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Water conservation is more than a fleeting trend in Hays, it's a way of life. Residents and city officials alike have worked cooperatively over the decades to ensure long-term availability of the life-sustaining liquid.
Incessant drought conditions and extended periods of hot, dry and windy weather here on the plains might have forced that cooperation initially, but it continues because most people understand the severity of the situation. Even as the city is used as a model for others to emulate, there are no laurels to rest upon. Not when annual precipitation levels leave the region perilously close to obtaining desert status.
So elected officials and city staff continue to search for new ways to reduce usage and increase supplies. Both are useful, yet still require a willing public. Starting Aug. 1, we'll see precisely how accepting Hays residents are of the latest conservation measure.
Targeting the top 20 percent of residential water users, who consume 44 percent of the total, another tier has been added to the monthly bill. While the majority of residents have river stones as part of the landscaping scheme, utilize warm-season grasses or simply allow their lawns to brown during the summer -- which keep their bills at a reasonable amount, there a number of Haysites who enjoy thick, green yards.
Many of those are maintained with minimal amounts of water, and generally a lot more hands-on green-thumbing. Those lawns are not the problem.
More troublesome are the vast expanses at some of the city's largest homes and commercial businesses that retain plushness with constant watering.
"Significant water waste still occurs within the community, during the driest time when our water sources are at their most vulnerable," said Assistant City Manager Paul Briseno at a recent work session.
Officials hope a third tier of billing will help reduce the approximate 3.8 million gallons of water per day used in Hays. Currently, customers are charged $1.80 per 100 cubic feet of water. Go above the average household consumption, which is determined by how much the consumer uses January through March, and the price will double to $3.60. The new tier will charge $7.20 per 100 cubic feet for all usage exceeding the average plus 1,000 cubic feet. If the city moves from the current water watch to either a water warning or emergency, the top tier's cost would be $10 per 100 cubic feet.
"If you have summer water bills that are 1,500 cubic feet or less, you won't have to worry about the third tier, ever," said Nick Willis, city of Hays stormwater superintendent.
"If anybody complains about this (rate change), they can very easily take themselves out of the top 20 percent by doing what the other 80 percent are doing," said City Commissioner Eber Phelps.
City staff will continue bringing new conservation techniques for the commission's consideration, and still are exploring the best option for long-term water availability.
In the meantime, we applaud the latest billing change. Hopefully the surcharge will encourage those homes and businesses to rein in wasteful watering. Unless weather patterns dramatically change and offer rain showers on a regular basis, reducing consumption is the only way to go.
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Affordable Dentist In Dallas, TX is giving you the best quality care
Locating the right pediatric dentist is essential if you want the most effective take care of your child. You wish to make certain that you make a good choice since you are probably mosting likely to want the very same dental experts throughout the years as your youngster expands. There are a couple of points that you should search for in order to find Affordable Dentistry No Insurance. The first thing that you need to look for is a dentist that has all the qualifications. Make certain that the dentist is licensed for pediatric work. You wish to additionally see to it that the dentist is accredited by the state that you are staying in. There are instances where dental practitioners might do pediatric job but have not completed a program in pediatric dental care.
Nevertheless, locating Community Dental Care Dallas TX that has experience, is respectable, which is also reliable in your neighborhood can be a difficult task. There are several places to resort to, whether it is the newspaper, tv, net, medical facility, or perhaps a pal. If you are feeling overwhelmed as well as are looking for a dentist then you must be aware of the different strategies for locating the appropriate dentist for the ideal cost.
Your teeth are just one of the most vital features on your face and having fantastic oral hygiene will certainly have an instant effect on your self-esteem and also oral wellness. Dental treatment is so essential for your overall health and also wellness that when it comes to finding a dentist you wish to make sure you choose the ideal one with years of experience. As soon as you find an excellent dentist that will do teeth repair and dental health cleansings, your mouth will contain less cavity causing microorganisms and also you will consequently be able to live a much healthier and also happier life.
You need to look for is to see if the dentist has experience with youngsters and also could interact with them successfully. Children will certainly require the inspiration to complete a treatment given that numerous children are afraid of discomfort or the dentist's workplace. The dentist should be extremely suiting to your kid as well as make sure that the kid's requirements are met. Things is to see just what kind of approaches the Children's Dentist Near Me uses to numb the discomfort. Remember that not all alternatives will be suitable for more youthful kids. It's ideal to do your study and identify the very best choice for you.
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There are lots of reasons that grownups avoid going to see the dentist. Among the most usual reasons is that individuals hesitate to see the dentist. They do not desire sharp things poking inside their mouths, and also several are afraid that if they visit the dentist they will learn they have some type of dental trouble, as well as might wind up requiring dental surgery.
The idea of dental surgery doesn't interest anyone, as well as individuals need to themselves that if they do not most likely to the dentist then they won't be informed that they need oral surgery. On the other hand, going to the dentist could help prevent you ever before needing to buckle down dental surgery, or even small dental surgery. An oral cleaning can vastly enhance your oral health and wellness and avoid the buildup of plaque and also germs that cause ultimate needed dental surgery.
To make sure that's a quick summary on how you can discover the ideal pediatric dentist. You want to invest a long time doing your research as you will certainly want a reliable dentist for your youngster in the complying with years. The right dentist could make all the difference in assisting keeping your youngster's dental health and wellness in good shape. So when was the last time you went to the dentist? If it's been greater than a year, it is necessary for you to head to the dentist as soon as possible. No matter what excuse you have for not mosting likely to the dentist, it is time to stop postponing a browse through to the dentist's workplace, since dental services could show important in the long run.
Next off, you intend to see if you can any type of responses from customers of the Emergency Pediatric Dentist Near Me. Does the dentist have clients you can talk to in order to confirm how great their solution is? Can you try to find evaluations on the internet concerning the dentist? Have you spoke with other people in your area that go to that dentist's office consistently? These are all things you can do to get an idea of the dentist's service.
Finally, you want to test the waters. The only method to see if the pediatric dentist is right for you is to embrace a couple of appointments. See just how your child reacts as well as search for another dentist if you feel that it isn't really appropriate for you. You could get the preliminary treatment but look in other places after every little thing is done. If you do not have any kind of list of possible pediatric dentists, you could call your insurance company as well as request any type of recommendations. The service provider will provide you a list of dental experts that are covered by your plan as well as you will have the ability to go from there.

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I am really obese. I am 5'7" weighing around 93 kg. I should be around 65 kg ideally, i.e I am 28 kg overweight which I want to lose. I have always been fat since my childhood so losing the weight e thing is very tough for me. I've been trying to control what I eat for some days but then I fall back into the same thing. This time I am quite serious about changing my eating habits. What foods can I eat to help reduce my weight?
I know about green tea and lemon, I've been drinking about 2 mugs of it per day. What else will be effective in losing weight? I will be really grateful. All I want is to get rid of this extra weight and curse.


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Southern California Public Radio Condemns Immigration March Violence
Los Angeles (May 3, 2007) - On Tuesday, May 1st, 89.3 KPCC News Reporter Patricia Nazario was injured after being assaulted by a member of the Los Angeles Police Department. Ms. Nazario was covering the immigration reform march at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.
The pro-immigration demonstrations created a significant regional and national news story, and it was important for KPCC, a Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) station, to assign multiple reporters to cover these marches and rallies. In the past year, similar demonstrations have been peaceful, and it was SCPR's expectation that this one would be no different.
"SCPR condemns the violent behavior of the small group of demonstrators that sparked the incident. SCPR appreciates the dangers and difficulties that police face, and we understand the importance of maintaining the public's safety in violent situations such as occurred this week," said SCPR President and CEO Bill Davis. "That said, SCPR condemns – in the strongest possible terms – the assault upon Ms. Nazario by a uniformed member of the LAPD. Ms. Nazario's press badge was clearly visible, and she verbally identified herself as a reporter to the police officer who subsequently hit her."
"SCPR is concerned about the LAPD's policies and procedures in this area. Our concerns extend to whether these policies and procedures are sufficient to guarantee the safety of journalists who report on potentially violent demonstrations," added Davis. "Furthermore, questions remain regarding whether the LAPD's leadership has been effective in communicating these policies and procedures to its rank-and-file officers."
Davis said SCPR is exploring all appropriate responses to this incident to ensure that what happened to Ms. Nazario never happens again.
Related KPCC Audio and News StoriesAudio: KPCC's Patricia Nazario, who was hit with a baton while police were breaking up the rally, speaks about the incident with KPCC producer Roger Rudick (5/1/07).
L.A. Immigrant Rights Rally Turns Violent (5/2/07)
Three Investigations to Probe MacArthur Park Clash (5/2/07)
March Organizers Decry Use of Force (5/2/07)
LAPD, Press have Long History of Bad Relationship (5/2/07)
Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) is a member-supported public radio network that operates 89.3 KPCC-FM in Los Angeles and Orange County, 89.1 KUOR-FM in the Inland Empire and 90.3 KPCV in the Coachella Valley. Reaching more than a 600,000 listeners every week, SCPR is the most listened to public radio news service of any kind in Southern California and serves the diverse communities of Southern California with award winning local news coverage as well as the most NPR (National Public Radio) content available anywhere in the region. SCPR's flagship station, KPCC, has garnered over 200 journalistic honors including 3 Distinguished Radio Journalist awards (from the Greater LA Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists) and the 2008 top honor for Breaking News from the LA Press Club. SCPR also features signature public radio programs from American Public Media, the BBC and Public Radio International. Listeners around the globe can access news, join blogs, download podcasts, as well as hear a live web stream at www.scpr.org.
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State of the art in 2008: the NAIS-300For a long time since its introduction in 2008 the NAIS-300 was the only AIS device on the market that had a NMEA 2000 interface as well as an NMEA 0183. At the time all AIS class B transceivers only had NMEA 0183, a fact easily explained by the fact that at the time all transceivers used the same OEM board manufactured by SRT.
Even before Simrad and Lowrance became part of the same industrial group both companies were early believers and adopters of the NMEA 2000 standard, in some case years earlier than others.
The NAIS-300 was probably the first "joint" product that was going to be used by both brands in the group, and it was also based on the SRT board. In addition to that board it contained a second circuit board that contains the NMEA 2000 interface.
That the NAIS-300 was the first (and only) meant that it did have some rough edges on the NMEA 2000 interface. As the NMEA had not yet agreed on or had time to standardize the PGNs necessary for class B AIS there were only PGNs for class A. Apparently the NMEA assumed that the existing PGNs could be used for class B as well. Thus the NAIS-300 was released with a company specific PGN 130842 for use with class B. It did mean that when used with a non-Navico display you would be able to see a class B device, but you would not be able to see its name, callsign, size of ship etc. The Simrad, Lowrance and B&G plotters understand the 130842 PGN and thus show all information transmitted by class B transponders. There were some additional issues with the NAIS-300 sending out a heading for ships that do not have a compass interfaced to the GPS. All in all the NAIS-300 is better off when combined with a Navico (Simrad/Lowrance/B&G) MFD when interfaced over NMEA 2000. If you don't, or care about the minor rough edges, I recommend you use the NMEA-0183HS output instead.
Fast forward four years
Earlier this year Navico announced the new NAIS-400 and their first AIS splitter, the NSPL-400. The NAIS-400 is again sourced from SRT. The new SRT board offers NMEA 2000 so the Navico engineers didn't have to tack it on, but they do write extra software for it or let SRT do this, as it still supports the Navico specific PGN 130842. Of course it also sends out the now approved standard PGNs 129809 and 129810. The NMEA 2000 interface is almost on par with the NMEA 0183 interface. [Update 2012-01-02:] I say almost because the NMEA 2000 interface does not yet transmit the GPS DOP (precision) data, unlike the slower serial ports. The GPS position data was added in the Nov 31, 2012 software update version 2.5, but DOP is still missing.
An interesting feature of the NAIS-400 is that it has basically three serial NMEA-0183 interfaces, one of which is USB and the other two RS-422. NMEA-0183 data received on the RS-422 ports is sent out over the other ports. This means that you can use the NAIS-400 as a general 2 port multiplexer. You can change the speed of the RS-422 ports in case you want a different speed than the standard 38k4. I had no issues running the RS-422 port A directly with a RS-232 port on my Linux system, but as usual you might have to insert a level converter if you have no success.
I measured the power consumption of a NAIS-400 with all interfaces (NMEA-0183, USB and NMEA-2000) running as 0.17 A at 12.2 V. The splitter power consumption was 0.13 A at 12.2 V.
Together this is still less than the consumption of the NAIS-300 which I measured to be 0.45 A.
So by itself the '400 uses one third of the power and has more features. What's not to like? Well maybe the physical packaging which uses a circular connector and a wire tail that you splice onto your own wiring. The problem with that is that this requires extra connections that are best hidden from sight in a duct. Any my duct near the installation location is rather full.
So installation wise I prefer the older one, but that's really the only bad thing I can say about the new transceiver. Overall, highly recommended.


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Plaza de las Tendillas square. Cordoba
Great Mosque of Cordoba
Great Mosque of Cordoba
Andalusian patio
Gardens in the Alcázar (fortress) of the Christian Monarchs
Hallway of a house on Calle Marroquíes
World Heritage, a certification granted by UNESCO.
Cordoba is situated in the interior of Andalusia where past and modernity blend in together. This thousand-year-old city, which has the World Heritage designation, is a living legacy of the different cultures that settled here throughout its history. Not many places in the world can say they have been the capital of Hispania Ulterior (Further Spain) under the Roman Empire, and capital of the Umayyad Caliphate. This splendour can also be seen because of the intellectualism of this city of knowledge, where figures like Seneca, Averroes or Maimonides were born. If you walk round the old quarter you will discover a beautiful network of alleyways, squares and white-washed courtyards surrounding the Great Mosque-Cathedral, which reflects the importance of the city in the Middle Ages, and is the symbol of the city.
Without disregarding its splendid past, Cordoba is definitely a modern city that has been able to adapt to the present day, offering the most modern infrastructures and services, as well as a large network of hotels. Very well connected to the other Andalusian capitals, Cordoba also has the high speed train (AVE) and a very extensive railway network linking it to all the big cities, like Madrid and Seville. Once inside the city, a large network of buses and taxis enable visitors to reach any destination in a few minutes. Cordoba is also synonymous with art, culture and leisure, thanks to a myriad of cultural events that are organised here throughout the year: Flamenco festivals, concerts, ballet and other activities that are complemented by a number of museums and an exciting nightlife.Meanwhile, the province is home to important buildings of the Andalusian heritage, whose highest expression is the Medina Azahara, located on the outskirts of the city. But there is great spectacle also for nature lovers. The parks of Sierra de Cardeña in Los Pedroches and Montoro, the Hornachuelos Sierra and Sierras Subbéticas offer the possibility of practising all kinds of open-air sports, while at the same time enjoying the natural wealth of this province.
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With the imprint of the old splendour of the Caliphate of Cordoba
The historic quarter in Cordoba, declared a World Heritage Site, still has the imprint of the old splendour of the Caliphate of Cordoba, which turned this city into one of the most cultivated and refined in medieval Europe.
In the 10th century, under Abderraman III, the Medina (town) had 1,000 mosques, 800 Arab baths, and an advanced street lighting system. The urban layout was almost as impressive as Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad. And the Great Mosque dominates the view. It became rapidly famous because of the brilliant way in which it was built and because of its rich details. The "forest of columns" (there are about a thousand), built on a Visigoth basilica, is one of the most attractive parts of the building. The first mosque has a quadrangular floor plan with nineteen naves, divided by double arches, combining horseshoe arches with semicircular arches. The decorative elements include brick alternated with stone, red and white, as well as sculpted marble, stuccowork, mosaics and plasterwork. The Cathedral and the Mosque are a single architectural space because after the Reconquest the idea was to build a Gothic cathedral inside the Mosque. Over the years Plateresque and Baroque elements were also included. Barrel vaults and Baroque ornamentation blend in with geometrical motifs and verses from the Koran. The Jewish Quarter also dates from that period. It spreads out from the Mosque to the walls and the Almodóvar Gate. It is made up of network of narrow streets with white-washed façades adorned with tiles and grilles. In this district you will find the Plazuela de las Flores, the house of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia, and the Synagogue, the only one that remains in the city.
Cultural Cordoba
In the 13th century under Ferdinand III the Saint, defensive structures such as the Alcázar fortress of the Christian Monarchs and the Calahorra Tower were rebuilt. The Alcázar is a defensive construction next to the Guadalquivir River, with magnificent gardens, fountains and irrigation channels behind its walls. On the other side of the San Raphael Triumph monument and the Roman bridge, you'll find the tower, which was part of castle walls.The city of Cordoba is built around many squares. El Potro, Corredera and Capuchinos squares, the latter being where the Christ of Los Faroles (the lanterns) sculpture is found, are three beautiful examples of meeting points in Cordoba. Amongst the numerous buildings in the historic quarter, the highlights include the churches of San Pedro, San Andrés or La Compañía.If you like museums, in Cordoba you will find the Bullfighting Museum, the Archaeological Museum, the Fine Arts Museum, and the Julio Romero de Torres Museum.The Archaeology Museum with its Iberian, Roman, Visigoth, Muslim, Mudejar and Renaissance items, can be found in the Renaissance Palace of the Páez family.The Fine Arts Museum, situated in the old La Caridad Hospital, houses an interesting collection of work mostly by Andalusian artists. Highlights include drawings by Valdés Leal, Zurbarán, Murillo, Palomino, Antonio del Castillo and Juan de Peñalosa, and sculptures by Juan de Mesa and Mateo Inurria.The Museum of Fine Arts shares its courtyard with the Julio Romero de Torres Museum, which houses the work by this Cordoba-born painter, who became very popular thanks to his paintings full of customs, symbolism and a certain halo of mystery.The Diocesan Museum of Fine Arts, in the old Episcopal Palace, dedicates a room to artists from the province. Another important room is the one dedicated to medieval art, and the collection of tapestries and choir books from the cathedral also stands out.Casa de las Bulas (16th century) houses the Bullfighting Museum, which has a bullfighting-related collection, and many of the items are closely connected with the bullfighting tradition in the city.Cordoba also has major art centres including La Merced Palace, housing the regional government, and Viana Palace, also known as the Patios Museum. Its rooms, as well as rich furniture, contain important collections of paintings, tapestries, china, tiles and firearms.No less important are the many exhibition spaces in the city, such as the Sala Capitulares.
Protected spaces with a high ecological value
People who love nature and sports with a low impact on the environment will find protected spaces with a high ecological value in the province of Cordoba. Some of them are the nature parks of Sierra de Cardeña y Montoro, Sierra de Hornachuelos and Sierras Subbéticas.
These spaces have many hiking routes and the chance to practise climbing, caving, mountain biking and paragliding. Routes along the banks of the Guadalquivir River and the Cordoba countryside will enable you to discover the natural treasures in this province. Cordoba is great for hunting, especially in the Sierra Morena mountains. There are several controlled hunted areas - more than 200 private reserves and 1,300 small game reserves. The Guadalquivir Reserve and its tributaries, as well as the reservoirs, offer ideal places for pole fishing. Golf lovers will also be able to enjoy the excellent facilities that the Cordoba Country Club and Pozoblanco Golf Club offer, both with 18 holes.
A wide variety of inland products
The year-round orange colour and smell of orange blossom in spring provide the ideal setting to try a wide variety of products (Iberian cured meats, cheese, fish and mainly excellent stews) served in almost all the bars and restaurants in the city, washed down with a large glass of wine, which has a special taste in Cordoba. The old quarter and districts like San Andrés, San Lorenzo and Santa Marina are full of traditional taverns where you can enjoy delicious tapas: go from one bar to another and enjoy delicious wine from Cordoba (the best is the Montilla-Moriles Designation of Origin) and small and varied portions of typical dishes which are often free with your drink. You can try pickled anchovies or the typical flamenquín (fried serrano ham roll). Tipping is not obligatory, although it is common practice. If you are looking for elaborate cuisine, you will find magnificent restaurants in the historic quarter and in the city centre. When ordering, bear in mind that some of the most typical dishes of the area are salmorejo (a type of cold tomato soup with bread, garlic and olive oil), bull's tail or pastel cordobés (puff pastry filled with candied pumpkin).
For young people
A wide range of activities for young people
Cordoba is a cheerful, lively city, which is why it makes such an easy connection with young people.
One of the main customs is to spend the evening at the terraces and ice-cream parlours or to make the rounds of the best of the traditional inns and taverns. Many of these have a particular look and some, such as the famous "Pepe el de la Judería" ("Pepe of the Jewish Quarter"), now belong to the living history of the city. Other experiences you can't miss in Cordoba are the shows in one of the flamenco clubs (look for them in the Jewish Quarter) or one of the guided night tours that start in Plaza de las Tendillas. Later in the night, when its discotheques, pubs and fashionable nightspots open, Cordoba becomes a party town where you can enjoy music and dancing into the early hours of the morning. You'll find these places in the centre and the area surrounding the Town Hall, as well as in areas such as El Arenal, Ciudad Jardín or Polígono Chinales. Or if you prefer, the city and its surroundings have great leisure centres, with shops, restaurants and multiplex cinemas, such as Cines El Arcángel, Zoco Multicines and Guadalquivir Cinemas. Student Card holders enjoy big reductions on the admission price. This ID will also give discounts on admission to the majority of the city's museums and exhibitions. Cordoba's calendar of leisure events includes an attractive range of festivals covering different fields of the arts: music, theatre, cinema, etc. Some of them have a long tradition in the province, as in the case of "Pop-Zoblanco", a summer festival open to upcoming young pop and rock artists. In July and August Cordoba organises the "Noches de embrujo" (Nights of Enchantment) festival, where horse and flamenco shows take place every night; as well as music, dance and theatre festivals; performances inside the monuments, recitals… Film lovers will head for the Audiovisual Creation Competition of Cabra, which focuses of the world of short films. Other very attractive festivals include the Theatre Fair of the South, held annually in Palma del Río, and Sensxperiment, which gathers the latest trends in multimedia and experimental art. There is also a cultural theme park recreating the ancient splendour of the Caliphate of Cordoba, called Ciudad Al Mansur. This space includes a faithful reproduction of a medieval Hispanic-Moorish city, with gardens, a mosque, a palace and typical Arab street markets.
With children
Fun for all the family
In Cordoba there are many green spaces around the city, where you can go for a stroll, and for children to have fun. The Botanical Gardens, situated on the right side of the Guadalquivir River, are one of the main places for this.
This place has an Ethnobotanical Museum, the only one of its type in Spain and teaches about the relationship of the human race with plants. Most of it is outdoors, with large wooded areas. It has a greenhouse divided into different microclimates. Opposite the Botanical Gardens is Cordoba Zoo, which is designed as a garden with abundant vegetation. Here children will be able to discover a little about the local fauna. However, in the capital there are also many other charming spaces, such as the Moorish-style Alcázar gardens, with pools, water jets, hedges and aromatic plants; the Paseo de la Victoria, together with the Diego de Rivas and the Vallellano gardens, a beautiful urban green area; or the Ribera Gardens, situated in the Guadalquivir riverbed, with islets, waterfowl and old mills, as well as the Albolafía waterwheel. Like any large city, Cordoba has a good number of cinemas. Most of them screen films in special children's matinees on weekends and public holidays, with special prices for children.
Córdoba con niños
The rest of the province of Cordoba also offers many activities for children. In the town of La Carlota, surrounded by nature, youngsters will be able to visit the Fuente Redonda Educational Farm and to learn first-hand about the rural way of life. The facilities include, among others, a stable, an orchard, a swimming pool, and other recreational areas. During the summer, Aquasierra opens its doors to combat the heat with water and many cool rides. This water park, 25 kilometres from Cordoba city, will provide unforgettable days of fun days for people of all ages.
The cobbled streets of the old quarter of Cordoba are filled with small shops selling quality craft products. Ornately carved silver, leather repoussé work and food produce are the most popular souvenirs of the city.
From the typical souvenirs and craft work from the shops and workshops of the Jewish Quarter, to the fashion, books and CDs from the shops in the pedestrian precinct in the centre of the city or the shopping centres on the outskirts, the city of Cordoba offers the visitor a wide range of products.
Other useful information
Opening times: some shops, especially the major franchises and the shopping centres, are open from 10am-9pm. Traditional shops open from 10am-1.30pm and from 5-8.30pm approximately. Sales: the winter sales generally begin in the second week of January and go on until the end of February, and the summer sales begin on 1 July and run until the end of August. How to pay: most people pay in cash or with a credit card, when you must show your passport or identity card. Tax free: residents from outside the European Union are entitled to have Value Added Tax (IVA) refunded on purchases of more than €90.15.
Modern facilities for trade fairs and conventions
Cordoba, a traditional melting pot of different cultures, stands today as an important business centre. For this purpose, the city offers the most modern facilities, which can host all kinds of trade fairs, conventions and forums, both national and international.
Quick and easy access to the city is possible thanks to the location of Cordoba Airport, a few kilometres away from the city centre, and the Madrid-Sevilla high speed train (AVE). The IFECO, the Cordoba Institute of Fairs and Exhibitions, organises exhibitions and shows at the San Carlos Trade Fair Centre, located beside the N-IV motorway. The Congress and Exhibition Hall, equipped with versatile rooms, auditoriums, press rooms and other facilities, plays host to many conferences, seminars, and business meetings. Cordoba also has an excellent network of accommodation to meet visitors' needs. The city boasts a varied selection of four-star hotels, in exceptional locations to the north of the capital on the slope of the sierra, and in the historic quarter, within walking distance of all the main monuments. Among these, the Parador de Córdoba, located on the slopes of the mountain, gives wonderful views of the countryside and the city. In addition, the city provides wide range of three-star accommodation. Cordoba's many tourist attractions include numerous cinemas, museums, restaurants, pavement cafés, and so on. All this goes along with the Andalusian charm of the area around the Mosque-Cathedral, by day or by night.


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Lightning Acquire RW B.J. Crombeen From St. Louisby Staff Writer / Tampa Bay Lightning
The Tampa Bay Lightning have acquired right wing B.J. Crombeen and a fifth-round pick in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for both their 2013 and 2014 fourth-round picks, vice president and general manager Steve Yzerman announced today.
Crombeen, 6-foot-2, 210 pounds, has played in 288 career NHL games with the Blues and Dallas Stars, registering 27 goals and 56 points with 580 penalty minutes. He has logged more than 148 penalty minutes in three of the previous four seasons. The only one in which he did not reach that mark was last season, when he recorded 71 PIM in 40 games played. During the 2010-11 season he led the Blues in penalty minutes with 154 and was tied for sixth in the NHL with 17 fighting majors.
A native of Denver, Colorado, Crombeen registered a goal and three points last season with 50 shots on goal. He has averaged 12:03 in ice time per game during his career, including more than 12 minutes in three of the previous four seasons.
Crombeen, 27, was drafted by Dallas in the second-round, 54th overall, of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He was claimed off waivers by St. Louis on November 18, 2008.


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Alright I have to admit I'm confused with how DNS works. I've always just added things until they worked, and now it's time to learn how they work.
So one confusing thing to me is that there's sort of two places I can have records. I have an account with rackspace cloud servers. And then there's the place I registered the domain. But both allow me to edit DNS records.
Should I do everything at both places or is one better than the other or am I missing the point?
Subdomains confuse me too. I'd like to be able to just have a wildcard subdomain (I've done this in the past.) I just don't like the idea of adding a cname record or A record every time I need a new subdomain.
Then I read this and it says:
The exact rules for when a wild card will match are specified in RFC 1034, but the rules are neither intuitive nor clearly specified. This has resulted in incompatible implementations and unexpected results when they are used.


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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) sent the following letter on February 3, 2012:
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hopes your upcoming meetings with China's Vice President Xi Jinping are productive, and we respectfully urge you to raise critical issues of religious freedom and the rule of law during the visit. We know you are personally committed to protecting the vulnerable and expanding the rule of law. We urge you to demonstrate unwavering support for freedom of religion or belief and the rule of law by raising the situation of those in prison, disappeared, or under pressure in China for seeking greater government accountability, religious freedom, and other human rights.
The religious freedom situation in China has worsened in recent years. The Chinese government accommodates some religious practice, but repression of peaceful religious activity remains intense and widespread, focusing on Tibetan Buddhists, Uighur Muslims, Catholics, unregistered Christians, and spiritual movements such as the Falun Gong. Religious prisoners in China have reported torture and ill-treatment in prison, and while we do not have the precise number, we are aware of hundreds of religious prisoners. In the past year the Chinese government has expanded efforts to control the doctrines, worship sites, and selection of religious personnel of the majority of China's religious communities. In Tibetan and Uighur areas of China, the escalating oppression of free religious practice has created deep resentments that cannot be mitigated by the increased repression or economic inducements being tried by Beijing at this time.
China's growing number of human rights lawyers and rights defenders have also come under intense pressure in the past year, often for defending religious freedom. Despite promises by China's leaders to become a nation governed by the rule of law, those who seek to advance fundamental freedoms are often abused and disbarred. The United States has long connected the establishment of the rule of law with respect for human rights in China. Such a connection is blunted when our rule of law programs and outreach prioritize economic interests over protection of the vulnerable or improving commercial regulations over assisting China to fulfill its international human rights obligations, including the freedom of religion and belief.
USCIRF has welcomed your statements in the past year about why religious freedom is an important American interest, fundamental to our nation's history. We respectfully urge you to discuss with Vice President Xi Jinping why religious freedom is in China's interest, detailing the tangible diplomatic, political, social welfare, security, and economic benefits gained by fully protecting and promoting religious freedom, as well as explaining the costs of continued repression to the future growth of bilateral relations.
In addition to these suggested actions taken during the Xi Jinping visit, we also urge the administration to consider taking the following actions prior to the visit:
•meet with Chinese human rights defenders, religious leaders, and exiled dissidents living in the United States and solicit their opinions about China's deteriorating human rights situation and how to approach Chinese leaders about it;
•release publicly a list of human rights priorities that will be raised during the Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the Legal Experts' Dialogue and the Human Rights Dialogue with China over the next year and announce that human rights and related rule of law issues will be pursued at the highest levels and across your administration; and
•release publicly a list of religious freedom benchmarks to be met before the next U.S.- China Human Rights Dialogue, including addressing the specific grievances of the Tibetan Buddhist and Uighur ethnic minorities, freeing all prisoners, allowing unregistered Christian groups to meet without harassment, ending repressive security measures at Tibetan monasteries, allowing lawyers to vigorously defend their clients without retribution, and ending torture of religious prisoners. Without specific benchmarks the dialogues have not been productive and only reach agreements on when to meet again.
As your administration begins the policy of re-balancing relations with Asia, the visit of China's future President provides an opportunity to demonstrate that U.S. interests encompass more than security and trade. We appreciate the statements you have made in the past about the deteriorating situation in Tibet and on prominent prisoners such as Gao Zhisheng. We ask that you continue to send a clear and consistent message that religious freedom and related human rights are a critical interest of U.S.-China relations.
Leonard Leo
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World Heritage Sites are defined by UNESCO as "irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration" and in February of this year my daughter and I visited three of them in Queensland, Australia, --one made of sand, one under water and one in the trees.
Never Run Through The Jungle
The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site stretches 450 kilometres south from Cooktown to Townsville. Mammals found nowhere else on Earth like the tree kangaroo and the green possum live under its high leafy canopy. Gigantic hanging ferns and ancient plants from the days of the dinosaurs grow here in a tangle of shapes and textures. Spectacular numbers of insects, beautiful butterflies as big as your hand and bugs that smell like peppermint thrive in the humid climate. It's also a bird lover's paradise, home to 370 different species of birds including the yellow sunbird, red and green King parrots and the rare 1.5-metre tall blue headed Cassowary. The wettest, most northern part of the site is located in Daintree National Park, famous for huge, aggressive salt water crocodiles known as "salties" that live along the banks of the Daintree River.
To help visitors get acquainted with the lush life of the rainforest, the park has an excellent interpretive centre with knowledgeable rangers, multimedia exhibits, an aerial walkway and a forest floor trail.
To reach the rainforest just outside of Cairns, we took a trip on the Kuranda Scenic Railway. At the top of the mountain, we boarded Skyrail cable cars and rode with rainforest stretched out below us in every direction like a green cloud. At the Red Peak station, an Australian ranger named Bill showed us a ragged line of tiny green ants. They are a traditional, edible cure for colds, flu and chest infections and their bite is a cure for fever, a remedy Bill uses himself.
"Never run through the jungle," was his advice as he showed us the razor-sharp hooks of the leaves on a vine that's 120-metres long. "Once you get tangled up with one of these, you can't get away without a lot of pain --that's why we call it a lawyer vine."
Port Douglas is a good home base for exploring this area, with reef tours, golf courses and even a small zoo. It's easier to navigate than Cairns, with buildings that can only be built as high as a coconut tree and a permanent population of less than 1,000. Hotels range from quiet and comfortable holiday apartments to the luxurious Peppers Beach Club near Four Mile Beach.
What's So Great About The Barrier Reef?
Leaving the rainforest behind, we headed to our next World Heritage Site, the Great Barrier Reef. The reef stretches more than 2,300 kilometres along the coast from the pointed tip of Cape York to almost halfway down the eastern coast of the continent.
The reef is closest to the coast at the Whitsunday group of islands near Airlie Beach and that's where we joined a Fantasea cruise to Reefworld. Divers and snorkellers come from all over the world to swim amid the more than 1,000 species of fish and hundreds of types of coral that live at Fantasea's base at Hardy Reef.
Flotillas of colourful fish flickered all around us as we floated over canyons with huge brain and branch corals clinging to the walls.
We cruised along the colourful reef wall in a semi-submarine and watched the fish (and the people) swimming by in the underwater viewing chamber. There are no dangerous sharks at this part of the reef, so no worries, mate!
Airlie Beach was our headquarters for the Whitsundays. It's a lively vacation town, with a three-kilometre walkway along the beach that passes eclectic shops, beautiful ocean views and the Airlie Lagoon.
The warm evenings were lively with restaurants full of folks enjoying a glass of wine or two. On Saturdays there's a bustling market offering homemade jams and baking, lots of inexpensive beach clothes, jewelry, books and camel rides along the beach for the children. There is a tidy, centrally located hostel and a range of hotel possibilities.
We liked the Coral Sea Resort for its secluded location overlooking Airlie Bay and its award-winning Australian fusion restaurant, Clipper.
Got Sand?
Our last stop was the largest sand island in the world, Fraser Island. The massive drifts of dunes, more than 100 freshwater lakes and the 120-kilometre beach highway are irresistible for nature lovers.
The unique ecology that has created a dry rainforest, peat swamps, fens, bogs and dune lakes made Fraser Island a World Heritage Site in 1992. Towering pines, eucalyptus, ancient ferns and flowers line the hiking paths. During our two days there, we visited a perched dune lake the colour of tea; the Champagne Pools, natural swimming holes carved out of the lava at the ocean's edge, and warm Lake Wabby.
Currently, the deepest lake on Fraser, Lake Wabby is expected to be invaded by dunes in about 80 years.
Beach fishing, whale watching, hiking, swimming, and driving on the beach--there's lots to do on Fraser Island. It's a real wilderness experience with dingoes, lizards, bats and birds for company.
Since there are no paved roads or commercialized areas, the island feels peaceful, quiet and remote, a true refuge of life and inspiration like all of Queensland's World Heritage Sites.


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Interactive Stories are stories where you interact with the storyteller. You need a storyteller AND a listener who interacts. You can link up with a partner here.
Originally Interactive Stories were used in the classroom, but due to the digital revolution, we can now create a huge virtual classroom.
You can find an interactive story partner on this website and then use an internet audio application (Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, etc.) to link up with your partner in another country or another continent.
We can all work together and help each other to improve our speaking and listening language skills and our vocabulary.
You can also use Interactive Stories to improve your grammar because they start simple and get progressively more complicated in grammar.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin a four-day tour throughout Africa, with his first stop in Mozambique, according to The Tribune. The prime minister has agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding with the southern African country to double the amount of legume imports by 2021. Mozambique's economy has struggled due to such factors as corruption and decreased donor aid from the international community.
The deal with India will provide an economic cushion that Mozambique desperately needs while giving Maputo access to a vital emerging market. In return for increased legume imports, India will provide Mozambique with seeds as well as any support the country may need. Agriculture is an important sector in Mozambique, and the deal will enhance the sector as a devastating drought may lead to food shortages in the region.
Modi aims to counter China's growing influence in Africa, and India strives to increase investment throughout the continent. India, however, has some competition. China has a firm business presence in Mozambique, and Maputo authorities rely on the Chinese now more than ever.
Mozambique has drawn the ire of the world community in wake of several high-profile scandals. For instance, Mozambique diverted bond funds designed to finance a fishing fleet and used it to fund the defense budget. Moreover, Mozambique admitted to accepting loans without disclosing them to the IMF.
Mozambique's tainted history has caused donors and investors to withdraw financial support, hampering development. As a result, policymakers have pivoted to Beijing for help, but the Chinese have taken advantage of the African country's vulnerability.
The Chinese have mostly rendered aid in the form of infrastructure projects, but Mozambique's relationship with China is of little help as Chinese companies contract workers and materials from within instead of utilizing local talent.
Mozambican companies and workers have been left behind in the process, and the ultimate goal of China is to gain access to the nation's precious natural resources. Maputo has substantial offshore natural gas reserves and intends to enhance its energy sector in the coming years.
India has a chance to gain a larger foothold in Mozambique, but it will take some time, as India has failed to maintain ties with the country throughout the decades. Modi's visit will be the first time an Indian prime minister has visited Mozambique in 34 years.
With that, New Delhi can counter China's policy by offering enticing deals that African officials can ill afford to refuse. The legume deal is a first step, but the prime minister will also address potential investments outside of agriculture, including possible development assistance within Mozambique's energy sector, notes Business Standard.
The West shunned Mozambique temporarily, but the government is finding support among powerful emerging markets that could carry the nation forward. Transparency remains an issue, however, and it remains to be seen if leaders will commence reforms that would clean up corruption and foster truthfulness.
Mozambique not only contends with state corruption, but also corruption within the business sector, which could potentially prevent further development efforts with India. It will take some time for Mozambique to regain trust with Western powers, and it is incumbent upon authorities to learn from past mistakes and clean up their act to avoid further isolation from the world community.


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Constellation Cup victors last month, the Silver Ferns came crashing back to earth today in Sydney with an ugly defeat to Australia in the clash of the Quad Series heavyweights.
The 20-goal defeat was the Ferns biggest loss to Australia since 2000, while the Diamonds 68-goals was the highest score they've ever racked up against their transtasman rivals.
The Ferns never looked in it from the opening whistle, with the Australian side, stung by their 2-1 series loss to New Zealand last month, committed and focused from the outset.
The smothering defence the Ferns pride themselves on did not seem to click in to place, as the visitors struggled to force any turnover ball from the slick Diamonds attack.
But where New Zealand side struggled the most was in the midcourt, with Kayla Cullen, still new to the centre position, finding the going tough against Australia. Cullen
The Ferns could not seem to get any rhythm on attack, with their ball movement through court slow and stilted. That placed unnecessary pressure on the likes of Laura Langman and Maria Tutaia, who both had extremely high turnover counts.
Keen to expose some different lines against Australia, Waimarama Taumaunu opted to start Cathrine Latu at goal shoot and Cullen at centre, with Laura Langman moving to wing attack - not a good sign for rookie midcourter Bailey Mes.
Undone by some poor starts during the Constellation Cup series, Lisa Alexander demanded intensity from her side from the outset.
The Diamonds duly responded, with Catherine Cox and Susan Pratley starting strongly and confidently in the shooting circle as they made sure they capitalised on every scrap of ball their side won.
Trailing 13-6 nine minutes in to the match, the Silver Ferns called an injury break to try and address their awful start. The look of disapproval on Taumaunu's face said it all,
But the break did little to spark a revival from the Ferns as the continued to make basic errors on attack.
With the scoreline blowing out to 19-9 by the first break, Taumaunu was forced to abandon her efforts to give Latu more gametime against Australia, and call in Irene van Dyk off the bench.
Ferns captain Casey Williams, who earlier in the week admitted she is still struggling for form, was also injected at quartertime, replacing Leana de Bruin at goal defence.
While the Ferns midcourter looked more comfortable feeding van Dyk, the Australian defence did a good job of preventing New Zealand from getting good circle edge feeding positions.
By halftime Australia had managed to extend their lead out to 35-23, with Cox looking unstoppable in the shooting circle, putting the ball up from all over the circle.
With limited midcourt options on the bench, Taumaunu had little choice to stick with Cullen and Langman, though it was clear the Ferns vice-captain was missed in centre.
The sprawling, if a little uncoordinated defensive style of Rebecca Bulley and Bianca Chatfield, caused Tutaia all sorts of problems, and as her frustration grew, so too did her error count, with the star shooter finishing with 12 of the team's 27 turnovers.


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- The pion source as seen through HBT correlations at RHIC energies is investigated within the UrQMD approach. We find that the calculated transverse momentum, centrality, and system size dependence of the Pratt-HBT radii R_L and R_S are reasonably well in line with experimental data. The predicted R_O values in central heavy ion collisions are larger as compared to experimental data. The corresponding quantity sqrt R_O^2-R_S^2 of the pion emission source is somewhat larger than experimental estimates.
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Liberty allows three late power play goals in 7-4 loss to Ohio
March 2, 2013 | Chicago, Ill.
A roller coaster ride of a season ended with the wheels coming off the train for Liberty University's Division I men's hockey team, Saturday night at The Edge Ice Arena in Chicago, Ill. The 13th-seeded Flames suffered a 7-4 season-ending setback to fourth-seeded Ohio in the second round of the ACHA DI national tournament.
"We missed a bunch of good opportunities," Liberty head coach Kirk Handy said. "There were a lot of times, like at the end of the first period and the beginning of the third, where we were on the brink of getting right back into the game. At the end of the second period, it's 4-3, we killed off a penalty and we're in good shape. But we were in the box way too much tonight."
The Flames gave up a season-high 65 shots and came close to setting a new team record for penalty minutes in a regulation contest.
"Clayton Brown played a solid game for us tonight in goal, but you can't give up that many shots and expect to win," Handy said. "For eight minutes of the third period, we didn't play well at all. It was just one of those things where you could see it slipping away. We kept marching into the penalty box."
After dominating John Carroll in the third period of Friday night's opener, scoring five goals in the final 20 minutes of a 7-1 win and outshooting the Blue Streaks by a 55-27 count on the night, Liberty gave up the first three goals of the third period to slip into a four-goal hole.
"It was more of a chess match tonight for two periods," Handy said. "When we stopped playing the chess match and went away from it, they took advantage. Short-handed goals were just killing us."
Despite having the tables turned and being outshot by more than a 2-to-1 margin for the game, Liberty (24-14-2) was still within striking distance at the end of the first and second periods. However, it wasn't able to carry much in the way of momentum over into the second and third stanzas.
Freshman forward Danny Logan trimmed the deficit to 2-1 with just four seconds left in the first off assists from Ryley Egan and Jackson Kuhn before Liberty tied it at 2-2 on the first of two goals by Egan, a quick wrist shot to the stick side of Ohio goalie Matt Michno set up by Logan and Kuhn.
However, the Flames allowed the Bobcats (28-7-2) to net the next two scores before trimming it back to 4-3 on a goal by Ryan Kerr from an impossible angle off assists from Cam Bakker and Christian Garland with 5:19 left in the second.
Then in the third, trailing by the lone goal, Kyle Garcia missed a golden opportunity to tie the game with the Flames on a penalty kill. Additional time in the penalty box put Liberty in a pinch as it allowed the Bobcats to score their second and third straight power-play goals to take a commanding 6-3 lead less than five minutes into the third.
Ohio, which advances to Sunday's third-round matchup with Iowa State, a winner over tournament host Robert Morris Illinois, extended its advantage to 7-3 before Egan finished off the scoring with his second goal on a putback of a shot by Brent Boschman in front of the cage with 4:29 to go.
"At the end, we didn't put out the effort that was needed in the third period," Handy said. "Ohio played better than us tonight and walked away with the victory. There were moments where we played with them, but obviously, they were the better team tonight."
He said the Flames' experience in the national tournament was a microcosm of their entire year.
"It was kind of a streaky season, to start out strong and back off again, up and down, up and down," Handy said. "That's kind of what we have to correct for next season. We've got to have a little more consistency, for sure."


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Today's epistle reading for morning prayer (Anglican BCP) was in 1 Timothy, Paul's pastoral advice to his student: "Similarly, women are to wear suitable clothes and to dress quietly and modestly, without braided hair or gold or jewellry or expensive clothes; their adornment is to do the good works that are proper for women who claim to be religious."
And Paul goes on to say that he does not give the women in Timothy's congregation permission to teach or have authority over men, that they are to remember that they are to be quiet and meek, and that their work of salvation shall be in raising Christian families. Well, that is not the attitude to make Paul popular, but so be it, it's what he said. Yes, I know that some scholars consider these pastorals doubtful, but I believe them to be Paul's own, very personal letters, hence the difference in style. Maybe Timothy's congregation was getting rowdy or boastful, and the women were beginning to take on the attitude of pagan priestesses, so they got a reprimand. But that's not really my point. Paul supported the ministry of other women in other places, so I don't think we can generalize too much from his private advice to Timothy.
Christians at the time were beginning to evolve a distinct way of life that was even less cultural than Judaism. They were already running various charitable outlets, and both men and women were told to look and act like followers of Christ in public. Women were to avoid vain dress and action, spending their time in family life, and public good works. They were not to be sitting around, having their hair cut, dyed and braided or curled (yes, they did those things then), and gadding about from jewelry shop to clothing store. Their modesty in covering their heads and bodies, their modest demeanour in the streets, and their dedication to God and family were the distinguishing marks of faith.
My husband and I were on the bus last week, early evening, headed home from our church in the West End. He remarked as he looked out the window, "Hey, Charlie's Angels," as three young women strolled past in low-cut, short skirted dresses, hair fashionably lacquered into place, and faces like masks. They were a bit over the top – and they must have been shivering in the cold autumn wind. Yes, I rolled my eyes, but inside I felt sorry for them. They yearn for excitement and attention, but they are going to get lewdness and disrespect. That kind of excitement is like finding a python in your bedroom, and the attention like finding out that it is hungry. There isn't really a good outcome unless you can run.
Anabaptist writers have mentioned that Plain women get more attention publically than Plain men, since their dress is so distinctive and counter-cultural. Maybe this is our own special witness as women, to be a sort of lighthouse in the dark world. It isn't enough that we don't look like other people, but we can't act like other people.
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Mrs. Boudreau, 80, was listed in critical condition today, according to a hospital spokesman.
Mrs Boudreau's husband, Rene Boudreau, 85, died in the mishap.
Police said the Fitchburg couple's vehicle plunged into the river, off Westminster Street, early Sunday morning. It appears Mrs. Boudreau, who was driving, accidentally accelerated while in reverse, sending the car down a small embankment and into the river, police said. The car overturned.
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Development: How to submit patches
Patch Preparation
Patches should be created against the v4l-dvb mercurial tree; see How to build from mercurial.
For references on how to develop a driver, take a look at Index of Documentation for People Interested in Writing and/or Understanding the Linux Kernel.
Post your patches to the video4linux mailing list for review and testing.
Follow the guidelines in Documentation/SubmittingPatches (cf. jgarzik's version), including:
- Verify best-practice kernel coding style
- Use [PATCH] in the subject line to get attention
- Explain what the patch does and what hardware it applies to
- Document your work where appropriate, in the form of patches to Documentation/video4linux files
- Add a Signed-off-by: Your name <email@example.com> as a Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
- Fix any problems and repeat until everyone is happy ;)
- Send the patch inline, not as an attachment
Hint: There's a checklist for patch submission
Subscription to the V4l mailing list is recommended but not required.
The patch will be applied to the main mercurial tree. Once tested and integrated, patches are merged into a git tree by the v4l maintainer and periodically pulled by Linus.


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Shubha Tuljapurkar's good fortune as a child growing up in India to have a quality education in math and science is now the good fortune of hundreds of Silicon Valley students.
As the local director for a national educational startup called Globaloria, Tuljapurkar helps kids in struggling schools to use software and coding tools, developing skills by creating their own educational video games.
"I was very fortunate growing up to have that sort of education," says the statistician and engineer, who first came to the United States more than 40 years ago. "My own parents made me feel like I could do science or math, and I want everyone, especially young girls, to have that opportunity. The students we work with now really shine — they realize there's nothing holding them back."
We spoke recently with Tuljapurkar. Her comments have been edited for space and clarity:
Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
A: I was born in Mumbai and went to college at the Indian Institutes of Technology, where I studied physics and got my master's degree. I'd gotten married in India, and my husband wanted to do his Ph.D in physics, which brought us to Portland, Oregon. I worked for Pacific Northwest Bell as a statistician, because my background was numbers. I later got my MBA at Boston University, then returned to the West Coast and worked for Intel as a product marketing engineer, which was a blast. Intel was a really dynamic and growing company back in 1979. Everything was really go-go and they were introducing exciting new products.
Q: I know you worked at various startups over the years, and then in 2002 sort of shifted gears?
A: That's right. I took a break and started consulting for smaller companies, beginning with a company that was building video-recording and encoding systems. Then in 2008, I took a break from that for personal reasons; my dad was sick back in India and I was shuttling back and forth a lot. I started thinking I wanted to do something totally different with my life and give back to the community.
Q: How did you get involved with Globaloria?
A: I got involved with Legacy Venture, a nonprofit that hooks up people who have business experience with companies in the nonprofit sector. I was interested in education and I kept hearing that there weren't enough upcoming young engineers in the valley and this sounded like a place I could help out. I joined the Silicon Valley Education Foundation in 2011 and through them met the founder of the World Wide Workshop, Idit Caperton, in New York. She's the brains behind Globaloria, and she asked me to help grow the program in Silicon Valley.
Q: So how does it work?
A: Globaloria is a learning platform for kids K-12, and it offers multiple courses in STEM computing and coding through game design. So the kids are learning how to build a video game through our online platform and in the process they're acquiring all the tech skills they'll need for the 21st century, whether it's engineering systems, finding resources on the Web, or coding. And it's all tied into the normal classes that any school would offer.
Q: How much has Globaloria grown since you started in 2011?
A: We're now in 10 schools and two community centers in Santa Clara County. Of those, there are three high schools and seven middle schools, with a total of 1,100 kids involved.
Q: And you chose the schools in part because the kids there needed more exposure to science, math and engineering?
A: Yes. Christopher School, for example, is an underserved elementary school, with a lot of students from low socio-economic backgrounds. And this program is particularly engaging because most kids love video games and this is a way to get them into programming. They're playing them all the time anyway, so we say 'Don't just play the game, create a game of your own." And they become producers of their own educational games.
Q: And the kids are thriving?
A: The two things that blow me away are how confident they become as their games come along and how their communication skills grow alongside their coding skills. A lot of kids who maybe initially wanted nothing to do with coding are suddenly blossoming.
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc
Five facts about Shubha Tuljapurkar
1. Loves photography of all kinds: family, travel, landscapes, birds and wildlife.
2. Enthusiastic traveler, has visited over 30 countries on five continents, and Australia is next on the list.
3. Likes fly fishing with her husband in Northern California.
4. Started birding several years ago, and aims to get better at identifying bird songs.
5. Looking forward to spending time with granddaughter Louise.
Shubha Tuljapurkar
Birth date: Aug 19, 1950
Birth place: Mumbai, India
Position: Globaloria Network Director, West
Previous jobs: Vice president and general manager of multimedia chipsets and processors at LSI Logic and Silicon Magic; head of marketing and business development at Telairity, which makes Video Encoding Systems for the broadcast industry; started career as a statistician for Pacific Northwest Bell (pre-breakup) and transitioned to marketing at Intel after getting an MBA.
Education: Master of science in Physics from Indian Institutes of Technology, Bombay, and MBA from Boston University
Family: Husband is Shripad Tuljapurkar. They have an adult daughter and a 4-month old granddaughter.
Residence: Mountain View


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One of the highlights of the AAAS meeting in Chicago, other than the opportunity to hang out with some of my Ars colleagues in real life, was the plenary given by Prof. Svante P��bo, Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Regular readers will remember our past coverage of Prof. P��bo's efforts to sequence the Neanderthal genome, and his very well-attended plenary at AAAS served as an overview of the past couple of years' work from P��bo and his collaborators.
As you might imagine, getting viable DNA out of bones that are tens of thousands of years old is no mean feat. But being able to do so offers scientists the chance to learn a lot about the evolution of humans by comparing our genome with that of the Neanderthal (last common ancestor: 300,000-500,000 years ago) and the chimpanzee (last common ancestor: ~6 million years ago). Prof. P��bo spoke a little on some of the technical challenges involved in working with ancient DNA, and then went into some detail on some of the findings that have resulted.
Working with ancient DNA
Work with ancient DNA began with samples extracted from Egyptian mummies. Although well preserved macroscopically, most mummies have degraded to the point where histology or molecular biology is impossible. However, a few specimens were able to provide traces of DNA that gave researchers something to start honing their skills on. It became obvious that after these long timeframes, the DNA recovered was usually short (100 base pairs or less) and sometimes featured chemical modifications that needed to be accounted for in sequencing.
In 1997, the first DNA samples were recovered from H. neaderthalensis; in fact, these were obtained from the original fossil discovered in the Neander valley. At first, the decision was made to focus on the mitochondrial (mt)DNA. There's much more mtDNA in a cell than genomic DNA, since there are lots of mitochondria but only one nucleus, so getting enough to work with is easier.
Human mtDNA points to a population bottleneck and a single matrilinear origin (known as mitochondrial eve) that occurred over 100,000 years ago. If the assimilation theory regarding Neanderthals (that they interbred with humans) was correct, then sequencing the Neanderthal mtDNA might have placed the Neanderthal mtDNA within our own lineage. Unfortunately for proponents of this theory, the DNA sequences suggest the mitochondrial lineage of the Neanderthal specimen was much older, indicating we last shared a common ancestor with them around 600,000 years ago.
Controlling for contamination and damage, P��bo and his group were then able to start looking at specific genes of interest, as well as answering some significant questions. One of the biggest ones was "how far back do you have to go to get to our common ancestor?"
So the next step was to look at the genomic DNA. Although mitochondrial eve was relatively recent in our prehistory, some variations in the human genome date back to around 1 million years, so the assimilation theory could still be tested. Researchers are also interested in looking at genes we know have undergone recent evolutionary changes in humans, such as FOXP2, involved in language, and microcephalin, which is involved in brain size.
To get genomic DNA, P��bo and his team extracted DNA from more than 70 bones, obtained at 16 different sites, from El Sidron in Spain to Mezmaiskaya in Russia. These bones were analyzed for Neanderthal genetic markers, which showed that most of them contained no Neanderthal DNA. The best DNA was recovered from the Spanish site, the Neander valley specimen, remains from Vindija in Croatia, and Mezmaiskaya in Russia. These samples, along with technology improvements by 454 and Illumina (makers of DNA sequencing systems), have allowed P��bo to meet his goal of achieving 1x coverage of the Neanderthal genome by 2008.
Even that has been tricky though; only about four percent of the DNA recovered from the specimens is actually hominid DNA. The rest is microbial, but by designing restriction enzymes that chew up this microbial DNA but not hominid DNA, they have been able to boost their yields to around 20 percent.
The DNA is extracted under clean conditions in the lab, and then tagged with a short sequence that helps to control for contamination with modern human DNA; this gets them to the point where contaminant DNA is only around 0.5 percent. Work with the mtDNA sequence, which now has 800-fold coverage, taught P��bo that there was a quite common form of damage, where C misreads as T close to the 5' end, and G misreads as A close to the 3' end. This has to be factored in when reconstructing the entire genome from fragments of less than 100 base pairs.
Looking into the Neanderthal genome
Controlling for contamination and damage, P��bo and his group were then able to start looking at specific genes of interest, as well as answering some significant questions. One of the biggest ones was "how far back do you have to go to get to our common ancestor?"
As I mentioned earlier, there's quite a lot of divergence between human populations; representative French ethnic DNA differs from the reference human sequence by around eight percent, as does Han Chinese. Some African populations, such as the Mbute, differ by almost 11 percent. By multiplying these percentages by the time since the last common ancestor with chimpanzees (6.5 MYa) it is possible to come up with a rough date of divergence. The Neanderthal genome has around 12.8 percent variation, which places its divergence at around 830,000 years ago.
Looking at specific genes of interest seems to torpedo the assimilation theory, at least for now. Lactose tolerance has been a relatively recent evolution in Europeans (although it has also arisen several times since then). The Neanderthal genome seems to contain an ancestral version, suggesting that, like me, they would not have enjoyed a pint of Ben and Jerry's as much as my editor does.
FOXP2 has a pair of human-specific changes that are thought to be involved in our use of language; these were also seen in Neanderthals, so it's reasonable to assume that like us, they could communicate with each other effectively. Other genes, such as Tau and microcephalin that have recent human variants, also only showed up as the older, ancestral forms.
As P��bo put it, the data are fairly clear that there's no evidence for mixing between European and Neanderthal populations. However, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, as they say, and his team is now looking at whether genes seen in early humans might have then been transferred to Neanderthals.


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Videos | January 30, 2008
What's Up January 2008: Stars that have planets orbiting them
Several stars are viewable in the night sky that have planets orbiting them. We focus on the star with more known planets than any other.
There's more to the stars than meets the eye. Some of these stars have planets orbiting them.
I'm Jane Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The first planets discovered orbiting others stars other than our sun were discovered in 1995.
You won't be able to actually see planets, but what you can do is see the stars that have planets around them.
The professional astronomers don't actually see the planet either, they just see the effect of the planets orbiting the stars they're looking at.
One of these stars has been getting a lot of press lately and its name is 55 Cancri.
Cancri sounds like kind of a funny word but it's the way stars are named in the constellation of Cancer.
The constellation Cancer isn't a super-bright constellation, in fact it's sort of dim.
You'll certainly be able to see 55 Cancri easier with a telescope, but even with the unaided eye from a darker location, you should be able to pick out the star.
All of the stars we see in the night sky are all part of our own Milky Way Galaxy so this is just one of our neighbor stars.
There's three other stars that you can see in the night sky that all have a planet orbiting it.
These stars can be found in the constellations Ursa Major, which is also called the Big Dipper, Pegasus and Draco.
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Future NASA missions will be able to detect planets the size of Earth around other stars.
That's all for this month. I'm Jane Houston Jones.


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The Goddess in Lomi Lomi Massage
Lomi Lomi literally means "to break up into small pieces with the fingers/" Is is a type of healing massage that is traditionally practiced in the Hawaiian Islands. This method is defined as "to rub, press,crush, massage, rub out, to work in and out as claws of a contented cat? In the early 1900's Lomi Lomi was coined "Hawaiian massage" by the legal system. The form of massage involves both physical and spiritual ritual component. Lomi Lomi originated in the South Pacific and is practiced mainly in the Hawaiian Island although practitioners of this are can be found in Australia, and the U.S.
The use of palms, forearms, fingers, knuckles, elbows, knees, feet and even sticks, shells and stones make this form of massage a true whole body:and contact with Nature, experience.
Traditionally, Lomi Lomi was practice in four contexts:
As a healing practice of native healers
As a luxury and aid to digestion for the ruling chiefs
A restorative massage withing the family
By the masters of Hawaiian martial arts
While the word kahuna lomilomi is widely used in contemporary writings as the massage practitioner, those who performed the healing art were called ka po'e lomilomi (the massage people) or kanaka lomi (massage person). a related term kauka lomilomi was coined in 1920 to describe osteopathic physicians. The word kauka is the Hawaiian version of doctor.
Like all endeavors in old Hawaii, Lomi LOmi was conducted with prayer and intention. Herbs were often used and no one was to disturb the practitioner as he or she prepared to conduct the healing art. They did not want the vibration broken between them and Nature; these old practitioners knew the laws of vibration, of connection, they knew the power of the spoken word. They gathered the vibration of the plentiful.
This form of massage was used for healing, childbirth musculoskeletal disorders, asthma and applied to babies and children to strengthen them and mold their features for physical beauty.
Most often the massage was performed in family units once a member learned the skill from the village medical priest, or kahuna. This skill set was handed down through the generations accompanied by the transferred teachings of using positive thoughts to channel energy called Mana; the life force.
Lomi Lomi releases healing energy or Mana from the practitioner into the client as the therapist uses the long, flowing, dance-like movements along the client's body. This form of massage has been compared to rocking a baby in a cradle, working deeply but rhythmically with the long strokes fully nurturing the body. The experience can overwhelm the mind with sensations and communicates an acceptance of the inner self, and often changes the way you think, feel, move and breathe as harmony is achieved between the body, mind and soul. The body's subtle energy channels, Chakras, nadis and meridians or Zen lines are used to effect this harmony. The body may then release painful past life memories, stress, depression and trauma locked away in the subconscious mind.
The hands on technique is an important part in this massage and its associated healing, however the work must be done with unconditional love from the practitioner whose focus is deep and complete. Love and compassion for the client must be present, rather than treating him/her as an object to be 'fixed'. This is what allows the energy flow and established true harmony within the body.
Prior to and following all healing modalities the practitioner took part in spiritual blessing to initiate the healing process as they sought harmony between man, nature, and the gods/goddesses. This practice was an essential part of their practice and known as lokahi. Without lokahi there is illness. Today in our Western lifestyle we forget the oneness of connecting with Nature and the gods/goddesses; look around at all the illness in our society brought on not only by the poisons in our food, air and water, but by the hustle of daily life and the dis-connecting of the family unit
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SABEU plans and implements validation protocols in consultation with the customers. First sample reports (PPA report – Production Process and Product Approval Report) as set forth in VDA [German Association of the Automotive Industry] Volume 2, Chapter 4 are compiled in order to assess the development states during the development process of the items.
The scope of all validation procedures is described in the validation schedules and can be specifically adjusted and prepared as needed to meet the customer's needs.


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Well, dear readers, if it's not one thing it's another. Our family has been plagued by broken bones (documented in a recent blog), as well as the sinusitis and bronchitis that have plagued so many other families as of late. Like a typical mother, I put off going to the doctor in the hopes that the malady would run its course, as my colds typically do. But after four weeks (one spent on holiday in the Virgin Islands), I woke up with new, more intense symptoms, and so decided to seek professional help. (I'll leave it to you to determine if the copious amounts of rum punch and lengthy amount of time spent getting to and from Tortola in any way impacted my condition.)
I was faced with several options: try to get seen by my primary care physician, who, since my move, is now inconveniently located. (Note to self: seek new PCP closer to home.) Try my luck at the Walgreens clinic nearby. Or, go to the urgent care center down the street.
I bypassed Walgreens because I've had insurance issues there in the past. (As I drove past, I noticed they are excitedly welcoming back Blue Cross Blue Shield customers.) I faced the same problem at the urgent care center, so decided to try my luck at a previously unconsidered option – the new WellStar Acworth Health Park.
Larger than a typical medical office, but smaller than a typical WellStar hospital, the health park offers a variety of services – urgent care; pediatrics; a variety of specialists; pharmacy; and family, internal and OB/GYN medicine, among other services. I was pleasantly surprised to find that its café offers Starbucks coffee.
Just a few months old, its interior and exterior are pristine – open, airy spaces, fountains and lots of glass accents are certainly a nice change from the typical, closed-in feel of most phsyicians' offices I've visited. The staff was welcoming, sympathetic and accepting of my insurance, much to my relief.
It even had a concierge/upscale feel. Complimentary single-serve coffee was available in the urgent care waiting room, as were a variety of cold beverages. A good portion of the waiting area was given over to kids' amusements, which I hope my girls will never have to amuse themselves with! I definitely appreciated the wifi throughout the facility. These little perks are so nice when a long wait is in front of you and you're well enough to take advantage of them.
Being that it is a new facility, it is still experiencing growing pains, most noticeably in the need for additional physicians. Fortunately, I didn't arrive on a day where patients were wrapped around the building waiting for the doors to open, as the pharmacist told me has happened before. Nevertheless, I did wait a considerable amount of time on the single physician on staff that day. Even he mentioned the need for additional MDs in the face of great community need.
He was cheerful and paid attention to my concerns, even apologizing for the paper prescriptions. Turns out WellStar plans to transition from NextGen to Epic early next year, and is waiting for that process to start in order to bring the health park on board with new, system-wide electronic medical records and e-prescribing. He was very enthusiastic about the conveniences afforded by healthcare IT, which makes me think perhaps I should consider a WellStar physician in my search for a PCP closer to home.
The pharmacy was experiencing its own growing pains, most notably with its consumer-facing payment system, and phone lines. But, the staff's smiling faces, good attitudes and a fresh cup of coffee helped allay any frustration on my part.
Coincidentally, I came across a press release later that day detailing WellStar's just-announced partnership with Piedmont Healthcare. They've teamed up to form the Georgia Health Collaborative, which, according to Piedmont's press release, will enable the two "to share intellectual knowledge concerning clinical care and seek cost reductions through economies of scale."
I'm all for economies of scale, but hope my family won't have to experience them via unexpected or put-off illness anytime soon.