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Ethel Miles didn't think her son had a chance.
Even though 6-foot-8-inch Darius Miles is considered among the three best players in the nation, mom was convinced that Brett Melton of Mahomet-Seymour would win the Mr. Basketball of Illinois award.
Ethel Miles didn't think her son had a chance.
Even though 6-foot-8-inch Darius Miles is considered among the three best players in the nation, mom was convinced that Brett Melton of Mahomet-Seymour would win the Mr. Basketball of Illinois award.
"I told Darius he wouldn't win because Mr. Basketball would be somebody going to Illinois--like Brett--and he had signed with St. John's," Ethel Miles said. "Look at the last three winners. There's Brian Cook, Frank Williams, Sergio McClain--and all of them went to Illinois. If it wasn't Brett, I was sure it would be [Leo's] Andre Brown."
Darius bet his mom $25 that he would break the Illini stranglehold on the state's most prestigious individual award.
Miles and Brown were sitting together in a Boston hotel lobby earlier this week awaiting transportation to the McDonald's All-American Game slam-dunk contest when the East St. Louis senior received the good news.
Miles tilted his head and said: "For real?" When assured he was indeed Cook's successor, he smiled and began good-naturedly teasing Brown.
"My mom owes me $25," he said with a laugh. "I can't wait to tell her."
Miles and Ms. Basketball, Marshall junior Cappie Pondexter, will be honored at the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Dinner on April 29 at Illinois State.
Statewide balloting of coaches and media gave Miles a landslide. He received first-place votes on 217 of 369 ballots, while runner-up Eddy Curry of Thornwood attracted 34 first-place votes. Miles piled up 1,264 points to 366 for Curry.
In his three-year career, Miles led East St. Louis to the Class AA quarterfinals twice. The Flyers were third this season after Miles averaged 22 points, 13 rebounds and seven blocked shots a game while virtually playing all five positions.
A consensus of national talent scouts rated Miles, 6-9 Seton Hall recruit Eddie Griffin of Philadelphia and 6-6 Alabama signee Gerald Wallace of Childersburg, Ala., as the best prospects in the country.
After scoring 17 points and blocking four shots in the McDonald's game, Miles was surrounded by a national media inquiring if he would enter the NBA draft.
"My first priority is St. John's," said Miles, who has signed a letter of intent with coach Mike Jarvis' Big East power. "I need to improve my ACT score by one point to qualify for a scholarship. I am retaking the test in April. The NBA is still out there. If people in the league tell me I'm going to be a lottery pick, I'd probably enter the draft. I'll make a decision at the end of April."
Miles is an only child whose father, Gilbert White, never married Ethel Miles. Darius is a mama's boy raised in a loving but tough environment by his mom, grandma Elouise Miles, 70, and grandpa Willie Miles, 71. Ethel's nephew Adrian, 27, his son Ramonte, 8, and another nephew, Darrell, 13, also are part of the Miles household.
"I'm proud of where I come from, and I represent East St. Louis in everything I do," Miles said. "But it's not pretty where I live. There's a drug house across the street, and you see the crackheads coming and going all night long. You hear the shootings. I worry all the time that somebody is going to break into our house.
"Being the only child, I'm the only chance, the last chance my family has of moving out of East St. Louis. I want them to have all the good things in life that other people enjoy. If I enter the draft it's because all I ever think about is taking care of my family. Isn't that what it's all about?"
Ethel Miles has supported her family by driving a school bus for 15 years and thinks her son is taking on too big a burden.
"I work every day, so why would he say stuff like that," Ethel said. "He shouldn't have to feel that way. He should do what he wants and not enter the NBA just for the money."
New York-based talent scout Tom Konchalski believes entering the draft would be premature for Miles.
"Without a doubt, Darius Miles is the most remarkably gifted player in the class of 2000," Konchalski said. "He has extraterrestrial athletic ability, great quickness, more hops than Heineken, handles the ball like a point guard, can post you up or shoot the three-pointer and is a terrific shot-blocker. What he can't do on the court hasn't been invented.
"But there's a lack of consistent intensity, and that comes from his lack of strength and stamina. He's not ready for the rigors of the NBA. If he goes to college, he'll develop physically with a weight program. The pot of gold should be at the end of the rainbow and not at the beginning."
Despite such an evaluation, Konchalski can see how Miles is tempted to make the jump popularized by Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant.


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Nexans' Innovative Overhead Line Technology Helps Brazil Solve Electricity Transmission Problems
by wireworld on 07/03/2012 - 05:58 pm
Tags: Press Releases, Projects
Nexans, a worldwide leading expert in the cable industry, has worked with Light, Rio de Janeiro's electric utility, to develop the innovative Lo-Sag™ conductor to help solve Brazil's crucial issue of supplying more electricity to its large urban centres*, where the construction of new overhead transmission lines is severely restricted and needs controlled clearance to buildings or natural obstacles.
Resulting from a five-year development programme involving Nexans' technology centres in France and Belgium, this innovative overhead line technology consists in a thermal resistant aluminium conductor wrapped around a composite carbon core. Compared with a traditional ACSR (Aluminium Conductor Steel Reinforced) which uses steel core, the composite carbon core of the same diameter is much lighter and 50 percent stronger. Most importantly, the carbon core's coefficient of thermal expansion is roughly one tenth of that of steel, so it expands (and 'sags') much less when heated by the high current flowing in the conductor, enabling the vital safety clearances to be maintained between the conductor and the ground, even at high operating temperatures.
These properties enable the new overhead lines to be driven much harder by the electricity utility. So while a conventional conductor, at a typical safe limit will operate at 90°C, Lo-Sag™ enables to carry around twice as much power. This makes Lo-Sag™ perfect for upgrading existing routes to higher powers, using established routes and existing cable towers with minimal modifications, reducing both project delivery times and costs.
The first Lo-Sag™ field is operating in the field for six months, with an installation on Light's 138 kV transmission line that connects SE Cascadura to SE São Jose in Pavuna district, one of the areas with a specific need for more electricity.
"In this initial installation for Light, Lo-Sag™ has been proved to increase the power transmission capacity by 72.5 percent", said Sidnei Ueda, OHL application Engineering Manager at Nexans. "It has been a truly Nexans global project, with the composite carbon core manufactured in France, the thermal resistant aluminum produced in Brazil and the entire conductor assembled in a Belgian plant. Lo-Sag™ is expected to have a life time of at least 40 years. That is similar to, or even better than conventional conductors."
While Lo-Sag has been developed to meet the particular needs of Brazil's transmission networks, especially in upgrading projects, the concept is also ideally suited to many other markets around the world. Lo-Sag™ can also offer important advantages in the construction of new transmission lines, especially for the long spans, over 1 km, required for river crossings.
The towers heigh could be up to 30% shorter.
* Brazil's large cities have a critical need for more power to support the country's economic growth, especially as it is hosting a number of major international sporting events in the next few years. However, the creation of new power routes in areas with a high population density is a major bottleneck, both in land and equipment costs and the extended time scales required to obtain the necessary permits and rights of way. Nexans and Light have therefore focused on an alternative approach that is now enabling existing power transmission routes to be up-rated to carry the extra power required.

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Melkoff wasn't your typical attorney. Court-martialed by the Army for theft and sale of government provisions, Melkoff plea-bargained a felony grand theft down to misdemeanor petty theft. He productively used his cell time at Fort Leavenworth cramming for a law degree through correspondence courses. Once released he had his record expunged of the petty theft charge, passed the bar exam on the first try, and used his newly-acquired legal expertise to open up a low-overhead practice dedicated to the pursuit and accumulation of personal wealth. If any justice was realized through his legal shenanigans, it was purely incidental. Our relationship was based upon mutual referrals. I referred people to him who were facing jail time, and he referred people to me who sought physical evidence —real or imagined—to beat the rap.
Melkoff had just hung up the phone when I entered his sanctorum after knocking a couple of times on the frosted glass panel of his office door. He was leaning back in his chair with his fingers interlaced over his stomach. Even when his face was inert, the upturned ends of his dark, thin mustache periodically twitched. He resembled Snidely Whiplash's evil twin who had just returned from tying poor pregnant Nellie to the railroad track in the path of an oncoming train after shooting her dog and selling her infant siblings to sexually predatory foster parents.
His office was better furnished than mine, but not by much. His bookcase overflowed with volumes of the California criminal code and other assorted law books. While they were covered with dust and cobwebs, the stack of Hustler magazines on the bottom shelf was spotless.
"McFadden, how they hanging, babe? Got any business for me?"
"I don't know Melkoff," I said hesitantly. "The last time I referred a client to you she received a five-year stretch in the pen for simple solicitation."
"Oh, her," Melkoff pooh-poohed after a pause. "Her retainer bounced. She shoulda known that an attorney is like a pimp: you cheat them at your own peril."
That was an interesting analogy . . . and entirely appropriate in Melkoff's case.
"Did I read an article about you in the papers the other day, my jaundiced jester of jurisprudence?"
"What about?" Melkoff asked suspiciously.
"The State Bar of California pursuing some charges of professional misconduct against you."
"Oh, that," Melkoff said, reacting with obvious disdain. "I lost my initial plea at the Hearing Department of the State Bar Court, but I've filed an appeal with its Review Department. If I lose there, my next step is to take it to the Supreme Court of California. No big deal. I'll keep this case tied up until I'm ready to retire to a country that doesn't have an extradition agreement with the U.S."
"The L. A. Times was a little vague. What were the Bar's allegations?"
Melkoff yawned and twisted the ends of his mustache. "The Bar claimed I had formulated a conspiracy to help agribusinesses hire illegal aliens and supply them with phony green cards. They said that in return for developing this illicit arrangement and providing ongoing legal support, I was illegally compensated from federal and state income taxes, FICA deductions, and California employment taxes that had been paid by undocumented workers, but siphoned off to me by the participating companies."
"How are you going to tap dance around this charge . . . sorry, Melkoff . . . how are you planning to work some legal prestidigitation and get the Bar to see the error of their ways and recant?"
Melkoff yawned. "They took a very biased, narrow view of my accounting methodology. They claimed we were guilty of a conspiracy to defraud the government and harbor illegal aliens. I was simply holding these funds in an escrow account pending the resolution of determinative legal issues."
"What kind of escrow account was it and where was it located?"
Melkoff started to squirm a little and shifted in his chair. "Well, I haven't had time to actually set up a separate escrow account so I temporarily deposited the money in a personal account in the Cayman Islands for safekeeping."
"Then what's the problem? Why can't you simply withdraw the money and send it along its merry way to the state and the IRS?"
Melkoff smiled. "Unfortunately, a lot of these workers left their employers—there's a high turnover rate among this destabilized workforce, you know—before social security numbers could be obtained for them. Without those numbers, we have no way of reporting income tax or OASDI payments."
"Did the workers even know they were having these taxes deducted?"
Melkoff successfully suppressed a faint smile. "I can't answer that. The human resources departments at these companies are responsible for personnel administration, and I'm unable to comment on the quality of the services they may or may not have provided."
"And when the workers disappear," I added, "there are no plaintiffs to seek judicial relief or pursue the disappearance of their contributions. I suspect you don't have valid addresses, even if you wanted to return the money."
Melkoff shook his head in mock empathy. "You got it, gumshoe. These unclaimed funds have to escheat to somebody and it might as well be to me rather than the state of California."
I slowly and sarcastically clapped in appreciation of Melkoff's performance and then dried some imaginary tears with my handkerchief. Rising to my feet, I said, "Melkoff, you're the only guy I know who could have gotten an acquittal for John Wilkes Booth. By the way, have a few of my new business cards," I offered, handing him a dozen from my pocket. "Maybe you can keep them on the table over there."
Melkoff looked at one of the cards and started laughing. When his wheeze subsided, he asked, "Has your business been a little slow lately?"
"A little—why?"
"This card says 'McFadden and Associates, Defective Agency.' Now that's what I call truth in advertising. As I've always said, you're a humble man who has much to be humble about. And the only associates you have are the mice that run around your office at night."
"Stupid printer," I groused as I stormed out the door.
Del Dotto was thumbing through a stack of pictures of naked women when I walked in.
"Good morning, lieutenant. Are you reviewing evidence from a porno bust or sorting pictures from your last family reunion?"
"McFadden," Del Dotto greeted, looking up. "What brings your fat ass out of Weight Watchers? Looking for doughnuts left over from our morning staff meeting? Or you here to file a complaint against Big Belly Buffet for declaring you persona non grata? You got no grounds for complaint because the buffet has legal precedent: the Las Vegas casinos that bar professional gamblers who know how to game the system."
Del Dotto was a royal pain. I only endured his insults as the price I had to pay for his assistance and access to official information vital to my investigations. He had a low regard for PIs in general, and tolerated me because I handled cases given low priority by his department.
"It's nice seeing you, too, Luther. I was hoping for a favor in appreciation for the Barrington murder case that I solved but you took credit for."
Del Dotto took one last longing look at the nudes and dug at his crotch. "What's the favor, porcus maximus?"
Then lapsing into a look of rapture that clearly wasn't intended for me, Del Dotto said, "Red-hot Ruby is a first-class ball-buster. Anybody who can hang onto that for eight seconds ought to win rodeo prize money." Del Dotto lapsed into a lecherous grin that could have peeled the wood veneer off a Catholic confessional booth. "She's got a pair that won't quit. I saw her floating on her back in a pool at the police picnic last summer and I could have sworn it was a Bactrian camel, you know, the ones with—"
"Two humps. I got it, lieutenant."
Fortunately, Del Dotto had finished his ribald Chaucerian tale before a tap on the door frame got our attention. Entering the room was a tall, statuesque African-American woman in a dark blue skirt with long, straight, coal-black hair drawn into a bun. Her light ebony complexion and dark eyes made her bright red lipstick and dazzling white teeth even more dramatic. Del Dotto was right about her bust line. She had a badge pinned to her white blouse but it faced more ceiling than wall.
She didn't appear to be too excited at being in Del Dotto's office, but I had a feeling that she could hold her own with the grotesque groper.
"You wanted to see me?"
Del Dotto glared at her like a sex-starved deviant looking through a peephole at a carnival strip show and audibly moaned. "Detective Roberts, you're a sight for sore eyes but business first. I have some good news and some bad news for you."
After a moment of silence, she responded, "Am I supposed to guess? Or, more importantly, do I even care?"
Del Dotto ploughed on despite her verbal disinterest. "The good news is that my wife died this morning and I'm socially available. How about dinner tonight? If you play your cards right you might find out why I was a champion pole vaulter with my hands tied behind my back."
"Skip it and zip it, Luther. The only action you could get is from a raunchy, crack head hooker with VD having a going-out-of-business sale behind the dumpster at the rescue mission. Besides, a dead wife wouldn't stop your sexual advances in any event. Consent from a living being has never been a requirement of yours."
"Detective Roberts, you don't know what you're missing. I've cut so many notches in my bed post that I'm sleeping on a pile of wood shavings. We can pop a couple of brews and wallow around in the sawdust."
"Go find yourself a lonely woodpecker who may appreciate your skills. Now what's the bad news?"
Del Dotto held his hands over his heart as if he had been mortally wounded. "The bad news is that I want you to meet Chauncey McFadden. He's a low-rent gumshoe who digs through people's garbage trying to find something that might generate a meal ticket at a local grease hole. Occasionally, I toss him some table scraps to keep him off welfare, which is why he's here today. By the way, don't waste your time trying to evaluate McFadden; he really is as simple-minded and hangdog as he looks."
Del Dotto was again having a field day at my expense. The information in those files had better be worth the abuse I was taking.
Detective Roberts extended her hand, smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, McFadden. Any enemy of Del Dotto's is a friend of mine. What can I do for you?'
Down the hall out of Del Dotto's earshot, I stopped Ruby and shook her hand. "That was a nice piece of work back there, getting permission to request those files. Del Dotto usually only positively responds to a woman who is bent over his desk."
"He's not getting any backdoor coochie from me, so the rump-humper might as well do his second favorite thing—reading his press notices. He gets off seeing his pictures or interviews in the newspapers. He spends more time looking in a mirror than a parakeet with cataracts."
The drive from Fraher's gave me time to think about this case, in particular, and the Vietnam War in general. To be sure, things happened of which no one is proud. There's never been a military conflict in the history of mankind in which innocent civilians didn't suffer, brave soldiers didn't get killed by friendly fire, and indescribable atrocities didn't occur. I think it was Randall Jarrell who wrote that in war, "The incongruous is the common-place homogeneous texture of all life." But there's an important distinction between horrible acts intentionally inflicted as a matter of military and political policy, and acts committed as a result of isolated breakdowns in the value systems of individuals. That distinction is important because if it should ever disappear, civilization—already as thin as puff pastry—would be in the twilight of its existence.
Stepping inside, we were met by a short older woman holding menus, whose dark sparkling eyes and ear-to-ear smile put you right at home. Her long hair was piled on top of her head like a bee hive and held in place by bright yellow combs. She was wearing a beautiful silk ao dai, a contoured full-length dress split between front and back panels from the waist down and worn over loose-fitting trousers. Upon seeing Ruby, she placed the menus on a lectern, brought her palms together and bowed her head. Ruby reciprocated and I, always an observer of foreign customs, followed suit.
"Miss Ruby, it warms my heart like the summer sun after a savage winter to see you again," our hostess said, taking Ruby's hands in her own.
"That feeling is amplified in my own heart like a tsunami roaring through a desolate mountain tunnel, Mama Pham," Ruby returned.
"And who is this gentleman?" Mama asked, turning to address me.
Going along with the shtick, I offered, "Chauncey McFadden, just a poor troglodyte, fat of body but nimble of mind, who seeks to frolic in the bounty of Mama Pham's kitchen in order to receive her culinary magnificence and epicurean delight."
It was the best I could do on short notice.
"You are most welcome," Mama Pham replied graciously. "May the door of our humble abode never be a stranger to you, but attract you in spellbound rapture like peach nectar to an inquisitive bee."
"Your beneficence is encompassing, like the mist from a towering waterfall, Mama Pham. May your patrons be as plentiful as raindrops from an April shower, may the dishes prepared in your kitchen dazzle like morning sunlight upon a frosty field, and may the health inspector never find any cat hairs in your chow mein."
Mama Pham giggled. "You are right; let us cut the crap." Turning to Ruby, she asked, "Is your usual table okay?"
"Have you personally had a problem here?" I asked Mama Pham.
"Not yet. I think it may be because they fear my two sons, who are masters in the martial arts," she said proudly. "Both boys hold 10th DAN in Japanese Gojuryu Karate, 10th DAN in Tae Kwon Do, 9th DAN in Torite Jutsu, 8th DAN in Okinawan Kempo, 5th DAN in Isshinryu, and 5th DAN Aikibudo."
"I'm impressed. I could have used your sons against bullies in junior high that used to strong-arm my lunch money and give me wedgies and wet willies."
"I understand. Another personal question if I may. Feel free to tell me it's none of my business, but do you and Villaposas have a personal relationship?"
"Why do you ask that?"
"It looked like he thought you had a book printed in Braille on your ass. I haven't seen fingers move that fast since Van Cliburn played Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu at the Performing Arts Center."
"Did you or any of your mates know Mickey Fraher or Gerald Williams?" I asked.
"I don't see how. They were in a different brigade covering a different AO of I Corps."
"Area of operations. We rarely joined together for engagements. Except maybe for a Zippo mission—a search and destroy offensive—south of Hue, which turned out to be a BOHICA."
"Bend Over, Here It Comes Again—the term used for an undesirable assignment."
Melkoff flashed his evil grin and wagged his finger. That usually meant some aspect of justice was going to be sodomized by the adroit huckster, but I hoped that it would be for my benefit on this occasion.
"Not so fast, my garrulous gumshoe. During my confinement at Leavenworth preparing for a court-martial decision, I got to know a couple of JAG officers—Murray and Porter—who had been assigned to defend me. They had attorney friends who had been assigned to military outposts all over the world, including Vietnam. I called both of them to see if they could recall someone assigned to the Americal Division JAG staff in Chu Lai during that period. Guess what my perilous peeper?'
"You hit pay dirt?"
"Bingo. Porter's still in the Army and remembered a good friend of his, a lieutenant named Desmond Bonney, who served two tours of duty there from 1969 to 1971. Bonney has left the Army and entered private practice. He's with a criminal law firm up in the bay area, Leibowitz, Romberg, Weiss, Schwartz, Rabinowicz, Brandeis, Levin, Frankel, and Jackson."
"I'm almost afraid to ask. How did Jackson manage to latch on with the menorah and matzo ball crowd?"
Melkoff looked around the room and whispered as if his office had been wiretapped. "There is no Jackson. They just added the name to keep the affirmative action activists off their case."
"Fill 'er up with regular and check the radiator, please."
He nodded and moseyed over to my gas tank in slow motion.
Seeking confirmation, I asked, "Is this San Arroyo Seco?"
"It sure is hot, isn't it?"
When he had finished filling up the tank, he trudged to the front of the car, lifted the hood, and unscrewed the radiator cap with the rag in his pocket.
"Does it need water?"
"Does there appear to be a leak?'
Upon finishing his inspection, he walked back to the garage and filled a gallon bucket with water. He returned and slowly emptied its contents into the radiator.
"Do you also clean windshields here?"
After discerning no movement in that direction, I asked, "Can you clean mine?"
"Yep." He dumped the remaining water in his bucket on my windshield.
"Thanks a lot. Do you take credit cards?"
"Cash only?"
"Do you know a dog breeder by the name of Dog Duquesne?"
"If I take a left at the second traffic light, is it far to his house?"
I handed him money for the gas.
"Change?" he asked.
He shuffled back to the garage with all deliberation. I've seen sunsets that moved faster than this guy. Glancing in the garage, I saw the 1970 Chevy he'd been working on. I'd bet that was the year it was dropped off for repair.
I met Ruby in the lobby of the precinct and we took the elevator to Del Dotto's lair. We tapped on the clouded glass door panel and walked in. Del Dotto was leaning back in his chair as usual and staring into a compact mirror and replacing some stray hairs that had crossed the part in his hair.
"It looks like we interrupted a meeting of the Luther Del Dotto Admiration Society. How's recruiting going? Found a second member yet?" I jibed.
Del Dotto, apparently satisfied with the results, slipped the mirror into his desk drawer and looked at us with annoyance. Luther was in one of his moods, which always complicate the situation.
"You rang, Mr. Benny?" I asked, in my best Rochester imitation.
"McFadden, you bloated balloon," he said with disgust, "I've got a good mind to lock you up overnight in the same cell with Saddam, the Sudan sodomite, and let him bugger you non-stop until he gets cramps in his legs. The only thing stopping me is that you'd consider it a reward rather than punishment."
"Who found him?"
"We received a tip from an anonymous caller. Possibly the same sicko who popped him. The poor bastard only had a couple of weeks to go before retirement." Then, pointing at the pile of folders stacked on his desk, Del Dotto snarled, "Look at all the damn paperwork I gotta do because the dumb schmuck went and got himself killed."
"Whew!" I said in sarcastic relief. "You had me fooled for a minute there, lieutenant. I was beginning to think that your grief was the result of his mortal departure, not the hassle of having to complete his burial paperwork."
Del Dotto scoffed. "This was probably the best thing that could have happened to the old rummy. He'll get a bronzed plaque on the Wall of Honor and a funeral with high commendations attended by cops from all over the state. He died a lot better than he lived, at least for the last ten years. His family now has something better to remember him by: a hero's legacy rather than the embarrassment of finding him passed out in his car in the garage and picking up the empty whiskey bottles in the front yard."
"Remind me not to have you give the eulogy at my funeral, Luther. You'll have everybody in the mortuary pissing in my casket."
Del Dotto scoffed, "We couldn't get anybody to come to your funeral even if we held it at mealtime on Thanksgiving Day at the homeless shelter. If I'm in a good mood, I might have your bloated carcass squeezed into an extra-large body bag and dumped into Long Beach Harbor by a police launch."
Del Dotto snapped his fingers, "No, on second thought, I couldn't do that because the animal rights activists would crawl all over my ass for contaminating the sharks' feeding areas. I guess we'll have to move on to plan B." Del Dotto paused for a reaction, but I wasn't going to encourage him. "We'll stuff your body in your car and take it to the porno flicks drive-in where you spend every Saturday night. We'll park you in the back row and roll up the windows. Since there's nobody who cares enough to report you missing—except maybe your creditors—your disappearance won't be reported for weeks."
Our silence was broken by the sound of an arriving vehicle and the flashing of a rotating blue light. After hearing two car doors slam, I creaked to my feet and admitted two police officers. One had a plain uniform with no rank insignia, which indicated deputy status, while the other sported twin gold bars on his shirt lapel, a gold badge on the front of his cowboy hat, and a name plate that said "Sheriff Titus Cowart." There was another striking visual difference between the two: their size. The deputy was the thinnest man I'd ever seen. His face was so narrow it looked as if it had been pressed in a vise. His Adam's apple stuck out further than his chin which was small and recessed. He reminded me of a stick figure put together with three pipe cleaners. Adding to his physical woes were oversized ears that stuck out from his head like wings on a butterfly. Equally unsettling was the fact that his eyes were three-quarters closed and his mouth three-quarters open, a bad combination as faces go. The surface of his face sported old bruises and lumps. He reminded me of a boxer at the end of the line who, like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, had nothing left but a one-way ticket to Palookaville.
Glancing over at the sheriff, I saw where the deputy's weight had gone. Titus Cowart was a rotund man who had once flirted with the three-hundred pound mark before deciding to charge past it at breakneck speed without so much as a backward glance. He looked at me, inhaled, and pulled his thick leather belt up. As soon as he exhaled, his stomach re-collapsed burying his belt buckle and the handle of his firearm beneath cascading rolls of fat.
We entered the satanic sanctum sanctorum together for moral support. Del Dotto was cleaning his fingernails with a letter opener and without looking up said, "This ain't Malibu, but squeeze into a seat anyway, beach ball." Now looking up, he said, "McFadden, you gotta be the world's biggest fuck-up. Outta deference to sweet Ruby here, I go along with your harebrained scheme to catch a notorious serial killer. Against my better judgment I gave you the resources you asked for, and requested nothing in return but a collar. Instead of taking the perp down, you stand around with your thumb up your ass like Sergeant García and let Zorro carve everybody up like a honey-baked ham. You're damn lucky the SWAT guys report to another department and I don't have to wade through another pile of paperwork. How in hell do you make a living? I know you couldn't be getting any references; your clients die faster than a child molester in a San Quentin shower room. Dead bodies follow you like road shit behind a parade elephant. Let me make a suggestion: stay away from homicide cases. You're in over your head. You got too much junk in your trunk to keep up with the faster guys who're running circles around you. Do what you do best, which is nab the schlemiel who's been cuttin' farts during church service, or the teenage girl who's been stuffing tissues in her training bra."


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"There are plenty of inefficiencies in policing which could be tackled, but instead ministers are presiding over plans that will lead to fewer police officers on the beat. There is a complete vacuum of leadership at the moment, and no sense of direction."
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- prj45 said...
Was it Chris Grayling that poo pooed Richard Dannet's "political" appointment by a politcal party before he realised it was his own one?
He does seem to be gaining a track record for bashing his own lot, a bit like the Daily Mail continuing to criticise councils for stasi like behaviour that it implicity associates with Labour but neglecting to point out that they're usually Tory councils.
- 10 January 2010 at 09:57
- AdamB said...
Yes that's right. I'd forgotten about that one.
What a hack.
- 10 January 2010 at 10:01
If Cameron wins the election I would bet on Grayling being the first minister to fall on his sword. He's stupider than he looks.
- 10 January 2010 at 14:31
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If you had been at the jam packed meeting to hear Boris in West Hampstead on Friday, you would have heard him explain his priorities for spending. He also talked about cuts being unavoidable in the credit crunch, and trade offs were a harsh reality.
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Risen 2: Dark Waters – review
Risen 2: Dark Waters is another game created by Piranha Bytes, which unfortunately repeats the same mistakes as the Gothic series and the first Risen. You'd think that the creators are doing it on purpose and treat these inaccuracies as their trademark. If so, they'd better stop.
Piranha Bytes is specialized in one type of games – RPG with an interesting and original story. However, I sometimes think that they should simply do design and scenario part of the game and hire someone else to do the rest. The Gothic trilogy (although a great and still extremely playable) is tormented by tons of bad solutions, errors and problems of a technical nature. After the conflict with Jowood about the production of the third Gothic, they decided to create a completely new brand, which resulted in Risen. On the one hand, the game is very similar to the Gothic in terms of climate. It placed player in a mismatched world where magic, technology and pirate legends dwelt with each other. It came out well and the result was used as the basis for Risen 2.
It consistently immerses into climate of pirates and this is one of the biggest advantages of this production. The plot is about 30-40 hours long, with quite a large number of side quests. Unfortunately, only a small part of them is original and interesting. Some of the missions have an alternate path to the target, which gives some sense of the impact of what is happening on the screen.
The game world has been created in an ingenious way, and there can be found almost everything that might be associated with a pirate island. In addition, the freedom of action is not limited by anything – as in all previous games of this developer. Nay, the player has its own ship, with the help of which you can travel between the islands, although it was present even in a DLC to Two Worlds II: Pirates of the Flying Fortress.
Risen 2 is a game of pirate, so fencing and tricks in the fight are a must. There is a melee weapon, which is certainly not the easiest to use, as well as firearms, which are – just like in real life – much more deadly. Fights are spectacular and do not rely solely on just swinging the sword. Everything is based on the character development system, which allows you to select your preferred style of fighting. The game contains also magic in form of voodoo, which allows, for example, to control an NPC – not only during combat.
As far as the heavenly views with exotic plants and sandy beaches may please, it's all the rest that breaks the whole game. And, to be clear – I'm talking only about the version on the consoles. The character models are from 2007. The behaviour of the camera is also archaic. If not for a wide variety of animations, then I'd be convinced that I play some kind of modification for the third Gothic. But wait … After all, this is the same engine, just after alterations. Developers for more than 10 years failed to take over the technology, which they used to create more and more games with the same bugs and did not come up with the idea to create a new engine or switch to something proven. This resulted in a really bad optimization or unreadable fonts.
Risen 2: Dark Waters is a 6 out of 10. It is an unfinished game that is the outcome of a few bad decisions. A really addictive and approachable pirate atmosphere is not enough. The game will not be saved by a great soundtrack which, after all, you can listen to on the Internet. Hardcore fans of the Gothic series, who had recently replayed any of Piranha Bytes games will certainly treat Risen 2 with greater distance. But in an era when on the shelf you can find games like TES V: Skyrim, The Witcher 2, Mass Effect 3 or Deus Ex: Human Revolution it is difficult to appreciate a game, which is just underdeveloped.


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- 1 Garlic clove
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PORT ARANSAS, Texas - While many vacation destinations are struggling due to the challenging national economy, more and more people are coming to play in "Port A" this summer. That was especially evident during the recent July 4th Holiday Weekend.
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Hi All,
NetApp newbie here.
In the coming month we're going to implement CDOT in our environment, we're currently using the previous version and we have lots of scripts in Orchestrator that uses PowerShell toolkit for provisioning server storage. It's my tasks to review the old scripts we're using and to modify the scripts to adapt it to the new cmdlets introduced in PowerShell toolkit 3.2. I reviewed the documentation and release notes and found out that most of the command have been renamed (actually they set aliases on the psm1 file) to for example Get-Naxxx to Get-Ncxxx. But there are other cmdlets that I cannot find in PowerShell toolkit 3.2.1 like Get-NaSnapmirrorSchedule. while other cmdlets like Get-NaSystemInfo has been renamed to Get-NcNodeInfo in CDOT.
Is there any particular list of updated cmdlets or cmdlets that have been remove that I can review to be able to find out those old cmdlets that we cannot use when moving our scripts to CDOT? Or do I just need to modify the commands to use xxx-Ncxxx instead of xxx-Naxxx?
Thanks in advance.
You'll need to update your code to work with Clustered DataONTAP. The CmdLet names are *-nc*. This should give you a quick list of what CmdLets you have to work with
>Import-Module DataONTAP
>Get-Command -Module dataontap -Name *-nc* | Where-Object {$_.CommandType -eq "CmdLet"} | Select-Object -Property Name
And if there isn't an existing CmdLet to perform as a configuration task or query you can always use "Invoke-NcSsh". There are Functional and architecture differences between 7-Mode and cDOT, you will need to thrououghly review and update your code. If you have any trouble converting code to achieve the same results in cDOT as you are currently using on 7-Mode please post the code and i'll take a look.
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Thanks for the quick response Matt.
I'll review the codes in our script and report any cmdlets from 7-mode that do not have same capability in cDOT.
The replacement for set-nasnapshotschedule isn't as straight forward.
#Read in volume template to variable $readobj
$readobj = get-ncvol -Template
$readobj.Name = "volume"
$readobj.Vserver = "vserver"
############ Write the volume attributes back
$writeobj=get-ncvol -Template
Initialize-NcObjectProperty $writeobj VolumeSnapshotAttributes
#Updates the volume in $readobj with the snapshot policy from $writeobj
update-NcVol -query $readobj -Attributes $writeobj
Thanks for the quick response.
I modified our orchestrator runbook scripts to add support for the cDOT, I replace the 7mode cmdlets with the cDOT counterpart by referencing the Data ONTAP PowerShell toolkit release notes and comparing the 7mode cmdlets with the cDOT cmdlets. I basically replaced the following 7mode cmdlets with the cDOT counterpart, can you please check if there are any cmdlets here that is not a direct replacements when implementing cDOT?
Add-NaLunMap Add-NcLunMap
Connect-NaController Connect-NcController
Get-NaSystemInfo Get-NcNodeInfo
Get-NaAggr Get-NcAggr
Get-NaVol Get-NcVol
Get-NaLun Get-NcLun
Get-NaQtree Get-NcQtree
Get-NaIgroup Get-NcIgroup
New-NaVol New-NcVol
New-NaQtree New-NcQtree
New-NaLun New-NcLun
Set-NaVolOption Set-NcVolOption
Set-NaSnapshotReserve Set-NcSnapshotReserve
Set-NaVolAutosize Set-NcVolAutosize
Set-NaSnapshotAutodelete Set-NcSnapshotAutodelete
Set-NaLunComment Set-NcLunComment
Set-NaVol Set-NcVol
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You'll need to add the -vserver parameter for each CDOT command. There may be other differences between each individual command. If you don't have access to a CDOT cluster for testing, you may want to look into setting up the CDOT simulator for testing:
We now have a cluster simulator so I can play with it. I'm not the one who created our scripts for 7mode and I don't have advance knowledge regarding NetApp but my PowerShell skills is advance so I can understand what the 7mode scripts are trying to do. With regards to vserver I only find about it when reading the PowerShell toolkit release notes, can you point me to a documentation regarding vserver to be able to find out what it's all about?
Thanks billy.
Some of the parameters have been renamed like for example in New-NaLun -Type parameter, in CDOT this parameter has been renamed to -OsType. I'm reviewing each 7mode cmdlets including their parameters when replacing it with the CDOT cmdlets counterpart.
The cmdlets I need to replace is Set-NaSnapshotSchedule which is shown below:
# Snapshot schedule (space delimited cron format, <WeekliesToRetain> <DailiesToRetain> <HourliesToRetain>@<Which,Hours>)
# Assumes all schedule components are specified
$SchduleRetainWeeks = $SnapshotSchedule.split(" ")[0]
$SchduleRetainDays = $SnapshotSchedule.split(" ")[1]
$SchduleRetainHours = $SnapshotSchedule.split(" ")[2].split("@")[0]
$SchduleHourlyTimes = $SnapshotSchedule.split("@")[1]
Set-NaSnapshotSchedule -TargetName $VolumeName -Hours $SchduleRetainHours -Days $SchduleRetainDays -Weeks $SchduleRetainWeeks -WhichHours $SchduleHourlyTimes | Out-Null
On you sample solution, I cannot see where to define the schedule for hours, days and weeks. How can I define that using update-NcVol?
From our CDOT simulator I can query the volume and get the VolumeSnapshotAttributes, but how can I set the SnapshotPolicy property on this and what is the value that the cmdlet is expecting?
5/7/2015 1:58:55 PM [6] Monad P:\> Get-NcVol | select -ExpandProperty VolumeSnapshotAttributes
AutoSnapshotsEnabled :
NcController : 10.127.135.70
SnapdirAccessEnabled : True
SnapshotCloneDependencyEnabled : False
SnapshotCount :
SnapshotPolicy :
AutoSnapshotsEnabledSpecified : False
SnapdirAccessEnabledSpecified : True
SnapshotCloneDependencyEnabledSpecified : True
SnapshotCountSpecified : False
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I did spend 3-4 hours wandering round a shopping centre on Monday (where I bought some size 12 jeans that fit!!!) but was pushing Freddie in the pram as slings are no good for trying clothes on, so the Fitbit didn't record as many steps (no arm swinging, should have brought the pedometer instead) and I kind of blew a day and a half's points on Christmasy lattes, panini, and cake.
And then there was the takeaway on Friday too. I felt so run down and so tired that when I looked in my near bare cupboards & fridge - on account of having been poorly mid week and not gone shopping - I had no inspiration to invent a meal from scraps.
Hubby had a bad food week too. Although I've been too ill to notice what little extras he's been sneaking most of the time. I have found the peanut butter on the kitchen side a couple of times, suspicious by it's proximity to a teaspoon... (much the same as my Nutella eating!)
Not a great week, but I still managed a good loss. I need to get out walking again and not bookend the week with "off" days. I know there's nothing wrong with the odd take away but given the blooper that was Monday's food diary I shouldn't have done it this week!
At least I didn't over eat the rest of the time. And I have NOT lost motivation!
Weigh In:
- Me: -3lb
- Hubby: +1lb
- My total loss since Nov 2013: 55lb
- I'm only 1lb off a 4 stone loss!
Things I have learned this week:
- I can be ill without binge eating
- I can make "informed" choices when ordering take-away
- When I'm walking with the pram instead of the sling I need to use the pocket pedometer instead / as well as my Fitbit
Targets for this week:
- Get out walking - even if it's just the long way to town - at least 3 times (and log it on Runtastic)
- Drink more water! I'm not doing that enough - again! Why is it so hard??
- I have 3lb to lose before Christmas (mini challenge) so anther 2lb+ loss would be great!
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Why the Elite Eight Looks Like the BCS
Sixteen teams remain in the NCAA Tournament, though only two qualify as mid-major Cinderellas: the Kent State Golden Flashes and the Southern Illinois Salukis. What's hurting the mid-majors more than RPI rankings? Not having big-time college football. The Chicago Tribune's Andrew Bagnato points out that since 1999—the year college football inaugurated the Bowl Championship Series, consolidating power with six major conferences—only one Elite Eight team has come from a non-BCS conference. This year, BCS schools grabbed 26 of the tourney's 34 at-large bids.
How does football bolster basketball? Football drips money for better training facilities, which benefit all athletes. It also creates more all-around TV exposure for the schools, which helps draw recruits. Here's how far we've come: In 1977, the last time the Final Four was held in Atlanta, the field included UNLV, Charlotte, and Marquette, and just one football power, North Carolina.
Not that college football is panacea for every school. The New York Times' Robert Lipsyte argues that Army, Navy, and Air Force should consider dumping it. "Why should the academies, with their emphasis on honor, integrity, community and duty, risk sullying themselves in this increasingly commercialized, professionalized, selfish and narcissistic quagmire? … Division I-A football is about entertainment, profit-taking and preparing student-athletes for the pros. None of those should be service academy priorities, not on my tax dollar." The academies counter that football is one of their best recruiting tools.
Why Cincinnati's red: For every Cinderella, there's a highly touted squad that meets an early demise. Southern Cal, picked by many to challenge Duke, fell to lowly North Carolina-Wilmington in the first round. "It was a loss to an extension campus in an anonymous conference with a record that included defeats to Drexel and Radford," the Los Angeles Times' Bill Plaschke writes. "It was a loss to a school so anonymous, two years ago the charter plane scheduled to pick it up and take it to this tournament instead landed at Wilmington, Delaware." Gonzaga, a giant-killer two years running, finally nailed down a higher seed—and then gagged in the first round to Wyoming. The Spokane Spokesman Review's John Blanchette mourns, "So this is how it feels."
No. 1 Cincinnati, a 105-101 loser to UCLA, knows how it feels. They've been bounced in the second round five times in the last six years. After the game, coach Bob Huggins called UCLA "as talented an eighth seed ever in the history of the NCAA Tournament." The New York Daily News' Rich Cimini responds, "Just like Tulsa was the greatest No. 7 seed in 2000 ... Temple a sensational 6 in 1999 ... West Virginia a terrific 10 in 1998 ... Iowa State a super 6 in 1997. Detect a trend?"
The Cuban coaching crisis: For his latest act, Dallas Mavericks owner/carnival attraction Mark Cuban exchanged fire with Dallas Morning News columnist Tim Cowlishaw. Last week, Cowlishaw reported that Cuban stood behind the Mavericks bench during a game and shrieked for his players to foul someone. A Mavericks assistant turned to Cuban and said, "Go out there and foul him yourself." In his own News column, Cuban writes, "As far as criticizing players, I have yelled at every player on our roster, past, present and, I can assure you, future, to work harder and play more defense. I even do it in practice. That happens in basketball."
Glove story: Finally, the New York Yankees released outfielder Ruben Rivera after he allegedly stole one of Derek Jeter's gloves and sold it to a memorabilia dealer for $2,500. The New York Post's Phil Mushnick quips, "Perhaps Rivera has learned his lesson: Ripping off a teammate's gear is one of those unpardonable sports sins, as opposed to, say, carrying an unlicensed firearm, or beating the daylights out of one's girlfriend or wife."
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Unemployment Down To 7.8%
The jobs numbers help President Obama in his reelection bid.
The Labor Department's announcement this morning that the economy gained 114,000 jobs in September and the jobless rate fell from 8.1% to 7.8% represents a big, if temporary, political boost for a president suddenly struggling to overcome a poor performance in the first nationally televised debate.
What's more, Obama can even boast that jobs numbers for July and August were better than previously announced. In August, for instance, 142,000 jobs were created, not the 96,000 announced last month.Click here for reuse options!
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Arrive and transfer to your hotel. Balance of the day at leisure. This evening, enjoy an orientation meeting with your tour escort, followed by a welcome dinner
Overnight: Venice
Meals: Dinner
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Today begins with a boat ride to the Island of Murano, known throughout the world for its fine glasswork industry. Then, visit St. Mark's Square to begin a guided walking tour of romantic Venice. View the Golden Basilica of San Marco, the Bridge of Sighs and visit the Doge's Palace, whose facade features a massive late-Gothic gate, known as the Porta della Carta. Take the remainder of the day to explore Venice on your own
Optional: Gondola Ride with Music (PM)
Overnight: Venice
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 4, Wednesday – Pisa Sightseeing En Route to Florence
Travel through the stunning panorama of Tuscany to Pisa. On arrival, view the famous Piazza del Miracoli with its Leaning Tower, the Baptistery, the Duomo, and the Monumental Cemetery. The four monuments of this extraordinary piazza make for a unique architectural blend of Romanesque and Gothic styles. En route to Florence, visit a local Tuscan farm in the countryside for a wine tasting with local specialties. Evening at leisure
Overnight: Florence
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 5, Thursday – Florence City Tour
Today's morning tour begins with a visit to the Accademia of Fine Arts, where Michelangelo's David is housed. Walk to the Duomo, celebrated for its magnificent dome designed by Brunelleschi, and view the Baptistery's renowned "Gates of Paradise" by Ghiberti. Continue to explore the open air art museum of Signoria Square ending at Ponte Vecchio, known as the "Old Bridge." Enjoy the afternoon at leisure in Florence. This evening, dine in an authentic Tuscan restaurant in the countryside
(Optional Uffizi Gallery Tour PM, $65): **available for purchase Only in Italy from your tour escort. **
Florence and the fine arts are synonymous. This guided tour of the Uffizi Gallery provides insight to the history of the structure and its collections. Originally the private collection of the Medici family, the palazzo was opened to the public in 1765. Your tour highlights exceptional examples of Florentine painting with an aim to help you better understand the works of masters including Giotto, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci. Following the tour, enjoy a refreshment break and complimentary beverage at the museum's cafe, which features a breathtaking view of the city. Tour participation guarantees immediate entry to the Gallery, with no lengthy waits in oftentimes two-three hour queues. ** Important: Please note that the Museum has a limited maximum capacity and therefore reserves the right to restrict admission. In this case we may not be able to offer the tour. Price is based on minimum number of passengers.
Overnight: Florence
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
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Today travel along the famous "Sun Route" motorway to the medieval city of Assisi, renowned for its 13th-century Basilica of St. Francis and Giotto's frescoes. Continue to your hotel in Rome
Overnight: Rome
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
DAY 7, Saturday – Vatican Museum & Sistine Chapel
Today begins with the visit to the Vatican Museums and Michelangelo's breathtaking Sistine Chapel. Stroll through St. Peter's Square, passing Bernini's famous colonnade, to visit St. Peter's Basilica, where you will view Michelangelo's Pieta. This highly-finished marble sculpture depicts the body of Jesus in the arms of Mary after the Crucifixion and is considered to be among the most compelling of all works of art in the Western world. The remainder of the day is at leisure
Optional: Piazzas of Rome (PM)
Overnight: Rome
Meals: Breakfast
DAY 8, Sunday – Depart for the USA
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Hailed as "effervescent, efficient, and thoroughly enjoyable," composer Rachel Whelan has been breaking rules and demanding attention with her varied composition styles. Her music has been performed by Omaha Symphony members in the Holland Center in Omaha, Nebraska, and Whelan has opened for Susan Werner at the Johnny Carson Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Whelan demonstrates her versatility with compositional abilities ranging from songwriting, to film music, to her primary interest, music for wind band. Her film compositions have primarily been in direct collaborations with Nicholas Snell and students at the University of Arizona. She has also collaborated with film students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and was Head Production Assistant for the UNL Feature Film "DIGS" (2013).
In fall 2014, she began graduate studies at the University of South Carolina, studying composition and running the New Voices student composer concerts and the Southern Exposure New Music Series (under the direction of Michael Harley of Alarm Will Sound). Her dedication to the performance of music by living composers is further evident in her work with Treefalls: New Music Series (501c3) in Spartanburg, SC, where she is assistant director.
A typical optimist, she's frequently inspired by the upsides of life: nature reserves, beaches, exceptional food, and talented, spirited friends. When not composing, she can be found in these activities. Her teachers in composition include John Fitz Rogers, Jesse Jones, Damon Lee, and Paul Snell. Her primary flute teachers have been Carolyn Cline Corbett and Laura Schulkind.


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Heroes Recap: "An Invisible Thread"Matt Richenthal at . Comments
The third season, and fourth volume, of Heroes came to an end last night.
As always, questions of logic and continuity abounded - Why couldn't Claire's blood save Nathan? Why couldn't Peter shape shift into his brother when needed? - but it wasn't an altogether horrific hour of television.
And that's saying a lot with Heroes these days.
Read a detailed recap of "An Invisible Thread" and let us know if you'll tune in for season four.
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The Mi Casa Neighborhood Centers are located on the Lake Middle School Campus and at North High School.
These centers are based on the evidence-based Beacon Model and support positive youth development, academic achievement and social/emotional well-being.
In alignment with the Beacon model, Mi Casa transforms Lake and North into community centers of enrichment, opportunity, resources, and safety during off-school hours by offering a wide range of activities for youth and families.
The Neighborhood Centers at North and Lake each offer comprehensive afterschool programs for youth, as well as programs for adults and families. Continuity between the two Centers is intended, as Lake students feed into North High School. This continuity allows Mi Casa to cultivate a Ladder of Leadership for participants, in which past middle school participants who are currently attending North High School can volunteer at the Lake Neighborhood Center, and eventually move up to a paid part-time staff position.
Food Bank of the Rockies
In partnership with the Food Bank of the Rockies, the Mi Casa Neighborhood Centers are part of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Child and Adult Food Care Program.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination in all its programs on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex religion, age, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA's TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD).
To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410 or call (202) 720-5964 (voice and TDD). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer.


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Driven by mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), social networking, video and cloud services, data is growing at exponential rates. This immense data expansion brings up a variety of operational challenges – from global reach, capacity scalability, movement and access of large data to issues related to timely data delivery. These challenges can be addressed by creating a truly location-independent infrastructure.
Bay's FX Series achieves location-independence with global fabric extension of concurrent, multiple LAN fabrics over virtually any multipoint MAN/WAN configuration. It combines Bay's Global Fabric Extension technology with non-blocking switching and an open software architecture to provide highly scalable, high efficiency, low latency connectivity between high performance data center fabrics.
The FX-50 is a compact, rack-mounted or desktop product within the FX Series that dramatically improves available terrestrial or satellite link bandwidth, while preserving existing infrastructure. The FX-50 supports a high density of speed-selectable interfaces and delivers a scalable, power-efficient system that is complimented by an open architecture with standard interfaces/protocols for data, control and management functions.


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GB Paralympians have won the most Gold medals in 28 years so far, which is an amazing achievement. But which British cheeses do you think would win Gold upon the world stage?
Britain certainly has a rich and diverse cheese-making industry with more than 700 home-grown varieties to try. However, we asked Clare, manager of our Stratford-upon-Avon shop, winner of Cheese Counter of the Year 2016, to recommend two cheeses from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland which are perhaps less well-known. We hope these will inspire you next time you want to buy cheese, plus they make interesting additions to cheese hampers and cheese gift sets.
Cheese from England
You're no doubt familiar with some of Britain's best-known and loved cheeses - Cheddar, Stilton, Cheshire, Stinking Bishop. However, you might also like to try Baltic and Stichelton, two wonderful cheeses which have become firm favourites here at Paxton & Whitfield.
Baltic - a delightfully pongy cheese made on a family farm in the Cheviot Hills. It's made by washing the rind in Liverpool's Baltic Summer Ale, creating a smooth and succulent cheese which melts on the tongue creating an amazing tangy aftertaste. You'll enjoy Baltic if you like.... a punchy cheese.
Stichelton - a distinctive blue cheese which would be a Stilton if it was made with pasteurised rather than unpasteurised milk. It's got a creamy and buttery texture and delicious, complex flavours that change with the seasons. It's made in Nottinghamshire where it is matured for almost three months before arriving in our shops
You'll enjoy Stichelton if you like.... the Paxton & Whitfield Whole Stilton.
Cheese from Wales
Golden Cenarth - hails from Carwyn Adams, family cheesemakers in Wes Wales. It's a delicious soft cheese with a springy, supple texture and buttery flavour.
You'll enjoy Golden Cenarth if you like.... Rollright, Reblochon.
Perl Las - also produced by Carwyn Adams, means 'Blue Pearl' and is a hand-made cheese with a creamy, gently salty taste which strengthens with age. It's a cheese with an entirely unique taste - strong yet delicate, creamy with blue overtones which linger in the mouth.
You'll enjoy Perl Las if you like.... Oxford Blue.
Cheese from Ireland
Ok, the Mossfield isn't strictly a UK cheese as it's made on a 240-acre farm in Southern Ireland but it's so delicious we simply had to include it! This Gouda-style cheese is creamy and nutty at first becoming harder and more crumbly with a more intense flavour with age.
You'll enjoy Mossfield if you like.... Aged Gouda, strong Cheddar.
Cashel Blue - a semi-soft artisan cheese created on a farm in County Tipperary. It starts as a firm textured, crumbly cheese but with ripening it takes on a soft, creamy, almost spreadable texture. As it matures, the flavour also changes, growing stronger and becoming spicier.
You'll enjoy Cashel Blue if you like.... Cornish Blue.
Cheese from Scotland
Isle of Mull Cheddar - this cheese has a lovely deep flavour with fruity hints. It's produced on the Isle of Mull's only dairy farm, run by the Reade family.
You'll enjoy Isle of Mull Cheddar if you like.... Lincolnshire Poacher.
Dunlop - an enjoyable mild cheese, rather like Cheddar, from Dunlop in Easy Ayrshire, soft and buttery when young going hard and fudgy with age.
You'll enjoy Dunlop if you like.... Paxton & Whitifield's Cave Aged Cheddar. You can buy all of Clare's cheese recommendations and accompaniments such as biscuits, chutneys and preserves in our on-line shop or visit your nearest Paxton & Whitfield store.


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Gov. Bill Haslam's overriding goal is to move Tennessee forward by becoming No. 1 in the Southeast for high-quality jobs. Public safety is a major factor in whether an existing business decides to expand or a potential new business chooses to locate in Tennessee.
That is why the governor created a Public Safety Subcabinet -- comprised of 11 departments and agencies within the executive branch that impact public safety -- to identify and address our state's toughest safety challenges with a specific action plan.
The Chattanooga Times page noted in an editorial on Oct. 9 that, according to the latest FBI Uniform Crime Report, Tennessee ranked No. 1 in violent crime in 2012. We, along with the FBI, caution citizens not to put too much stock in exact rankings. Some states do a much better job of reporting crime than others. Tennessee happens to utilize a very accurate and thorough system of reporting its crime figures. When it comes to rankings, the good job we do, to some degree, works to our disadvantage.
The crime rate in Tennessee is driven, in large part, by gang activity, drug abuse and trafficking, and domestic violence. Gang violence has threatened many neighborhoods in our major cities and is becoming of greater concern in smaller communities across our state. We have high levels of prescription drug abuse and methamphetamine production in our state. More than half of all reported violent crimes in Tennessee are domestically related. Chattanooga has seen the effects of all of these factors in our crime rate.
We have a statewide multi-year public safety action plan in place to drive our crime rate down. It was developed with input from law enforcement, prosecutors and victims' advocates.
With the help of the Tennessee General Assembly, we now have stronger state laws to combat domestic violence, criminal gang activity, prescription drug abuse, and making methamphetamine in the presence of children. We are expanding support to victims of domestic violence and investing more in drug treatment courts. We are moving in the right direction.
It is encouraging that reported crimes in Tennessee dropped almost eight percent in 2012 compared to 2010. And, according to preliminary data from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, overall crime in Tennessee has decreased more than 11 percent from August of this year compared to the same time in 2012. Major violent crimes are down more than 12 percent during the same time period.
A big part of the governor's Public Safety Action Plan focuses on support for efforts at the community level to combat specific aspects of crime. In Chattanooga, as part of the governor's plan, we are working with local officials to establish a Family Justice Center to serve the needs of domestic violence victims and reduce the chances of them being caught in a cycle of violence.
Under the governor's plan, steps have been implemented that will make our state safer, and more will be implemented as we move forward. Together, we can make Tennessee as safe as it needs to be and help position communities across our state for more high quality jobs.
ABOUT THE WRITER: Bill Gibbons is commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and chairman of the governor's Public Safety Subcabinet.


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