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PLUS, get $850 in Security Equipment including:
*With $99 installation with purchase of 36/24 mo. monitoring contract.
Termination fee applies. New customers only. See offer details below.
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Home Security in Hominy, Oklahoma
According to jsu.edu, each year there are over 2.2 million burglaries in the US, which means that every 15 seconds, a burglary is committed
Your Chances of Becoming a Victim of a Burglary in Hominy, OK
No one likes thinking about potentially becoming a victim of crime in Oklahoma, but every single day in the US a break-in happens every 4 seconds. It's easy to say "it won't happen to me" but 2.2 million families fall victim of burglaries each year in the US. Don't let your home in Hominy become part of those statistics. Installing a new home security system and along with monitoring from ADT your home could be protected and your family safer.
Homeowners Insurance
Did you know that ADT Home Security monitoring is so effective that many homeowners insurance providers offer discounts to policyholders with their security systems. By having an ADT-monitored security system installed in your home, you may be able to save on your homeowners insurance premiums. That's money back in your wallet!
24 Hours a day monitoring
ADT monitoring is a leader in monitored home security, but it also offers important services such as Emergency Alert Monitoring, Flood Monitoring, and Fire and Smoke Monitoring.
ADT 6-Month Money Back Guarantee
ADT is so confident in the quality of their monitoring services, that if your home is broken into while your system is armed, ADT will pay up to $500 of your homeowners insurance deductible (certain restrictions may apply).
Burglaries Cost More than You Think
Being the victim of a home burglary can be a very distressing experience. Stress may become compounded once the financial impact of a burglary becomes apparent. According to the FBI, burglary victims in 2011 faced, on average, nearly $2,200 in property loss. This number doesn't take into consideration additional expenses in the form of lost wages, insurance deductibles, and various other costs. Residents of some cities were victims of as many as 109101 property crimes and 27459 burglaries in 2011. Several of these burglaries could have been prevented had homeowners installed home security systems, which can deter potential intruders from breaking into a residence.
Why Oklahoma Homeowners Choose ADT Monitoring Systems
There are many different reasons Oklahoma residents choose ADT Security Monitoring to help protect their home & family from burglary and other disasters. But we thought we'd list just a few reasons for choosing SafeStreets USA and ADT.
Multiple types of protection. ADT monitored security systems not only help protect against burglaries and home invasion, but also helps against fire and even carbon monoxide poisoning. An alarm can help wake your family in case of smoke and fire. A panic button can also help contact police or fire department during an emergency, perhaps even saving your life.
Security equipment that's easy to use. With just a push of a button you can easily arm and disarm your system. And with the panic button your family can quickly alert emergency response such as police or the need of an ambulance.
Dependable equipment and confident monitoring your home security system is monitored 24 hours a day and 365 days per year by trained staff at the ready. ADT provides great redundancy with 6 US monitoring centers your home is never unprotected. If one center is down then another automatically starts monitoring your home.
Quick deployment of first responders. At any time your alarm is triggered or you push the panic button, ADT's monitoring centers will quickly try and verify your situation. If you are having an actual emergency ADT will immediately notify police or fire responders with your exact location and details.
Burglars getting into your garage
Some time back, a YouTube video showing how to break into a garage in 6 seconds went viral. Then videos showing how to prevent such a break-in proliferated, including this Texas news clip.
The idea is that a burglar quickly and easily gets into your garage, then shuts that door and gains effortless access to your house. Yes, an open garage door is noticeable, but if it is then closed quickly, chances are it won't be noticed. And the burglar is in. Even if the door between your garage and house is locked, the burglar is now able to take his or her time breaking through that door to gain entry. A home security system would set off an alarm, but most burglars are fast, in and out of a home in between 8 and 12 minutes, which gives them plenty of time before the police show up.
Although the garage door is not the most common way to break into a home—thieves use the garage to gain access to a house 9% of the time—you as a homeowner want to prevent any kind of access point to decrease your chances of becoming a victim. And much of the advice for preventing garage break-ins is the same as general home security advice. So we offer tips below that are specific to your garage and your house both…
Make your house less appealing
Burglars don't choose houses at random. They know exactly what they're looking for. Decrease the appeal of your house and garage with these tips:
- Cut back trees or shrubs by the road that give burglars a place to hide while they break into the garage. If you have a tall fence curbside that provides cover, consider replacing it with something shorter that neighbors and passers-by can see over.
- If you have a detached garage and a burglar might be tempted to steal from that, not your house, don't keep expensive equipment out in the open where it becomes an invitation to break in.
- Make it look like someone is home. Keep the spare car in the driveway, not parked on the road. Use your home automation system to have lights turn on and off automatically. Have packages delivered to your workplace rather than left on your doorstep.
- Make sure your home security system sign is clearly visible from the road.
- Double check your lighting by going out at night and looking at your house and garage from the street. Does your lighting leave shadows where a thief could hide while breaking into your garage?
Practice prevention
Sometimes the old sayings are the best sayings, and in this case, a pinch of prevention is worth a pound of cure definitely applies.
- Even if you won't be gone long, keep your garage doors locked, both the large door on the front of the garage and any regular doors used to access the garage on foot, either from the outside or from the house. Use heavy-duty locks. Also make sure any garage windows also have better locks than the factory-installed kind.
- Take advantage of the remote capabilities of your home security system to double check that the doors are locked when you're not at home.
- Install home security cameras in obvious places where a burglar can see they're going to be seen while trying to break in.
Much of this advice applies to other outbuildings too, even if no one can gain access to your house through an outbuilding. They can still steal expensive tools and violate your property while erasing any sense of security you once had. In that way, home security measures should be comprehensive, taking into account more than your house to include any part of your property that is vulnerable—including that sturdy looking garage.


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Throughout the course of our daily lives, we occasionally encounter situations where it is clear we possess some characteristic that an opposing party(ies) finds undesirable. In these situations, we often find ourselves gatekept, banned, or marginalized in some capacity. As depressing as that may be, it's important to take a step back from these situations and ask yourself, "Who's the dick here?" Doing so just may help you to gain a little insight into yourself, or open your mind to the type of introspection that can help you to shave down some of those personality burrs that are snagging on the social fabric in which you are cloaked. That is, unless the opposition is in fact playing the role of the oppressive dick, trying to unjustly cast you aside.
In the following five examples, we see clear examples where, regardless of who was right or wrong, a person (or group of people) was simply not wanted and the opposition went to increasingly great lengths to ensure the message was delivered. One can only wonder how things would have turned out differently if the people involved took more time to contemplate their actions and the impact they have on the world around them. Google has a motto: "Don't be evil". So does Wil Wheaton: "Don't be a dick". Both Google and Wil offer sage advice on how to cooperate in an increasingly crowded, selfish and self-unaware world.
#1) You Only Manage to Win 80% of the Votes For Which You Paid
Michele Bachmann, perennial extreme-rightwing nutbag and bigot, was flush with cash leading up to the Ames Straw Poll this past August. Aware that she stood absolutely no chance of representing the GOP in the 2012 election, she did her best to put on a good early showing by purchasing over 6,000 votes in order to edge out Ron Paul by 152 votes…Whew, close one! The $1 million spent purchasing votes was used to hire Randy Travis to sing in her booth, give concert goers a free ride to the concert and goodie bags full of free crap to 'entice' voters. Sadly for Bachmann, 20% of the voters she schmoozed with free crap, still felt no obligation to lodge their vote for the nuttiest of nutty Minnesotan lawmakers. Here are the full details: http://www.unelected.org/how-michele-bachmann-bought-the-ames-straw-poll
Ahh, Bachmann. Never short on delivering the gasps. Here we see Bachmann in her consolidated form. Entertaining no doubt:
#2) A Corporation Offers to Pay You a Large Sum of Money NOT to Wear its Products
Are you white trash? Possibly, but not entirely sure? Well, if a large clothier happened to launch into crisis-image-protection-mode simply because you are sporting its threads on national television, then perhaps you should take pause, dig deep on this question. You are a star on a hopelessly sad and degenerate TV show, watched with what must be a sense of self-hating depravity by millions, and now this same clothier wants to pay you large sums of money to stop wearing their products? What is it that you are doing that an organization would be willing to pay you to halt your free advertising? Clearly you are not wanted, but something tells me you are not getting the message (nor taking the easy money). But wait, who's the dick here? It's so hard to tell. A corporate dog using sex to sell push-up bras to 12 year olds or some flash-in-pan-douche? It's all so confusing. For Mike Sorrentino, it pays to a classless-hack-of-a-reality-TV-'star': http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2011-08-17-abercrombie-jersey-shore_n.htm
#3) People Aren't Happy Simply Killing You, They Need to Stab You with a Knife in the Pooper
It's just sad when a dry, putty-faced old dictator closes himself in his palace, shutting his ears to the population crying nepotism and corruption. A once powerful man reduced to shelling out millions of dollars in stolen oil money to foreign mercenaries to beat back his own people just to maintain his failing grip on power, while watching his rich progeny flee their opulent residences. The reveals of abuse, civilian bombings, and corruption showing a dictatorship completely out of touch not only with his people but the general ebb and flow of reality. When this type of rat is caught, you would think that his captors would be satisfied with the victory, the hopeful sea change about to come to Libyan economics and politics. However, when you suppress a people for decades, it can only be expected that the nasty, pent up vitriol can only be satiated for some crazies, buy stabbing an asshole all up in his asshole.
#4) Your Home is Destroyed Multiple Times then the Destroyer Sues You for the Cost of Destroying it
When Israel doesn't agree with your position or thinks you may be a threat (or you do, in fact, pose a relatively small threat), they like to use force, and lots of it. Don't take my word for it, just go here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here or here to find out just a little bit. Hell, even Israel's modern origins are nested in aggression. But fast forward to today. A Bedouin tribe (al-Turi) has displayed the sort of tenacity and suffered a series of consequences that would make most people simply wilt and die. Over twenty times the al-Turi tribe has watched while the IDF bulldozed their homes and ploughed their crops back into the land. Each time, they rebuilt on the same land as their relatives had been doing for hundreds of years prior. Frustrated by their failed attempts at implementing 'evictcleasing' (ethnic cleansing by way of illegitimate land eviction = "evictcleansing" !) – Israel decided to take a new approach: sue the al-Turi for repeated demolition costs! That's right, when those rapscallion rightful residents decide to rebuild after being wrongfully demolished over 20 times what do you do? Sue their dirt-poor, nomadic asses! Congratulations to all my Bedouin friends in Israel…clearly you are not wanted! But for what incredibly urgent need must these dirty Bedouins be bounced you ask? Well, the Israelis want a forest. Important to note, in Israeli mathematics, there is a certain relational formula which helps to show the relative values of things. Here is an except:
Jewish Israelis > Property > Money > Weapons > Animals > Trees > Rocks > Dirt (not land, just like, a handful of dirt) > Boogers (like phlegm) > Feces > Druze > Circassians > Bedouin Arabs > Muslim Arabs (specifically Palestinians)
#5) Your Parents Kill You Because You Have a Vagina
Yeah, that troublesome vagina has been causing all sorts of trouble over the years: keeping the ladies from voting, keeping their wages lower, banning them from religious leadership, keeping them out of school, and creating worldwide social constructs where a man's legitimacy in anything from science to farting is viewed as almost biologically superior. Sucks to have that stupid-ass extra X chromosome, what a hassle! That pesky vagina has even been the sole reason millions of otherwise loving parents have chosen to terminate the lives of would be and recently born daughters. Yeah, the sheer aversion to the V has resulted in upticks in abortion and infanticide over the last 20 years in China and India where having a girl, by one man's account is "worse than getting gout or being raped by a pack of rabid squirrels." Damn, you know you're not wanted when…

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The HP Pavilion 27xi is a sleek, affordable 27-inch monitor that easily meets simple monitor needs. That is, movie-watching, gaming, and general Web browsing as well as productivity. It's a no-frills monitor that includes the holy trinity of connections and satisfying picture customization options.
While the Pavilion 27xi delivers great performance for a $340 monitor, it's not the monitor to use if you have precision color-critical needs. There are a few more expensive 27-inchers better suited to those tasks. However, for those with simple needs, the 27xi doesn't disappoint.
The HP Pavilion 27xi is simple, sleek, and sexySee all photos
Design and features
Bearing more than a passing resemblance to Apple's 27-inch Thunderbolt Display, the HP Pavilion 27xi is aesthetically striking at first glance. The 27-inch monitor features a 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution and an incredibly glossy IPS-based (in-plane switching) screen. The monitor's chassis acts as its outer skeleton with the screen panel encased inside and as cool and sleek as the 27xi looks, upon touching it, there's no doubt that it's made primarily of plastic. The bezel measures 0.5 inch, while the width of the chassis checks in at 24.5 inches. At its thinnest the panel's depth measures 0.6 inch; an incredibly thin value given the screen size.
The monitor features a 20-degree back tilt, but no pivot or screen height adjustment. There's also no swivel, but the panel slides around so easily, that the lack of one isn't of any great concern. The foot stand is 7.8 inches wide and 7.6 inches deep, but the display does wobble quite a bit when knocked from the sides. The connections face back and include HDMI, DVI, and VGA. The monitor also feels incredibly light for its size, weighing 11.5 pounds.
Anyone familiar with HP's OSD (onscreen display) design, won't find many surprises here. Brightness, Contrast, and Sharpness are present. Also included are six presets: Enhance+, Movie, Gaming, Text, Photo, and Custom. Three color temperature options are included: Warm, Cool, and Standard (somewhere in between warm and cool). RGB color controls are also included, allowing for the fine-tuning of red, green, and blue.
The OSD array is located in the lower right corner and consists of five horizontally aligned buttons. Each button is represented by a white LED that turns off when not in use. The far left button activates the menu, followed to the right by the auto-adjust (usable only in VGA), Quick View/Minus, Source/Plus, and Enter buttons with the power button at the far right. Navigating the OSD takes some getting used to. I wouldn't call the interface clunky; it's just not as intuitive as it could be. The power button sits directly to the right, and when powered on a turquoise power light glows in the lower right bezel.
Edge-to-edge or edge-to-bezel?
AT CES 2013, HP told me that an edge-to-edge display was one of the many features of the Pavilion 27xi, but apparently, edge-to-edge doesn't mean what I think it means. At least not as I define it. In my head edge-to-edge simply means no visible bezel. Or at least, the minimalist of bezels and the 27xi clearly features a bezel. It's a thin bezel to be sure, but there's no denying that its screen doesn't quite stretch to the chassis's edge.
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I tested the HP Pavilion 27xi through its DVI input, connected to a Windows Vista PC with the included DVI cable. The display posted a composite score of 98 on CNET Labs' DisplayMate-based performance tests.
DisplayMate: The Pavilion 27xi displayed light gray up to level 254. Level 255 is considered white, and every level between it and 1 is a variation of gray. The 27xi's performance here indicates that the display will likely not be prone to washing out light colors. As for dark gray, the 27xi displayed down to level 2 while still maintaining a very deep black, indicating that the display is capable of a very low black level.
The monitor excelled in nearly all of our color-scaling tests, which evaluate how smoothly it displays different shades of various colors. The 27xi yielded very few color abnormalities in these tests.
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Q. I'm trying to find someone to tell me how to preserve old letters. I have a collection from German relatives dated from 1890 to 1900. Please help.
A. The durability of old documents depends on both the type of paper and the storage conditions. Paper made before around 1865 consists of cotton fibers, whereas most papers after that date are a combination of wood pulp and lignin. Lignin is the substance that makes your newspaper turn yellow in sunlight. In the late 19th century, stationery used for letter writing could be either type of paper.
Then to slow deterioration and fading of the ink, and preserve your letters for future generations, store them flat in an acid- and lignin-free folder. This type of storage material is available from a variety of archival suppliers, such as Hollinger Metal Edge and Archival Methods.
Be sure to remove all paper clips, staples and rubber bands before storing your documents. Keep them in an environment with a stable temperature and humidity. Limit handling of the letters, and wash your hands before you do so.


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Friends of mine are still struggling through the hideous experience of the wife's father finally succumbing to cancer, and the husband's father experiencing an unexpected heart attack, requiring quadruple bypass surgery that went fine, but subsequent infection and other complications required an induced coma, etc. from which he hasn't yet awakened. All of this all at once.
I suppose I could write them a sympathy card, which is fine, or I could write them a piece instead...
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For some people, becoming a caregiver is a conscious choice. Mom or Dad has an accident or suffers a medical condition like a heart attack or illness, and someone in the family must step up to take care of them. However, for some, it's a situation that slowly evolves. One week Mom needs help moving some boxes, the next she needs a ride to an appointment. The following month, she still needs help to get to the doctor, but the grocery shopping has also become too much, so you are doing that too. Before you have even considered it, you realize that your responsibilities have evolved to the point where taking care of Mom borders a full-time occupation. However, when you enter the world of caregiving, one thing is almost certain: It's a much greater time commitment than you could have possibly realized.
Whether you are considering the possibility of being a full-time caregiver to your loved one, or you are just noticing that he or she needs a little more help, the time to consider the impact of your caring responsibility is now.
Too often, the last thing a family caregiver considers are personal commitments. What is your work situation? How will your financial situation change if you have to work less and care more? What are your other family commitments? People in this situation have recently been classified as the sandwich generation, and the sandwich generation is facing a caregiving crisis. They're still committed to supporting their children financially and now must care for aging parents, too.
Also, don't just consider work and other commitments. What do you need to be fulfilled personally? Caring can have a negative impact on both your mental and physical health according to the Family Caregiver Alliance. Caregiver burnout is all too real: 40 to 70 percent of caregivers show physical signs of depression. You need time away from caregiving, both social time and relaxing time, to be healthy and personally fulfilled.
The time management involved in caring is unlikely to get easier, and unfortunately your loved one's needs are only likely to grow as he or she ages, so you have to work on the worst-case scenario. Yes, you have time to shop for Mom every couple of weeks, but what are you going to do when she needs more? What is the maximum time you can spend without dramatically affecting your life negatively? If your parent suddenly needs care through the night, how are you going to cope with that?
Think about your loved one's routine. Write down the help they need to get through the day.
Although every senior's needs are different, the Family Caregiver Alliance gives a list of just some of the responsibilities a caregiver might have:
Of course on top of these tasks are your own, so consider the sheer scale of responsibilities you could be living with as your parent's caregiver.
Even though your intentions are the best, if you are overloaded, run down and exhausted, what will that do to the quality of care you can offer your loved one? There is a lot for anyone to keep on top of and if you aren't at your best, you may not be providing your loved one what they need.
The key to avoiding caregiver burnout is asking for help when you need it, because the reality is that becoming your parent's caregiver is a massive, stressful undertaking. Wanting to help your loved one sometimes means helping yourself and hiring a professional caregiver to take some of the burdens and offer you respite could be a difference maker both for you and your loved one. A professional caregiver can help as often as you need them. This person can enable you to stop thinking of yourself as your parent's caregiver and instead like family again. Besides, when your loved one is with the professional caregiver, you know that he or she is in good hands, so you can relax, avoid feelings of guilt and focus on other areas of your life.
For information on respite care, read this article.
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Autophagy is an essential cellular process, meaning 'self-eating', used by cells to degrade damaged and unnecessary cytosolic macromolecules and organelles, for example, proteins[1]. This prevents cell functions and pathways from being damaged, or interrupted, by protein aggregates or non-functioning organelles, a key cause of disease. It is also responsible for the removal of microbes, such as viruses and bacteria within the cell. Diseases associated with abnormal autophagy include Parkinson's Disease, osteoarthritis and many forms of cancers including associated bacterial cancers[2][3]. Autophagy proceeds via a five-step mechanism that starts with the sequestration of cytosolic material by a double-membrane, known as a 'phagophore'. The phagophore membrane ends fuse, forming a specialised vesicle called an Autophagosome. Once sequestration is complete, the autophagosome fuses with a lysosome and up to 40 hydrolytic enzymes digest the autophagosome's cargo[4].
Autophagy helps the cell maintain a stable internal environment, preventing damage to the cell and tissues by removing harmful molecules, stopping their accumulation[5]. It is extremely prominent in the case of starving cells where nutrients are required to perpetuate cell survival, or when the cell experiences other stresses such as hypoxia or drug treatment[6].
One of the key products of autophagy, amino acids, can be used for anabolic processes. This is useful during starvation as autophagy is induced to provide the cell with needed nutrient supply[7].
Autophagy is controlled by mTOR (Mechanistic target of rapamycin), a kinase coded for by the mTOR gene. When mTOR is active, autophagy is suppressed. However, mTOR can be suppressed by low amino acid concentrations, allowing autophagy to produce more amino acids.
Types of autophagy
Macroautophagy - This is widely considered to be the most used pathway of autophagy in the body. It deals with the recycling of dysfunctional organelles and proteins which may have been damaged or incorrectly folded during their synthesis. The process starts with a piece of cellular machinery termed the isolation membrane or "phagophore". This is a double membrane structure that elongates and encloses part of the cytoplasm, as well as the target organelles or proteins. The resulting specialised vesicle is termed an "autophagosome". The autophagosome then migrates to a lysosome to which it fuses via the outer membrane. It is important to note the outer membrane stays intact thus keeping the contents and Hydrolases within the "autolysosome" for recycling[8][9].
This process differs from macroautophagy as it is only concerned with the degradation and recycling of cytoplasm in the cell. It also uses a different mechanism. No autophagosome is formed as the lysosome itself directly degrades the cytoplasm by inward invaginations in its membrane[10].
Chaperone-mediated autophagy
Only involves specific proteins within the cytoplasm. The target protein which is being degraded is recognised by a chaperone protein Hsc70 which binds to the target protein. This can then be recognised by specific receptors on the lysosomal membrane, where it is unfolded and taken into the organelle for degradation[11].
The selective degradation of mitochondria by autophagy. This is used by the cell to remove damaged mitochondria, or as a mechanism to regulate the number of mitochondria present in the cell. This process is essential during some developmental processes, such as the maturation of reticulocytes, as mature red blood cells do not contain any mitochondria; all the mitochondria present in the cell before differentiation must be removed[12][13].
Is the removal of intracellular pathogens from the cytosol or in pathogen-containing vacuoles. This process is essential to antibacterial and antiviral defences, as well as the immune response. Xenophagy has also been shown as a protective role of tumourigenesis. In a recent study in bacteria-associated cancer, of the gram-negative Helicobacter pylori[14].
Autophagy has been a remarkable discovery. Knowing about the process of cell recycling has opened several possible therapeutic opportunities that will be a point of interest in research in the following years. Exploiting autophagy in humans can lead to delayed ageing and prevention of neurodegenerative and cancerous diseases. Further study will also educate us about how bacterial pathogens prevent autophagosomes from working effectively at the onset of a pathogenic invasion. This would lead to the understanding of countless bacterial diseases, and will hopefully provide an insight on how they can be cured. Therefore, the study on autophagic mechanisms needs to continue to have a better understanding of this remarkable process.
- ↑ Klionsky, DJ. Autophagy revisited: A conversation with Christian de Duve. Autophagy. 2008;4(6):740-3. Available from: DOI: 10.4161/auto.6398.
- ↑ Glick D, Barth S, Macleod KF. Autophagy: cellular and molecular mechanisms. The Journal of pathology. 2010;221(1):3-12. Available from: doi:10.1002/path.2697.
- ↑ Levine, B. Cell biology: Autophagy and cancer. Nature. 2007;446:745-747. Available from: doi:10.1038/446745a.
- ↑ Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan; Solution Oriented Research for Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan
- ↑ Mizushima N. Autophagy: process and function. Genes and Dev. 2007;21: 2861-2873. Available from: DOI:10.1101/gad.1599207.
- ↑ Yang Z J, Chee C E, Huang S, Sinicrope F A. The Role of Autophagy in Cancer: Therapeutic Implications. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 2011;10(9): 1533-1541. Available from: DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-11-0047.
- ↑ Libin Shang, She Chen, Fenghe Du, Shen Li, Liping Zhao and Xiaodong Wanga. Nutrient starvation elicits an acute autophagic response mediated by Ulk1 dephosphorylation and its subsequent dissociation from AMPK.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Mar 22; 108(12): 4788–4793.
- ↑ Mizushima N, Komatsu M. Autophagy: Renovation of Cells and Tissues. Cell, 2011, Volume 147, Issue 4
- ↑ Glick D, Barth S, Macleod KF. Autophagy: cellular and molecular mechanisms. The Journal of Pathology. 2010; 221(1): 3-12. Available from: doi: 10.1002/path.2697
- ↑ Li W, Li J, Bao J. Microautophagy: lesser-known self-eating. Cell and Molecular Life Science. 2012, Volume 69, 1125-1136.
- ↑ Kaushik S, Cuervo AM. Chaperone-mediated autophagy: a unique way to enter the lysosome world. Trends in Cell Biology. 2012, Volume 22 Issue 8, 407-417
- ↑ Youle RJ, Narendra DP. Mechanisms of mitophagy. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. 2010; 12:9-14
- ↑ Deas E, Wood NW, Plun-Favreau H. Mitophagy and Parkinson's disease: The PINK1-parkin link. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 2011; 1813(4): 623-633 Available from: doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2010.08.007
- ↑ William Blahd, MD what Is H.pylori on December 06, 2016 [cited 19/11/18] Available from: https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/h-pylori-helicobacter-pylori#2


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Featuring an eye-catching design, the Huawei P30 Pro showcases a range of ambient colours with a beautiful gradient effect. Crafted from double-sided glass, the handset boasts a sleek, curved design that both looks premium and is a pleasure to hold.
To the front of the device is 6.47-inch OLED display, which is perfect for watching your favourite blockbuster movies, playing graphics-heavy games, or viewing incredibly detailed photos taken with the P30 Pro's next-generation camera.


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Ryan Howard – Saturday?
On the record the Phillies say that first baseman Ryan Howard, still recovering from his brutal Achilles injury on the last play of the team's 2011 season, will be attempting to play back-to-back rehab games for the first time tonight and tomorrow.
Off the record (in what is admittedly perhaps the least impressive advancement of a story ever) a Phillies' source told me tonight here at Citifield that the hope is to activate the slugger in time to play Saturday in a nationally televised game against the Braves in Philly.
Phils' General Manager Ruben Amaro tonight said of Howard to reporters "he's getting close" but wouldn't even go as far as the source as identifying Saturday as the soft target for the return. In his rehab work at Lakewood (Class A) and Lehigh Valley (Class AAA) Howard had gotten 8 hits in seventeen at bats with two doubles, one home run, and nine Runs Batted In through Wednesday night. As of this posting Howard is 2-for-3 tonight (both singles) with another RBI, all off Adam Warren, who a week ago tomorrow was making his big league debut for the Yankees against the White Sox.
The Phillies' source said overall Howard seemed to be at 85 percent but was still significantly limited in his running – but with all other aspects of his game looking surprisingly up to speed.
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The Phillies improved their W/L record in each of the last five seasons, which I think is unprecedented for a team which was over .500 to begin with. In other words, they were playing with the house's money for quite some time. When the injuries started to pile up, the Phils hit the wall instantly.
This kind of makes me wonder who is making the decisions concerning the players health. Is it management (coaches) or their MDs? The Achillies injury is nothing to take lightly. Is it something to do with Howard being sent down and showing his talent? Or do they really need him to show up.. So far the Phils are up 5-4. we can see where it goes tonight but they really should make sure Howard is solid 100% before risking a perpetual injury.
It will be good to see Howard back– but he'll be facing tougher pitching than ex-Met John Maine! And how 'bout those Phightin' Mets?! Fun to see them win, and beat Papelbon– again.
Actually, Howard played Friday night and got a 2B in his first at-bat…
I used to like Keith Olbermann when he was with ESPN. That was before he turned into an arrogant liberal celebrity who things he's smarter than everyone on the planet. Now, I don't even respect his position on sports related activities. Let me know when you're ready to go "on the record" Keith, and keep your "off the record" comments for your lawyer. Wait, maybe I should take that back.
Off the record, a source closer to Olbermann tells me that Keith Olbermann doesn't write his own blogs. Obermann's "veteran litigator", Patty Glaser, does all of his work for him. She probably knows more about baseball then Olbermann does anyways.


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Info@ a cool coffeehouse by gate 5 Ramey Base (Playa Brava) or el Rincon surf shop. Ramey Basae, Aguadilla, PR. Behind surf zone surf shop.
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good spot - it was rough getting here in my toyota yaris but the locals were cool. they even showed me some more spots n the area. good luck with the reef.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - After being derided as a 'do-nothing' Congress, the House and Senate were poised to vote on a massive legislative package that overhauls highway and transit programs, salvages an estimated 3 million jobs and spares millions of students from higher interest rates on college loans.
Congressional leaders were pushing for quick action Friday on the package, which also would financially shore up the federal flood insurance program. Two deadlines are looming: Federal highway and transit aid programs and the government's authority to levy federal fuel taxes expire on Saturday, and interest rates on new student loans are set to double on Sunday. Lawmakers also were anxious to begin a weeklong recess.
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The Treasury Department and the IRS released the revised 1040 tax form Friday, questionably fulfilling a long-running Republican pledge to fit your taxes on a postcard.
The new form, which will replace the 1040, 1040A and 1040 EZ, is indeed smaller, though it's not clear that it really qualifies as a postcard. For one thing, as Lisa Desjardins of PBS NewsHour pointed out, the two-sided form is too big for US Postal Service postcard rates – that is, assuming you were daring enough to send a postcard with your Social Security number and sensitive financial data through the mail for all to see. For another, the smaller form will require "another envelope full of worksheets," according to Tim Steffen of Robert W. Baird & Co., referring to the many lines of calculations that have simply been moved to new supporting documents.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A Wyoming House committee advanced a bill on Tuesday that would allow the state to join the multi-state Powerball lottery. The profits would go to fix county and city roads.
The sole purpose of House Bill 77 is to provide "entertainment," said the sponsor, Rep. David Zwonitzer, R-Cheyenne.
The bill establishes a quasi state corporation with nine members appointed by the governor. The corporation's job is to develop a business plan and to find money to run the lottery.
"If they can't get that done, no lottery," Zwonitzer said.
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Opponents included Chesie Lee, representing the Wyoming Association of Churches, who said providing entertainment is not a role of state government.
A lottery is most attractive to low-income people with lower levels of education and is like a tax on the poor, Lee said.
Maureen Emrich of Casper, representing the Wyoming Family Coalition, said it will cost three times as much to treat gambling addicts as the lottery will generate in revenue.
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Becky Vanderberghe of WyWatch Family Action questioned why the Legislature would want to adopt something the nation's founding father said was immoral.
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Wyoming goes for it again. I hope they are more successful this year.
I am utterly sick of people trotting out the ridiculous "tax on the poor" and morality arguments.
That "Becky" lady talking about the nation's founding father saying that lotteries were immoral is just plain wrong. Lotteries were used all the time during the nation's founding to raise money.
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"Maureen Emrich of Casper, representing the Wyoming Family Coalition, said it will cost three times as much to treat gambling addicts as the lottery will generate in revenue."
I wonder where she gets her facts?
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What happened to peoples vote. Just mention "Bonus" and it will pass quickly. Do they really need 200k to treat addicts. What will they do, put doggie shock collars on them when they close to lotto machines.
I couldn't agree more on the whole "tax on the poor" stuff, Todd.
The lottery is NOT a tax on the poor. By calling it a tax, you are calling it mandatory, which is what taxes are. But the lottery is NOT mandatory, therefore calling it a tax highly inaccurate.
I hate the "tax on the poor" stuff, too. In fact it's not even accurate to say that because you don't have to play the lottey to benefit from the money it raises for good causes - in that case it isn't a tax.
Getting closer to lotto fever Wyoming.....
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I wonder if she thinks it's better to tax everyone into the poorhouse, get some lottery going and fix the roads.
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Always opinionated White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen considers it "very stupid to play in Cleveland right now" after his team's workout was forced indoors because of snow and cold weather.
On the day before the season opener, a few of Chicago's players built a snowman inside Progressive Field, where several inches of snow fell on Wednesday. The ballpark's groundscrew spent most of Thursday shoveling and removing the snow for Friday's opener between the White Sox and Indians.
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Acting Up: Urgent Civic Priorities
Unlock your orchestra's untapped potential to address the most pressing civic challenges and opportunities in your community. Explore how organizations like yours are finding the resources and courage to use the power of music to respond to public priorities like homelessness, hunger, our returning vets, and other issues that matter so much.
You will learn: 1) the steps needed to identify your community's needs that can be served by your orchestra's unique capacity; 2) real-time examples of orchestras delivering relevant civic impact; 3) recommendations for framing a discussion within your orchestra that can lead to action.
Warren W. Hyer, executive director, Central Ohio Symphony; Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Kayla Skinner deputy director for education & public programs, adjunct curator, Seattle Art Museum; Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose chairman of education, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Sarah Johnson, director, Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall
After-School Programs: Learning from the Getty Orchestras
The League's Getty Education and Community Investment Grants Program helped single out orchestras which offer after-school programs that align musical and social goals. These programs are seeing strong results. Learn more about these programs and
explore what you can do in your own community.
Learn more about the League's Getty grants and view a full list of recipients here.
James M. Johnson, president & CEO, Omaha Symphony
Leslie Scheuler, PhD, president, LS Associates, LLC (Presentation) | (Video)
Dalouge Smith, president & CEO, San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory (Presentation) | (Video)
Theodore Wiprud, vice president, education, The Sue B. Mercy Chair, New York Philharmonic
Diane Wittry, music director and conductor, Allentown Symphony Orchestra (Presentation)
Building Community Through Music-Making
Artists are finding new ways to redefine community and are approaching cultural diplomacy in ways we rarely consider. We are all looking to build community—break down those cross-cultural boundaries and learn through participation. This session will look at some shining examples, exploring what's possible, doable, affordable, and—most importantly—successful.
Jim Holt, manager, member engagement, League of American Orchestras
Tod Machover, composer
Chris Marianetti, cofounder & artistic director, Found Sound Nation
Marc Thayer, deputy director, Association of American Voices
Kate Wilkinson, executive director, National Music Day Foundation
Education/Community Engagement Meetings
Monday, June 17
Strategic planning is a periodic necessity, like aligning the wheels on a car. The current team from board to staff to musicians needs to have a single understanding of the role of educati on and community engagement in the institution's mission and brand. But a strategy is just a reference point: every program and project needs to answer to that strategy
Pam French Blaine, vice president, education and community engagement, The Pacific Symphony Orchestra
Kelly Dylla, vice president of education and community engagement, Seattle Symphony
Aimee Halbruner, director of education and community engagement, Richmond Symphony
Theodore Wiprud, vice president, education, New York Philharmonic
This presentation demonstrates how the St. Louis Symphony team re-imagined and restructured their administrative structure so that the public relations, communications, education, and community programs departments have been combined as external affairs.
Maureen Byrne, director of community programs, St. Louis Symphony
Adam Crane, vice president for external affairs, St. Louis Symphony
Dacy Gillespie, director of education, St. Louis Symphony
Leveraging your musicians' talents and interests means getting to know them as people. Find out how the STL Symphony is able to have over 85% of musicians participating in community, education, and PR initiatives.
STL Symphony External Affairs department and musicians
Tuesday, June 18
Exploring Cross-Cultural Engagement
The arts have long been known to unite people of different languages, cultures, socioeconomic statuses, and even stages of life. In this session, we'll take a look at what 2 orchestras do to engage cross-culturally in their communities, and we'll hear from American Voices, an organization that provides cultural exchange through the performing arts and education in nations emerging from conflict and isolation. What might cross-cultural diplomacy look like in our own communities? What principles and practices might be transferable to the work that we do each day with our diverse youth, families and educators?
Sarah Burman, director of operations and education, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra (Presentation)
Anne Cushing-Reid, senior director of community engagement and learning, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (Presentation)
Marc Thayer, deputy director, Association of American Voices
Wednesday, June 19
Futurist Garry Golden imagines what orchestras and their communities will look like ten years from now.
Engaging College Students in Classical Music
Young adults in college represent a critical segment of the future audience for classical music. The musical experiences they have during these formative years lay the groundwork for a lifetime of musical involvement. What programming and engagement strategies might orchestras use to better reach college students? Learn from new research funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Our discussion will highlight exemplary practices in student engagement, and explore ticketing, marketing, and programming strategies that are likely to surmount the many barriers that stand between college students and a deeper relationship with classical music.
Alan Brown, principal, WolfBrown Associates
Joe Clifford, audience engagement director, Hopkins Center for the Arts Dartmouth College
Hollis Headrick, principal, Arts and Cultural Strategies
Generations: The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit
As the generations change, new challenges arise for nonprofits in the areas of staff, board, finance, marketing, technology and the people the organization serves. In this hands-on discussion, Peter Brinkerhoff, author, consultant, and trainer, explores how each of the key generations—Greatest, Silent, Boomers, GenX, and GenY—affect your nonprofit and how you can get ahead of the generation change curve. You can also view the PowerPoint that accompanies this presentation.
Peter Brinckerhoff, author, consultant, trainer
Get a Grip on the New Music Education Ecosystem
The time for simply lamenting the end to public music education's heyday is over (It's been at least 40 years!). There's real strength and power to what arts education is accomplishing in our nation's schools. But it is, in fact, accessible to too few students. Learn how orchestras can take action, both through programmatic work and your advocacy, to create a sea-change in music education for future generations.
You will learn: 1) an understanding of how orchestras connect to the latest education trends, including Common Core and the new National Arts Standards; 2) the know-how to access data that supports the music education claims we make to funders and community leaders; 3) a re-imagined idea of how board, volunteers, staff, and musicians can make a real difference.
- Arts Education Partnership
- ArtsEdSearch
- Preparing Students for the Next America
- What School Leaders Can Do to Increase Arts Education
- Music Matters
- ArtScan
- A Snapshot of State Policies for Arts Education
- Common Core and the Arts
Scott Jones, senior associate for research and policy, Arts Education Partnership; Una McAlinden, executive director, ArtsEd Washington; Dalouge Smith, president & CEO, San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory; Susy Watts, planning, research, and evaluation consultant
Heath and Wellness Programs: Learning from the Getty Orchestras
Through the League's Getty Education and Community Investment Grants Program we've identified orchestras that are doing outstanding work in healthcare settings. Working with hospitals, nursing homes, and rehabilitation centers, these orchestras are
partnering with medical professionals to make a difference in their communities. Learn about these inspiring programs and explore what you can do in your community.
Learn more about the League's Getty grants and view a full list of recipients here.
Jessica Balboni, director of learning programs, League of American Orchestras
Jennifer Barnett, director of education and community partnerships, Knoxville Symphony (Presentation)
Dr. Cynthia Briggs, director, Music Therapy Program, Maryville University (Presentation)
Maureen Byrne, community programs manager, St. Louis Symphony
Lisa Dixon, executive director, Portland Symphony Orchestra (Presentation)
Crystal Weaver, CRC, MT-BC, music therapist, Saint Louis University Cancer Center (Presentation)


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Josue Fernandez thought his nightmare was coming to an end.
The senior chief petty officer faced 600 miles of interstate as he pulled out of Jacksonville, Fla., in early December. His destination: a home in Suffolk he had been trying to sell since the Navy transferred him from Hampton Roads in 2008.
The task ahead was not pleasant -- he needed to mow his neglected yard before the city put a lien on his property -- but he had a reason to be optimistic.
After years of reducing the price on his home and watching deals with prospective buyers fall through, Fernandez's real estate agent lined up new buyers and set a closing date for mid-December.
This time, Fernandez thought, he might finally be free of payments for an empty house whose value -- like so many others in the region and across the country -- had tumbled below what he owed on his mortgage.
"Hopefully, the nightmare will be over by the 17th of December," Fernandez said early that month.
But as he drove north on Interstate 95 through South Carolina, his phone rang.
It was his Realtor with another dose of bad news: The deal with the latest buyers would likely fall through, too. That meant the closing wouldn't happen.
He'd have to start over -- again.
"I don't know what I'm going to do," Fernandez said. "I made another trip to Suffolk for nothing."
The crash in home values that followed the unprecedented run-up in prices in the mid-2000s took a toll on millions of Americans.
But Fernandez and his peers in the military -- many of whom are ordered to move to a new city every few years -- have been hit especially hard. Some argue that their misfortune has contributed to the sluggishness of the housing market's recovery in Hampton Roads, which depends on its robust military population.
Members of the military have fled the homebuying markets in the Tidewater area, elsewhere in Virginia and across the United States, and the trend has shown no signs of reversing, according to data gathered from the Navy and the U.S. Census Bureau.
The same is not true for the general population; more Americans and Virginians still own their homes rather than rent.
Vinod Agarwal, professor of economics and director of the Economic Forecasting Project at Old Dominion University, said military members have "rationally" decided to rent in the past several years, rather than buy a home that might be difficult to sell without taking a loss when they have to relocate.
Now that the local real estate market is showing signs of a recovery -- the median sale price of existing homes climbed 2.7 percent in 2012 after declining steadily since 2008 -- Agarwal expects members of the military to begin feeling comfortable buying homes again this year. But there's still plenty of uncertainty in the market because across-the-board defense cuts scheduled to begin in March threaten to sucker-punch the economy.
Nearly half of the Hampton Roads economy is driven by military spending, studies have shown. So the flight from homeownership among members of the military has taken a toll on the real estate market.
Less demand for homes puts downward pressure on prices, Agarwal said.
Acacia and Jim Ellis are losing money every month.
The mortgage they pay on their home in Manassas is $2,600 a month. The renters who live there pay them $2,450 a month.
"It beats the alternative of zero," Acacia said.
They bought the five-bedroom home for $364,000 in 2003 when the market was heating up. The real estate appraiser's office valued it at $294,500 that year.
The value skyrocketed to $525,100 in 2006, but the housing bubble burst. When Jim was transferred to Hampton Roads with the Navy in 2009, the house was valued at $306,000, and the Ellises couldn't find a buyer.
"If I had to do it over again, I don't think I would have bought a house until we were finished with the military," Acacia said.
When the Ellises came to Virginia Beach, they couldn't afford a second mortgage, so they rented out their home in Northern Virginia and moved into a rental home in Princess Anne Quarters.
Acacia wants to move "somewhere fun" and near the beach, but she said financial pressures will likely prompt them to go back to Manassas when Jim, a captain and intelligence officer, retires in a few years. She's not happy about it.
"We're both from California, but we just can't afford to live there," she said.
In 2005, about 54 percent of housing units occupied by members of the military in Virginia were owned, according to the Census Bureau's annual American Community Survey. In 2011, the latest year for which data are available, about 41 percent were owned.
The same figures paint a different picture for the general population. The homeownership rate has dropped, but not nearly at the pace it has among servicemembers.
For all housing units in Virginia, regardless of their residents' occupations, 63 percent were owned in 2005. That had dipped to 60 percent in 2011.
Analyses show similar differences nationwide.
Surveys of Navy and Marine families in Hampton Roads (conducted by the Navy) show that the percentage of owners and renters was about the same -- close to 45 percent -- in 2002 and 2003.
But the two groups started to diverge in 2004. As of 2011, 53 percent of military families reported that they rented, and 38 percent said they owned.
Van Rose noticed the trend at Rose & Womble Realty Co., where he's co-owner and president of the new-homes division. Military families used to make up half the clients, but in the mid-2000s, they dropped to about one-third.
Within the military, he said, an increasingly common sentiment was: "Don't buy houses because you're just setting yourself up for financial ruin, because you're probably going to get orders in three years, your house is going to have gone down in value, and you're going to get screwed. So don't buy. Rent," Rose said. "We ran into so many of those people in the last few years. I had never run into that ever in my life here. I just lived off of military buyers."
So did Susan Galloway, principal broker and owner of Hampton-based Morning Star Realty, which she touts online as a military relocation resource.
Helping military families find homes has been Galloway's niche, but most of the clients who have contacted her in the past few years have been interested in renting.
"I had no income. Well, a little income," she said. "I was used to making, just on my own, enough to stay afloat and have a little extra and enjoy a lifestyle. And then it dropped. I had listings that couldn't sell."
Galloway wound up having to refer her clients to property managers so they could rent out their homes, and her business suffered.
"The general population -- someone who doesn't have to move every two to five years -- has the time to wait for a good opportunity to buy or sell," she said.
Until recently, Laura Bender and her husband, Kenneth Anderson, had three homes and tapped-out retirement savings.
The Navy chaplain and her husband, a retired police officer, were underwater on a home they bought for $315,000 in Rhode Island, where Bender was based until 2008. The value is now around $220,000.
They also owned a home in Norfolk, Bender's station until 2011, that they were unable to sell and that sat empty for 19 months because their agent couldn't find a renter.
When Bender was reassigned to the Marine base at Quantico, she and Anderson felt they had little choice but to drain their retirement savings and purchase a home with cash because they couldn't afford a third mortgage and they didn't want to "give away" $2,000 a month on rental payments.
They've been paying mortgages and for maintenance costs, utilities and yard work on the houses for years, and it gets especially tight when they are between renters.
"Basically, I work to pay for empty buildings," Bender said.
Their luck finally turned a corner in January when they were able to sell their Norfolk home.
They got a small amount of equity out of it, but the proceeds from the sale won't come close to replenishing their savings.
"We have one house rented and the other house sold, so we can save some money again," Bender said. "I'm just happy it's done."
As a chaplain, Bender hears stories from all walks of life within the Navy and, from her perspective, the housing crisis has taken a toll.
The message she tries to send is one of caution.
"When I talk to especially younger enlisted folks about buying a home," she said, "I tell them, 'Look, here's my experience and, unless you think you can lose that much money, maybe it's not a good idea.' "
When the real estate market offered up a basket of lemons, Dennis Blackmore used short sales to whip together a pitcher of lemonade.
Military families "are just so happy to be out of that house," said Blackmore, a Virginia Beach-based real estate agent and owner of Creed Realty. "You wouldn't believe the joy they have when the bank gives them approval."
A short sale occurs when a bank allows a home to sell for less than what the owner owes on the mortgage.
The military rolled out a program last year that considers transferring to a new duty station a hardship, and it makes it easier for a short sale to proceed.
"It is in everyone's interest for the men and women serving in our armed forces to focus on the important job they are doing defending our country, rather than worry about the maintenance and leasing of a property in another jurisdiction," Edward J. DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said last summer as he announced changes to the military's short-sale policies.
Fernandez, the senior chief petty officer who hasn't been able to sell the home he owns in Suffolk, is intimately familiar with maintaining a home from a distance.
He purchased the house in 2004 for $165,000. When he was reassigned to San Diego in 2008, it was appraised for $245,000, but Fernandez couldn't find a buyer and took it off the market while his wife (they're now divorced) and two children stayed behind.
A second attempt to sell, in 2010 -- this time for $199,000 -- also failed. He dropped the price to $189,000, then to $175,000 in 2011.
Last year, after he was transferred from California to Florida, he considered foreclosure, but instead applied for the program that would allow him to get out from under the house with a short sale. He was approved, but there was a catch: He needed to find a buyer.
Meanwhile, the aviation electronics technician has had to maintain the home from Florida.
Friends he knew when he lived here from 2004 to 2008 have moved away. His brother, who lives nearby, also is active-duty Navy and often is away on deployments.
He paid a company to cut the grass for him, but his sister-in-law told him the work wasn't getting done. Hence the 600-mile drives towing a trailer full of lawn equipment.
"Anytime you don't go and cut your lawn in front of your property, the city puts a big note on your door that says, 'If you don't cut your grass in three days, we're going to put a lien on your house until you pay the people that we are sending to cut your grass,' " Fernandez said.
"I had to fly to Virginia to go to the city of Suffolk and say, 'I am active-duty Navy; I don't live in Suffolk; the house is in the process of selling; I will take care of it; do not put a lien on the house. If you put a lien on my house, it will create another hardship.' "
In the past, buying a house was a no-brainer, even for members of the military, Blackmore said.
"Ten years ago, everybody thought, 'Hey, a house is a piece of your investment portfolio,' " he said.
But now, Blackmore offers a piece of advice that he wouldn't have given a decade ago:
"People are a little reluctant to bring on debt, and I agree. I agree that they shouldn't even be considering buying a home unless they know they're going to be in this area for greater than three years -- probably more like five years."
David Butler, a real estate agent with Watson Realty Corp. in Jacksonville, owns a few homes he purchased throughout a 20-year career with the Navy. He didn't set out to collect homes as investments, but he says others in the military benefited from their properties when real estate assessments were reliably climbing year after year.
"I think buying a home and investing in real estate are two entirely different things," Butler said.
"Buy a home as a nice place to live. If it appreciates, that's a good thing," he said. "If it doesn't, then you have a nice place to live."
There's debate about what kind of an effect the military has had on the local market.
"The one thing the military has is, they have a paycheck every two weeks," Blackmore said. "Someone in Phoenix or Las Vegas who lost a job doesn't have income. So even though the military guy has a house and he's underwater, he's still been able to make payments."
Local real estate agents -- Rose, Galloway and Blackmore -- say that the market is turning a corner and that military buyers are starting to feel comfortable again.
Blackmore says military families would prefer to buy a home because they're paying a premium for rent.
The flood of military families into the rental market has boosted demand, which raised rental prices.
Lamar Raker, a real estate agent with RE/MAX Ambassadors, said that the rental side of his business has increased and that he manages more properties for homeowners who can't or won't sell. Of the 37 properties he manages, 16 are occupied by active-duty tenants, and 13 of those moved in during the past year.
But Raker sees a turnaround in the homebuying market, and so does Agarwal, the ODU economist.
Military families, however, will be slower to return than their civilian counterparts who have the luxury of waiting for the right time to buy or sell, Agarwal said. He expects that census data will show a continued trend away from buying for military families in 2012, but he says momentum for purchasing should pick up in 2013.
Still, there's a big caveat in Agarwal's prediction.
If Congress allows military spending cuts to proceed, he said, the housing recovery will almost certainly falter, and prices may decline again.
"Uncertainty is the biggest enemy," Agarwal said. "I wish Congress would just make a decision one way or another because the people would know what is going to play out, and they can make their decisions accordingly."
Other military communities stand to take a hit, too.
In San Diego, it's difficult for military buyers to purchase homes because their offers are often overlooked, said Marylou Rodgers, marketing and business consultant for McMillin Realty.
Inventory is low there, and about half of the sales are distressed -- meaning they're either foreclosures or short sales -- so the market is flush with cash from investors, Rodgers said. Plus, loans backed by the Department of Veterans Affairs and other agencies like the Federal Housing Administration have strict guidelines in place to ensure that the buyer is getting a solid home.
"When you have seven offers and a few of them are cash and some are conventional (loans), the VA and FHA buyer is having a difficult time getting their offer accepted," she said. "Every now and then, you'll hear a warm-hearted story about a seller who is a veteran himself, and he takes a little lower price on his house, knowing he's selling it to a veteran. That's the exception to the rule."
Derrick Nelson made a promise to his half-dozen students upfront: "I'm not going to tell you what you want to hear. I'm going to tell you what you need to hear."
Nelson, a realty specialist and Navy retiree, teaches monthly workshops on homebuying for anyone in Hampton Roads with a Department of Defense identification card.
"The old rule of thumb used to be, if you are not going to be in the area for at least three years, I don't suggest you buy a house," Nelson said, but "the world has changed."
Members of the military may have orders to stay in the area for three or four years, but "you can still get pulled out of here at any time. That's just the way the world is right now," Nelson said. "I usually tell people, 'I do not recommend you buy a house unless you are absolutely ready, willing and able. You are absolutely sure. You gave it a lot of thought.' "
Earlier this month, he raced through a two-hour presentation that ran the homebuying gamut. Is it better to rent or buy? What are the responsibilities of a Realtor? What can damage a potential buyer's credit? What can be done to ensure that the real estate agent for the seller brings the keys when closing papers are signed?
"We want to make sure they fully understand as much as possible what they are getting into," Nelson said. "Buying a home is not an event; it is a process."
The Navy Housing Service Center where Nelson works in Norfolk is the headquarters of housing offices in the region, and 27,000 people funnel through every year. About 1,100 of those attend workshops, said Regina Stanford, realty branch supervisor at the center.
Among other services, the center offers monthly workshops on buying homes, selling homes and managing properties. And the five realty specialists who work there offer one-on-one counseling daily, Stanford said. They encourage their clients to let them review legal documents -- especially if a deal smells fishy.
The housing center offers advice, Stanford said, but won't make decisions for its clients. And the Navy does not take official positions on whether its personnel should buy or rent.
"Leadership would never come down and say, 'It is a bad housing market, and we don't want any of our service members to buy a house,' " said Heather Welch, public affairs specialist for the Navy's Mid-Atlantic Region. "What we try to do is make sure they have the resources to make those personal choices."
Stanford has her own theories about why members of the military might be more inclined to rent.
She noted that more builders are constructing luxury apartments and offering incentives such as discounted security deposits. Also, she said, conventional loans aren't as attractive to military buyers because of government reforms put in place after the housing bubble burst, and many service members want to wait until they retire to use their VA loans.
Nelson said it's crucial for members of the military to visit the center for free services so they aren't caught off-guard in the complicated and emotionally taxing process of buying a home.
His goal is to inform potential homebuyers, not deter them -- although he said he's relieved when they second-guess themselves.
"That's the whole object of the game," Nelson said. "You may think you are ready, and on paper it might say you are qualified to buy a house, but no one is thinking beyond that first year, because it costs money to own a house."
When the December closing fell through on Fernandez's Suffolk home, he decided he'd had enough.
By then, he had reduced to $145,000 the price of a home once valued as high as $245,000, and he still couldn't find a buyer.
He put an ad on Craigslist and found a renter, who moved in on Feb. 1. He will try to sell again in two years when the lease ends.
After leaving Hampton Roads, Fernandez rented homes in San Diego and Jacksonville because he couldn't afford a second mortgage.
Even if he can get out from under the mortgage when the lease ends -- seven years after he first put the house on the market -- Fernandez said, he won't buy another home until he retires from the Navy.
"I don't want to go through this again," he said.
"The job that I'm doing now, I can be in Florida today, and tomorrow I can be in the gulf or I can be in Afghanistan or I can be in California. It's not a stable job. When the Navy requires my presence, I have to go."