless is the old rotary phone. That phone kept us in one spot (unless the cord was long enough, but even still), until it the cordless phone came out. While that was a good solution, we wanted more freedom to be mobile. And so with time the cordless phone had to share its use with cellular phones, which evolved to smart phones. The evolution of technology changed the way we use it and our expectations and definition of ease.
Convenience versus Speed
Until not too long ago, the difference between Wi-Fi and Ethernet was that of convenience versus speed. To be more specific, Ethernet was dramatically faster than Wi-Fi. At the same time, Ethernet required hard wire connection – in other words, a stationary placement of the computer.
In the early days of Wi-Fi, it offered a maximum theoretical speeds of 54Mbps (megabits per second) and far less in practice. For comparison, Ethernet at the same time had offered speeds between 100Mbps to 1000Mbps and beyond. Big difference.
Now days Wi-Fi standards offer theoretical speeds of up to 3200Mbps, and about half of that in practical speeds. Much better.
A fixed Ethernet connection is, in fact, fasted, stable and delivers consistent speeds. You will notice these differences when streaming lots of HD videos or downloading large files.
Wi-Fi is subject to various environmental factors, which affects its performance. Wi-Fi signal may be blocked by walls and floors. Other wireless devices may interfere with Wi-Fi signal. For example microwaves, cordless phones and nearby routers using the same channel can all interfere with the signal. Even the atmosphere can cause issues. All these and more can result in inconsistent performance. Additionally, you may notice and inconsistent signal strength through your home, with potential blackspots (where Wi-Fi doesn't reach).
This uneven signal and blackspots may be minimized with an optimum router placement. But it will most likely never achieve a similar stability in performance to Ethernet.
The big difference between Wi-Fi and Ethernet now days is the level of security they each can provide. Ethernet networks provide access to their data only by physically attaching to the network. At the same time, Wi-Fi networks have their data in the air. Open networks (such as ones at coffee shops) are unprotected. This means that all data sent and received can be intercepted. That includes personal and login information.
It is important to clarify that most Wi-Fi networks are secured. In other words, the data is encrypted. The encryption strength depends on the security method.
Wi-Fi vs Ethernet
For daily use, Wi-Fi provides acceptable speeds. For high HD videos streaming and/or downloading large files Ethernet will be a better solution. Same goes for need of better security.
Sometimes the most suitable solution is a combination of both Wi-Fi and Ethernet. This way you can have the stability and reliability of Ethernet while choose to use Wi-Fi for flexibility as needed.


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Joe Leonard, a two-time USAC National Champion and three-time AMA Grand National Champion, passed away Thursday, April 27 in a San Jose, California nursing home. He was 84 years old.
The versatile San Diego, California native first rose to fame on two wheels, capturing the AMA Grand National Championship in 1954, 1956 and 1957, including back-to-back victories on the 4.1-mile Daytona Beach course in 1957 and 1958.
After the 1961 season, Leonard made the move to four wheels and, in 1964, was named USAC Stock Car Rookie of the Year. That same year, he made his USAC National Championship debut on the dirt at the "Magic Mile" of the Du Quoin (Ill.) State Fairgrounds, finishing 14th for car owner Tassi Vatis. The season would end on a high note with Leonard collecting his first top-five finish in the series at Phoenix International Raceway.
A year later, Leonard made his first entrance to the Indianapolis 500 where he would go on make nine starts between 1965 and 1973. Leonard scored a pair of third-place finishes at Indy in 1967 and 1972, but it was 1968 when he came closest to putting his likeness on the Borg-Warner Trophy. After qualifying for the pole position in Andy Granatelli's famed turbine-powered machine, Leonard led 31 laps and seemed poised for victory with just nine laps remaining when a fuel pump broke, ending his bid for Indy glory.
Leonard earned his first career USAC National Championship victory at the 1965 Milwaukee 150 for Dan Gurney's All American Racers, but it was with the Vel Miletich/Parnelli Jones team in which he found his greatest success beginning with the 1970 season.
In 1970, Leonard once again blazed the trail to another win at the Milwaukee Mile in the "Rex Mays Classic." In 1971 and 1972, he nabbed consecutive championships and found winner's circle a total of four times, once in 1971 at the second running of the "California 500" at Ontario Motor Speedway, and three-in-a-row during a mid-season stretch of the 1972 season that saw him win at Michigan, Pocono and Milwaukee.
Leonard was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1991 for his success in motorcycle racing and, in 1998, was inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association's Hall of Fame.
USAC extends its condolences to Joe Leonard's family and friends.


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Through a strong spirit of compassion and a clear focus on the people they serve, our pharmacy professionals play a vital role in helping each of our hospitals become a trusted source for quality care in our communities. Our pharmacists and pharmacy techs work in close collaboration to extend our commitment to treating the whole person – body, mind and spirit. Living out these values is how our patients get better health care and how you can discover a better career experience.
We're proud to foster an environment of strong support and camaraderie with an emphasis on optimizing talents and professional development. For example, the Pharmacy Practice Residency at Glendale Adventist Medical Center – an ASHP accredited program – is designed to provide a solid foundation in acute patient care, pharmacy administration and professional leadership. The residency program helps pharmacy residents build the skills required to provide contemporary pharmaceutical care in a diverse population of patients.
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Want something a little different than the usual coffee sleeves? This is the Ewing Dry Goods answer to the paper or knitted coffee sleeve. This sleeve will last a lifetime and just get better with age.
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What Needs to be Done
Many major challenges require the Administration, working through the EPA, and Congress to take steps to protect the health of the public. Here are a few that the American Lung Associationcalls for to improve the air we all breathe, starting with cleaning up tailpipes and smokestacks.
Clean up harmful emissions from tailpipes.
Clean up harmful emissions from smokestacks.
Reduce emissions of wood smoke.
Improve the air pollution monitoring network.
Adopt an ozone standard that follows the law and protects health.
Clean up harmful emissions from tailpipes.
- Gasoline, cars, light trucks and SUVs. The EPA needs to set new pollution standards for cars, light trucks, SUVs and reduced sulfur in gasoline to reduce nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and particle pollution emissions. People who live or work near highways or busy roads bear a disproportionate health burden from air pollution. Cleaner gasoline will reduce pollution from every car on the road, reducing emissions as if we suddenly removed 33 million cars from the road. Cleaner vehicles will help reduce this impact for all, but especially those who live closest to the traffic. Learn more about this in the American Lung Association report, "A Penny for Prevention: The Case for Cleaner Gasoline and Vehicle Standards." Send a message to the President today telling him that you want cleaner gasoline and vehicles.
- Dirty diesel vehicles and heavy equipment. Rules the EPA put in effect over the past several years mean that new diesel vehicles and equipment must be much cleaner. Still, the vast majority of diesel trucks, buses, and heavy equipment (such as bulldozers) will likely be in use for thousands more miles, spewing dangerous diesel exhaust into communities and neighborhoods. The good news is that affordable technology exists to cut emissions by 90 percent. Congress needs to fund the EPA's diesel cleanup ("retrofit") program. Congress should also require that clean diesel equipment be used in federally-funded construction programs.
Clean up harmful emissions from smokestacks.
- Toxic pollution. Coal-fired power plants remain among the largest contributors to particulate pollution, ozone, mercury, and climate change. Their pollution blows across state lines into states hundreds of miles away. They produce 84 known hazardous air pollutants, including arsenic, mercury, dioxins, formaldehyde and hydrogen chloride, as shown in the Lung Association report Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants. These smokestacks need cleaning up.
- Carbon pollution. Power plants are the largest stationary source of greenhouse gases in the United States. Energy production accounts for 86 percent of total 2009 greenhouse gas emissions, and the electric sector represents 39 percent of all energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. 1 In 2012, the EPA proposed the first ever limits on carbon pollution from new power plants. Now the EPA needs to finish the job and issue strong final standards for carbon pollution from new and existing plants.
- Transported ozone and particle pollution. In 2011, the EPA set tough new limits on ozone and particle pollution that could blow across state lines and add unhealthy air downwind. That same year the EPA also, for the first time, set national limits on the toxic pollutants these power plants can emit. However, these standards have been blocked in the courts. The Lung Association has taken legal steps to defend the EPA's efforts. The EPA and the states must move forward with actions to clean these plants up.
Reduce emissions of wood smoke.
- Residential wood burning devices, including as outdoor wood boilers and stoves, are the largest residential source of particle pollution. Emissions harmful air pollutants from wood burning devices have worsened air quality and public health in many cities, such as Fairbanks and Salt Lake City. These devices could have significant impacts on their owners and immediate neighbors. The U.S. Census reports that nearly two percent of all U.S. households use wood as a primary heat source.2 In 2006, one study estimated that approximately 14 to 17 million such devices were then in use in the United States.3
- Besides particle pollution, wood burning also produces carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and even toxic air pollution. Studies have found that wood smoke leads to coughing and shortness of breath, decreases in lung function, and aggravated asthma and may even cause cancer.4
- The EPA has not updated national standards for these devices since 1988. Improved technologies in use today can limit harmful emissions from wood burning devices. The EPA needs to update the standards to reflect this new technology. All wood-burning devices can burn cleaner to reduce impacts on public health.
- Emissions from outdoor wood boilers used to heat residences also need to be cleaned up. As their use increases, the EPA is considering its options to regulate outdoor wood boiler emissions. However, the agency has yet to issue a proposal, originally scheduled for summer 2011 with final rules set for summer 2012. The EPA needs to adopt a standard to limit emissions from these devices to avoid the patchwork of state regulations currently in place.
Improve the air pollution monitoring network.The grades in this report come from information from the nationwide air
- Less than one-third of all counties have ozone or particle pollution monitors, seriously limiting the ability to adequately detect and track the levels of harmful air pollution.
- Coverage is especially limited near major highways, where people likely breathe higher levels of air pollution. The EPA needs to expand the monitoring network to include comprehensive coverage in areas near major roads and highways. These monitors are needed to measure the highest levels of exposures air pollution related to traffic.
- Unfortunately, funds for existing air pollution monitors have been cut across the nation. These resources may be cut further unless Congress and the White House resolve to protect the health of the nation from air pollution.
Adopt an ozone standard that follows the law and protects health.
- National air quality standards are the official limits that drive the cleanup of air pollution around the nation. The Clean Air Act requires that the EPA set national air quality standards based on the need to protect public health "with an adequate margin of safety." In 2001, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that protecting health was the only basis for the standards. The Clean Air Act also requires that the EPA review the standards every five years to make sure that the standards are based on the most current science.
- A federal court ruled in March, 2013 that the existing standards for ozone, set in 2008, are out-of-date and fail to adequately protect public health. The American Lung Association filed action challenging the standards set by the Bush Administration in 2008, and resumed the legal battle following the Obama Administration's decision in 2011 to ignore the overwhelming scientific research and the opinion of experts that much stronger standards were needed. Now, the EPA has a second chance in December 2013, when it must propose a new standard under the regular review cycle.
- The EPA estimated that setting the standard for ozone to 60 ppb would save 4,000 to 12,000 lives and prevent 21,000 hospitalizations, 58,000 asthma attacks, 5,300 heart attacks, and result in 2.5 million fewer school and work days lost each year. The lower ozone levels would yield $35 billion to $100 billion in health and economic benefits by 2020.5
Protect the Clean Air Act.
The continued improvement shown in the State of the Air report is possible because of the Clean Air Act, the nation's strong public health law that the U.S. Congress passed over 40 years ago. The Act requires that the EPA and each state take steps to clean up the air. Some members of Congress are proposing changes to the Clean Air Act that could dismantle progress made in the last 40 years. We must keep that law strong to continue to protect public health.
Individual citizens can do a great deal to help reduce air pollution outdoors as well. Simple but effective ways include –
- Tell the President to set tighter standards for gasoline and stricter tailpipe pollution standards for cars, trucks and SUVs. The EPA also needs to set tighter standards for ozone.
- Send a message to Congress. Urge them to support cleaner, healthier air and oppose measures to block or delay the cleanup of air pollution. They should support and protect the Clean Air Act.
- Share your story. Do you or any member of your family have a personal reason to want healthier, cleaner air? how healthy air affects you.
- Drive less. Combine trips, walk, bike, carpool or vanpool, and use buses, subways or other alternatives to driving. Vehicle emissions are a major source of air pollution. Support community plans that provide ways to get around that don't require a car, such as more sidewalks, bike trails and transit systems.
- Use less electricity. Turn out the lights and use energy-efficient appliances. Generating electricity is one of the biggest sources of pollution, particularly in the eastern United States.
- Don't burn wood or trash. Burning firewood and trash are among the largest sources of particles in many parts of the country. If you must use a fireplace or stove for heat, convert your woodstoves to natural gas, which has far fewer polluting emissions. Compost and recycle as much as possible and dispose of other waste properly; don't burn it. Support efforts in your community to ban outdoor burning of construction and yard wastes. Avoid the use of outdoor hydronic heaters, also called outdoor wood boilers, which are frequently much more polluting than woodstoves.
- Make sure your local school system requires clean school buses, which includes replacing or retrofitting old school buses with filters and other equipment to reduce emissions. Make sure your local schools don't idle their buses, a step that can immediately reduce emissions.
- Get involved. Participate in your community's review of its air pollution plans and support state and local efforts to clean up air pollution. To find your local air pollution control agency, go to www.4cleanair.org.
1U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2009. Washington, DC: U.S. EPA, 2011. EPA 430-R-11-005.
2U.S. Census Bureau. American Housing Survey for the United States. 2011. Available at www.census.gov/housing/ahs11/national2011.xls
3Johnson PRS. In-Field Ambient Fine Particle Monitoring of an Outdoor Wood Boiler: Public Health Concerns. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment. 2006; 12: 1153–1170.
4Naeher LP, Brauer M, Lipsett M, Zelikoff JT, Simpson CD, Koenig JQ, Smith KR. Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review. Inhalation Toxicology. 2007; 19:67-106. Bølling AK, Pagels J, Yttri KE, Barregard L, Sallsten G, Schwarze PE, Boman C. Health effects of residential wood smoke particles: the importance of combustion conditions and physicochemical particle properties. Particle and Fibre Toxicology. 2009; 6: 29.
5U.S. EPA. 2010. Summary of the updated Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) for the Reconsideration of the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). Available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/ecas/regdata/RIAs/s1-supplemental_analysis_summary11-5-09.pdf .


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For #TBT, watch a young Desiigner rap before he was famous.
Well here's a great #TBT clip for fans. Before "Panda" took over our lives & "Timmy Turner" was wishin' for a burner, Desiigner was just like any other rapper trying to make a name for himself, and today an old school clip surfaces of the G.O.O.D Music rapper showing off his bars as a youngin'.
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Ken Fones-Wolf and
West Virginia is one of the most homogeneous states in the nation, with among the lowest ratios of foreign-born and minority populations among the states. But as this collection of historical studies demonstrates, this state was built by successive waves of immigrant labors, from the antebellum railroad builders to the twentieth-century coal miners. Transnational West Virginia offers a new understanding of how laborers and their communities shape a region's history. Transnational West Virginia includes essays and studies on immigrant networks, such as Irish workers along the B&O Railroad, Wheeling Germans in the Civil War era, Swiss immigration to West Virginia, and European Jews in Southern West Virginia. This work also covers Belgian glassworkers in West Virginia, black migration to Southern West Virginia, Italians in the Upper Kanawha Valley, Italian immigration to Marion County, Wheeling Iron and the Welsh, West Virginia and immigrant labor to 1920, Monongalia miners between the World Wars, and West Virginia rubber workers in Akron. Transnational West Virginia is the first volume in the West Virginia and Appalachia series.
" . . . a truly worthy book."
" . . . a sophisticated analysis of an Appalachian region, one that carries on the work of rewriting regional history within larger interpretive arenas."


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CFP Board governance policies outline the dynamics of the Board's relationship to staff and the Board's delegation and monitoring responsibilities. The Board determines what authority it will hold and what authority it will delegate. The method of delegation is a formal, circular process that includes clear roles and accountabilities. First, the Board defines outcomes to be achieved. Next, the Board defines the boundaries of ethical and prudent operational behaviors and conditions in policy, which serve as the Executive Limitations. Then the Board assigns these expectations (outcomes and boundaries as defined in policy) to the CEO and formally and rigorously monitors the CEO's performance against those expectations.
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
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Getting ready for that evening commute with a spoon and a needle.
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Comfortably taking up 2 seats during commute time. Douche.
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Used diaper
BART-Traveling Homeless Shelter
Look at this mess. FU, BART!!
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This genius parked his bike in the aisle at the start of a heavy...
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This butthole was sitting in the middle of two seats napping on the backs...
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Archive for March, 2013
Easter – First Words From the Empty Tomb | Sermon from 3/31/2013
For the past 6 weeks we have been looking at the final words that Jesus spoke from the cross. It would not have been easy for Jesus to speak while hanging from the cross. The physical exertion needed to say anything would have been great, so that Jesus spoke not once or twice, but 7 [...]Read More
Easter Sunrise – Empty Promises | Sermon from 3/31/2013
Make a early morning journey from the darkness of death into the light of life remembering that the grave could not hold Jesus.Read More
Maundy Thursday – Into Your Hands | Sermon from 3/28/2013
The final word of Jesus from the cross was, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." This was not just a final word of faith and trust; it was how Jesus lived his life. Jesus placed his life in God's hands which was why every day his hands reflected the hands of his Father. We reflect on all that the hands of Jesus did leading up the cross and the different ways our hands can reflect the hands of God.Read More
Final Words From the Cross – It Is Finished | Sermon from 3/24/2013
The final word of Jesus is not a simple one. When he says, it is finished, Jesus means much more than just his life – he is also talking about his life's mission.Read More
Final Words From the Cross – I Thirst | Sermon from 3/17/2013
Of all the final words from the cross, this one is the most human. Many people in the final moments of life cry out for something to drink. But what do these words really point to? Do they just remind us that Jesus was fully human or do the reveal a deeper sense of his life's mission and purpose as the Son of God.Read More
Final Words From the Cross – My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me? | Sermon from 3/10/2013
Have you ever felt discouraged and disappointed because things didn't turn out the way you thought they would? Have you ever felt let down by God, even abandoned and forsaken? What about feeling so alone that you just wanted to cry? If you have, you are not alone – Jesus felt the same way and he shows us what we need to do with those very honest and human feelings. Reflect and learn about Jesus cry from the cross, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"Read More
Final Words From the Cross – Behold Your Mother… Behold Your Son… | Sermon from 3/3/2013
Of all the final words Jesus spoke from the cross, there is really just one word that is spoken directly to the church. When Jesus looked down and saw his mother Mary and the disciple John standing at the foot of the cross he is seeing his family and followers – in other words – the Church. In his message to these two people we find Jesus' message for us today and it is a call for us to care for one another. We explore what Jesus means when he says to Mary about John, "Behold, your son." And what he means when he says to John about Mary, "Behold, your mother."Read More


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He pressed a financially strained city for millions of dollars in corporate subsidies. He opposed a law requiring paid sick leave for workers. He fired scores of blue-collar technicians during a union organizing drive.
Joseph J. Lhota, the Republican candidate for New York City mayor, is best known as one of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's most trusted lieutenants. But he actually spent a greater part of his career in the employ of another polarizing chief executive known to be demanding: James L. Dolan, the billionaire cable TV and sports tycoon.
From 2002 to 2011, Mr. Lhota was a senior executive for the Dolans, owners of the Knicks, the Rangers, Madison Square Garden and Cablevision, and one of the city's most prominent, if often unloved, families.
As the Garden's top lobbyist, it was his job to seek favor, or avoid reprisal, from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on behalf of Mr. Dolan, who had crushed the mayor's hopes for a new West Side stadium in 2005 with a campaign of blistering ads and relentless opposition.
In his bid to succeed Mr. Bloomberg, Mr. Lhota is now running on a pledge to bring tough fiscal discipline to City Hall.
A review of Mr. Lhota's nearly 10 years with Cablevision and Madison Square Garden, however, shows he was an aggressive advocate of generous benefits for his employer's business, which cost the city's government millions of dollars a year in what some critics have called corporate welfare.
Asked in an interview about the law that gives the Garden, alone, a permanent exemption from property taxes, now worth around $17 million a year, Mr. Lhota said: "They passed it. Do I have any misgivings about the law? No."
Records and interviews with Mr. Lhota and former associates suggest he made a smooth transition from city government to the publicly traded companies led by Mr. Dolan and his father, Charles. He ably executed the tasks at hand, whether investigating a sensitive accounting scandal involving a deceased former executive or helping to choreograph an intricately timed renovation of Madison Square Garden. He showed a survivor's knack for emerging unscathed from messy internal disputes inside a corporate culture that is frequently described by former workers as bureaucratic and even stifling.
In the interview, Mr. Lhota declined to answer some questions, saying he was constrained by a nondisclosure agreement. But he said his jobs at Cablevision and the Garden provided evidence of his ability to parachute into thorny disputes and land on his feet. "I was what I've always been — somebody willing and open to roll up my sleeves and help to get the job done," he said.
Mr. Lhota said he had not met Mr. Dolan until the waning days of the Giuliani administration, when an intermediary inquired whether Mr. Lhota would be interested in a Cablevision job. He was. He knew some of the company's issues from his days in government: As deputy mayor, Mr. Lhota had signed off on changes in 1999 to the city's franchise agreement with a Cablevision subsidiary called Lightpath, which was installing fiber-optic lines in commercial buildings so it could sell telephone service to businesses.
Cablevision hired him as an administrator, but Mr. Lhota said he pressed to have an opportunity to run a piece of the business. The Dolans gave him one small division along with his other duties: Lightpath.
"I did not want to be in a position of just sticking around the government and doing government-related issues," he said. "Life's more complex than that, and I wanted to participate in that complexity."
At the time, Cablevision was battling an organizing drive by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which wanted to sign up hundreds of technicians. The company pushed back hard, with inducements and threats, said Rick Fridell, the union's lead organizer.
"He was part of a management team that were ruthless," Mr. Fridell said, though he acknowledged that he had never encountered Mr. Lhota personally in the organizing battle.
On his first conference call with analysts in August 2002, Mr. Lhota assured them that Lightpath would do "more — actually a lot more with less." That fall, he announced that two rounds of job cuts, totaling around 150 workers, or 25 percent of Lightpath's work force, had fueled an 89 percent jump in cash flow.
Mr. Lhota said the layoffs had nothing to do with the organizing fight and were driven by the company's anemic performance that year. The union, however, viewed each round of layoffs as a carefully timed warning shot. "It sent a very clear message — 'We can get rid of 70 people, just like that,' " Mr. Fridell said.
It succeeded, he said: Skittish technicians feared that they, too, could be laid off if the organizing effort dragged on. So the union brought it to a halt.
Lightpath reported operating losses in eight of the 10 quarters in which Mr. Lhota was in charge. Still, by late 2004 he was up for a bigger job: Voom, a satellite television service started at great cost by Charles Dolan, was being spun off along with Cablevision's three TV networks and its Clearview cinema chain — and Mr. Lhota was named the spinoff's co-chief financial officer.
Then, in a power struggle with his father, James Dolan persuaded the Cablevision board not to spin off Voom but to sell it.
Mr. Lhota acknowledged that he was discouraged when the company was sold. But the disappointment was overshadowed by a personal crisis: He learned he had lymphoma, and spent every other Thursday in chemotherapy for six months before returning to full health, with the full support of the Dolan family.
"They were extremely concerned," Mr. Lhota said.
For the next several years, he continued to hold a senior administrative role, but he allowed that it was at times unexciting. He chose health plans and explored long-term incentives to retain top executives. He tended Cablevision's jets and helicopters, which the Dolans used to commute to work. He helped absorb Newsday personnel when Cablevision bought the paper, on Long Island. And it was his duty to reveal a security lapse that had jeopardized the personal data of 13,700 workers and retirees.
"But it was at a pace that was nothing like the pace I had had while I was in City Hall," he said. "I mean, budget-director pace and deputy-mayor pace, while they are very different jobs, they are nonstop, 24-hour-a-day positions."
"The flip side of it," he added, "was I was being compensated on the private side."
Indeed, in 2005, when his pay was detailed publicly in connection with the aborted Voom spinoff, Mr. Lhota earned $725,000 in base salary, a bonus of up to 70 percent of that, and $500,000 in restricted stock. (His tax returns show he received nearly $1.5 million in deferred pay from the Garden in 2012.)
When Madison Square Garden became its own publicly traded company in 2010, Mr. Lhota moved over, with added responsibility for government affairs.
He went to Albany to lobby over ticket-scalping legislation — and took in Rangers games with the powerful State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver.
His lobbyists ranged as far afield as Los Angeles County, where the Garden acquired the faded Forum arena in Inglewood, and persuaded the city, despite its choking deficits, to provide $18 million in subsidies for its redevelopment.
In New York City, Mr. Lhota argued against an anti-obesity campaign that could mean a crackdown on sugary sodas sold at the Garden, opposed a paid sick leave bill that he said would have been less generous than the Garden's union deals anyway and pressed every possible lever of power to facilitate the Garden's $1 billion renovation.
That project was hugely complicated. It involved rebuilding the arena in phases, with work to occur only during the summers — all night, seven days a week, with deadlines each October.
The project was also a test of the company's relationship with the city, given the bitter battle over the West Side stadium. In the end, Mr. Lhota said, the Garden received all the help it needed, in part because the City Buildings Department realized how complex the project was. (The arena's completed three-year renovation was unveiled last week.)
Mr. Lhota left the Garden in fall 2011 to become chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, avoiding the clash over renewal of the Garden's 50-year special zoning permit, which led to only a 10-year extension. That battle prompted some lawmakers, like Assemblyman David I. Weprin, Democrat of Queens, to call for an end to the Garden's perpetual exemption from property taxes.
Mr. Weprin called the tax break, which is decades old, "absolutely absurd corporate welfare."
Mr. Lhota and his colleagues saw nothing wrong with it.
After leaving the Garden and Cablevision, Mr. Lhota continued to socialize with former colleagues, including James Dolan. But he said he would have no trouble standing up to his old boss should he become mayor.
"I will do whatever I need to do as mayor to protect the interests of the City of New York," he said. "People who know me know that I'm of strong integrity. Quite honestly, I'm offended by the notion."


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How Your Deposit Affects Your Mortgage Rate
17th May 2017
Typically, having a larger deposit relative to the total purchase price gives you access to mortgage deals with lower interest rates. However, there are several other factors that determine the amount of money you can borrow and the rates you're offered.
The loan-to-value ratio
When you're buying a home, the size of your deposit relative to the purchase price is important. It can affect whether lenders agree to lend to you as well as the initial interest rates you're offered.
The figure that's used for these calculations is the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio. The LTV is the percentage of the total property value that's being paid for by the mortgage. For example, if you have a deposit of £20,000 and you're buying a house for £200,000, you have a 10% deposit, and therefore an LTV of 90%.
A bigger deposit usually means better initial rates
You usually need a deposit of at least 5% (and therefore an LTV of 95%) to get a mortgage, although how much you can borrow will also depend on your income, alongside other factors.
If you have a larger deposit and therefore a lower LTV, you'll have access to a greater number of mortgage deals and lower initial interest rates, because lenders see you as lower risk.
Trussle mortgage adviser Ushma explains how it works in practice.
"If you were buying a home worth £200,000 and you had a deposit of 5% (meaning an LTV of 95%), you may be offered initial rates of around 3.5%. A deposit of 10%, meanwhile, may mean initial rates starting at under 2%. A deposit of 20% could mean you're offered initial rates as low as 1.33%."
"If you can, saving for a larger deposit can be a real benefit - by doing so, you could achieve a lower rate of interest. This means less interest to pay over the term of the loan, potentially saving you thousands."
Having a larger deposit means that you need to borrow less money, but the fact that it could also give you access to lower interest rates means that it can make a big difference to both your monthly repayments and the overall cost of your loan. As a result, it might be a good idea to wait until you've saved a bigger deposit before taking out a mortgage.
£200,000 total property price, mortgage term of 25 years
Deposit size only impacts initial rates
However, it's important to understand that although you may be offered lower initial mortgage rates if you have a larger deposit, this initial deal will typically only last a few years.
After your initial rate period has ended, your mortgage will usually revert to the lender's Standard Variable Rate (SVR), which tends to be higher and can change at any time.
To avoid this, you could remortgage to a new deal with another lender to benefit from another initial deal. You can potentially keep doing this every time each initial deal ends, so you're never paying the lender's SVR. However, there are some costs involved in getting a new mortgage, and if the value of your home falls (increasing your LTV) you might not be able to find a cheaper rate, so don't forget to take these into account when planning for the future.
A few important points to remember:
A bigger deposit relative to the value of your property means that you have a lower LTV.
A lower LTV usually means access to more mortgage deals and better initial interest rates.
A lower interest rate can save you a lot of money on your mortgage.
Once your initial rate period is over, you'll usually be switched to your lender's Standard Variable Rate. You'll want to consider switching to a more suitable deal to avoid paying this higher rate.


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"From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided an effective form of government." "Analyze the degree to which the Articles of Confederation provided an effective form of government with respect to any TWO of the following: foreign relations, economic conditions, and Western lands."
From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation provided an ineffective form of government. The Articles of Confederation was one of the first official documents establishing the government of the United States, it was ineffective and failed to provide a strong government. Many conflicts arose in the colonies because there was nothing in the Articles that gave Congress the power to enforce laws or unify the States, there was no solid monetary system, and the country lacked unity and strength because there was no leadership.
The Articles were ineffective because Congress only had the power to recommend actions to the States. It could not enforce its recommendations or laws.
Each State had its own constitution, monetary system, and means to enforce the law. The Articles failed to provide a solid financial system to ensure that taxes would be paid. Congress had no way to collect taxes to pay off pre-war debts. Each State had it's own money, but there was no national money system. Since the money had no value from state to state, the people began to use the barter system of trade. This reduced the amount of trade and importation of goods. There was very little economic progress and growth during this period even though the population was increasing. However, Article six of the Articles of Confederation states that "No state shall lay any imposts or duties."Self interest of the States and of individuals added to the cause of the problems. Instead of keeping the United States unified, the Articles were causing it...


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It was in early December 1990 when I got together one afternoon with Dick Verucchi (he had been the drummer of Buckacre and The Jerks two very popular bands in the Illinois Valley and still played out with local musicians) for lunch.
It had been just a little over a year since we had last seen each other and it would probably be awhile before we would see each other again because I was leaving for Korea in a few days. (As it turned out, it would be sixteen years before we saw each other again.) We had lunch at a local Chinese restaurant and then went to Vallero's Bakery (a family-owned bakery that went out of business a few years ago) in Dalzell, Illinois to pick up some Italian bread for his family's restaurant in Spring Valley.
(If you are ever traveling across North-Central Illinois on I-80 and get an inkling for some home-style Italian cooking, get off at the Spring Valley exit and follow the signs. Without question, Verucchi's Ristorante has some of the best Italian eats in the Illinois Valley and the prices won't empty your wallet. Their Sunday Brunch is a local favorite and definitely worth the detour if you just so happen to be traveling across this part of the state—or anywhere within a 100-mile radius—on a Sunday.)
"So, you're off to Korea in a few days?" Dick asked as he waited for one of the bakers at Vallero's to prepare the order.
"That's right," I said.
"You know they eat dog over there?"
"Yeah, that's what I heard."
Actually, I hadn't heard anything about Koreans eating dog. However, there would be a lot of things that I would quickly find out about Korea in the days, weeks, and months to come.
And some Korean's penchant for eating dog would be one of them.
For the record—and as much as this pains me to say this—yes, I have tried "dog meat" but only in the pursuit of journalistic truth. It was back in 2002, the year of the World Cup in Korea and Japan and there had been a number of unfavorable letters to the editor about Korea's penchant for eating dog as well as one from Bridget Bardot an outspoken animal rights activist.
(The same thing had happened in 1988 prior to the Seoul Olympics when there was a similar uproar, especially in terms of how "barbaric" it was the way some dogs were killed. Some dog restaurants were told to close during the Olympics as not to cause any more international outcry.)
Well, far be it for me not to seize a journalistic opportunity and especially when the newspaper I was writing for was competing with two other English-language dailies. Likewise, the Korea Times had been selected as the "official" English-language paper of the World Cup, so I had the green light as it were to write anything related to the sporting event even Korean culture—even when it came to eating dog.
My editor agreed. He thought it would be a great story and all the more so because even though I had been in Korea at this point for 12 years, I had never had dog before. If I was out to write about the "truth" of what it was really like to eat dog, I would be able to do so without any bias or prejudice.
Or so, I thought.
My editor arranged for myself and a few cronies from the newspaper to have lunch at one of the more famous dog restaurants in Seoul as well as have a photographer come along to document the event. You would think we were some celebrities the way the owner of this establishment; a 60-year old Korean Ajumoni (pronounced ah-joo-mone-ni, literally the word means aunt, but it is used to refer to any woman in her 30s or older) treated us as soon as we arrived by having us dine in a private room. And of course, being the only foreigner in the place added to the special treatment.
Now let me explain that there are two kinds of dog meat (sometimes my students say they like to eat "dog food" and I have to immediately correct them on that as not to have this mental image of one of my students eating a can of Alpo) that are consumed here. First there is Bo-shin-tang which is a kind of a stew and Gay-soo-yook—boiled dog which can be in a soup stock or the meat eaten alone with lettuce leaves and red pepper paste.
It was going to take every ounce of courage I had to try some of the dog that was brought to our table—courage in that I just could not get the images of Lassie, Benji, and my Mom's dog out of my mind as I saw this meat on the table. As much as I had jumped at the opportunity to write about eating dog and showing up the other newspapers, I wasn't too crazy about finally eating dog. In fact, I was starting to feel a little queasy when I saw the boiled meat piled on the plate.
My Mom's cute and adorable Bichon Frieze.
Out, out damn Spot.
I nibbled at a few pieces and really wanted to spit it out if I had had the chance. I chewed and chewed and it took every bit of stamina I had to swallow that morsel of dog.
I thought the meat was tough and sinewy. I didn't think it had much taste either. This is one thing that does not taste like chicken. Maybe seeing that ajumoni stripping the meat off the bones when I had walked into the restaurant was too much for me to put aside any biases I might have had with eating dog as well as when she offered me—what could have been part of a Fear Factor episode—the cooked dog penis to eat.
"No thanks," I said, trying to be as diplomatic as I could as not to offend the editor and the other Koreans seated at the table. I wondered if passing up a dog's penis would be a major cultural faux pas.
It wasn't.
No sooner had I turned down her offer for the dog's penis when one of the cronies from the newspaper said he wanted it and shoved it into his mouth.
Later, I would write my story as best I could about how it was "okay" and that eating dog was after all, a culture thing.
As for myself, well I am going to stick with my hot dogs and Corn dogs.
Now, there are many myths, reasons, and a few urban legends why eating dog is good for you. Some Oriental doctors claim Boshintang for example has some curative qualities for patients recovering from surgery. On the other hand, some Korean men eat dog because it is supposed to increase a male's sexual drive (maybe that explains why that crony from the paper wanted that dog penis so quickly—kind of a twist on that old adage "hair of the dog").
Well, if one really wants to increase their sex drive, do a dog a favor and pop a couple of Viagras.
Sadly, this idea about increasing one's sex drive or stamina is quite disturbing when it comes to how some dogs are killed. (There are special "dog ranches" –I guess that's what you could call them where dogs are raised and slaughtered for human consumption.) To be sure, there are cases (and I am sure you could find the graphic videos on You Tube) of dogs being hung up and beaten to death. This is supposed to increase the production of adrenalin in the dogs, which is supposed to make the meat more nutritious—for those who believe that eating dog will increase their stamina. Yes, that sounds very, very barbaric but I am not sure how much this still occurs.
And no, people do not eat their pet dogs (but sometimes mistakes are made—like the drunken Korean who ate his landlady's pet dog earlier this year and in the process accidentally set the boarding house on fire).
Many Koreans will argue that eating dog has been part of Korean culture for over 5,000 years (you hear that a lot here about this 5,000-year-old culture whenever you disagree with a Korean about something) and no matter how much you disagree about eating dog, you're better off to keep your doggone opinions to yourself as not to offend anyone.
From time to time, the topic of eating dog comes up in class, especially when students are practicing "Have you ever…" questions in university and adult conversation classes. Usually some male students will boast how they "have eaten dog" many times and upon hearing this some female students will giggle and blush. This one time though, one student got very, very quiet when one of his classmates asked him if he had ever eaten dog.
Yes, he said. Yes, he had eaten dog when he was young but did not like to eat dog now. He proceeded to tell his classmates how his brother and he had this dog when he was in middle school and how he couldn't wait to come home from school every day to play with it.
"The dog would always wait for me outside of our house," he began. "Well, one day when I came home the dog was not there. I asked my mom if she had seen it and she said she had not.
"One day passed, two days, three days…no dog. It never came back home. Later that week, my mom cooked us dog meat and I know it was my dog because we had never had dog meat before."
Now I should point out that not everyone eats dog in Korea and as Bob Dylan once sang (not about eating dog mind you) the "times they are a-changin'" and so has Korean's penchant for eating man's best friend. However, if a pooch is spared from the dinner plate, it might not fare too well as being man's best friend here, especially the way that some pet owners treat their pet dogs.
Some pet owners like to dye their smaller, toy-variety white doggies pink, green, blue, yellow—especially the ears. Others treat them like a stuffed doll putting some inside their jackets in winter or carrying them everywhere they go as if they are Paris Hilton or something.
That's got to kind of suck to be a dog and have someone dye your ears pink or yellow.
I know, I know it's probably no different than some pet owners back in the States and elsewhere, including here in Korea who "dress up their dogs." However, if you really want to split hairs here, making your toy poodle wear little red booties is one thing; dyeing its ears pink or yellow is another. At least the dog can kick off those little red booties if it doesn't like them. Not much a dog can do about pink or yellow ears.
There are even "dog restaurants" and "dog cafes" —no not the kind where you eat dog, but where you bring your dog to hang out with other dogs. At least there were some in Seoul a couple of years ago. Hopefully those pink and yellow-eared dogs can escape from the dog eat world outside and find refuge inside with other dogs suffering from the same dumb owners malady.
However, I think one of the saddest and cruelest things a pet owner can do to man's best friend here in Korea is take away some of their fun—in this case, cutting off their tails. Just today I saw this adorable Cocker Spaniel down the street from where I live. It was jumping up and down and seemed so happy (or so it seemed) and as I got closer I was shocked to discover that its tail had been cut off and it was wagging, well not exactly wagging, more like wiggling a tail stub.
Now can anyone tell me if this tailing cutting happens elsewhere? Is there any good reason medical or aesthetic why a dog's tail (and cats don't fare too well here either; I've seen a few with tail stubs) should be cut? Shucks, wagging their tails is part of a dog's daily routine. It's their birthright. It's something they are good at. It's their livelihood. It's what dogs dream about doing all day when they are waiting for their owners to come home. Neutering your pet is one thing, (that's got to suck, too) but cutting off its tail is another. It's a sad form of dog hobbling, albeit tail cutting.
When I saw that poor Cocker Spaniel wiggling its stub I felt so sad. It really broke my heart. It must be really tough being a dog in Korea.


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"Mawage is weally hawd."
The other day, I met a good friend and Warcraft addict at a local coffee shop where he asked me an incredibly philosophical question. He is a Masters student in Psychology, and like many other modern philosophers of the cognitive arts, he tends to over-think things. It takes a cup o' joe and pointless conversation to calm his thoughts - the sign of an espresso addict. After 36 oz of delicious, caramelous and caffeinated goodness, he asked:
"How do you do it?"
We had just finished discussing his friend's infatuation with Ke$ha, so naturally, I vomited a little.
"Marriage," he said. "The same person, the same thing, every day. How do you do it?"
After immediately replaying the famous "mawage" scene from "The Princess Bride" in my mind, I sat and thought about it. I took a slow sip from my coffee cup and internally reminisced of the 17-year affair that my wife calls "our journey together." Vacations, late-night discussions, movie dates, play dates, working together and eventually having children and starting the whole process all over again but with the pitter-patter of little feet that constantly keeps us on the move - the two of us have always done our best to keep things fresh, try something new. There is something very nice about taking a risk with someone you know will always be there, which is why we tend to do it so often. I smiled at the thought.
"I don't," I answered.
The look of befuddlement on his face quickly turned into Fear. I had just shaken a core foundation of his belief system and he was trying to decide what to say next. Like many players I have encountered in the battlegrounds that I scorched so quickly they didn't know what hit them, he was ironically frozen in his response (I must have it glyphed). So, I decided to clarify.
I said, "I don't ... we don't ... do the same thing every day." I knew he understood the message when his faced contorted as if to respond to passing gas - he had relaxed but was still receptive so I carried on. "It's what makes being with the same person a perpetually-new and amazing adventure every single day, for the rest of my life."
That's how I do it. And not just in my marriage, but in everything else I do in my daily real life. I surprise my wife with something new daily. I eat something I have never tried for breakfast, lunch and dinner whenever possible. I take on different projects at work regularly. I catch up with old buddies and make new friends. I take my family on vacations to different destinations. I try my best to make every day "a brand new" day in the most literal of sense of the word. And it works.
And really, it makes sense that it does. As biological organisms, we become tolerant of stimuli that we are exposed to on a consistent basis, requiring either greater exposure to said stimuli or exposure to a new stimulus to achieve the same desirable effect. Put a different way, doing things the same way over and over again tends to make us feel less and less excited over time. Things get boring, less exciting, and we tend to search for something new to fill the void, or in the case of many illicit substances, use more.
This applies to relationships, too, and a lack of insight into the aforementioned mechanics helps explain why the divorce rate in America is ridiculously high. Instead of maintaining excitement for each other, complacent husbands and wives develop a tolerance for one another. The "magic" disappears and one will undoubtedly blame the other. Throw in financial stress, overtime at work, a less-than-active sex life and the hottie throwing looks from across the hall and you have yourself a recipe for a divorce and a new and exciting drug, at least for now. Sadly, this one also comes with spousal and/or child support payments. Congratulations.
This interaction is the same in practically everything that we do and is obvious for us gamers in our marriage to Blizzard and World of Warcraft. As the divorce rate between players and developers continues to increase (as evidenced by decreasing subscription numbers), there is no doubt that the "magic" is disappearing. Players are blaming developers for reusing the same-old formula for leveling, boss encounters, dailies and handing out rewards like candy in a context that has us doing the same old thing day after day. Developers struggle to make adjustments to rekindle the fire but do not deviate from the simple formula that sees us engaging in the same way day-to-day, month-to-month and year-to-year. The players are frustrated, and considering League of Legends' ballooning numbers, she's the little family-breaker winking from across the hall. She's free-to-play, though. Congratulations.
I guess that what I'm trying to say in all of this is that maintaining happiness and a healthy, balanced lifestyle takes work. It requires active participation and changing things up to prevent tolerance and burn-out. For us husbands, it's about finding new ways to engage our relationship with our wives and kids. For you wives, it's about finding new ways to do the same for your men. The same is true for husbands of husbands and wives of wives. For us gamers and WoWaholics, it's about finding new ways to play the game. For the developers, it's about providing us with something new and fresh to fall in love with all over again.
That, my friends, is how to do it. And it totally 'locks... err... rocks.
I suggest you try it, too.


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|Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.
This is an unofficial site that is designed to help folk find information about the armory and "colors" for each Kingdom in the SCA, Inc. In addition, other useful information can be found here -- such as the badges for various offices, both SCA-Wide and Kingdom specific (including variations for some Kingdoms); and badges registered for awards in the 17 Kingdoms of the SCA. (Okay, as of 2015, we are up to 20 Kingdoms, but it's nearly impossible to keep up with the offices and badge registrations for all the Kingdoms, Principalities, etc.)
This project was started by Duchess Emma FitzWilliam, OP (then Talitha von Kopke), with work by Hirsch von Henford, OL, OP, and expanded over time with the help of a lot of people.
Another site that needleworkers might be interested in, is the Atlantean Needleworker's Guild's charts for Kingdom Use Badges: http://aeg.atlantia.sca.org/projects/poppies.htm
Other areas of interest:
An Unofficial Glossary of Terms Used
in the SCA
An Unofficial Glossary of Combat Terms As Used in the SCA
Questions, corrections, suggestions should be sent to: -- In Service, Hirsch von Henford


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At Team, we're starting the year with our exciting programme of Breakfast Club sessions. The 2014 programme will explore the latest trends and challenges facing the global mobility management community.
Through a series of thought provoking, interactive discussions we provide an opportunity to network, while learning from both subject matter experts and peers as we share common challenges in key areas such as:
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Over the course of the year the sessions will provide a comprehensive overview of the international assignment lifecycle.
Our first session, covering Temporary Accommodation commences Wednesday, 22nd January, 8.30am – 10.30am at our London W1 office.
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There are many different types of funerals so we have put all the options on this page.
If you choose to bury your loved one in St John's Churchyard then there are regulations that we are bound by. You can find a summary of these here.
If you are bereaved, as well as talking to one of the clergy we have bereavement visitors, and there is a local group for those who are bereaved: Farnham Bereavement Cafe. If you would like to talk to one of the clergy or a bereavement visitor, please contact us on 07842 761919 to arrange it.
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