Have you ever driven down a major city thoroughfare that has timed traffic lights? If you get a green light at the start, and then drive the right speed you will sail down the street without ever having to stop. The opposite is also true. Hit one red light in the beginning, and you will be stopped at every intersection for the duration. It can be mighty frustrating.
That experience is similar to what eventually happens to anyone who prays. They may sail along for a good long while, and all their prayers are answered. But then they hit on a red light and are stopped dead in their tracks. No answers. After hitting a few more red lights, frustration, doubt and discouragement set in. You may be stuck at a stop light right now. Don't despair; the light will turn green again, but in the meanwhile, let's look at the roots of unanswered prayer.
Prayer is not answered for three main reasons: God – his timing and his sovereignty; Satan – his blocking and demonic influence; and ourselves. Part of what we can do when we are stopped at the red light is to try to use the time to develop some spiritual perception. We need to discern with spiritual eyes and ears what is really going on. Then we can adjust our prayer accordingly; in some cases we can force the light to go green again.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says; "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven." One of the things I have noticed about God over the years is that he is a God of economy, and he often masterminds blessings and answers in a way that affects multiple people and situations. He may wait to answer a prayer so that when the answer comes it is even better and more influential than what was originally asked.
An example from scripture was when Hannah, who was barren, prayed for a son. She got her answer – though delayed, when God gave her Samuel, but the timing was such that Israel also got a great Prophet, and a man who transitioned the country from being governed by Judges to Kings.
When we are in the prayer arena we also have to consider God's sovereignty which means his absolute and supreme authority to do whatever he chooses, whenever he chooses to do it. For instance, God created the heavens and the earth by his own sovereignty; no one prayed that he would do so because no one existed. Certain things are set by God's own authority. The timing of the coming of Jesus to the earth was set by God. The scripture says he came; "in the fullness of time" (Galatians 4:4). No one could have changed that, and no one can change the timing of the Second Coming of Christ. It will happen right on schedule.
Scripture makes us very aware of the fact that Satan, the devil, is active and operational in our world today. One of his chief activities is stealing from us. Jesus said this about the devil's purpose; "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy" (John 10:10). If he can, he will steal our blessings, our abundant life, our dreams, AND our prayers.
Satan has authority in the worldly realm. When Jesus was being tempted after a forty day fast; "The devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And he said to him, 'I will give you all their authority and splendor, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours'" (Luke 4:5-7). Under Satan's command there is a hierarchy of evil beings assigned both to territories and to people carrying out his orders all over the world.
An example in scripture of prayers blocked by demonic spirits is given in Daniel 10. Daniel had been praying for 21 days when he received an angelic visitation. The angel told him that his prayers were heard from the first day he prayed, but the demonic spirit that controlled Persia was preventing him from coming to answer Daniel. During this time, help was solicited from Michael, the guardian angel of Israel and a heavenly battle ensued to clear the blockage.
The good news for Christians is that our authority through the name of Jesus is greater than the power of Satan. Luke 10:19 says; "I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you." If we are sitting at a stop light because of demonic activity it is possible to clear the blockages through spiritual warfare which may include fasting, heightened intercession and taking authority over Satan in the name of Jesus. If this is the case, the light can now turn green, and on we go.
This is the area where we have the most control to turn our STOP light into a green light. I also know from my own experience it is sometimes the last place we want to look when evaluating why our prayers are going unanswered. We can either choose to ignore the part we play in unanswered prayer or examine and correct our heart, and then receive our answers. Actually, if we aren't willing to correct the problem, why bother praying at all?
Here are some things that can block answers to our prayers.
"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins" (Mark 11:25). We can actually prevent our own sins from being forgiven by refusing to forgive others.
"If I regard (meaning cherish) iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear" (Psalm 66:18). Sin can close down the communication lines between us and God.
"You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures" (James 4:2-3). This does not mean we cannot ask for our personal needs, but we do need to examine our deepest motivations in our requests and dig out and repent of selfishness and greed.
"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him" (I John 5:14-15). We can save ourselves a lot of grief by getting God's heart on a matter before launching a doomed prayer initiative.
"Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers" (I Peter 3:7). Relationships out of whack can hinder prayers, and this does not just apply to husbands. The principle is lack of respect.
"But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does" (James 1:8). Asking clear specific stable prayers will yield results in opposition to the kind of prayer referenced here by a double-minded person.
If you are currently sitting at a STOP light, and have been there too long, you might want to use the time to find out why the light won't change. Is it God and his timing? Is it Satan? Is it something on your end? Take some time to pray specifically about discerning the hold up. To clear the air you might want to fast (See "Clearing the Fog" for more information on Fasting). BUT, no matter what is going on or how long it takes, KEEP ON PRAYING. Do not give up. Prayer makes a difference, and God answers prayer! AMEN!


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Recent Research Highlights
Discovery of water-ice and organic molecules on two asteroids: 24 Themis and 65 Cybele (publications #4 and #1 below)
Member of the Science Team of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission to an asteroid. This mission was selected in 2011 by NASA as the next New Frontiers mission.
Determination of the origin of asteroid 101955 (1999 RQ36), the target of NASA's OSIRIS-Rex sample-return mission (publication #5 below)
Publication of book chapter on "Sources of Terrestrial and Martian Water" (publication #3 below)
US member of the European Space Agency's Marco Polo-R mission, which was selected in 2011 by ESA for the assessment study phase of M3 missions.
Recent Prizes and Awards
Research Award, University of Central Florida. April 2011.
Don Quijote Award, Professional of the Year, Orlando, Florida. Dec. 2010.
Fulbright Senior Award, 2008-2009.
Recent Invited Lectures
Water-ice and organic molecules on asteroids: implications for the origin of water and life on Earth. Invited Speaker at Paris Observatory, May 12, 2011
Colors of Asteroid Families. Invited Speaker at "Solar System science before and after Gaia". University of Pisa, Italy, May 4-6, 2011
The Puzzling Icy Nature of Asteroid 24 Themis. University of Florence, Florence Italy. June 2011
Water Ice Nature on Asteroid 24 Themis. Vatican Observatory Summer School. Albano, Italy. June 2010
Water Ice on Asteroid 24 Themis. International Conference on Meteorite Detection Analysis and Recovery Techniques. Barcelona, Spain. May 2010
The Puzzling Icy Nature of Asteroid 24 Themis. Organic Materials in Planetary Systems. Meudon, France. May, 2010
Water Ice and Organics on Asteroids 24 Themis and 65 Cybele. Boston University, Boston, Mass. USA
Selected Refereed Publications
"(65) Cybele: Detection of Small Silicate Grains, Water-ice, and Organics" by Licandro, J., Campins, H., Kelley, M., Hargrove , K., Pinilla-Alonso, N., Cruikshank, D., Rivkin, A. S., and Emery, J. (2011), Astronomy and Astrophysics, 525, A34
"Near-infrared spectroscopy of primitive asteroid families" by Ziffer, J., Campins, H, Licandro, J., Walker, M. E., Fernandez, Y., Clark, B. E., Mothe-Diniz, T., Howell, E., Deshpande, R. (2011) Icarus, Vol. 213, p. 538-546
"Sources of Terrestrial and Martian Water" by Campins, H. and Drake, M. (2010) in "Water & life: the unique properties of H20" Eds. R. Lynden-Bell et al. CRC Press, pp. 221- 234.
"Water ice and organics on the surface of the asteroid 24 Themis" by Campins, H., Hargrove, K., Pinilla-Alonso, N, Howell, E., Kelley, M., S., Licandro, J., Mothe´-Diniz, T., Fernández, Y., and Ziffer, J. (2010) Nature, vol. 464, 1320-1321.
"The Origin of Asteroid 101955 (1999 RQ36)" by Campins, H., Morbidelli, A., Tsiganis, K., de León, J., Licandro J., and Lauretta, D. (2010) Astrophys. J. Lett., vol. 721, L53.
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Meghalaya extends the internet blackout for another 48 hours due to a border dispute
State police claim that social media sites like Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and others have the potential to seriously destabilise law and order in the Assam-Meghalaya border region.
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The Meghalaya administration on Friday extended the internet ban in the state's seven districts for an additional 48 hours.
Social media sites like Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and others have the potential to seriously undermine law and order, according to state police.
The Meghalaya government decided to continue the internet shutdown in the state's seven districts, namely West Jaintia Hills, East Jaintia Hills, East Khasi Hills, Ri – Bhoi, Eastern West Khasi Hills, West Khasi Hills, and South West Khasi Hills Districts, by issuing a public order on Friday in response to the unfortunate incident that occurred on the bordering areas of the Assam-Meghalaya border and resulted in
On November 26, at 10:30 am, the affected districts' internet access will be suspended.
As was previously mentioned, miscreants attacked three police vehicles, including a city bus, on Thursday evening, set a traffic booth on fire, and tension soon spread to Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya.
The event happened on November 22 during a candlelight vigil held by various parties in opposition to the violence along the Assam-Meghalaya border. Six people were killed in the shooting incident in the Mukroh area of Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills district, including five Meghalayans and a member of the Assam Forest Guard.
According to sources, the protestors attacked the police forces sent in to reduce tensions with rocks and petrol bombs.
According to reports, security forces had to use tear gas to disperse the demonstrators and maintain order.
S. Nongtnger, SP of East Khasi Hills, Shillong, told ANI over the phone that the incident damaged three police vehicles, including a city bus and a gypsy.
"The miscreants torched a traffic booth in the city and hurled petrol bombs at police personnel," the SP said.
Six people were reportedly killed and a number of others were hurt earlier on Tuesday during an alleged clash between villagers and an Assamese contingent made up of police and forest guards on Tuesday afternoon.
The alleged altercation allegedly took place near the West Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya and the West Karbi Anglong district of Assam. An Assamese forest guard was one of those who died.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is revising the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards under the Clean Air Act section 202(a) for light-duty vehicles for 2023 and later model years to make the standards more stringent.
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Pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA or Act), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking direct final action to approve revisions to the State of Kansas's Underground Storage Tank (UST) program submitted by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE). This action also codifies EPA's approval of Kansas's State program and incorporates by reference those provisions of the State regulations that we have determined meet the requirements for approval.
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Maggie Spooner: Any piece but Maggie's peace
by Maggie Spooner
Arthur Laurents and Sidney Pollack will forgive me for misquoting a favourite line from The Way we Were. I have my reasons.
Periodically, I've felt close to the character played by Barbara Streisand in that film: a woman full of well-meaning enthusiasms sidetracked by the distractions on offer from an (in my case only very mildly) glamorously informed bourgeoisie.
Which is why I always regretted not getting on a plane to Berlin on November 10 in 1989: I could have done it. Or so I always thought. Been part of a defining moment in history. And maybe brought back a piece of the wall to prove it.
On the other hand, I always sensed that any participation after the fact is not really valid. I was never on the streets of Leipzig. My visit would have been what theatre critics call a visitation, not an experience. But still, the regret is there.
Which is why, amid all the endless hype of CNN live from the Gate, of balloons and Lindenberg and Gorbachev, I took the U-Bahn yesterday out to Wittenau and began cycling south along the Mauerweg. Mostly, I was by myself: just the odd dog-walker and one young couple who took the time to show me the path, now running between a group of wispy birches, used by the East German border police. I began to feel intimations of connectivity.
Not far from Wollankstraße, I took the detour recommended by my biking guide: along Brehmestraße and into Dolomitenstraße where part of the Hinterlandmauer still stands, on its original site just to the south of the S-Bahn. A police van was parked in the long grass behind some garages, keeping an eye on a couple making out near the tracks. Kids were repairing cars. Above me, through the open window of a dingy apartment, I caught a glimpse of a Wolf Biermann poster. Someone was coughing. A smoker's cough. Apart from that, all was quiet. The Wall beckoned.
So I thrashed around in the stinging nettles and hobbled over mounds of building debris and before you could say Mauerspecht, I was standing right up close to it. The real Wall, in real time. I stared intently and a piece fell off, into my hand. I popped it into my pocket and rode off, triumphantly. I'd found it, my piece of the action, my own private worry-stone of history. But as the apartment window closed above me, I may have heard someone laughing.
I got to Bornholmer Straße at dusk. The balloons were lighting up, one by one, as people worked out how to activate them. But I had my more-than-just-a-symbol fragment-of-history and cycled on to a date with a friend at the Paris Bar. We sat there, discussing the bobbing lanterns and general Christo-iphication of the Wall: the clothing of history versus remembrance and celebration, the irony of distance and the pathos of spectacle, baloney or balloons? My piece of the wall lay on the table between us.
Which is where I forgot it. Just left it, lying there. I was home before I realized – and cycled back furiously to retrieve it.
"Oui," said the waiter as I stumbled into the well-heeled distractions of the Paris Bar. "Votre mur," and handed me my piece of the peace from its place in the 'lost and found' drawer. Of history.
For the time being, my piece of the peace is lying on the coffee table. But I think I may not keep it after all. Because if history repeats itself as farce, my little outing proves that this joke is probably on me.
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Perseverance Heat Shield Separation (Illustration)
In this illustration, NASA's Perseverance rover gets its first look at the Martian surface below, after dropping its heat shield just under six minutes after entry into the Mars atmosphere. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021.
Entry, Descent, and Landing, or "EDL," begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere, travelling nearly 12,500 mph (20,000 kph). EDL ends about seven minutes after atmospheric entry, with Perseverance stationary on the Martian surface.
The parachute, 70.5 feet (21.5 meters) in diameter, deploys about 240 seconds after entry, at an altitude of about 7 miles (11 kilometers) and a velocity of about 940 mph (1,512 kph). The heat shield separates about 20 seconds, and the rover is exposed to the atmosphere of Mars for the first time. With a clear view of the ground, the landing radar and Terrain Relative Navigation system can begin determining the vehicle's precise altitude, position, and velocity in preparation for touchdown.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California built and will manage operations of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover for NASA.
For more information about the mission, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020.
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Leaving Green Fields for the Red Planet
NASA's Perseverance rover undergoes a 10-day test in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at JPL. The image was taken on Nov. 16, 2019.
10 Days of Perseverance
This artist's sketch is based on the Curiosity rover in NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, with proposed modifications based on the science definition team's recommendations.
Blue-Print-Style Rover Sketch, Artist's Concept
The helicopter was tested on a stand while the cruise stage was tested on the rotation fixture.
Inspecting NASA's Mars Helicopter
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Perseverance Rover Camera View of Long Autonomous Drive
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No Echoes for Supercam Microphone
MEDLI2 sensors are installed on the Mars 2020 heat shield and back shell prior that will protect NASA's Perseverance rover on its journey to the surface of Mars.
A Suite of Sensors for a Daring Descent
When NASA's Mars 2020 rover lands on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021, it will seek signs of past microbial life and characterize the planet's climate and geology.
NASA Mars 2020 Rover Sample Collection Animation
In this photo taken on Oct. 1, 2019, the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter (between left and center rover wheels) have just completed a multiweek evaluation under Mars-...
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Deployment Test
This image of NASA's Mars 2020 rover was taken on July 23, 2019 in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Mars 2020 Rover on Stand
Morale was high as the Mars Helicopter team gathered for a group photo on Dec. 3, 2018, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
Mars Helicopter Team Is Ready to Fly
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SHERLOC Geocoin Artwork
The nose cone containing NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is maneuvered into place atop its Atlas V rocket. The image was taken at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on July 7, 2020.
Maneuvering Perseverance
Members of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory prepare to receive the data downlink showing whether the helicopter completed...
Ingenuity's Team Waits for Data on Helicopter's First Flight
In this time-lapse video, taken July 19, 2019, in the clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL, the rover's 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) arm maneuvers its 88-pound (40-kilogram) sensor...
NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Robotic Arm Is on the Move (Time-lapse)
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30. NASA's Eyes on the Solar System tool lets you track the spacecraft in real time as it makes its way to Mars f...
Mars 2020 Perseverance in Flight
NASA's Perseverance rover deploys a supersonic parachute from its aeroshell as it slows down before landing, in this artist's illustration. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and ex...
Perseverance Deploys its Parachute (Illustration)
This 3D view of an area the Mars Perseverance rover team calls "Faillefeu" was created from data collected by NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 13th flight at Mars on Sept. 4, 2021.
Mars Mound From Ingenuity Helicopter's Perspective in 3D
An illustration of the planet Mars, highlighting NASA's Mars Perseverance rover and future human explorers.
Mars Perseverance Rover Mission (Humans and Robots Illustration)
The Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured this view of the rover's deck on Feb. 20, 2021. This view provides a good look at PIXL, one of the instruments on ...
Navcam Panorama of the Perseverance Rover's Deck
Made from fossilized microbes and sediment, these rounded rocks are stromatolites that were found in a dry lakebed during the field exercise. Scientists hope to find something similar in the dry la...
Stromatolites in the Nevada Desert
This time-lapse video, taken on Oct. 8, 2019, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, captures the first time the Mars 2020 rover carries its full weight on its legs and wheels.
That's One Small Step for a Mars Rover
The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to capture this image of the final location of the heat shield that helped protect NASA's Perseverance rover during its landing ...
Close-Up of Perseverance Heat Shield on the Martian Surface
Members of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter team in the Space Flight Operations Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory react to data showing that the helicopter completed its first flight on April...
Ingenuity's Team Reacts to Data Showing It Completed Its First Flight
This 3D view of geologic feature the Mars Perseverance rover team calls "Raised Ridges" was generated from data collected by Ingenuity during its 10th flight at Mars, on July 24, 2021.
Jezero Crater's 'Raised Ridges' in 3D
The findings by rover scientists highlight the diversity of samples geologists and future scientists associated with the agency's Mars Sample Return program will have to study.
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Makes Surprising Discoveries
Middle schoolers who have pushed past obstacles to reach their academic goals will be celebrated by the mission team with a personal message beamed down from NASA's Perseverance rover.
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars' History
Panelists will discuss the Perseverance rover's successful collection of the sample and latest science analysis.
NASA to Host Briefing on Successful Sample Collection of Martian Rock
The rover continues to explore Jezero Crater while the team assesses today's activities.
NASA's Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars Sampling Attempt
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Sauber F1: 2011 Hungarian Grand Prix preview
Written by David on July 26th, 2011 at 11:53 amLast Update: July 26th, 2011 at 11:53 am
James Key: "The Hungaroring is a long established circuit which the teams know well. It's a fairly low speed track with lots of medium and low speed corners, but all of them are quite flowing rather than stop start. It's one of the high downforce circuits during the year. Not as high as Monaco, but certainly higher than the majority of circuits. It's one of those tracks which is either a favourite of teams and drivers or not. But generally for me it's a place I enjoy going to. It will be an interesting event because we will have the soft and super soft tyre compounds, which we haven't run since Canada. These are tyres which I think will work very well there. It is usually fairly hot there, so the ambient and track temperatures play a role in the way the tyres work and how you have to operate your car. It's also a track which has never been particularly easy for overtaking, so qualifying and race strategy will probably play quite an important part. If the temperatures are high, and tyre degradation is also high we could well see a number of different strategies being played out. We will have the same configuration of car as at the Nurburgring because it's only one week later, but we feel it's probably a circuit where the car could work well with the right conditions, and we are looking forward to going there."
Sergio Perez: "To me the Hungaroring is a very good, technical and slow circuit. Traction and braking stability are very important. It is physically pretty demanding, and it has a really nice atmosphere. I believe it should be a good track for us, and I definitely want to score points there before the summer break. Last year I was fighting for the GP2 championship at the Hungaroring, and I must admit it wasn't such a good weekend. I finished third in the first race, but crashed in the second. Off the track I also like the city a lot, as it is a very nice and enjoyable place to be."
Kamui Kobayashi: "I have good memories of Budapest from last year. I started from 23rd on the grid and was able to overtake quite a few competitors and end up ninth. It was really a brilliant race. It's a very technical track with mainly medium speed and slow corners. The straight is quite short, therefore in the past it was very difficult to overtake, but this year we have the DRS which will help us to put on a more exciting race for the fans. Often the temperatures in Budapest are very high, so tyre management will be crucial and tricky. But so far this season our car has been quite kind to its tyres, so we should be in a strong position to score a good result."
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Assists in managing daily operations of the pharmacy department. Reports to the Manager. Must demonstrate ability to recognize patients' individual needs based on medical condition, age (infants, pediatrics, adolescents, young adults, middle aged, and geriatric), limitations and planned procedures. Computer and communication skills, both verbal and written are needed. Provides a positive and professional representation of the organization. Promotes culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation, and prevention. Maintains hospital standards for a clean and quiet patient environment to maintain a positive patient care experience. Maintains competency and knowledge of current standards of practice, trends, and developments in related scope of job role or practice. Adheres to infection control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations. Participates in ongoing quality improvement activities. Maintains compliance with organization's policies, as well as established practices, protocols, and procedures of the position, department, and applicable professional standards. Complies with organizational and regulatory policies for handling confidential patient information. Demonstrates excellent customer service through his/her attitude and actions, consistent with the standards contained in the Vision, Mission, and Values of the organization. Adheres to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and TJC standards and/or standards from other accrediting bodies.
Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy from an accredited School of Pharmacy and continuing education requirements of the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy. Licensed as a pharmacist in Mississippi, and controlled substance license. Supervisory experience is required; 3 - 5 years previous experience in hospital pharmacy practice is preferred.


I am thankful that you've stuck with me.
It sounds awkward writing it down, but it's true — I'm thankful that you still allow me to be the pastor at Adventure. Over the past decade you allowed me to grow as a pastor, leader and man. I've made some mistakes – some bigger than others (we won't recall them right now though :-). And, in spite of those mistakes, you stuck with me. You kept coming. You loved me when I was not lovable. You forgave me when I needed forgiveness. You've allowed me to grow as a preacher, teacher and leader. Thank you!
I am thankful for the people with whom I serve.
The staff and current elders at Adventure are wonderful and I absolutely love serving with them. All of the staff is great, but Pastor Richard Mosqueda is a true ministry partner. We joke about how our gifts are so different that God put us together because together we are one good pastor! But all of the staff and elders are more than just people I go to the office with or make plans and decisions with. We are Christian brothers and sisters. We love one another. We pray for one another. We care about each other. That makes coming to "work" each day a real blessing and something for which I am truly grateful. Thank you!
I am thankful for a church that loves Jesus more than themselves.
So many people have been impacted by Adventure Church. Nearly 200 people have been baptized since we first started! That doesn't happen unless the church members love Jesus more than themselves. I am grateful that our church is willing to try new things to reach people for the Kingdom, to look past things that don't really matter like how someone is dressed on Sunday or whether we use a hymnal, and to change our methods to reach people where they are, knowing that God won't keep them there. It is a true blessing to be in a church that understands that church is about God and others way more than it is about them. Thank you!
Happy thanksgiving to all of you! God bless you and thank you!
Things from the past that we can't change.
Things that other people say or do that have nothing to do with us.
I'm no stranger when it comes to allowing some of the stuff listed above to distract my focus during the day (and keep me awake at night). And I know you're no stranger to this worry either. But we shouldn't be. There are more important things on which to spend our time and energy.
Rather than worry about who said what to whom about whomever, let's spend our energy encouraging one another with a surprise card, post or text.
Rather than spinning our wheels trying to figure out what someone's vague FB rant means and whether they are talking about us, how about we spend our time praying for them.
Let's spend some time making lists of all the good things in our lives, our marriages, our cities, our schools and our churches rather than list everything that might be wrong.
Now, I'm not suggesting that we ignore real relationship issues, nor do I believe that there isn't room for improvement in our relationships and institutions. But it seems to me our mindset is backwards. Too often, we look for the bad before the good. Too quickly, we assume the worst instead of the best. Too many times, we focus on the little things of the past rather than the big things of the future.
At the top of this post is a picture of a button we hand out at our church. It says, "These Are My Church Clothes." We hand them out to everybody. Anyone can wear them anytime. Why? Because we aren't concerned about what people wear to church. That's a little thing. We care about whether they feel welcome at church. That's a big thing!
I suggest we stop worrying and start focusing. I know if I choose to do that, my days will be a lot better. And my nights will be too!
I love this time of year. I love it because it's just cold enough that you have to wear a jacket (or hoodie) but not so cold that you have to shovel snow. I love it because it's football season. I love it because it reminds me of when we started Adventure Church (11 years ago this weekend). And, I love it when we host our annual Trunk or Treat Event at ACC.
The Adventure Trunk or Treat event is Wednesday, October 28. It has routinely become one of our largest invitation events of the year. Last year we had over 500 people attend. It's a great time to invite your family and friends and neighbors — especially those who may be a little skeptical about church.
Why is this such a good time to invite people? Because there is no pressure on them! This event is all about having fun. Kids and adults both dress up in goofy costumes, candy is handed out by the bag full, and there are more hot dogs to eat than at a baseball game. People can tour around the building, meet our pastors and staff, and get a feel for what it would be like to come and visit on a Sunday. All without having to do anything, say anything, sing anything, read anything or believe anything! No pressure.
So, who do you need to invite to our Trunk or Treat event? Post this on your FB page. Tweet it. Email it. Everyone – invite someone!
I just finished an article in the Christian Research Journal by Thomas E. Bergler who asserts that churches need to put spiritual maturity high on their agenda, pointing what we say, what we model and how we lead toward helping Christians attain spiritual maturity. This post's content is inspired by Dr. Bergler's article with much of the content coming from there. This post contains some tough teaching. Hang on and hang in there! There is hope at the end so read it all!
The observation by Dr. Bergler that many people in our churches are "juvenilized Christians" (i.e, self-centered, emotionally driven, and intellectually shallow) hit home for me. I've experienced first hand this kind of thinking and feeling from many, many people. And, I'm not talking about "young" or "new" Christians who just are beginning their spiritual journeys and are expected to be immature in their faith and walk with God; I'm talking about people who have had ample opportunity, ample time and ample experience at least to be maturing, if not yet mature, in their faith. Maybe that's you; maybe not. It's probably more of you than would care to admit it. I suspect after you read the rest of this post, you'll have a better idea of whether you are maturing or not.
Spiritual maturity is expected because it means becoming more and more like Christ. That's what being a Christian means: "little Christ." Over time, through the work of the Holy Spirit, we should be increasing our knowledge of the Lord as well as our "likeness" of Him. We should be developing more fully the fruits of the spirit as outlined in Galatians 5:22-26. We should become like our teacher, Jesus Christ (Luke 6:40).
Serving and Kingdom growth — A MATURE Christian lives for others, serves others and joins others in serving others, all for the benefit of showing God's love and introducing Him to other people. They are "on mission" for God before themselves. (Matthew 28:16-20). They are sacrificial with their time and money. However, IMMATURE Christians tend to see service as something that can be done to help the community at large, if and only if, they have the time, energy, money or interest to help a particular person or group of people. They are happy to help someone as long as it fits in their schedule and makes them feel good. They often point to one "community service project" event in the last year or a once-every-few-weeks service in the church as being "more than enough" to help the Kingdom.
Emotionally — A MATURE Christian is in control of their feelings rather than allowing their feelings to control them. They do not feel sorry for themselves and they reject feelings of jealousy and anger towards others who are in different places economically, socially or physically. They recognize that both suffering and comfort are regular parts of the Christian life. (2 Corinthians 1:3-7; 4:7-18). An IMMATURE Christian believes that negative emotions, experiences and circumstances are unfair, unique to them, and that they have a "right" not to have them. They often believe that one of the benefits of being "on God's side" should be that life should be care-free, struggle-free and happy-me. They often "get mad at God" because He's not doing what they think He should be doing in their life, or, at least He's not doing it quickly enough.
Am I allowing God to mature me?
Am I satisfied with spiritual milk rather than seeking deeper things of God?
Will I do anything about where I am and where I need to be?
I hope that you ask yourselves these questions too. And, that you answer them!
Sermon Notes from July 7, 2013. You can catch the audio sermon on the Adventure Church website. This message was based on scripture from Mark 11.
"Hypocrisy" – means to act or to pretend. In short, it means to act like something that you are not. The world is full of hypocrites, including the church. But for Christians, it is especially important that we seek to be "real" and "authentic" all of the time. Our witness is mostly who we are, not what we say. As many as 72% of unchurched people say that the church is full of hypocrites.
Mark 11:13-14, 20-21 — Jesus sees a fig tree in the distance full of leaves. It appears to be healthy, but he finds it to be fruitless and curses the tree. The next day, the disciples find the tree completely withered.
We can too easily live in such as way as to appear that everything is "good" or "fine" when in fact, our real life is far from such things. We are broken inside. We hurt. We sin. (note: illustration – 'Dust if you Must' – when we clean our homes for company, we shove all of our clutter and dirt in the closet or under the bed. Do we do the same with our spiritual and emotional clutter?) When we live like this, it is destructive to ourselves and the people around us, especially our kids, who are watching us.
Such hypocrisy is detestable to God, is known by Him, and will be destroyed. Just like the fig tree, God knows if our lives our bearing fruit. He knows our real selves. And, when we try to live a double life, it destroys us.
Also, see Luke 6:45 – "The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man things out of the evil stored up in his heart …." — What is on the outside comes from what is in our inside, our heart. Fruitlessness shows that we have a heart problem.
The temple was the centerpiece of the Jewish faith. By his actions, Jesus showed that they had come to worship the acts of holiness, the rituals, instead of worshipping God, the only one who is worthy of our worship.
As individuals and churches, we can slip into the hypocrisy of wrong focus. Instead of spending our lives worshipping God himself, and living for His purposes, we get caught up in our buildings, our attendance numbers, our great music. We can even allow ourselves to fall into a place of "pious fellowship" whereby we spend time with one another and are "happy" to be with each other, as long as there is no sin mentioned or demonstrated. We don't want broken people or personal filth to interrupt our "holy fellowship" times in our small groups or pot-luck dinners.
This type of hypocrisy is opposed to God's purposes and will be exposed by Him. God will not allow us to continue to worship things that are not aligned with His purposes or that conflict with our worship of Him. He exposes our inauthenticity – to us, to others, to the world. And, just as Jesus upset the money changers' tables, when our focus is wrong, and it is exposed, it upsets our lives in uncomfortable ways. But, that's how God gets our attention.
Mark 11:27-28 – Jesus engages in yet another verbal exchange with the religious leaders. The leaders try to trap Jesus once again with a question, but Jesus poses a question back to them. The leaders choose not to answer and in refusing to do so, expose their hypocrisy. The refuse to listen to God's Word, instead choosing to be worried about what other men will think of them.
This may be the most devastating of all of the hypocrisies. Willful ignorance simply means that even though the Word is right in front of us, even though we can read the Bible, hear the Word preached, etc., we choose not to take it to heart. We know what we should do, or what we should not, but we choose against those things in favor of what is most expedient or most comfortable for us.
This hypocrisy shows up in our lives as we fail to live as God directs in our marriages, our relationships, in how we forgive others, in what we do at work or at school or on the golf course. The bottom line is that we purposely sin because we willfully ignore God's Word. What can be more hypocritical than that?
Such hypocrisy is repugnant to God and will be defeated.
Note: illustration about deer getting addicted to junk food to the point of not being able to consume anything healthy. It lead to their destruction.
We must crave pure spiritual milk from God. We must get rid of our hypocrisy, for the sake of ourselves and the kingdom, by feasting on what is good, allowing God to transform our hearts so that we can bear good fruit.


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The daytime menu at this cheerful cafe is simple yet focused. Falafel, sabich (fried aubergine), chicken schnitzel or spicy omelette are all served in either pita or a baguette with hummus and salad. In the evening, there's a slightly more involved menu featuring shakshuka, shawarmas and mezze platters. However, with a name like the Falafel Café there's only going to be one star of the show. Warm pillowy pita bread is packed with a generous handful of herby, deep-fried chickpea goodness. A good smear of silky smooth hummus and a couple of generous glugs of nutty tahini complete the masterpiece. Ridiculously delicious, excellent value and "healthy" by my standards, Falafel Café is a stellar lunch option.
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And a twenty gallon container that's filled with lard.
From all of that hog-fat, a lot of things can be cooked in that.
"Quirks" was composed in 1998 by George Fulks.
Quirks! Tiny spurts of cosmic consciousness.
Some pleasantly fragrant- many noxious.
As across a picket-fence it goes.
Hopping and jumping- bobbling ahead.
And now it's perched upon a shed.
Yet I, the man, have work to do.
I'll walk the meadow in search of hue.
Before I let the daylight pass.
Make-um a believer, golden retriever.
s Scratchin' fleas. Transmitting disease.
Givin' measles to the weasles.
Daughter of Jennifer Gail Fulks Parish and Jessie Parish, this image is from a photo shot in October, 2008. Grand-daughter Jade was in pre-school, age four years.
George Fulks: 1997 (recovering from pneumonia)"Golden Retriever" was a non-sense verse that came in a "jiffy." All American scholars and those of extremely high intellect should memorize that chant. It's not Gregorian.
Isn't the gambling casino spacious?
Hand me my flip-flops,my bunny!
And five-hundred dollars of your money.
And have a chat with your mom and dad.
Give baby Betty Sue a hug from me.
I won't return until tomorrow at three.
For a good-by kiss, I'll gamble and won't miss.
My entry there is a splendid affair.
A nibble on my cheek from Miss Susan Leek.
Kiss me, my sweet hostess or whomever sits the closest.
You retired but should have been fired.
George,you should never have been hired.
It was your soft, deep voice that we all admired.
Attending a refresher course will now be required.
A poor little child has missed the schoolbus at the corner of Jefferson and Mechanic Street in Hillsboro, Illinois. It's the day of the Christmas party at school. Someone in its class at school will not receive a Christmas present. The child does not know its way to school.
Photo image is of Austin Finn, a fourteen year old Grandson. Truly related to Huckleberry as depicted in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn", Austin's ancestors moved to Illinois from an area near Hannibal, Missouri. Related to Austin that Mark Twain was a riverboat pilot and had an excess time to think as he moved along the Mississippi River.
Very early during my residence here on Jefferson Street, we had trouble with our vehicles and our total income. My 1986 Nissan was still mechanically sound, but the catalytic converter had rusted out. So had the chassis of that truck. The greatest error was my failure to have it undercoated. You asked me about "Liver" the last time you visited, Rick. Here are their vehicles. Consider though-if we lived in a large city, our rent or house payments would be so high, we'd be forced into poverty. In many countries, inflation is so high that a pair of socks takes a whole weeks' wages. The U.S. standard of living is still better than in many countries. Would you want to give up your American citizenship? I wouldn't.
Satan was conceived, and then he died.
The universe was then purified.
And the endless void its hideous face was then destroyed.
From what was natural emerged paranoid.


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Q: Passing a list of values (Oracle UserDefinedType) to Oracle stored procedure using Spring Boot JPA I am searching for a solution for Passing a list of values (Array or List) to an Oracle Stored Procedure using Spring Boot JPA mechanism.
Here we actually have an Oracle User Defined Type (UDT) which we have to pass via the Spring JPA mechanism. The link Oracle database object type import in Java is quite old and at that time JPA wasn't supporting Oracle UserDefinedTypes.
I got many examples using the simpler JDBC mechanism, but I could not find much regarding JPA.
How to pass in array when calling stored procedure with Spring Data JPA
Please anyone let me know if JPA (Spring JPA / Spring Boot JPA) supports this now.

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Congo. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Malaysia. In light of that, Infor's acquisition of GT Nexus in August 2015 is understandable. A third notable take-over is that of Barloworld by US software supplier Llamasoft in September 2015.
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describe('angular forms', function () {
  var el, $scope;

  // different configurations for src/ and release/
  try {
    angular.module('dz.forms.fields.templates');
  } catch(err) {
    angular.module('dz.forms.fields.templates', []);
  }

  beforeEach(module('dz.forms.templates'));
  beforeEach(module('dz.forms'));
  beforeEach(inject(function ($rootScope, $compile) {
    $scope = $rootScope.$new();
    $scope.model = {};
    el = $compile('<dz-form form="form" model="model" disabled="disabled"></dz-form>')($scope);
    $scope.$apply();
  }));

  describe('form', function () {
    describe('directive', function () {
      beforeEach(function () {
        $scope.form = {
          title: 'Form Title',
          description: 'This is a form description.'
        };
        $scope.disabled = false;
        $scope.$apply();
      });

      it('should create a form', function () {
        expect(el[0].nodeName.toLowerCase()).toEqual('form');
      });

      it('should include a title', function () {
        expect(el[0].querySelector('.dz-form-title').innerHTML).toEqual($scope.form.title);
      });

      it('should include a description', function () {
        expect(el[0].querySelector('.dz-form-description').innerHTML).toEqual($scope.form.description);
      });

      it('should support being disabled', function () {
        $scope.disabled = true;
        $scope.$apply();
        expect(el.find('fieldset').attr('disabled')).toEqual('disabled' );
      });
    });
  });

  describe('field', function () {
    var dzForm,
        textField = { template: '<input type="text" ng-model="model[field.name]" class="text-field" ng-disabled="disabled()" ng-required="required()" />' };

    beforeEach(inject(function (_dzForm_) {
      dzForm = _dzForm_;
      dzForm.registerField('text', textField);
      $scope.form = {
        fields: [
          {
            name: 'test',
            type: 'text',
            label: 'Test'
          }
        ]
      };
      $scope.$apply();
    }));

    describe('definition', function () {
      it('should support registering a field type', function () {
        expect(dzForm.getField('text').template).toEqual(textField.template);
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.text-field').length).toEqual(1);
      });

      it('should support registering a field type after load', function () {
        $scope.form.fields.push({ name: 'numberTest', type: 'number', label: 'Number' });
        $scope.$apply();
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.number-field').length).toEqual(0);
        dzForm.registerField('number', { template: '<input type="number" ng-model="model[field.name]" class="number-field" />' });
        $scope.$apply();
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.number-field').length).toEqual(1);
      });

      it('should support unregistering a field type', function () {
        dzForm.unregisterField('text');
        $scope.$apply();
        expect(dzForm.getField('text')).toBeNull();
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.text-field').length).toEqual(0);
      });

      it('should support changing a field type', function () {
        dzForm.registerField('number', { template: '<input type="number" ng-model="model[field.name]" class="number-field" />' });
        $scope.form.fields[0].type = 'number';
        $scope.$apply();
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.number-field').length).toEqual(1);
      });

      it('can be specified using an object', function () {
        $scope.form.fields = {
          'test': {
            name: 'test',
            type: 'text',
            label: 'Test'
          }
        };
        $scope.$apply();
        expect(dzForm.getField('text').template).toEqual(textField.template);
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.text-field').length).toEqual(1);
      });

      it('templateUrl should work', inject(function ($httpBackend) {
        // update the field
        dzForm.registerField('test', { templateUrl: 'test.tpl.html' });
        $scope.form.fields = [
          {
            name: 'test',
            type: 'test',
            label: 'Test'
          }
        ];

        // setup the http service
        $httpBackend.expectGET('test.tpl.html').respond('<input type="text" ng-model="model[field.name]" class="test-field" ng-disabled="disabled()" ng-required="required()" />');

        // an apply shouldn't create the element yet, because we haven't flushed the http request
        $scope.$apply();
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.test-field').length).toEqual(0);

        // after flushing, we should have one text field
        $httpBackend.flush();
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.test-field').length).toEqual(1);

        $httpBackend.verifyNoOutstandingExpectation();
      }));
    });

    describe('dynamic state', function () {
      describe('visible', function () {
        function testVisible(visible) {
          if(visible == null) visible = true;
          expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.dz-form-field').length).toBe(1);
          expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.dz-form-field.ng-hide').length).toBe(visible ? 0 : 1);
        }

        it('should default to true', testVisible);

        it('should correctly show field', function () {
          $scope.form.fields[0].visible = 'test.value !== \'hide-me\'';
          $scope.model.test = 'sup';
          $scope.$apply();
          testVisible();
        });

        it('should correctly hide field', function () {
          $scope.form.fields[0].visible = 'test.value !== \'hide-me\'';
          $scope.model.test = 'hide-me';
          $scope.$apply();
          testVisible(false);
        });
      });

      describe('required', function () {
        function testRequired(required) {
          expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.text-field').length).toBe(1);
          expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.text-field[required]').length).toBe(required ? 1 : 0);
        }

        it('should default to false', function () {
          testRequired(false)
        });

        it('should correctly make field optional', function () {
          $scope.form.fields[0].required = 'test.value === \'require-me\'';
          $scope.model.test = 'sup';
          $scope.$apply();
          testRequired(false);
        });

        it('should correctly make field required', function () {
          $scope.form.fields[0].required = 'test.value === \'require-me\'';
          $scope.model.test = 'require-me';
          $scope.$apply();
          testRequired(true);
        });
      });

      describe('disabled', function () {
        function testDisabled(disabled) {
          expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.text-field').length).toBe(1);
          expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.text-field[disabled]').length).toBe(disabled ? 1 : 0);
        }

        it('should default to false', function () {
          testDisabled(false)
        });

        it('should correctly enable field', function () {
          $scope.form.fields[0].disabled = 'test.value === \'require-me\'';
          $scope.model.test = 'sup';
          $scope.$apply();
          testDisabled(false);
        });

        it('should correctly disable field', function () {
          $scope.form.fields[0].disabled = 'test.value === \'require-me\'';
          $scope.model.test = 'require-me';
          $scope.$apply();
          testDisabled(true);
        });
      });
    });

    describe('sub forms', function () {
      beforeEach(inject(function ($templateCache) {
        dzForm.registerField('form', { template: $templateCache.get('fields/form.tpl.html') });
        $scope.form.fields.push({
          name: 'sub',
          type: 'form',
          fields: [
            {
              name: 'test',
              type: 'text',
              label: 'hey'
            }
          ]
        });
        $scope.$apply();
      }));

      it('should render', function () {
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.dz-sub-form').length).toEqual(1);
      });

      it('should render fields', function () {
        expect(el[0].querySelectorAll('.dz-sub-form .text-field').length).toEqual(1);
      });

      it('should update the model', function () {
        var textInput = el[0].querySelector('.dz-sub-form .text-field');
        textInput.value = 'sub-form input';
        dispatchEvent(textInput, 'change', false, true);
        expect($scope.model.sub.test).toEqual(textInput.value);
      });
    });
  });
});

function dispatchEvent(el, type, bubble, cancelable) {
  var event = document.createEvent('Event');
  event.initEvent(type, bubble, cancelable);
  el.dispatchEvent(event);
}


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« Bob Gibson
Kurt Bevacqua »
"This is not a photograph – no
(This is not a photograph)
And these are not the Elysian Fields
And if that's not enough jagged postmodern abnegation for you, this is not a Seattle Mariner, either. Pete Broberg was drafted by the Mariners with the 35th pick of the 1976 expansion draft, but he was traded to the Cubs for a player to be named later before the Mariners had played (and lost) their first game.
Moreover, at the time this mysterious portrait of Pete Broberg in cheesy Elysium emerged, the Seattle Mariners did not quite fully exist. For example, they did not yet have caps, or even an official cap design. The pitchfork represented here on the crown of the fake cap painted onto Pete Broberg's head, perhaps the product of an overworked Topps artist's interpretation of some hurried instructions delivered over the phone by an overworked Seattle Mariners official, is not a bad rendering, especially when compared to other Topps-doctored cap insignias, such as the loopy "NY" on Rudy May's 1975 card, but it is decidedly smaller than the actual logo that appeared on the Mariners caps when they officially began their existence.
The undersized insignia contributes to the overall impression of unreality, an impression strengthened further by the background, a glue-huffer's foggy hallucination of paradise. Another even stronger element in the creation of the card's ersatz bliss, ironically the one part of the picture that seems the most likely to have originated as a photographic representation of reality, is Pete Broberg's face.
This face, which seems more a part of an oil portrait made to look like a photograph than a part of a photograph, represents the most placid, careless expression I've yet come across in my investigations of the Cardboard Gods.
By far.
It's as if Pete Broberg has left behind all the complications of life. Or perhaps has never been the least bit acquainted with such complications.
"I thought we had another Bob Feller. But he's a hardhead."
–pitching coach Sid Hudson on Pete Broberg
Pete Broberg is 27 years old in this picture, and his past to this point has been a series of gleaming futures that never came to pass.
He'd been 18 years old in 1968, which was for most young men in America a bad time to be 18: U.S. troop deployment and casualties in Vietnam had reached their highest levels, and you could expect a letter in the mail at any time, demanding that you come join the carnage.
But Pete Broberg was special, the best high school pitcher in the nation. He was chosen by the Oakland A's with the second pick in the first round of the 1968 amateur draft (Tim Foli was taken first). As the A's had just moved from Kansas City that off-season, Pete Broberg had the distinction of being the first pick ever taken by the Oakland A's. While others his age with fewer options were on their way to Vietnam, Broberg was being offered a $175,000 signing bonus by A's owner Charlie Finley. Broberg turned him down and instead enrolled in Dartmouth College. (One of the ways of avoiding the military draft back then was to go hide out in college for a while. I don't know if this figured into Broberg's decision. In an article on the Oakland A's website the only clue Broberg offers on his turning down of the $175,000 was that he didn't feel ready yet for the big leagues.)
Three years later, he was the best amateur baseball player in America, bar none, and he did feel he was ready for the majors. This time he was taken first overall in the amateur draft, the last first round draft choice ever taken by the Washington Senators. Broberg signed with the Senators with the stipulation that he never have to spend a moment in the minor leagues. Two weeks after being drafted, he pitched in the majors against the Boston Red Sox. He struck out 7 and allowed two runs in a 6-inning no decision. Most who saw him in his early days were impressed by his talent, as touched on in this Baseball Fever discussion thread.
But the talent, which seemed to surface in glimpses (including the day Broberg was the pitcher of record in the first-ever win by the Texas Rangers), never translated to any kind of sustained major league success: In his entire career, he never once finished the year with a winning record. By the expansion draft of 1976 everyone had long ago ceased waiting around for Pete Broberg to blossom into the next Bob Feller.
But in this 1977 picture Pete Broberg doesn't seem to give a shit that his early promise has gone unfulfilled. That year he racked up another lousy year with the Cubs, then brought his career full circle, in a raggedy ass way, by going 10 and 12 for the A's, the team that had tried to throw $175,000 at him right out of high school 10 years before. The Dodgers signed him as a free agent the following year but told him he'd have to go to triple-A or be released.
In the aforementioned article from the Oakland A's website, Pete Broberg recounts the choice in a way that seems to fit his expression in this card:
"I went home," Broberg said. "They still had to pay me, and the Dodgers paid my way through law school."
This sounds like the words of a guy who just doesn't care that much about baseball. But in keeping with the theme that everything connected with this card is not what it seems, Pete Broberg later put his law career on hold in 1989 to play for a pittance while pitching for the West Palm Beach Tropics of the short-lived Senior Baseball League, an act that had to have been, after all those years serenely reclining in the fake Elysian Fields of well-paid apathy, an achy-muscled labor of love.
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Man, that's everything that I ever wanted to know about Pete Broberg. How far were you from Hanover while growing up Josh? Your paths may have crossed, assuming you had moved from NJ while Broberg was still in school.
Josh Wilker said…
We were about a half hour from Hanover. It loomed large in our life–a gleaming beacon of civilization, albeit one that sort of made us feel like we didn't belong. Alas, Pete Broberg was already in the majors by the time we got to the area.
Now I'm all Broberg'd out.
Hey, Pete was in the news last week,. It was local news, but it was the news. I had something else that I wanted to say about Broberg, but it slipped my mind.
Actually, it wasn't about Broberg. I just wanted to say that those Mission of Burma lines reminded me of Rene Magritte.
by Josh Wilker March 29, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Pete Broberg like root beer
by thegreataardvark April 7, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Did you ever take all of the 1977 Mariners or Blue Jays and look at them all at once? The variations in size, color, and sharpness of the team logos is remarkable – like they divided it up so that each Topps employee was responsible for exactly one.
by fpb01 September 25, 2011 at 3:26 pm
by Josh Wilker September 26, 2011 at 10:37 am
It takes bad players to make bad teams. He looks back at his career and all he speaks of is money and "last place teams". Million dollar arm – "placid, careless" head. BTW – The Brew Crew were in first place in the AL East On July 3, 1975 after beating the Sox in Fenway. They were then beaten in a four game swep by the absolutely pathetic Tigers. Our bro, the stopper (then 9-7) capped the sweep with a 1 inning start giving up 6 runs, on 6 hits and a walk.
In his next start he blew an early 4 run lead and gave up a grand slam to get pulled in the 4th. The Crew were now in 3rd place, 7 1/2 games out.
I'll have to agree with Whitey.
by Jerry Powers March 23, 2012 at 6:32 am
I went to high school with Pete……Played against him at every level…except for high school.and American Legion. He was a man among boys, but I was in awe of his dad,Gus. What a father he was and mentor. Don W.
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Sinn Féin Newry and Armagh MP Conor Murphy has congratulated St Paul's High School on being nominated as a regional finalist for the Young Direct Marketing Awards, an award scheme for school children organised by the Direct Marketing Association.
The MP said that he like all in the local community were very proud of the School and its achievements. He said:
"Well done to all staff and pupils concerned. St Paul's has once again does us proud. I wish them well for the coming final in London.
"This is a fantastic achievement given the very high standard of entries. The pupils were tasked with designing a direct marketing campaign for one of our charity partners. Pupils in years 7 and 8 entered the Awards on behalf of Friends of the Earth and the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association." ENDS
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The Brentwood Historic District in Phoenix, Arizona, is a  historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.  It includes work dating to 1924.  It includes Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Modern Movement and other architecture.  The listing included 126 contributing buildings.

The district includes several subdivisions created between 1926 and 1946 and consists entirely of single-family homes with exceptions of a Mormon Stake Center at 1725 East Brill Street dating from 1947 to 1949, and three apartment buildings.

The oldest house in the district is apparently the 1916-constructed house at 1821 East Willetta Street.

Other names associated with the area include McDowell Heights, Brentwood, East Brentwood, Governor Hunt, Wright Davis, and Valley of the Sun.

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The compliance trap
Is the regulatory process that started in the aftermath of the last financial crisis sowing the seeds of the next one? Gilles Hilary, Professor of Accounting and Control, INSEAD, warns against the dangers of overregulation.
For years, financial innovation and international diversification were seen as the golden path towards an optimal allocation of risk in the economy. Then came the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. Fear and uncertainty sent shockwaves through a complex and connected world. Regulators, under the pressure of public opinion, had to react. Their response to the misdeeds of financial institutions has been unprecedented, the fines so large that even advocates of tougher regulation have wondered whether the response was proportionate to the crimes.
The enforcement action against banks deemed to be laundering money, no matter how thin the association, is a notable example. Rafts of new rules have also been unveiled. In banking, higher capital requirements, bans on proprietary trading, caps on leverage ratios and new conditions attached to pay and bonuses are forcing the financial industry to hunker down for a more staid future.
Devil in the details
But what started as sound regulatory principles degenerated quickly into a blizzard of detailed regulations. One simple example is the number of pages in the Basel banking regulations. Basel I had 30 pages, Basel II had 347 pages and the latest iteration, Basel III is a staggering 616 pages. The Volcker rule, which broadly prohibits banks from making speculative investments, started as an 11-page memorandum but is already 1,000 pages long now. With more rules to comply with and the increasing complexity of those rules, compliance is becoming a much harder task.
To make matters worse, regulators are not working in a globally integrated framework, leading to many different national rules for companies to comply with, many which stretch across borders, some of which are inconsistent with each other. This is having detrimental effects on companies that may just have an association with the host country's regulations and creates additional systemic risk. BNP Paribas, one of the biggest European banks, was destabilised when its Swiss subsidiary failed to comply with a piece of US legislation that was triggered by the mere fact it transacted in US dollars.
Firms have responded to this onslaught of legislation by dedicating an increasing amount of resources to compliance. Last autumn, HSBC said it was hiring 3,000 more compliance officers. JPMorgan is hiring a similar number to try to stop the flood of fines coming its way. Some two thirds of compliance practitioners expect their team's budget to grow this year, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters Accelus. But no matter how much they try, firms seem to lose the compliance challenge. General Motors, one of the biggest industrial corporations in the world, admitted in its annual report lacking 'expertise' to ensure compliance with pronouncements on accounting for derivatives.
Confusion all round
Even regulators are getting confused. Take the private equity industry as an example. While investment banks are regulated as broker-dealers by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for their role in buyouts, the private equity industry
in the US doesn't know where it stands on the same issue. Marlon Paz, a partner at Locke Lord, a law firm and a former SEC official was quoted as saying, 'There appears to be growing confusion even among SEC staff as to conduct by private equity firms and their consultants and employees that subjects them to broker- dealer registration requirements'.
Unable to comply, or too happy to exploit loopholes, the financial system has adapted with more financial innovation. Securitisation, for example, is bouncing back, with asset-backed securities finding a strong footing in the US auto market. Firms are also finding more creative ways meet equity requirements. Contingent convertible (CoCo) bonds are now being issued by banks to meet both increased investor appetite for risk and regulatory urges for banks to have more equity.
This innovation, like the previous ones that contributed to the crisis, is not fully understood. A recent survey by Royal Bank of Scotland found that 90 percent of investors thought their understanding of CoCos was better than average. Some large firms are reducing their exposure to complexity. Citigroup, for example, has recently announced that it would refocus its strategy. But shadow banking is taking off as regulators scramble to catch up, pushing risk into more opaque corners. Risk hungry investors are salivating as regulators grow increasingly worried.
Ironically, the regulatory process that started in the aftermath of the last financial crisis may be sowing the seeds of the next one. Volumes of regulation, critically analysed by legal and financial experts and supervised by over-extended regulators are unlikely to be sufficient to maintain the integrity of the financial system. The development of compliance- centric procedures is not conducive of good risk management. It gives an illusion of control over an increasingly complex and integrated system. Ironically, it perhaps reinforces the root causes of the previous crisis. The starting point of the next financial crisis is still unknown, but it is highly likely that when it comes, fear and uncertainty will send shockwaves through a more complex and connected world.
Gilles Hilary is an INSEAD Professor of Accounting and Control and the Mubadala Chaired Professor in Corporate Governance and Strategy. He is also a contributing faculty member to the INSEAD Corporate Governance Initiative.


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Bobby Roode Reveals Dream Matches In WWE
Steve Carrier on October 5, 2017
WWE SmackDown Live superstar Bobby Roode recently did an interview with Gamespot where he talked about his SmackDown roster debut, who he would like to compete with in WWE, his feud with Dolph Ziggler, Asuka and a variety of other professional wrestling topics. Here are some of the highlights from the interview:
On joining the main roster at SmackDown Live:
"Of course being on SmackDown is a huge career highlight for me. I really enjoyed my time in NXT. It was an amazing experience there, but you can't get complacent in this business. Obviously being on SmackDown, there are a lot of guys there that I wanna get in the ring with. As far as the character goes, I'm just out there having fun. I got a smile on my face, and why wouldn't I? I'm getting an opportunity to live my dream, go out there every week, and be a part of SmackDown Live and make SmackDown Live 'glorious.'"
On who he would like to work with in the WWE:
"Oh man, I'd be standing here for probably an hour. Yeah, Seth Rollins, the guy who is on the cover of 2K18; Roman Reigns; and Dean Ambrose. Let's talk about the Smackdown side. We got Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Randy Orton, and Rusev. There are just a ton of guys. The sky's the limit really, and I feel like a kid in a candy store, like I'm starting my career all over again because there is so many cool opportunities that await. So, hopefully I'll get a chance to work with all of those guys."
On his his feud with Dolph Ziggler:
"I think it's gonna be great. Dolph has been here for a long time, and I always thought that he was an incredible talent. Him and I really aren't that different; I said it on TV last time. You know we're really alike in a lot of ways. We both demand respect in the ring, we both want to go out there and tell a great story, and we want to perform everything on the show. I think if we have that attitude going into the match, we have an opportunity to do what he says every day, which is 'go out there and steal the show.'"
Roode also discussed Asuka's upcoming debut and more. Check out the full interview here.
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The 18th Florida Bull Test was conducted at the University of Florida North Florida Research and Education center in Marianna. There were 113 consignments from 29 consignors from Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. There were 42 Angus, 4 Braford, 3 Brahman, 10 Charolais, 4 Hereford, 33 SimAngus, and 17 Simmental consignments born between August 15 and December 31 of 2016. Bulls were delivered in late July and initiated their 112-day test on August 16, 2017. The last day of test was December 6, 2017. In addition, a hallmark of the FL Bull Test is that individual feed intake is assessed to establish feed efficiency. At completion of the test the entire group of bulls averaged 3.30 pounds of gain per day, but ranged from 1.79 to 4.48 pounds per day.
Activities with the Bull Test conclude with a sale on Saturday, January 20, 2018. Only bulls meeting specific benchmarks are eligible for the sale. In addition, bulls are inspected for structural soundness and disposition and must pass a breeding soundness exam to qualify for the sale. Additional information, such as actual performance data, expected progeny differences (EPDs), and carcass ultrasound data is available for bull buyers to aid in the selection of excellent quality bulls to purchase.
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Looking for ways to improve your betting on AFL is much easier when you have AFL tips. Some people like to insist on figuring out the statistics on their own.
Looking for ways to improve your betting on AFL is much easier when you have AFL tips. Some people like to insist on figuring out the statistics on their own instead of consulting with tips or signing up for one. The truth is, there are several advantages of using AFL tips. While it may cost just a bit of money on your side, it is money well spent. After all, how can you say no to something that wins you your money back and even a lot more?
First of all, AFL tips are advantageous because it leaves you free from the hassle of watching each and every game, listing down the statistical records and frantically punching on that calculator to get the odds. After all, you are not even sure if your computations are correct or whether or not you are computing for the right numbers. AFL tips use a standardized and measurable system for computing and has a one hundred percent accuracy rate, giving you the latest and the best AFL tips that you can refer to every time you feel like making a bet on AFL.
Without AFL tips, you will be wasting more time on computing the stats. Sure, it is easy to know which are the crowd favorites and which teams have a very consistent winning record; asking any AFL nut out on the street will reveal this, but AFL tips offer much more in the sense that it can give you betting averages that have leverage. This means if the bet requires a certain team winning by X number of points, knowing the favorite team does not do much unless you have this highly integral data. And of course, this information you can only get with AFL tips.
AFL tips also allow you to bet on the small games or the qualifiers. Some people like to save up and just wait for the championship, but they do not realize that the beauty of knowing AFL betting tips for semis or qualifiers is that all those little winnings you make as the season progresses can add up into something significant. And if you are just going to bet on the championship, the risks are a lot higher since the number of bets that pour in are not as well distributed compared to the previous matches earlier in the season.
As you can see, AFL betting tips have really good advantages. And the last one is that anyone can do this on his or her own computer. You need not see all the games; simply subscribe to the tips to get a summary of how the season is faring and what small averages each team makes to guide your betting along the way. Even if it will cost a small membership fee, in the end you will realize that the payouts pretty much make up for the initial cost of these AFL betting tips online. So if you have not yet subscribed to it, it is high time that you do.
Thinking about whether or not AFL tips are beneficial to you? You should know that the advantages of AFL tips far outweigh the initial cost you will have to shell out.