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Himalayan Studies Film Series Part 1Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 | 4:30-6:30 p.m. Cowell Hall, Room 316
Come join us for an exploration into the cultural world of the Himalayas!This film series looks into different facets of Himalayan cultures and religions by showcasing how ordinary Tibetan monks attempt to walk a fine line between their cultural expectations and individual aspirations, how contemporary incarnate lamas speak of their own experiences and challenges as Buddhist cultural embodiments, and how Tibetan youth in diaspora imagine their homeland and struggle to find their own Identities. There will be three films shown throughout the semester- "The Cup," (2/20/14) "Tulku," (3/20/14) and "Dreaming Lhasa" (5/1/14)- each followed by a Q&A session with Prof. Tsering Wangchuk.This event is sponsored by the Theology and Religious Studies Department. For more information please contact Prof. Tsering Wangchuk at email@example.com.


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Although the only pegs you actually need to remove from the board are the pink ones, every peg is worth points, and some have special effects!
Some pegs, particularly the ones that are curved rectangles, can earn points if the ball rolls over them multiple times. Try to aim your ball so it follows a path along those special pegs.
Don't hesitate to go after pegs that grant power ups—there are plenty throughout the game and each level is likely to have more than one!

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Two students are in trouble with the law after police say one of them brought a gun to school and another student stole it from him.
Goldsboro police say Jonathan Davis took the firearm to school, and then Johnnie Sutton III stole the gun on April 11th. Police say the arrests came after Davis' grandmother realized he took the firearm to school.
Sutton was charged with larceny of a firearm and possession of a weapon on educational property. Davis was charged with possession of a weapon on educational property. Both are 18-years-old.
Sutton's bond was set at $3,000 secured, while Davis was released into the custody of his grandmother.


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not only are my instrument and radio illumination going off and on intermittently but my automatic door locks wont lock when i pull off. also my remote door lock wont lock or unlock my doors or pop open my trunk. now my rear defroster wont operate. is this a source of one issue or multiple issues? I have looked into my fuses per manual and found nothing burnt out.
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MONDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Even though millions of Americans pop a vitamin, mineral or multivitamin supplement every day, an influential government-appointed panel of experts says the jury is still out on whether they help boost health or not.
In its draft guidelines, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said that in some cases, certain supplements, such as beta carotene or vitamin E, may actually do more harm than good. Instead of focusing on supplements, they recommend that people focus on the health benefits of a well-balanced diet instead.
"In general, the Task Force found that there is not enough evidence to determine whether you can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease or cancer by taking single or paired nutrients, or a multivitamin," Task Force Co-Chair Dr. Michael LeFevre said in a news release. "However, there were two major exceptions: beta carotene and vitamin E, both of which clearly do not help prevent these diseases."
Citing a lack of evidence, the panel concluded it could not recommend taking certain vitamins and minerals alone, together or in a multivitamin for the prevention of heart disease or cancer. The expert panel noted, however, it didn't have enough data to advise against taking most of these supplements, either.
The exceptions to that recommendation: beta carotene and vitamin E. In that case, the experts advised that people not use these supplements for the prevention of heart disease or cancer. Vitamin E supplements were found to have no disease-fighting benefit and beta carotene could actually be harmful, since it appears to boost the risk of lung cancer in people already at greater risk for this disease.
"Many people take dietary supplements to support their general health and wellness," panel member Dr. Wanda Nicholson said in the Task Force news release. "In the absence of clear evidence about the impact of most vitamins and multivitamins on cardiovascular disease and cancer, health care professionals should counsel their patients to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet that is rich in nutrients. They should also continue to consider the latest scientific research, their own experiences, and their patient's health history and preferences when having conversations about nutritional supplements."
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Sudan | An unusual alliance is pressuring Sudan to stop the killing in Darfur
The balding guy in wire rims looks ordinary enough, but his African-American friend is positively iconic. As police hauled Philadelphia congressman Joseph Hoeffel and Vegas comedian Dick Gregory four blocks to the 3rd Precinct on an otherwise mild afternoon July 20, onlookers had to wonder what was up.
What's up is that another batch of activists has just been arrested in front of Washington's Sudanese embassy - a regular event for a growing protest movement. Its members are at least as diverse as Mr. Hoeffel, a three-term Democrat lawmaker, and Mr. Gregory, a comedian who gained his start at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion 40 years ago.
Protesters on any given day outside the diplomatic enclave include white evangelicals and conservative human-rights activists alongside inner-city pastors, Congressional Black Caucus orators, and Jewish rabbis. Some will peacefully but purposefully trespass, prompting arrest. All are protesting the Sudan government's sponsorship of militias in Darfur, a province where attacks have left up to 1 million people homeless and over 10,000 dead.
As grim as the losses are, the protest movement over Darfur is morphing into something equally stoked - and bipartisan, no less, in an election year. "It is across party lines, racial lines, and religious lines. It's very frustrating to the Sudanese government to find such an assortment of people on their doorstep every day," said organizer Keith Roderick.
Mr. Roderick, also a spokesman for Christian Solidarity International, told WORLD the recent arrests began on June 29 with former Rep. Walter Fauntroy (D-D.C.) and Washington radio talk show host Joe Madison. Protest numbers grew in July after Secretary of State Colin Powell toured Darfur, followed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's visit.
Now 150 people a day show up. And in addition to at least a dozen arrests, Mr. Madison launched a hunger strike nearly three weeks ago. "This is a matter of urgency to end the killings in Darfur," said Mr. Roderick.
Fighting in Darfur broke out 17 months ago between rebel groups and government-backed militias. The Islamic regime in Khartoum says the militias are there to quell an uprising, but a broad group of human-rights observers and aid officials say their goal is ethnic cleansing: The Arab-led government wants to usurp black Africans in Darfur much as it has Christians and other non-Arabs in south Sudan for over 20 years.
Despite political differences, most activists credit President Bush with putting the Sudan crisis "on the map," according to Mr. Roderick. In 2001 the president appointed a special envoy to Sudan, former U.S. Sen. John Danforth, and pushed peace talks between southern rebels and Khartoum. Mr. Bush alludes to Sudan regularly in speeches, and dispatched Mr. Powell to Darfur and related refugee camps in Chad to underscore the importance of the crisis.
Bipartisanship won't likely carry over to the UN Security Council, where a vote on a resolution condemning Sudan could come in August. Permanent Security Council members France and China may veto any sanctions because of their oil interests in Sudan. But U.S. representatives will press anyway. "It's the responsibility of the government of Sudan," said Mr. Danforth, new U.S. ambassador to the UN. "They've created this monster."
The crisis may be too urgent to wait for global consensus, U.S. officials say. Aid officials project that deaths in Darfur could reach 150,000 by the end of this year. The State Department will send a disaster-assistance response team to Darfur by early August equipped with nutritionists, health personnel, and monitors to guarantee that the aid is properly applied. It will be the first time the United States has put an extended disaster presence in the war-torn country.
"This is one of the few times in any part of the world, including Rwanda, that we have acted on potential crimes against humanity or genocide and started looking at accountability measures while it is unfolding," said Roger Winter of USAID.
Longtime activists outside the Sudanese embassy want officials to remember Christians in south Sudan, too, where attacks in the country's oil-rich regions continue. "We want to see religious freedom for people in Darfur, and Sudanese everywhere," said Faith McDonnell of the Institute on Religion and Democracy.


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The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced preliminary unaudited results indicating that the Reserve Banks provided for payments of approximately $46.1 billion of their estimated 2009 net income of $52.1 billion to the U.S. Treasury. This represents a $14.4 billion increase over the 2008 results.
The reported $46.1 billion figure is a 37% increase over the fiscal year 2008 value (as reported by the U.S. Treasury) and nearly double the average annual amount returned from the Fed to the Treasury over the last two decades. The Fed earned some income in 2009 from the limited liability corporations it created to manage some of the unconventional assets it acquired, and also reported some income from its new loans. Coincidentally, the combined income from these items turned out to be exactly equal to the various expenses that the Fed reported, with the result that the $46.1 billion returned to the Treasury is exactly equal to the $46.1 billion that the Fed reported it earned from the interest on its holdings of U.S. Treasury securities, agency debt, and mortgage-backed securities.
From Table 4 of the Monthly Treasury Statements we can also see when during the year the Fed turned these receipts over to the Treasury. The sum of the monthly totals that the Treasury reported it received from the Fed during 2009 comes to $43.8 billion, a little less than the $46.1 billion that the Fed claims it delivered to the Treasury. My guess is that the discrepancy results from the fact that the Treasury has netted out what the Fed describes as "amounts reimbursed by the U.S. Treasury and other entities for services the Reserve Banks provided as fiscal agents" whereas the Fed's $46.1 billion is a gross total that excludes these offsetting payments from the Treasury back to the Fed. In terms of the monthly breakdown of the $43.8 billion number, 77% of it came during the second half of the year.
At the beginning of the year, when the Fed's assets were concentrated in the various special new facilities, the Fed was returning less to the Treasury than it had on average over the previous 20 years. The big Treasury receipts began as the special lending facilities were wound down and replaced by outright purchases of Treasuries, agency debt, and MBS.
I have suggested that the right way to think about these operations is that the Fed acquired the funds for these operations by borrowing them from banks in the form of the huge expansion of interest-bearing reserves. In essence, the Fed is borrowing short through banks' excess reserves and lending long through the MBS purchases, and profiting from the interest rate spread.
The ultimate rationale for such actions might be that private banks should be conducting this arbitrage on their own, but are prevented from doing so by ongoing financial difficulties. The spread between the MBS yield and the overnight rate can be broken down into two components, the first being a risk premium and the second being a term premium. We can get an idea about the size of the risk premium by looking at the difference between the yield on 30-year fixed mortgages and 10-year Treasury securities. This spread averaged 170 basis points over 1971-2009. It was well above that value in the last half of 2008 and first half of 2009, but currently stands at 134 basis points, somewhat below the historical average. But surely an objective observer would agree that at the moment mortgages are a riskier investment than they typically were over the previous 40 years. When you look at the current risk premium, it seems hard to motivate continuing Fed MBS purchases on the grounds that private banks are asking too big a compensation for mortgage-lending risk.
The second component of the MBS-overnight spread is the term premium, which we can measure by the difference between the yield on 10-year and 3-month Treasuries. This spread has averaged 176 basis points since 1982, but currently stands at 354 bp, about twice its historical average value.
Some might think the point of the MBS purchases was not so much to arbitrage an overly high long-term yield as to do something to stimulate the economy, since Fed purchases of short-term T-bills clearly accomplish nothing in the current near-zero interest rate setting. However, the difference between what the Fed has been doing in 2009 and true quantitative easing is that under the latter strategy, the Fed would be funding the MBS purchases with zero-interest money, with the intent of the operations indeed being to get that cash into circulation rather than trying to construct a device to persuade banks to hoard it.
The problem with the Fed's preferred tactic– borrowing short and lending long– is the same as that facing anyone else who plays that game: are you sure you're going to be able to continue to roll over the short term debt (i.e., persuade banks to keep holding a trillion in excess reserves) or liquidate your long position (i.e., sell a trillion in MBS back to the market without loss) when the playing field changes?
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The biggest dark pool myths
Dark pools have taken their hits in the court of public opinion as of late. And many think the SEC will take a closer look at these liquidity centers as part of a larger review of our overall market structure sometime this year.
In the meantime, critics will continue to lambaste these services as engine of fragmentation, while the supports aim to clear the air. In the latter camp, the CEO of PQ Enteprises offers on CNBC a Top 10 list of dark pools myths, which struck me as entertaining and instructive. Some examples:
- No. 10. "The biggest reason people are afraid of 'Dark Pools' is the name, like a kid being stuck in a closet by a mean sibling, the image is frightening. Maybe they should be called 'Block Trading Venue for Institutional Traders Who Know What They are Doing'. BTVITWKWTD -Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue does it?"
- No. 7. "More volume is trading in the Dark Pools because it works for institutions. The percentage of non-exchange trades has grown to roughly 33 percent of all trades up from 8-10 percent a decade ago; this is because the users of Dark Pools have had a better experience in the dark than at an exchange."
- No. 1. "It is not a 'Black Market,' it's just not displayed. Many comments in the media imply that Dark Pools are the "wild wild west" and anything goes; every man and woman for themselves, customers are exploited, brokers make tons of money. This is not the case."
But the list may have missed the biggest misconception of all--that most retail trades are overtly harmed by dark pools. The reality is that most retail trades nowadays are now executed in the dark. Most of these orders move from front-end retail brokerages to wholesalers, who internalize them aggressively. The result, most would agree, is that retail investors get very good terms when they trade.
That said, there are other issues, such as fragmentation and oversight that factor into the debate.
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The advancement of the gay agenda on Catholic campuses was toasted recently by none other than the New York Times.
The Institute on Religion and Democracy, a faith-based alliance of Christians who monitor, comment, and report on issues affecting the Church, published a fascinating piece on how radical homosexuals have won so much in so short a time, even on Catholic campuses, namely by distorting and twisting religion.
The gay movement at Catholic colleges has attained such success precisely because it has couched itself in such religious terms. At Georgetown, this was evident in a series of articles…in the student newspaper last fall, all essentially distorting the Church's true teachings on homosexuality so as to demand the repeal of those teachings. Those who shape the issue on campus are able to co-opt religious language by adopting an approach to religion that I will term the "tyranny of sentimentality."
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman held sentimentality to be the acid of religion (see his discussion of liberalism in Apologia Pro Vita Sua). It is evident that the students Spencer writes about have reduced religion to the sentimentality of which Newman speaks. The emotional affirmation of the individual, rather than any supernatural realities, truths, or normative claims, becomes the basis of one's religion. Because this basis is inherently the subjective creation of the individual, the religion of sentimentality is tyrannical, as it becomes a means for the furtherance of one's will, ruled, not by reason or conformity to the divine or natural law, but by one's passions and whims. Plato recognized as much about the tyrannical soul.
The tyranny of sentimentality may be summed up in this statement by one student: "You stay Catholic because you have a love of the institution and you want to change it."
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The Cam Newton Foundation hosted 16 teams from North and South Carolina at their first-ever Charlotte-based 7 v 7 high school football tournament. The two-day tournament consisted of organized high school football teams – each with 20 players and 4 coaches. Lake Norman area participating schools included Hough High School, Lake Norman Charter, Hopewell High School, and North Meck High School.
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Ban voices concern as tensions grow between Western Sahara parties
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is concerned by the growing tension between the parties to the Western Sahara negotiations, which have increased following the recent detention of several groups of Saharawi activists.
"The Secretary-General has urged both parties to continue to cooperate with his Personal Envoy, Mr. Christopher Ross, in seeking to schedule another set of talks and to work together to achieve progress toward a mutually agreed political solution," UN spokesperson Michele Montas told reporters in New York.
Mr. Ross has been leading talks between Morocco and the Frente Polisario to resolve the dispute, which began when fighting broke out between them after Spain's colonial administration of Western Sahara ended in 1976.
The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, known as MINURSO, is tasked with monitoring the ceasefire reached in September 1991 and organizing a referendum on self-determination in the territory.
Morocco has presented a plan for autonomy, while the Frente Polisario's position is that the territory's final status should be decided in a referendum on self-determination that includes independence as an option.
The most recent talks, held in Austria in August, concluded with a commitment from both parties to continue negotiations as soon as possible.


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last week while on juvi's site i stumbled upon this letter he posted up i hope he doesnt mind me putting here it made me real happy on the inside . I type this with 2 BROKEN WRISTS from coming down at our nationals this weekend gone . (those pics up soon as well a shi.t load of bike pics from all reaches of australia ). i love this shi.t ....push out the jive bring in the love .
Hey all,
Tonight I was over on Piedmont Ave. in Oakland, California and stopped into Montano Velo with my kids. I'd been there once before, but this time I was particularly impressed. Several shelves of Brooks. Wooden fenders. Wool jerseys. They had these drop-dead gorgeous track bikes: Nagasawas with gold Nitto gruppos, Gamwells, and then there were the Pegorettis. Jeez. I think a few may have come from the handbuilt show. There was one with beautiful curvy lugs, twin-plate fork crown, and yet, a threadless stem. Stunning nonetheless. The atmosphere was very down-to-earth. Another dad watched his toddler stumble about the shop, chased by playful Australian Sheperd. Then a guy with a mohawk walked in with a Cinelli track bike, and we all drooled. The sinking sun was casting the room in gold, the kids were laughing, and I found myself unable to leave, though a dinner party was calling. Outside, another Cinelli trackie was chained to a parking meter. A Nagasawa was chained to another. Two dudes, both with Giants caps and tattoos crawling up their necks, emerged, one with set of wheels, the other with a frame on his shoulder. "Did you see the lugs on that Nagasawa?" I heard him ask his friend. And then it struck me what beautiful thing this fixie craze is. Call it trendy, arty, pretentious, impractical, it's all those things. But it's returning a hip, youthful vigor to the sport from a place way outside the mainstream. It's reviving an interest in these classic steel bikes, in lugs, and lore. Maybe I'm preaching to the choir, but I see this as a very good thing. Now if I could only find a deal on one of dem Pegorettis...
Matt Isaacs
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text: So i'm putting together a bike so that my girly can ride with me. I had some 27inchers just lying around that I thought I'd use for her. Anyways, when I tighten the quick release as tight as possible it's still loose in the dropouts. What do I need to do to make them work?


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Sanda Erdelez is an Associate Professor at the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at University of Missouri (MU). She also serves as Associate Director for Education at MUs Informatics Institute and is the founder of MUs Information Experience Laboratory. Her prior academic appointment was at University of Texas at Austin. She holds a Bachelors of Law and a Masters of Law degree from University of Osijek, Croatia and as a Fulbright Scholar received a PhD in Information Transfer from Syracuse University. Her research and teaching focuses on human information behavior and usability evaluation of information systems. She has been actively engaged in SIG USE as a past chair, research symposium organizer, and its current Treasurer. Her contributions to ASIS&T extend to all organizational levels: membership on the program committees and chairing tracks for annual meetings, mentoring in the Future ASIS&T Leaders program, regularly reviewing and contributing to JASIS&T, and serving as a faculty co-mentor for the ASIS&T student chapter at MU.


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September 12, 2007
Nick Marinello
"OK, stay on 107. Keep on going. Keep on truckin' baby. …"
Only a few hours ago, Judge David Young was sitting behind the bench in his courtroom, presiding over the fate of nearly 20 defendants during a long string of probation hearings so varied and so often heart wrenching that it would test the wisdom of Solomon had he a job at the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.
But at this moment the judge, who is accustomed to the convenience of power and can command the dynamics of a courtroom with a lift of an eyebrow, is attempting to take hold of a situation that seems to be uncoiling faster than he can wind it back in. It's 1 p.m. and his parents are already 30 minutes late for a presentation he is to receive from Miami Mayor Carlos Alvarez.
They appear to be lost as they sample a variety of wrong turns on their way to the mayor's satellite office on the west side of town.
"You should have listened to your son and met him at the courthouse," Young (A&S '81) teases his father over the cell phone. "I know the way you drive."
You could forgive Young if he were to be a tad petulant about the developing wrinkle in a day that has already been overstuffed with emotions. There are few things more uncertain in an adult's life than when his parents are behind the wheel, and while Young counts Alvarez as a friend, no one wants to keep the mayor of a major city on hold.
Yet, interestingly, Young remains calmly buoyant as he waits with the mayor and the small group of media, family and friends who are on hand for the presentation.
"You have every good intention, my dear father, but you will end up taking Fidel over in Cuba if you continue heading south," cracks Young. And who knows if his father is smiling on the other end of the line, but the joke loosens up everyone in the mayor's office, so when a police deputy delivers a round of hot, sweet Cuban coffee the vibe is muy tranquilo.
Welcome to the David Young show—not to be confused with the "Judge David Young" show that will air coast to coast in most major television markets next fall, but, rather, the engaging, entertaining and ongoing string of reality-based moments that comprise Young's life, which is in its 48th season.
It's a beautiful day in what for Miami passes as late spring. Blue skies with puffy clouds, it's the kind of day that wears well in memory over time, and you have to figure it's a day that will have a special place on Young's growing docket of memorable achievements. Mayor Alvarez, by the way, is waiting to present Young with a proclamation declaring this day, Friday, May 25, 2007, as David Young Day in recognition of the judge's 15 years of exemplary service in circuit court. But as cool as that is, it's rather like icing on a cake.
Young is stepping down from the bench in order to move into the national spotlight as the star of Sony Pictures' "Judge David Young," a program that will air in syndication on Sept. 10. (Check local listings for time and channel.) A daytime court show that will feature Young dispatching justice as he sees fit, it was the first new syndicated program to gain national distribution for the fall season. Amidst all the buzz, Sony execs are sensing that there is something in Young's candid, funny, sometimes quirky demeanor that is going to connect big-time with viewers.
"You're going to love him. He's a crack-up!" says Jennifer Kahn, when scheduling a press interview for Young. Kahn, a Sony publicity executive who is handling media relations for Young, is probably supposed to say things like that, but it doesn't take long before you get the feeling that she really likes the guy. In town from New York, Kahn is hanging out today as Young starts out on what in many ways is a new life.
In a few weeks Young will be commuting to New York to begin taping the first season of shows. But before that there is the business of closure. When you are a sitting judge for 15 years, a lot of life passes by your gavel.
Young's day began at 8:30 a.m. in his chambers, where the walls are decorated by only the dozens of clips that once supported framed art and photographs. His conference table is cluttered with a number of boxes containing stuff he's acquired over the years, including a portion of his extensive collection of penguins. It's Young's last day in court, and among his staff there is that sweet, electric, sad vibe that feels something like the last day of school before summer vacation. After trading a few backstage barbs with the bailiff and a courthouse deputy, Young dons his black robe and makes for the courtroom.
Ask Young why Sony wanted him to be on a television show and he'll tell you they like his humor and personality and believes he can bring a fresh perspective to the daytime court genre. In his 15 years on the bench Young has earned a reputation for being tough, compassionate, opinionated and entertaining. He has a flare for the provocative, too, as in the time he dismissed disorderly conduct charges against an elderly opera singer after she agreed to sing in court.
If Young's name rings a bell, it's most likely because in 2005 he presided over the much-publicized case of the two America West airline pilots who were eventually convicted and sentenced for intending to operate a plane while intoxicated. But in Miami he is perhaps better known for implementing an 18-month judicial monitoring program in which he meets with defendants on a monthly basis to oversee their progress.
By the time Young enters the courtroom at 9 a.m. the quiet hum of conversation is pitched at a key somewhere between anxiety and expectation as assistant state attorneys as well as public and private defenders gather before the bar while offenders who are on probation and their family members nervously wait in the gallery. Over to the side of the courtroom a group of young men, some shackled and all in orange jumpsuits, occupy the jury box in stony silence.
The bailiff calls the court to order and what transpires during the next two hours is compelling stuff—so sad and joyous and funny and human that you might think it's all been carefully scripted.
Young recites the names of offenders and, one by one, each comes before him with his or her own story, his or her own journey in, through or out of the system.
"Anthony Johnson," calls out Young, and a man dressed in jeans and a blue T-shirt stands up, making what he hopes is his last monthly appearance before the judge. On his shirt are the words "Hey yo, I got the ya yo."
"Ya yo?" questions Young. "What's that about?" "It's a song," says Johnson, as he studies the floor.
"Yeah? Sing it," says Young.
Johnson looks up, confused. Did he say sing it? Young waits and Johnson begins to mumble through the lyric: "Hey you, I got the ya yo, you got the money."
Wow, the guy's wearing gangsta rap to his probation hearing.
"See you in 30 days," sighs Young. "With the money."
In the next minute, Young is talking to a 15-year-old kid who wound up in his courtroom because of an armed robbery conviction and, despite his age, is eligible for time in the state penitentiary. When Young tells the kid that he's sending him instead to the juvenile sanction system for rehabilitation the boy blurts out, "I'm tired of being in jail."
"All you should be saying is 'thank you' for sending you to a juvenile program," snaps Young. "I'm saving you from state prison."
Then shifting gears, Young asks the child for the names of the people he loves. The boy mentions his brother, Kevin, and his grandmother.
"Then put Kevin on your shoulder and don't do anything you don't want him to see," says Young gently. "Put your grandmother on your other shoulder and don't do anything you don't want her to see. … Now, can you give me a smile? Come on, I've given you a break."
A few minutes later, Young is terminating the probation of a young man who—ever cool—receives the good news with a nod. But standing beside him, his mother calls out, "God bless you," to Young, who asks the woman if she wants a hug. Rising from behind the bench, Young meets the mother halfway for a big embrace that lasts long enough to warrant a commercial break. Kahn, the Sony media exec, begins to tear up.
Before you know it, Young is getting another hug, this time from a woman whose probation has been terminated. She squeezes him tight then spins around and, shouting "I can go!," nearly runs out the courtroom.
And the morning is still young. The line of attorneys waiting to present their clients' cases stretches from the bar to the gallery. They carry their overstuffed portfolios like weary passengers waiting to check in before a flight, and despite the human drama that is playing out, the sheer volume of stuff would make the morning a drudgery except that Young conducts his court like, well, like a television show that keeps you glued to the screen.
Turns out the Sony execs are right. The guy is funny. After one defendant pleads guilty to drug charges, Young, who is a member of Weight Watchers, says, "I know it's tough [dealing with addiction]. I can end up like a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade if I don't watch out."
In the middle of proceedings, Young begins to talk about the time someone stole his identity on a credit card and purchased a quantity of inexpensive baubles. After about a minute of sharing, Young concludes, "I digress, but I will not pay retail for jewelry. …"
A moment later, the courtroom is hushed as a longtime Miami attorney confronts Young about the sluggishness of the courts in setting a date for a murder trial. The attorney has probably made hundreds of similar appeals in his career, but this time it's personal. His wife was murdered and he was blinded when an adopted son allegedly became unhinged and shot them both. Standing at the bar with his daughter holding onto his elbow, the attorney wants the system to move faster.
"I'm just as frustrated as you," says Young, who pauses as he looks into the face of the man who can't look back. "No. I'm sorry, I could never be as frustrated as you are with this."
Seated at a table on the floor off to the side of the courtroom, Kahn watches, transfixed. Her eyes are glistening, and hers are not the only ones.
After the morning session ends, Young attends a going-away party held in the upstairs lounge before he has to hustle to the mayor's crosstown office to receive the proclamation. Folks from every strata of courthouse society arrive to wish Young well, give him a hug, and tease him a bit about being a big star. Downstairs, in the courthouse parking garage, it's more of the same as workers wave and give Young a shout-out.
Driving through Miami's lunchtime traffic, Young has time to reflect and talk. It's gratifying, he says, to see people who18 months earlier were ensnarled in drug and alcohol addiction now come before him, their lives intact. He admits there's some sadness to leaving the Miami criminal court system after 22 years and recalls how he started out as a prosecutor in the state attorney's office, working under Janet Reno. He still remembers Reno telling him that his job was to seek justice, and he admires her compassion in instituting drug courts to help non-violent offenders.
He talks about his life partner, Scott Bernstein, a judge in Miami-Dade County criminal circuit court who oversees a drug court and who has been influential in Young's understanding of the powerful role that government can play in a person's life. He says that television, too, can play a role, that come this fall, he will tackle not only legal problems but social problems as well on "Judge David Young."
He talks about his reputation for being funny and how he uses humor to loosen up people so they don't miss his message. He says he was never a cutup in school and was too busy running things to clown around. He talks fondly of his time at Tulane, his degree in political science, his involvement in student governance and, in his junior year, his election as president of Tulane's Associated Student Body.
He says he still maintains contact with Tulane by sitting on the Newcomb-Tulane College Dean's Advisory Council. He says that his father, a well-known Miami attorney, probably first kindled his interest in politics. He jokes that he was not a great athlete and that politics is a great sport for not-great athletes.
And before you know it, Young is pulling into the parking lot of a sprawling strip mall where Miami Mayor Carlos Alvarez has humbly located his west-side office.
Alvarez has such an unassuming persona, dressed in a four-pocketed Guayabera, that it takes a beat before you realize he's the guy in charge. He's happy to wait for Young's parents to arrive, but after about 45 minutes his schedule requires that he reads the proclamation aloud for the benefit of a local TV news cameraman on hand for the event. It's funny how television somehow makes things real. It's like the tree falling in the woods—if an event takes place but Channel 4 isn't there to record it, did it happen? To what extent does reality exist outside the glare of media scrutiny?
You could keep pondering these things, but then you'd miss the arrival of Young's parents, and how their son went out into the parking lot to be visual cue for them to know they've arrived at the correct place.
You'd miss the sweet moment of Young helping his mom out of the car and how, once inside the mayor's office, the three sit closely side-by-side for a TV interview. And you wouldn't see Young's mother lean her head on his shoulder right in the middle of the interview, blissfully unconcerned by the camera planted just a few feet away.
On the evening news this will be a television moment, edited into a few sound bites and images. But right now it's live and direct. The cameraman, who is also functioning as reporter, asks Burton Young if he will be watching his son on TV this fall.
"Well," quips Burton, "I watched the show for all these 40-some-odd years and I will continue to."
And like his son, Burton, too, can change gears to make a point. "David's a person of grace," he replies. "I don't know anyone who has the depth of compassion that my son has, and all America will be the beneficiary of seeing what one human being can do.
"This was one heck of a trip getting here," he continues, "and it demonstrated the love that we have for this kid."
That's good stuff, real stuff, and if Burton Young's words don't make it to the 6 p.m. news and to the ears of the Miami community, it will be a shame. Or, just maybe, it won't. Kahn is smiling a smile that suggests she's not thinking about sound bites or media kits or press releases.
It's just another good moment in the David Young show.
Nick Marinello is a senior editor in the Office of University Publications and features editor of Tulanian.
Summer 2007
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Project Cowboy, Day 2
October 9, 2010
The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.
Saturday morning at Project Cowboy began with paring the 160 contestants to 75.
Patti Colbert and Tootie Bland, the co-producers of Project Cowboy, played the drama to the hilt by calling 10 exhibitors at a time to the center of the arena, then – after some really pregnant pauses (and with nearly everyone holding their breath), they'd tell the 10 that they were either moving on to Round 4 or that this was "the end of the trail" for them.
When Edwin "E." Gaffney – the subject of my Day 1 blog, was one of 10 called to the line, I could hardly breathe. Patti and Tootie tiptoed around delivering the group's fate by telling them how well they'd all done, that they were all great horsemen and -women, and then said, "We're sorry to tell you … (insert pregnant pause) … that y'all will have to come back in Round 4 and work even harder!"
The crowd went wild.
With my camera trained on E., I saw his reaction go from relief to, quite possibly, disbelief, then he hugged his horse's neck.
So Round 4 was a trail class. On steroids.
Many AQHA exhibitors are familiar with Tim "the Trail Man" Kimura's trail designs. Well, after seeing the layout of the Project Cowboy trail course, AQHA Executive Director of Competition and Breed Integrity Tom Persechino texted me, saying, "This ain't no Tim Kimura trail course!" (Tom, by the way, is one of the Project Cowboy judges this weekend.)
The course was insane: three 55-gallon drums laid end-to-end that each contestant was required to sidepass his or her horse over; a landscaping timber that each contestant had to back their horse over; a scary-looking, horse-eating, lime-green dragon with tires for a body, a 5-inch-diameter piece of hose for a tail and a tiki-totem-pole head that they had to jump; three "curtains" made of Styrofoam noodles and plastic drapes that each horse and rider had to walk through; a walk-through chute and bridge combination; a pinwheel of timbers that they had to trot or lope over; and, finally, a 3-foot-diameter ball on a rope that each horse and rider team had to drag, which didn't come anywhere close to resembling a steer to even the cowy-est of horses.
Oh, and did I mention that while negotiating the obstacles, the contestants (who had wireless mics) were asked a series of questions by the judges about horse health, tack and training topics? That added a whole 'nother level to the difficulty of Round 4.
Some horses excelled, taking the freaky obstacles in stride, never batting an eye. Other contestants had to admit that they really weren't sure how their horses would react because this was: A. the first time their horses had been past their property gate, or B. the first time their horses had ever seen a trail course, much less a course made up of some pretty weird-looking obstacles. "We don't get many dragons on our ranch in New Mexico," one contestant admitted.
Some contestants talked up a storm – just like real clinicians – from the time they entered the arena to when the buzzer sounded at the end of their four minutes. They were relaxed and at home in front of a crowd.
Brazilian Conrado Stefani, who now lives in Hotchkiss, Colorado, and his horse had time to flawlessly do the obstacle course from front to back and back to front, with a few extra jumps over the dragon thrown in. And all the while, Conrado was smoozing the crowd – OK, the women in the crowd – with his lilting Brazilian accent.
Other contestants, knowing that persuading their horses to jump the dragon could eat up precious time, attempted the other obstacles first, saving the dragon for last.
My buddy E. took it easy on Sir Avery. He told "Avery's" story to the audience and explained that not pressuring the gelding to do something he wasn't ready for was more important than pushing the horse to do a maneuver or obstacle, then have to backtrack in their training when they got home. But, by golly, they jumped the dragon! The pair had that much trust in each other.
It was a really long day that was capped by another drama-intensive, edge-of-your-seat elimination: the 75 contestants were cut back to 25. This was getting serious, and it was a serious cut. Unfortunately, E. and Sir Avery didn't make it this time, but I could tell by the look on E.'s face, that he was OK with how far he and Sir Avery had gotten. He stayed true to himself and, more importantly, to his horse. The duo had slayed the proverbial dragon – and a real dragon, too!
Round 5 was called "Can You Handle the Herd?"
The 25 "survivors" were broken into five teams and were required to do a team-penning exercise, where each team member had to cut a heifer from the herd at one end of the arena and then pen the heifer at the other end of the arena, with the help of his or her teammates.
It was a test of the cowy-ness of each horse and the rider's ability to guide the horse, as well as everyone's ability to work and play well with others. And, even though they were competing against each other, they had a ball – each team picked a name, had a strategy and the team members fully supported each other, high-fiving and coaching each other.
So, that's where we left off at the end of Day 2. The 25 had penned their cattle (with a little arm-chair coaching from the crowd), and the judges were left to tally the results.
We'll open Day 3 – Sunday and the final day of competition – with another bracing elimination – the 25 will be cut down to 10.
Yes, it'll be another very serious cut.
Becky Newell
Editor In Chief, The American Quarter Horse Journal


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In previous postings on this blog and developerworks I've provided example Java code to programmatically communicate with a Security Token Service (STS) using the WS-Trust protocol. Tivoli Federated Identity Manager includes an STS that supports both WS-Trust...
IBM Security experts available to answer your technical product questions on June 15 Community Blog
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The Global Tivoli User Community is hosting an " Ask the Expert Online Jam session" today. The event is running 8am - 8pm EST on June 15. Security experts for Tivoli Identity Manager and Tivoli Access Manager will be on hand to answer your...
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In the News: Jump-Start Service Design and Delivery at Innovate 2010 Community Blog
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Today's software architects must do so much more than just build, deliver and manage... they must innovate . Increasingly, IT is charged with enabling business and seizing new opportunities to create unique, competitive advantages for the business through a...
Re: TRUE Integrated Service Management Story. READ IT. BELIEVE IT. BENEFIT FROM IT. Community Blog
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In response to: TRUE Integrated Service Management Story. READ IT. BELIEVE IT. BENEFIT FROM IT. Jen, It's great to see Service Management topics at the Innovate conference next month. The importance of integrating development and operations more closely was...
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TRUE Integrated Service Management Story. Read it. Believe it. Benefit from it. Community Blog
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What I am about to share here is a true story about Integrated Service Management. I changed the name of the customer to Customer because I didn't ask permission to use Customer's real name. So you'll just have to believe me :oD Oh, What a Better Web We...
Calling TFIM Commands from Java
This article provides an example of how to call the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Command Line interface commands from a Java application. It is targeted at Java developers who already understand how to invoke the TFIM commands via the wsadmin command...
Using WebSphere TAI with Tivoli Federated Identity Manager
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In this article I will describe a pattern of custom authentication to WebSphere via TAI for use with Tivoli Federated Identity Manager acting as an Identity Provider. The article assumes a strong background in WebSphere authentication and Tivoli Federated...
Changing my Twitter handle
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Yes, I've done it. It's a new year, and I decided to take the plunge and change my handle from @rhetorica2 to @TiffanyWinman even though it's two characters longer. I know the hit I will take as others learn to discover my new name and change their links from...
Re: Ask the Experts Forum Community Blog
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In response to: Ask the Experts Forum Shane, thank you for participating in the upcoming Online Ask the Expert Jam. I want to make sure others know you have a blog and cover Tivoli Federated Identity Manager--so I'm posting this to our Tivoli Software Blog...
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Ask the Experts Forum
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Three of the senior developers in the Tivoli Federated Identity Manager team (including myself) will be participating in the Ask The Expert Online Jam later this week. We do hope you will use this opportunity to connect directly with our development team for...
IBM Security Jam Webcast on Mitigating Insider Threats Community Blog
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On October 13th, speakers Jeff Crume, IBM Distinguished Engineer and IT Security Architect, IBM World Wide Tivoli Tiger Team and Jim Goddard, Business Development Executive, IBM Internet Security Systems addressed issues around Mitigating insider threats...
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Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and Salesforce.com
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I have had several enquiries about how to configure federated single sign-on integration between Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and salesforce.com . Saleforce.com offer cloud applications for all manner of sales and CRM capabilities, and the typical use...
Mobilecamp 2009 in Dresden - Teil 2
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Nach dem ersten Teil meines Rückblicks auf das Mobilecamp 2009 in Dresden, diesmal nun zu den Inhalten. Nachdem die Agenda stand hatte wohl fast jeder Schwierigkeiten die jeweils richtige Session auszuwählen: viele interessante Themen - oftmals parallel. In...
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Impact, SOA, and Service Management Community Blog
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This week IBM kicked off the Impact conference from May 3 - 8 in Las Vegas at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino. In addition to focusing on Smart SOA and WebSphere, themes will concentrate on Smart, Economic Climate, Cost Optimization & Agility, Cloud...
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07/10/2012, Palma Nova
Made it back to Mallorca, we left Valencia at 3am and it took us 20 hours. We managed to sail for about 4 hours, the rest of the time we were under motor. Made it back to the little bay that we left from. We made our way round to Palma to collect Steph & Jack. They missed their flight so they came a day later. We went to get fuel in Palma & it has to be the worse Marina we have ever been in. It definitely is not for the larger boats. With the wind it was extremely dodgy. We then moved around to Portals Cala. Absolutely beautiful cala, with lovely caves to explore as well a Nudist Beach to add to people watching. We have moved round today to Palma Nova, which is a bit more cosmopolitan. So found a wifi bar to upload my blog. Just outside Palma, the American Plane Carrier was anchored, the US Eisenhower. She was the largest Marine ship I have ever seen. She hold 5617 crew and over 100 planes, not to mention all the Armour.
07/01/2012, England
Had a wonderful 10 days back in England, the weather has been kind, a little rain but still very warm. Good to catch up with family & friends where possible and looking forward to seeing some of them soon out on the islands this summer. Had a lovely day out at the Royal Norfolk Show as well as going to Henley Royal Regatta on Thursday. I am afraid I will be going back to the yacht to rest. We are planning an early start tomorrow and should be on the boat by midday & then off to get some basic provisions before getting our heads down as we want to leave for Majorca at about 3am under a full moon. Weather guru is promising us good weather so all should be good & we will be back over in Majorca by Wednesday night. Just hope wind guru is correct & we don't have it as rocky as we did coming back. No doubt we will conquer it.
06/23/2012, Mallorca
Sailing over to Mallorca from Ibiza we had some quite strong winds and big swells. Needed to be strapped in most of the way, made serving G & T's rather hazardous & tea even more so. Cap'n JS is pleased that beers come in a can lol. This is a film clip of what a first mate has to put up with lol!!! http://youtu.be/vwBPnMUodZk
Im off to sail around mallorca from 18-25 August 2012 - just looking for advice from anyone who has circumnvaigated clockwise from Palma, the full island - did you guys do this?
We are on a Bavaria 49, probably 7 of us for the week, and are trying to plot out a few possible itineraries (and back up plans!)
Perhaps you can write a blog update about where to sail, moor, lunch, swim etc if you have time?
Love your photos and clips!
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06/15/2012, Valencia
Back to Valencia, need to make a dash back to the UK, so where better to leave the boat, but back in the capable hands of Anna at Yacht Base. We left Mallorca at 7am and Richard motored & sailed all the way for 19 hours. (135 miles non stop )Got in at 3am this morning. I fell asleep about midnight, but he stayed up, but dosed off to waking with a start that something was amiss, only to look over the spray hood to see a massive ferry bearing down on him. He was strapped to the pilot table by his life jacket & got in a major panic to get back on the helm to veer the yacht to the right. Fortunately the ferry was on the ball & he veered to the right, as did Richard when he got onto the helm. He said his heart was in his mouth, while watching all these faces peering over the side of the ferry down at him. Another lesson learned! So we are off back to the UK and then will be back on the 2nd to continue around Mallorca.
06/11/2012, Portinax Ibiza
Spent the last couple of days in Portinax, had a bit of a drama when we got here as we discovered that we had used the entire back tank of water in one night & although we have the water maker, it was a little disconcerting to go through 200 litres of water in one night. So up came the floor boards again! Richard had spent most of the night before clearing the water out of the bilge, which is what ticked us off about the problem as it kept on trying to empty all the water. The next morning Richard set out trying logically to see whether the leak came from the water maker side or the domestic side. After tracking it back to one of the back bedrooms, we then discovered it was even further back, which meant the back of the boat. It then became clear to him that it was the shower on the back of the boat on the swim platform. It had developed a dodgy spray and had not shut off properly and had slowly but surely being trickling quite rapidly back on it's self back into the boat & then into the hull. Another learning curve.... Fortunately it was not that serious, so yesterday for most of the day we had to have the genny on to refill our water tank. Then to cap it all last night, we started to slip anchor. There were 2 yachts in the bay over 45 ft and both of us had the same issue. We had to move twice & it is a little eerie when you see the rock face of the bank a lot closer than it should be. The pilot books do say it the bay does not have the best holding. Anyway after much contemplating by both boats we feel we had the anchor set. The smaller boats did not seem to have the problem. Though saying that, tonight a little 32 ft came in and after dropping anchor and going a shore about an hour later they made a dash back to their boat as they were slipping quite a quickly. Fortunately for them, they got round a mooring buoy, which are available for the smaller boats.
Last night we had a night on the town with a nice dinner. Richard thought a break from fish would be nice, so a little duck for dinner & a little champers to boot. We spent today enjoying Portinax bay, by snorkelling, lying in the hammock, and on the li-lo, an enjoyable day had by both of us. Richard also disappeared into the rocks and came back with a huge squid and an octopus, which we had for dinner & there is enough for tomorrow nights dinner.
Planning on making an early get away and heading over to Majorca tomorrow morning, Richard reckons 6am get away......mmmm I think 8 would be nicer. Plenty time to get to Majorca for about 5 tomorrow night.
06/07/2012, Ibiza
Me on my lilo, enjoying the first dip of the season.
Heading for Ibiza old town. When we got to Playa de las Salinas, it looked so inviting, so we dropped the hook and Richard did a bit of snorkelling and I broke the ice and got on to my lilo. It was beautiful, a little cold but not too bad at all. Cap'n Jack sparrow (alias Richard) also rose to the occasion & caught us 2 fishies for dinner which we ate within half an hour of them coming out of the water. They were absolutely delicious with med potatoes and a fresh salad with hugh asparagus.......mmmmmmmm Can't get fresher than that. We are staying here the night & seeing what tomorrow holds.


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Korean GP: Tyre and Pit Stop Strategy
A third consecutive victory for Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel moved him ahead of Fernando Alonso in the World Championships despite the Ferrari driver's damage-limiting third place. Pole-sitter, Mark Webber was sandwiched between them but once the Australian had lost his position to his team mate through the first series of straights, it was a largely uneventful race.
Two-stops dominated proceedings, although Lewis Hamilton's need to make a third plus an anti-roll bar failure left him battling with the Toro Rossos until his McLaren picked up part of Korea's carpeted run-off. Pastor Maldonado, by contrast, made a solitary stop on his run from 15th on the grid to 14th at the flag. Jean-Eric Vergne was the highest of the finishers to have started on the prime tyre compound, although it wasn't a major factor his 8th place finish from 16th on the grid.
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February 11, 2013
Dog Eye Infection
Did you know dogs can get pink eye? Yep, that's right; your beloved pup can contract conjunctivitis, otherwise known as pink eye. This is also the most common dog eye infection according to Pet WebMD. The good news, though, is that conjunctivitis is usually not painful and pretty easy to treat.
Beyond the common pink eye, another dog eye infection comes when dogs have allergies. Like humans, dogs exhibit symptoms of allergies including red eyes that discharge fluids.
Other common dog eye infections include keratitis, an inflammation of the cornea that leaves the eye cloudy. This is also known as cloudy eye. Pet WebMD states that the symptoms of cloudy eye are excessive tearing, squinting, pawing at the eye, avoiding light, and protrusion of a third eyeball over the eye. Any keratitis is serious and requires immediate attention.
Uveitis is a fourth dog eye infection possibility. Also known as soft eye, this is an inflammation of the iris and ciliary body. Pet WebMD claims that uveitis is very painful and often accompanied by other bacterial infections and systemic diseases. This needs immediate attention.
The final, and most important, dog eye infection as explained by Pet WebMD is glaucoma. Just like in humans, glaucoma in dogs can and often does lead to blindness. Though it is a slow-progressing eye disease, it is one that is worth paying attention to. Two types of glaucoma exist: primary and secondary. Primary is hereditary while secondary is often a complication from another eye disease like uveitis. Glaucoma is incredibly painful. Diagnosis can only be made by a veterinarian eye exam.
A veterinarian can provide the best information and diagnoses for curing these types of infection. The simple advice about dog eye infection is that if you notice any issue with your dog's eyes, you need to contact your vet as soon as possible. Though dogs can live happy and healthy lives even when blind, dog eye infections are often painful, so make sure to take care of your pup.
If your dog's eye or eyes look infected, don't ignore that. Call your vet for proper diagnosis and start treating the dog eye infection as soon as possible.
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The following is a list of the construction services provided by D Cay Group LLC
Pre Construction
§ Site Evaluation
§ Environmental Studies
§ Master Planning
§ Strategic Planning
§ Conceptual estimating
§ Feasibility Analysis
§ Budgeting
§ Cost Analysis and Estimating
§ Shop Drawing review
§ Permitting
§ Contract Administration
§ Scheduling
§ Subcontractor solicitation and negotiations
§ Value Engineering
§ Safety
§ Scheduling
§ Coordination
§ Procurement
§ Field Mobilization
§ Field Management
§ Material Controls
§ Operator Maintenance Manuals
§ Cost Control
§ Quality Control
§ As built Drawings
§ Equipment Vendor Inspections
§ Equipment installation
§ Maintenance and Operator training.
Construction Maintenance
§ Servicing
§ 4 point inspections
§ Post construction procedures
§ Warranty follow up.
D CAY Group has a wide array of services as well as a strong. Loyal subcontractor base who are proficient and diligent in their work and ensure a successful completion of the most complex projects.
Our main focus with every project is customer satisfaction. Our goal is to surpass the client expectations in every form of communication and results through detailed preparation and planning. We aim to do each project right the first time with minimum cost and delay.


text: Extra time to question McConville suspect 20 Mar 2014 Police have been granted extra time to question a pensioner over the 1972 abduction and murder of widow and mother-of-10 Jean McConville. Share Share Share Story by UTV Staff, Belfast A 77-year-old man was arrested in west Belfast on Tuesday by detectives from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch.The suspect was taken to the Serious Crime Suite in Antrim for questioning.On Thursday, a court granted the PSNI until Friday night to question the man.Mrs McConville was kidnapped from her flat in the Divis area in December 1972 and shot by the IRA.The 37-year-old's body was not recovered until years later, when it when it was found on a beach in Co Louth in August 2003. © UTV Share Share Share


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GRC Maturity: From Disorganized to Integrated Risk and Performance - Part II
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This is the second in a series of four blog posts where we present risk and compliance speaker and thought leader, Michael Rasmussen's, GRC maturity model. For more insightful information on GRC and to exchange ideas with risk and finance colleagues, come see us in Orlando at Vision 2012.
GRC Maturity — Measuring a New Paradigm for Risk and Compliance
Lacking an integrated view of GRC results in business processes, partners, employees and systems that behave like leaves blowing in the wind. Modern business requires a new paradigm for tackling risk and compliance issues across the enterprise. No longer can organizations afford to focus on single risk and compliance issues as unrelated projects; nor can they allow software Band-Aids that are not integrated with the business to masquerade as GRC. A targeted strategy addressing GRC through common processes, information and technology gets to the root of the problem.
With changing and diverse risks bearing down on the organization, there is a clear need to tackle the problem at its root and develop a mature approach to GRC. Instead of treating each risk and compliance issue as an individual problem, organizations need to define a common process, information and technology architecture to manage GRC across the range of issues.
To address these issues, leading organizations have adopted a common framework, information architecture and shared processes to effectively manage risk and compliance, enable risk-aware decision-making, increase efficiencies, and be agile in response to the needs of a dynamic business environment.
The questions organizations must ask:
A well-defined GRC environment will not only do risk assessment and modeling, but will also deliver definition, communication and training on risk-taking and accountability. The organization must map the interrelationship of risks to controls, policies, enterprise assets (e.g., business process, employees, relationships, physical assets and logical assets), and incidents to business strategy, objectives and corporate performance.
Mature GRC delivers better business outcomes because of stronger integrated information, which will:
Architect integrated GRC systems and processes
A properly defined GRC architecture is built upon common process, information and technology components that are adaptive to a dynamic business environment and integrate with critical enterprise applications. No longer is risk and compliance about an annual audit; it now involves continuous monitoring in an ever-changing environment. GRC has to be sustainable as an ongoing and integrated part of business processes. A successful and mature GRC strategy has a symbiotic influence on the variety of business stakeholder roles and their common requirements.
Organizations need to be intelligent about what processes and technologies they deploy. The goal is to make an effective decision once, and comply with many regulations, manage a range of risks and maximize value from the convergence of technology, people and process. A sustainable approach to GRC results in an organization looking to the future and mitigating risk in the course of business, as opposed to putting out fires by reacting to risk and control issues as they arise.
Mature GRC enables the organization to understand performance in the context of risk and compliance. It achieves the definition of GRC, which is "a capability that enables an organization to reliably achieve objectives [GOVERNANCE] while addressing uncertainty [RISK MANAGEMENT] and acting with integrity [COMPLIANCE]." Effective and mature GRC delivers:
Continue on to Part III in this series: Five Stages of GRC Maturity


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SKILL LEVEL: Easy (Level 2)
SIZE: One Size Infant (Toddler)
Circumference 16 (18) in. [40.75 (45.75) cm]
CORRECTIONS: None
8 sts + 10 rows = 4 in. [10 cm] in Stockinette stitch (k on RS, p on WS) with 2 strands Jiffy held together. When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size
specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be
sufficient. The needle or hook size called for in the pattern is based on what
the designer used, but it is not unusual for gauge to vary from person to person.
If it takes you fewer stitches and rows to make your swatch, try using a smaller
size hook or needles; if more stitches and rows, try a larger size hook or needles.
Making a Gauge Swatch
Hat is worked with 2 strands of yarn held together throughout.
Learn to Knit instructions: http://www.lionbrand.com/learnToKnit.html


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The German Evangelical Church Cemetery sits underneath the West Seneca Water tower, adjacent to Sunshine Park, a girls softball complex, on East
and West Road in West Seneca, Erie County, New York. The site was established as a cemetery in 1821 and subsequently abandoned in 1951
when the church was relocated after a fire. Maintenance is handled by the town which seems to value its historical landmarks.
The cemetery is tiny, holding probably less than 100 tombstones, many of which are no longer legible. We photographed those which were at least
partially legible and have posted links to the pictures below. We did the best we could in terms of transcribing the legible ones and present
the transcription for your use in your family history research. Click on links below to view photographs. We
hope this work is of some value and regret that we did not have the time to fully research the cemetery and those interred here.


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Whether you're sending her off to her friend's place for backyard camping or helping her pack for summer camp, make sure she packs a pair of Fox River Trail Jr.Crew Socks. These socks have reinforced heels and toes for extra cushioning and a long sock life. Plus, the Wick Dry Technology keeps her feet dry and comfortable throughout the day.
- Made from merino wool, recycled polyester, and nylon for all-day comfort in a variety of temperature zones
- The URfit system utilizes contour ribbed tops and spandex compression zones for a custom fit that won't wash away
- Wickdry technology uses a combination of moisture repelling and attracting yarns to keep feet dry and comfortable
- Vented panels aid in moisture management
- Reinforced toe and heel areas give the socks added durability