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Punjab Post Graduate Admission 2014
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Admission Notice for MD/MS/PG Diploma/MDS Courses - 2013
Online Admission Application Forms are invited from eligible candidates including NRI candidates who have qualified NEET PG-2013. Applicants will apply online on the BFUHS website i.e. www.bfuhs.ac.in upto 25.05.2013 after depositing requisite fee in the OBC Bank account through the challan form available on university website. Fee will not be accepted after 25.05.2013. The printout copy of admission application form alongwith requisite self attested copies of certificates and University copy of challan form should be submitted in the university by hand only upto 26.05.2013. The prospectus containing Punjab Govt. notification and other modalities is available on university website. The 1st counselling will be held on 27.05.13 and 2nd on 30.05.12 at GGS Medical College, Faridkot. Schedule is available in the Prospectus. The fee from the selected candidates will be collected on the spot at the venue of counselling. The Bank facility will be made available at the venue of counselling.
1st & 2nd conselling of MD/MS/PG Diploma/MDS courses which is going to be held on 27.05.13 and 30.05.13 is hereby postponed, till further announcement.
i. Online deposition of fee in OBC Bank through Challan form and Submission of online Admission Application Forms : 11.06.2013
ii. Submission of print out copy of admission application form alongwith university copy of challan form & requisite self attested certificates : 14.06.2013
iii. Obtaining Eligibility certificate & submission of application on prescribed forms for NRI quota seats available at website : 14.06.2013
Candidate can locate his/her exact centre and building from the centre code allotted and printed on their Roll no Slip/Admit card already sent to them.
Candidate can also collect duplicate Roll no. on 26-02-2012 from Control room at Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Sadiq road, Faridkot 8:00 am to 10:30 am.
University will remains open only for sale and receipt of PGET-2012 OMR application forms on Saturday (04-02-2012) and Tuesday (07-02-2012).
Prospectus for PGET-2012 (for PG Degree/Diploma/ DM/MCh Courses) will be available from 14.01.12 at : Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, Govt. Medical Colleges, Amritsar & Patiala, DMC, Ludhiana, SGRD Instt. of Dental Sciences, Amritsar, DRME office, SCO-87, Sector 40-C, Chandigarh. Cost of Prospectus Rs. 1400/- (at Counter) or by post from BFUHS by sending DD of Rs. 1450/- in favour of Registrar, BFUHS payable at Faridkot. Last date of submission of OMR application form 07.02.2012 (upto 5.00 PM).
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Founded by veteran driver Bryan Herta and noted race engineer Steve Newey, Bryan Herta Autosport (BHA) debuted in Indy Lights competition in 2009. BHA made their Verizon IndyCar Series debut in the 2010 Indianapolis 500 and did the unthinkable in 2011 by winning the 100th Anniversary Indianapolis 500 Mile race with Dan Wheldon at the wheel. BHA was also the official test team for the 2012 Verizon IndyCar Series prototype chassis.
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Tempie Cummins, Age Unknown- Describes the Day Her Mother Found Out They Were Free..
The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations.
"They call me Tempie Cummins and I was born at Brookeland but I don' know jus' the 'xact date"
When freedom was 'clared, marster wouldn' tell 'em, but mother she hear him tellin' mistus that the slaves was free but they didn' know it and he's not gwineter tell 'em till he makes another crop or two. When mother hear that she say she slip out the chimney corner and crack her heels together four times and shouts, 'I's free, I's free.' Then she runs to the field, 'gainst marster's will and tol' all the other slaves and they quit work. Then she run away and in the night she slip into a big ravine near the house and have them bring me to her. Marster, he come out with his gun and shot at mother but she run down the ravine and gits away with me.
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Cabinet reshuffle to speed up as President Park returns from UAE - PunditsUpdated: 2014-05-21 22:45:11 KST
When President Park apologized this week for the government's poor response to the ferry disaster, she chose not to mention her plans to shake-up the cabinet.
But as she told the families of the victims late last week, follow-up measures to the accident, including a reshuffle, are expected to speed up in the coming days.
"I am currently planning follow-up measures, including a cabinet reshuffle, in detail."
Pundits are carefully looking at who will be the president's candidate for prime minister with the current Prime Minister Chung Hong-won set to resign to take responsibility for the government's lax response to the ferry disaster.
They say the appointment of a new prime minister will mark the starting point of the cabinet shake-up.
Speculation is rife that the nomination of a new prime minister could come as early as this week as it's already been almost a month since Chung offered to step down.
Those held most responsible for the poor handling of the disaster -- the ministers of oceans and fisheries, public administration and education are most likely to face the chop,but there are growing calls for a clean sweep.
Ruling and opposition party lawmakers are demanding the entire cabinet as well as senior officials at the presidential office step down.
Pundits say President Park's new government line-up will affect how the public evaluates the sincerity of her apology and will play a key role in whether she wins back public sentiment.
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always happy with a new song but am i the only one who can see dre's creative delay is based upon him having someone to write his lyrics? 2001 - eminem wrote almost all of it, hittman doing a few. Kush was terrible song and so outdated so the album got stalled. the west is SO lucky to have kendrick
new kendrick, wonder if this was one of the tracks he's worked with pharrell on or if this is a pharrell track he's jumped on. only times will tell
i've seen yelawolf and k'naan on mainstream tv this week, i've been following both for over 2 years and if people don't know kendricks name after this i'm a fucking unicorn
oh the stress....
was running late this morning so got home at quarter past 9 to pre book kendrick tickets, when i went online it was claiming there was none available. GUTTED, was actually P.O so fed the baby and we had a cat nap, when i woke up i tried my luck again, 3 KENDRICK LAMAR TICKETS, so all i gotta do is get down to london from aberdeen{900 miles} also, i gotta get back the day after for my fiance's birthday but i know where my priorities are ;}


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TORONTO, ON — Heavy trucks not required to be plated or pay commercial vehicle registration fees, provincial taxes and certain tolls will no longer be exempt, the Ontario government stated in the Budget's Transportation Infrastructure Funding Plan.
For years, certain heavy trucks involved in commercial operations – such as mobile cranes, vacuum trucks and concrete pumper trucks, among others – were designated as so-called "road-building machines" under the Highway Traffic Act, sparing their owners from being charged the types of fees and taxes all other commercial truck operators are required to pay, the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) explained.
OTA's president, David Bradley commented: "A truck is a truck is a truck. It should not matter what commercial enterprise a truck is in. They are all road users and their owners should pay their fair share of the costs of building, maintaining and safety of the infrastructure."
OTA estimates the revenue the province lost from this loophole to be around $50 million a year.
"It's not like we're talking about construction vehicles which are clearly road-building machines," Bradley said. "We're talking about trucks, many of which are involved in a broad range of commercial activities deployed by profit-driven entities like any other commercial road user."
The government's plan seems to strike a better balance between roads, highways and bridges and transit, Bradley said.
"The dedication of at least a portion of the current fuel tax revenue to transportation and the establishment of two trust funds – one for transit in the GTHA and the other to meet the transportation needs, including for roads and bridges, in the rest of the province – is consistent with what we have been calling for," he said.
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The best 'book' I can think of, and I am definitely gonna try and find a copy but it is out of print is:
Atlas of Fantasy I Remember this book from Highschool, and it had some mighty fine maps, some from Works of Fiction, some representative of the Real World like a Texan's Map of the US, or things like that.
Again, a really cool atlas.
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You have to love the old master Tolkien...both for his map and for the depth of his world.
I also like the maps of Feist. The world is very clichée but then this doesn't bother me that much. I have a clear picture in my mind of Midkemia.
The second best for world-development (after Tolkien) is without question Steven Erkison...so much depth and history for his world...unbelievable...and his cultures and races do make sense...no really (he's an anthropologist and archaeologist, so that explains it, really ^^ ). I like his maps....maybe not the one in Gardens of the moon but the 7 cities continent (from Deadhouse Gates) is quiet nice.
I think Martin is a very good writer ...but his maps and his worldbuilding are really not the things he excels in imho (that is dialogue and characterization).
A newer voice in Fantasy is Scott R. Bakker...don't know if you know his work (Prince of nothing trilogy). He has a nice map which is clearly inspired by Tolkien's map-style (see here: http://www.princeofnothing.com/index...aps&mode=earwa)
His worldbuilding is also quiet good.
Janny Wurts has some fine maps in her books. An interactive version of her map of Athera is online at http://www.paravia.com/JannyWurts/we...AtheraMap.html
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Wow, that practically *is* middle earth (after an Anduin flood, perhaps!).
I've picked up the Janny Wurts 'Mistwraith' book recommended by Valarian and have just started it. There appears to be a printing error at the begining of the book where the text (and the map) have been double printed - they're pretty blurry, the map is entirely illegible and the first chapter is visually hard to read. It's an Amazon buy, and I can't be bothered to go through the hassle of returning it. The story itself is OK so far, I can't say that I get on too well with Janny's writing, there's something dischordant about it which I cannot yet put my finger on and I'm not getting pulled into the story as fast as I would like but it's early days yet.
Writing good Fanstasy these days is a really tough task, there are only so many tropes and to write something refreshing (which Erickson and RR Martin have both done) is a herculean achievement.
Have also picked up today, 'The Sum of All Men' by David Farland. Never heard of him before but read the first few pages in the bookshop and it looks more like my sort of read, certainly in terms of style. The map is Campaign Cartographer standard, but at least rather than trying to pack all the information into a single map, there is a world map, a regional map and a city map.
I don't see it that harsh concerning the map of Bakker. The style is the same, true...but the landscape and the names not so much. I mean Tolkien's landform was very...generic...so a lot of maps can seem to be plagiarised...the question is...where did Tolkien steal it
Anyway...for the book itself...i really like his worldbuilding (he draws more from Middle East than europe) and his writing-style is very good imho. He also introduces philosophy (Bakker has a major in Philosophy). The book is pretty dark and gritty...not much light on the horizon in this book, so stay clear of it if you don't like that.
As for the story...i am really torn...as i said, i love the world and his writing-style...the story...tough one. It is always a love/hate relationship...my main problem is the main-character...he is just too...inhuman...and unbalanced (in-world. He's way too powerful). But this is a matter of personal taste i guess.
I still recommend the book...because even if the story didn't convince me 100%, it's still better than 95% of the Fantasy out there...
As for Wurts...I have started on that series again (2nd or 3rd time, can't remember)...and I still can't stand it...she tries too hard to write in an elaborate style...it does not flow well .... and the story-progress ist just slooooooow.
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I'm trapped in Darkness,
Still I reach out for the Stars
Uh oh....I'm on page 100 in the Mistwraith book and the story has hardly begun. I was kinda hoping that something would start happening in the next 100 pages! Eeeek!
I found this site (in German) online: fantasy atlas
It has maps of the worlds from a number of fantasy / SF books. Some of them are very well done indeed - I think (from the brief flip I had through them) that they have been drawn for the site.


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Werner entered China's transportation and logistics market in 2006 when Werner Global Logistics, Shanghai Company was formed. The combined network of Werner Global Logistics and Hercules will represent more than 20 office, warehouse and logistics centers in China and a combined network of over 1,000 trucks operating in China and approximately 7,100 trucks and over 23,000 trailers operating within North America.
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A 16-year-old boy who suffered a heart attack last weekend during a basketball game in Riverside died Tuesday.
Saturday afternoon, Jermaine Cullum, of the 3300 block of West Palmer Street, was playing basketball in the gym of Riverside-Brookfield High School, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office and a statement from the Riverside Fire Department.
Just after 1 p.m., the fire department received several calls saying one of the players had a seizure, collapsed and was not breathing, according to Riverside Fire Deputy Chief Matt Buckley.
An emergency room physician and a nurse were among the more than 100 people who were in the gym at the time, and they began performing CPR before emergency crews arrived, Buckley said.
Cullum's collapse is believed to have been a result of some kind of cardiac episode, Buckley said.
"Everybody worked very hard that day to give him the best chance they could," Buckley said.
Cullum was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood where he was pronounced dead Tuesday at 11 a.m.


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U.S. Senator Mark Begich is keeping an eye on national finances, as rumors of a budget deal circulate. He said yesterday that talks between the House and Senate may see results next week, but added…
Sen. Begich(D-AK): "I'm not too optimistic about it at this state. We're hearing some pushback on both sides, actually, on elements of a potential budget deal. If that's the case, then we'll go right into January 15th, which will then have a continuing resolution, which we'll have to vote to continue that or substitute it with the appropriation bills that will be necessary to fund the government, or we'll be right back into potential government shut down January 15th."
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A team from the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania found that the FDA-approved drug daclizumab improved the survival of breast cancer patients taking a cancer vaccine by 30 percent, compared to those patients not taking daclizumab. This proof-of-concept study is published this week in Science Translational Medicine. The team proposed that daclizumab, already used for kidney transplantation, would be effective in depleting regulatory T cells (Tregs) and restoring the immune system's ability to fight tumors.
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Cute, adorable and funny ep. My only quibble is that they called this "30 Rock." A more apt description would have been to call this a "special 30 Rock-themed episode of SNL." The tone, the look, the audience, everything screamed "SNL." Not that there's anything wrong with that. Enjoyable 30 minutes, "30 Rock" cast and writers — well done, and many thanks!
I think the "brain" flub was intended — it's a brain damage joke. But I thought it was a flub at first too, it took me a beat to get it.
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New Music Tuesday: 1-24-2012
Welcome back to another Tuesday of new music y'all. On top of what
seems to be a very busy week for great female-fronted releases, I've
got a special treat for you in the form of a short video of me as a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150494441425885"
target="_blank">very gay six-year-old. I went through a big
suspenders phase for a few years.
Time for some music!
The top spot this week goes to these Swedish sisters who stole many
American hearts a few years ago after a video of them covering style="font-weight: bold;">Fleet Foxes " href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrqBldlqzA" target="_blank">Tiger
Mountain Peasant Song" appeared on YouTube. In a weird way, I would almost classify their music as
folk-pop Americana, even though they are Swedish. While I wouldn't classify their music as being
particularly happy, their harmonies are very much like comfort food to
the soul. Bring this album with you on a long road trip and while
you're at it, pick up their earlier releases. Stream the album in its
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few albums released whose vocal quality I can only describe as
beautifully distant. I'm not sure if this is a production effect or
if this is actually my ears trying to get used to less-processed vocals, but I love it. Laura's music reminds me very much of style="font-weight: bold;">Radiation City, whose debut album
was, for me, love at first listen.
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age of six and hasn't stopped since. The debut album from this
beautiful, classically trained opera singer and pianist is really quite
remarkable. Some songs combine richly textured
orchestral movements with dramatic vocals reminiscent of style="font-weight: bold;">Florence Welch or style="font-weight: bold;">Patrick Wolf. On others, such as
"Snow in Venice" below, she employs a more minimalist approach similar
to Regina Spektor. Watching
live footage of her
performances clearly shows that this is exactly what she was meant
to do. It also makes very exciting to think about the future ahead for
such an incredible young artist.
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band started off on the wrong foot. It wasn't them, it was me and my
inability to get past their song "Evident Utensil." Listening to style="font-style: italic;">Something has me singing a new
tune. This album is just so easy to listen to and enjoy. Singer style="font-weight: bold;"> Caroline
Polachek's voice soothes even as the electronic pulse beneath
her words builds up to a more frantic pace. The slower jams, like "Take
It Out on Me," is where the group really shines. Stream the album over
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at me when stumbling upon Aussie singer, style="font-weight: bold;">Grace Woodroofe, was how much she
looks like Effie (Kaya Scodelario) from Skins. More interesting is thinking about how well Woodroofe's album might play in the
overwhelming darkness in Effie's mind. This, unlike the album above, is
not an easy record. There is nothing carefree about it and her songs
will break your heart faster than you can say the full title of style="font-weight: bold;">Fiona Apple's style="font-style: italic;">When the Pawn…. This is a perfect
example of how beautiful sadness can sometimes be once you finally let
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That's it for this week, but remember to come back here tomorrow for
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The main treatment of leukemia is traditional radiochemotherapy, which is associated with serious side effects. In the past twenty years, differentiation was found as an important effective measure to treat leukemia with fewer side effects. Gossypol, a natural compound which has been used as an effective contraceptive drug, has been proposed to be a potent drug to treat leukemia, but the differentiation effect has not been studied. In the present study, we investigated the pro-differentiated effects, in vitro, of gossypol on the classic human myeloid leukemia HL-60 cell line. The effects of gossypol were investigated by using morphological changes, nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction, surface markers, cell-cycle analysis and Western blot analysis, etc. When HL-60 cells were incubated with low concentrations of gossypol (2-5μM) for 48hr, a prominent G0/G1 arrest was observed. At 96 hr of treatment, 90% of HL-60 cells differentiated, as evidenced by morphological changes, NBT reduction, and increase in cell surface expression of some molecules were detected. This study is the first to identify gossypol's pro-differentiated effects on the leukemia cell line, and it induced differentiation through the PBK (PDZ-binding kinase)/TOPK (T-LAKcell-originated protein kinase) (PBK/TOPK) pathway. It is concluded that gossypol could induce differentiation in the leukemia HL-60 cells, and it may be a potential therapeutic agent, chemoprevention or chemotherapeutic adjuvant especially in combination drug therapy for leukemia.
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74 Alderwood Road has a Walk Score of 17 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
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You have to sympathize with the frustrations they face, especially the long-haulers who are away from family and friends for extended periods. And we all know there are few things we eat, use, or count on to be there, that haven't been transported at some point by a tractor-trailer. So we have a lot of reasons to be appreciative of truckers.
But it took only one tractor-trailer driver to end the young and promising life of MWC junior Emily Cella, who was a sitting duck as she came upon traffic slowed for construction. What was his excuse? Maybe we'll find out, maybe we won't.
In the accident that killed Patricia and Stephanie Hines in May 2002, a tired trucker ran the light at U.S. 17 and Hartwood Road, wiping out the family's pickup truck with a rig that weighed 77,000 pounds. That is a lot more tonnage--and responsibility--than the average driver is hauling around.
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But then consider also that in those fatal crashes, the person who died was 5 times more likely to be the driver of the car. In other words, the danger truckers present just by being on the road--not to mention the added risk they take by speeding or driving too long or driving a questionable vehicle--is not to themselves, but to the other guy. As professionals, they have to be held to a higher standard.
When a trucker falsifies his log book and drives too long either to make a delivery in time or just to get home sooner, it's no different than any other sort of on-the-job cheating--except he's in charge of a 30-ton vehicle barreling along at breakneck speeds. He may also fear that his job depends on timely deliveries, and his supervisor's boss and his boss might be under pressure to make sure drivers and goods are on time.
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These work like tarsnapper.
bup Uses git as a backend, which I find a strange; has par2 builtin.
These work like tarsnapper.
bup Uses git as a backend, which I find a strange; has par2 builtin.
The last time I wrote Android apps was years ago, starting with the ADP1 and Android 1.0. Back then, the big deal was the Activity lifecycle. Mind the life cycle events! To reclaim memory, Android may kill your app or your activities at any time, they said. Being economical with resources was the big concern. There was even an onMemoryLow event you could implement to help the system manage memory.
At the very beginning, there wasn't even AsyncTask, never mind retained Fragments.
I was always trying my damnedest to fit everything properly into the activity lifecycle. Like rotating my Async tasks along with with the activity. And it was always such a pain. I never quite understood why it had to be such a pain, and I guess in my subconsciousness I always realized I was not understanding something. I was never sure how global state fit into the whole concept, and was uncomfortable using it. I only saw the activity lifecycle. As in, how can there be background thread dangling around outside of an onCreate/onDestroy cycle?
Coming back to Android now, and seeing people use neat things like event buses finally caused be to think it through, and I believe I had a personal epiphany.
Android is killing your process, but the documentation claims even today that Android may destroy activities to save memory ("the system might destroy that activity completely if it needs to recover system memory"). Is Android "killing" your Java objects? How would it even do that? Is the Android SDK in your process doing some kind of object management when instructed by the system? The idea seems strange, and apparently it isn't really the case.
The trick for me was to forget about the Activity lifecycle as being memory-related. I think of it now as an implementation detail of the UI framework you are using, possible helpful in terms of resetting state, and both useful and cumbersome in terms of configuration/layout loading.
I had to stop thinking of my app as merely a bunch of Android primitives (activities, services, broadcast receivers) into which I have to fit everything. While these primitives admittedly are actual concepts within Android itself, the specific implementation, including the lifecycle stuff, is technically up to your process.
Instead, if I consider my app a holistic, proper process, simply running on a device where it may be regularly killed, then I'm no longer afraid of using global state, background threads, an event bus, or anything else outside of the framework primitives. I just have to remember: The app may be killed once in the background, so for important things, tell the system you are doing service-stuff right now.
Here are some resources I found helpful:
A Recipe for writing responsive REST clients on Android – How to write a modern Android app.
AsyncTask is bad and you should feel bad – Using AsyncTask outside of activities. Why not just use a thread? The AsyncTask will return in the main thread, and cannot return between in-between a configuration change. Still, a sticky event in EventBus, or a producer in otto might make more sense.
Android Priority Job Queue – If you have a lot of background jobs.
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This seems to be a busy space. I'm trying to catch up and understand how these all relate.
See also the blurring line between PaaS and Iaas, the PaaS Cheatsheet, a huge Spreadsheet.
This image helped me understand the layers involved:
I'm setting up some docker containers and want to use service discovery. A challenge is that most services do not explicitly support it, so there needs to be a way to make them, easily.
This is just me, thinking it through as a newb.
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Ever since I started using docker for running web stuff, I've been looking for a HTTP reverse proxy for the routing part. There are a couple requirements I have:
I've been using hipache so far, but notably, hipache doesn't support SNI. Other commonly suggested solutions include node-http-proxy, which is essentially a build-it-yourself kit, and the hipache version written in nginx Lua (with touted speed advantages, which is also just a proof of concept requiring you to build something yourself.
One might think that a proxy could be used that just proxies the encryption connection through, letting the backend deal with SSL (e.g. sniproxy). Apart from not supporting dynamic configuration either, there are downsides to this approach: You cannot add X-Forwarded-For headers, which is not optimal. Also, I'm not a fan of the approach: I'd much rather have the proxy hold the SSL configuration.
There is a hipache fork that uses etcd.
A lot of internal services (say my qless web interface) do not support authentication – and neither should they. They still need to be protected though (One option is a VPN, of course).
Nobody seems to support authentication in combination with a dynamic data backend, though multiple people have written about the issue, like here (OAuth Apache module) or Nginx Lua OAuth.
In additional challenge is that for an internal service, you may not want to prefer to run it on a path, /qless, as opposed to a separate (sub)domain, so ideally that would be supported.
I'm not sure yet. If I have to build something myself, Nginx with Lua might be worth the effort. You could build one in Python, for a change (the Gilliam project also has one). I always wanted to have a closer look at go, too. There are actually multiple reverse proxy projects in Go out there. drunken-hipster only support one SSL cert per IP. A shoutout to the folks building http-master – they support SNI, and are planning to add auth, so that is pretty close (not to mention other useful stuff like redirects).
etcedge will copy information from etcd into Redis to be consumed by hipache.
Finally, there is Flynn's router, based on etcd, which should be promising because it should be designed to solve this exact problem.
HAProxy does seem popular, is integrated with Amazon OpsWorks, and allows enabling/disabling instances via a socket, but not, as far as I can tell, to add new ones. Maybe AWS is simply rewriting their HAProxy config file when instances change? HAP It has the benefit of supporting all kinds of advanced features (repeated routing to the same backend based on cookies)
Update: I am working on adding SSL routing to strowger.
I was confused as to make slugrunner start a container in detached mode (-d and -a flags conflict). The following seems to work: cat /tmp/slug.tar.gz | docker run -i -a stdin flynn/slugrunner start web
The stackbrew/hipache docker image uses Redis 2.2, which means you need to be careful because rpush only supports a single argument. I attempted to add multiple arguments using the Python client, the data ended up garbled, and hipache basically does no logging whatsoever, so this is a paint to figure out.


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Thanks again, I was thinking about doing the outlets separate of the lighting and having each bedroom lighting on separate circuits incase something ever happened with the lighting I would still have outlets to plug in a lamp and also the other rooms would not be without lights. I just wasn't sure if that would be overkill.
Supposedly installing more outlets reduces dependency on extension cords and so marginally improves safety.
But the risk is already down in the noise.
If the yearly insurance premium to replace your house is 1/1000 of the replacement cost, the chance of your house being destroyed each year from any cause is somewhat less than 1 in 1000.
Driving a vehicle is 40x more dangerous.
And how many houses don't meet the elec. code and still, somehow, have not burned down?
on a new or rewire i normally hold it at six maybe eight. one rooms recps to each breaker. ceiling lights on separate breaker. that way when or if you blow breaker because your kids decide to have the band practice in one room, you have light to see to get to panel. also to be able to find the culprits. breid...........
I very rarely see a breaker trip, and when it does usually there is a construction reason, like a compressor plugged in a 15amp circuit. If the house has heat that will get used, meaning there wont be space heaters plugged in to multiple rooms, you should have two bedrooms to one breaker. wire everything in rooms to this breaker, lights, plugs, and smoke detector. Dont forget to put it on an arc fault breaker. Then you will have one room left to put on one breaker. Do this with the one room you think most likely to be used as a home office some day. This method is how I wire homes and I do do this all day every day, good luck, and dont be afraid to pick off a hall light and a bathroom light on that rooms power as well.
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It's been many years since the first videogame hero's spaceship exploded into tiny pixels and while much has changed visually, few have figured out what should happen next.
How do you deal with the hero dying? Can the story go on? How do the larger games incorporate player death into their narratives?
It wasn't difficult for more cynical games to become exploitative back in what the histroy books refer to as the Arcade Glory Days. These games were designed to suck up kid's money and so player death was a common and accepted occurence.
Games which foster learning through such trial and error necessitate death to be a quick and painless flicker on the screen.
The stories told by these games were simple by design. Of course it is possible to read more into the likes of Pac-Man, Space Invaders or Donkey Kong and dress it up a bit but ultimately you'd just be waxing lyrical about a yellow circle, white splodge and a gorilla construction worker. The implications of dying bore no impact on these stories.
The same just can't be said about the games being made today. From Half Life, through Call of Duty, Bioshock, Crysis and beyond, games are boasting experiences driven by larger and more detailed stories. But with the old archetype requiring death to denote failure still prevalent in the design of games today, death is often an unwanted intrusion on the so-called rich narrative experience.
Most games still think it's acceptable to simply respawn a dead player back into the world. Even with all the myriad sources of storytelling in the post-apocalyptic Fallout 3 – the current affairs of irradiated survivors, sounds of political rhetoric heard on the FM waves, the warnings painted on walls and old entries read on dimly lit computer screens as well as the implicit tales read from the abandoned homes and damaged Washington monuments – should the player's health fall to zero, they are respawned at the last point they left a building with no explanation as to what occurred between their fall in battle and this new lease of life.
I understand the practical reasons of why it's done. Entering and leaving a building triggers a quicksave and is therefore an easy checkpoint at which to restart the player and the action. But there's no attempt to resolve the implications of this system. They'd rather you ignore the part where you died and remember only the non-lethal ventures. Whether it's checkpoints initiated by the player or those registered by the game what this says is that they'd rather discard completely what happens after such a failed state is reached.
Regardless of how it's implemented a save and load mechanism cuts into any narrative being told. It's like flicking back a few pages in a choose-your-own adventure book and pretending nothing happened. The problem is that the more a section of say Call of Duty is played and replayed the less of a narrative experience it becomes and more it appears as the gussied-up automated shooting gallery that it is.
Some games at least address the respawn mechanic and attempt to resolve it with the world. This gives rise to BioShock's Vita-Chambers, large resurrection tubes in which the player revives.
There's no backpedalling required with the narrative as in this soft fail state the player's actions (damage dealt to enemies and items foraged) persist across a potentially unlimited number of revivals. The narrative structure remains intact.
In terms of game play it works but incorporating the devices into the world required a feat of narrative gymnastics. To explain why only the player revives in a Vita-Chamber we are told that the machines only work on a very specific genetic code even though they are nestled in practically every room throughout Rapture.
There's also very little on how the player goes from bludgeoned corpse on the floor to stepping out of this wonder device- I never knew murderous splicers were prone to random acts of kindness. At other certain key moments in the story they are turned off to prevent further plot holes from emerging.
A much better example can be found in the Grand Theft Auto series. When the player dies, they emerge several hours later from a hospital and when they are caught by the 5-0 they pay bail, lose their weapons and step out of the police station. This seamless integration with the story has the right level of penalty however I know that as soon as the mission looks like its going to fail I open up the menu and load from my last save.
A similar case can be made for respawning fallen survivors behind barricaded closets in Left4Dead that require a fellow survivor to open. It satisfies both the demands of the gamplay and the story.
In general there has been a shift away from finite health bars to regenerating health states. Like in Call of Duty and Gears of War, a few moments in cover after taking fire provides a breather between skirmishes while the red splashes of damage across the screen slowly dissipate.
What remains however is that major failure, often manifested by death, is often treated as more of a temporary inconvenience rather than a real consequence to the player's actions.
The video game equivalent of penance is the corpse run. I don't know how prevalent it is nowadays but the corpse run was a feature of early MMOs that soured me on the genre. So excuse the lack of enthusiasm.
Should your level 10 Dumbass fall in pit and die during battle, the player's ghost is resurrected a few miles back at some spiritual site. You now get to run as fast as possible back to your corpse in order to resurrect there and rejoin your level 10 friends who may or may not have waited on you.
This is a high penalty for death with loss of valuable experience points and weapon and item degradation all on the line. All this effort to save a +3 Axe of Awesome is utterly uninteresting to me but, from the story perspective, at least they tied it into the narrative. There are no instant do-overs. If a 40-man raid fails then all 40 of those fine men get the opportunity to attempt the raid later.
In Prey, when Tommy Tawodi dies he is sent to the spirit-realm. Here after collecting enough energy from fallen souls Tommy reawakens in his body and the lacklustre adventure continues. Playing the spiritual Duck Hunt mini-game in Prey was the modern day equivalent to the corpse run: good for story, not so good for fun.
When death is treated as merely an unwanted occurrence along a blessed path then one option is to lift the penalty entirely. Prince of Persia addressed the literal pitfalls of the platformer genre by pairing the player with an acrobatic partner Elika. Rather than fall to their death the nimble Elika dives in and swiftly tosses the Prince back on to solid land. Elika also bails out the Prince from potentially fatal attacks.
This elegant design was met with much derision from portions of the player base. It was seen as dumbing down the experience rather than facilitating it. This reaction makes sense considering how prevalent the old ways of dealing with death are still today by breaking the fourth-wall with checkpoints or a respawn.
During Fable 2's development, Peter Moore similarly removed the death penalty against the player. Instead the player's character would become more scarred and disfigured the more damage they endured. This produced two curious responses. In the first camp, players willingly let their character suffer in order to produce the most deformed and mutilated badass possible. The second group simply reset their console: they forced their own death penalty. Old habits die never, apparently.
In Fallout 3 certain characters integral to the main story thread cannot be killed only knocked unconscious. Why the game doesn't afford the player this courtesy is a real missed opportunity. The possibilities of regaining consciousness in an unfamiliar location, like one of the many prisoner caravans, or having been looted and taken hostage by super mutants would have presented even more opportunites for interesting and dynamic storytelling.
So the sweet spot for death needs to have an associated weighted risk which isn't simply tied to difficulty. It also needs to make sense within the world.
Much of the dissonance created between death and story lies in the range of stories currently on offer. In a medium which boasts astonishing variety in genres of game (strategy, action, puzzle, sport, simulation, ranging widely in depth and complexity) by and large the most common story being told is the hero's journey.
There needs to be a large-scale break away from stories of heroes raging against a seemingly insurmountable enemy or at the very least they need to allow the risks of failure to be explored in as much fidelity as with the rewards of success. There needs to be the lows of failure in the tale of the hero as well as the triumphant highs.
Ultimately to make death work in video games in more interesting ways will only happen once the stories being told become increasingly diverse.
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|Owain abArawn
I have been thinking that the world portrayed by J.R.R Tolkein in the Silmarillion would make for an interesting MMO.
For those who are familiar with Tolkein's Lord of the Rings universe, the events that take place in the Silmarillion also take place (at least in part) in Middle Earth, but thousands of years before the War of the Rings. Here, Sauron is not the chief antagonist. Sauron is the chief lieutenant of an older, more powerful entity originally named Melkor, but was named by the Elves Morgoth Bauglir, which translates from elvish as The Black Enemy, the Constrainer.
The war between the Elves and Morgoth took place in Berleriand, a land located far to the west of the territory familiar to fans of the Lord of the Rings. Berleriand was utterly destroyed at the end of the First Age of Middle Earth when the Valar, the gods of Arda (Earth) arose from their dwelling in Valinor, west of the Sea and came to the aid of Elves and Men. In that battle, Morgoth was defeated, but Berleriand was destroyed, sinking beneath the waves.
As an MMO, the world of the Simarillion would have features very recognisable to people familiar with the Lord of the Rings. There are elves, men, dwarves, orcs, trolls, balrogs, dragons, and so forth. The events related in the Lord of the Rings take place in a period of time that covers little more than a year. The war against Morgoth in the First Age lasted thousands of years.
So, how could you handle death in a Silmarillion based MMO. Simply put, if you die, you die. If you are an elf, your essence would go to the Halls of Mandos, and after a period of waiting, you would be reborn. As a human, your soul would leave circles of the world, as this is the gift of Illuvatar (the creator of the universe) to men. Either way, in the game, you would be reborn as a new character as either a man, or an elf, or for that matter, a dwarf, or an orc.
Since the war lasts for thousands of years under conditions that didn't change very much (other than continually getting worse for Elves and Men), from a story line point of view, your individual death doesn't much matter. There are always battles to be fought, and challenges to be met.
This kind of game would best be implemented as a sandbox game rather than a quest driven game. That is not to say that there wouldn't be quest worthy activities to undertake. Launch an attack against an Orc stronghold, and now that fortification is controlled by the alliance of Elves and Men. If players could play as either men, elves, dwarves, or orcs (all roughly equivalent in capabilities), there would be a continual struggle to control territory, resources, and strategic points. Men can be allied either with Elves or with orcs under Morgoth. Dwarves during the first were mostly neutral. Sometimes they fought with elves and men, sometimes they fought against them, mostly over gold and treasure. I don't think dwarves ever fought with orcs, or for Morgoth.
Getting the rights to the Silmarillion would be expensive, but a fantasy MMO could be developed using a different, yet similar environment. It would be quite a bit different from any existing MMO, and the idea of permadeath would take some getting used to. Perhaps the best way to get around that is to make the game an MMO shooter in a way. There are no classes. There are no skills, other than mouse and keyboard skills. There is gear, but for the most part, no epic gear. You can get a crappy sword to start with, a good sword sooner or later, and if you are lucky, maybe a very good sword, but there are no OMFGLOLBBQ weapons. For the most part, there is little if any magic, although elves are almost supernaturally stealthy.
This is a game that would probably appeal strongly to old school Ultima Online players, but maybe not so much to gamers who were introduced to MMOs with WoW. As such, this might be seen as a very long shot and a high development risk for a developer.
It certainly would be different, and I think MMOs have to move beyond WoW and it's clones.
|Steven An
Demon's Souls.
All I wanted to say is this: In DS, death mattered. It wasn't a mere inconvenience - you couldn't just reload a save and "try again." The consequences of death were real, often brutal, and that made death in the game meaningful. When you explored a new area further and further, you were scared to your core because you might just die.
Now, DS was designed with this brutal mechanic in mind, which is why I thought it was such a success. Even then, tons of people just don't like the game. I for one loved it.
|Sting Newman
Arcades forced developers to develop play mechanics that got people paying money to play there game. The idea that death is 'antiquated' design is a misnomer. It's whether death is skillfully dealt with, with a game design that makes it meaningful or interesting. Even most games today still have the threat of death. If you take the threat of death away many games do not have the same impact. Consider Prince of persia 2008, you always knew that when you fell your female sidekick would save you.
|Ronildson Palermo
My main quarrel with "game over" screens is that they remind you that you're playing a game and, depending on your objective, focus and aim with your game experience, that's not really suitable or desirable. Therefore, it should be extinct... But then, how do we introduce challenge? Upon very long introspection ventures and analysis of games I found myself finding the answer in play-time.
No matter how cool a game segment is, people want to see what's next. So, why not make then stay? I think that's the core of the idea: Make the player stay.
If a player screws up a battle plan his unit is ambushed and forced to retreat, making it necessary for the player to devise a new plan and re-execute it, taking more time for him to see what's the next development in the game's storyline.
Should the player be having an horror experience, if he fails to keep hidden from the monster then he needs to run, if he yet again fails to evade the attacks, he's forced to fight in order to make an opening for a new attempt at running away. Bottom line is: the player only needs to believe he'll die or think he will lose in case he fails that particular segment. And one might even argue that such system would numb the player into accepting each failure will only lead to a new task, which can again be taken lightly, but no.
The trick to this is rewarding effort. The ultimate penalty, DEATH, should only happen to those who do not try to win, do not move when faced with danger or don't fight when attacked. If a player is told: "RUN!" and he stands still, then he dies, he loses, he sees a game over screen. But if the player starts moving, even if lightly, the player understands that he is trying and rewards that by, if the player fails that challenge, he is only set back in time. Having to complete more puzzles, cover more ground or search harder for an answer or solution. For as long as the player is invested in the game, he's believing in it, involved.
Again, one might say that when the player figures this out he'll start making minimal effort in order to proceed in the game. And this particular problem can only be solved by developing a system which creates a baseline of the player's skill level and compares it to that, crafting an unique experience to each player playing the game at the time.
And this whole comment is just a long version of this: If the player fails, make him go back and do something to make up for what he failed to accomplish. Try not to repeat yourself in the objectives, but if you have to, at least throw in something new. To keep the game from becoming down right BORING. And if the player shows no interest or investiment in the game's objective or focus, kill him.
So, as long as the player is TRYING, the game simply sets him back with each failure. This still requires him to beat some sort of challenge, but doesn't break the experience in case he fails, simply asks of him to try something different or the same. Giving him a chance, but punishing him with increased play-time, avoiding a "game over" screen.
|Alex Belzer
I couldnt agree more; just because death in videogames is ubiquitous, that doesnt mean its elegant.
Food for thought: Fathom (a Flixel based flash game) and Queens (another Flixel game). These short (and free!) indiegames treat the death of the player character as events that add meaning to the experience. I think as long as death has meaning then it is solid design to include. Therefore Demons Souls passes the test, with the death of the character worked into the story itself, and death used as a means of weighing risk versus reward. Without it, the game wouldnt be nearly as exciting (or infuriatingbut extreme highs must be met with extreme lows). Even in games like Donkey Kong Country or Mario, death has meaning; these games are games, about mastering the platforming mechanics of the game; and they have built in economies of harvesting extra lives. They are games about improving your skill, and death (well, failure) is necessary to accomplish that. Then there are the games that Game Over anytime the player leaves the bounds of the designers narrow intention. I mean if youre designing a heavily story-based linear game then why let players make a death-inducing decision in the first place? (Uncharted, Im looking at you). What about Heavy Rain, which limited player actions to only pushing the story forward; no game over screen, ever. For all its flaws, HR is revolutionary in many ways (and for that matter, and despite its flaws, so is 2008s Prince of Persia).
|Robert Bevill
I feel that attempts to work death into a game's narrative only work if the universe allows for it. Death can break a player's immersion, but there are not many alternatives to punishing the player for failure. In most cases, the player wants to get back into the action and try again, and any narrative explanation is only going to get into the way. Also, games are too different for there to be a clear answer to this problem. You would not take Demon's Souls's death penalty and apply it to Super Meat Boy.
That said, I do like how Assassin's Creed handles death. It reloads the animus, reminding the player that Ezio never actually died, and that they were simply viewing his memories wrong.
|Jamie Mann
Excellent article :)
However, I'm on the fence when it comes to "death" - yes, it can be used inappropriately and it can be jarring within a story-based game, but it's also a clear, understandable and direct penalty which maps well onto the increasingly "hollywood" settings mainstream games use. After all, the miracles that actors pull off in movies are generally either unlikely or physically impossible - and we rarely get to see the three dozen outtakes which were required to produce the final cut [*]. And while (by definition) people may not like to be penalised, it's impossible to achieve success without the possibility of failure.
On a side note, while this article (and the comments!) does a good job of analysing the various approaches, I'm sometimes concerned that people are rejecting the "death-penalty" purely because it's an established mechanism - much as when there was a drive to remove all HUD elements from the screen for the sake of immersion. There's definite benefits from this approach, but it can also cause significant issues - for instance, it's very difficult to interact with Issac's inventory in Dead Space 2 when standing in a lift, because the close-up camera angle pushes his HUD-display offscreen. Back to the "anti-death" brigade, and Bioshock's Vita chambers could be abused to grind down enemies, rather than learning how to skillfully defeat them, resulting in an unsatisfying gaming experience.
[*] E.g. Scott Pilgrim; something as seemingly simple as Scott throwing a box over his shoulder and into a bin took several dozen reshoots...
|james sadler
This is a good article and it chronicles a lot of the history of death in video games. I read an similar article here back in August or September which has made me really think about how death is presented in my games. Sometimes I don't worry about it, but other times I really try to add a value to it as it can help move the game forwards, make the player more connected, and also add an element to the story that was otherwise lacking.
|Christopher Engler
Respawing is a device I harken to film's use of sound in space. In a vacuum, sound doesn't travel, but in most movies, director's bend this reality for the sake of the overall experience. Most people don't mind this, but the few who do admire when designers abandon the device to achieve a more believable story. If we play a game's character as a role, screwing up is like a rehearsal; whereas, when we get I right, it's like a performance. I think death/respawning might bother more people if games posted death counts and restarts next to their achievements on XBL or PSN.


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Please note that installing a NEWER version of PC Anywhere does not remove
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It looks like the ports are udp-5630, tcp-5631,udp-5632, and udp ssh-22. I
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2015-16 DRAFT School Year Calendar
Littleton Academy Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) Results: