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You need a team in San Diego and a team in Beijing working on the same code base. You're already looking into the different source-code management (SCM) possibilities to cover scenarios when network connections are not always reliable or fast enough to ensure that your developers aren't stopped waiting for changes to be submitted or retrieved. And what's even more important, you're looking for the right ways to work in such scenario. If that's your case, let's see how true Distributed Software Development (DSD) can help.
In a previous article I introduced the basics of DSD, highlighting the differences between central and multi-site software development. I then examined the distributed path from proxy based to true distributed systems.
So at this point, your question is: "Okay, how can I set it up so my teams can seamlessly work even when they're worlds apart?"
While there are several alternatives, in this article I focus on the multi-site family as one of the possible solutions and develop it to reach full distributed scenarios. Granted, what I call "full replication" is almost the same as distributed on the technical side, because the two modes support concurrent changes to happen in different locations. From a process point of view, however, I limit full replication to server-based distributed development while distributed only focuses on scenarios where individual developers are running their own SCM system and pushing and fetching changes back and forth with peers (see Figure 1).
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Our requirements are clear: We have to allow our two distant teams to work together on a single code base. VPN-based solutions are not an option due to the possible network unreliability. Hence, Figure 2 depicts a typical solution.
Between them, Site A and Site B have two servers, one at each location, which lets their respective teams make modifications on the code base. The servers have to be synchronized periodically. The frequency of synchronization varies, depending on the development methodology. Simply put: When single branch development is chosen, synchronization will be more frequent. However. if heavily branched strategies are set up, synchronization won't happen that often.
The details of setting up a multi-site SCM environment varies from product to product. Once the design is clear, it can be a matter of a few minutes or a really tough process requiring experienced personnel. Fortunately new solutions greatly simplify the set up and overall replication process compared to older ones.
Once the servers are in place, and considering the original code base is at Site A, a replica has to be created at Site B (Figure 3).
Ownership-based Multi-site
Some systems (Clearcase, for instance) only support ownership-based multi-site. What does this mean? It basically means that concurrent changes can't happen on the same branch on different locations. To prevent it, only one site at a time can be the owner of the branch, and only the owner site can let its users perform changes.
This is an important constraint, but it still allows a powerful multi-site set up to happen. Figure 4 shows how the ownership (or turn) is passed from one server to another and then changes can happen at the owner site. In Figure 4, the blue squares are changesets (or atomic commits grouping different files and folders checked in together, depending on your SCM slang). Notice that the active and disabled branches are depicted in different colors, depending on when the site has the rights to allow its users to modify them.
If only one site is able to write on the same branch at a time, how can teams work in parallel?
The answer is straightforward, although not always valid -- ownership can be based on the time zone. Suppose you've a team in Sidney and another in London. When the London team goes to sleep, their colleagues at Sidney will be starting their working day. So with this scenario, it is simple to switch masterships so that the awake office can perform changes.
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DES MOINES, Iowa - A federal district court in Iowa has ruled that a pre-employment strength test used by The Dial Corporation at its Armour meat packing plant in Fort Madison, Iowa, has a disparate impact against women, and is therefore illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
Chief Judge Ronald E. Longstaff of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Iowa, ruled on February 3 in EEOC v. The Dial Corporation (# 3-02-CV-10109) that Dial's "work tolerance test" (WTS) was passed by 97% of male applicants and less than 40% of female applicants, and that Dial had failed to prove that the test was necessary for performance of entry-level jobs in the plant's sausage- making department. The court also approved the finding of a jury, following a trial in August 2004, that Dial's use of the test intentionally discriminated against women.
In Judge Longstaff's words: "Dial has failed to fulfill its burden to show it had a 'compelling need'for implementation of the WTS, and that other, non-discriminatory mechanisms namely, many of the same safety programs actually implemented by Dial could not produce the same results."
The court's decision rejects the validity of the strength test, which was implemented by Dial in January 2000. Prior to the test, nearly half of the people hired for entry-level jobs in the sausage department of the plant had been female. The job is physically demanding, requiring the repetitive lifting of a 35-pound rod of sausages to a height of approximately 65 inches.
Although women had been successfully performing the job for years, Dial argued that the test was necessary to reduce injuries. Judge Longstaff rejected that argument, noting that women had been no more likely than men to be injured prior to the use of the test, that the test was more difficult than the job, and that an overall reduction in injuries was likely related to other safety initiatives implemented by Dial. The court will now consider appropriate relief for the approximately 50 women who had been rejected at the time of the trial.
Jean P. Kamp, Regional Attorney for the Milwaukee District Office of the EEOC, which litigates employment discrimination cases in Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, said, "Disparate impact cases are somewhat unusual, but they are an important tool when, as here, an apparently neutral screening test excludes large numbers of women, or any other protected group, who are able to perform the job. Judge Longstaff's opinion affirms the right of women to be judged on their qualifications for the actual requirements of a job."
The case was brought in 2002 by the EEOC based on a charge of discrimination filed by Paula Liles, who applied for a position at Dial in February 2000. Ms. Liles and other unsuccessful female applicants testified at trial that they had performed heavy physical work, including lifting, in the past, and that they had met all the other job requirements and had been made conditional job offers prior to being rejected by Dial based on the work tolerance test. Ms. Liles completed the seven-minute test, but was graded as failing because of her height, which required her to go on her toes to complete the lifts to 65 inches.
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(Note: The following paragraphs have been updated to clarify the performance tests involved.)
This time, IBM breaks the 1 million IOPS barrier, achieved by running a test workload consisting of a 70/30 mix of random 4K requests. That is 70 percent reads, 30 percent writes, with 4KB blocks. The throughput achieved was 3.5x times that obtained by running the identical workload on the fastest IBM storage system today (IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 4.3),
(*)Note: EMC has not yet published ANY benchmarks of their EMC DMX box with SSD enterprise flash drives (EFD). However, I believe that the performance bottleneck is in their controller and not the back-end SSD or FC HDD media, so I have givenEMC the benefit of the doubt and estimated that their latest EMC DMX4 is as fast as an[IBMDS8300 Turbo] with Fibre Channel drives. If or when EMC publishes benchmarks, the marketplace can make more accurate comparisons. Your mileage may vary.
IBM used 4 TB of Solid State Disk (SSD) behind its IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) technology to achieve this amazing result. Not only does this represent a significantly smaller footprint, but it uses only 55 percent of the power and cooling.
The SSD drives are made by [Fusion IO] and are different than those used by EMC made by STEC.
The SVC addresses the one key problem clients face today with competitive disk systems that support SSD enterprise flash drives: choosing what data to park on those expensive drives? How do you decide which LUNs, which databases, or which files should be permanently resident on SSD? With SVC's industry-leading storage virtualization capability, you are not forced to decide. You can move data into SSD and back out again non-disruptively, as needed to meet performance requirements. This could be handy for quarter-end or year-end processing, for example.
For more on this, see the [IBM Press Release] or thearticles in [Network World] by Jon Brodkin, and [Cnet News] by Brooke Crothers.
Our clients have often told us at IBM that performance is one of their top purchase criteria. IBM once again has shown that it listens to the marketplace!
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Xela Teco builds environmentally friendly technology that can be used to bring survival basics to poverty-stricken villages in the Mayan highlands: clean water, electricity and fuel.
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XelaTeco is supported in part by the sustainable design brain trust of AIDG, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group.
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XelaTeco opened its doors in Quetzaltenango (Xela), Guatemala in the summer of 2005 after an intensive search for engineering talent at local universities and engineering schools. The highly skilled team that came together was comprised of 10 Guatemalan workers, of which 3 were women. The combined skill sets of the team ranged from accounting and civil engineering to electronics and metal casting, many of the essentials for completing the varied projects they would soon undertake.
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Yesterday, Collier Schorr had a book signing at Dashwood Books for her latest release "There I Was". In the fall of 2007 I had a chance to see "There I was" at 303 gallery. The show was a departure from Schorr's photographic work. Through drawings, photographs, source images, and letters Schorr retells the vivid story of Charlie -Astoria Chas' Synder. While accompanying her father on a interview in 1967 , Schorr met the 19 year old drag racer and his "Ko-Motion" Corvette. By the time the article was released Synder had already been killed while fighting in Vietnam. Based on both facts and fantasy Schorr retells the last days of – Astoria Chas'.
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"I was talking to a friend about a scene in Full Metal Jacket and he said "that is my favourite war movie." Later, I thought, what does that mean? What does a favourite war movie satisfy? What makes it so desirable? All narrative cinema pivots on the transformation of a protagonist and so most war movies satisfy this requirement in spades. From An Officer and a Gentleman to Platoon, the young soldier is transformed into a man, either ruined by brutality or recused by structure, there is a simple pleasure in watching someone (other than oneself) abused into a potential killing machine.
…When I starting making drawing's based on a young friend of my father's who was killed after just on month of serving in Vietnam, I re-engaged with all those Vietnam movies I thought I loved and I no longer could love them. The fact that they were a fetish for me, and an ideal about masculinity that I couldn't afford to indulge."
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One of the best things about being part of the Linux community is that life is absolutely never boring around here.
Take MeeGo, for instance. First, it came, as a result of the merger between Maemo and Moblin.
Then, it went -- namely, when Tizen arrived.
Now? You guessed it: It's back!
Angry Birds for MeeGo
Finnish startup Jolla has announced it will be using the Linux-based mobile OS in not just one but two upcoming new phones, and it's apparently even signed a sales deal with D.Phone, China's largest smartphone retail chain.
But wait! There's more! An app store is reportedly in the works as well, and a version of Angry Birds is already available for MeeGo devices!
Head spinning yet? You're not alone. Bloggers far and wide have been mulling the implications.
'It's Going to Be Difficult'
"MeeGo was one of the more exciting projects I've ever seen come out of Nokia, so of course they'd completely botch it," mused Google+ blogger Linux Rants down at the blogosphere's Punchy Penguin Saloon, for example. "Now it has a second chance and I can't wait to see what it can do."
Linux Rants' only concern is that "in the time that MeeGo has been comatose, Android and iOS have pretty much made smartphone OSes a two horse race," he told Linux Girl. "It's going to be difficult for MeeGo to get a foothold. I sincerely hope that Jolla has what it takes to put MeeGo back in the running."
Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien took a similar view.
'I Seriously Doubt There Is Room'
"I hope they can make a go of it, though I seriously doubt there is room for yet another horse in the race," O'Brien began.
"Android is now over 50 percent of all phones in the U.S., and even higher globally; Apple is a solid No. 2," he explained.
"If Nokia hadn't hired the worst CEO in the world (and that is saying something), maybe they could have made a run with Meego," O'Brien concluded. "But it looks to me like this is another one of those interesting technologies (like BeOS) that just never got traction in the marketplace."
'Moblin Was Very Slick'
It's possible MeeGo "would not have died to begin with if its ancestry were less troubled," suggested Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza.
"Moblin was very slick, but much of the effort spent on it was actually eliminating support for non-Intel equipment, so that was completely wasted," he explained.
"I downloaded the x86 release of MeeGo only to find that they hadn't bothered to implement graphics, which had at least been working for Intel hardware in Moblin," Espinoza added. "It's difficult to imagine what it brings to the table today that would permit it to compete with Android."
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Google + blogger Alessandro Ebersol had similar concerns. A,pa. "I feel those guys will have troubles," Ebersol told Linux Girl.
"If they don't succeed, it's kind of OK, since there are so many contenders in the mobile phone market," he pointed out. "But, if they do succeed, and make awesome smartphones, it's going to be hell for them, since Nokia, MS, Apple and whatnot will come after them with patent lawsuits."
These days, "little ones can't get into this market -- just big shots," Ebersol concluded. "Pity, for us consumers."
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Slashdot blogger hairyfeet foresaw even more problems.
"One is the economies of scale, as the big handsets get cranked out in large enough numbers to help lower the costs," hairyfeet explained.
"This brings us to number two, which is that NO carrier is gonna promote a 'hacker friendly' OS, anymore than you are gonna get the MPAA to promote DRM free," he noted. "That means you'll have to buy unlocked and unsubsidized phones -- we are talking a good (US)$500 to $600 for a device that on average is out barely a year before the hardware is badly out of date."
Then, too, there's the fact that "phones are currently undergoing their own MHz war, just as the PC did in years past, which means hardware refreshes have to be FAST," hairyfeet added. "A small company simply can't keep up."
Throw in "the amount of $$$ being spent by the other guys on their phone OSes" and "mass market appeal, which simply won't be there," and MeeGo "has about as much chance as WebOS has of becoming the No. 3 phone OS, that is none at all," he concluded.
'Competition Is Good'
Of course, one of the advantages of open source is that if someone thinks they can do better, they can go ahead and try it, consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack pointed out.
"If this had been some proprietary project, the results of all of Nokia's work would have just been wasted," Mack noted.
And indeed, "MeeGo makes sense on small, cheap computers including smartphones," opined blogger Robert Pogson.
"Finland and the people let go by Nokia could do a lot worse than using MeeGo to avoid the roadblock of M$ in smartphones," Pogson explained. "It's good to have diversity in smartphones. iThingies and Android/Linux thingies are decent, but a little more competition is good for all of us.
"It would be sweet if Jolla managed to put Phoney '7' into fourth place or even further back in the pack," he added.
'I Would Like to See These Take Off'
Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, took a similar view.
"Google really needs some competition in this space -- an open source smartphone OS run by someone other than an advertising giant which delivers targets ads by watching what folks do online," Travers explained.
"There is a growing number of Android users (myself among them) who are deeply uncomfortable with using an operating system built, essentially, by an adware company," he added. "It's one thing when it's search results; it's another thing when it is email. And when this is tied to things like your contact list on your phone or the documents you share, this becomes even more concerning.
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Contemporary worship music
|Contemporary worship music
|Stylistic origins
|Jesus music, contemporary Christian music
|Cultural origins
1950 and 1960s
United States
|Typical instruments
|Vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, drums, keyboards, synthesizer
|Other topics
|Contemporary worship, Church music
Contemporary worship music (CWM) is a loosely defined genre of Christian music used in contemporary worship. It has developed over the past sixty years and is stylistically similar to pop music. The songs are frequently referred to as "praise songs" or "worship songs" and are typically led by a "worship band" or "praise team", with either a guitarist or pianist leading. It is becoming a common genre of music sung in Western churches, particularly in Pentecostal churches, both denominational and nondenominational. Also many non Charismatic Protestant Churches use this type of music. Some do so exclusively. Others have services that are just traditional along with services that are just contemporary. Others simply mix this type of music in with traditional. Some Protestant churches avoid this music and remain traditional. Also, Roman Catholic churches are using this type of music in some parishes. Some mix it in with more traditional music; others have certain masses with just contemporary worship music along with traditional masses; others only use contemporary; many others steer clear of contemporary worship and stick with traditional. The type of music used in such churches both Catholic and Protestant has little bearing on theological ideology or whether a church is liberal, moderate, or conservative.
- History and development 1
- Theology and lyrics 2
- Musical identity 3
Performance 4
- The worship band 4.1
- The role of technology 4.2
- Criticisms 5
- Popularity 6
- See also 7
- Notes 8
- References 9
- External Links 10
History and development
In the early 1950s, the Taizé Community in France started to attract youths from several religious denominations with worship hymns based on modern melodies.
In the 1950s and 60s the Church began to place particular emphasis on reaching to the youth. Christian Unions in university environments hosted evangelistic talks and provided biblical teaching for their members, Christian cafes opened with evangelistic aims, and church youth groups were set up. Amateur musicians from these groups began playing Christian music in a popular idiom. Some Christians felt that the Church needed to break from its stereotype as being structured, formal and dull to appeal to the younger generation. By borrowing the conventions of popular music, the antithesis of this stereotype, the Church restated the claims of the Bible through Christian lyrics, and thus sent the message that Christianity was not outdated or irrelevant. The Joystrings were one of the first Christian pop groups to appear on television, in Salvation Army uniform, playing Christian beat music. The Jesus People in America also had particular influence, and began to create their own musical subculture, sometimes referred to as Jesus music— essentially hippie-style music with biblical lyrics. This Jesus music gradually bifurcated into Christian rock (music played for concerts) and 'praise music' (music for communal worship).
Churches began to adopt some of these songs and the styles for corporate worship. These early songs for communal singing were arguably the first examples of contemporary worship music, and were characteristically simple, often only involving a three chord structure. 'Youth Praise', published in 1966, was one of the first and most famous collections of these songs and was compiled and edited by Michael Baughen and published by the Jubilate Group. More recently songs are displayed using projectors on screens at the front of the church, and this has enabled greater physical freedom, and a faster rate of turnover in the material being sung. Important propagators of CWM today include Hillsong, Vineyard and Soul Survivor.
Theology and lyrics
As CWM is closely related to the charismatic movement, the lyrics and even some musical features reflect its theology. In particular the charismatic movement is characterised by its emphasis on the Holy Spirit, personal encounter and relationship with God, and agape.
Lyrically, the informal, sometimes intimate, language of relationship is employed. The terms 'You' and 'I' are used rather than 'God' and 'we', and lyrics such as, 'I, I'm desperate for You',[1] and 'Hungry I come to You for I know You satisfy, I am empty but I know Your love does not run dry'[2] both exemplify the similarity of the lyrics of some CWM to popular love songs. Slang is used on occasion (for example 'We wanna see Jesus lifted high'[3]) and imperatives ('Open the eyes of my heart, Lord, I want to see You'[4]), demonstrating the friendly, informal terms charismatic theology encourages for relating to God personally. Often a physical response is included in the lyrics ('So we raise up holy hands';[5] 'I will dance, I will sing, to be mad for my king'[6]). This couples with the use of drums and popular rhythm in the songs to encourage full body worship.
The metaphorical language of the lyrics is subjective, and therefore does risk being misinterpreted; this emphasis on personal encounter with God does not always balance with intellectual understanding.
Just as in secular popular and rock relationships and feelings are central topics, so in CWM association to a personal relationship with God and free expression are emphasised.
As in traditional hymnody, some images, such as captivity and freedom, life and death, romance, power and sacrifice, are employed to facilitate relationship with God.
Musical identity
Because, in common with hymns, such music is sung communally, there can be a practical and theological emphasis on its accessibility, to enable every member of the congregation to participate in a corporate act of worship. This often manifests in simple, easy-to-pick-up melodies in a mid-vocal range; repetition; familiar chord progressions and a restricted harmonic palette. Unlike hymns, the music notation may primarily be based around the chords, with the keyboard score being secondary.
This sound clip is a recent example of CWM and demonstrates the variety available within these boundaries: Strength will rise (Everlasting God). With the exception of one 2/4 bar shortly before the chorus, rhythmic variety is achieved by syncopation, most notably in the short section leading into the chorus, and in flowing one line into the next. The use of a pedal note at the opening secures the piece firmly in B flat major, and the whole piece uses only four chords: B flat (tonic), E flat (subdominant) and G minor (submediant), and just two references to F (dominant) as it leads into the chorus. Structurally, the form verse-chorus is adopted, each using repetition. In particular the use of a rising four-note figure, used in both melody and accompaniment, makes the song easy to learn.
Such techniques are common to CWM: the strong sense of home key, climactic chorus and repeated motifs. Though the styles have developed according to what is popular between the 1950s and now, such music usually follows popular trends that are already well-established rather than the most current.
At more charismatic services, members of the congregation may harmonise freely during worship songs, perhaps singing in tongues (see glossolalia), and the worship leader seeks to be 'led by the Holy Spirit'. There may also be role of improvisation, flowing from one song to the next and inserting musical material from one song into another.
The worship band
There is no fixed band set up for playing CWM, but most have a lead singer and lead guitarist or keyboard player. Their role is to indicate the tone, structure, pace and volume of the worship songs, and perhaps even construct the order or content of the worship during performance. Some larger churches are able to employ paid worship leaders, and some have attained fame by worship leading, blurring contemporary worship music with Christian rock, though the role of the band in a worship service, leading and enabling the congregation in praise normally contrasts that of performing a Christian concert. In CWM today there will often be three or four singers with microphones, a drum kit, a bass guitar, one or two guitars, keyboard and possibly other, more orchestral instruments, such as a flute or violin. There has been a shift within the genre towards using amplified instruments and voices, again paralleling popular music, though some churches play the same songs with simpler or acoustic instrumentation.
The role of technology
Technological advances have played a significant role in the development of CWM. In particular the use of projectors means that the song repertoire of a church is not restricted to those in a song book, and so CWM has a much greater rate of turnover than other Christian genres. Songs and styles go in trends. The internet has increased accessibility, enabling anyone to see lyrics and guitar chords for many worship songs, and download MP3 tracks. This has also played a part in the globalisation of much CWM. Some churches, such as Hillsong and Vineyard, have their own publishing companies, and there is a thriving Christian music business which parallels that of the secular world, with recording studios, music books, CDs, MP3 downloads and other merchandise. The consumer culture surrounding CWM has prompted both criticism and praise, and as Pete Ward deals with in his book "Selling Worship", no advance is without both positive and negative repercussions.[7]
Criticisms include Gary Parrett's concern that the volume of this music drowns out congregational participation, and therefore makes it a performance.[8] He quotes Ephesians 5:19, in which Paul the Apostle tells the church in Ephesus to be 'speaking to one another with psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit', and questions whether the worship band, now so often amplified and playing like a rock band, replace rather than enable a congregation's praise.
Samuele Bacchiocchi expresses concerns over the use of the "rock" idiom, as he argues that music communicates on a subconscious level, and the often anarchistic, nihilistic ethos of rock stands against Christian culture. Using the physical response induced by drums in a worship context as evidence that rock takes peoples' minds away from contemplating on the lyrics and God, he suggests that rock is actively dangerous for the Church.[9]
The theological content too has raised questions for some, including Martyn Percy, who argues there is too great an emphasis on a very intimate relationship with God, using terms such as 'I' and 'you' instead of 'we' and 'God', and very passionate, physical language, and argues that this bias needs urgent correction. He explains how the emphasis on emotion can encourage hype and a need to create an atmosphere which evokes a sense of encounter with God, rather than allowing God to do so.[7]
Despite the biblical basis employed to underpin CWM, such as Ephesians 5:19, its surrounding culture tends to exclude systematic use of the psalms in weekly worship, sidelining lament from regular worship practice.[10] The emphasis on praise, and on an interpretation of 'worship' that is overwhelmingly positive, can lead to avoidance of the psalms of lament. Michael Vasey writes: "Scripture is, of course, full of lament – and devotes its finest literary creation to warning the godly against quick and easy answers. The power of many of the psalms we are embarrassed to use lies precisely here. Of all this there is little echo in our contemporary reading."[11] Whereas denominational churches generally use a weekly lectionary that gives a broad range of scriptural themes, including selected psalms on those themes, CWM churches tend not to have an agreed lectionary and the consequent agreement on using a broad range of material.
Some have noted that contemporary worship songs often reflect the social climate of individualism as the lyrics emphasize personal relationship with God, even within a group context.
As a common genre of Christian music found in Western churches CWM has proven successful. Its simplicity means that almost anyone with some degree of competency on a musical instrument may join in the leading of it. It is in a style suited to the musical taste of a generation who have grown up listening to pop songs and find classical music less accessible.
Some songs now appear in more traditional hymnals. Evangelical Lutheran Worship (published in 2006 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) includes "Lord, I Lift Your Name on High" by Rick Founds[13] and "Shout to the Lord" by Darlene Zschech.[14] The United Methodist Hymnal (1989) includes "Thy Word Is a Lamp" by Amy Grant[15] and "Take Our Bread" by Joe Wise.[16]
See also
- Contemporary Christian music
- Contemporary worship
- Christian music
- Christian rock
- List of Christian worship music artists
- ^ Barnett, Marie, 'Breathe', 1995
- ^ Scott, Kathryn, 'Hungry', 1999
- ^ Horley, Doug, 'We wanna see Jesus lifted high', 1993
- ^ Baloche, Paul, 'Open the eyes of my heart' 1997
- ^ Tomlin, Chris, 'Great is your faithfulness', 2002
- ^ Redman, Matt , 'Undignified', 1995
- ^ a b Ward, Pete (2005). Selling Worship: How what we sing has changed the church. Authentic Media.
- ^ Parrett, Gary, A. (2005-01-28). "Theses on Worship: A disputation on the role of music". Christianity Today. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ Bacchiocchi, Samuele (ed.), The Christian and Rock Music: A Study on Biblical Principles of Music
- ^ Lee, David (1998). "How long, O Lord, will we forget?". Retrieved 2010-08-16.
- ^ Vasey, Michael (1986). Reading the Bible at the Eucharist. Grove Books.
- ^ Hakim, Naji (2003). "Music in the Catholic liturgy in France at the end of the 20th century". Retrieved 2010-08-16.
- ^ 'Lord I Lift Your Name On High', Rick Founds, copyright 1989 Maranatha Praise, Inc.
- ^ 'Shout To The Lord', Darlene Zschech, copyright 1993 Hillsong Publishing
- ^ 'Thy Word Is a Lamp', words by Amy Grant, music by Michael Smith, arrangement by Keith Phillips, copyright 1984 Meadowgreen Music Co./Bug and Bear Music
- ^ 'Take Our Bread', Joe Wise, copyright 1966 by Joe Wise, used in the United Methodist Hymnal by permission of G.I.A. Publications, Inc.
- Bacchiocchi, Samuele (ed.), The Christian and Rock Music: A Study on Biblical Principles of Music, (Michigan, 2000)
- Darlington, Stephen, and Kreider, Alan (ed.), Composing Music for Worship, (Norwich, 2003)
- Jones, Ian and Webster, Peter, 'The theological problem of popular music for worship in contemporary Christianity.', in Crucible. The journal of Christian social ethics, (July-Sept 2006) pp. 9–16; full text in SAS-Space
- Miller, Donald, E., Postdenominational Christianity in the Twenty-First Century, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 558, (July, 1998), pp. 196–210
- Parrett, Gary, A. (2005). "Theses on Worship: A disputation on the role of music". Christianity Today.
- Sheldon, Robin (ed.), In Spirit and in Truth: Exploring Directions in Music in Worship Today, (London, 1989)
- Ward, Pete (2005). Selling Worship: How what we sing has changed the church. Authentic Media.
- Webster, Peter and Jones, Ian, 'Expressions of Authenticity: Music for Worship' In: Redefining Christian Britain. Post 1945 perspectives. SCM, London, 2007,pp. 50–62; full text in SAS-Space
- Webster, Peter and Jones, Ian, 'Anglican 'Establishment' reactions to 'pop' church music in England, 1956–c.1990'. Studies in Church History, 42 (2006) . pp. 429–441; full text in SAS-Space
- Wilson-Dickson, Andrew, A Brief History of Christian Music, (Oxford, 1997)
- Wuthnow, Robert, All in Sync: How music and art are revitalising American Religion, (California, 2003)
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JIM LEYLAND: Well, we talked about this from spring training on, I didn't know we had to take that many, but we have been taking punches all year. If we are going to be good enough, we have to be able to take a punch, and we took a big punch. We took a right cross in the ninth inning but we survived it.
Q. We have to wade into the Valverde crisis pretty seriously. Were you close to pulling him at any point in the ninth? Can you trust him frankly in the closer role the remainder of the series?
JIM LEYLAND: First of all, I had Dotel up because there were things I didn't really like. And the last part of the question I wouldn't discuss. We are going to discuss this as a staff, and now is not the time to discuss it. We haven't really made any decisions. We really want to put our heads together and discuss it first, to be honest with you, and get together as coaching staff and talk about it. We are certainly going to talk about it, but I don't really have any final information on it yet. We haven't discussed it. It will be something we discuss.
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JIM LEYLAND: Well, to be honest with you, it's one of those things. You know, he has been the closer, and he had a rough outing in Oakland, and obviously a rough outing tonight, and that's why we are going to have a discussion. But Ibañez has had pretty good success off Dotel, not in a lot of at‑bats, but pretty good success. And thought he might charge a fastball with him as well. So not really in that situation to be exact.
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Q. Jim, usually when you use terms like things you don't like, you usually mean something physical. Was there something physical you noticed of Valverde that kind of bothered you?
JIM LEYLAND: Well, I am not trying to avoid these questions. Like I said, we are going to put our heads together and we'll talk with him. We will talk with the staff and try to figure out if there is something going on that maybe is being camouflaged, maybe is, maybe isn't. And I don't want to get carried away at this press conference until I have more information. And like I said, everybody will be cleared up for everybody by the time I come in here before the game tomorrow.
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JIM LEYLAND: Well, you know, when you think of postseason, you think of Derek Jeter. I am the opposing manager, but fortunately over the years I think there has been a tremendous mutual respect, and I am very sorry about it, and very sorry to hear about it. And, you know, at the proper time I'll talk to Derek.
But like I said, when you think of postseason, you think about Derek Jeter. So at the proper time I'll talk to him. I don't want to top somebody or upstage somebody. He is a Yankee and I am a Tiger. But at the proper time I'll express my feelings about how I feel about him, and how sorry I am that something like this happened.
Q. Jim, Alburquerque was warming up. You stayed with Smyly. Was that because of left‑handed hitters, how well Smyly was pitching?
JIM LEYLAND: The last thing, unfortunately with Derek they could not pinch‑hit Chavez, you knew he was going to get a lefty. Once he got him out, he had a switch‑hitter in Swisher, but another left‑hander in Gardner. So once he got him out for sure, it was a no‑brainer to let him pitch to Swisher, Gardner was behind. If Gardner got on, I was bringing in Alburquerque.
Q. Jim, after Ichiro's leadoff single off Smyly, he went 2‑0 on Cano. And it looked like Ichiro also had a good jump on that 2‑0 that he fouled off. How much were you thinking at that point the outcome was hanging in the balance with the match‑up?
JIM LEYLAND: Well, obviously, you know, you don't feel very comfortable with any of these Yankee hitters in this particular ballpark. That's what they do to you. They do to you what they did to us in the ninth inning, they hit the ball out of the ballpark. Two swings of the bat, really, and the game was tied.
I wasn't very comfortable, but I think you have to be careful that you don't, particularly a young pitcher, you get a veteran pitcher that knows how to play cat and mouse a little bit. With a young pitcher you want to make sure the attention doesn't get divided to where because you are worried about Ichiro and you don't concentrate on the hitter, you are caught in between. It is not a really good feeling when most of them come up in this park, let alone Robinson Cano, with a short porch.
And that's the same thing really in the ninth inning, to be honest with you. If they had a right‑handed hitter behind Ibañez, I probably would have walked him. But I didn't feel comfortable with Chavez there with all the home runs he's got against right‑handed pitching. One swing of the bat, a short porch, fly ball and the game it over.
Q. Smyly, can you talk again about what you saw out of a rookie here in the ALCS moment tonight?
JIM LEYLAND: It is funny how playoffs work. Sometimes the weirdest things happen. If somebody told me that, you know, we'd go a little longer than normal tonight and Drew Smyly would close out the game, I would tell them they are crazy. That's what postseason baseball is. For him to sit down in the bullpen and really good possibility that he would be a little rusty, what he did is unbelievable. But the whole postseason is unbelievable so far. In all areas. Washington, the Cardinals, and Oakland and us and the Yankees and Baltimore, and the Giants in Cincinnati. And Cincinnati needed to win one at home and didn't do it. It has been a weird postseason, so nothing really surprises me at this point.
Q. Jim, I don't know if you talked about it at the very start, but Delmon Young now has six postseason home runs the last two years. What is it about Delmon Young and this ballpark in the postseason do you think?
JIM LEYLAND: We talked about him being a run‑producer. And, you know, he came up huge tonight. And, you know, he's been pretty good on the big stage. He was, you know, hit quite a few home runs last year in the postseason, and he came up huge tonight. It is probably a better question for him, I really can't answer it. But he seems to hit with confidence here for whatever reason. And, you know, got a huge, huge hit tonight.


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First-half goals by Joseph Ngwenya and Corey Ashe and second-half goals by Dominic Oduro and Luis Angel Landin gave the Houston Dynamo a 4-0 victory against Salvadoran club CD Águila in the second annual Dynamo Charities Cup match Saturday night at Robertson Stadium.
Head coach Dominic Kinnear talked earlier this week about wanting to use this match to evaluate the three trialists on the roster. As a result, all three started the match along with a mix of younger players such as Tally Hall and Francisco Navas Cobo and veterans Ryan Cochrane and Craig Waibel.
Of the three trialists, Juan Manuel Quevedo looked shaky early, giving up some turnovers, but the Argentine midfielder bounced back in the 16th minute. After dribbling past multiple Águila defenders, Quevedo coyly slipped the ball off to Ngwenya near the top of the box, and Ngwenya finished easily into the side netting to give the Dynamo a 1-0 lead.
Not to be outdone, Ghanaian midfielder Anthony Obodai let fly his own effort moments later from the top of the box. The ball seemed headed into the back of the net but was deflected at the last minute by the Águila defense.
In the 28th minute, Ashe extended the Dynamo lead in impressive form. The midfielder blew by two defenders before doing his best Landon Donovan impersonation and blasting the ball into the roof of the net from a short angle to give Houston a 2-0 halftime lead.
Kinnear took full advantage of the substitution rules and brought on several of his starters in the second half, but it was the Salvadoran club that threatened first in the second period.
Seven minutes after halftime, Águila's Nelson Reyes was on the receiving end of a beautiful give-and-go and easily got by trialist Kendall Waston, but his shot went straight at Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall.
In the 67th minute, midfielder Brad Davis picked out a wide-open Oduro near the penalty spot. The Dynamo forward collected the ball quickly and ripped his shot into the side netting to give Houston its third goal of the game.
With more of the regulars into the match, Houston began to dominate possession. Landín took advantage of that possession when he received the ball at the top of the box and ran past his defender, forcing Águila goalkeeper Benji Villalobos to come off his line. On his attempt to reach the ball, Villalobos took Landín down, and the Mexican stepped up to the penalty spot to extend the Dynamo's lead to four.
Next up for Houston will be the Colorado Rapids. The Dynamo will welcome the Rapids to Robertson Stadium as they return to MLS play next Saturday night.
Proceeds from the second annual Dynamo Charities Cup will go to the Horizon Relief Corporation, which provides assistance to residents of the Gulf Coast impacted by the recent oil leak.
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Aguila vs. Houston Dynamo
Dynamo Charities Cup
June 19, 2010 –- Robertson Stadium
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Joseph Ngwenya (Juan Manuel Quevedo, Richard Mulrooney) 16
HOU -- Corey Ashe (Francisco Navas Cobo) 28
HOU -- Dominic Oduro (Brad Davis, Corey Ashe) 67
HOU -- Luis Landin (penalty kick) 74
Aguila -- Miguel Montes (Benji Villalobos 70), William Cabrera, Miguel Hernandez, Isaac Zelaya, Francisco Jovel (Irving Alvarez 71), Shawn Martin (Guillermo Marin 89), Kevin Moreno (Luis Perla 59), William Torres, Ernesto Iraheta (Darwin Bonilla 46), Rudis Corrales (Jonathan Aguila 70), Nelson Reyes (Patricio Gomez Barroche 59).
Houston Dynamo -- Tally Hall, Richard Mulrooney (Andrew Hainault 46), Ryan Cochrane (Eddie Robinson 46), Kendall Waston (Bobby Boswell 69), Craig Waibel (Mike Chabala 69), Francisco Navas Cobo, Anthony Obodai (Lovel Palmer 61), Juan Manuel Quevedo (Brad Davis 63), Corey Ashe (Sammy Appiah 69), Cam Weaver (Dominic Oduro 46), Joseph Ngwenya (Luis Landín 60).
Substitutes not used: Pat Onstad, Brian Ching, Brian Mullan.
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Lovel Palmer (caution; Reckless Tackle) 75
Referee: Landis Wiley
Referee's Assistants: Armando Villarreal; Ismael Elfath
4th official: Carlos Salas
Attendance: 11,843
Weather: Clear-and-90-degrees
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial


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Pope Francis has called us to evangelize the world.
Jesus Christ also called us to evangelize the world.
That is our Great Commission as believing Christians.
It requires us to go out into the world wearing our faith on our sleeves. It means that we will have to consign ourselves to the barbs and slings that certain folk aim at Christians who stand for Christ. It is a call to give up the cheap grace of hiding our light under a bushel and to stand upright and live our love for Jesus out loud and in public.
I am not talking about becoming the mirror image of the atheist boor who goes around verbally assaulting and insulting Christians for entertainment and sport. We are not called to force our beliefs on those who will not hear them.
Our call is something much more difficult. We are called to live as if we believe what we say we believe and to do what Jesus told us to do in every aspect of our lives. That means we don't lie, steal, cheat to get ahead. It means we practice personal chastity and sexual cleanliness. It means we do not defame, slander or try to destroy those who disagree with us, even when they do their best to defame, slander and destroy us.
It means that we study the faith so that we stand ready to, as Paul instructed, give a good report of what we have believed. It means we must know our faith and are always willing to talk about it in a positive and faith-filled way.
But there is one thing it does not mean. It does not mean that we throw our children to the secular and anti-Christian wolves when they are unformed babies. By that I mean specifically the schools where they spend most of their waking hours.
I hate saying this, hate worse that I think it's true, but the schools have become a means of indoctrinating our children into a worldview that is not only anti-Christian, but is in many ways, anti-child. Consider this, this, this, this and this.
Do you really want your children going to schools whose sex ed courses hand out chemical birth control and give lectures on how any sexual behavior is "normal?" Do you want your daughters taking the morning after pill like candy? Do you want your kids confused with "gender identity" lectures?
And I'm not even talking about the other kids, coming from their messed up homes and the bullying and cruelty that, based on my experience when my kids went to the public schools, is ignored and allowed. There are kids who can manage to get through this intact. But most of them can't. That means that the public schools, especially big city schools, are no longer a safe place to send your kids if you are a Christian who wants your children to grow up with Christian values.
Add to that the fact that the public schools do not provide a good education for everyone. Public education is at least two-tiered. We have the schools in the "right" neighborhoods where the best teachers teach, the facilities are top notch and everyone has access to all the learning equipment they could ever need. Then, we have the inner city schools where there aren't enough textbooks for every child to have one, and, while some of the teachers have a missionary zeal, most are burnt out and just building time toward retirement.
Ironically, the parents in these inner-city schools are the ones who are least able to provide alternatives for their kids. Rich kids can always go to private schools. But inner-city kids are stuck.Those of us who are adults need to assume an adult faith and stand up for Jesus in the larger culture. Not one of us is too precious to take a few slings and arrows for Our Lord. On the other hand, we also need to take a parallel stand for Christ by protecting our children from this toxic culture until they are old enough to engage with it without being overwhelmed by it.
We live in a bizarre world where adults run and hide, duck and cover, while they put their kids out there on the front lines. If we are going to stand for Christ, our first mission is to reverse that.
You need to stand for Christ while you simultaneously protect your child from evil influences until that child is an adult who can stand on his or her own.
The best way to illustrate this is by taking a look at the Holy Family. Joseph and Mary protected Jesus and kept Him safe throughout His childhood. They did not go around announcing "We've got the Son of God here! Come have a look!" They gave Him a childhood of normal time, safe and protected within His family.
Men, I want you to consider the role of Joseph. When Herod decided to kill the baby Jesus, God didn't wake up Mary. He went to Joseph and told him to get his family out of danger.
Men, if you are not helping your wives to be the mothers to your children that those children need, then you are failing. It is your job to protect your families and keep them safe. That is why God made you strong. That is why God woke up Joseph, and not Mary, when it was time to flee into Egypt.
Women, I want you to consider the role of Mary. She is the Mother of God. The Archangel Gabriel greeted her, "Hail Mary!" which is the greeting extended to Caesars. She outranks every other human being. But her first and most important job was to deliver her baby son to adult manhood as a loved and fully-formed human being.
One of the things that amazes and touches me, as both a mother and the daughter of a mother, is that when mothers do their jobs right, their children never stop coming to them for comfort and support. Never. The safest place on earth for well-raised people is always Mama. Or, as a priest friend of mine once said, "Home is where your mother is."
What about the single parent who doesn't have a husband or wife to lean on? The mess we've made of marriage and the inability of our young people for form families of their own, has led to a whole generation of fatherless children. Mothers are stretched beyond what any one person was ever designed for. There are also some men raising their children alone.
How does a Christian single parent, who has to work full-time and who doesn't have the money to provide choices in education or in life for their kids, manage to do it? We have one example among the Catholic Patheosi in Katrina Fernandez, The Crescat.
I think we need to support single parents in their efforts to raise Christian children. We need to help them as much as we can. Maybe God will call someone to develop a lay ministry to support children who are missing a parent and for parents who are trying to be two people. Things are in such a mess right now, that I think we need to begin by ministering to our own struggling Christian people before we move out to the rest of the world. In these trying times, Christians need ministry from other Christians.
We are called absolutely by both the Holy Father and Christ the Lord to take a stand in this life and this world for Jesus. No one should ever be in doubt that you are a Christian. None of the people who know you should have to guess that you follow a risen Lord.
But the single most important way we can do that begins, not in public, but in the safety of our own homes. Protect your children first. Whatever it costs you, protect your children.


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In my time here on AC, I've been asked several times to suggest books for a certain aquarium subjects, like planted tanks. So I decided to comb my aquarium library for books appropriate for people just learning to experienced old hands. Most are available at amazon.com, others from other places on the 'net. Some are quite expensive, but I wouldn't suggest them if they weren't important to have.
There are, of course, hundreds more aquarium books out there, most of them good to fair, some of them with erroneous information. The books in this list are in my personal library and I know they are excellent.
General Freshwater Aquarium
Exotic Aquarium Fishes, by William T. Innes, Innes and Sons Publishing - First published in 1935, this seminal work was the first 'modern' aquarium book. Though much equipment information is dated, his descriptions under photos of fish are usually right on, though some total lengths are off quite a bit, for instance a Pacu reaches a lot more than five inches. His books were published with meticulous care.
Do yourself a favor and get an edition (or two, as they updated editions as new fish were discovered) from the 40's or 50's, because they'll have his beautiful color plates in them, unlike the editions published since the mid-60's by TFH.
Doctor Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes, TFH Publishing - A tome of literally thousands of species. If you want to see what all is out there, this the granddaddy of aquarium atlases. A photo, with male and female fishes if possible, tops each of the thousands of fishes listed. Underneath is a set of symbols delineating habits, temperament, pH, hardness, method of breeding and temperature.
Information on aquarium keeping and plants, breeding and diseases, bracket the front and back pages of the book.
The book is essential as it gives one a chance to pick fishes they are interested in and do further research on them. Get the latest edition, as they reflect new scientific names and new fishes in it.
You and Your Aquarium by Dick Mills, Knopf Publishing - A good first book for beginners who are setting up their first aquarium. Nice set-up and maintenance sections, a decent overview of plants, and information on several common diseases. The Nitrogen cycle is a bit dated, but the salient information is there.
About 75 pages of fish profiles, about 2/3rds of them freshwater fishes. Each fish is fully described. Technical terms are kept to a bare minimum, making the book easy to read.
The Complete Aquarium, by Peter Dale Scott, DK Publishing - Worth the price of admission for the tank designs. Lovely photography. Good information on tank setup and building tanks for various biotopes. Lists of fish and plants (if applicable)suitable for those biotopes, Decent information on water quality and foods; breeding and diseases are brief, so look to the other books in this section for more on both.
Baensch Aquarium Atlases, Volumes I through IV, by Hans A. Baensch and Rudiger Riehl, with Gero W. Fischer, and Shelie E. Borrer, Hans A. Baensch Publishing - Perhaps not the end all, be all of aquarium books, and not in any sense cheap, this four volume set belongs in everyone's freshwater library - I do not say this lightly. Tons and tons of information on everything from setting up nearly any kind of tank to growing plants to curing disease to breeding fishes, etc. etc. Useful to beginners and old hands, a rare combination.
These books are translated from the German, and some of the translations are awkward, but if you going to buy any freshwater aquarium books this year, buy these.
Freshwater Planted Tanks
Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarium, by Diana L. Walstad, Echinodorus Publishing - If you buy plant books for pretty pictures of planted tanks, this one isn't for you. If you want to learn the hows, whys and what's of planted tanks, there is none better. Anyone who's ever asked me for a reference on how to keep a planted tank, I point them to this book.
Though its written in a textbook style, its easy to read and understand. I recommend keeping a notepad and pen with as you read this book, as there is so much wisdom in it, you'll want to write down certain passages of what you want to remember. I very highly recommend this book.
Encyclopedia of Aquarium Plants, by Peter Hiscock, Barron's Publishing - A book on nearly every aspect of Aquarium plants, from Biology to substrates to water to light to Co2. Good work on balancing levels of light, Co2 and temperature for optimum plant growth. Especially valuable for the more than 150 plant species listed, each with photo and information on keeping them. An excellent reference to have in your library.
Nature Aquarium World, Volumes I through III, by by Takashi Amano, TFH Publishing - If you want inspiration for your planted tanks, get these three books. Amano, the acknowledged godfather of the modern planted aquarium, shows off his work with glorious photos of his layouts. Serious eye candy for the planted tank enthusiast. Some information under each tank with water parameters, Co2, temp, etc, but that's not what you buy these books for. You buy them for the drop dead gorgeous planted tank photos, from tiny 1 liter tanks to 18 foot monsters.
Planted Aquariums: Creation and Maintenance, and Aquarium Plants, both by Christal Kasselmann, Krieger Publishing - I've listed two books by Ms. Kasselmann because they are both so useful to planted tank keepers. The first book, Planted Aquariums, is concerned with the set-up and maintenance of a planted tank. The information is well presented and accurate, and the photographs are lovely. Also included is the light requirements of many aquarium plants. Since both books are translated from the German, a good deal of the equipment she talks about aren't easily found in the US.
The second book, Aquarium Plants, is rift with gorgeous photos of plants. The first 85 pages are about aquarium plant habitat, care, propagation and choosing the correct plants for your layout. The rest of the 400-odd pages are photos of plant species, each with in-depth information on keeping them. This and the Hiscock book are the two I refer to the most.
Aquarium Plants: The Practical Guide, By Pablo Tepoot, New Life Publications - A simple and authoritative book on how to exactly set up your planted tank and have lush plant growth. The book is detailed, exact and to the point. What makes this book worth buying is, without doubt, the best up-close and accurate plant photos I've ever seen. More than 200 species are listed, along with their care. A must-have book for your library. A beautiful book, and perhaps the second one to buy after the Walstad.
Miscellaneous Fresh Water Books
This section will be books on particular families of fishes.
Aquarium Care of Cichlids, by Claudia Dickenson, TFH Publications - I just recently purchased this book, as I know Ms. Dickenson's work from her award-winning articles in popular aquarium magazines. I wasn't disappointed. The information is right on accurate, and Ms. Dickenson writes in such a clear and engaging style, I have no trouble recommending this book even if you are not new to Cichlids. Pretty much all you need to keep them. A very inspiring book if you are into these fish. Top Marks.
Baensch Cichlid Atlas, 2 Volumes, by Uwe Romer, Mergus Verlag Publishing - A pair of books that belong in any Apisto lovers' library. Volume 1 is over 1100 pages with the most complete and in-depth information I've seen on the dwarf Cichlid Genus Apistogramma. Over 1400 high quality photographs accent the work. If you EVER want to keep Apistogrammas, buy this book first. Volume 2 is more on Apistos, plus many other dwarf Cichlid genii, including the Ram genus Mikrogeophagus. It also has over 1200 top shelf photographs.
The research and effort in providing these books must have been a gargantuan undertaking for the author and his research team. An awesome set. I highly recommend them.
At this writing Volume 1 is being updated with new information, and will be re-published later this year to reflect new research and changes in scientific names. Volume 2, though currently available and is a slightly later work, is also due to be updated in the future.
Back to Nature Guides for Malawi and Tanganyikan Cichlids, both by Ad Konings, Cichlid Press Publisher - Both books are perfect if you want to know about the Cichlids from those two African Rift Lakes. As more and more research and changes in nomenclature occur, Konings takes the book off the market and updates it. The second edition (1996) of the Back to Nature Guide: Tanganyikan Cichlids has doubled its photos of fish from that lake to more than 600 from the previous edition, each with husbandry information. Malawi, published in '97, is just as comprehensive.
If you plan on keeping Cichlids from those two lakes, these are the two books you should buy first.
Enjoying Cichlids, by Ad Konings, Editor et. al, Cichlid Press Publisher - A good, general work on Cichlids, with sections on those fish from the African Rift Lakes, Madagascar, Central and South America, and Asia. Many hands wrote this book, as a dozen authors wrote about their specialty in each section. Two-hundred profusely illustrated pages. A good overview of several different families of Cichlids, and thus a good first book for someone planning a Cichlid tank.
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