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To print these lyrics, use your mouse to highlight the lyrics you want, then copy them by holding your Ctrl key down and pressing your C key. Then paste them into your favorite word processor and format them any way you want to. Then you can use them for song sheets or to send in emails or for making overhead projections or many other uses.
I'm Crossing Over the Border
I'm crossing over the border, Headed for heavens on high,
I'm bringing back this message to all,
God has called you to live and not die,
God has called you to live and not die.
I'm crossing over the border,
Behind the veil I now go,
He gives a command, in righteousness stand,
Take my people to a place they don't know,
Take my people to a place they don't know.
Now you must cross over the border,
To your Father who's living within,
The time now has come, for His will to be done,
And He's appearing this time without sin,
He's appearing this time without sin.

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amazing journey!
We've got a bunch of photos from our Caribbean Cruise. In fact too many to post (within reason) on this blog.
Here's a link to a flickr set. Pick and choose what you what you wanna take a look at:
We're back home now re-adjusting to "normal" life.
For 4 days we were waited on hand and foot. Meals were prepared and brought to us. We didn't have to clean our rooms (or even make the beds). Entertainment options were at every corner. Every day we'd wake up in a new place waiting to be explored.
Reality hits when on the first evening back we look at each other and say "What are we gonna do for dinner?"
Monday, August 6, 2007
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
10 comments:
- Perfect Witch said...
Read more. Say hello to friends. Play (with your pets/your kids). Watch a funny movie.
- August 30, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- pRiyA said...
Thumbs Up to that.
- August 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- Rima said...
Absolutely :)
And that background looks gold - with its combination of green and yellow and dark... :)
- August 30, 2011 at 3:45 PM
- Owen said...
Love the pastel, and love the quote, so I love this post entirely... and good for you to take a break from the net, this staring at screens cannot be good for our eyes...
But really, this pastel is bold and powerful and yet simple to behold, it captured my full attention... really gorgeous... maybe one of the loveliest pieces I've seen yet here, and that is not easy to say, as I find so much of what you do lovely...
and I like the part that says, "price on request", which makes me think of that saying, if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it... guess I'll have to settle for looking at it here. But I could look at this one for a long time...
- August 31, 2011 at 11:30 PM
- pRiyA said...
Thank you for liking my Red Leaf Owen :-) I am glad you do.
The 'price on request' is not to shock viewers at how affordable my art is. Got that line from Vogue India and thought 'I MUST try it out on my blog!'.
You know about the shops in Ticino don't you, where there are no prices written at all! It is assumed that if you walk into one of them you can afford all that is in them.
- September 1, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Owen said...
Ticino ? Is that in Switzerland ? Haven't ever heard of it or been there... but probably couldn't afford to anyway, if it's like you say. I think I'd prefer to just look at your leaf a little longer...
Speaking of red leaves, Karine just put a beauty in her blog banner, here :
A good weekend of drawing to you...
- September 3, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- pRiyA said...
Yeah, Ticino dans Suisse a cote d'Italie. Il est tres beau. Il y a beaucoup soleil.
(pardon, je n'ai pas accents sur mon keyboard)
Karine's leaf is so lovely with the light behind it making it glow. Thanks for that :)
- September 3, 2011 at 2:01 PM
- Gwen Buchanan said...
oh Priya, So, So Perfect!!!..
.. you certainly know what "IT" is all about!!!
I want to take this pastel and this quote and frame them... Just Love it!
- September 4, 2011 at 6:56 PM
- Euterpe said...
- September 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- pRiyA said...
Thank you :)
- September 8, 2011 at 3:34 PM


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First Semester Information
We look forward to welcoming you at TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences) to join our master programs in Renewable Energy Management (REM), Natural Resources Management (NRM) and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). Here is some information to help get you started:
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The semester at the ITT begins on 24.09.2018 with the "Welcome Day". On this day the ITT will open its doors to grant students the opportunity to get to know professors and staff, as well as get an insight into the various services and facilities of the institute. Find further information about this day's agenda and the official welcome ceremony here.
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At ITT many different nationalities are studying together in each MSc program. In order to allow you to get acquainted with your new fellow students and study environment, we are running 3 hour workshops each day from the 4th to 6th of October – each program on a seperate day. The Workshops will help you to initialize team building processes that will be relevant for your project modules.
IWRM Network Meeting (all IWRM 1st Semester Students):
25.09.2018, 14:00-16:30; Room ZS-7-10
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The Lombard PGA pro-Am attracted a tremendous entry at Melton Golf Club.
Kieran Foster won the day with a two-under par nett 69 and best gross score of 70. David Stroud shot nett 69 to win Division One from Billy Kevan (71), and Kevin Rate won Division Two with a nett 70 by one shot from Steve Riley.
Kevin Newman (nett 70) took Division Three from runner-up Dean Carmichael (nett 73).
Results – Road to Woodhall Spa: 1 Dougie Bryce 37pts, 2 Chris Carmichael 36ocb, 3 Jevan Goddard. Two's sweep: Dougie Bryce, Tony Robinson, Paul Halford, Kieran Foster.
Midweek medal: 1 Sam Pollard (nett 69), 2 Tony Robinson (71ocb), 3 Jon Baxter. Best gross: Sam Pollard (72).
Sunday medal: 1 Dave Poolan (nett 68), 2 Sam Pollard (69ocb), 3 John Burgess. Best gross: Sam Pollard (72).
Gerry Davies Trophy: 1 Mick Wilson/Jack Inguanta 38pts ocb, 2 Nick Humphries/Paul Blount, 3 Jon Baxter/David Poolan 37ocb, 4 Martin Wheeler/Steve Brown 37ocb, 5 Kevin Newman/Ollie Duley 37ocb, 6 Jake Mogg/Andy Blunt, 7 John Burgess/Chris Shardlow 36.
Sunday Stableford: 1 Jack Griffin 34pts ocb, 2 Steve Goddard 34ocb, 3 Jon Wade.
April Midweek stableford: Chris Vose 38pts, 2 Gary Kitchen 37ocb, 3 Cameron Young.
Scratch League
Scores: Oli Duley won 1-up, Kieron Foster won 7 and 5, Callum Relf won 2-up, Jake Mogg won 6 and 5), David Poolan won 3 and 2, Leigh Butler lost 6 and 4. Guy Rayson lost 1-down, George Boddy lost 1-down.
Ladies' April Wednesday medal – Overall winner: Yvette Joyce. Division One: 1 Yvette Joyce, 2 Diane Orson, 3 Dorothy Jaggers. Division Two: 1 Anne Creed, 2 Liz Clark, 3 Sally Hudson.
April Stableford – Division One: 1 Drina Terzza 32pts, 2 Gay Cham 30, 3 Jeanette Holland 29. Division Two: 1 Margaret Samways 31, 2 Cheryl Osborne 27ocb, 3 Liz Clark, 4 Ann Creed. Nine-hole qualifier: 1 Janet Hipkin 15pts, 2 Margaret Pedge 14ocb, 3 Pat Skelton.


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One of our small friends had a very pretty birthday party this weekend. Like the Kid, she's three--a fact she very proudly announced to every guest ever-so-charmingly.
Because she loves to make things in her play kitchen, I thought it would be fun to give her a kit for making real cupcakes. The beautiful thing? Pre-mixing the dry ingredients makes it easier for her mama, too!
I started with a big mason jar, which I dried in a warm oven for five minutes just to get it truly bone dry. Then, the Kid helped me measure in flour, salt, sugar, and baking soda. (We used this recipe, minus the M&M's.) I included a list for the wet ingredients (eggs, milk, butter, vanilla) that will need to be added, as well as the baking directions.
Then, we went and had fun at our local baking store and grocery store. I added a few packages of pretty cupcake papers, sprinkles, a tub of frosting, and some fancier decorating icing, too. A small wooden spoon finished out the basket.
I already have a request from another of the Kid's friends to make her one for her birthday in a few weeks, so I'd say it was a hit!


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This detached cottage, one of four, is set along a private drive on the edge of Skipton, the gateway to the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Designed and furnished by an interior architect, it is a wonderful romantic getaway with a welcome pack of local produce and a bottle of wine, robes and toiletries provided for an added touch of luxury. Stroll through the nearby park to an indoor swimming pool, or a little further to the centre of this historic market town with its Norman castle. Riddlesden Hall (NT), 10 miles. Visit the Forest of Bowland an AONB, or a day trip to York or nearby Harrogate. Quaint Yorkshire villages such as Kettlewell, Grassington or Malham are well worth a visit. Shop and pub ½ mile.
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Skipton is a bustling market town situated in a unique location, the Aire Gap, which enables visitors to explore some of northern England's outstanding beauty spots. The Yorkshire Dales lie to the north and give Skipton its name of 'The Gateway to the Dales'. The rolling green pastures of the Ribble Valley lie to the west and lead to the Lake District.
There's a rich history in Skipton. The 900-year old castle has dominated the town since the Norman Conquest. Although part of Yorkshire, Skipton supported the Lancastrians during the War of the Roses. and during the Civil War, was the only Royalist stronghold in northern England.
This is one of the most scenic stretches of the Leeds - Liverpool Canal, which passes through the town centre and around Skipton Castle like a moat. You can take a half hour trip around the castle or day trips to outlying areas.
The canal takes you to Gargrave village, close to the source of the River Aire and the spectacular limestone gorges at Malham. Here you can enjoy dozens of walks around the remote moorland, stunning glical formations such as Malham Tarn and even spot the Peregrine Falcons nesting high on the cliffs.
The village of Embsay, just outside Skipton, hosts a terminal of the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. The train stops just outside Bolton Abbey, a lovely place for picnic.
The Pennine Bridleway is a new 350 mile long National Trail in the North of England.
Visit this long running market in the town that boasts the location of `The Gateway to the Dales' Market days are Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Stalls vary from meat, fruit and veg to clothes, cards and plants.
Take a 30 minute tour of the beautiful Leeds Liverpool canal around Skipton, the Gateway to the Dales.
Some great fishing venues including Burnsall, Ilkley and Grassington. Day tickets available.
One of England's most complete medieval castles standing above the bustling market town of Skipton. Visitors can explore the whole castle which notably withstood three years of siege during the English Civil War.
The Mary Towneley Loop, is a 42 mile circular route which forms part of the Pennine Bridleway National Trail.
This Reservoir sits on the edge of Skipton and is a fairly unique construction. An ideal bed for small fish to hide away from the waters larger fish!
The lake is set in 24 acres of magnificent grounds of a large hotel and makes for a peaceful days fly fishing. Both boat and bank fly fishing are available. The Coniston Hall lake is open for fly fishing from 1st April to 1st October inclusive.
Travel between Embsay station, built in 1888, and the new award-winning station at Bolton Abbey. Your journey takes you through picturesque Yorkshire Dales scenery. Enjoy special Thomas the Tank Engine rides and a visit from Santa at Christmas!


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And sails of rust. Autumn glides across the horizon at night. The light snap of crisp air that lets you know summer's almost done.
I'm battening down the hatches for the year. Hermitage begins. I'm done with the outside world for a while. Unless it's in real rooms with real people – Alesund, Amsterdam, York and Utrecht beckon in the next two months. Hermits walked into towns all the time – that's how you knew they were out there.
And so I turn back to my journal, to test my thinking and assemble my ideas. From Brian Dillon's ESSAYISM, again: "The mythology of the ascetic fragmentist, living his most productive years like a penniless student in Paris, nursing his aphorisms…"
And, once more, this one, as a bookmark for the journal:
Montaigne, who writes in his essay 'Of Practice': What I write here is not my teaching, but my study; it is not a lesson for others, but for me. And yet it should not be held against me if I publish what I write. What is useful to me may also by accident be useful to another. Moreover, I am not spoiling anything, I am only using what is mine. And if I play the fool, it is at my expense and without harm to anyone. For it is a folly that will die with me, and will have no consequences.
Autumn always feel good. Summer is nice, but autumn is me.
(Robert) Burton called melancholy 'the rust of the soul'
Sailing in gold and rust towards the quiet waters and the good light.
ESSAYISM, Brian Dillon (UK) (US)
"On Ships Of Gold" is actually a superb song by Black Heart Procession, on their album THREE. (UK) (US)


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About A Child's Garden
About 150 infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are welcomed at A Child's Garden each day. Thirty competent and caring teachers and resource staff support the children's growth and development in a child-centered setting. Half-day, extended day and full day programs function according to high-quality standards established by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Mary Matteucci serves as the director, joining A Child's Garden in January 2015 with 25 years in the field of education. She is dually certified in General and Special Education.
The goals have remained essentially the same as when they were stated for the 1972-73 school year, as follows:
- To provide for each child a warm and supportive climate where he/she is respected and trusted.
- To foster positive feelings in the child about self, family, school and community.
- To stimulate the child to explore and discover the world around herself/himself through concrete, manipulative experiences.
- To encourage the child to actively participate in his/her learning by planning, decision making and solving problems.
- To assure the child's feelings of success through mastery of his/her environment.
- To provide the child with opportunities for interaction with a diverse population of children and families, including children with special needs.
- To provide a self-selective, integrated learning environment which incorporates early mathematics, early literacy, language development, science, creative expression (art, music, drama, dance), social studies, health and safety, and physical development. Social-emotional development is inextricably linked across all areas of curriculum and development.
- To provide opportunities for family involvement and participation in the program. ACG's "Curriculum in Action" is not "taught" in isolated blocks of time. It is integrated throughout the day into various activities. Within the curriculum components listed above (math, science, early literacy, social studies, etc.) several broad areas of study are particularly well suited for integrating all areas of the curriculum across time. This "Curriculum in Action" framework includes a description of ways some of these can be implemented. Among these are cooking, animals/pets, water play, sand play, and construction.
Encouraging Success
At A Child's Garden, we strive to develop the social and emotional growth of the children by providing them with challenging, engaging, and rich experiences. Our guidance policy promotes independence, cooperation, compassion and respect for all. We encourage open communication between the children as well as with adults, promoting positive relationships. These relationships create a welcoming, safe, and nurturing environment meeting the individual needs of each child.Read more...
A Child's Garden was established in 1971 as a non-sectarian community outreach program of First Presbyterian Church. The founding mothers, who were members of the church (many of them with young children,) shared a vision to provide a school experience for young children that acknowledged the development of the whole child--social, emotional, physical, cognitive and affective domains of development.
The first year the program director and teachers met weekly to develop a "Curriculum in Action" based on sound early-childhood theory and practice that has proven consistent with current brain research about how young children learn (see goals) rather than being organized into a prescribed curriculum.
The preschool grew quickly from three classrooms to 10, including programs for toddlers through kindergarten (which was not offered in New Mexico public schools until 1975). Many dedicated professionals continue to provide a learning environment consistent with the school's history of putting child development theory into practice.
A Child's Garden was the first preschool in New Mexico to be accredited by the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs. It provides a facility for students from University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College to observe and experience working with young children. An inclusion program for children with special needs is also offered.
A Child's Garden Preschool (ACG), a non-sectarian community outreach program of First Presbyterian Church, is committed to providing a developmentally appropriate learning environment for a diverse population of young children respectful of the individual needs, cultural heritage and identity of each child.
Curriculum Philosophy of A Child's Garden Preschool
A Child's Garden is a fully inclusive program that accepts children of all abilities, of all backgrounds and all socio-economic levels. The program is play-based, incorporating best early childhood practices and quality standards from the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families. All children learn differently and at different rates.
Children are active learners, acquiring knowledge and learning through their daily experiences at home and in the classroom. Each child is an individual, with unique strengths, interests, personality and approach to learning. Early childhood learning emphasizes cooperative play in an atmosphere of acceptance and respect. The environment is sensitive to the child's individual needs.Read more...


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Peter Rodman
I obtained my degrees from Harvard University (B.A., Anthropology, 1963; Ph. D., Biological Anthropology, 1973). I was hired at UC Davis in 1972 and have no idea when this will end.
Research Interests
Approximately 3½ years in eastern Borneo from 1969 through 1983, brief field trips to North Sumatra in 1986 and 1988, and a series of explorations and expeditions in Amazonian Ecuador from 1989 through 1996, with a final trip there in 2001. Field research on behavioral ecology of orangutans, gibbons, long tailed and pig-tailed macaques, woolly monkeys and spider monkeys. Some captive studies of bonnet macaques and rhesus macaques at the California Regional Primate Research Center from 1974 to 1988. Interests also include modeling of aspects of behavioral ecology and population biology. Currently modeling evolution and maintenance of sex biased dispersal and analyzing data on behavioral ecology of Callicebus moloch gathered during dissertation work by Francis Bossuyt, who disappeared in Peru in April, 2000.
Students have carried out field studies in Borneo, Sumatra, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Kenya and Uganda on hominoids, cercopithecoids, atelines, and callitrichines. Other students have examined detailed aspects of social interactions in captive bonnet and rhesus macaques and aspects of vocal communication in free ranging rhesus macaques.
Recent Publications
1996 - Rendall, C. R., Rodman, P. S., Emond, R.E. Vocal recognition of individuals and kin in free ranging rhesus monkeys. Animal Behaviour 51: 1007-115.
1998 - Rendall, C. R., Owren, M. J., Rodman, P. S. The role of vocal tract filtering in identity cueing in rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) vocalizations. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 103:602-614.
1999 - Rodman, P. S. Whither primatology? The role of primatology in anthropology today. Annual Review of Anthropology 28:311-93.
2001 - Di Fiore, A. F., Rodman, P. S. Time allocation patterns of lowland woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii) in a neotropical terra firma forest. International J. of Primatology 22:449-80.
2002 - Rodman, P. S. Plants of the apes: Is there a hominoid model for the origin of the human diet? Pp. 77-109 in P. S. Ungar & M. F. Teaford (eds.) Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution. Bergin & Garvey, Westport, CT.


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According to the USPS website, the stamps will be available nationwide June 14 but can be pre-ordered online now. The First Class Forever stamps depict balls used in baseball, basketball, football, golf, kickball, soccer, tennis and volleyball.
A special coating applied to selected areas of the stamps during the printing process gives them a texture that mimics the feel of a:
- baseball's stitching;
- golf ball's dimples;
- tennis ball's seams;
- soccer ball or volleyball's textured panels; and,
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Preparing for CI/CD
Continuous delivery is a set of patterns and best practices that can help software teams dramatically improve the pace and quality of their software delivery.
About Continuous Delivery
Continuous delivery is a set of patterns and best practices that can help software teams dramatically improve the pace and quality of their software delivery.
Instead of infrequently carrying out relatively big releases, teams practicing continuous delivery aspire to deliver smaller batches of change into production, but much more frequently than typical - weekly, daily, or potentially multiple releases per day.
This Refcard explains this in more detail, giving guidance, advice, and best practices to development and operations teams looking to move from traditional release cycles towards continuous delivery.
Continuous delivery should help you to:
- Deliver software faster and more frequently, getting valuable new features into production as early as possible;
- Increase software quality, system uptime and stability;
- Reduce release risk and avoid failed deployments into both test and production environments;
- Reduce waste and increase efficiency in the development and delivery process;
- Keep your software in an almost constant production-ready state such that you can deploy whenever you need.
To get there, however, you may need to put the following into place:
- Development practices such as automated testing;
- Software architectures and component designs that facilitate more frequent releases without impact to users;
- Tooling such as source code management, continuous integration, configuration management and application release automation software;
- Automation and scripting to enable you to repeatedly build, package, test, and deploy your software with limited human intervention;
- Organizational, cultural, and business process changes to support continuous delivery.
Building Block: Release Automation
Though it is quite valid and realistic to have manual steps in your continuous delivery pipeline, automation is central in speeding up the pace of delivery and reducing the cycle time.
After all, even with a well resourced team, it is not viable to build, package, compile, test, and deploy software many times per day by hand, especially if the software is in any way large and complex.
Therefore, the overriding aim should be to increasingly automate away more of the pathway between the developer and the live production environment.
Here are some of the major areas you should focus your automation efforts on.
Automated Compilation & Packaging
The first thing you will need to automate is the process of compiling and turning developers' source code into deployment-ready artifacts.
Though most software developers make use of tools such as Make, Ant, Maven and NuGet to manage their builds and packaging, many teams still have manual steps that they need to carry out before they have artifacts that are ready for release.
These steps can represent a significant barrier to achieving continuous delivery. For instance, if you release every three months, manually building an installer is not too onerous. If you wish to release multiple times per day or week however, it would be better if this task were fully and reliably automated away.
Best Practices:
Implement a single script or command that enables you to go from version controlled source code to a single deployment ready artifact.
Automated Builds & Continuous Integration
Continuous integration is a fundamental building block of continuous delivery.
This involves combining the work of multiple developers and continually compiling and testing the integrated code base such that integration errors are identified as early as possible.
Ideally, this process will build on the previous step so that your continuous integration server is continually emitting a deployment artifact containing the integrated work of the development team, with each outputted build being a viable release candidate.
Typically, you will set up a continuous integration server such as Jenkins, TeamCity, or Team Foundation Server, carrying out the integration many times per day.
Third party continuous integration services such as CloudBees DEV@cloud, which provides Jenkins as a service, can help to expedite your continuous delivery efforts.
By outsourcing your continuous integration platform, you are free to focus on your continuous delivery goals, rather than on administration and management of tools and infrastructure.
|Best Practices:
|Implement a continuous integration process that continually outputs a set of deployment-ready artifacts.
|Evaluate cloud-based continuous integration offerings to expedite your continuous delivery efforts.
|Integrate a thorough audit trail of what has changed with each build through integration with issue tracking software such as Jira.
Your continuous integration process will likely be central for your continuous delivery efforts. For instance, it can go beyond builds and into testing, deployment, and release management. For this reason, continuous integration is a key element of your continuous delivery strategy.
Automated Testing
Though continuous delivery can (and frequently does) include manual exploratory testing stages performed by a QA testing team or end-user user acceptance testing, automated testing will almost certainly be a key feature in allowing you to speed up your delivery cycles and enhance quality.
Usually, your continuous integration server will be responsible for executing the majority of your automated tests in order to validate every developer check-in.
However, other automated testing will likely subsequently take place when the system is deployed into test environments, and you should also aim to automate as much of that as possible.
Your automated testing should be detailed , testing multiple facets of your application:
|Test Type
|To Confirm That:
|Unit Tests
|Low level functions and classes work as expected under a variety of inputs.
|Integration Tests
|Integrated modules work together and in conjunction with infrastructure such as message queues and databases.
|Acceptance Tests
|Your application and key user flows works as a complete black box when driven via the user interface.
|Load Tests
|Your application performs well under simulated real world user load.
|Performance Tests
|The application meets performance requirements and response times under real world load scenarios.
|Simulation Tests
|Your application works in device simulation environments. (This is growing in importance in the mobile world where you need to test software on diverse emulated mobile devices.)
|Smoke Tests
|Tests to validate the state and integrity of a freshly deployed environment.
|Quality Tests
|Application code is high quality – identified through techniques such as static analysis, conformance to style guides, code coverage etc.
Ideally, these tests can be spread across the deployment pipeline, with the slower and more expensive tests occurring further down the pipeline in environments that are increasingly production-like as the release candidate looks increasingly viable. The aim should be to identify problematic builds as early as possible in order to avoid re-work , identifying problems early and keeping the cycle time fast and feedback as early as possible:
|Best Practices:
|Automate as much of your testing as possible.
|Provide good test coverage at multiple levels of abstraction against both code artifacts and the deployed system.
|Distribute different classes of tests along your deployment pipeline, with more detailed tests occurring in increasingly production-like environments later on in the process, all whilst still avoiding human re-work.
Automated tests are your primary line of defense in your aim to release high quality software more frequently. Investing in these tests can be expensive up front, but this battery of automated tests will continue to pay dividends across the lifetime of the application.
Automated Deployments
Software teams typically need to push release candidates into different environments for the different classes of testing discussed above.
For instance, a common scenario is to deploy the software to a test environment for human QA testing, and then into some performance test environment where automated load testing will take place. If the build makes it through that stage of the testing, it might later be deployed to a separate environment for UAT or beta testing.
Ideally, the process of reliably deploying an arbitrary release candidate into an arbitrary environment should be as automated as much as possible.
If you want to operate at the pace that continuous delivery implies, you are likely to need to do this many times per day or week, and it's essential that it works quickly and reliably.
Application release automation tools such as Xebia Labs' Deployit can facilitate the process of pushing out code into environments., . DeployIt can also provide self-service capabilities that allow teams to pull release candidates into their environments without requiring development input or having to create change tickets or wait on middleware administrators.
This agility in moving software between environments in an automated fashion is one of the main areas where teams new to continuous delivery are lacking, so this should also be a key focus in your own preparations for continuous delivery.
|Best Practices:
|Be able to completely roll out an arbitrary version of your software to an arbitrary environment with a single command.
|Incorporate smoke test checks to ensure that your deployed environment is then valid for use.
|Harden the deploy process so that it can never leave environments in a broken or partially deployed state.
|Incorporate self-service capabilities into this process, so QA staff or business users can select a version of the software and have that deployed at their convenience. In larger organizations, this process should incorporate business rules such that specific users have deployment permissions for specific environments.
|Evaluate application release automation tools in order to accelerate your continuous integration efforts.
Managed Infrastructure & Cloud
In a continuous delivery environment, you are likely to want to create and tear down environments with much more flexibility and agility in response to the changing needs of the project.
If you want to start up a new environment to add into your deployment pipeline, and that process takes months to requisition hardware, configure the operating system, configure middleware, and set it up to accept a deployment of the software, your agility is severely limited and your ability to deliver is impacted.
Taking advantage of virtualization and cloud-based offerings can help here. Consider cloud hosts such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace and platform-as-a-service providers such as CloudBees to give you flexibility in bringing up new environments and new infrastructure as the project dictates.
Cloud can also obviously make an excellent choice for production applications, giving you more consistency across your development and production environments than previously achieved.
|Best Practices:
|Cater for flexibility to your Continuous Delivery processes so you can alter pipelines and scale up or down as necessary.
|Implement continuous delivery infrastructure in the cloud, giving you agility in quickly rolling out new environments, and elasticity to pause those environments when there is less demand for them.
Infrastructure As Code
A very common class of production incidents, errors, and rework happens when environments drift out of line in terms of their configuration, for instance when development environments start to differ from test, or when test environments drift out of line with production.
Configuration management tools such as Puppet and Chef can help you to avoid this by defining infrastructure and platforms as version controlled code, and then having the environments built automatically in a very consistent and repeatable way.
Combined with the cloud and outsourced infrastructure, this cocktail allows you to deploy accurately configured environments with ease, giving your pace of delivery a real boost.
Vagrant is a tool which also helps here, giving developers very consistent and repeatable development environments which can be virtualized and run on their own machines.
These tools are all important because consistency of environments is a huge enabler in allowing software to flow through the pipeline in a consistent and reliable way.
|Best Practices:
|Implement configuration management tools, giving us much more control in building environments consistently, especially in conjunction with the cloud.
|Investigate Vagrant as a means of giving developers very consistent local development environments.
Automated Production Deployments
Though most software teams have a degree of automation in their builds and testing, the actual act of deployment onto physical production servers is often still one of the most manual processes for the typical software team.
For instance, teams might have multiple binaries that are pushed onto multiple servers, some database upgrade scripts that are manually executed, and then some manual installation steps to connect this together. Often they will also carry out manual steps for the startup of the system and smoke tests.
Because of this complexity, releases often happen outside of business hours. Indeed, some unfortunate software teams have to perform their upgrades and scheduled maintenance at 3am on a Sunday morning in order to cause the least disruption to the customer base!
To move towards continuous delivery, you'll need to tackle this pain and slowly script and automate away the manual steps from your production release process such that it can be run repeatedly and consistently. Ideally, you will need to get to the stage where you can do this during business hours while the system is in use. This may have significant consequences for the architecture of your system.
To make production deploys multiple times per day whilst the system is in use, it's important to ensure that the process is also tested and hardened so you never leave the production application in a broken state due to a failed deploy.
|Best Practices:
|Completely automate the production deploy process such that it can be executed from a single command or script.
|Be able to deploy the next version of the software while the production system is live, and switch over to the new version with no degradation of services.
|Be able to deploy to production using exactly the same process by which you deploy to other environments.
|Implement the best practices described below, such as canary releasing, rollback, and monitoring in order to enhance stability of the production system.
Implementing a Pipeline
Deployment pipeline is a simple but key pattern that gives you a framework towards implementing continuous delivery.
The pipeline describes:
- The explicit stages that software moves between on its path from source control to production;
- Which stages are automated and which have manual steps;
- What the criteria are for moving between pipeline stages, capturing which gateways are automated and which are manual;
- Where parallel flows are allowed.
Importantly, the deployment pipeline concept gives us visibility into the production readiness of our release candidates.
For instance, if you know that you have a release candidate in UAT and a release candidate just about to pass performance testing with a certain set of additional features, you can use this to make decisions about how, when, and what to release to production.
Step 1 - Model Your Pipeline
The first step in putting together a deployment pipeline is to identify the stages that you would like your software to go through to get from the source control repository into production.
The typical software development team will have a number to choose from, some of which are automated and some of which are manual:
While implementing continuous delivery, you may wish to take the opportunity to add in stages above and beyond those that you do today. For instance, perhaps adding automated acceptance testing would reduce the scope of manual testing required, speeding up development cycles and increasing your potential for continuous delivery. Perhaps adding automated performance testing or manual user beta testing will allow you to shorten your cycle time still further and release more frequently.
Having identified which stages are important to you, you should then think about how to arrange the stages into an ordered pipeline, noting the inputs and outputs of each phase. A very simple example of a pipeline might look like this:
Every software team does, however, do things in a subtly different way. For instance, depending on your comfort with and levels of automated testing, you may decide to skip any form of exploratory testing and rely completely on automated testing processes, reducing the length of the pipeline to a very short fully automated process:
Other teams might choose to parallelize flows and testing stages. This is especially useful where testing is manual and stages are time consuming a fairly likely prospect at the very outset of your continuous integration journey.
Running performance tests at the same time as UAT might be one example of this parallelization. This can obviously speed up the end to end delivery process when things go well, but could lead to rework if one half of the pipeline fails and the release candidate is rejected:
The pipelines above are extremely simple, but illustrate the kind of decisions you will need to make in modeling the flow and implementing your pipeline. The best pipeline isn't always obvious and requires tradeoffs:
|Ideal Situation
|All stages and gateways would be automated.
|Requires substantial investment in automated tests and release automation.
|Always avoid expensive human re-work.
|You need to parallelise test phases if they are slow and manual, giving the risk of failed release candidates at another stage in the pipeline.
|Always perform automated testing up-front to reject unviable release candidates
|Detailed automated testing is also expensive in production like environments.
|Implement lots of environments to support testing phases.
|Maintaining environments has a management and financial cost associated.
Whatever position you take on the various tradeoffs, the output of your deployment pipeline modeling should be a basic flow chart that documents the path that your software takes on its journey from source code to production.
Step 2 - Identify Non-Automated Activities and Gateways
As previously mentioned, you would ideally like all of the phases of the pipeline to be automated.
In this ideal world, developers would check in code and release candidates would then flow through the pipeline, with each step automated and each gateway between phases automated. Eligible release candidates would be emitted at the end of the pipeline ready for deployment, and you would have complete confidence in every one.
For various reasons however, this is not always viable. For instance, common problems are a shortfall in the amount of automated testing, or business requirements for manual user acceptance, or beta testing. Even where high degrees of automated testing are in place, many businesses would likely include manual sign-offs before builds can flow through the pipeline and into production.
For this reason, our deployment pipeline definitely needs to acknowledge, model, and allow for humans and manual phases in the process:
In some instances, you will find that the gateways between phases can also be automated. For instance, you might allow software to flow into a development- and performance-testing environment automatically if it passes automated testing within the continuous integration server, but you might want out exploratory test environment deploys to be controlled by QA staff as a manual and ideally self service step.
For both automated and manual gates, you will want to identify the criteria that make them pass. If gate criteria are not met, our system should prevent release candidates from progressing through the deployment pipeline.
Step 3 - Implement Your Pipeline
Once you've modeled the flow of your pipeline, you'll then have the fun task of actually implementing it.
Most of the implementation workfalls under the category of general release automation, as discussed in the above topic. If you can automate the main tasks around compilation, testing, and deployments, then you are in good shape to tie this together in the context of the deployment pipeline.
To manage your pipeline, you will need to make the choice between either building proprietary scripting or making the investment in off-the-shelf Application release management tooling to implement the processes.
Do not discount vendor tools, as these can potentially free up valuable developer and system administrator time that would otherwise be spent managing internal infrastructure and developing release automation glue code. Good software in this category will:
- Formalize the stages and the flows which your software goes through;
- Define the criteria that must be met for release candidates to move between stages in the pipeline;
- Allow you to parallelize stages of the pipeline where appropriate;
- Report and audit on deployments for management and operational purposes;
- Give you visibility into your pipeline, showing how builds have progressed and what specific changes are associated with each release candidate;
- Give your teams self-service facilities, for instance allowing operations staff to deploy to production and QA to bring a version into their test environment when they are ready. A permission model may be incorporated so that only certain authorized people have deployment permissions.
CD Best Practices
Once you've put the fundamentals in place and set up a deployment pipeline, you'll hopefully already begin to benefit from decreased cycle times and faster delivery.
Automation should be taking care of lots of the manual jobs, environments and deployments should be more consistent, and release candidates should be flowing between pipeline phases using automated gates and self-service tools.
Your software should almost always be in a production-ready state with release candidates coming out of the end of the pipeline much more frequently than the traditional delivery process. Each release candidate should be adding a relatively small batch of change.
Once you are at this stage, there is always more you can do to improve and move towards even faster delivery cycles while enhancing stability of your system.
A few of these best practices are listed below.
Implement Monitoring
Though everything we have discussed in this document describes a rigorous process which will help you to avoid releasing bugs into production, it's also important that you are alerted if something does go wrong in the system as a result of a deployment.
For instance, if your application starts throwing alerts or exceptions after a deployment, it's important that you are told straight away so that you can investigate and resolve.
Ideally this alert will be delivered via some dashboard or monitoring front-end, though an email, SMS, or something similar could work as a first step.
You may also need to go a layer deeper than simply checking for errors in logs, and start monitoring the metrics that your application is pushing out. For instance, if your shopping cart completion rate drops by 20% after a release ,then this could indicate a more subtle but very serious error with the latest deployment. Open source tools such as StatsD and Graphite can help here. Again, these metrics should be pushed into your monitoring and alerting dashboards when possible.
There are a wealth of open source and hosted tools that can help you with intelligent monitoring of your applications. These are definitely worth evaluating as a fast and cost-effective means of supporting your continuous delivery project.
|Best Practices:
|Provide real time monitoring of your application, ideally via a visual dashboard.
|Track key metrics regarding your applications usage, and alert if a deployment appears to negatively impact these.
Implement Rollback
Being able to quickly and reliably roll back changes applied to your production environment is the ultimate safety net.
If a bug slips through despite all of your automated and manual testing, the rollback will enable you to quickly move back to the previous working version of the software before too many users are impacted.
With the comfort of a good rollback process, you can then be even more ambitious in terms of automating deployment pipeline stages and opening up the gates between stages.
This confidence will result in a much faster pace of delivery, and you'll feel more confident in adding automation into the delivery process.
If the delivery pipeline is implemented well, you should essentially get this rollback capability for free. If version 9 of your software breaks, simply deploy version 8, which should still be there, all signed off and ready to re-deploy at the end of your pipeline.
|Best Practices:
|Provide a mechanism to quickly and repeatedly roll back any software changes to the system.
|Build this into the pipeline process to reduce the need for developers to explicitly coding for rollbacks.
|Test your rollback regularly as part of your pipeline to retain confidence in your process.
Extract Environment-specific Configuration
When moving through the deployment pipeline, it's important that you use the same binaries and artifacts right through the pipeline. If QA and UAT occur against different binaries, your testing is completely invalidated.
For this reason, you need the ability to push the same application binaries into arbitrary environments, and then also deploy environment-specific configuration separately. This configuration should also be version controlled just like any other code, giving you much more repeatability and a better audit trail.
Quite often, the main stumbling block to doing this is having environment-specific configuration tied too tightly to the actual application binaries.
Extracting this environment-specific configuration into external properties files or other configuration sources gives us much more agility with regards to this.
|Best Practices:
|Use the same application binaries throughout your deployment pipeline. Avoid rebuilding from source or processing binaries in any way, even if you believe it is safe to do so.
|Extract environment-specific information into version controlled configuration that can be deployed separately from the main deployment artifacts.
Perform Canary Releases
A really useful technique for increasing stability of your production environment is the canary release.
This concept involves releasing the next version of your software into production, but only exposing it to a small percentage of your user base.
Though the aim is never to introduce any bugs into our production environment, if you do, you would obviously prefer to insulate the bulk of the user base from any issues.
As you build confidence in the deployment, you can then increasingly expose more of the user base to it, until the previous version is completely out of scope.
Being able to canary release is a huge win with regards to continuous delivery, but can require significant work and architectural changes in the application.
|Best Practices:
|Deliver the capability to canary release, ideally while the production application is in use by users.
Capture Build Audit Information
Ideally, your continuous deployment pipeline should give you a very clear pattern of what specifically has changed about the software with each release candidate. This has benefits all the way through the pipeline. Manual testing can specifically focus on the areas that have changed and you can move forward with more confidence if you know the exact scope of each deployment.
By integrating your continuous integration server with issue-tracking software such as Jira, you can develop highly-automated systems where release notes can be built and linked back to individual issues or defects.
You should also be sure to capture all binaries that are released into environment for traceability and investigative reasons. Repository management tools such as Nexus can help here.
|Best Practices:
|Integrate with issue tracking or change management software to provide detailed audits of issues that are addressed with each release candidate.
|Change-control all relevant code and archive all released binaries.
Implement Feature Flags
Feature flags are a facility that developers build into the software that gives them the ability to toggle specific features on or off with a high degree of granularity. This simple technique can add stability into the system through greater control of how new features are put into production use:
Good feature flags will be:
- Managed at runtime without a restart or user interruption.
- Well tested, in that you should make sure your tests cover all the combinations of features that you plan to use in production.
- Identifiable at runtime, allowing you to identify which features are active where, and how they correlate with usage of the system.
|Best Practices:
|Implement feature flags, with full understanding of implications for QA and production operations.
Use Cloud-based and Managed Infrastructure
Throughout this document there have been many mentions of cloud and various managed infrastructure providers. This is because they represent a fast and cost effective way of speeding up your continuous delivery efforts. Your core competency is in writing your own application code, rather than writing supporting release automation scripts.
Cloud and managed infrastructure as a service is particularly useful is in supporting teams that have variable requirements of their build and release infrastructure. For instance, you may find that you need to temporarily increase your capacity as you approach release.
The combination of cloud and automated infrastructure management are ideal for handling this variability in your CI requirements. For this reason, cloud-hosted services like CloudBees DEV@cloud (managed Jenkins in the cloud) are ideal candidates for outsourcing your Continuous Delivery infrastructure.
|Best Practices:
|Reduce infrastructure administration and management, and support variability in your infrastructure requirements by deploying onto the cloud or infrastructure as a service.
Fundamentals - Release Automation
- Automated Compilation and Packaging
- Automated Builds and Continuous Integration
- Automated Testing
- Automated Deployments
- Managed Infrastructure and Cloud
- Infrastructure As Code
- Automated Production Deployments
Implement A Deployment Pipeline
- Model Your Pipeline
- Identify Non-automated Activities and Gateways
- Implement Your Pipeline
Best Practices
- Implement Monitoring
- Implement Rollback
- Extract Environment-specific Configuration
- Perform Canary Releases
- Capture Audit Information
- Implement Feature Flags
- Use Cloud-based Infrastructure


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~*~Tamara's Photo Album~*~
SportsWorld - Shannon/Ryan
These are all pictures of Me, Shannon and Ryan at Sportsworld, on July 14th, 2004!
/\ Me and Shannon in a lil hot tub thing that we found in the "Kid's Wet Play Area."
Shannon in the arcade on her Japanese Horse Game!!!! \/
Me and Ryan on the Bridge during Mini Golfing
Me and Shannon in the hot tub thing again, we really found this thing amazing and COLD!
Ryan's beautiful picture of me, I look very chubby here, but I like the sky in the background.
Shannon in the "wet play area" again on some net, with her bright yellow poncho
Me on the rocks by our lil "hot tub"
Muscle Man Shannon!
Ryan, thinking he's all that!


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ATLANTA -- If there's one thing that sends shivers up the spine of convenience-store owners and fuel marketers, it's the prospect of having to fund a major improvement to their location without a clear ROI.
Such is the reaction to EMV--three small letters that loom large in the changing face of how payments are conducted worldwide. EMV, which stands for EuroPay, Mastercard and Visa, represents an effort initiated by three of the world's largest card issuers to create a global standard to reduce payment-card fraud.
On Oct. 1, 2015, U.S. retailers will be compelled to join the worldwide wave by upgrading their indoor point-of-sale (POS) equipment to handle the new standard. (The pay-at-the-pump deadline is October 2017.)
To comply with the various brand and payment network requirements, retailers will need to upgrade their POS hardware and software, and, in some cases, their site-communications infrastructure. For POS, this could cost several thousand dollars for a complete new system, and, on average, $6,000 to $10,000 per pump for the dispenser-side conversion, according to the National Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing (NACS).
It may be tempting to wait, but there are several reasons to develop an EMV implementation plan now:
Liability shift:After Oct. 1, retailers who cannot process EMV cards will begin shouldering the liability for fraudulent transactions on mag-stripe terminals. The specific guidance from Visa is that a retailer may be liable when a chip card is presented at a magnetic-stripe-only terminal. (See chart below.)
Consumer sentiment:According to research by Conexxus, U.S. fuel marketers lost over $250 million to credit- and debit-card fraud last year. And with skeptical consumers continuing to fall victim, being "EMV-equipped" will become a valuable distinction for retailers who offer its enhanced protective qualities.
"If somebody walks in with a chip-based card and cannot process their transaction via the EMV standard," said Michael Tyler, senior director of petroleum channel sales for Verifone, "they'll simply go elsewhere."
Increased costs to change:Early-adopters will benefit from reasonably available and accessible equipment and labor to make the EMV conversions. Those who wait will likely experience a "demand-based economy," said Tyler.
Added Parker Burke, director of payment & media for Gilbarco Veeder-Root, "As these deadlines approach, there will be much higher demand on industry resources to support site installations and upgrades."
In Part 2 of this series, we'll explore how the right upgrades can make your store "future-ready" and gain marketing advantage; and in Part 3, we'll talk about capital acquisition and financing options that can alleviate the pain of making these capital improvements.


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- Apartment Name: Apartemen Menara Kebon Jeruk
- Location: Jl. Arjuna Utara, Jakarta Barat (Next to Universitas Esa Unggul)
- Tower/Floor/View: 1/11th floor/City View
- Size: 30 m2
- Bedroom: 1
- Bathroom: 1
- Condition: Furnished. 2 beds single and queen size sofa + guest table, TV, fridge, coffee maker, carpet, nature curtain, towels, blankets, spacious, clean and comfortable. Kitchen – kitchen utilities are provided on request-. Any needs can be specified to your needs just direct contact me. thanks.
- Facility: Swimming Pool, ATM Center, Canteens, Laundry, Mini Mart, 24-hours Security, Key Card Access, Parking Lot, Car Rental, Taxi (On Demands).
- Additional Info: Very easy to get around places either holidays or family trips. Questions are welcome and hope you enjoy your stays. 5 mins to biggest mall in south east asia. 20 mins to SCBD central business distric area. 20 mins to Airport. 20 mins to China Town Mangga Besar. 5 mins to Dental Clinic. 5 mins to Siloam Kebon Jeruk Hospital. 5 mins to Permata Hijau. 15 mins to Pondok Indah. 5 mins to Puri Indah. 5 mins to Mall Taman Anggrek.
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Many travellers head to Italy because they want to experience art that they cannot find anywhere else. Although people who take part in Europe travel could visit one of the many famed galleries or museums across the continent, people visiting Italy may find other opportunities to view artwork.
The Santa Croce in the heart of the Piazza di Santa Croce in Florence is filled with paintings of various saints and angels, and now tourists can get an up-close look at some of the designs.
According to the Vancouver Sun, travellers will get a chance to climb scaffolding and view some of the art up close, which is the first time this has happened following a major restoration. The news provider reports that the scaffolding will not be dismantled for another year.
"Climbing up the scaffolding and standing in precisely the same spot where the artist stood is a bit like travelling in a time machine," Alberto Felici, one of the team that spent five years restoring the frescoes, told the news provider.
The Santa Croce is the largest Franciscan church in the world.


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Celebrate the music of Dire Straits in Skegness this weekend in the company of those who have performed with the iconic rock band themselves.
The Dire Straits Experience comes to the Embassy Theatre on Sunday at 7.30pm.
It features former Dire Straits performers Chris White, on saxophone, and Chris Whitten, on drums.
Taking on the role of frontman will be singer-songwriter Terence Reis.
Terence first stepped into the shoes of Mark Knopfler in 2011 when ex-Dire Straits performers - including Chris White - formed The Straits for a charity show at The Royal Albert Hall.
By the time The Straits ended, three-and-a-half-years later, Terence and the rest of the band had played more than 150 shows around the world.
The Dire Straits Experience is Terence's latest collaboration with Chris White and features a band of professionals who have worked with the likes of Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and David Bowie.
Tickets are priced at £25.50 (£13.50 for children).
Box office: 01507 613100


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"Glitter and be gay!" Natalie Dessay.
"In recovery"-- this is the third of these. You may ask, recovery from what? I have had reconstructive surgery again, this time on my right hand, the same kind that I had in January on my left.
This entry is a great change, in that I have almost never presented any of the music that is so much a part of my life. Here are two, very similar arias, by the same extraordinary singer, Natalie Dessay. I have been playing these over and over recently. First listen to her "Glitter and be gay" from Leonard Bernstein's Candide.
Then listen to her sing Bernstein's inspiration, Zerbinetta's aria "Großmächtige Prinzessin" from Ariadne auf Naxos (my favorite opera) which is #8 on this site.
I don't know what happen to music videos internationally. Good luck.


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Discover & Read Best Stories about inspirational quotes for success in life. Also Read about .
What are the books that can change people's lives?
What is Success?
*At the age of 4 years ...* *Success is.*
That you do not urinate in your pants,
*At the age of 8 years ...* *Success is..*
To know the way back home.
*At the age of 12 years,* *success is..*
To have friends.
*At the age of 18 years,* *success is.*
To get a driver's license.
*At the age of 23 years,* *success is.*
To graduate from a university.
*At the age of 25 years,* *success is.*
To get an earning.
*At the age of 30 years,* *success is.*
To be a family Man.
*At the age of 35 years,* *success is.*
To make money.
*At the age of 45 years,* *success is.*
To maintain the appearance of a young man.
*At the age of 50 years,* *success is.*
To provide good education for your children.
*At the age of 55 years,* *success is.*
To still be able to perform your duties well.
*At the age of 60 years,* *success.*
To still be able to keep driving license.
*At the age of 65 years,* *success is.*
To live without disease.
*At the age of 70 years,* *success is.*
To not be a burden on any one.
*At the age of 75 years,* *success is.*
To have old friends.
*At the age of 81 years,* *success is.*
To know the way back home.
*At the age of 86 years,* *success is.*
That not to urinate in your pants again.
One of the best messages I have ever read.
Life is a cycle..
Simple algebraic equation of LIFE: aX + bY + c = P
Where P is what do we want in Life?C is a constant on which we do not have any controlX and Y are the variables on which we have a controlA and B are again constants on which we do not have control.Generally the most difficult thing is to find the right question, right problem, right objective that is P. We have so many forces acting on us and hence, with those generally what we chase is P+K or some other shit. For some people P keeps on changing with time, because they are never sure if its the right thing which they want in life?
Hence, to measure your life or to bring peace in your life or to become happy in your life or to get the sense of maturity in life, where no external factor creates any trouble in your life, firstly you need to find what do you want?
Second is what you need is variables of things that basically will take you to thing/situation/goal you have in mind. List down all the things.
For example: My objective in life is bring a +ve change in human's life at global/mass level. (I have introspective in terms of why I need this and at what cost and etc)
My next question is that to achieve this what do I have to do? i.e. list down your variables.
Start chasing your variablesFor few those the value of A/B will be higher and hence they might need to put a lower X/Y, but for you may be the value of A/B is lower and hence you would need to put more hard work to make sure that AX+BY becomes equal to P, even if the value of C is zero.In this time sometimes the variable B becomes negative, i.e. your family angle, your society angle, your girl friend doesnt want you to reach P, because in thr perspective, they think either it is un-achievable or they will lose you as an individual once you reach P. What do you do when something like this happen ? Increase X, the only variable truly in your hand.--------------------------------------------Few lines from some where which I like:
Because it's all in how you choose to measure success. I don't measure my success by displays of monetary wealth. I prefer to measure it based on social and global impact. Is that totally self-serving and biased? Absolutely. And that's the point: You get to choose how you measure success.
Most of us are never told this. It's not something we pick up in school or church. In fact, most of our social systems are built with their own metrics of success built into them which we are then expected and sometimes forced to follow. Get good grades. Make tons of money. Go to church. Buy nice things. Raise a nice family. Watch football.
It's vital that we remember that they're not absolute. We shouldn't limit ourselves to them. Money is nice, but one can choose to see it not as the absolute measure of wealth, but as a useful tool to help achieve true wealth. Religion gives billions of people's lives moral direction, but that doesn't require one to believe in religion to be a good, moral person. Relationships and family are important, but lacking them doesn't make you any less valuable as a person.
Again, we get to choose. And the beauty and the frustration is that we're all different, so most of the time our metrics will be different.
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The Happiness Hypotheticals are powerful tools because they can show us what metrics of success actually matter for us. Many of us think relationships will make us happy, but emotional health should be the goal and relationships the side effect. Many think popularity will make them happy, but one should do something important and noble and let the fame be the side effect.
As humans, we're all driven by happiness and meaning, but we often get caught up in unnecessary status concerns and superficial comparisons. When we create hypothetical either/or situations between those comparisons and happiness, it can quickly sort our priorities out for us. Tools such as these show us ways in which we can measure our own success.
I'm not famous, but I improve people's lives. That makes me successful. You're single and alone right now, but you're happy and proud of yourself. That makes you successful.
We must take care in choosing the way in which we measure success because the metrics we choose will determine all of our actions and beliefs.
The metrics of success which we choose lead to long-term real life consequences, and they determine everything.
The Secret to Happiness Is 10 Specific Behaviors
Despite happiness being a primary human motivation, only one in three Americans say they're very happy.
Several years ago in an interview with Conan O'Brien, Louis C. K. tells of flying on a newly equipped Wi-Fi airplane. He was amazed by the new technology. Until, during the flight, the Wi-Fi went down. Immediately, the man next to him became extremely upset. "As though the world owes this man something he only knew existed 10 seconds ago."
Louis C. K. continues by describing people's absurd frustrations with flying in general. People complain about it all the time "It was the worst day of my life! It took 20 minutes to board! We had to sit on the runway for 40 minutes!"
We hear complaints like these all the time. As if we've forgotten how incredible it is that humans can fly at all.
How are we so quick to take for granted the remarkable things going on in life?
Why is it so easy to complain?
Why do we focus on the negative?
Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.
However, happiness can easily be achieved even without the brilliant advances in the world.
Rather than being reactive to what's going on around us, happy people take control of their lives and emotions. If you are unhappy with your life, who or what else can you blame than yourself? And if you can blame someone or something else, how is blame going to make your life any better?
Bad stuff happens to everyone. But life isn't about what happens to you. It's about how you proactively respond.
The following 10 behaviors, if applied, will change your life. Let me be clear, if you do these things, you will be an incredibly happy person.
1. Let Go Of The Need For Specific Outcomes
Not everything in life goes exactly how we plan. There are setbacks. Stuff happens. We mess up. Over-obsessing and basing happiness on specific outcomes leads to misery. Jeremy Piven, the famous actor, was recently interviewed by Success Magazine. During the interview, he mentioned that, as an actor, the only way to work is to go out and audition for specific roles.The challenge most actors/actresses face is that they get in their own way. It doesn't matter how much homework they've done. If they're too tied to a specific result, they can't be present in the moment. They can't truly perform their art. They come off as desperate. They get in their own way. Their performance isn't what it could have been.Jeremy said that when he quit worrying about a specific result, he was able to be present during his auditions. He was able to be completely who he wanted to be. He wasn't trying to be what he thought others wanted him to be. He performed his art.If he didn't get the gig, either they didn't get it or it just wasn't the right fit. So he moves on to the next. In this way, he's able to get the jobs he's supposed to have. He's not just trying to get anything he can get.
2. Define Your Own Success And Happiness
"Be everything to everybody and you'll be nothing for yourself." — John Rushton
No two human beings are the same. So why should we have one standard of success? Seeking society's standard of success is an endless rat-race. There will always be someone better than you. You'll never have the time to do everything.Instead, you recognize that every decision has opportunity cost. When you choose one thing, you simultaneously don't choose several others. And that's okay. Actually, it's beautiful because we get to choose our ultimate ideal. We must define success, wealth, and happiness in our own terms because if we don't, society will for us — and we will always fall short. We'll always be left wanting. We'll always be stuck comparing ourselves and competing with other people. Our lives will be an endless race for the next best thing. We'll never experience contentment.
3. Commit 100 Percent To The Things That Make You Happy
"Many of us have convinced ourselves that we are able to break our own personal rules "just this once." In our minds, we can justify these small choices. None of those things, when they first happen, feels like a life-changing decision. The marginal costs are almost always low. But each of those decisions can roll up into a much bigger picture, turning you into the kind of person you never wanted to be." — Clayton Christensen
People are really good at self-sabotage. We consistently behave in ways that contradict our goals and ideals. This is incongruence. As Mahatma Gandhi has said, "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." The smaller the gap between what you should do, and what you actually do — the happier you will be.
Hence, Clayton Christensen says 100 percent commitment is easier than 98 percent commitment. When you fully commit to something, the decision has been made. Consequently, regarding that thing, all future decisions have been made.
Unless you're committed 100 percent, you will always be a victim to external circumstances. By relying on willpower, you'll crumble more often than you think. Research has found that people over-inflate their own performance. Chances are, you probably think you're doing better at your resolves than you really are.
But once you're 100 percent committed, you no longer need to rely on willpower. Your decision has already been made regardless of the circumstances. Saying "No" to anything outside our highest ideals becomes extremely easy. This is living proactively rather than reactively.
4. Be Grateful For What You Already Have
"Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend … when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us [happiness] — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth." — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Happiness is as simple as gratitude. Psychological research has found that people who practice gratitude consistently report a host of benefits:
Stronger immune systems, Less bothered by aches and pains, Lower blood pressure, Exercise more and take better care of their health, Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking
Higher levels of positive emotions, More alert, alive, and awake, More joy and pleasure, More optimism and happinessSocial
More helpful, generous, and compassionate, More forgiving, More outgoing, Feel less lonely and isolatedDespite these benefits, most people ungratefully focus on what they don't have. As a culture, we have become wasteful and undisciplined consumers. The grass is always greener on the other side. A constant pursuit of having more of the newest and best.
How could you possibly find happiness when you relentlessly want more and never find properly appreciate what you have?
It's time for you to learn how to be more grateful. Your happiness depends on it.
5. Say "I Love You" More
This may be strange, but if you tell your friends and family you love them, they'll be blown away. I once knew a Polynesian missionary who told everyone he loved them. It was clear he was sincere.I asked him why he did it. What he told me changed my life. "When I tell people I love them, it not only changes them, but it changes me. Simply by saying the words, I feel more love for that person. I've been telling people all around me I love them. They feel treasured by me. Those who know me have come to expect it. When I forget to say it, they miss it."Said author Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."As my wife, Lauren, tells our children daily, "The secret to happiness is to make everyone around you happy." By default, you will get the satisfaction of bringing joy to others and their positive energy will come back to you.
6. Have Hobbies Directed Toward Your Dreams
Most people's hobbies are just hobbies. And that's okay. It's good to have an escape from reality. However, research has found that a person can experience leisure in anything. Your work can become your leisure — where it literally rejuvenates you.When I decided where I wanted my life to go, my life vision, I consciously chose hobbies that would best get me there. Some of these hobbies include exercise, reading, writing, journaling, having deep and meaningful conversations, and being in nature. These hobbies refresh and rejuvenate me while simultaneously pushing me toward my dreams.
7. Don't Wait Til Tomorrow For What You Can Do Today
"When I was around thirteen and my brother ten, Father had promised to take us to the circus. But at lunchtime there was a phone call; some urgent business required his attention downtown. We braced ourselves for disappointment. Then we heard him say [into the phone], 'No, I won't be down. It'll have to wait.'"When he came back to the table, Mother smiled. 'The circus keeps coming back, you know,' [she said.]"'I know,' said Father. 'But childhood doesn't.'" — Arthur GordonHappiness comes from embracing the now. Not letting those moments pass you by. Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism, tells of the story of missing his child being born to be at an "important meeting." He thought the potential client would be impressed with his commitment to work. Instead, they saw his decision to miss such a monumental moment as a flaw in character. That moment was a turning point for Greg. In fact, it spurred him to change everything about his life. He now removes everything from his life that is not vital and essential.Nothing in life is permanent. Kids grow up. Friends move away. Our loved ones pass on from this life. Let's live in the present and appreciate the most important things in our lives before it's too late.
8. Do Something Every Day That Terrifies You
Happy people step out of their comfort zone. You can't grow if you don't challenge yourself. And growth is a requirement of happiness. If you're not growing, you're slowly decaying and dying.
Elevated risk makes you feel more alive and puts you in a state of flow — which is an optimal conscious state where you feel and perform at your highest level. You become completely absorbed in what you're doing — pure presence.
When you do things way outside your comfort zone, you naturally raise your conscious level. When you do things that involve high risk, and high probability of failure, you are forced to think differently than you normally do. You are forced to be creative and innovative.
Sadly, most people play life small, safe, and easy. The goals they pursue are logical. There is little element of risk and little requirement for faith.
Consequently, you should take bigger risks in your life. Do things that make you feel alive and activate flow. Of course, with this will come more failures. But if you're not failing, you're not growing. Rather than experiencing apathy in life, you'll experience more of a roller-coaster of emotions. We can never appreciate joy if we've never felt sorrow. The more pain and fear we feel, the more we can comprehend and appreciate joy and happiness.
9. Put "The Important" Before "The Urgent"
Stephen Covey says that most people spend their time on urgent but unimportant things. We wake up and immediately check our email. Thus, we put our lives on reactive, rather than proactive mode. After all, email is simply a database of other people's agendas.
Instead, happy people always put the important stuff first. Not only important, but important and non-urgent. The important stuff includes exercise, reading good books, setting goals, writing in your journal, and spending time with those you love. None of these things are urgent. We could easily put these things off until tomorrow — which is ultimately never. The most happy and successful people in the world spend most of their time on the important.
One of my favorite non-urgent yet important things is my morning routine. I wake up several hours before I start my work day. I meditate and pray to put myself in a space of gratitude and abundance. Then I get my body moving with exercise or yard work. I eat healthy food, read my long-term goals, listen to uplifting content, and do at least one thing to move me toward my goals.
10. Forgo The Good To Pursue The Best
A lot of things in life are good, even great. That doesn't mean we should do them. In Good to Great, Jim Collins says that once-in-a-lifetime opportunities come up every day. Most people take any great opportunity that comes their way, even if it's not in alignment with their life vision. Consequently, most people's lives are moving in a thousand different directions. They aren't able to consciously move forward in a singular direction.
On the other hand, happy people say no to even amazing opportunities. They will not sacrifice freedom for security. They will not get derailed by distractions — even sexy and attractive distractions.
Very few things in life are best. You can only determine what's best for you once you know where you want your life to go. Be careful not to continuously engage in good activities and miss the best ones.
Happy people live in the present. They don't miss the moments that matter most. They are incredibly grateful for all they have. They focus their lives on the important and essential. They forgo the many good opportunities in order to focus on the few best ones.
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Victor M. Eskew
Since the days of Darwin, evolution has become a very popular theory of origins. There are some who are religious who accept the teachings of evolution. Because they are religious, they believe the Bible. Genesis 1, however, does not harmonize with the long, progressive nature of evolution. Attempts have been made, however, to bring agreement between evolution and Genesis 1. One of these attempts centers in a theory called "The Gap Theory."
The Gap Theory teaches two creations. Those who hold to this teaching believe that the first creation is found in Genesis 1:1. During this creation, evolution worked its magic. The second creation, we are told, begins in Genesis 1:3. This creation involves the six-day period of creation. Genesis 1:2 is the "gap" between the two creations. The Gap Theorists argue that the first "was" in Genesis 1:2 could be translated "became." This would cause the verse to read as follows: "And the earth became without form and void…" The Gap Theory holds that the original creation was radically ended by a catastrophic event. The world that took billions of years to evolve came to an end. This is how they account for evolution.
Books have been written to refute the Gap Theory. We will only mention one answer in this article. That answer is found in Mark 10:6. Jesus is speaking, and says: "But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female." Jesus says that man was made at the "beginning of the creation." The beginning of the creation is found in Genesis 1:1. If billions of years transpired between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:27, then man was not made at the beginning of creation. Jesus would be wrong.
Some might argue that Jesus is referring to the creation that began in Genesis 1:3. This causes us to ask other questions. How much evolution occurred during the first creation? Did the so-called "early men" develop during the "first creation"? Did man completely evolve during that period? If so, then Adam was not the first man. Yet, the Bible is clear that Adam was the first man (I Cor. 15:45).
Unless one believes in the theory of evolution, he would never assume there is a gap found in Genesis 1:2. A casual reading of the text would not indicate this. Too, there is not one major translation that replaces the word "was" with the word "became" in Genesis 1:2. The Gap Theory is a fabrication of man that attempts to prove another fabrication of man called "evolution." It involves one who is interpreting the Bible in eisegesis instead of exegesis.


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Monday, October 15, 2007
Klazz Brothers and Cuba Percussion - Classic Meets Cuba
This might sound kitchy, and it is - but there is a lot of substance to this record behind the style. The musicianship is virtuosic, the arrangements are inventive, and everybody sounds like they are having fun. The bass player is on fire!
Klazz Brothers and Cuba Percussion - Classic Meets Cuba
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1. Mambozart
2. Cuban Dance
3. Danzon De La Trucha
4. Preludio
5. Afrolise
6. Air
7. Pathetique I
8. Pathetique II
9. Pathetique III
10. Salsa No V
11. Czardas
12. Etude
13. Carmen Cubana
14. Flight Of The Bumble Bee
15. Guten Abend
16. Anthem
They made more records - one I will be checking out in the near future is Classic Meets Cuba: Symphonic Salsa (available here): same concept, some tracks overlap with the one above. They also recorded Jazz Meets Cuba - I am kinda sceptical about that one. After all, jazz met Cuba some 50 years ago. If I'd want to hear latin jazz, I'll go get my Gillespie and Machito records. Still, if it's half as good as Classic..., it might be worth hearing.
PS Once we're on the subject of the kitchy classics covers, I'd like to remind everybody of the excellent album Let's Go Classics by the japanese guitarist and surf music titan Takeshi Terauchi AKA Terry and the Bunnies - I shared his music here before. Let's Go Classics is available over at WFMU blog, and the LP cover art is here. The songs are downloadable individually. If you can't decide whether you want it or not, I recommend you try Fur Elise.
PPS I finally listened to the Symphonic Salsa album - don't bother with it.
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hey, DJ Kalil here from worldmusicpassport.com. You linked my calypso series a few months back. Thanks. Have you poked into African Highlife, Haitian Kompa or Congolese music much?ReplyDelete
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I should have thanked you for your excellent podcasts a few months back, but I'll do it now - your site is fantastic!
I do listen to highlife and Congolese rhumba - in fact, I posted some of each here before; they should be under the "afro" tag. I am the biggest fan of afro-jazz, and Orchestra Baobab in particular.
Never heard Kompa, though - I saw you have some Kompa mixes, I'll give them a spin!
- UrsachecOctober 19, 2008 at 7:43 AM
This is really great and so is your blog. Thank you!ReplyDelete
all 3 other blogs are gone :(ReplyDelete
i think nobody maintains their blogs except you !
Some share blogs get deleted for policy violations. But also, blogging gets old eventually... It feels very rewarding at first but then becomes too much of an obligation and people burn out.
if only there was a way to automate the file hosting so they don't all suffer from blog rot..ReplyDelete
Anyway, back on topic, this album was fun and on the strength of it I checked out the other two. The good news is the tracks which 'overlap' are actually very different arrangements/performances/recordings.
The bad news is they suck.
While this album had a good mix, the symphonic salsa is like 1% cuba 99% classic, and it's cheesy as hell.
Jazz meets cuba is just lame for the reasons you've already mentioned, so you had good reason to be suspicious.


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Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC 1 period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments. All television episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder's dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical period with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters, though several reappear in one series or another, for example Melchett and Lord Flashheart. The first series titled The Black Adder was written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, while subsequent episodes were written by Curtis and Ben Elton. The shows were produced by John Lloyd. In 2000 the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the "100 Greatest British Television Programmes", a list created by the British Film Institute. Also in the 2004 TV poll to find "Britain's Best Sitcom", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses. It was also ranked as the 20th-best TV show of all time by Empire magazine.
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|Last Air Date
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|Comedy, War & Politics
|BBC One
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|John Lloyd
|Number of Seasons
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|Number of Episodes
|24 Episodes
|Plot Keywords
|war, army, england, world war i, servant, prince, dark comedy, satire, queen elizabeth i, history, middle ages, sitcom, period sitcom