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Exploring social justice and repairing the world from a foundation perspectiveIn the fall of 2011, I took a class at Brandeis called Social Justice and Philanthropy (SOC 143a) in which we were given $10,000 to make grants to nonprofits. For the semester, our class became a foundation, focused on learning alongside our giving and trying to allocate the funds in the most responsible way possible.
I was captivated, and this summer I have had the incredible opportunity to work as an intern with the Jewish Teen Funders Network (JTFN), where I've gotten to see the grantmaking process practiced by over 100 Jewish Teen foundations across the country.
There's so much to learn about tzedakah and giving, and this kind of hands-on experience is an incredible way to begin. So, after 10 weeks, what have I learned about youth philanthropy, and what has made this experience so spectacular?
- Values and beliefs matter: Teen foundations provide resources that acknowledge teens as leaders. They focus on education and development, helping provide teens with a learning experience that focuses on the importance of the grant-making process rather than the amount of money allocated. The value these programs place on education and development carried through to my internship. I listened to webinars, attended a conference and participated in a workshop, all in just a short summer. Like the programs themselves, each of these experiences has given me skills that will be useful long after I've left JTFN.
- Mentors are important: Mentoring is integral to the teen foundation model. Teen foundation program leaders facilitate groups in a way that cultivates the participants as leaders. My supervisors, Stefanie Zelkind and Naomi Skop Richter '05, facilitated my internship in this way. We focused on the process of getting the work done, rather than just the final products, and this contributed to my learning. I am lucky to have had mentors to support and guide me throughout this experience into the future.
- It's not "fake" or "make-believe." These are real projects: The Jewish teen philanthropy field is growing rapidly: JTFN launched 20 new teen foundations at Jewish camps this summer, and this fall it is rolling out 11 new teen foundations throughout Long Island, N.Y. Through my internship, I've been part of the team developing curricular materials and have already seen the camp programs' impact, both on the camps and on their grantees.
- Teen philanthropy programs develop future leaders — research proves it — and JTFN has played a huge role in supporting them, providing resources and networking: With more than 100 Jewish teen foundations now operating across the country, I know the work I've been a part of will have long-lasting impact on the Jewish community and the world at large.
- Networking is critical: JTFN is the pioneer in connecting Jewish teen foundations, and helping create these connections has been a central part of my experience. My mentors brought me to events, introduced me to colleagues, and, throughout, encouraged them to share experiences from their work in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector. Hearing the stories and experience of experts in the field has shown me the value that connections have in creating great programs.
I have learned so much throughout my internship at JTFN and look forward to my senior year at Brandeis, where I'll be TAing that same class that got me started in this direction last fall. I know the lessons I have learned at JTFN will be incredibly valuable not just in class, but in my future career. I am lucky to have had such a positive internship experience with so many incredible people. JTFN has a niche in the field, and it has been a spectacular internship because they brought those same lessons to my experience. Every intern should be so lucky.
Rebecca Bachman is pursuing a double major in sociology and education studies with a minor in social justice and social policy. A version of this article previously appeared in the on-line publication eJewish Philanthropy.
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Cisco IOS Voice Troubleshooting and Monitoring -- Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways
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The Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways feature enables the collection of voice call signaling statistics and VoIP AAA accounting statistics based on user-configured time ranges. The statistics can be displayed on your console or formatted and archived to an FTP or syslog server. This feature can assist you in diagnosing performance problems on the network and identifying impaired voice equipment.
Prerequisites for Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways
- Your gateway must be configured to support VoIP and must be functioning properly.
Restrictions for Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways
- This feature does not support Media Gateway Control Protocol (MGCP).
- This feature does not support parsing, presentation, or analysis of syslog files.
- The integrity of statistical information in the syslog files is not guaranteed because of unreliable User Datagram Protocol (UDP) transport.
- If the gateway clock needs to be synchronized after the gateway is reset or rebooted or during Network Time Protocol (NTP) client synchronization, there may be a problem for collection during the collection intervals.
- The call-statistics data is dependent on the start and end time of the interval; that is, the collection is time driven, not event driven. The following two situations will result in erroneous call-statistics data:
- Clock reset during a collection interval.
- Clock set to a time during an already specified interval.
- To avoid any call-statistics data from being collected within an incomplete interval, this feature reports only call-statistics data that is collected during a complete interval. This includes call-statistics data that is pushed to an FTP server or stored on a gateway.
- This feature cannot assure accuracy or consistency of the reports generated when large clock updates occur during a batch reporting period.
- Call statistics cannot be accessed using RADIUS protocols.
- The signaling behavior of two-stage non-Direct-Inward-Dialing (non-DID) ISDN calls using a default session application is not supported.
- Digital Signal 0 (DS0) is not supported.
Information About Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways
To configure the Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways feature, you should understand the following:
- Basic Terminology and Feature Design
- Management of the Statistical Collection
- Management of the Archive Process
- Display of Records and Time Ranges
- Voice Interface Changes During Call-Statistics Collection Periods
The benefits of this feature are listed in the Benefits of Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways.
Basic Terminology and Feature Design
The Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways feature is designed to include many options for collecting, archiving, and displaying call statistics records, which include PSTN interface/port statistics, IP interface statistics, and counts of RADIUS accounting messages. This feature also enables counts of Cisco IOS generated internal error codes (IECs). The basic terminology that describes the functionality of the feature is explained in the subsections that follow.
The following are feature options:
- Counting accounting records (messages to and from RADIUS servers).
- Collecting various signal-layer (IP and PSTN interfaces) statistics from individual gateway ports.
- Displaying the signaling statistics at different aggregation levels.
- Collecting IECs.
- Collecting the statistics at user-configured time intervals.
- Archiving the statistics to an FTP or syslog server and formatting the output.
- Displaying the statistics on a console.
- Displaying the available memory and the memory that has been used for the collection of records.
- Specifying thresholds for packet jitter, lost packets, and packet latency.
- Specifying the length of time to be used as the maximum call duration.
- Specifying a maximum time for which to store the statistics in system memory.
This section has the following subsections:
- What Are the Types of Accounting Statistics?
- What Are the Types of Signaling Statistics and Aggregation Levels?
- What Are IECs?
What Are the Types of Accounting Statistics?
Accounting record statistics are counts of RADIUS messages that are transmitted to and received from a RADIUS server. They can be collected by method list, type of RADIUS message (for example, starts, interim updates, and/or stops), and call-leg interface association (PSTN or IP). This feature can be configured to count all of these message types or only a subset of them.
A method list is a sequential list used by the RADIUS client on the gateway that defines the authentication methods used to authenticate a user. For the purposes of the Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways feature, you are required to specify only the name of the method list on the gateway.
Once enabled and configured, the feature counts RADIUS messages on both inbound and outbound call legs. Each time a RADIUS accounting message is received by the gateway, it is counted as successful if it is accepted and processed by the RADIUS agent on the gateway; each time a RADIUS accounting message is transmitted by the gateway, it is counted as passed if an ACK comes back from the RADIUS server.
You can also specify that accounting messages be collected from a broadcast method list, in which case you can set all the server groups that are in a method list to monitor the server group acknowledgements.
What Are the Types of Signaling Statistics and Aggregation Levels?
The signaling statistics are collected at the port level, but can be displayed at various aggregation levels.
The aggregation levels are hierarchical. The highest level is a summary of total statistics for all aggregation levels on the gateway, whereas the lowest level provides statistics for each voice port. Statistics can also be collected for the following aggregation levels:
- Gateway level
- VoIP level
- PSTN level
- Trunk group level
- Voice-port level
An example of collected statistics at the different aggregation levels for a PSTN statistic labeled "X" is as follows:
- When the aggregation level is gateway: X = 4
- When the aggregation level is trunk group:
- Trunk group A (configured ports 1 and 3): X = 3
- Trunk group B (configured ports 2 and 4): X = 1
- When the aggregation level is port:
- Port 1: X = 1
- Port 2: X = 0
- Port 3: X = 2
- Port 4: X = 1
The following are supported call-statistics fields that can be collected on Cisco gateways:
- Incoming calls-All incoming call attempts, whether successful or not.
- Incoming calls answered by the gateway-Incoming calls that were answered.
- Incoming calls rejected by the gateway-Incoming calls that, for whatever reason, failed.
- Outgoing calls attempted-Outgoing calls regardless of whether they were successful.
- Outgoing calls that receive answers-Calls that were answered.
- Outgoing calls fail-Calls that failed.
- Total duration of all incoming and outgoing calls-Total duration from outgoing seizure to disconnect.
- Total duration of incoming and outgoing answered calls-Total connected time: from answer to disconnect.
- Originating side disconnected before outgoing calls connected.
- Number of incoming and outgoing calls whose connected time is less than the configured minimum call duration (MCD).
- Number of answered incoming and outgoing calls terminated with any cause codes other than "normal."
- Total duration (after the dial delay) on incoming calls-Defined as "alert sent time-setup in time."
- Total duration (after the dial delay) on outgoing calls-Defined as "alert received time-setup out time."
- Total setup delay duration-Defined as "setup out time-setup in time."
- IP-specific statistic fields (exist only in the IP-level statistics):
- Number of calls losing more than the configured number of packets-The default is 1000.
- Number of calls encountering more than the configured amount of latency-The default is 250 milliseconds.
- Number of calls encountering more than the configured amount of jitter-The default is 250 milliseconds.
- Number of incoming and outgoing calls disconnected with each cause code-The cause codes are defined in the Call Control Application Programming Interface (CCAPI) and in the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) standard Q.850.
What Are IECs?
Cisco IOS generated internal error codes (IECs) are gateway-detected errors that cause the gateway to release or refuse a call. IECs enhance troubleshooting for VoIP networks by helping to determine the source and reason for call termination.
The collection of Cisco IOS generated IECs is described in Cisco VoIP Internal Error Codes. To decode internal error codes, see the Voice Gateway Error Decoder for Cisco IOS at the following URL:
Management of the Statistical Collection
The management of statistical collection involves time ranges, thresholds, storage capacities, and memory usage. This section has the following subsections:
- What Are the Allowable Time Ranges?
- What Are Thresholds?
- What Are the Allowable Storage Capacities?
- How Is Memory Used?
What Are the Allowable Time Ranges?
The Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways feature enables you to configure time ranges to capture statistics. The time ranges are as follows:
- From the last reset time to the present. You can examine the statistics using the show voice statistics command and reset the statistics using the clear voice statistics csr command.
- By specific start and end time. That is, a set amount of minutes after the configuration time for preparation of the resource allocation of the gateway.
- By periodic intervals, with an optional total duration. Allowable intervals are 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 1 day. The optional total duration is unlimited but must be a multiple of the specified interval. For example, the interval could be 15 minutes, and the total duration could be 3 hours.
What Are Thresholds?
The following three thresholds can be configured to customize how you measure the voice signaling statistics for your network configuration:
- Packet jitter
- Packet latency
- Lost packets
These thresholds are all pre-configured with default settings. The jitter, latency, and lost packets thresholds only apply to IP statistics. In addition, you can configure the minimum call duration (MCD) value for determining which calls are measured during the statistics collection.
Packet Jitter
Jitter is a variation in the delay of received packets. At the sending side, packets are sent in a continuous stream, spaced evenly apart. Because of network congestion, improper queueing, or configuration errors, this steady stream can be interrupted by delays between packets.
You can specify the threshold at which a record will not be collected. For example, if you have set a threshold of 250 milliseconds and a delay exceeds that threshold, the message is not collected.
Packet Latency
Packet latency is the amount of time that it takes a packet to go from its source to its destination. You can specify the threshold at which a record will not be collected. For example, the gateway can be configured to drop messages that take more than 250 milliseconds to reach the destination.
Lost Packets
Lost packets are a result of jitter that is so great that it causes packets to be out of the range of the jitter buffer. These packets are discarded. You can specify the threshold for lost packets in milliseconds.
Minimum Call Duration
Using the minimum call duration (MCD) value, you can configure the gateway to collect statistics for calls that last a minimum amount of time. For example, if you configure the MCD value to 2 milliseconds, the gateway counts the number of incoming or outgoing calls with a connect time less than 2 milliseconds.
What Are the Allowable Storage Capacities?
The Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways feature allows you to specify how long the gateway will store the statistics. You can specify a number of days, hours, or minutes.
How Is Memory Used?
You can display how much system memory is being used when statistics are being collected, how much system memory is available, and how much system memory is estimated for future use by using the show voice statistics memory-usage command. The command displays all memory usage for accounting and signaling by fixed interval and since a system reset or reboot. The output includes the number of call statistics records per interval, each record size, the approximate memory used, and the allocated memory for future use.
Management of the Archive Process
The FTP or syslog server archive process is used to download statistics to a file on the server for further processing, presentation, and analysis. The download to the server is configured using the command-line interface (CLI). When the specified end time of collection is reached, the gateway downloads the statistics data to the provisioned server. Using FTP, the gateway formats the statistics in an ASCII file and transfers the file to a Cisco Networking Services Performance Engine (CNS-PE). Using the syslog server, gateways send the information in syslog messages, and you can specify the message size.
|Because of unreliable UDP transport, the integrity and completeness of the call statistics in the syslog files are not guaranteed.
Figure: Syslog and FTP Servers and the CNS-PE shows the components as used by this feature.
Figure: Syslog and FTP Servers and the CNS-PE
You can format the output to display with specified record separators. The separator can be a space, tab, new line, or ASCII character.
Display of Records and Time Ranges
You can display statistics by accounting method lists, by aggregation levels, by numbered intervals (time ranges), and/or since the last system reset or reboot. This section has the following subsections:
What Records Are Displayed Since System Reset or Reboot?
You can display the collected records since a system reset or reboot including accounting and/or signaling (aggregation level), and intervals (time ranges). There are show commands to display all signaling statistics that were collected since the last reset or reboot of the system. You can specify a concise or verbose display, and you can configure the gateway to push the statistics to the FTP or syslog server.
Displaying Accounting Statistics
You can use the show voice statistics csr since-reset accounting command to display the method list by RADIUS server, PSTN incoming and outgoing records that have passed and failed, and the IP incoming and outgoing records that have passed and failed.
Displaying Aggregation-Level Statistics
You can use the show voice statistics csr since-reset aggregation-level command to display all the collected statistics for every aggregation level or just the statistics for a specific level (gateway, IP, PSTN, trunk group, or voice port).
What Time Ranges Are Displayed?
You can use the show voice statistics interval-tag command to display the start and end times by a numbered interval. To display the time ranges by voice port, you can use the show voice statistics csr interval aggregation command.
Voice Interface Changes During Call-Statistics Collection Periods
It is recommended that you do not change the voice interface configuration during the period when call statistics are being collected. It is also recommended that during the period when call statistics are being collected, the following configuration changes not take place:
- Adding or removing a PRI or DS1 group
- Adding or removing a trunk group
- Adding or removing a trunk in a trunk group
|It is recommended that any existing call-statistics collection be stopped and set to zero before any configuration modification is made to any of the voice interfaces.
This section has the following subsections:
Addition or Removal of a Voice Port
The following scenarios apply to a voice port whether or not it is in any trunk group:
- The addition of a PRI or DS1 group, Foreign Exchange Station (FXS), Foreign Exchange Office (FXO), or ear and mouth (E&M) device.
- The removal of a PRI or DS1 group, FXS, FXO, or E&M device.
If a new voice interface is added during any collection period, new entries that correspond to the new voice interface are added in the statistics collected for that collection period.
If an existing voice interface is removed during any collection period, the statistics that correspond to that voice interface are still kept in the set. The statistics are frozen (that is, nothing more is added) after the time that the voice interface is removed. Gateways still send the statistics for the removed interface to the CNS-PE or syslog server.
In either of the above scenarios, the statistics for PSTN ports include all the collected data at the DS1 or channel associated signaling (CAS) level, except the statistics for interfaces added or removed during the collection period.
Configuration Change of Any Trunk Group
The following scenarios apply when there is a configuration change of any trunk group:
- The addition or removal of a DS1 or CAS group into or from a trunk group.
- If you are adding a DS1 or CAS group to a trunk group during any collection period, the collection process moves the associated statistics from the upper aggregation level (PSTN) to the trunk-group level. The call statistics before the configuration change time are also totalled to the statistics of the trunk-group level at the end of the collection period. In this case, the statistics of the trunk-group level can exceed the limit. However, the PSTN-level statistic is still accurate.
- If you are removing a DS1 or CAS group from a trunk group during any collection period, the collection process removes the trunk-group level of the PSTN aggregation. In contrast to the scenario of adding a DS1 or CAS group, the statistic of the trunk-group level is under the limit.
- The addition or removal of a trunk group.
- If you are adding a new trunk group (one that contains a trunk or trunks) to a gateway during any collection period, the existing statistics of all member trunks aggregate to the trunk-group level statistic. That is, the statistic of the trunk-group level is over its limit. The PSTN-level call statistics are still accurate.
- If you are removing an existing trunk group from a gateway during any collection period, the existing statistics of all member trunks are totaled at the configuration change time. The statistics of the trunk-group level and of the PSTN level are accurate.
|The inaccurate call statistics that can result from the four scenarios that are listed above are acceptable because the transient information during the configuration change is often unusable.
Benefits of Voice Performance Statistics on Cisco Gateways
- Gateway call statistics can be audited or compared against the statistics of other network devices for improved monitoring.
- Malfunctioning DSPs (DS1 only) can be discovered.
- Discrepancies between RADIUS records sent by the gateway and received and reported on the server can be uncovered.
- Potential lost revenue can be highlighted.
- Call-success rates and accuracy of reports can be determined.


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It isn't often a painting makes you want to bounce against it. Or crawl under it, swing it over your shoulder, parade around with it, hug and squeeze it tight, or lay your head to rest on it.
This isn't akin to wanting to enter the seamy, tinted world of a Toulouse-Lautrec cabaret, or feeling haunted by the stunning, lonely expanse of a Caspar David Friedrich mountaintop. It has nothing to do with the representation of places and persons or the evocation of feelings, to name just a few of the things that painting has been very good at doing for at least the past millennium or so.
For the latter experience, it suffices to walk through the elegant halls of the Art Institute's permanent collection, where paintings more or less behave as expected, and mostly agree to do so from the confines of heavy frames hung vertically from neutral walls.
For the former escapade, saunter a few blocks north of the Art Institute, then cross Michigan Avenue, enter the ground floor galleries of the Cultural Center and prepare for the delirious, bedazzling assault of Claire Ashley's "frizzflopsqueezepop". Here, even the two-dimensional paintings bend off the wall and lounge on the carpeted floor. Most of the rest can stand on their own, thank you very much. And if not, they seem to prefer a pole to wrap around rather than a hunk of drywall to dangle from.
Ashley is ostensibly a painter. She's taught in the painting and drawing department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 2000 and has a graduate degree from there as well. But her paintings do very little of what paintings are supposed to do. They refuse to illustrate or memorialize, to appropriate or abstract, to satirize or criticize. Instead, they animate, taking on bold, zany lives of their own. And they do so by blowing themselves up into bulbous, unwieldy shapes filled with air and covered with riotous markings in blinding neon.
To explain: Like any proper painter, Ashley does indeed affix pigment to canvas. That her pigment is sprayed on and day-glo is no great shakes; urban graffiti infiltrated the world of fine art in the 1980s and never really left. That her canvas is tarpaulin alternately coated with PVC or plastic is neither here nor there; artists paint on what's serviceable to them, be it printed bed sheets or wooden boards. That the finished works plug into the wall and inflate into ceiling-scraping figures resembling most closely a giant cow, a floppy star, a beached whale and a Totoro (an enormous rabbit-eared troll who stars in one of the most popular Japanimes of all time) is, however, unusual. That one of these, the bovine "RUD," also gets to leave the gallery and hoof it up in a verdant pasture to the honky-tonk tune of Alan Jackson's "Good Time" is nothing short of awesome. It's quite possible that no painting has ever had more fun. Certainly none have ever gotten so much fresh country air.
If you enter the galleries from Randolph Street, on the Cultural Center's north side, "RUD" and a monitor playing her plein-air line dance will greet you. In that video, 12 scruffy human sidekicks stick the upper parts of their bodies into 12 teats hollowed into "RUD's" underside, becoming the legs in a twangy cancan as hilarious as it is uncoordinated.
Having enjoyed this lighthearted absurdity first, you will be forgiven for thinking that "frizzflopsqueezepop" is going to be a crazy house party of a show, a raucous good time where painting, at long last, gets to have a blast because Gerhard Richter — the discomfortingly sober German widely considered the greatest painter alive and whose squeegeed abstractions Ashley's surfaces most resemble — left town for the weekend.
But don't be fooled by the frenzied colors, catchy soundtrack and cheery playfulness.
Enter "frizzflopsqueezepop" from the Cultural Center's Washington Street doors, and Ashley's pumped-up paintings begin to show signs of collapse and fatigue only hinted at by their weird, cruel monikers: "limes and bricks suck pink you tasteless hunk" and "another tasteless hunk" are so bloated and formless they can barely wedge into the space between ceiling, floor and wall. They're impassable, immovable and indistinguishable from one another. "Thing three (neon fever)," a kind of subhuman with arms, legs, chunky elephantine ears and a robotic face, slumps pathetically in a corner. A series of small, stuffed scraps tied to wooden stakes, left on the floor and jammed into a hole in the wall, seem to warn, like body parts left to rot on the enemy's fence posts or from a tree in the public square, of dangers lurking out there.
Poor painting. Just when it seemed like it was finally going to cut loose, dance a jig and breathe some fresh air, in sputters the slow death the medium's been suffering since at least 1921. In that fateful year the constructivist artist Aleksandr Rodchenko showed a triptych of rectangular monochromes in Moscow, later recalling: "I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue and yellow. I affirmed: It's all over."
"Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962," which opens on Saturday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, promises to fill in some of the rest of this history.
Meanwhile, at the Cultural Center, Claire Ashley and her inflated, psychedelic partygoers confirm: The party's over before it has barely even begun.
"Claire Ashley: frizzflopsqueezepop" runs through March 31 at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Free; 312-744-3316. At noon on March 21, Ashley presents "Disco Dozen for Daley Plaza," a live performance involving 12 dancers and a 30-foot-tall inflated sculpture, in front of 50 W. Washington St.
Lori Waxman is a special contributor to the Tribune and an instructor at the School of the Art Institute.
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Cordoba is a mid-sized city of 350,000 inhabitants and the capital of the province of Cordoba, situated in the center of Andalucia in Spain. A great cultural reference point in Europe, this ancient city has been declared a World Heritage Site and contains a mixture of the diverse cultures that have settled it throughout history.
Very few places in the world can boast of having been the capital of a Roman province (Hispania Ulterior), the capital of an Arab State (Al-Andalus) and a Caliphate. Such splendor is palpable in the intellectual wealth of this city, that has seen the birth of figures like Seneca, Averroes, and Maimonides. The historic quarter of Cordoba is a beautiful network of small streets, alleys, squares and whitewashed courtyards arranged around the Mezquita, which reflects the city's prominent place in the Islamic world during medieval times.
Cordoba also has much to offer in terms of art, culture and leisure, thanks to a myriad of cultural events that are organized here throughout the year: Flamenco festivals, concerts, ballet and other activities. These events are complemented by a number of museums and a good nightlife scene.
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By train
Cordoba's modern train station is location in Avenida de America, at the northern end of the central district. To get to the old town and the Mezquita, you can catch a taxi (about 6€) or just walk about 25 minutes (head along Avenida de America and turn right on Avenida del Gran Capitan).
AVE [5], Spain's high-speed rail network, offers very fast and comfortable train service to Cordoba, but it is a bit more expensive compared to regular bus or train services. AVE trains run hourly from Madrid (1 hour 45 minutes), Seville (45 minutes) and Malaga (50 minutes). There are also two daily AVE services to Barcelona (about five hours). Additionally, there is a very cheap sleeping train option from Cordoba to Barcelona (Andalucía Express).
As an alternative to the AVE there are also cheaper RENFE trains, such us the Lanzaderas to Seville and Malaga (for around 15-20€) or the Altaria and the Alivia trains going to Granada (2 hours 30 minutes) and Madrid (2 hours 30 minutes). For schedules, prices and tickets, check the Renfe website [6].
By bus
Cordoba's bus station is just across the street from the train station. Regular bus service is available from almost every town in Andalucia as well as from Madrid departing from the "Estación Sur" (around 6 buses per day). For bus info try these sites: [7], [8].
By plane
Cordoba lacks an airport. The closest major airports are in Seville, Málaga and Madrid; from there a train or a bus to Cordoba takes but a few hours.
Get around
Just about everything of interest in Cordoba is within easy walking distance (the one notable exception being the Medina Azahara), and the typical tourist can do with the standard tourist map which can be obtained from the tourist offices (one on the east side of the Mezquita and the other between the Alcázar and the city walls).
The area with by far the most to see is the Old City surrounding the Mezquita. The Old City is a tangle of medieval-style streets roughly bounded by the Guadalquivir River on the south, the area surrounding Plaza de las Tendillas on the north and the tree-lined Paseo de la Victoria on the west. This area is crammed with places to stay, eat and buy souvenirs, though many visitors may find certain areas (particularly immediately surrounding the Mezquita) too touristy, with more interesting things found wandering into the tiny streets of the Jewish Quarter to the west and north of the Mezquita. Behind the Mezquita the Roman Bridge crosses the Guadalquivir River to a museum in the old gate on the opposite side.
The area immediately to the north of the Old City, roughly from the area around Plaza de las Tendillas to Avenida de America is a more modern section of town and is where the train and bus station is located as well as a major shopping area. Along Paseo de la Victoria on the west side and Avenida de America on the north are large parks that make for a pleasant stroll.
The Mezquita
M-Sa 8:30-19:00, Su 8:30-10:30 and 14:00-19:00 (last entry 30 minutes before closing). €8 (free entry during 8:30-10:00 morning mass. However, this is for individual tourists only. Groups must pay and can only enter after 10am).
The biggest attraction in Cordoba and a truly must-see building, the Mezquita is a massive former mosque-turned-cathedral famed for its "forest" of columns topped with Islamic-style red and white striped arches among its other many architectural highlights and serves as a reminder of the glory and importance Cordoba held in medieval times. The building is full of history and beauty - you'll want to give yourself at least a couple of hours to do it justice.
Built in 786 as a mosque, the structure was expanded several times under Cordoba's Muslim rule while still remaining largely true to the original design. Following the Christian Reconquista of Cordoba in 1236, work immediately went underway to convert the building to a church, and four centuries later a cathedral at the center of the building was constructed, though not without controversy as it significantly altered the space. Today, despite the presence of the cathedral, most of the original mosque structure remains remarkably well-preserved.
Approaching the Mezquita, the first thing you will notice is the massive bell tower on the building's north side which looms over the surrounding buildings. Built in the 1600s the tower replaced a minaret previously on the site. Along the outside of the building the wall takes on the appearance of a fortress, with an elaborate set of Moorish-style archway and windows spaced every so often.
Stepping through one of the doors you'll enter the Patio de los Naranjos, or Court of the Oranges, which true to its name contains a grove of orange trees, planted in symmetrical rows that replicate the forest of columns within the building. A large fountain drips pleasantly in the middle, and the views of the bell tower framed by trees are excellent. The Patio is free to enter and is open during the day as a public park - the ticket booths are located on the bell tower side of the courtyard.
Entering the interior you'll immediately be standing before the forest of columns which recede into the distance, topped with their dazzling horseshoe arches. The light in the space will play interesting tricks with the arches and varies pretty dramatically as you walk through the building, going from rather dark when you enter to very bright at the cathedral in the middle and back and forth as you continue.
Opposite the room from the entrance is the Mihrab, a spectacular archway decorated with Arabic writing which was the focus of the mosque, as it faced in the direction of Mecca and was what every Muslim faced as they knelt on the floor to pray . Once, tens of thousands of people could fit into this space to pray, the multitude knelt on their rugs before the Mihrab. In the corner of the building nearby are glass cases with artifacts excavated from beneath the Mezquita, and the walls along the side of the building are lined with chapels, each one with an intricate piece of artwork.
At the center of the building, the Cathedral towers over the rest of the building, and the transition from the impressive-but-intimate mosque structure to the overwhelming awe of the cathedral is abrupt and rather jarring, but don't let that stop you from taking in the beauty of the cathedral, with its rich decoration and well-illuminated interior, standing to suggest triumph over the Muslims who previously used this building. The presence of the cathedral also offers the unique opportunity to so easily compare the differences between Muslim and Christian architecture.
The Old City
A tangle of narrow medieval streets surrounding the Mezquita, the Old City sits just uphill from the muddy Guadalquivir River and contains the vast majority of Cordoba's tourist attractions. North and west of the Mezquita sits the Jewish Quarter, a neighborhood which dates from the late Middle Ages and offers an interesting stroll, some lovely patios and a few scant reminders of the Jewish population that once lived here.
Outside the Old City
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One of the traditional craftwork in Cordoba is jewellery. Good value jewels, specially gold, can be found around the city. However, it is advisable to buy far from touristic sites as they are the most expensive places to buy that. One place to check it is around Jesus Rescatado avenue.
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Exercise caution when walking around the area near the Mezquita: beggers will try to sucker you for some money and they often work in teams. You may find yourself being charged 40 Euro for a palm reading, or having your money snatched by a little kid working together with the supposed palm reader. Just keep an eye on your things and don't get caught up with their scams.
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"It's been a long three months and now we are very excited to show the public what we have created," John Gray, director of Golf at Ol' Colony Golf Complex, said Saturday, a week before this course, owned and managed by the Tuscaloosa Parks and Recreation Authority, reopens on Sept. 14.
Course designer and University of Alabama great Jerry Pate designed the course that opened in December 2000 and has also been responsible for the renovation.
"It's been a long three months and now we are very excited to show the public what we have created," John Gray, director of Golf at Ol' Colony Golf Complex, said Saturday, a week before this course, owned and managed by the Tuscaloosa Parks and Recreation Authority, reopens on Sept. 14.
Course designer and University of Alabama great Jerry Pate designed the course that opened in December 2000 and has also been responsible for the renovation.
Gray, who also played for Alabama back in the day, noted that a whopping 590 yards have been added to the course with the construction of new tees on more than half the holes. The Crimson tees have been built primarily for the men's golf team at Alabama, and, I venture to say, they are the only players who can handle this significant infusion of new yardage.
Pate found the added distance by selectively removing trees and the course will measure a very healthy 7,544 yards from all the way back.
However, the regular golfers, Ol' Colony's "bread and butter," will see little impact as they will continue to play from a more reasonable yardage for them.
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Indeed, the work has been a significant undertaking with the course closing June 17. Upon reopening, prices for golf will remain unchanged for the rest of the year: Monday-Thursday $45; Friday-Sunday $50. Prices include use of a cart. They also offer an annual pass and that has increased from $1500 to $1750. It does not include a cart.
"We are very excited to bring this enhanced product to the taxpayers of Tuscaloosa. Ol' Colony generates significant tourism (numbers and dollars) and it is like any amenity, it needs regular maintenance and updating," Gray said.
He also noted that the University of Alabama golfers and coaches are thrilled to see the work done and cannot wait to start playing the course again.
Alabama golfers fare well at Walker Cup
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However, 10-time State Amateur champion Kathy Hartwiger, who was on the winning team in the first three championships, is playing in Gulf Shores with Tuscaloosa's Lucie King. In 2008 Hartwiger won it with Missy Gooden of Trussville and then in 2009 and '10 with Lea Green.
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This new event will be played on the weekend of Sept. 21-22 on the Valley and Ridge Courses on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail's Oxmoor Valley in Birmingham.
It is the brainchild of local amateur golfer Mark Woods and will feature four nines of different formats: scramble, modified scramble, best ball and alternate shot.
"This championship is designed to give back to local charities. So often we play in local tournaments and say, 'What's in it for us? What do we win?' There will still be prizes for the winners of the various flights, but we will also give money to Children's Hospital and scholarship fund through McAdory High School."
Woods hopes for a full field of 60 two-person teams. Call him 205 307-8422 for more information and to sign up.
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Happy Sunday my beautiful readers!
I still don't know how I pulled it off, but I came up with my Halloween costume Friday morning, spent the entire day making it and was able to wear it out last night. I honestly didn't think that I was going to celebrate Halloween this year, but I am so happy that I did because my Black Swan costume was a hit! I was always a procrastinator in college and it was that last minute pressure that always brought out my creativity to the extreme. I guess that is what happened for me this weekend!
I already had a tutu skirt from H&M but it wasn't big enough, so I bought tulle and spent a few hours sewing layers on top of layers all around the skirt. I had a bustier top from Target, so I just needed to glue on the rhinestones and feathers. Both pieces together made it look like one! I googled images from the movie and tried my best to recreate the look.
After watching a few different tutorials on youtube, I finally mastered the makeup. I didn't want to make my face too white, so I mixed in the white with my foundation and it was perfect. I used black eye liner, black and white eye shadow and a sparkle liner for my eyes to create that dark feather like look. On my lips I mixed MAC Rebel & Russian Red. I also did a little bit of contouring on my cheeks. The final touches were creating a feather like illusion on my hands and of course the bun and crown!
The best part was that I got to wear flats all night! I had a great time with my loves and got a lot of compliments :)
I always prefer to make my costumes instead of buying them. It's less expensive and even though it can be very time consuming, it really allows you to show off your creativity! And even if someone is the same thing as you, your costume will still be unique!
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo is arguably the biggest and most important event in the video game industry. It is the time and place where companies from everywhere come together to display their new upcoming titles for the following year. It is also traditionally the place where new gaming consoles are demoed and shown off to impress not only investors and industry professionals, but consumers who look forward to checking out the latest games from all three major console platforms. Yet there is a hint of change in the air, one that has led to some very weird and confusing actions from one "dinosaur company" of the gaming industry. That company is Nintendo.
Nintendo never said that they weren't going to be at E3. They are just going from
Presentations to Present-Play-tions.
They are going to force all of the E3 people to play the games before they start with their "Polygons Count=More Fun" or "PhotoRealism=More Fun" Bull-Breath.
Last E3 People looking at NintendoLand and some looking at ZombiU ("looks like PS360") gave the game bad impressions to the public.
But if you read the Hands-On reports after E3, ALMOST ALL of them were Good.
They said how fun each of those games were TO PLAY not TO LOOK AT.
Nintendo's current focus is (New) Gameplay Fun not best looks. You can't always tell that it is fun until you've played it esp. if your eyes are Graphic-bigots.
The Wii U is suicide, they have already made that move.
Seriously if you can sit there and convince yourself the Wii U is a success you gave serious brand loyalty issues.
By the way, this is a horrible, troll baiting, article. The author is a joke of a writer, and needs to focus on original content to get people to come to his site. Not troll bait.


text: I bought a wrt54gs some days ago and I´ll have to say that each firmware from hyperwrt over openwrt and sveasoft to wifi-box offers its own goodies which are interesting enough to run this or that firmware. But what I´m still missing is a way to choose modules as needed, put them together an creat via a windows based gui the corresponding .bin firmware having a tftp client included to push it up to the router. And pleas don´tell me that this is impossible!!! Years ago the guys from FLI4L startet their projekt to use 486 computers via a 1,44MB flloppy drive to bring up small linux firwall system using the computers internal ram. The minmal system size was 4mb and was still huge enough to have a web based gui included as well as dyndns, dhcp, etc. modules still included. Fli4l (for each who still doesn´t know this piece this project) check out http://www.fli4l.de. Fli4l is a german project still be adapted for dsl usage supplying a core code binary as well as a windows based gui. You just need to download the needed modules, unzipping them, putting them in the directory to the core code, starting the gui, entering the needed information (ip of wan address, etc.) and press the "go" button so the tools starts to creat the 1,44" floppy disc. Also possible there´s a windows client utility with which you´re able to control the router (uptime, connect, disconnect, etc.) as well as doing a update by pushing the new binaries via tftp onto the router. Going this way not each and everyone (sorry for Sveasoft) need to invest many time on evaluating and supporting their own firmware ... no each developer may focus on his needs ... one can evaluate a vpn-server another a radius server, the next one the vlan support , etc. pp. So the programmers of a module just need to hand out infos for which original firmware the module is written for. If a new firmware comes out he just need to verify whether his module still works with the new firmware or to reprogramm his module for the new release. This way not each programmer needs to hack the whole sorcecode in its own. Regarding the fact that this is a GPL based code I hope I can interest enough programmers from sveasoft, wifi-box, HyperWRT, TinyPEAP, etc. to work togehter instead of side by side each on its own creating own releases. !!! PLEASE HELP YOURSELF AND ALL OF US BY JOINING THIS IDEA !!! With this idea you have more time on your own by investing less support for a whole firmware instead just bringing out the best out of your modules. You also just need to support your own modules! "Wish list" are up to this date a thing of yesterday cause each and everyone can choose their modules, put them together on the current, official linksys firmware to have their own idea. Also improved firewall scripts, or telnet functions are able to be implemented ... you just overwrite the current source code. SO JUST LET ME SAY IT AGAIN ... LET US MAKE THE LINKSYS WRT54G/GS SO POPULAR FLI4L IS NOWADAYS. For all programmers ... please let me know if you´re interested! Thanks


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Lee Nelson's Well Good Show (UK - DVD R2)
Marcus gives Lee Nelson's Well Good Show a well good watch. Mad innit...
The Series
Lee Nelson is a little chav and his well good TV show is a mixture of stand up comedy in front of his audience and sketches of other characters. The six thirty minute shows are collected here with a second disc full of extras and I for one am already over the one note joke on offer here.
Lee Nelson and the sketch characters in the show all have the same payoff. They have the best intentions but are oblivious to the less savoury side of their characters. It's funny the first time you see the character of Lee Nelson and I remember first seeing the show advertised and thinking I'd give it a shot. Fifteen minutes in and I was out. The mixture of Ali G (without the smartz) and an over the top take on kids you see hanging outside of shops in town is sort of amusing, but for me it's just too repetitive to be entertaining.
Watching the entire series for this review and I still have the same feelings. I'm not saying there weren't elements I laughed at, because Lee Nelson is a confident character and his interactions with the audience can be quite amusing, but this is essentially six episodes of the same gags and unless you like the characters a whole lot that gets boring fast.
The disc doesn't improve upon an average TV presentation transfer wise. Colours are exactly how they look on TV (a little over bright) and the studio based stand up stuff looks like to have the usual mid range budget with lots of funky lighting that a lot of the BBC Three shows tend to end up with. The sketches look a little better with the skin tones looking a little less pinky but there's a whole lot of interlacing issues with the transfer and there's no real step up from the original broadcasts.
The Dolby Stereo 2.0 track is nothing to get excited about. It's bog standard at best but for all it needs to do it's pretty solid. Dialogue is crisp, the audience laughter fills the speakers and the music in the show sounds pretty full for a 2.0 track but at the end of the day this is a sketch based TV show and it's not exactly looking to be THX certified now is it?
'Message from Me + Omelette' (01:44) is a brief introduction and Lee Nelson and Omelette promise good things extras wise for all you fans out there.
'Me + Omelette talk Propa Rubbish over Episode 1' is a commentary track on the first episode and it's more of the same gag
'Watch 1 Bit of the Show' splits the shows segments (110% Bent, Hospital Life, Faliriki Nights, Buzz Box and Games) and puts them all together in little collections. So that you can watch all of the series sketches in their own runs.
'Lee Nelson's Top 10 Chat Ups' (05:23) is a countdown of some of the chat up lines used on the show's audience. 'Funni Lee Stuff That Wernt On The Telli' (24:24) is a bunch of extra stuff not seen in the show.
'What Happened Next in the Disabled Toilets' (08:28) is some unseen footage of one of the episodes where two guys go into a disabled toilet and have an awkward chat. 'Old Peeple Do More Fun Stuff' (02:55) is again more unseen footage from the show but this time it's more of the old people segment.
'Well Funni Muck Ups' (05:50) is the series gag reel and 'Funni Stuff From Jason Bent, Dr Bob, Hugo Victor Grant That Weren't on the Telli' (17:59) is a whole lot of deleted scenes from the shows sketches and as Lee Nelson said it's the stuff that "wasn't funny enough to make it on the show in the first place you dicks".
'Omelette's Best Bits' (02:05) are Lee Nelson's side kick's best bits and lastly 'Behind the Seens On My Well Good Tour' (11:39) is a little Featuette covering Lee Nelson's tour.
Lee Nelson's Well Good Show may have its followers but I ain't one of them. The one note gags have their moments but I can't really say it's a show that impressed me all that much. That said fans get a fairly good package here. It's mainly more of the same (albeit unseen) stuff but the runtime for the extras is fairly substantial and the splitting of the sketches into mini collections is quite a good idea too. It's not my cup-o-tea but all you Nelson-ites out there should have a proper good time with this one, innit.
Review by Marcus Doidge
Moldovia Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 135
I watched the series and enjoyed it so much that I will be seeing the Lee Nelson show on tour in october.
Wilson Bros Reviewer Join Date: August 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,183
I had the misfortune of subjecting myself to this show when there was sod all on TV one evening and I was aghast at how abysmal it was.
The fact that public and critical reaction to it was so negative that a second series was commissioned. Typical BBC miscalculation.
Wilson Bro (K)
The fact that public and critical reaction to it was so negative that a second series was commissioned. Typical BBC miscalculation.
Wilson Bro (K)
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd August 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Stereo 2.0 English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Unseen Footage, Gag Reel, Behind the Scenes of Lee Nelson's Tour, Episode Commentary, Collected Sketches..
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Adam Wimpenny
Cast: Simon Brodkin, Kathy Berry, Terry Noble
Genre: Comedy
Length: 172 minutes
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<—- Sydney Shoots a Burglar Christmas in Jamaica with John Canoe —->
1938 was a very diffcult and dangerous time for the Browney family living in Kingston. In May of that year workers all over Jamaica went on strike and the unemployed joined them marching and demonstrations. The banana trade had declined drastically and unemployment was high, there was only occasional work, bad nutrition, poor housing, very little health service and a high cost of living.
The strikes started with the men working on the Kingston docks striking for better wages and the unemployed joined the strike demanding work. It was a brutal time with strikers and demonstrators being imprisoned or beaten to death.
In that year, Mammie (my grandmother Becky) made a decision regarding her daughter Olga (my mother) that was to have far reaching consequences for Olga that no one could have foreseen and changed her life irrevocably.
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Today started with some astonishing news in the newspaper. Several passengers on the train from Kingston to Montego Bay were seriously injured and taken to hospital when the train they were travelling on derailed at high speed. A trackman, who witnessed the accident, said the train was going very fast, so much so that he said to the rail man next to him "that the train is moving as fast as an aeroplane."
Passengers reported that they had to hold on to something when the train went round bends because it was going so fast and the carriages were wobbling badly.
What made this news so startling to me was that Olga should have been travelling on that train. She had wanted to spend the weekend with Cissie and Dyke but because of the riots in Kingston she didn't want to leave me and her sisters alone, even though Boysie had promised to look in on us from time to time, assuming, of course, he could get through the mobs uninjured himself. So she didn't make the journey. Olga has a guardian angel, I'm sure of it.
Strikes and Demonstrations: The rest of the news is still very bad. Industry is in decline and conditions are terrible. Unemployment is high, there is irregular work, wages are low, and there is poor housing, poor nutrition and a high cost of living. This, of course, only applies to the blacks. We middle and the white upper classes still manage to live quite well.
There is rioting on the streets of Kingston and I have forbidden the girls to go outside unless they are accompanied by Boysie.
No cargo has been unloaded from the ships in the harbour for days. The dock workers in Kingston and the sugar workers in Westmoreland and Clarendon have all gone on strike for better wages and working conditions. Everywhere on the island, workers are asking for jobs, higher wages and better living conditions. From early in the morning, yesterday, thousands of men and women marched in procession through the streets of Kingston visiting public offices and stopping at the various wharves and forcing work to stop at Myer's Sugar Wharf, where some labourers had broken the strike.
The owners of the businesses have threatened that if a solution is not found soon, they will close their businesses down altogether and move off the island By all accounts it was an ugly scene. The security forces are everywhere eyeball to eyeball with Alexander Bustamante, who is organising the labourers now. Mobs are forcing shops to put up their shutters and molesting people in cars, sometimes robbing them of their money. Mobs are pulling people off the trams and buses and forcing the drivers to take the vehicles off the road. Last night this leaflet was slipped under our front door.
Later on I stood on the veranda upstairs and watched an enormous crowd gather at the end of King Street and then march up the street headed by a large negro with a big drum which he was beating vigorously. Right in the middle of King Street the crowd was met by a line of police all armed with batons. Behind them were a line of police with rifles. The mob was stopped and cleared right off the street with hardly a blow made.
That same night dozens of cars full of "special constables" armed with any and every kind of weapon patrolled the streets of Kingston and St Andrews. Stones and bricks were hurled at them from all sides, but they chased people off the streets and beat up those who resisted. These are frightening times in Jamaica.
Later that evening: Sydney came to see me, the first time I've seen him since our quarrel, because he is concerned for our welfare and safety. We talked, rather uncomfortably at first, and Sydney explained at some length what I had failed to realise. That his business is also feeling the economic downturn, just like most others in Kingston. He has agreed to resume helping me financially providing I agree to move to a smaller house.
We talked about Olga wanting to go to England and I have told Sydney I think she should have the opportunity. He agreed that with all the unrest on the island and the bicycle business being quieter these days, it would be good for Olga to go now, particularly, as the threat of Britain going to war has receded since Neville Chamberlain secured Adolf Hitler's promise that he will not invade Europe further (Munich Agreement). Sydney has agreed to pay Olga's fare, providing she only stays six months. We both agreed this unrest cannot continue for much longer and he is keen that Olga should continue doing his business accounts.
As Sydney was leaving he bent down and picked up an envelope with my name on and had been slipped under the front door. In the envelope was a note from Henry and a newspaper cutting.
Henry wrote that the top half of the newspaper was missing, so there was no way of knowing how old the article was. I decided not to send it to Vivie as she is well and happy in America so why stir up bad memories. But it demonstrates the power of suggestion. Vivie thought she was Obeahed and suffered genuinely as a result, but here is proof that the act was thwarted, so is Obeah all in the mind? I have always thought so.
I know my sojourns into Obeah are of great concern to Father Butler but there is a method to my madness which I have not confided in him because I know he would disapprove. I believe that psychologically Obeah is very powerful and I learnt from Lucy and John to use Obeah to get the results I want. I knew that once Aggie Burns heard I'd been to Annie Harvey, she would change her tune and encourage Sydney to be reconciled with us.
<—- Sydney Shoots a Burglar Christmas in Jamaica with John Canoe —>
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Evaluation Criteria
The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO) conducts rapid prototype development focused on critical multi-agency and future threat counter/antiterrorism requirements. To meet the CTTSO mission, projects are generally selected with the following criteria:
- Multi-agency requirements receive highest priority;
- Rapid prototyping/tangible product; and
- No duplication of effort.
Evaluation Criteria
Each submission (initially Quad Charts, then White Papers, and Full Proposals) is evaluated on its individual merit and relevance to the program requirement rather than against other proposals in the same general research area.
Basic Requirements
- Proposed solution meets the stated requirement.
- Proposal exhibits comprehensive understanding of the problem and the requirements.
- Multiple users (U.S. government or commercial).
- Compliant with solicitation requirements.
- Achievable and reasonable for work proposed.
- Costs analyzed and risks addressed.
- Affordable with the budget contstraints.
Past Performance
- Success in similar efforts.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver products within budget and schedule.
- Team demonstrated expertise in technical and management areas of cost, schedule, and risk.
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- Approach is feasible, achievable, and complete.
- Technical team has expertise and experience.
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You can buy these individually or in color sets. You can also buy different tip sizes. If you love pink then buy the set of pink multilines that comes in 4 sizes. So many choices!
Check out all the options HERE.
You can also ask your local store to start carrying these on a regular basis.


text: After moving server from Ubuntu 10.10 (18.104.22.168) to 12.04 LTS (184.108.40.206). So i copied all necessary config files. Apache/dovecot/fetchmail/bind... 1) i also notified DB diference between those two versions of ISPconfig. So i used mysqldiff to apply changes to old database (add/remove fields in tables...) But just now i notified that table "sys_config" contains db_version | 18.104.22.168 and on new server it should be db_version | 220.127.116.11 So should i change it. 2) I don't get how quota works. Because when users reaches his limit (Website quota (harddisk)). There is problems creating files (as exepected). But even when users free some space up. He still cannot create files. And in panel there is still old size. I couldn't update (Website quota (harddisk)) - ISPConfig variable. I tried quotacheck -favugm but still. Only solution was to increase a limit of particular user. So question is about quota. How and when they are recalculated. Is it possible that something isn't working ?