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Back to Ski
Because it can't snow soon enough
Get the equipment you need to go skiing or snowboarding
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My name is Mara and I'm a lifelong skier and winter enthusiast. My online Back to Ski campaign started in 2012 as a way to get families off the couch and on the slopes. I'm passionate about mountains, snow, and the joy of getting outside with your kids in the winter.


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Diabetic retinopathy. Juan G. Santiago, MD Valley Retina Institute, P.A. Introduction. Epidemiology Pathophysiology Classification Diabetic Retinopathy Diabetic Macular Edema Clinical Trials DRS ETDRS DCCT UKPDS Intro to Treatment. DM in America. 24 million (8%) Americans
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Ophthalmology. September 2003
Diabetic Retinopathy Study (DRS): 1971-1975
Early Treatment DRS (ETDRS): 1979 – 1990
Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) /
Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (EDIC):
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Today, I want you to schedule something fun for the weekend!
Even if you're struggling with depression, it's important to do something you enjoyed when you weren't depressed (that's the "behavior" part of cognitive-behavioral therapy).
It can be something simple (see a movie, read a book) or more elaborate (a DIY project or gathering with friends), but dedicate and protect that time.
It's important to make, and keep, this commitment to yourself. An important part of this Daily Shoring tip is giving yourself something to plan and look forward to–these are mental processes that are good for your emotional health!
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Sztykiel, M., Fletcher, S., Norman, P., Galloway, S. et al., "Modular and Reconfigurable Transient Modeling and Simulation Design Support Tool for MEE/MEA Power Systems," SAE Technical Paper 2016-01-2031, 2016, https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-2031.
There is a well-recognised need for robust simulation tools to support the design and evaluation of future More-Electric Engine and Aircraft (MEE/MEA) design concepts. Design options for these systems are increasingly complex, and normally include multiple power electronics converter topologies and machine drive units. In order to identify the most promising set of system configurations, a large number of technology variants need to be rapidly evaluated.This paper will describe a method of MEE/MEA system design with the use of a newly developed transient modeling, simulation and testing tool aimed at accelerating the identification process of optimal components, testing novel technologies and finding key solutions at an early development stage. The developed tool is a Matlab/Simulink library consisting of functional sub-system units, which can be rapidly integrated to build complex system architecture models.This paper will demonstrate this functionality by applying the tool to assess the suitability of various designs of active power converter circuitry for use with an example MEE/MEA network. Three aspects of the converters' performance will be considered in order to assess this suitability: efficiency, power quality and fault tolerance. The example case studies will demonstrate the adequacy of the selected variant designs as well as the system level impacts of design decisions.This will enable system designers to rapidly identify variant configurations of electrical components at early design stage that satisfy MEE/MEA system requirements.


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The cameras never stop rolling when you're with the Kardashians!
On Monday, most of the female E! reality stars, incuding Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner, gathered for a beachside photo shoot where they wore long gowns as photographers snapped away.
But during downtime from the shoot, Khloe and Kylie secretly filmed Kim chowing down on some food.
In her Keek video, Khloe makes a 'Shhh' signal before panning over to Kim, who's enjoying a huge bite of something before she notices she's being caught on camera.
"F**k off!" Kim says before Khloe stops filming.
The new mom to North West has lost 50 pounds since giving birth to her daughter with Kanye West and has said that was very hurt by people who made fun of her weight gain and her eating habits while pregnant.
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Jan. 9, 2017
Source: Yield10 Bioscience sent via GlobeNewswire
Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX), announced today that the Company is changing its name to Yield10 Bioscience, Inc., effective January 9, 2017 to reflect the new mission and strategic direction of the business. Yield10 will focus on developing disruptive technologies for step-change improvements to crop yield to enhance global food security. In connection with the new name, the Company has unveiled a new corporate identity, NASDAQ ticker symbol and website, available at www.Yield10bio.com.
"We are excited to launch our new corporate identity reflecting a new strategic direction for our business in agricultural bioscience," said Oliver Peoples, Ph.D., president and CEO of Yield10 Bioscience. "We believe 2017 will be an exciting year for Yield10 as we make progress with our lead yield traits in major food crops and continue to leverage breakthrough science to discover and develop new traits for important feed and food crops to build value for our shareholders."
Effective at market open on Monday, January 9, 2017, trading for Yield10 Bioscience will begin under the symbol "YTEN" (NASDAQ:YTEN). The Company's common stock will continue to trade under the ticker symbol "MBLX" on The NASDAQ Capital Market until market close on Friday, January 6, 2017.
The name change does not affect the rights of the Company's stockholders. No action is required by stockholders with respect to the name change. The Company's common stock has been assigned a new CUSIP number of 98585K102 in connection with the name change. Outstanding stock certificates are not affected by the name change and will not need to be exchanged.
About Yield10 Bioscience
Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. is focused on developing disruptive technologies for producing step-change improvements in crop yield to enhance global food security. Yield10 is leveraging an extensive track record of innovation based around optimizing the flow of carbon intermediates in living systems. By working on new approaches to improve fundamental elements of plant photosynthetic efficiency and optimizing carbon metabolism to direct more carbon to seed production, Yield10 is advancing several yield traits it has developed in crops such as Camelina, canola, soybean and corn. Yield10 is based in Woburn, MA.
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SAP Accounts Payable Training Manual
SAP Accounts Payable Training Manual for Beginners.
The Accounts Payable department is responsible for entering invoices received from vendors and then paying those vendors. In SAP Accounts Payable, there are two methods for entering invoices and two methods for paying vendors.
First, there are direct invoices. This method is used for invoices such as BPA purchases, credit card invoices, petty cash and change fund reimbursements, employee travel expenses. The other method is called the Three Way Match method. It starts in Procurement with a purchase order being created. Next, a goods receipt is posted once the goods are received. The final step is the invoice verification (also called MIRO in SAP). Vendors are paid by two different methods in SAP. The first is by check. This process is done at the individual regions. The other method is by electronic fund transfer (EFT).
This document on SAP Accounts Payable covers SAP Training on direct invoices, credit memos, parking invoice documents, deleting and posting of parked documents, reversal of individual documents, three way match overview, understanding three way match process with respect to goods receipt and logistics invoice verification, analysis of GR/IR and freight clearing accounts, manually clearing vendor line items and resetting vendor cleared items.
Understand about Direct Invoices – Vendors, Credit Memos, Display and Change Documents, Park Documents, Delete/Post Parked Documents & Reversal of Individual Documents.
Three-way Match Overview
Procuring items on a SAP purchase order is part of the three-way match process. In order for a purchase order to be paid, three things must occur:
- The Procurement Technician must create the purchase order in SAP. In this step there is no accounting impact, although PO items are coded to the appropriate general ledger account and cost center, or asset.
- The Accounts Payable Clerk/Receiving Agent must enter a goods receipt (GR) into SAP. In this step, the goods receipt will match up the information that was entered on the purchase order. If
this is a partial shipment, the clerk may modify the quantity, which will leave the GR open until the rest of the shipment is entered.
- The Accounts Payable Clerk receives the invoice. Invoice Verification is the last step of the three-way match process. Transaction code MIRO is used to enter the purchase order number
and verify that the amount of the PO that appears on the screen is the amount being invoiced. MIRO must match what was entered at the purchase order level and goods receipt.
Understand in-depth about all the basic processes in this Beginners Guide to Accounts Payable (PDF).
Great document!
Only one thing…where can I find the accounts payable advanced manual?You refer to it at page 149.
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Inside the Tent: Joycelyn Elders
Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders talks about the importance of sexual health as a campaign issue. Elders was interviewed on the red carpet of the Evolve America "Condom-vention" hosted by Trojan and Rolling Stone, by Inside the Tent contributor Beth Marlowe.
Beth Marlowe is an intern working for Reuters at the Democratic National Convention. She is a recent graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
Reuters Inside the Tent has more than 40 delegates and other attendees in Denver and St. Paul, equipped with video cameras to capture the conventions from the ground up. Smith is not a Reuters employee and any opinions expressed are his own.
Click here for a full list of contributors at the Democratic National Convention. We'll be moving to St. Paul for the Republican National Convention next week.
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Poly 318 V8 Engine, Bell Housing, Install Kit and Transmission $1,200
After selling the WDX, I no longer need these engine swap components, and now offer them up for sale. Of course once it does sell, I will trip over another truck, and wish that I hadn't sold it all.
The Poly 318 is out of a Dodge Polara which I believe was a 1965, or 66. I did hear it run before it was pulled, and it is a decent runner, with no smoke. It was three years ago that it was pulled, then stored in my shop under cover and still turns over. The car was an automatic. I do still have the cast iron headers in good shape that are included.
The hydraulic bell housing came from a Dodge truck along with another Poly engine that included the flywheel and clutch components, although not sure of the exact year, I suspect it was a 1958. The hydraulic bell housing and clutch items were removed from that engine as it was severely rusted and not salvageable. There was a transmission attached as well, which looks like a late non-syncro as it has a horizontal drain out the back although two pins on the shifter. Casting number (C-9176) doesn't match what VPW lists in their catalog. It does fit the bell housing and has the parking brake drum on it still. Shifts well and is complete.
The installation kit is from Heli-Tool and is still in the original package. Instructions and all the needed components to secure the engine into an existing flat fender frame as they were when sent by Ray.
Looking to sell as a package and not separate. This is a great alternative to add power to your truck on a budget.
If you have any questions or require additional photos please shoot me an email.
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Current Situation
Corporate Governance
External Environment
Internal Environment
Strategic Factors (SWOT) Analysis
Strategic Alternatives & Recommendations
Evaluation & Control
Current Mission/Objectives
Supplies electronic navigation systems in order to provide a growing customer base with the quickest, safest, and most efficient routes to desired destinations.
Decrease operating expenses
Increase market share
New market breaching (horizontal growth)
Expansion of services
Current Situation
Sales down 22% in Europe
Sales down 52% in the U.S.
Operating margin down almost 24%
Net income down 136% (negative) from 2009-2011
Net income now only $24m
External Environment: Threats
Economic downturn
Aging GPS satellites
Use as tracking devices
2005 FCC mandate (smartphones)
Threat of substitutes
First mover advantages among competitors
Large capital investment
Rivalry among competitors
TomTom Case Audit
Group 3 Consulting Firm:
Caitlin Cannon, Kevin Harty, Tracy Kaplan, Brendan McGeehan, Franco Napoletano, Chad Stimpson
Current Situation cont.
Revenue consistently shifting downward
Corporate Governance
Board of Directors
Provides strategic advice to Mgt. board
Not directly in control
Supervisory but not controlling the direction of the business
Environmental sustainability highly important
All external members, no insiders
7 members
Board members hold no ownership stake in company
Founders hold 57% ownership
42% free float (available for exchange)
Members of Board of Directors
Peter Wakkie,
Chairman (2009-2017): Background in law
Doug Dunn,
Deputy Chairman (2005-2015): Background in tech industry (Motorola); Past CEO of Philips semiconductor; US & UK
Guy Demuynck
(2005-2016): Background in applied economics and marketing; commercial and marketing roles in Europe, US, East Asia
Ben van der Veer
(2008-2016); Background in accountancy; Chairman of KPMG 1989-2008
Toine van Laack
(2013-2017); 25 years working for Ernst & Young (advisory services & audit) in the Netherlands.
Jacqueline Bakker
(2014-2018); Worked as a consultant for McKinsey; Directed Gigaport for several years; transportation and aviation regulation industry
Anita Elberse
(2014-2018); Professor at the Harvard School of Business; MBA courses to business executives
Members of Management Board
Harold Goddijn
Joined company in 2001; pushed TomTom to enter the sat-nav market
Led company in profitable strategic direction
Focusing efforts on expanding and improving sat-nav technology and its efficiency/affordability
International experience as director of Psion Computers (Netherlands).
Marina Wyatt
Strong background in accountancy
worked as a director at Symbian and has held several CFO positions
Alain De Taeye
Previous director of Tele Atlas; Brought over after its acquisition by TomTom in 2009
Extensive experience in digital mapping field
Expert in databases and routing
Executives from acquisitions considered part of top mgt. (shown by Alain's position)
Approach to Strategic Management
Non-operational approach
Strategy: make acquisitions and take opportunities when possible
Management's level of involvement: High (acquisition of TeleAtlas)
BOD and lower managerial Interactions: integrated approach
Top mgt. keeps managers informed/involved in strategic direction
Board of Directors: advisory role in decisions of top management
Ethics and social responsibility
Possible regulations will ban PND devices (GPS) from vehicles
Efforts to reassure public that safety in device usage is top priority
Strives to be environmentally conscious
GREEN Movement
Significant Executive stock holdings; Only the CEO: 12%
External Environment: Opportunities
GREEN movement
Digital maps for developing countries
2005 FCC mandate (smartphones)
Internal Environment
Corporate structure centered around 4 majority shareholders
Corporation designed around its products
TomTom's differential advantage centered around technological advances
Recently merged with TeleAtlas
Structure Comparison
Founded by Gary Burrell and Min H. Ko
Both companies attempting to out-innovate eachother
Recently merged with Navteq
Corporate Culture
Do business efficiently, profitably, and responsibly
Company success should also mean employee success
Environmental Sustainability
One of the most energy efficient factories in the world
Navigation systems encourage the most fuel efficient routes as possible
TomTom worksmart eco
Employee Diversity
Workforce made up of over 50 nationalities
Encourages different outlooks, religion and diversity amongst the workplace
Operations & Logistics
Focus on innovation to remain competitive with frequent technological advances
Economies of scale to align with long-term
Distribution and supply chain model outsourced to increase the ability to scale up and down the supply chain without risking large capital expenditures.
Internal quality control standards and procedures exist to mitigate risks.
2011: assessed environmental impact associated with operations, products and services.
Human Resource Management
"Main objective to have great place to work: building high performance, effectively developing and managing Talent and L&D programs, driving internal communications…"
Recruits best/brightest people with ultimate goal of growth and retention
45% employees have been there 10 years or more
Various programs offered, including Young Talent Development Program
43% employees are women; paid $16,000 more than men on average
End of 2013: 31% of employees were based in the Netherlands, compared to 35% at the end of 2012
Information Technology
3 things that differentiate and give advantage to TomTom:
Routing algorithms
Digital mapping technology
Automotive partnerships
Acquiring TeleAtlas helped gain new technology and improve existing technology
Very active internet presence because the products rely on internet and global positioning systems to make the technology what it is
IT manager must understand needs of consumers to develop the necessary technologies to compete and to gain market share in PND industry
Corporate Resources: Marketing
Positioned as leader of location and navigation services, through its physical units, mobile phone and car platform devices
Ultimately, dedication to accurate data has led to success with the product differentiation.
Sends customers updates, which in turn leads to future purchases.
Competitors like Magellan and Garmin have had more success marketing to consumers in North America
Means that TomTom has huge potential to make a larger dent in the North America market.
Corporate Resources: Finance
Financial objectives: to diversify their revenue streams in terms of geographical expansion, as well as expansion of it's product and service portfolio.
Revenue nearly half of what it was 6 years ago
Gross Profit (%) has risen
Free cash flow has also been taking a huge hit, dropping from nearly $400MM to $29MM.
As a technology company they need to have the ability to invest in R&D
TomTom Metrics Breakdown
Corporate Resources: R&D
Maps are best on the market, but method of delivering those maps has flaws in changing technological environment
Many business segments have seen successes solely from R&D; without it the company would be stagnant
Navigation relies heavily on technology; crucial to the success of the company as a whole.
"Smart" efficient mapping has the potential to make a difference from an environmental standpoint
Strategic Alternatives
Stability, growth, or
Business strategy must be developed keeping in mind customers' needs and firm's capabilities
In market with rigid competition, each with lower a cost basis, TomTom needs a lot of R&D and innovation
This requires cash - They have none
Recommended Strategy
TomTom should sell out to a larger firm that has more expendable cash in order to continue their business model
Implementation cont.
Buyout is financially feasible if both companies agree
Management must realize that financial success with new products may not happen for a couple years
New skilled employees will be needed for new products
Price of new products is essential
Standard Operating Procedures must be changed
Evaluation & Control
Make current employees aware of potential acquisition as early as possible
Determine which employees/departments to keep/lay off
Determine new geographical location of offices, if applicable
Develop severance packages
Align mission/objectives/goals
Must consider buyout from Google, Apple, or Microsoft
Only way they can compete with these bigger and more profitable innovation companies
Continue to grow horizontally and vertically
The introduction of new products is essential for success
R&D Management would be in charge of this project
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On Kolm's Use of Epistemic Counterfactuals in Social Choice Theory
Serge Kolm's "epistemic counterfactual principle" says that a social choice only needs to be made from the actual feasible set of alternatives given the actual preference profile, but it must be justified by the choices that would have been made in appropriate counterfactual choice situations. Kolm's principle does not identify the relevant counterfactuals. In this article, it is argued that the appropriate counterfactuals to justify an impartial social choice are all of the choice situations that a moral agent behind a veil of ignorance might think is the actual choice situation outside the veil.
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- Prasanta Pattanaik, 2005. "Little and Bergson on Arrow's concept of social welfare," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 25(2), pages 369-379, December.
- Kolm, Serge-Christophe, 1994. "Rational normative economics vs 'social welfare' and 'social choice'," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 38(3-4), pages 721-730, April.
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"The news of the death of welfare economics is greatly exaggerated,"
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Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 25(2), pages 381-418, December.
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- Robert A. Pollak, 1979. "Bergson-Samuelson Social Welfare Functions and the Theory of Social Choice," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 93(1), pages 73-90.
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"Rider Of The Air Waves": Green Lantern meets the new Air Wave as both are beset by the technological terrorist, Master-Tek.
Appearing in "Rider Of The Air Waves"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Air Wave (Hal Jordan) (First appearance)
- Itty
- Master-Tek (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Air Wave (Larry Jordan) (Flashback only)
- Midwest U.S.
- Hal Jordan's Big-Rig
Synopsis for "Rider Of The Air Waves"
Green Lantern meets the new Air Wave as both are beset by the technological terrorist, Master-Tek.
Appearing in "Beware the Blazing Inferno"
Featured Characters:
- Green Arrow (Oliver Queen) (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Black Canary
- Great Frog (Roy's band)
- Roy Harper (Flashback and main story)
- Blazing Infernos (Street gang) (Single appearance)
- Justin Marcus (Single appearance)
- Harry Barkis (Single appearance)
- Leonard Fish (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Mayor Jack Major
- Commissioner Elmer Durgin
Synopsis for "Beware the Blazing Inferno"
When the latest in a series of Star City bombings injures the leg of Roy (Speedy) Harper, who is playing with his band Great Frog at a high school concert, Green Arrow and Black Canary are driven to discover the culprits. The bombers prove to be the Blazing Infernos street gang, but they find out that their backers are three businessmen in town, named Marcus, Barkis, and Fish. The heroes, with the help of Roy, take down the gang and their backers, who have been causing the bombings to raise insurance rates. Meanwhile, Mayor Jack Major is almost certain that Oliver Queen is Green Arrow, and wants him to run for mayor in the upcoming election. Oliver agrees to do so.
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See Also
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Green Lantern Vol 2 100 on the forums
- Cover gallery for the Green Lantern series
- Images from Green Lantern Vol 2 100
Recommended Reading
- More Fun Comics #73-107
- Green Arrow (Volume 1)
- Green Arrow (Volume 2)
- Green Arrow (Volume 3)
- Green Arrow (Volume 4)
- Green Arrow (Volume 5)
- Green Arrow (Volume 6)
- Green Arrow and Black Canary
- Green Arrow: The Wonder Year
- Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
- Green Arrow: Year One
- Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood
- Black Canary (Volume 1)
- Black Canary (Volume 2)
- Black Canary (Volume 3)
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Q: Recently I bought a stylish pair of ankle boots from Topshop, costing me £45. I was delighted with their fashionable appearance.
However, after only four wears, I realised the plastic cover of the heel has worn through the main body of the heel, meaning I couldn't wear them without causing irreparable damage.
I considered trying to return them, but thought I'd merely be offered another pair and the same would happen again. I didn't want a refund as I really like the boots themselves, so I had to have them re-heeled after only one week.
This leads me to think there is a real quality issue with Topshop's footwear.
To sum up, I am fuming. What should I do?
RW, Edinburgh
A Topshop said: "We are very sorry to hear about the customer's experience.
"We test all of our products including shoes, but there can be some variations in the manufacturing processes.
"This means that depending upon heel height, the surface the heel is in contact with and the pressure exerted on it, a failure in terms of the product can take place.
"We try to include replacement tips for heels and stiletto styles.
"However, on this occasion we would kindly recommend that the customer exchanges the shoes for a new pair as this sounds like a one-off occurrence."
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2009 was a hideous year for the real estate business. There are 4,475 foreclosed homes in Marion County, and despite a Florida Supreme Court order - announced last week - that future foreclosures would have to go to mediation.
2009 was a hideous year for the real estate business.
There are 4,475 foreclosed homes in Marion County, and despite a Florida Supreme Court order - announced last week - that future foreclosures would have to go to mediation, many in the industry predict 2010 won't be much better.
"I don't really see it slowing down next year," said local real estate lawyer Daniel Hicks.
"I've seen some ups and downs ... and I've seen some scary things, but nothing like we've seen here," he said.
What's happened in Marion County is a river of foreclosures and plummeting home values.
From December 2008 through November 2009, 9,580 Marion County properties went through the foreclosure process and median home values fell nearly 30 percent, according to RealtyTrac, an online trade publication that follows foreclosure trends.
To help stem the tide, the Florida Supreme Court in August established the Task Force on Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Cases. It recommended mediation between lenders and borrowers when homes enter the foreclosure process.
In response to the task force's report, Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince on Dec. 28 directed state judges to send future foreclosure cases to managed mediation.
Quince's administrative order says there are an estimated 456,000 pending foreclosure cases making their way through Florida's courts.
"The crisis continues unabated," Quince wrote in describing the growing foreclosure problem and related court backlog.
But Hicks predicted that while the order for mediation might speed the process along a little, it likely won't change the outcome of the foreclosure cases.
"In my opinion, until there is some federal law by Congress saying banks have to do certain things, it [the Florida Supreme Court order] isn't going to do anything," he said.
Hicks predicts that during 2010, banks would continue to impose stricter lending standards: the types used prior to the housing boom of two years ago, when lenders demanded at least a 10 percent deposit and proof of income.
What won't get worse, though, is home values, Hicks said.
In November 2006, the average Florida home value was $262,095. By October 2009, the average home value in Florida had fallen to $128,700.
Burt Meadows, former president of the Marion County Association of Realtors, said Realtors had to become more flexible in 2009 if they wanted to sell homes. That meant having to work with banks and help sell properties in financial distress or convince potential buyers this was the time to enter the market.
"If you just sat around and didn't make any changes ... basically you were out of business," he said.
Meadows said the latest Florida Supreme Court order for mediation might help in that it could streamline the foreclosure process and pressure banks to either help homeowners in trouble or let property owners sell their homes, even if it meant at a loss for the banks.
Meadows complained that it still takes months for many banks to approve short sales, in which more is owed on a home than what the homeowner is willing to sell it for.
"It's an embarrassing situation," Meadows said of the delay. "No one has anything organized."
Meadows said the new court order would hopefully pressure some banks to come to an agreement with their borrowers, rather than allow the properties to end up empty and deteriorating.
Under the order, foreclosures would go to mediation only after the lender files suit in foreclosure court. Mediation would take only a few hours and cost about $750.
Meadows said that currently many banks aren't working with their borrowers, and he didn't understand why bankers weren't more innovative in trying to keep property owners in their homes.
"If you can see a train wreck coming, why go full speed ahead? It doesn't make sense," Meadows said. "I think it's bureaucracy at the banks. They're not taking control."
Meadows predicts that during 2010 investors will continue to buy foreclosed homes, but it will be another year before new construction kicks in for good.
"I think we have a lot of homes out there, a lot of inventory," he said.
Meadows predicts 2010 also will see home prices continuing to level out and gradually increase.
Also fueling home purchases in 2010 will be Congress' decision to extend its $8,000 tax credit for new home buyers, Meadows said, and expanding the program to include existing homeowners.
John Kirk, regional president of Heritage Bank of the South, said real estate won't improve in Marion County until area residents go back to work and double-digit unemployment eases.
And for Marion County, the sector most able to generate jobs, he said, is construction. "Without building going on, there aren't going to be these jobs, and that's the key to our whole problem," Kirk said.
Unemployment in Marion County was 13.9 percent in November compared to 13.4 percent for the month before, according to the state Agency for Workforce Innovation.
"I think we're going to see more of the same for at least the first half of 2010," Kirk said.
Meanwhile, the federal government's Home Affordable Modification Program doesn't appear to be helping much, either.
Ten months after the Obama administration began pressing lenders to do more to prevent foreclosures, only a relative few have successfully lowered their interest rates to avoid foreclosure.
It's unclear how many homeowners have tried through their lenders to lower their monthly mortgage payments, but what is known is that more than 759,000 trial loan modifications have been started. Of those, about 31,000 have changed their loans, or about 4 percent. When President Obama announced the program, his goal was 75 percent.
Kirk also doesn't put much stock in the Florida Supreme Court order for mediation.
"It just depends on what kind of mediation there is. But there comes a point where the customer can't or won't pay, and there's a point you have to take over [the property]," he said. "Most banks, once they realize there's a problem try to address it. [Mediation] will force the issue on a few banks that didn't want to deal with the issue. That's it."


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Text: Romero and the Social Gospel: the challenge for us today
Fr Juan Hernández Pico SJ, gave the following lecture at St Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, yesterday at a memorial service held before the March for the Alternative.
Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador is no stranger to the United Kingdom. Some years ago Romero's statue was placed above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey among other twentieth century martyrs. In the words of Bishop Pedro Casaldáliga's poem "Saint Romero of the Americas": referring to the colonnades in St Peter's Square in Rome, "the people have already placed you in the glory of Bernini".
Speaking of "the glory of Bernini". When Romero was granted an honorary doctorate at Louvain in Belgium, a month and a half before he was to be murdered, he tried to find the best words for his own form of pastoral action, and he said: "The glory of God is life for the poor." With such a famous patristic phrase he was actually rewording a quotation from Ireneus which says: "The glory of God is life for man". In other words, he was pointing to the option for the poor, which the Bishops of Latin America, had embraced at Puebla
Poverty continues to be the same scandal in this world as it was more than thirty years ago during Romero's time as Archbishop. If anything, poverty has even worsened because globalisation has paradoxically added further social exclusion over and above poverty. Exclusion polarises the world between people who count and people who don't count, people with hope for development living in so-called "emerging" countries and those other hopeless people who live nowhere, so to speak.
In February 1977 there began in El Salvador what we can call the Romero phenomenon, an impressive religious phenomenon with political consequences where the archbishop, whose appointment had been so eagerly anticipated by the few wealthy people of El Salvador, was converted – most unexpectedly - from being a model of spotless rectitude to one of prophetic courage. Where did that conversion start? Actually, it was in the little rural town of Aguilares during a long night of contemplation, touching and watching over the body and blood of his murdered friend, the Jesuit Rutilio Grande, who was the parish priest there.
Some time later the other priests in Aguilares were kidnapped, imprisoned and exiled. The army occupied the town and committed sacrilege by violating the tabernacle, throwing away the hosts and trampling on them. No priest was allowed into Aguilares for two months and the army committed many crimes against parish catechists and peasant organizers of the region. Eventually the archbishop was notified by the government that he could appoint a priest again to the parish. Romero himself drove to Aguilares together with many priests and religious women. During the Mass he spoke words that demonstrated the prophetic character of his episcopacy: "It has fallen to me to go around picking up dead bodies and everything else that this persecution of the Church brings with it. Today it has been my lot to come over to pick up a destroyed tabernacle in this desecrated parish and, most important of all, to comfort these people who have been so outrageously humiliated. Hence…I bring to you the word that Christ has commanded me to tell you: a Word of solidarity, a Word of courage and guidance and, finally, a Word of conversion."
Romero was convinced that "even bishops and the Pope, and all Christians" were in need of conversion. "May we all live with that tension that Christ left in the world, conversion." Two months later he said: "I need to become converted all over again… It is the Church that has to convert to what God wants in this period of history in El Salvador… I know that I have gone down badly with many people, but I know that I have gone well with all those who are sincerely in search of the Church's conversion… We all are in need of conversion and I am the first, even though I am preaching to you now." No wonder that when he started to be opposed by the press, the government and most of all by the wealthy few of El Salvador, he answered back by appealing to his own congregation who knew very well that Romero's language "wanted to sow hope, and boldly denounce injustices of land and abuses of power, not with hate, but rather with love and calling for conversion."
Referring to people murdered by the security forces in August 1977 he forges one of his most famous and momentous sentences: "I want to be near the grief of [their families] and to be the voice of those who are voiceless: to cry out against such abuses of human rights, that justice be done."
Coming to the end of that year, he gives a lesson from his own experience to the people in his Cathedral: "Brothers and sisters: do you want a test to prove whether you are a true Christian? Here is your touchstone: who gets on well with you? Who criticizes you? Who rejects you? Who flatters you? Remember what Christ said one day: I haven't come to bring peace but division; and there will be division even within your own families."
A month later he made very clear his own criterion for discernment in matters of dealing with the State authorities, something like his own version of giving either to Caesar or to God: "I do not confront anybody, I am just trying to serve the people, and whoever is in conflict with the people will also be in conflict with me".
Romero then gave a succinct definition of his own role as a preacher. "I study the Word of God that we are going to read on the coming Sunday; I look around me, at my people and shine the light of the Word upon them, and then I come up with a synthesis to be able to convey it and to enable this people to become the light of the world – so that they don't allow themselves to be guided by the norms and the idols of this world. But naturally these worldly idols and idolatries feel that the Word I preach is an obstacle and would rather like for it to be destroyed, silenced, killed.
Of course he knew very well that to be a prophet, to be faithful to the prophetic mission that he considered a duty of the people of God, carried with it a high cost. It was the cost of freedom. On that same day he preached the following: "This is costing our Church a lot, brothers and sisters. This freedom from the idol of Money, from the idol of power, and to appear before the world the way Paul did, audaciously free. To thank those who give freely to us but without accepting any condition whatsoever."
At the end of 1978, when threats of death were already starting to reach him, the archbishop responded with some of his most memorable words. First by being prophetic: "Dear Brothers and Sisters, I wish my words had the prophets' eloquence to shake up those who are on their knees before the gods of this earth! Those who wish that gold, money and properties, power and politics would be their gods for ever. All that is going to end!" And second, by starting to become aware of the probability of his own violent death: "The Word stays and this is the great consolation for the preacher: my voice may disappear, but my Word, which is Christ, will stay in the hearts of those who have taken it in."
At the beginning of 1979, the country's President offered him official protection. Romero answered in his homily: "I want to tell the President… that much more than protection for my personal security I would wish this week, for security and tranquillity for the one hundred and eight families and their missing relatives, and for all who are suffering. I don't have any interest in my personal wellbeing or in security for my own life while my people endure the weight of an economic, social and political system, which brings ever wider social differences. What I would wish from the Supreme Government would be an effort to guarantee the real peace that we all desire, but that cannot be achieved with repression and abuse, and only with social justice, which is the most urgent need of all."
On the 13th of May, returning from a visit to Rome, he told his congregation this: "In travelling to such a different world I have felt very proud of my archdiocese, because everywhere there is talk about us and people are eager to learn about our Church's experience:" And a week later, he said with great sincerity: "There is no right to be sad… A Christian must always move his own heart to the fullness of joy. Just experience this, brothers and sisters, the way I have tried to experience it in the bitterest of times, when slander and persecution are most intense; become united to Christ the friend, and feel a sweetness which all earthly happiness cannot give."
On the first of July 1979 he told his congregation: "Murders from one side and the other, this death dance of political retribution is the most horrific indicator of the injustice of our system, which seeks camouflage in repression" And further: "I would rather be silenced for telling the truth and defending justice than keep on speaking under the manipulation of repression…..It is not that I believe myself to be a prophet. It is rather that you and I, we are a prophetic people; every baptized person has received a share in the prophetic mission of Christ… I feel that the people are a prophet to me… My function is just to arouse in the people their prophetic sense. The prophet's success lies not in converting people… but in convincing a stubborn and unfaithful people to acknowledge that a prophet has talked to them in the name of God."
Romero had heard that some people on the political left were saying that he was the "opium of the people". He answered back: "Never, never! I am saying that precisely these encouragements to transcendence are there to awaken even more involvement in the historical, the social, the economic, and the political. And I am saying that God has not only made heaven for human beings after death, but that he has made this earth as well for each and every human being. This is by no means opium!"
The month of October seemed to open up new prospects. The President was overthrown. A ruling council of civilians and military people took power…or so it appeared. Romero asked everyone to look with new eyes towards this hopeful horizon. Some far-left organizations and clandestine political parties tried to discredited Romero for being hopeful about this new scenario. Unfortunately massacres of activists, peasants and people of the slums of San Salvador, and even of university students kept on happening. It became all too clear that the Junta had no real power over the military and the security police. Civil war was in the air.
In an open letter to President Jimmy Carter, Romero tried to dissuade the United States government from continuing to provide military aid, but his plea fell on deaf ears.
In the middle of December Romero had made it very clear that he wanted to keep his freedom and independence from both the state and from the popular organizations, even if he acknowledged that he had an obligation to them. He stated very firmly that he was going to continue defending the people's right to organize and supporting every just claim of their organizations. On the 6th of January 1980, once the ruling government council had failed, he addressed the wealthy families of El Salvador: "I am simply the pastor, the brother, the friend of these people, who knows their suffering and hunger and I raise my voice to tell you". With a metaphor that he had borrowed from Brazilian Cardinal Lorscheider he told the wealthy: "You must learn to take off your gold rings so that your fingers aren't cut off."
As his violent end was approaching, Romero's voice was becoming ever more courageous and sincere, ever freer. Thanks to his Diary we know that threats to his life were piling up and that there were moments when he felt fear and anguish encircling him. No wonder. He was no greater than his own guide and master Jesus of Nazareth, who, the night when he was going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies, suffered anguish and even sweated blood. But just like Jesus, Romero overcame the fear and became ever more audacious in defence of the poor of El Salvador.
"As a pastor and as a Salvadoran citizen I am deeply grieved when I see how our people are being massacred just because they go out into the streets to demand justice and liberty. I am sure that it won't be in vain." And he went on: "This people's cry for liberation is a clamour that goes up to God that neither events nor anyone else can stop."
A week before his murder he told his audience "Those who believe my preaching to be political and provoking violence - as if I were the cause of all the evils in the Republic - they forget that the word of the Church is not inventing these evils but is just shedding light upon them. Light illuminates what already exists, but does not create it."
On the eve of his murder he said "I try to preach the Gospel properly before our people. Therefore I ask Christ all week long, while I am picking up the cries of our people and the suffering caused by so much crime and the ignominy of so much violence, for Him to give me the appropriate word to console, to denounce, to call to repentance. Even if I know that my Words are just a cry in the wilderness, I know that the Church is trying very hard to fulfil her mission."
It was his concluding remarks at that same Sunday Mass that probably turned the plans for his murder into reality since for the powers-that-be his voice was no longer tolerable. Romero told his congregation: "No soldier is bound to obey an order against God's law. Nobody has to obey an immoral law. The time has come for you to come to your senses and obey your own conscience rather than a sinful command. Therefore in the name of God and in the name of this suffering people.., I beseech you, I beg you, I command you, stop the repression."
The army and the wealthy elite were outraged at his words. The next evening, while Romero was celebrating Mass, he was shot dead.
But what about Romero's challenge for us today? This challenge is different for us, Central American Christians, as compared to you, Christians here in the United Kingdom. We live in a society that has not yet become secularised. Certainly we live under a Constitution that declares the State to be lay. But the culture among us is still religious. Here, you live in a very secular society and culture. It is good that the Churches in Britain seek together to find a common meaning of God and Jesus Christ in secular society.
But no matter whether we live in a religious or in a secular culture we live in the same civilization. We, like you, have become globalized. And globalization is the work of money, the work of wealth as opposed to human labour. Both President Obama and the European Economic Commissioner talked of this world-wide crisis of globalization as "a crisis of greed". And this shocking reality unites us and presents us with the same challenge. In the words of the Gospel "we cannot serve two masters, because we'll love the one and hate the other or will support one and despise the other. We cannot serve God and Money" or, using the Aramaic word, "you cannot serve God and Mammon" (Mt 6, 24).
This is the challenge: to dislodge the gods of Power and Money, that is to say of the power invested in Money. Tell me sincerely from the bottom of your hearts: can there be meaningful solidarity from the wealthy countries to the poorer countries without tackling that power invested in Money? Must the poorest sectors across our world today pay the bill for the profligacy and grotesque excesses of bankers and speculators who have played the world's markets as if they were a global casino? In the last analysis to fight for a civilization where human labour is the jewel in the crown as opposed to finance is precisely to search for the justice of the kingdom of God (Mt 6, 33). This is entirely consistent with Jesus' Beatitudes. And what is the image that wealth has for the majority of Christians? Would it not be personal consumption? Don't we live in a consumerist society? Wouldn't Jesus of Nazareth, the resurrected Christ, wouldn't He tell us today: happy are those of you who don't put consumption at the top of your human agenda because you are thereby building the kingdom of this earth - and so the kingdom of God will come to you? And wouldn't He tell us: woe to you who have fallen prey to the race towards ever greater consumption because you contribute to the kingdom of the power of Money?
This is the challenge that the life and work of Archbishop Romero present us with. Yes, Saint Romero of America, Saint Romero over the Door of Westminster Abbey. If we work conscientiously for a more austere society, we will certainly frustrate the magicians of globalization, the servants of the power of Money, to the extent we are seen as utopians and so outsiders, outcasts for the best reasons -and not only for our unfashionable faith.
This is the way nowadays of being despised by the world. But the world, this world so loved by God, this physical cosmos which is in such danger around us in our small planet, and the poor of this world, our sisters and brothers, will in their own way recognize our human solidarity, and most certainly they are in need of it. And since The Son of God's became flesh and pitched his tent among us, all that is human is Christian and Divine. Let us help each other, then, to be up to this challenge today in the way that Romero was.


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If the DeMarini CF8 JBB doesn't intrigue you, we suggest the Junior Big Barrel CAT 6 from Marucci. This single piece aluminum bat will work in all types of weather and is generally more durable than the CF8. The barrel isn't as large as the CF8, but it has a different feel as a one-piece bat. The player can feel much more contact on this little guy. See our CAT 6 Review here.
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The role that Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) has played for Swedish literature has been com- pared to that of Shakespeare for English literature. Bellman was extremely productive and his works spanned many genres, including everything from poems and songs to psalms.
"Fredman's Epistles" is Bellman's greatest work, 82 songs written in a language packed with Bibli- cal references and a title that alludes to the letters of Apostle Paul. The epistles are filled with the tri- als and tribulations of the common people and parodies society during the second half of the 1700s.
Sweden Post has depicted Carl Michael Bellman on a stamp before. The first time was in 1940 in conjunction with the 200th anniversary of his birth. The second was in 1990 on the 250th anniversary of his birth and the third was in 2006 when he was depicted together with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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So the Mr. and I are out to dinner the other night and he begins to tell me about the dinner he had the night before with a colleague, who I had met before. In fact, not only had I met him, but I'd also met his super model wife and four super cute little kids before. Apparently, this exec had told the Mr. that he's actually a polygamist–not only does he actively practice it, but he's very involved in advocating for its return in China. He says that after thousands of years of this lifestyle, there's no way that a couple of decades of altered social norms will have any effect on making men satisfied with just one woman for the rest of their lives. I don't really see myself as the 'easily threatened-type', but this isn't exactly the kind of guy you really want your husband having beers with!
The Mr.'s colleague is not a rarity here in China where multiple wives or mistresses are the standard trappings of the wealthy and powerful. Macau Casino magnate Stanely Ho's four wives and 17 children are a tabloid institution here. Drama seems to constantly follow Ho; his first wife was killed in a car accident in 1973, and his eldest son and wife Melanie were killed in an another car accident. He is estranged from his sister Winnie, who accuses him of owing her money. Unsolved murders also seem to follow Ho, including those of his assistant who was found with a slit throat in a Hong Kong square.
According to Forbes magazine, in 2008, Stanley Ho was at 113th place among the world's richest men with a fortune estimated at 8 billion dollars. In the past few years Ho has moved to transfer more power to his favoured wife Angela Leong, a savvy businesswoman and now a Macau legislator, and his daughter Pansy Ho.
Pansy is chief executive of her father's listed company Shun Tak holdings. Her brother, Lawrence, runs Melco – the Hong Kong-listed company that his father brought for him – that is partner with James Packer's PBL in Macau.
A fun Stanley Ho fact: Ho once bid and won a 1.5 kilo truffle for $330,000 dollars.
And a little background on polygamy in China / Hong Kong, courtesy of Wikiepdia:
- Polygamy was banned in HK in 1971–not so long ago!
- Communist Party Leader Mao (who founded the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949) created the "Marriage Law" in 1950 that banned polygamy and forbid child brides.
- Polygamy in China is considered to be a by-product of the tradition of emphasis on procreation and the continuity of the father's family name.
- In Confucianism, the practice of taking concubines was allowed, but a man must have just reasons for doing so. For example, if his wife is not able to give birth to a son, he would be allowed to take a concubine. If a man wants more wives for sexual indulgence, it would be unacceptable. It is illegal in modern China to have more than one spouse for either sex. Polygamy, however, remains seen and tolerated in southwest China among Chinese minorities such as Tibetans etc.


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We have the coolest animals on the planet. Yesterday, I sat down in the old chestnut orchard where the pigs and cattle are grazing now around the chestnuts, hazelnuts, currents, raspberries, mulberries, and elderberries. The pigs came up to hang out as the cattle grazed past. Not a bad place to be an animal. Cow, Pig, or Human.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WYTV) – A new exhibit at the Oh Wow! Museum in Youngstown is teaching children about innovative technology and showing them the hurdles those with disabilities face.
Workers were putting the finishing touches Thursday on the "Drive to Hold" display. The exhibit utilizes five prosthetic hands of various types to shoot a miniature basketball through a hoop.
Director Audra Carlson said the display shows how those with disabilities are able to adapt and highlights teamwork skills.
"With five individual tasks to be completed with different hands it's really hard for one or even two people to make a basket, so they have to work as a team," Carlson said.
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Part Two
- Archbishop Arulappa's History Project Goes Terribly Wrong – K.P. Sunil
- Archbishop Arulappa Sends His Document Forger To Jail – Ganesh Iyer & K.P. Sunil
- Tamil Scholars Condemn Christian Author For Misrepresenting Tiruvalluvar As St. Thomas's Disciple – R.S. Narayanaswami
- Indian Historian Makes A Mockery Of Indian History – Veda Prakash
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- Pope Benedict XVI Denies St. Thomas Evangelized South India – Ishwar Sharan
- Madras-Mylapore Archdiocese Plans Blockbuster Movie On St. Thomas – Ishwar Sharan
- Is Not Archbishop Chinnappa Obliged To Accept The Pope's Stand On St. Thomas In India? – V. Sundaram
- Tiruvalluvar "Baptised" To Betray Hindus – B.R. Haran
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- In Memory Of A Slain Saint – C.A. Simon
- The Legend Of A Slain Saint To Stain Hinduism – Swami Tapasyananda
Part Five
- St. Thomas And Caste – Ishwar Sharan
- St. Thomas And Anti-Brahminism – Koenraad Elst
- Christian Churches Threaten Dalit Rights – Leela Tampi
Part Six
- Hideaway Communalism In The Indian Express – Ishwar Sharan
- Hideaway Communalism In The Hindu – Ishwar Sharan
- Madras Musings And Madras Muthiah – Ishwar Sharan
- St. Thomas: The Original TTK Product – Ishwar Sharan
- Christians Threaten To Bomb Kamakoti Magazine – Hindu Voice International
- Sita Ram Goel And Khushwant Singh Exchange Notes – Sita Ram Goel & Khushwant Singh
Part Seven
- The Mount Of Thomas – S. Muthiah
- Chennai's Own Holocaust Deniers – Ishwar Sharan
- San Thome Cathedral Cover-up Uncovered – G.P. Srinivasan
- The New Indian Express Makes A Tsunami – Ishwar Sharan
- Did A Hindu King Kill St. Thomas? – Ishwar Sharan
- The Deccan Chronicle Deceits – Ishwar Sharan
- The Secrets Of The Twelve Disciples Reviewed – Ishwar Sharan
- Mythical Thomas, Devious Deivanayagam, And Conniving Church – B.R. Haran
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he personally supports hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, yet believes drilling should be up to local voters to decide.
"Well, I'm in favor of fracking, but voters should have a big say in it. Some areas maybe they don't want to have fracking. And I think if the voters are voting for it, that's up to them," Trump told reporters Friday while at a campaign stop in Colorado.
"Fracking is something that we need. Fracking is something that's here whether we like it or not, but if a municipality or a state wants to ban fracking, I can understand that," the real estate mogul turned presidential nominee added.
Trump's position may not go over well in a state like Colorado, where energy groups and others have criticized municipalities in the state for putting the legality of fracking up to a popular vote. It may also run smack dab against a recent court ruling prohibiting municipalities and local areas from outright banning or restricting natural gas development.
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The New York Yankees signed right-handed pitcher Rony Garcia on July 2, 2015 as an international free agent out of Santo Domingo Oeste, Dominican Republic. The young prospect made his professional debut during the 2016 season, splitting his time between the Dominican Summer League and the Gulf Coast League.
Garcia made his professional debut on June 8, 2016 in a Dominican Summer League game against the DSL Angels. The right-hander threw 4 2/3 innings that game coming in with one-out in the first inning. He was touched for four runs, three earned, on nine hits that game but did not walk anyone and struck out six batters.
After that game, he would go on to make eight starts for the DSL Yankees, earning a 1.41 ERA in 38 1/3 innings and limiting opposing batters to a .178 ERA while walking nine batters and striking out 33. The success he attained earned him a promotion to the Gulf Coast League Yankees where he got his first taste of playing in the United States.
On August 3, 2016, Garcia made his debut in the Gulf Coast League playing against his fellow Yankees prospects playing on the GCL Yankees West team. He threw five 1/3 shutout innings allowing just three hits and striking out five batters that game and earning the win. His shutout streak continued in his second appearance for the GCL Yankees East when he threw five one-hit innings against the GCL Tigers where he struck out three batters.
On August 17, 2016, his shutout streak ended when he was touched for five runs, four earned in six 2/3 innings of work against the GCL Phillies. He took the loss the game and struck out just two, walked two and eight hits. Overall the right-hander pitched to a 2-2 record in the Gulf Coast League with a 2.89 ERA in five games, four starts, striking out 17 batters in 28 innings.
Combined Garcia had a 3-5 record in 2016 with a 2.28 ERA in 14 games, 12 starts and struck out 56 batters in 71 innings. Opposing batters hit just .219 against him.
Scouting Report
At 6-foot 3-inches tall and 200 pounds, Rony Garcia has the prototypical pitchers build and can be compared favorably to current Yankees starter Luis Severino. His repertoire consists of a plus fastball that can sit around 93 miles per hour and can top out at 96 MPH as well as a curveball and changeup that are still developing. He goes right after hitters, not backing down and attacks the strike zone so he limits his walks.
2017 Outlook
After a successful professional debut in 2016 with the DSL and GCL Yankees it is liked you will see Garcia start the season in Extended Spring Training before reporting to the New York-Penn League in June with the Staten Island Yankees. It is also possible he heads to the Appalachian League with the Pulaski Yankees as well. Do not be surprised if you see him ending the 2017 season in the South Atlantic League with the Charleston RiverDogs as well.


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Four Years after Sandy Hook, the NRA Continues the Arming of America
By Frank Smyth, December 13, 2016, The Progressive
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"I don't think it's quite game over," said Jonathan E. Lowy, legal director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "But there are reasons to be concerned."
Sequester trumps Sandy Hook: Why gun-control measures may falter
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Many Americans expected a real change in the nation's gun laws after the killing of 20 first-graders in Newtown. But three months later, the outcome looks unclear. No fewer than four pieces of legislation have passed a Senate panel over the past two weeks to move to the Senate floor. "It's a step forward," Debra
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A Little Taste of What's to Come Giveaway
Occasionally we post announcements in our groups asking for community members who would like review products for us as part of a site giveway! We love to give free stuff away to families who have kids with special needs because we are (usually) hit so hard financially. In my family, we spend hundreds monthly on co-pays for meds, doctor visits and tutoring so when Dawn and I were talking about what we wanted the site to look like and be and do, giving away stuff that was helpful, fun and cool was at the top of our list. .
That's why we came up with the Great Big Wish List Giveway where we'll be giving away over 60 toys and gifts! We have some terrific partners including companies like Hasbro PLAYSKOOL who also sponsored this giveaway preview. (We got two — one to give to a community member to review on the site and one to give away perhaps to YOU!)
This Wednesday, November 3rd we'll announce exactly how the Great Big Wish List Giveway works and we'll provide you with a calendar so you can keep up with it all. (Trust me the calendar is for us, too!) We'll be doing fun things like a scavenger hunt, asking you to post recipes, leave comments or we might ask you to visit a group. You do have to be a member to win most (but not all!) of the prizes so get a head start and get signed up now!
And now a review from community member, Kelly Blackburn on the PLAYSKOOL WHEEL PALS ANIMAL TRACKS POLAR PARTY PLAY SET (say THAT 3 times fast!).
"When the Wheel Pals Polar Party arrived at our front door my 2 year old and 4 year old daughters lost their little minds Anyone who witnessed this scene would have sworn these poor kids had never seen a toy in their lives! Until of course they noticed that our entire house is littered with toys. Mommy is 6 months pregnant and any toy I don't trip over stays where it lands, these days.
Wheel Pals is very cute. The Polar Party is themed with blue ice and white snow and comes with a penguin car and a polar bear car that ride down an icy ramp on, of course, wheels. Set up was very simple, and my 4 year old and no problems swinging the closing gate, rotating the ramp, and pushing the purple whales tail to lift the the ramp and other characters on his "water wave".
This toy is intended for ages 18 months and up. Both of my girls (and older playmates who came to visit) did become bored with it fairly quickly. I'm not sure that I can blame the toy, as I stated-Mommy's house is a bit chaotic right now. However, there are 2 more sets that are sold separately and can be connected to this one. The Rolling Acres Farm (red and yellow with a cow car and chicken car) and Jungle Journey (green and blue with a lion car and a lizard car). The three sets together are sure to be a fun little zoo for little ones."
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This document was last updated September 12, 2005.
The purpose of this historical document is to provide the food animal supply chain with expanded RFID capabilities that can be used for Animal Identification and Tracking by utilizing existing ISO standards in two defined implementation paths;
Low Frequency (LF) - ISO 11784, ISO 11785, ISO 14223.
Ultra High Frequency (UHF) - ISO/IEC 18000-6B, ISO/IEC 18000-6C (when published), ISO/IEC 15961, ISO/IEC 15962, ISO/IEC 15434, and Section 9 of this document.
UHF transponders and interrogators that meet the requirements of this document shall comply with ISO/IEC 18000-6B and ISO/IEC 18000-6C (when published), and all equipment shall operate in accordance with local radio regulations. Until ISO declares ISO/IEC 18000-6B inactive, UHF interrogators that meet the requirements of this document shall comply with both of these air interface protocols.
The frequency path chosen shall define the applicable data coding standard(s);
· UHF: ISO/IEC 15961, ISO/IEC 15962, ISO/IEC 15434, and Section 9 of this document
This document applies specifically to production food animals from birth through receipt at a slaughterhouse.
AIM will be the registering and maintaining authority for the DI 8N. 8N assignments are shown with the AIM Extended Data Element Qualifier (ex., 8NG where "8N" is the DI and "G" is the qualifier for Sex).
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The course is divided into five sections, with an exam after each section. The exam dates will be provided on a separate handout (soon!). The general plan is: An exam about every three weeks. The exception is Part III, for which we should only need two weeks.
The lectures will mostly follow the sequence of topics in your textbook, indicated by a chapter number in parentheses. In some cases we will not read the textbook section completely, in others the lectures will cover significant supplementary material.
I. Planets and Habitability
Course overview (Evans, Ch1). Drake equation as an organizing tool.
Origin of elements, stars (2, 3A-C). Interstellar molecules.
Origin of planets; observations of protoplanetary disks (3D)
Exoplanet detection*
Habitable planets (3F)*
............Our first exam will occur here (date to be filled in) ..................
II. Transition to the living state by chemical evolution (Evans 4)
Nature of life (4A). Why carbon? Why water?
Origin of the monomers (4B); Miller-Urey experiment, exogenous delivery, …
Rise of the polymers (4C); the problem with DNA; the even larger problem with RNA; importance of early encapsulation and mineral surfaces.
Rise of the foldamers; the origin of functionality. Why water?
Scenarios for the transition to life (4D). Lipid world, metabolism first,…
RNA world* (more detail than textbook)
Alternative biochemistries (4E) and exotic life forms (4F)
………Second exam here (XXX)………………………
III. Life in the Solar System; Biosignatures (Evans 5)
Some astronomical background: The planets.
Possibilities for life on Venus and Mars
Giant planets, moons, especially Titan.
We will spend only 4-5 lecture periods on this material, with an emphasis somewhat different than in Evans.
...........Third exam here (Thurs. Oct 23)..........................
IV. Development of complex life and civilizations on Earth and elsewhere.
Evolution of biological complexity on Earth. Read Evans 6A as a popularized version of the subject. The Lecture
material here will be nearly independent of the textbook here.
Biological complexity on Earth: Part II.
SPRING BREAK 3/17, 3/19 -> Start reading Contact.
-> Paper topics due
Cultural evolution and technological civilizations (7A)
Lifetime of a technological civilization (Evans 7C, D)
…………Fourth exam here (XXX)……………………….
V. Modes of contact
Drake equation (8)
-> Research papers due
Universality of intelligence? (6B, supplemented).
Strategies for extraterrestrial communication or signal detection (9A-D, E)
Contact (Contact)
-> Paper rewrite due
Possibilities for interstellar travel (10A, B).
Possibilities of past visitations and related phenomena (10C)
............ Fifth (last) exam here, on last class day (XXX)…………
There is no comprehensive final