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Bank Negara's new art gallery has arresting architecture amidst lush greenery, easy access and cafe latte at just RM1.50. And, oh yes, 50 years worth of Malaysian art works.
PROBABLY one of the grandest, yet the most under-appreciated, venues for art must be Sasana Kijang, the new Bank Negara Malaysia art gallery in Kuala Lumpur. The striking structure with gleaming glass and steel lies near the Lake Gardens, just opposite the Tunku Abdul Rahman Memorial.
I am struck by how the organic theme continues inside the building as I ascend to the gallery via a pewter staircase resembling a spiralling nautilus seashell, growing asymmetrically as it climbs. On the third floor, the artworks seem to be perched on a giant platform with stunning views of the surrounding greenery. This lofty perch seems a suitable setting for the bank's trove of some 1,700 art works which serves almost like an overview of Malaysian creativity.
Bank Negara has been collecting art since 1962 and one is immediately struck by an unmistakably retro feel when visiting the 1960s-1970s section. Mohd Hossein Enas' painting, Beach Beauty (1961), evokes the era of the movies South Pacific and P. Ramlee's Aloha, while Rubber Tapper by Yee Chin Ming (circa 1960s) has a Cubist view of a core pillar of our economy back then.
Works closer to our time are of course also well represented here. Warrior by Mohd Taquddin Bahro hints at a looming showdown between two forms of children's entertainment from different eras, a wayang kulit character and robot cartoons, and asks whether the traditional form will survive the onslaught of modernity.
Yong Look Lam's Sembahyang (1996) juxtaposes how village meets city as it peers through a thicket of coconut tree trunks at Masjid Jamek, located in the heart of KL, while Zulkifli Yusof uses a chess metaphor to comment on the use and abuse of power in Siri Catur IV (1989).
From a distance, I see a painting that resembles an abstract Hindu temple gateway, only to find that it's Choy Chun Wei's intriguing statement of urban overcrowding in Construction Series: The Living Space Of The Materialist Dwellers (2003).
There are departures from styles commonly associated with certain artists. Ibrahim Hussein's Snow Landscape Or Car Parking (1963) and Growth (1971) are not in his trademark "combed lines" mode. Hossein Enas, best known for his portraits and figurative works, has a Banjir Kuala Lumpur (1971) which records the great floods that hit the city that year.
The collection includes a whole slew of familiar names – Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal, Chuah Thean Teng, Yong Mun Sen, Ahmad Zakii Anwar, Chang Fee Ming, Jalaini Abu Hassan, Abdul Multhalib Musa, Yusof Ghani, Redza Piyadasa, Bayu Utomo Radjikin, Sulaiman Esa, Amron Omar and Tan Choon Ghee – and not all the works can be displayed, even with the generous 1,100sqm of space available.
Most of the works are paintings, but there are also about 100 sculptures and I cannot help but be infected by the energy of Mad Anuar Ismail's metallic Storm Riders (circa 1990s). While the focus is on Malaysian art, there is also a small Asean section – look out for Bunga Kana by Indonesia's renowned Affandi.
"Bank Negara has displayed its collection at the (nearby) headquarters before," explains gallery director Lucien de Guise. "But that is a slightly intimidating place to get into whereas this feels much more like a public space."
Some works have not been seen publicly, even by the artists themselves, for several decades. One example is Latiff Mohidin's Demon (1965).
"When Latiff visited, he was so happy to see his work again," de Guise recalls. "All these years, it has been in one of the corporate offices."
One of the bank's roles has been to stimulate the art market. "The bank has been buying art works every year over the past 50 years. This is part of its contribution to society."
Bank Negara Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz is personally into the arts, he adds. "She has come a few times to see the art works herself."
De Guise says the gallery has asked all the main art schools in Malaysia to send in their best student works for an exhibition cum sale in late May.
"These works will be the best of their generation, and the price limit is set at RM3,000. Our art market currently has a small number of big buyers, but not a large number of small buyers."
How much has Bank Negara's collection appreciated in value over the years? After all, it had acquired works such as Rubber Tapper, Snow Landscape and Demon way back in the 1960s.
De Guise says he is not allowed to reveal financial details, "but I think we can say that some works have appreciated by over 1,000%. The bank bought many works when the artists were not so well known, and the works are much sought after now."
Besides the art gallery, there is also an interesting Numismatic Museum featuring interactive computer games, plus curiosities such as cockerel coins (once used in Kedah) and 1920s Sarawak bank notes.
As for practicalities, admission is free and the gallery is only a 500m walk under shady trees from the Bank Negara KTM Komuter stop. There is also ample underground parking. And where else in town can you get a cafe latte for only RM1.50 except at the gallery cafe? The croissants are scrumptious too.
Finally, there is the name of the place, Sasana. It's so refreshing not to have some English-wannabe word (like KL Sentral) but a proper Malay word that means a "place where communities gather". (Kijang means deer, which is on the bank's emblem.)
With impressive architecture, a large and wide-ranging art collection, easy access and a cosy cafe, there's every reason for Bank Negara's new art gallery to truly become a Sasana.
> The exhibition, Then And Now: 50th Anniversary Of Bank Negara Malaysia, is on at Sasana Kijang (Jalan Dato Onn, KL) until Sept 19. Viewing from 10am to 6pm daily. For details, call 03-9179 2784 or visit museum.bnm.gov.my.
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WWF South Pacific will soon release a report on reef health within a portion of the largest marine protected area (MPA) in Fiji, the Qoliqoli Cokavata of Macuata.
In a statement, survey team leader Alfred Ralifo said the report would indicate the direct effect of MPAs on the life of the coral ecosystem.
He said the marine biological monitoring survey commenced with dives into qoliqoli waters of Mali district, which made up a portion of the 1344km2 fishing grounds collectively owned by four districts — Mali, Dreketi, Sasa and Macuata.
"On the invitation of the late Tui Macuata Ratu Aisea Katonivere in 2005, WWF South Pacific has engaged the four districts by assisting and guiding the set-up of marine protected areas," Mr Ralifo said.
"Marine protected areas in this province were set up to support the protection of the Great Sea Reef, an important barrier reef system that is bedrock for Fiji's fishing industry, tourism activities and an important biodiversity focus area for WWF."
Mr Ralifo said the scope of this survey did not cover the entire expanse but rather focused on four fringing reefs — Vuata, Sese, Deladravu and Bulewa Vula, near Mali Island.
"It is the first time such a survey has been held and similar ones are planned for other reef systems within the Qoliqoli Cokovata of Macuata.
"The survey is a component of a project attempting to pilot qoliqoli (traditional fishing ground) management at the district level as opposed to the previous four district level.
"The survey team observed reef health indicators for example coral reef abundance, coral cover, fish and invertebrates' diversity and abundance, including other marine creatures and fish sizes as well.
"Data collected this time would be measured against statistics from 2006 to provide a comparative analysis of reef health then and now."
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The Warning in Gary Webb's Death
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Time for a Wall Street 'Perp Walk'?
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- Who we are
- Quick tour of ZeroRPC features
- Implementation overview
Introduction: why?
- We are running a PAAS:
we deploy, monitor, and scale your apps
(in the Cloud!)
- Many moving parts
- ... On a large distributed cluster
API endpoint
Users (auth)
Formation (analyzes stack)
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Containers (intances)
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Cluster Node
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Our requirements (easy)
- We want to be able to expose arbitrary code, with minimal modification (if any)
If we can do import foo; foo.bar(42),
we want to be able to do foo=RemoteService(...) ; foo.bar(42)
- We want a self-documented system
We want to see methods, signatures, docstrings, without opening the code of the remote service, or relying on (always out-dated) documentation
Our requirements (harder)
- We want to propagate exceptions properly
- We want to be language-agnostic
- We want to be brokerless, highly available, fast, and support fan-in/fan-out topologies
(Not necessarily everything at the same time!)
- We want to trace & profile nested calls
Which call initiated the subcall which raised SomeException?
Which subcall of this complex call causes it to take forever?
Why not {x} ?
- x=HTTP
- too much overhead for some use-cases
(logs and metrics)
- continuous stream of updates requires extra work
(chunked encoding, websockets...)
- asynchronous notification requires extra work
(long polling, websockets...)
- fan-out topology requires extra work
(implementing some kind of message queue)
- x=AMQP (or similar)
- too much overhead for some use-cases
- requires a broker from the ground up
What we came up with
- Based on ZeroMQ and MessagePack
- Supports everything we needed!
- Multiple implementations
- Internal "reference" implementation in Python
- Public "alternative" implementation with gevents
- Internal Node.js implementation (so-so)
Example: unmodified code
Expose the "urllib" module over RPC:
$ zerorpc-client --server --bind tcp://0:1234 urllib
Yup. That's it.
There is now something listening on TCP port 1234, and exposing the Python "urllib" module.
Example: calling code
From the command line (for testing):
$ zerorpc-client tcp://0:1234 quote "hello pycon"
From Python code:
>>> import zerorpc
>>> remote_urllib = zerorpc.Client( )
>>> remote_urllib.connect('tcp://0:1234')
>>> remote_urllib.quote('hello pycon')
Example: introspection
We can list methods:
$ zerorpc-client tcp://localhost:1234 | grep ^q
quote quote('abc def') -> 'abc%20def'
quote_plus Quote the query fragment of a URL; replacing ' ' with '+'
We can see signatures and docstrings:
$ zerorpc-client tcp://localhost:1234 quote_plus - ?
quote_plus(s, safe='')
Quote the query fragment of a URL; replacing ' ' with '+'
Example: exceptions
$ zerorpc-client tcp://localhost:1234 quote_plus
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/jpetazzo/.virtualenvs/dotcloud_develop/bin/zerorpc-client", line 131, in <module>
File "/home/jpetazzo/.virtualenvs/dotcloud_develop/bin/zerorpc-client", line 127, in main
pprint(client(args.command, *parameters))
File "/home/jpetazzo/Work/DOTCLOUD/dotcloud/zerorpc/zerorpc.py", line 362, in __call__
return self.recv()
File "/home/jpetazzo/Work/DOTCLOUD/dotcloud/zerorpc/zerorpc.py", line 243, in recv
ret = self.handler(headers, method, *args)
File "/home/jpetazzo/Work/DOTCLOUD/dotcloud/zerorpc/zerorpc.py", line 323, in handle_result
raise e
TypeError: quote( ) takes at least 1 argument (0 given)
Example: load balancing
Start a load balancing hub:
$ cat foo.yml
in: "tcp://*:1111"
out: "tcp://*:2222"
type: queue
$ zerohub.py foo.yml
Start (at least) one worker:
$ zerorpc-client --server tcp://localhost:2222 urllib
Now connect to the "in" side of the hub:
$ zerorpc-client tcp://localhost:1111
Example: high availability
Start a local HAProxy in TCP mode, dispatching requests to 2 or more remote services or hubs:
$ cat haproxy.cfg
listen zerorpc 0.0.0.0:1111
mode tcp
server backend_a localhost:2222 check
server backend_b localhost:3333 check
$ haproxy -f haproxy.cfg
Start (at least) one backend:
$ zerorpc-client --server --bind tcp://0:2222 urllib
Now connect to HAProxy:
$ zerorpc-client tcp://localhost:1111
Non-Example: PUB/SUB
(not in public repo—yet)
- Broadcast a message to a group of nodes
- But if a node leaves and rejoins, he'll lose messages
- Send a continuous stream of information
- But if a speaker or listener leaves and rejoins...
You generally don't want to do this!
Better pattern: ZeroRPC streaming with gevents
Example: streaming
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- Client code gets an list iterator
- Small messages, high latency? No problem!
- Server code will pre-push elements
- Client code will notify server if pipeline runs low
- Huge messages? No problem!
- Big data sets can be nicely chunked
- They don't have to fit entirely in memory
- Don't worry about timeouts anymore
- Also supports long polling
Example: tracing
(not in public repo—yet)
$ dotcloud --trace alias add sushiblog.web www.deliciousrawfish.com
TraceID: 48aca4f4-75d5-40f2-b5bd-73c40ca40980
Ok. Now please add the following DNS record:
www.deliciousrawfish.com. IN CNAME gateway.dotcloud.com.
$ dotcloud-tracedump 48aca4f4-75d5-40f2-b5bd-73c40ca40980
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.759738] uwsgi@api --- run_command ---> api_00@zeroworkers (lag: 1ms | exec: 98ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.770432] api_00@zeroworkers --- track ---> mixpanel_00@zeroworkers (lag: 1ms | exec: 70ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.771264] api_00@zeroworkers --- km_track ---> mixpanel_01@zeroworkers (lag: 1ms | exec: 71ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.771994] api_00@zeroworkers --- km_track ---> mixpanel_02@zeroworkers (lag: 1ms | exec: 71ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.773041] api_00@zeroworkers --- record_event ---> users-events@users (lag: 0ms | exec: 0ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.774972] api_00@zeroworkers --- info (pending) ---> formation-in [Not Received]
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.783590] api_00@zeroworkers --- info (pending) ---> formation-in [Not Received]
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.830107] api_00@zeroworkers --- add_alias ---> deployments_04@deployments (lag: 0ms | exec: 27ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.831453] deployments_04@deployments --- exists_frontend ---> vhosts@vhosts (lag: 0ms | exec: 4ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.836288] vhosts@vhosts --- OK ---> deployments_04@deployments (lag: 0ms | exec: 0ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.837370] deployments_04@deployments --- exists ---> vhosts@vhosts (lag: 0ms | exec: 1ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.838733] vhosts@vhosts --- OK ---> deployments_04@deployments (lag: 0ms | exec: 0ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.840068] deployments_04@deployments --- add_frontend ---> vhosts@vhosts (lag: 0ms | exec: 15ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.856166] vhosts@vhosts --- OK ---> deployments_04@deployments (lag: 0ms | exec: 0ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.857647] deployments_04@deployments --- OK ---> api_00@zeroworkers (lag: 0ms | exec: 0ms)
[2012-03-07 23:56:17.859824] api_00@zeroworkers --- OK ---> uwsgi@api (lag: 0ms | exec: 0ms)
Implementation details
This will be useful if...
- You think you might want to use ZeroRPC
- You think you might want to hack ZeroRPC
- You want to reimplement something similar
- You just happen to love distributed systems
- Sockets on steroids
- Handles (re)connections for us
- Works over regular TCP
- Also has superfast ipc:// and inproc://
- Different patterns:
- REQ/REP (basic, synchronous RPC call + response)
- PUB/SUB (shout and listen to streams of events)
- PUSH/PULL (load balance or collect messages)
- DEALER/ROUTER (REQ/REP with routing)
- pip install pyzmq-static FTW (thanks @brandon_rhodes!)
Serialization: MessagePack
In our tests, msgpack is more efficient than JSON, BSON, YAML:
- 20-50x faster
- serialized output is 2x smaller or better
$ pip install msgpack-python
>>> import msgpack
>>> bytes = msgpack.dumps(data)
Wire format
Request: (headers, method_name, args)
- headers dict
- no mandatory header
- carries the protocol version number
- used for tracing in our in-house version
- args
- list of arguments
- no named parameters
Response: (headers, ERR|OK|STREAM, value)
- ØMQ does not detect disconnections
(or rather, it works hard to hide them)
- You can't know when the remote is gone
- Original implementation: 30s timeout
- Published implementation: heartbeat
- Expose a few special calls:
- _zerorpc_list to list calls
- _zerorpc_name to know who you're talking to
- _zerorpc_ping (redundant with the previous one)
- _zerorpc_help to retrieve the docstring of a call
- _zerorpc_args to retrieve the argspec of a call
- _zerorpc_inspect to retrieve everything at once
- Introspection + service discovery = WIN
- Published implementation does not include any kind of naming/discovery
- In-house version uses a flat YAML file, mapping service names to ØMQ addresses and socket types
- In progress: use DNS records
- SRV for host+port
- TXT for ØMQ socket type (not sure about this!)
- In progress: registration of services
- Majordomo protocol
Security: there is none
- No security at all in ØMQ
- assumes that you are on a private, internal network
- If you need to run "in the wild", use SSL:
- bind ØMQ socket on localhost
- run stunnel (with client cert verification)
- In progress: authentication layer
- dotCloud API is actually ZeroRPC,
exposed through a HTTP/ZeroRPC gateway
- In progress: standardization of this gateway
Tracing (not published yet)
- Initial implementation during a hack day
- bonus: displays live latency and request rates,
using http://projects.nuttnet.net/hummingbird/
- bonus: displays graphical call flow,
using http://raphaeljs.com/
- bonus: send exceptions to airbrake/sentry
- Refactoring in progress, to "untie" it from the dotCloud infrastructure and Open Source it
How it works: all calls and responses are logged to a central place, along with a trace_id unique to each sequence of calls.
Tracing: trace_id
- Each call has a trace_id
- The trace_id is propagated to subcalls
- The trace_id is bound to a local context
(think thread local storage)
- When making a call:
- if there is a local trace_id, use it
- if there is none ("root call"), generate one (GUID)
- trace_id is passed in all calls and responses
Note: this is not (yet) in the github repository
Tracing: trace collection
- If a message (sent or received) has a trace_id, we send out the following things:
- trace_id
- call name (or, for return values, OK|ERR+exception)
- current process name and hostname
- timestamp
Internal details: the collection is built on top of the standard logging module.
Tracing: trace storage
- Traces are sent to a Redis key/value store
- each trace_id is associated with a list of traces
- we keep some per-service counters
- Redis persistence is disabled
- entries are given a TTL so they expire automatically
- entries were initially JSON (for easy debugging)
- ... then "compressed" with msgpack to save space
- approximately 16 GB of traces per day
Internal details: the logging handler does not talk directly to Redis; it sends traces to a collector (which itself talks to Redis).
The problem with being synchronous
- Original implementation was synchronous
- Long-running calls blocked the server
- Workaround: multiple workers and a hub
- Wastes resources
- Does not work well for very long calls
- Deployment and provisioning of new cluster nodes
- Deployment and scaling of user apps
Note: this is not specific to ZeroRPC
(Preforking servers, threaded servers, WSGI...)
First shot at asynchronicity
- Send asynchronous events & setup callbacks
- "Please do foo(42) and send the result to this other place once you're done"
- We tried this. We failed.
- distributed spaghetti code
- trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them
- Might have worked better if we had...
- better support in the library
- better naming system
- something to make sure that we don't lose calls
(a kind of distributed FSM, maybe?)
Gevent to the rescue!
- Write synchronous code
(a.k.a. don't rewrite your services)
- Uses coroutines to achieve concurrency
- No fork, no threads, no problems
- Monkey patch of the standard library
(to replace blocking calls with async versions)
- Achieve "unlimited" concurrency server-side
The version published on github uses gevent.
Show me the code!
$ pip install git+git://github.com/dotcloud/zerorpc-python.git
Has: zerorpc module, zerorpc-client helper, exception propagation, gevent integration
Doesn't have: tracing, naming, helpers for PUB/SUB & PUSH/PULL, authentication


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Joe & I got quite the surprise on Saturday night…after we finishing making a few new recipes of sausage.
We made our Italian sausage recipe but used chicken instead of pork. And then we made breakfast sausage with pork (and had it for breakfast this morning…it's REALLY good!!)
Then we headed over to Chris & Dan's house for a big family dinner…..or so we thought.
I pulled up to the house and before I could get the car turned off: Dani, Neal & Jay jumped out of the car and said they had to go to the bathroom. They threw the case of beer in Joe's lap and went running.
As we were walking up to the house, we heard a loud group of people say "SURPRISE!!" — Joe looked at me and said "Are you mouse-trapping me, again? (I threw him a surprise 30th birthday party, at the Moreno house) I couldn't figure out what was going on. It's not our birthday – and I thought maybe it was a party going on at the neighbors' house. (Come to find out – Tyler walked into the house before us and tripped the "surprise" on accident – oops!!)
We walked up to the house and everyone yelled Surprise! The boys ran up to us and gave us a big hug. They were very excited.
Everyone knew about this for months. We had no idea! Such a great surprise. Many thanks to Mom & Michelle for all the work that went into the planning. It was so nice to have all the family together in one place (including Joe's family.) And again, thanks to my San Diego Parents, Dan & Christina, for opening up their home for ANOTHER party. We are so blessed!!
It was a bit strange to open up a bunch of baby stuff. I still can NOT believe we are having a baby. The little onesies were so LITTLE!! We will have a little LaGreca that fits into that in a few weeks!! Say what?!?!?
It's time to get the nursery ready now! So much to do – and not that much time – eek!


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PTDC Bus, Naran
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Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) offers a comfortable bus service for Naran. Their luxury bus leaves from Flashman Hotel, Rawalpindi daily at 9 a.m. and reaches at PTDC Motel, Naran at 5:15 p.m. One-way fare per person is Rs.500 (US$ 9).
The bus stops at Mona Liza Restaurant, Abbotabad ( next to Red Onion, near PTDC Abbotabad ) for 15 minutes tea break. The last stop is PTDC Balakot motel at 2 p.m, from where a coster van (known as flying coach) takes you to Naran.
On our way back from Naran to Rawalpendi, we decided to try PTDC bus service instead of using local transport which are some times overloaded and are quite a hassle in case you are loaded with camping equipments or are with family. We went to PTDC motel in Naran two days before our departure to make reservation. For one way trip they charge 1000 Rs, just a little high as compared to local transport but not too high to be unbearable.
On travel day we loaded our luggage and camping stuff on buss at 0845hrs and left Naran at sharp 0900hrs, which was quite a perfect time. Bus conditions were good enough and overall journey was quite comfortable. Our first stop was for 15 min at a PSO pump station in Balakot for refueling and quick refreshments followed by a lunch break at a hotel in Manshera. Our arrival time was 1745hrs which was 45mins late from expected time but given the fact we took a little longer lunch and prayer break (due Friday), it was digestable.
It was a good experience and PTDC deserves some applause for this special arrangement. They should extend it other cities as well like Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan.
Road condition from Islamabad to Naran is good. From mid-June onward the road to Naran is open for regular cars, vans and coaches. So people who want to take their own cars, should not hesitate. You may find few patches bad but still drivable. A couple of glaciers which may block the road in the early season (before June). If you are driving, always start early in the morning to safely reach your destination well before dark.
People travelling through Public Transport may have to change 2 buses while coming from Islamabad. i.e. Islamabad to Mansehra & then Mansehra to Naran.
PTDC is operating a bus from Fleshman's Hotel, Saddar, Rawalpindi to direct Naran. Ticket is Rs. 1500/- per person. Bus leaves at 9 am and its around 9-10 hours journey. , PTDC BUS PAGE
i just came back from naran on the 31st of july 2011,i have to disagree with all those people who are writing here that there is no road beyond balakot or that its a mud road that you cant drive on,folks its all B.*** the road from islamabad to naran is as good as the new highway from islamabad to murree except a few patches for a total of about 15 mins that is bad but still driveable.i recommend that whoever is planning to visit naran and are thinking should we take our car or not,i would say stop thinking and just drive on its heaven on earth and the people there are very freindly not those badtameez people like nathia or murree if you want a good family vacation plan a trip to shogran and naran and then you will never think of going to murree or nathia.
there are various ways one can choose to go to naran. buses, cars, vans they all can make it to naran easily. Experienced drivers should do the job. Drama queens who easily get scared please dont go. The road does get rough and uncomfortable. But its all worth it to see the heaven on earth. The beautiful lakes in naran and the ever green shogran is a must see for nature lovers and tourists. I guess those people who constantly spend there lives in their boring cities get easily scared or maybe they never tried having an adventure in their lives.
No pain no gain. so if your up for an amazing exciting n sumtimes hair raising :) experience naran and places around it should do it for you. Happy n safe journey inshallah ! ! !
I planned a trip to the kaghan valley last weekend with my family and two close friends. I went to the TDCP office in Rawalpindi, was given a map and was told lovely stories about the valley and how safe the journey will be.It was exactly the same as listening to the rulers of the country about the excellent state our country was in.
We started our journey in three cars, everything was fine till balakot and everyone seemed to be enjoying. As soon as we crossed the re built balakot bridge, we realized that the road had disapeared and instead we were driving on a narrow path made of loose mud, ready to slide. We remembered the discussion with the TDCP guy and kept on moving.
The Narrow path now had become so dangerous that we were driving at a speed of 10 to 15 Km/hr. We covered 25 Kms like this waiting for the road to appear but it became worse. So much so that we had to stop because our brand new 1800cc cars could not handle the road.
The road was blocked by a trailor for the last few hours nad there was a line of vehicles stuck on both sides. We Decided to go back. As soon as we turned it started raining and what made the matters worse was the road started to slip. Rocks of all sizes began coming down at high speed. My car was hit by one and we narrowly escaped a huge one.It took us one hour to come back to balakot and I can say without any doubt that it was the worst drive of my life.....a near death experience.
So the moral of the story is that first dont believe a word of what the TDCP guys tell you or advertise, pack of lies. Second The chairman TDCP, Secretay tourism and in the case the chairman of Earthquake relief should be asked if they had made a single road trip to naran after the earthquake. The 35 KM road from balakot told us the whole story of where the relief fund had vanished.We should all plan para jumping in france rather than going to Naran.
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Does anyone here know anything about the differences in manurisms of children with imaginary friends and children who are actually interacting with spirits? I'm trying to firgure out if my nephew is really talking about a person or just a made up one.
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Imaginary Friends vs. Actual Spirits
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probably real.Wake Up.
All of this "new age" is what has always been.
Wake Up.
Look Within.
Find Me, if you havent already.
We're All Instruments Of God
Reflections Of The Divine
I am A Your Brother Outside
Sister inside.
I Love You.
I Am That I Am
I would like to point out that my nephew has never played with his friend, but only talks about him. I just wanted to tell ya guys that so you'll better understanding and be able to help me more. lol thanks "EnemyAtLineSix" for your awesome answer!
Imaginary friends are most of the time what we call "little nasties". They are just astral garbageAnyone that believes they are a reptilian deserves to be sterilized. -- Me
Psychopolitics is the art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaux, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy nations through "mental healing".
Real or Imagined?
Child psychology would have us believe that 'imaginary friends' are a stage that many if not all children go through and that this is something that will work out on its own. This may have been true for previous generations, but I believe it is not uncommon for Indigo children to have 'imaginary friends' who are actually real spiritual beings - though in another vibrational dimension.
I can offer a personal experience for this - growing up I had an imaginary playmate- at least my mother assumed that he was imaginary (he seemed real to me). She tells stories about my talking to thin air - especially when I was alone in my room - and of my setting places for "Jasper".
As a teen, Jasper took a back seat to school and dating and other activties - though I would still dream about him - I'd dream whole conversations; conversations that I would write down in my journals.
As a young adult I would intermittantly see him - on a street corner - in a cafe - but I dismissed it as my immagination playing tricks on me. And then I went through an awakening process starting about the time I turned 28 that lasted until I was 30. I started hearing voices. At first I thought I was going insane - I nearly checked myself into a psych ward - then one morning I went for a walk and instead of fighting the voices - I listened; It was Jasper!
He's never left me - I've been talking to him regularly for nearly eleven years. Call him what you will; guide; higher self; angel; soul mate - whatever he is, he has helped me through some very difficult times and has never given up on me - even when I called him a figment to his 'face'.
So don't automatically assume that your nephew is either talking to an 'imaginary' person or a 'spirit' - it could be either - or something else altogether. The primary concern is WHAT his friend talks to him about - is he helping him? Giving him advice? Guidance?
�What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?�
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Thanks sshenry for sharing that. It helped me open my eyes to a few things that happened to me on and off all my life to this point so far.
I too 'talked' to someone. I too from time to time 'hear' a voice. It has been yelling at me lately..
I guess its time for me to listen again..
CHEERSA tree falls... We all feel it..
So don't automatically assume that your nephew is either talking to an 'imaginary' person or a 'spirit' - it could be either - or something else altogether. The primary concern is WHAT his friend talks to him about - is he helping him? Giving him advice? Guidance?
thanks for all the answers, but I still want to point out that I have never seen him play with him. He just talks about him...His friend does this, his friend does that. I always had it in the back of my mind that it's possible that it isnt just imaginary and that it could be a real person. real person meaning a dead one! He just told me not to long ago that his friend died in a car accident, apparently hit a deer. All of you seem to mention actively talking to your friends, but like I said earlier that I havent seen him talk to his friend. That's why I'm not sure.
It is very possible that he is seeing a real 'dead' person. It has happened before. The movie Sixth Sense takes this concept to a true Hollywood crechendo, but the premise is sound; some spirits-for whatever reason-do not move on. Some people are able to see these spirits. Again, my primary concern would be his description of the person - does he say if the person is asking him to do anything, or is his 'friend' just wanting to talk? - perhaps the spirit just wants to be in touch with someone in the 'real' world or wants to get a message to someone here - or maybe its just lonely.
�What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?�
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I agree with the points that have been made here, but my questions would be, when and were do they have the coversation, what is said, and why is he talking to your nephew??
I am oneof those people who can "see dead people", among other things, and just because this person is dead does not automatically make it negative or dangerous. At this point i would be seeking to get as much info as i could to try and determine exactly what you are dealing with.The human being is an incredible thing, if only we would slow down, de-technolise and embrace what comes naturally!!
He talks about him quite a bit, but lately he hasn't been talking about him alot like he used too when it first started. He mentioned him yesterday when I was babysitting. My nephew is hard to ask questions too, He saw a person I didn't see in our house yesterday and he asked me who it was, but I didn't know. I asked if it was a boy or a girl and his reaction was "What? A boy or a girl?" he had a look on his face like "why are you asking me?" Then continued to play with his toys. lol Yesterday hes said to me...Do you remember when Josh Micheal (his friend) was at my b-day party. I said I wasn't sure. I was trying to remember if there was anybody there by Josh or Micheal just in case there was. Yes, I know it's very possible he was there. He also said he was there with his 3 kids.


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Ha Ha hysterical, Claudale is far from worried if you'll be around to protect him from racial slurs. I do applaud you taking this strong stand once Jensens weighed in on things. Kudos on doing your job as you're told to do it. We need more moderators who follow the rules and aren't afraid to enforce them. Now if we could just get some answers instead of shutting things down, I think we'd all be better off.
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Only 10 people or so post here and over the past 2 years only a handful of things have needed to be deleted. No need to overpolice something that wasn't out of control to begin with.
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I asked if negro is OK, and my question was completely ignored while part of my post was edited for "don't push it". What is it with this fear? No one on here is putting anyone down. We all get along just fine and we harbor no visible hate toward anyone regardless of back ground. Like I said, if the rule is simply:
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then fine we know what the rules are. But if the rule is no racial slurs, well then what does it matter to use words that aren't used in the context of hatred? Some of us who are not racist don't necessarily think negatively or hateful when some of these words are used. I find it that those who are so quick to jump up and want to be 100% PC are generally hiding something.
Pimach is part black, I have very close personal black friends, and we have a variety of back grounds on this board. I'm beginning to think that perhaps we aren't wanted here specifically because of that. This will probably be deleted so maybe I'm wasting my time with a rational response/explanation.
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Last week, Bill Murphy penned his Five Reasons to be Stoked for The Old Republic. The List generated a lot of feedback. This week, Bill takes the converse role in his latest List: Five Reasons to be Wary of The Old Republic.
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Nicely written with some very good points.
SWG - AoC - PotBS - DDO - LotRO - STO - GnH - SWToR
A nicely balanced article.
5.) BioWare's First MMORPG - Its a risky undertaking for sure. Either Bioware have learned well from the competition or they will end up making the same sort of mistakes the others did. Its too early to tell right now.
4.) Star Wars is Serious Business - It certainly is. But where SWTOR can be given a little flexibility is that its designed for a timeline which Bioware helped create in the first place. So the game isn't having to adhere to preconceptions from the films, unlike SWG. But instead, it has to adhere to certain preconceptions surrounding the KOTOR games. Who better to do this than the very people who designed that first game? Because of this, I have slightly more confidence in Bioware making SWTOR a success, than I had in SOE making SWG a success. Of course, Bioware have every chance to still mess it up too, but they have a lot riding on this that they cannot afford for it to fail.
3.) Voice Acting = Too Much? - Some love it, some hate it. Its just another facet designed to enrich the game. Its optional after all. If it hadn't had been, then I personally would have had more fears about it. But options are good.
2.) Companion Characters - THIS is one area I agree with the OP. Its too early to tell just how Bioware are going to tweak the companions so that they ensure grouping is still viable. And it's still unknown just what effect the companions will have on the overall combat capabilities of each class.
1.) Will It Just Be WoW with Lightsabers? - It ain't set on Azeroth. The Lich King is nowhere to be found. There ain't elves and goblins everywhere. Yes, the game will obviously share some similarities with other games in the same genre, but that's the whole point of being in the same genre. People like a certain degree of familiarity in products, its what makes people buy them in the first place. Will it have an end game with similarities to WoW? We don't know yet. There's a possibility it will. But no guarantees.
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I completely agree with the premise of this article for both reasons listed here as well as those that are not. The cinematics are impressive no doubt, the voice acting is nice fluff, and yes it is Star Wars. Honestly though, how many times in the last 6 years have we watched this cycle play itself out over and over again, almost always ending in the same way. Some big budget MMO based off some IP people love gets everyone all hyped up, ends up being a reskinned version of the last MMO that came before it. The combat videos honestly look almost exactly like every other cookie-cutter MMO churned out in the last 6 six years that hits the ground running and ends up crashing and burning in a few months once people burn through the content to find a lacking end-game.
I'm not saying the game will be bad, it could very well be the next WoW in terms of success, but I think people need to take a step back, stop, and breathe. Once people play through the story a few times as different classes, what is there that will keep players paying their monthly fee month after month? When you boil away the fact that the IP is Star Wars, what does this game have that will make it not crash the same way we saw with AoC, WAR, Aion, etc.
I wish them the best as the genre needs more good MMOs, but games ultimately survive and thrive on their merits, not their hype.
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Good article, nice balance combined with the one last week.
One addition to point 4, the Companions: they are customisable
Companions will be able to be customized so that everyone will not be running around with the same Wookiee template etc PC Gamer UK April 2010
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Originally posted by cyphers
Nice find Cyphers. It's good to hear that Bioware certainly took that into account.
I'm hoping that we'll get the sort of customisation that STO has for your bridge officers.
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From what we have seen of the game play outside of the devs official sanctioned videos (read into the what you will with the Beta having recently started) the talk of Story and VO as major selling points and where the innovation in the game may be far too little. While a couple of minutes maybe spend listening to someone telling you back story far more of the game is then spend travelling and killing. And cause of this I couldn't agree more with point number 1.
Right from the start Bioware has looked to WoW for inspiration, we see a similar cartoonish graphic, a very familar combat/game engine and a similar game play experience with running round killing things and watching your xp clock up. Bioware have even said what they are looking to do is bring VO and Story to the MMO, they will be adding the 4th Pillar. Reguardless of why we may have to spend the next 2 hours running across the landscape to kill Big Boss Man number 15 the vast majority of the gamers time is spent away from the story and VO and experiencing the very traditional MMO style game play. There is little inovotive or new in this part of the game, which is where most players will spend most their time.
Sure the reason may be great and told to you with great VO this is going to matter little after the first 50 hours of VO and story which at best takes you on a personal story at worst is rehashing the passed 10 hours of story where for example your new sith master has some quests for you, at some point you have to decide if you will betray him. Reguardless of what you choose you move onto the next Sith Master and repeat. Cause its an MMO you can't do anything game changing, you can't do anything that marks you as unique as every other Sith Warrior gets the title master at level 80 and you can't kill anyone your not supposed to. So at the end of the day the story may be more like railroads that you just follow along. Sure they branch but never enough to allow for more than an illusion of choice. Where the game really shines will be the game play and so far nothing here has looked that new or special or even comparable to other games coming out in 2011.
Of course the game will do well, and of course Bioware and Star Wars fans will purchase it. They will no doubt even purchase it instead of better games cause of those names and probably fill the forums with annoyed posts but still keep paying. Sadly though after 180 million dollars 6 years and this IP and studio it wont be as good as many people think and hope it will be. But perhaps worst of all it wont be the game the fans deserve, it will stick to very safe MMO ground and let the other big releases of late 2010 and 2011 look to improve on gameplay and MMO conventions.
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Valid reasons but at the end of the day if it is entertaining and doesn't turn into another epeen contest then the game will be worth playing.
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While I can't wait for the game to come out, these are some very good points! Let's hope these 5 issues don't come to fruition in the game.
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I liked MMOs better when gamers didn't play them, and just geeks did.
From a personal standpoint, Companion Characters are my main concern with this game. I just don't see the point of these damn things in a multi-player game. Sure, people who enjoy pet classes will probably enjoy them, but the majority of players prefer to play and focus on their character and make allys with real people instead of AI.
Overall, the game looks pretty weak and uninspired. I will keep this on my radar because I am simply a fan of the MMO genre, but there are other titles that have me way more excited than SW:TOR.
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5. It's not a good point to make, after all WoW was Blizzards first MMORPG and there is a large number of fails for games companies following up on a successful first game. 4. I think lore is important in the Star Wars universe and I think Bioware will make it immersive into that world. 3. VO is good, I think, for Modern mmorpg. 2. I think these positive as it makes it easier to write group quest PvE material for a game without alienating soloing, and post-launch people are going to mainly solo as they level to cap. 1. Only WoW-tards would hope for that, and I cannot see why SWTOR will be significantly similar to WoW.
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Yeah, I think the companion stuff is the only thing that irks me. I'll be teaming up with my friends for the most part. Aside from the companions everything else looks like a reason I'm interested to play.
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Cynical? Me? Never.
Agree with No. 1. That is my biggest concern.
Originally posted by Asmiroth20
Yes, it is worthy of concern. Encounters may be designed so that:
1) They are perhaps statically scaled to always encourage the use of companions in solo or group encounters.
2) They are perhaps dynamically scaled in accordance with whether companions are being used (which would be hard to do in the open world, though possible in "private" instances).
3) They ensure that the companions have no real effect on the overall combat potency of players and their abilities. Thus the companions are just "fluff" in terms of combat, and of no real use outside of the storylines.
Personally, although I can appreciate the attraction of companions, I wouldn't shed a tear if they were pulled from the game if that meant better balance of combat encounters for both soloing and grouping. Companions COULD turn out to be the "chink in the armour" in terms of SWTOR's game design. Hopefully they won't.
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Originally posted by remyburke
One person's negative is another's positive it seems. The companions, and in particular the fact that Bioware has stated it will be possible to complete a class' entire story without requiring grouping has me shouting for joy (ok, not literally). Please tell me one MMO is finally gonna let me experience an endgame without forcing me to group to do so. Speaking of which, have there been any official releases regarding the endgame?
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Do encounters dynamically scale up if you bring your Companions? I didn't encounter that while reading the available info, I did read somewhere or heard it in one of the interviews that (group) encounters count on you using your Companions and that encounters would be harder if you didn't.
I thought the way Bioware explained the use of Companions a nifty one: not only will they contribute to your storyline, but in groups you don't have to refuse friends or guildies anymore just because you need a healer for that last spot in your group. Instead you can just invite your friend or guildie and bring along healing Companions to fill in the gap.
The only major objection I can think of is if people generally dislike having to bring pets into battle, because it seems like the Companions make every class a pet class.
About the story: I agree with that gameplay is more important, I disagree with that it has no impact on immersion. In games like ME2 the time that you really are in dialogues is not that much compared with the time that you're fighting around, still the storyline that these dialogues helped build added immensely to my immersion of the game, that would have lacked when ME2 would have been nothing more than some action RPG shooter with only a hint of a story.
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SOE did not respect the IP from the get-go. Raph Koster was hellbent on implementing his UO2 template with a Star Wars skin. That was the first fatal flaw of a string of terrible decisions wrt SW:G.
I think Bioware's on the right track.
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This is basically what I wrote in the 5 reasons to be stoked, except in more detail :P
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Companions - I think these would work if handled the same way STO handles theirs. Say you're doing a 6 man raid. If you're solo'ing it, than it's just you and your companions. If you and a friend, each gets to pick 2 companions etc.... Using them as fillers where needed would be OK I guess. That way both the solo and group camps would be covered.
VO - Atleast with the timeline BioWare won't have any pre-conceived notions on how a NPC should sound. I know with STO they had the Spock from the latest movie and pretty much everyone was 'Who's that????', so they ended up having to go and bring Leonard Nemoy in and then it was 'Ahhhhhh, now I KNOW that voice'.
Storyline - Yes it's not the SW we all know, it's KOTOR. And yet even the dev's have said they've watched and want to bring the classic (my word) SW feel into the game, which kind of tells me just for a marketing point it'll lean more towards SW than KOTOR as the SW name recognition is greater than the KOTOR one. Just do a 'Man on the Street' Q&A. He'll more likely know SW than KOTOR. I'm not saying that's bad since I'm sure they'll be a number of SW (vice KOTOR) gamers playing and any thing they can do to give them a familar feel will probably help to keep them around.
SWG - AoC - PotBS - DDO - LotRO - STO - GnH - SWToR
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No lie.
"Look guys, Bioware's putting a lot of time and effort into making a modern Star Wars MMO. "
Luke: "I'm not afraid."
Yoda: "Good you will be, you will be."
Of playing a theme park SWG MMO? While it's not ideal I hardly see any of this as a 'bad thing'. A little mediocre at best, but so was the pod racing scene in Ep 1.


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Posted May 28, 2011 at 8:53PM
I read the article about is it right to use brick and mortar shops to view a product and then buy online ? I was looking for a Samsung WB650 and called in to Jessops to have a look - it is £20 to £50 cheaper than on line AND jessops give you 150 free prints so I brought it there ant then, Nice camera with GPS built in x15 zoom. So is it wrong to research prices on line and then buy from a bricks and mortar shop ? For some reason I didn't feel as guilty. Search for the camera and you will find a big online retailer selling it for £180 vs Jessops £150 ( Gloucester Branch valid as of 28/05/2011.
I guess it really is a case of shop around and on line is not always the cheapest.
PS I have no affiliation connection or commercial interest in Jessops
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 9:24PM
Whats wrong with researching a product before you make a purchase. I do it all the time, whether its on-line or in a store.
Purchasing on-line and you are usually only left with what is on offer, going into a store and you may well have someone providing some very fair advice, and who might negotiate a better deal for you.
In fact I have even taken print-outs of on-line deals, and ask the store if they price-match. I have never yet had a refusal, because most places will price-match or give additional items to settle a deal. The main stumbling block I would assume, is that some people are very reluctant in asking, because they get rather embarrassed, or think that is not the done thing!.
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Posted May 28, 2011 at 11:55PM
Nothing wrong with bartering on price - I was rather reflecting on the point that the best deals are not always on line - it is an interesting ' flip ' to the article on the PC Advisor website
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