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Buying a new car can be one of the biggest purchases you make in your life, especially when buying a car for the first time. In addition to finding the perfect car for your needs, there are a number of variables that need to be considered before you are ready to make a purchase of a new Toyota. These include the price of the car itself from your Los Angeles Toyota dealership, as well as what you might expect to pay for insurance and any future maintenance that is needed. When you are ready to buy a new car, finding the right financing options to fit your budget is also important, because getting a car loan that you can manage will allow you to make your payments easily and lead to your complete ownership of the vehicle. As you are in the process of buying a new car, learn about the different options and steps for financing so you are prepared.
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Most of the time our work in disturbance ecology is focused on the natural world, where these dynamics are a natural part of the landscape and while we may be concerned about their trajectory or their impacts, it's somewhat removed. Our work on landslides (Buma and Johnson 2015) and regional disturbance patterns (Buma and Barrett 2015) was just like that - unfortunately, a strong storm hit Sitka, Alaska (within our study area) and triggered a landslide which killed three people. Our funded work from NASA is directly relevant to this - improving spatial and temporal landslide warning systems. It's an unfortunate reminder that many places in SE Alaska are in slide zones and the ecological phenomena we love to study can certainly collide with real life.
The folks in Sitka are doing an amazing job coordinating the scientific response. A large and strong taskforce has been assembled, NASA has made a special effort to collect extra data, funds have been identified, and proposals planned. Hopefully this turns into a productive lesson which enables not only new scientific understanding of disturbance ecology, but improves safety in the region.


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I have always loved eggplants. They are one of my favorite summer vegetables. The other day I wanted to use up some eggplants from our garden, so I made this delicious spread. Last year I had made an oriental version of eggplant spread, the baba ghanoush, which was also really tasteful. Anyway, the new spread was a real hit and we enjoyed it on rustic bread and on rusks.
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5 small eggplants
1 red pepper, halved
1 medium onion
2 garlic cloves
4 Tbsp parsley, finely chopped
3 Tbsp walnuts, coarsely chopped
1/4 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp smoked paprika
salt and pepper
4 +1 Tbsp olive oil
3 Tbsp balsamic cream
Make holes in the skin of the eggplants and place them along with the onion, pepper and garlic (wrapped in aluminium foil) in a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Pour 1 Tbsp olive oil and grease the veggies with your hands. Bake in preheated oven at 200C for about 40 minutes. When ready, allow to cool. Peel eggplant skin off. Finely chop the flesh of the eggplants and set aside.
Place onion, garlic, parsley, half the pepper in a blender and pulse until smooth. Transfer this mixture to the eggplant mixture and stir to combine. Pour olive oil and vinegar, season with salt and pepper. Top with walnuts and the rest of the pepper, chopped. It is better served cool. Enjoy!


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Test-drive the GATK tools and Best Practices pipelines on Terra
Check out this blog post to learn how you can get started with GATK and try out the pipelines in preconfigured workspaces (with a user-friendly interface!) without having to install anything.
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The Reference Sequence (RefSeq) collection aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, non-redundant, well-annotated set of sequences, including genomic DNA, transcripts, and proteins. RefSeq is a foundation for medical, functional, and diversity studies; they provide a stable reference for genome annotation, gene identification and characterization, mutation and polymorphism analysis (especially RefSeqGene records), expression studies, and comparative analyses.
Several GATK tools accept a RefSeq-formatted gene list. Mind you, there are many file format flavors of ReqSeq; we've chosen to use the table dump format produced by the UCSC genome table browser.
Generating RefSeq files
Go to the UCSC genome table browser. There are many output options; here are the settings we care about:
assembly: [be sure to pick the same [reference genome build](https://software.broadinstitute.org/gatk/documentation/article.php?id=11011) that you're working with]
group: Genes and Gene Prediction Tracks
track: RefSeq Genes
table: refGene
Choose a good output filename, something like
my_organism.geneTrack.refSeq, and click the
get output button. You now have your initial RefSeq file, which may not be sorted, and may contain non-standard contigs. You may need to re-sort the file and remove any contigs to match exactly the sequence dictionary of the reference build you're working with.
The GATK automatically adjusts the start and stop position of the records from zero-based half-open intervals (UCSC standard) to one-based closed intervals.
For example:
The first 19 bases in Chromosome one:
Chr1:0-19 (UCSC system)
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All of the GATK output is also in this format, so if you're using other tools or scripts to process RefSeq or GATK output files, you should be aware of this difference.


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6 Ways Running Boosts Brain Power
Running gives you endorphin
And endorphin make you happy, right? It turns out Manish Chaudhary was correct after all. Exercising results in the body's release of endorphin, which are chemicals linked to positive and euphoric feelings. This is what is sometimes known as the "runner's high" that comes with continued exercise.
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Running also increases the production and release of serotonin, a chemical that affects mood balance. This includes our body's stress levels, and it turns out going on a run can help rid feelings of stress we may have. Additionally, the setting of your run can play a key role as well. For example, running in a peaceful place like a park can instill calm feelings whereas running in a loud and busy city might not have the same effect.
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by The Press and Standard | January 28, 2016 2:18 pm
Last Updated: January 31, 2016 at 9:51 pm
A Colleton County woman is in custody, facing multiple charges in connection with a pair of Wednesday armed robberies.
Barbara Ann Williams, 52, who reportedly has recent addresses in Yemassee and Green Pond, faces two counts of armed robbery and two counts of kidnapping for her alleged involvement in the armed robberies of two Walterboro gas stations.
On Wednesday at approximately 2:17 a.m., officers from the Walterboro Police Department responded to Citgo at 201 S. Jefferies Blvd, where an armed robbery that just occurred.
The clerk told police officers that an unknown black female approached her and presented something in her jacket pocket, which the clerk believed it to be a weapon. The suspect then demanded money.
Once the suspect received an undetermined amount of money from the register, she fled the scene in a black four-door sedan.
The victim of that armed robbery described the suspect as a black female, believed to be about 40 years old, wearing a white fur hat and white bubble jacket.
Wednesday at approximately 5 p.m., Walterboro officers were called to BoBops at 401 S. Jefferies Blvd, where another armed robbery had occurred.
The clerk told officers that a black female came into the store and handed her a note demanding money.
The clerk stated that the suspect had a gun in the pocket of her jacket and threatened to shoot the clerk if she did not give her the money.
The clerk said that the suspect took an undetermined amount of money and fled the scene.
The suspect was described as a black female in her 50s wearing a white fur hat and light-colored jacket.
After officers reviewed the surveillance footage, they determined the suspect in the BoBops robbery was the same woman from Citgo armed robbery.
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Stranded on Mars, abandoned astronaut Mark Watney is faced with a choice: succumb to the starvation, injuries and harsh climes that threaten his life, or attempt to survive on this planet in the hopes of rescue. After all, help is only 140 million miles away. Luckily for viewers of director Ridley Scott's film "The Martian," Watney (played by a superb Matt Damon) chooses the latter, fighting throughout the 144-minute epic to return home to Earth.
More "Castaway" than "Gravity," "The Martian" relies less on feats of cinematic wizardry and more on the story of how far one man will go to survive against the odds. Watney could be anywhere – an island, the frozen tundra, or a desert – but it just so happens that he's on Mars, unwittingly left for dead by his Ares III crew amid an unexpected storm. The film's otherworldly backdrop could easily become its crutch if it weren't for Damon's performance. With a sizable amount of self-deprecating humor, realistic ingenuity and touch of human frailty, Watney is relatable without becoming just another cookie-cutter hero. The running gag of disco music throughout the film, left behind by one of Watney's crewmembers, doesn't hurt either ("I Will Survive," anyone?).
While Watney tools around growing potatoes and building communication devices on Mars, NASA is stunned at learning he's alive. Led by stony director Teddy Sanders (Jeff Daniels) and agency spokesperson Annie Montrose (Kristen Wiig), the guys on the ground must now decide how to rescue Watney – or if that's even possible. Daniels' portrayal is stiff at best, while Wiigg is frankly miscast in this somber role. It's thanks to Chiwetel Eijofor and Sean Beans' portrayals of mission and flight directors that the NASA crew finds its heart, the two daring to advocate for a rescue plan most deem unthinkable, rerouting the Ares III crew's flight back to Mars to rescue their abandoned botanist. The only problem: no one tells the crew Watney isn't dead.
Helmed by a stellar cast – Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Michael Peña, Sebastian Stan and Aksel Hennie – there's no doubting the Ares III crew's star power. The only question is do they have the guts to do the unthinkable? That's for space to decide.
With almost as many moving plot points as a "Bourne" movie, "The Martian" is far from a relaxing affair. First there's all the science to digest (realistic as it is), over two-hour running time to contend with and the fact that nearly all the action takes place in a pretty boring landscape (Red Planet, that's for sure). That's not taking into account a squeamish scene involving Watney, a metal pole and some staples or the whole zero gravity/zero oxygen/zero chance of survival circumstances that are just typical space. You get the idea. But underneath all those stress-inducing circumstances is a storyline with undeniable staying power courtesy of Drew Goddard's surprisingly funny screenplay and that star-studded cast.
"The Martian" is a lot of things – space drama, character study, comedy about a guy growing potatoes by himself for two years – but it's also a film that makes you marvel at humans' capacity for that most basic of all things, life itself. There are two choices at hand: go and enjoy the story or go and enjoy the disco music. Either way you'll be glad you did.


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We design for it, plan for it and hope it never arrives... but just like a thunderstorm when setting up your tent, problems in our applications show up at the worst possible times! It's usually when your organization's systems are at their highest load, meaning every minute your application isn't functioning your organization is losing money and customers! At this point there's a strong urge to do more planning up front, or eliminate most of those pesky connected systems or third party vendors that aren't as stable as you would like... but you can keep those vendors and systems and create a resilient application! You don't need that "big bang" deployment that takes months to plan or be afraid to migrate systems to the cloud. In this talk we'll cover some of the principles of constructing resilient cloud applications, starting with transient error handling, diagnostics and building fallback patterns into the application. Then we'll move on to how to incrementally update your application to support newer foundations, external services and vendors without impacting the current infrastructure. Then we'll discuss strategies for limiting your roll-out to ensure it's successful before releasing it to everyone. As we cover areas we'll be adding these items to a small e-commerce project and demonstrating how you can simulate failures to validate the effectiveness of these updates.


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California Vehicle Code 23152(b) VC states, "It is illegal to operate a motor vehicle with blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.08 percent or higher." While no one condones driving while intoxicated there are factors that can alter BAC or provide false-positive results.
Furthermore, many people have been falsely arrested due to faulty tests and improper procedures. There is no doubt standardized field sobriety tests (FST) help law enforcement identify drunk drivers. However, these tests are not infallible.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, FST tests are accurate around 65 percent of the time. Essentially, this means one out of four people who fail sobriety tests actually aren't under the influence.
Chemical tests are another crime-busting tool for Santa Clara County officers, but are notorious for providing erroneous information. Breath testing is one of the most common ways to assess a person's BAC. Other tests include urine and blood analysis.
California's "implied consent" law authorizes police officers to demand chemical testing to determine blood alcohol content. Those who willfully refuse testing will be arrested on DUI charges and there license is automatically suspended.
Multiple factors can influence BAC test results. These include things such as procedural errors, faulty breathalyzer equipment, and physiological and environmental factors. Breath testing devices that utilize infrared spectroscopy technology can be disrupted by radio frequency and electromagnetic fields and result in abnormal readings.
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CRITIC'S CHOICE/Film; Movies That Begin Where the Wars Won't End By STEPHEN HOLDEN (NYT) 593 words genocide .
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CRITIC'S CHOICE/Film; Movies That Begin Where the Wars Won't End
By STEPHEN HOLDEN (NYT) 593 words
The general, a Canadian who sounded the alarm about the possibility of mass killings, is the subject of Steven Silver's documentary portrait, ''The Last Just Man,'' which is having its New York premiere tomorrow at the Walter Reade Theater as part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
As all signs pointed toward an organized, large-scale massacre in Rwanda, General Dallaire frantically alerted United Nations officials in New York to the imminent catastrophe and five times requested reinforcements for his tiny contingent of peace-keeping troops. Each time, the answer that came back was an emphatic no.
Especially adamant about not intervening in Rwanda was the United States, which was reluctant to sustain any more casualties after the loss of American lives in Somalia and did not view the country as a threat to national security. Three months later, Rwanda turned into a killing field where more than half a million people were butchered by machete and machine gun fire in just 100 days (genocide). The movie insists that the slaughter could have been prevented.
''The Last Just Man'' is the kind of unflinching documentary you can see only at the Human Rights Watch festival, which runs at the Walter Reade Theater through June 26.
In the film, the general recounts the events leading up to the massacre and describes how he ultimately decided to break the rules and become personally involved. That involvement nearly cost him his life.
Two other festival documentaries look deep beneath the surface of the societies they examine. The first is Hany Abu-Assad's ''Ford Transit,'' a portrait of a Palestinian cabdriver and his passengers, filmed in his taxi as he makes his daily rounds between East Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Frequent roadblocks and inspections along the way have turned the route into a frustrating obstacle course, which he has found ingenious ways to circumvent. Reflecting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most of his passengers lament the Palestinian suicide bombings and show a sophisticated understanding of the region's history and politics.
In taking you to the heart of a trouble spot, ''Ford Transit,'' like ''The Last Just Man,'' reminds you that there are no simple solutions. It also points out the degree to which ordinary people who abhor violence find themselves caught in the crossfire of fiercely militant forces beyond their control.
Patricia Castano and Adelaida Trujillo's anguished personal documentary, ''War Takes,'' a meditation on Colombian society that took four years to complete, is similarly steeped in the culture and history of the country it studies. The volatile mix of left-wing revolutionary guerrillas, right-wing militarism and the drug trade in Colombia has resulted in a society that barely holds together and whose democratic government is too weak to bring about peace. This sad, scary portrait of a country in crisis suggests that much worse lies ahead.
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Pressmanship and Statesmanship
The Earl of Derby remarked with considerable emphasis in his speech on the Address, that as in these days the English press aspires to share the influence of statesmen, so also it must share in the responsibilities of statesmen. If the first of these propositions be established, the second follows as matter of course ; and we, of all men, are the least disposed to lower the proper functions or to deny the responsibilities of the power we may derive from the confidence of the public. But, be that power more or less, we cannot admit that its main purpose is to share the labours of statesmanship, or that it is bound by the same limitations, the same duties, the same liabilities as that of the Ministers of the Crown. The purposes and the duties of the two powers are constantly separate, generally independent, sometimes diametrically opposite. The dignity and the freedom of the press are trammelled from the moment it accepts an ancillary position. To perform its duties with entire independence, and consequently with the utmost public advantage, the press can enter into no close or binding alliances with the statesmen of the day nor can it surrender its permanent interests to the convenience of the ephemeral power of any Government.
The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation. The statesman collects his information secretly and by secret means; he keeps back even the current intelligence of the day with ludicrous precautions, until diplomacy is beaten in the race with publicity. The press lives by disclosures; whatever passes into its keeping becomes a part of the knowledge and the history of our times; it is daily and for ever appealing to the enlightened force of public opinion — anticipating, if possible, the march of events —standing upon the breach between the present and the future, and extending its survey to the horizon of the world. The statesman's duty is precisely the reverse. He cautiously guards from the public eye the information by which his actions and opinions are regulated; he reserves his judgment on passing events till the latest moment, and then he records it in obscure or conventional language: he strictly confines himself, if he be wise, to the practical interests of his own country, or to those bearing immediately upon it; he hazards no rash surmises as to the future; and he concentrates in his own transactions all that power which the press seeks to diffuse over the world. The duty of the one is to speak; of the other to be silent. The one expends itself in discussion; the other tends to action. The one deals mainly with rights and interests; the other with opinions and sentiments. The former is necessarily reserved; the latter essentially free.
It follows, therefore, from this contrast, that the responsibilities of the two powers are as much at variance as their duties. For us, with whom publicity and truth are the air and light of existence, there can be no greater disgrace than to recoil from the frank and accurate disclosure of facts as they are. We are bound to tell the truth as we find it, without fear of consequences — to lend no convenient shelter to acts of injustice and oppression, but to consign them at once to the judgment of the world. Statesmen, it is said, have duties of a nicer order; they are bound to repress the throb of indignation which will rise at the sight of evils and oppressions they cannot avenge; they are prone to pursue particular objects rather than to pledge themselves to general principles; they are forbidden to risk for an instant the important interests confided to their care; and, though the support of public opinion is essential to their success, it is only by rare and occasional efforts that they can attempt to guide it.
If the public writer shares in any degree the influence of the statesman, he shares at least few of those personal objects which constitute so large a part of ordinary statesmanship. He is not toiling or sacrificing the best years of his life and the best faculties of his nature in the pursuit of personal aggrandizement, for none can either reward or corrupt the obscure course of his labours. Even the triumph of his opinions is not accompanied by the applause of a party or the success of a struggle for patronage and power. Those opinions which he has defended, and, so to speak, created, slip from him in the moment of their triumph, and take their stand among established truths. The responsibility he really shares is more nearly akin to that of the economist or the lawyer, whose province is not to frame a system of convenient application to the exigencies of the day, but to investigate truth and to apply it on fixed principles to the affairs of the world.
The responsibility we acknowledge has therefore little in common with that of statesmen, for it is estimated by a totally different standard of rectitude and duty. Of all professions, statesmanship is that in which the greatest laxity of practice is tolerated by the usages of society. Concealment, evasion, factious combinations, the surrender of convictions to party objects, and the systematic pursuit of expediency, are things of daily occurrence among men of the highest character once embarked in the contention of political life. [...] But they are absolutely destructive to the credit, the power, and the success of a public writer; and he who would traffic with his pen on such terms had better take refuge at once among those mercenary hacks who court the favours of every successive Government. Of all journals, and of all writers, those will obtain the largest measure of public support who have told the truth most constantly and most fearlessly.
Again, the eyes of a Minister are rivetted upon the interests of his own country, and his duties can scarcely be said to extend beyond it. The press owes its first duty to the national interests which it represents, but nothing is indifferent to it which affects the cause of civilization throughout the world. The press of England, standing, as it now does, alone in the enjoyment of entire freedom, would grievously neglect its exalted privileges if it failed to recollect how much is due to the common interests of Europe. It may suit the purposes of statesmen to veil the statue of Liberty, and to mutter some formulary of disingenuous acquiescence in foreign wrongs, dictated by their fears rather than by their convictions; but we prefer to await for our justification the day when the entombed and oppressed liberties of Europe shall once more start into life and array themselves under the standard to which we cling. [...] It is the unquestionable duty of Ministers to watch over the maintenance of our pacific relations with other States, and to disclaim all that might be erroneously construed into hostile intentions on our part, while they provide efficiently for the independence and security of Britain against all contingencies. But it seems to us the first duty of public writers is to take care that the people of England are not lulled into indifference to the destruction of liberty and the violation of political rights in such a country as France , since that liberty and those rights were the chief pledges of our pacific relations and our common interests. [...]


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Navigating Ships & Other Nautical Adventures
My team's recent fun event was on a cruise liner on the calm, blue waters of the Pacific Ocean hugging San Francisco. Besides soaking up the panoramic vistas and general bonhomie, I particularly enjoyed my conversation with the skipper. Our worlds were completely apart and yet I found the conversation to be completely relatable. Most specifically, I found so many parallels between his talk of navigating ships and the Agile transformation we are currently navigating at Cisco engineering.
Our engineering development process at Cisco is ever evolving. We are proud to be keeping with the times and overhauling some of our archaic processes, all while keeping the engines humming, producing software that runs several billion devices at thousands of customer premises.
We had several imperatives to launch an agile transformation at Cisco engineering. Primarily, building deeper customer context and therefore smarter products through co-development with customers. We also wanted to improve the overall experience of engineers through the formation of self-governing teams. This allows for faster decision-making and speed. Overhauling our time-to-market and quality were also key factors. And finally, a quick dipstick competitive analysis, especially here in Silicon Valley, showed us that our smaller competitors were adopting agile and reaping benefits. We're soliciting client participation in our development process through agile/co-dev. Please connect with your Cisco CE today to learn more.
Turning a big ship around, apparently, can take time and effort but exactly how much of it depends on the nature of the carrier. The skipper eloquently spoke of how a cruise ship, designed for luxury travelers, will take longer since it focuses on passenger comfort and doesn't have the necessary infrastructure onboard to handle a quick volte-face. A battleship by contrast is built for exactly this sort of maneuvering. Essentially, turning an engineering organization on a warpath of waterfall development to an agile model requires nimbleness and skill without disrupting our customer's lives.
The benefits of our agile transformation have been immense as demonstrated through software stacks like IOS XE and IOS XR built entirely using a customized agile development methodology. Customers get an early window to influence our product development and partner closer with the engineers writing the code. This further results in reduced deploy times and a drop in testing and certification processes. Besides our customers, the benefits for Cisco and the engineering teams are immense. Not just does this move to agile development keep us competitive, we also have better control on the development process and better quality products being built.
I am proud that this next wave of our agile journey will be one of the (if not THE) largest agile transformations, in the world of embedded software development, at this scale. What makes me prouder is that we acted like a battleship even while caring for the comfort of our customers like a cruise liner.
Do tell me about your agile development journeys in the comments section below and let's swap notes on best practices.
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Alex Zhu
Good metaphor!
In the embedded software world, we will need a customized & hybrid Agile given that:
1) Normally the SW has dependencies on HW, and HW is hard to be agile due to the cost and turnaround time. Therefore, SW Agile + HW waterfall model is common.
2) Our SP and Enterprise customers have higher quality requirement, and they don't like to do upgrade and testing with every iteration release. That's why we still need release level quality assurance.
Warren Hein
The key to being agile in the embedded world is to remove the dependency on hardware from the driver. This is the true Supertanker in the ocean of code development. I've been involved with several bring-ups where a test cycle for a simple change can take 20 minutes or more to validate the change. Given the rapid nature of change during the bringup period, this can result in hours of time spent compiling/loading/testing, often on trivial errors.
Specifically with our own ASIC's, we can do a better job of combining the tasks of ASIC validation with the development of a driver which can be integrated with the intended operating systems. Use of test-driven-development (TDD) along with hardware mocks, it becomes much easier to test the behavior of driver code on a device without actually needing access to the physical device. The developer has the ability to rapidly test changes to the driver on their development system, with a feedback in an order of seconds rather than minutes.
Some points to consider when talking about Agile development:
– What is the cycle time between making a software change, and confirming existing behavior is not affected? Are there external dependencies?
– How many resources (ie switches/routers/servers) are required to validate a given feature?
– How are failure cases validated? Can this be performed without damaging a system?
– Are component drivers or critical infrastructure tightly interleaved with a particular implementation? If this module was to be ported over to another system, how much work would be involved integrating it into a new system.
– How easy is it to roll back changes in the case of failure? Are there any automation routines occurring (ie continuous integration) to ensure check-ins do not break previously passing test cases? Or is validation dependent on hands-on testing? Are hooks in place to run specific test cases before changes can be checked into the software repository?
Venky – An eye opening post. The size of the beast might become more apparent, when we estimate the average revenue generated per "Sprint' in CSG in the long run in this journey.
One key point you mention – is not miss the end game – focusing on the quality of the product thrown into the lap of customers.. Does not matter how we produced the product, that mandate never goes away !! Lots of points to ponder and execute….
Our team has been in agile mode for a while now, It has had its own challenges/advantages, I would like to see tangible data which shows agile is indeed doing great things as compare to waterfall model. May be in next blog, it would be useful to share any data if possible. Thanks.
Good analogy between navigation and agile transformation!


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What is the Best Travel Pillow?
Travelling is one of the many delights that is getting increasingly easier due to the access we have to the world around us as well as changes in the prices of flights and accommodation, which is fluctuating but also getting cheaper. There is however the issue of comfort, which can be difficult to attain when you're on the move.
The use of a travel pillow can help to bring back the comforts of home whilst also giving you a proper place to rest your head when you're in a difficult and uncomfortable position. They can be a real lifesaver for long plane flights or long bus trips and might just keep you sane for those few hours until you make it to your destination.
Despite the name pillow there are different looks, feels and designs for the travel pillows that are available, making it a real challenge to find the right one. However with the right insight, you can get the best travel pillow for you as well as the most comfortable, ensuring that your trip is spent enjoying the sites and not in pain.
What should I look for in a Travel Pillow?
There is more to the travel pillow than just purchasing one that is the same as your regular pillow. There are other factors that come as part of travel that the Travel Pillow will already have in mind and are essential for ensuring that it is use properly and is helpful to you. Listed below are a variety of different features you'll need to consider:
- Design
- Comfort
- Portability
First and foremost is the design of the travel pillow. It's not necessarily the same as the regular pillow you have in your home but you are attempting to find one that emulates it as closely as possible. Emulating the overall feature of a home pillow helps o make the travel pillow much better and achieve what you want it to whilst on the move.
You can opt to purchase a smaller sized pillow as your travel pillow, however most these days focus on neck support. This is mainly because they are used in conjunction with the wearer being in a seated position and not having the ability to lie down. It should support your neck whilst also providing comfort whilst you are seated.
There are varying designs in the neck support that is offered by the travel pillow that can increase or decrease depending on what you're looking for. You can decide to get a smaller sized travel pillow that has limited neck support or one that reaches up to your jawline as well as down to your collarbone; however both have their own benefits.
Comfort is another feature that is essential when selecting your perfect travel pillow. Finding one that supports your neck and head properly will offer the best amount of comfort that you can find in any type of travel pillow. This will ultimately result in a better night's sleep on a long trip and less pain when you wake up from your snooze
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Additionally you will need to have one that is big enough to provide comfort as listed previously as well as one that can be decreased in size so that it can fit in your bag when you're not using it. You should remember that the pillow will not always be out and around your neck and sometimes will need to be stored so you can easily carry it.
What are some good quality travel pillows?
Listed below are varying styles and prices of travel pillow that show you the differences in what you can expect as well as give you an idea of what styles there are. It should be noted that there is a change in design as price increases, however this should not be taken too closely to heart as all are still effective travel pillows:
Travelmate(R) Travelmate (R) Memory Foam Neck Pillow (Direct From The Manufacturer And Only Available At Amazon
Created with head and neck alignment in mind, this high quality, thermo-sensitive memory foam provides comfort as well as affordability to the mix. It is designed to mold around your neck and is zippered and machine washable. It can also be compressed to allow for easy storage and portability.
J Pillow, Travel Pillow - Winner of British Invention of the Year 2013 - consistently the #1 Best Selling Travel Pillow on Amazon.co.uk
Designed uniquely and winner of many awards for its versatility and innovation, this travel pillow has a different design to allow for you to rest your head with a tilt to the side that prevents your neck from bending too much. It's been advertised as excellent for travel, comfortable and also easy to store and carry with you.
CABEAU Memory Foam "Evolution Pillow" + Small Bag - It Actually Works! – BLACK
This travel pillows is capable of compressing into your travel bag at ¼ of its original size. Additionally it offers memory foam to help shape itself around your neck and provide optimum comfort, is washable, has raised sides to give head and chin support whilst also including support for your music player whilst you rest.
Key Takeaway: There are varieties of travel pillows that you may want to purchase, each with their own unique features and designs. There are enough that picking a suitable design should not be too difficult, therefore making the process of finding the right one for you to be a much easier and more enjoyable experience.
It's best to give them all special consideration and to try and find a location that has them so you can test them out in person yourself. Because of the different designs they may feel different than they look. With regards to pillows it is important to ensure that it is comfortable and offers proper support so you can depend on it when needed.


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It is no doubt that the best way to invest is by buying a property. Properties tend of appreciating in value. This means that when the time is right, and you want to cash in, you can do so with much ease.
There are obstacles that might arise when you decide to sell your home. For those who don't have a client, they opt for the realtor. These realtors can facilitate the sale of your home. Nonetheless, it is very easy for you to wait for ages before your home is successfully sold. Since they are middlemen, realtors always charge a commission on a successful sale.
There are people who take the matters into their hands. They take it upon themselves to find clients and to convince them to buy the property. On theory, this process is interesting, but in practice, it is challenging. People who lack effective communication skills and don't know how to convert someone into a buyer, this process may not be the best for them.
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To make the most of your valuable time, we're reducing your downtime and distance between rides. With "pre-matching," you can get matched with another ride before dropping off your current passenger, based on your current passenger's destination.
Sound familiar? We've been testing this in select cities for the past year. Now, it's being rolled out to every ride with a destination entered
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In a bill making appropriations for the Department of State, foreign operations, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, and for other purposes, the State and Foreign Operations
Embassy of Ukraine in The USA shared on Facebook:
'Subcommittee has included up to $663 million for programs of support to Ukraine. This will lead to exceed allocations for the same purposes in 2016 budget.
The bill will also makes available additional resources for the costs of loan guarantees for Ukraine. If passed into law, this will bolster the country's macroeconomic stability.
The bill says, that none of the funds appropriated by this act may be made available for assistance for the central government of a country that has taken affirmative steps intended to support or be supportive of the Russian Federation annexation of Crimea as well as for the implementation of any action or policy that recognizes the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over Crimea. According to the draft, the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive directors of each international financial institution to vote against any assistance by such institution (including but not limited to any loan, credit, or guarantee) for any program that violates the sovereignty or territorial integrity of Ukraine. These requirements and limitations shall cease to be in effect after the Government of Ukraine has reestablished sovereignty over Crimea.
At the same time, the U.S. Congress is also on the track to increase the security related assistance to Ukraine in 2017. Earlier the U.S. Senate and the House passed their own versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which may authorize $500 million of security assistance for Ukraine, including lethal assistance.
We highly appreciate a position of the U.S. lawmakers, as it sends a strong signal to the world's democratic community in support of Ukraine and its territorial integrity.'


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Major agents have been spotted at Via Turati today…
According to Sky Sports, Davide Astori's, Davide Santon's and Mattia Destro's agent Claudio Vigorelli has been holding talks with Milan's DS Ariedo Braida earlier today.
Milan have not given up in their attempts to lure Newcastle United defender Davide Santon back to Serie A, neither attempting to lure the former Genoa striker despite having the previous bid declined by fellow outfit Roma. The Milanese giants have also been paired with their former youngster, Cagliari's Davide Astori.
Gonzalo Bergessio's agent Julio Tymczyszyn was also present at the meeting, automatically linking the Argentinian striker with Milan.
Another target is Ricardo Centurion, who is expected to get Italian citizenship very soon, so Milan could sign him in the January transfer window. His agent, Alejandro Mazzoni has had a lunch with Braida today at the famous restaurant Giannino.
SportMediaset reports that another well-known Federico Pastorello had joined the meeting. The same source claims that Catania's highly-regarded midfielder Francesco Lodi has handed in a transfer request to the Rossazzurri, as Milan are reportedly set to offer €5 million for his services.
Enough for the possible arrivals, though. Here we have a departure-likely statement by Urby Emanuelson's agent. "Urby is not happy," Brian Berkleef told MilanNews.it. "But that goes for all players when they are not playing."
After failing in several attempts to lure Inter's AWOL star Wesely Sneijder, Turkish giant Fenerbahce have now set their eyes on the Dutch midfielder.


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Sunday, August 10, 2014
Reading Notes: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
This review is number 3 in my Man Booker Longlist challenge. You can see links to the other two reviews at the bottom of this post.
Joshua Ferris is an author I have not previously encountered, which, by all accounts, might be seen as a bit of a modern-lit omission.
I have learned that he's the author of an apparently acclaimed comic novel, Then We Came to the End, which is a first person plural look at contemporary workplaces. It's widely alleged to be very funny and insightful, and I can only plead the year of its publication (2007, aka The Year I Had Two Non-Sleeping Children Under Two Years of Age) in mitigation for having missed it originally.
That said, if Ferris's comic voice is largely the same as the one he displays in To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, maybe it's not such a tragedy.
Because, despite the fact that this book is being widely touted as a mixture of hilarity and deep meaning (that over-used phrase "tour de force" is being bandied recklessly), I don't think it is all that successful overall, and to my mind, it's not actually super funny, although it does have moments of being amusing.
Being a Booker nominee, you will be unsurprised to learn that To Rise Again addresses the Big Important Themes of Life and What It Means - this is almost a given for Booker listers, although they all bring their own lens to the question. The Wake snarls at life through its shadowtongue dissection of a conquest, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves pulls off the feat of digging very deep into the ethics of being human while remaining essentially gentle, while the two other longlisters I have read (reviews coming!) both squint at existentialism through the prism of art - visual art in the case of The Blazing World, and music in the case of Orfeo.
To Rise Again takes a very different angle by probing at the essential meaningless of life, and the problem of belief / unbelief in the face of the inescapable reality of death, much as one worries at a sore tooth - which is entirely appropriate given that the narrator and protagonist, Paul O'Rourke, is a dentist in New York. Paul's pretty fearful, dreary life is upended when someone starts to impersonate him online, setting up a fake website for his dental practice and using it, as well as a fake Twitter account, to proselytise on behalf of a made-up religion, Ulmism, whose people are allegedly the surviving descendants of the Amalekites, a tribe named (briefly) in the Old Testament that were thoroughly wiped out by the people of Israel as they took possession of the land.
The central tenet of Ulmism is doubt - that one must doubt or deny the existence of God in order to live a fulfilled life. In this, it's set up as as antithetical to all other religious traditions, monotheistic or otherwise, and brought into kissing-counsinship with atheism, but it's a bit more complex that that, as the book reveals.
There is a lot of stuff in this book too about Judaism and anti-Semitism, and what it may or may not be. Some of Ferris's thoughts here seem to me to be a bit muddly as well, although he does give Connie Plotz, Paul's Jewish ex-girlfriend and his current practice manager, one of the most decisive lines in the book when she says, "The only people who get to decide what is anti-Semitic are Jews." Nonetheless, he keeps worrying at it like a bad back molar that won't shut up, and it gets uncomfortable in places - maybe intentionally, but it sits awkwardly with the rest of the book.
The thing about this book is that it's not at all an uninteresting premise, Paul is a convincing central character, and the supporting cast is competently executed on the whole (there are a few cardboard props, but I'll forgive that in a book that is so unapologetically One Man's Story). Moreover, some of the humour, especially in the first half of the book, is astute; Paul's one-sided conversations with his devoutly Catholic dental hygienist, Betsy Convoy, are sharply observed and pretty funny, and his contrapuntal obsession with the Red Sox and inability to care about actual sport are also well constructed.
As is usual for me, I enjoyed the professional detail - despite being dentally phobic myself, the descriptions of dental procedures added a bit of ballast to the story that it desperately needed, especially in the weaker second half. There are some pinpoint insights scattered throughout (the observations on what makes a religion rather than a cult are pretty sharp, as are Paul's eventual realisations around the difference between meaninglessness and meaningful-but-finite).
Overall, though, it's not enough to save this book from falling under the weight of its own central confusion. Humour often - always? - is the other face of tragedy, so it's not the mixing of serious themes with the funny that does it; it's that Ferris doesn't seem to be able to make up his mind if he is trying to make a case for "living in the now" or "laughing in the face of death" or "the journey is the destination" or "everything is shit, kill yourself now" or any one of seven or eight variations. At various times he deploys all of these motifs and more, and the result is a plot that eats its own tail and loses its not inconsiderable verities in a morass of mixed-up philosophising and half-carried-off jokes.
Did I enjoy it? I did; it was a sometimes-amusing and relatively quick read, and certainly engaging enough to carry me along. Do I think it should shortlist? I completely do not.
Other Man Booker longlist reviews:
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
The Wake
Labels: Booker Prize 2014, Reading Notes
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OK, it's BEEN gardening time, but I am just now starting to get motivated again.
I bought new Felco pruners this morning (#6 for all you in the Felco know) and was all ready to start pruning my 80+ roses, and then it started raining! *sigh*
Is this a sign that I should just give up on the gardening here?
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
It's Gardening Time
OK, it's BEEN gardening time, but I am just now starting to get motivated again.
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China rose 'Slater's Crimson China'- I was searching for this rose long time. Good to see at least the image of the Rose. I live in India. No where this Rose is found. All have cramosai superior, Louis phillipe china roses. Hope you never loose this rose...
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So the Perseids meteor shower is coming up this weekend. Perfect conditions: it peaks on a new moon and no storms are forecasted here in California. The trick will be avoiding the smoke from the fires.
I'm not that well versed in the logistics of astrophotography. Does anyone have any tips for shooting a meteor shower? Who else will shoot it this weekend?