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About this talk
Azure Service Fabric is the Microsoft microservices framework and this talk explains how to build applications that can be deployed in Azure or on your own infrastructure. Service fabric lets you deploy your own existing services or build them using the service fabric framework to take advantage of the built-in microservices features that service fabric provides.
Okay so, this talk is about Service Fabric, so another talk about Service Fabric. We probably need to talk a bit about Microservices first. Then I'll go into how you build things in Service Fabric, and then we'll do demos, and talk about scalability, that sort of thing. So this is a lot more technical than the last one. So I'm hoping my demos going to work. I've got VMware running, and it's not running it really well. So I've got a bit of time to talk. So, hopefully, I've restarted it, and hopefully, it'll be ready by the time I get to that point, but I did say the demos were going to fail, didn't I? So, we'll see. So when we build applications, we tend to do some sort of layered application, so a three-tier type thing. So, traditionally, you'll have some sort of web frontend, some business layer. You may have a couple layers there. It depends and you have some sort of data store, and you, generally, then have multiple machines which we talked about in the last talk actually, and you'll put your application on those relevant tiers. If you want to scale those out, then you'd have to replicate each of those boxes. So your web frontend, you'll build another box, you'll put IS on it. You'll deploy your applications with it, similar with the middle tier and with the database. When you're talking Microservices, you'll take those applications and you'll, generally, break those down into smaller chunks. Now you could do the whole application if you wanted to, if your application is that well architectured, you can split it down. You may want to do that. You may have some things you can take out automatically, some sort of services that you could port to some sort of Microservices framework or you might only have bits of it. So while we've got this replicating and representing your whole application, it doesn't necessarily mean that's what you have to do. It's there. So you'll build these services. You'll push them out onto multiple boxes because they're smaller you can generally get more than one there. You probably have things running at higher density than you would in your previous model, which will actually have multiple applications running in the same sort of space. This is where Service Fabric comes in. So if you're building on a Microservices framework, you could do that now with Web Services in IS. You can have Windows Services running, doing various things, but if you do that, then you have to manage all that yourself. So if you put Windows Service on a machine, and it goes down, you've got to configure it to make sure it pops back up. If it fails for some reason, you've got to look at it, you've got to try and work out why. If the machine it's on fails, you've got to then rebuild the machine and put it on again. So what Service Fabric does is it provides that framework, where you can push your applications into there, and then it manages the lifecycle of that service. So if it falls over, it ultimately spins it up. If the hardware fails, it'll move that service or that service that's on a machine onto another node in the cluster. It allows you to update all your services independently. So you can configure them any way that it allows, as long as you've got more than one instance size, you should be able to upgrade your application without it affecting your services, really. If you've only got one, you've got to take it down and spin it back up. There's no way about that, but it does it. They also allow you to build applications that are either stateless or stateful. And I'll talk about the frameworks that the Service Fabric SDK gives you to help you build those applications. You'll also note that along the bottom, I've got lots of different blobs of different things. So you might be surprised to hear that we've actually got Service Fabric in Azure. Who knew? Let's talk on Azure, Service Fabric. But what it also does is the same executable that they run in Azure, you can deploy into your own private cloud. So if you've got a data center, you've got some virtual machines, on-prem, you can take that same deployment, and push it into your own hardware. Because it's the same set of executables, you can actually push that into Amazon cloud if you wanted or some other cloud provider that's got virtual machines. You could just basically configure those up as a Service Fabric cluster, and you basically push them anywhere. Equally, I've got Visual Studio installed here. We installed the Service Fabric SDK. When I run in the demo mode, and press F5, it actually spins those same executables up locally on my machine, and it runs it as if it was a cluster, an actual Service Fabric Cluster. It doesn't do an emulate like most of the tools do in Visual Studio. It actually runs it locally. So you'll see later, it actually spins up five clusters, a five-machine cluster as a test rig, and it'll deploy the applications throughout, and whatever. It's pretty good. You also might note on the site, it's got that little penguin thing. It's actually you can run Microservices, you can actually run Service Fabric in Linux now. So you can basically build any application in any language, and host it in Service Fabric. And it's actually really flexible, so if you have a lot of Java stuff host still based on Linux, maybe you can pull that over fairly easily. Ooh, I'm going to have to use something else. Sorry about that. So, the one thing I like about Service Fabric is Microsoft are using it for their own applications. So if they're spending the time and effort to build this framework, and they're actually trusting it to run things like SQL Database, that gives it a lot of credibility to me. They've put a lot of effort in it. And if they run those services now, they must've got rid of a lot of the bugs. Because databases need to be pretty resilient and if they're basing their business on it, then that's good for me. I'm quite happy for them to build stuff and test it, and then I'll come along, and use it when it's ready and when it's working. So things like Event Hubs, that has a lot of things happening at one go, so it shows that it can scale. And then we've got... We won't talk about Skype for Business. But Azure DocumentDB is your infrastructure. A lot of this stuff, a lot of the new services are all using Service Fabric under the hood now. So if they're trusting their business on it, then I'm quite happy to trust my applications to it because mine are nowhere, ever going to be anywhere near as big as this stuff that Microsoft are doing. So we're going to have a quick demo now. The first thing I want to show you is if you've not seen Azure, this is the portal that you get. So you do a lot of your configuration and deployment stuff in there if you want. Whatever you can do in the user interface here, there's a whole set of PowerShell and CLI script that you can do automatically. So to base everything around their own API, so you can build everything you see in there, you can generally do, via some API, and probably do more than you can on here. If I want to create a new Service Fabric cluster, I click the plus button and it should come up with Service Fabric, so put in a unique name. Hope nobody's nicked that since yesterday. That's fine. And one of the nice things it does is, I've typed admin in there. It's actually saying username you can't put admin in there anymore. They'll stop you doing that, so you've got to use your own user names now. Similarly, if I do what I did earlier pass that word one, it's doing exactly the same, so it won't let me now do that thing I did previously. So it's actually pretty good there, but it doesn't actually just stop me putting another one on the end. And it also uses Azure Resource templates, so it needs a resource group. I've already got one created, because I've already deployed out, so I'll use mine I've already got. And you can change where you want it located, so I want to put it into North Europe which is actually Dublin, which is a bit weird because West Europe's, Amsterdam. We click on OK, that should take us to the next thing, and this is where we configure up the actual machines. And what you're doing in Service Fabric is you have different application types. So you create nodes, different nodes for those application types. Now I only want one. I'm just going to create the same sort of machine, but you could create a different sort of node types, but depending on what your workload is. So if you've got something that's computer heavy and needs a big machine, you could actually have a specific node type for that, and you can scale these out. Service Fabric will manage where all the applications go based on what node type you configured. So I just want one. I complete the type of machine I want. So let's just give this a name. So we'll say it's a web type and start the [inaudible]. Now this is going to come with a recommended set of machines. It seems to know what I want to use, but when the process should come up here in a second. What I'm doing though is, I don't want any of those because I just want to build a test. I'm waiting for the prices to come up. There we are. So you can see some of these can range depending on what you want to use. They've actually got quite a big range of pricing. So we'll just keep scrolling down, and we'll keep going down, and keep going down. Where's mine, the one I want to use? There it is. That's the smallest you can get. So that's a shared CPU core, but if you want to build something in Azure as a demo for most of things, it's suitable. The other thing I want to do is you've got different tiers of reliability. It recommends five as the minimum, but because this is only a test, I want to go down to three. You can specify endpoints. So if you've got a web app you want to publish out into the real world, you can put the endpoint that you want it to publish that out and you configure that up when you build your application. The next one should be a security tab. I've clicked the right button. I don't want any security. It's only for testing this so I'm not that bothered. And what it's done now is you're just going check, and make sure that I've set everything, and if you notice, it took a little while for the create button to enable. So if I click that now that'll go and spin up that Service Fabric cluster to your machines in Azure. But what I want to do is I can actually download the template, and if you're familiar with Azure Resource Manager, you can actually take this template, and what it does is it allows you to configure your environment. So you can see it's got a few things in there, like a load balancer, the cluster. You can actually configure all these up. So if you actually had, say a machine that you wanted to build in there, that couldn't be put in Service Fabric, you wanted a server with your some legacy application in that only works on the same machine, you can spin that up and deploy your application into there. So, even though I'm building a Service Fabric cluster, I can put other machines in there. I can have different sets of resources that I want. So I can go away and customize that if I wanted to. Then I'd just go and deploy it using PowerShell, and it would go, and build all those machines in Azure, and it will set the Service Fabric cluster up. And also my other machines, it'll set load balancers up or set the security groups up, all those sort of things, if I wanted to which actually gives you quite a lot of flexibility. I've also deployed this on-prem, so when you deploy an on-prem cluster, I've actually created three virtual machines, and I'm hoping that they've all spun up. So I know you can see there, I've got three machines that have Basic Windows Service 2016. I set these up because I wanted to get Docker running in Service Fabric. So I configured Docker on those machines, the Windows servers, and that's pretty much all I did. So I created a base 2016 image. I've got Docker working on that, and then that was it, and then on the first server...so they're what I've called SF-0. I've basically copied all the install files on there, and you get this config file which is a block of JSON, and in there, you'd basically define what each machine is. So that's my machine, I've called the node and the machine the same thing, so each of my three machines that were SF-0, SF-1, SF-2, it's using the same node types. So this is one I set in the Service Fabric config, the multiple node types, these are all the same. I could have made them different, and I'd have a different set of configuration. These two are actually quite important. So I've got fault domain and upgrade domain. So fault domain means that if you've got hardware, you can set it up so that you create your applications, deployed into different fault domains. So if something goes wrong, it means that they're not sharing the same hardware. So if you've got a bigger network than I've got here, you could set that up. But what's probably more important is your upgrade domain. If you've got multiple upgrade domains, it means it will put your services into different upgrade. If you only upgrade your server, then it will upgrade domain one, then domain two, and domain three. So if you've got three instances, it'll take the first one down, upgrade it, put it back, and then take the second one down, and upgrade it, and the third one down. So I actually have an upgrade domains in there. It's actually really useful. So when you configure that up, basically take that thing, copy it back onto the virtual machine, and run a PowerShell script. There's two PowerShell scripts you run. The first one is a test. What it does is it basically takes that JSON file, and goes and tries and connect to all three machines. Then it'll come back, and tell you what's wrong. It's most likely you've got some file reports on it, service file reports. Run it again, it'll pass. Then you run the second one which basically deploys everything, so you don't actually need to go into any of the other machines. You just go and run it from the one. It goes into all the machines in that config, and deploys it all out, and configures up the cluster, and sets everything up for you. Also in Visual Studio, I've installed the Service Fabric SDK . So you install the Azure SDK first, and then you need your Azure Service Fabric SDK, so they're different. But all that means is when I create a new project, they've tried going down the route they've done with ISP.net where you set up a new ISP on that site, it puts its wizard up that allows you pick what you want, the different sorts of things. So, in my cloud options, I've got this Now Service Fabric. When this spins up you actually get a whole set of different services that you can do. So I'm going to talk about stateless and stateful today mainly, but you can have a whole load of other ones. So guest executable is a good one. I'll talk about that briefly. I'll talk about containers, but I won't really talk about these. So what it does is it guides me through the process and it's actually really easy to use. It's all familiar tools. I've not had to learn much to actually use this. I'm familiar with Visual Studio and how to use it, but what this does is it actually creates you a project. I clicked stateless, so it'll create me a project with a stateless service in it which I can just deploy straight out into Service Fabric, and it would run. It would do something. So I've not had to build anything. I'm not having to understand that, how it all works. I can just go and take that template, and actually, deploy and it proves everything worked. So what that actually gives me is, it gives me two things. The first one is the application. So this is basically a set of config files that define what the application is, and then it creates a set of services. So I only picked one service, but I could go into here, click add, new service, and it would pop that same dialog up that we had, and I could pick another service. You have this thing called an application manifest file which basically this defines what your application is, so it says, "This is your application. These are the services in there." And then each service has its own service manifest which basically defines what the service has at the endpoints where they execute it, and that sort of thing, the type. It also creates this stateless class, and what this has is a run async. So it, basically all this does, it's like a thread, a worker thread. So you've just go this little worker literally that does something, right, and all this line does in the middle there is fetch the data out. There's a diagnostic window that pops up which you'll see all these traces coming out. So all this service does is every second, it just increments that iterations that current and displays on the script, and the debug window working. So whatever you do, you can build your application, and put your code into there. So I could take that now and I could actually do that, and customize it for myself. The other thing we have. When I installed the Azure SDK, we got this thing called Cloud Explorer. Let me log that out. It gives me the sort of subscription that my... So I've logged into my machine using my Microsoft account. So it's picked that, and found how many Azure subscriptions I'm subscribed to and it's displayed them. So you can actually see I've got Service Fabric in here, and this is what I've deployed. This is actually deployed in Azure, so you should be able to see that I've got an application in there, and as you can see, I should have three nodes in there. I've also got this because I've installed the SDK, you get this local cluster. So that's what I was saying, I've effectively got the same execute running on my laptop. So if I press F5 on that program which I'll do, it should then go and build the application, deploy it to that local cluster, and we should see, if I looked in here, there should be a local one as well, which is up here, and Service Fabric. So in here, it probably hasn't got anything in it just yet, so it's still building it. So as soon as it starts, we should see it appear in here. What we also get is, I could right-click on here, I could. Oops, I should log that out, shouldn't I? I can right-click on here and open what's called Service Fabric Explorer which I've already got open here. Let me just see if this is actually coming up. Ooh, that might've worked. So, Service Fabric Explorer, if you can see that this says, local host. So that's effectively showing you what's on my cluster on my machine on that demo environment. Because I've actually got it deployed we've got one application there which I can click through, and you'll see that it's made up of one stateless service. So that's that one service that I deployed. If we go back to Visual Studio, we should see that it's actually just doing that increment in that account all the time. So all that is I've run it straight away straight out of the box. There's not been any code change or anything. The nice thing about this Service Fabric Explorer is, I've got it running locally. I've also got it running on that cluster on my machine, so the reboot worked. Hopefully, the next bit will work for this. And this is the same UI that I've got, and the same one that I've got in the cloud. So this one, you can see it's got an Azure URL. This one's got a local, so that SF-0, that's one of my machines in my cluster, and this one's got local host. So they're all the same UI, the same familiarity. It makes it easier to use. What we can do is, I can actually go in here and do some sort of management. So I could go into this node, and there's a few options. So I can do some control a little bit. So if I wanted to restart something or if I've got a machine that's playing up, I could take it out. I could deactivate it, reset it, whatever. I won't do that on my local cluster because I'm just debugging it. So because I'm running it in Visual Studio, I've got the same experience I would do if I was developing any application. So I could go in and I could put a breakpoint in there. So I shouldn't have turned this off. So it's deploying that out against it, so it's going to push that out onto my local cluster. But this should just allow me to break, as you would normally. So you'd expect this to come through, and break when we get there. There we are. So we do exactly the same thing, so you can look at the...there was a watch Windows, all that sort of thing, so exactly the same as you would normally. So I'll take that breakpoint off. What we could also do, if you've got it configured is you can actually right-click and attach a debugger to the one that's running in Azure. I've actually configured this so that when I set it up, there's one of those options on there allows me to enable debugging. See, this won't work in here because I needed to open it in the project that I deployed in there because all the code that I deployed is on that project. I haven't got a share on that code. So what that would do, hitting that would pop up all the processes it can see in that cluster, and you'll see one of the nodes is in there. It's got your application as well. So you can click that, and then run it in the debugger. And you'll then allow it to put breakpoints in so you're actually connected to a running service in Azure which I think's pretty good. You can also do streaming traces down. So if you've got it configured, you can have those logs that I've got coming out of that diagnostic window, you can get them being traced down. You can stream them down. It's the same way you can actually see the login. So it's pretty powerful. So I talked about there's a couple of configuration files in there. So the first one's the service types. This defines what your service does in the Service Fabric. So it explains where the code is. It says what configuration you want, and if you want additional data, it puts that it in there. You wrap that all up, so you have a collection. Basically, you have a set of services, and then you wrap those up in an application. So service type one might actually be part of multiple applications. So the application manifest file basically defines what services you need to compose with that application, and it just wraps those up together. So you can actually have a whole set of different services and different applications, and then deploy them out onto one cluster if you want. There's a number of different ways you can program this. So basically from left to right is the easiest, from a migration point of view to the more complicated. So if you've got things that are services now, so, for example, if you built some services in Topshelf that can run as a command, as a console app, and you can basically configure those up as a guest executable in Service Fabric, and run them straight out with the boxes, without doing any additional code. Similarly, you can build a container. So that's what I'm hoping works because over the weekend, I've built a container that hosts the website, and I've got that deployed as a container host in Service Fabric, running on my local cluster. So I should be able to attach the website and run that from the container. So Service Fabric is managing that. So if that container falls over, it'll restart it, and if that machine goes, it'll pull the image down from the Docker Hub repository, and spin it up, and whatever. So that's pretty good, pretty easy to use. So I can migrate my applications fairly easily using the first column on its own. So a lot of things I've got, I could actually build without having to do anything. If I take the Reliable Services Model approach, that gives me a lot more features there. So I can build stateless and stateful services. So that test app I built, that I justshowed you, that was a stateless service, and that uses the Reliable Services framework, and I want to talk a bit more detail about that. The Reliable Actors is a set of, effectively, templates Microsoft are building to sit on top of these Reliable Services. So Actor's the first one. They've done a Dev CF [SP] one. They've done a web API one, whatever. So this is sort of abstracting again, another layer up on top sort of to make it easier for you to build applications. I'm not going to talk about Reliable Actors in this, because I think there's a lot to talk about without that, at the moment. So when we build something on Service Fabric, all those three models will be getting these benefits, so you get fast deployment. So you saw, even running it locally, it was fairly quick to get that service out there. And it's probably a similar length of time if I want to deploy it out into Azure. It depends how complex your application is. Service Fabric decides where's best to place those services, as well. So, you could say how many instances you want of those services. You may just have a single one because your service you've got will only ever run...because of the way it's written, it can only run as a single instance. But you may have multiple ones and Service Fabric will decide where to place those, and it also manages the reliability. So if something falls over, it tries to spin it back up again. If there's something wrong with that node, it'll try and move the services up onto another node, that sort of thing. So you've got all that robustness built in. It also tries to put as many services as it can in the resources it's got, and it balances those out. So it sort of tries to make efficient use of the resources you've built into your cluster. And as you can see on those screens, we've got those nice little pictures which are all green. And if something had gone wrong, you'd have had red, and I could have drilled in, and looked at where that problem was. So it might be there's a problem with one of the nodes. It might be one of the applications that are being hosted on one of those nodes that's got a problem. Here's what I had earlier. So I had a whole load of red on one of them, and it wasn't really very good, so I had to reboot everything. So it also coordinates the upgrades. So as I talked about the upgrade domains, if I wanted to upgrade my application, it would take them down one at a time and do that for you. So you don't have to worry about any of that. It's really useful, really powerful. So guest executables and containers, I'll show you part of the demo, how easy it is to set these up. But it's pretty much you take your executable, so whatever you've got, if you can run an executable on the command line, then you can run it in as a guest executable in Service Fabric. So I've seen demos where they've run no JS server, which actually is what this example's showing you in Service Fabric, without actually having to do anything other than putting node exe in the file name that you want to run. If you've got something, it generally needs to run in some sort of, like a service where it's got some sort of worker thread type model. Otherwise you just run it, and you stop, and you fall over. It was no point putting it in. But similarly, with containers, you still have an exe host. You have a container host. And you basically appoint it to wherever your image is so that it can download the image and run that, and if you want, need any commands. There's a bit of extra config which I'll show you. It's part of my demo which I hope to map ports across. If you've got exposing ports in your container, you want to map those out to the real world, so people can access it, there's a few bits of mapping you need to do. But pretty much it's just, tell it where the image is and configure that up. Where you get the most power really is if you start using this Reliable Services stuff, so the features that I've showed you when I did that brief demo. One of the things that is important, especially if you're building, like Web Services, is you need to be able to discover the endpoint. So if you're building a web service, and you're hosting it in Service Fabric, you don't know exactly where the Service Fabric has put that service,so you need a way of being able to find that service. So they've got this Service Endpoint Discovery. So if it gets moved, you don't have any hard-coded URLs in there, you'll just go and ask for the end service, and it will tell you where it is at that moment in time. So if something's gone wrong, it's had to move it from one server to another, next time you get the connection, it will give you the new location. We'll also look at how well each of those applications are being used. So each service will run, and you can add extra monitoring in. So you can actually put that instrument in your service and use that to trigger when Service Fabric can move stuff around, so you'll know a bit more about how much load your application's running. And it'll try and balance that across all the nodes in the cluster, so you'll get a fairly efficient way of using the resources. I've talked about the actor pattern. There's also web API and the dev CF pattern. So they're trying to build, Microsoft's trying to build these patterns that sit on top of their Reliable Services. And as you also saw, it's using Visual Studio. It's a familiar environment, F5 debugging, see the diagnostic stuff. It's real easy to use and to package it up, and deploy it. So you could package your application up, use PowerShell to deploy. So I could take that service, the application, run it, compile it in Visual Studio, build it, package that up as a package it, give it to my friendly IT guy with a bit of PowerShell. Say, "Here, go and deploy that on your piece of tin you've got in your backroom. I don't need to worry about it." Or I could do something in my Release Manager, for example, or else just deploy whatever and run those same scripts. They're all part of the framework that you get. So I've been talking about stateful a bit, and stateless. So the example I showed was a stateless service. So if we were building this in our traditional three-tier model, you generally have a stateless web tier, and a stateless computer, and then all your states stored in some data store somewhere, and each of those arrows will add some latency to the journey. So from getting to frontend to the backend, you're going to add these extra hops. You're going to have this extra latency. So you maybe actually put some sort of cache in there to speed that up. But what the stateful does in a computer, in Service Fabric is, is it moves that data store away from your SQL database and puts it local to the computer engine. So it's a different program model to what you're used to, so you might use this as more of a transitionary store. So if you've got some data you want to store locally, then push it out to the database later, you could use a stateful compute. They use that using what's called Reliable Collections. So there's two at the moment. There's a Reliable Dictionary and a Reliable Queue. So if you look at how these collections have evolved over the time of dot.net, you started off with standard collections which basically are single threaded on single machines. And then we went to concurrent collections which gave you that thread safe way of accessing the data in a multi-threaded environment. And now we've come to these reliable connections, which actually run on multiple machines in a high availability scenario. They've got durable storage. It's all asynchronous and actually transactional, which means that whenever you want to access one of these stores, you have to put it in a transaction. So what you can see here is I'm creating a transaction. I'm getting something off the queue, then I'm adding it to a dictionary. So you're basically doing some work in here, and some of that work could go wrong, and if it goes wrong, before you call the commit, it will roll everything back. So eventually it would remove it from each of the dictionaries, and it would actually put the message back on the queue, and that transaction won't be committed. So this commit won't complete until it's copied the data to the main partition, and it also replicates it to multiple ones. So it depends on the size of the nodes, and how many nodes you've got in your cluster. And there's a whole set of rules to determine when it's transactionally safe to say it's committed it to a sensible number of replicas. But let's just say if you've got three, it's going to copy to two of them. It won't return the commit until it's done that. So if something goes wrong with the machine that you're on after the commit, you've still got the data in the other server. You'll then try and replicate them over. So what it does is you have a master node scenario, primary, secondary. So you'll store it in the first node, the primary node. And then as soon as it commits it will then replicate that out across the different nodes in the cluster, so you've got that high availability, that resilience. Similarly, if you've got a machine that goes down, Service Fabric will take those services, and push them somewhere else. It will find the right appropriate clusters with the right sort of node types or capacity, whatever and do that for you. You don't have to worry. I don't have to think about, "Oh, that machine's gone down. How's my service going to run." Service Fabric will move them over. We'd probably have to go and worry about fixing it because if the machine's gone down, I need to sort out why, but in the meantime, my services are still running. I can spin another machine up and add it to the cluster, and those machines, those services will then get spread out over those different nodes. Similarly with upgrading, so if you see, I've got an application here. So here which I'm upgrading, so I'll start the upgrade going, and what you've noticed now is I've got a version two there, and a version one. So you do have to be careful in this scenario because you've now got two different versions of the same service running. If they're storing your stuff in the database, for example, and you've just changed the schema in version two, you've got to make sure that the version one services still work, otherwise, you're going to break everything. So in this scenario, it's fairly straightforward, but if you could imagine somebody like the size of Facebook, if they were upgrading it, you could probably find they've got more than one version of something all other the thing. You've got to make sure that each of those versions is backup compatible with however many other versions that there are there, so it's just something to be aware of. So that's all upgrading there. So, we'll go to another demo. This is if the application that I deployed out, upgraded and deployed on my machine. My virtual machine's running on here, and also, not exactly the same, but nearly the same in Azure. The only difference is I've only got Docker running on here. I've got a whole number of different services running. I've also got a container service and a guest executable service running. So what I've built with this guest executable, I've used the WebJobs SDK, and the WebJobs SDK basically it allows me to build a console app. So I've built the console app using WebJobs SDK. It basically waits for a message to go on a queue and it pushes it onto Service Bus queue. That's what it does. It's fairly straightforward. I built that application separately. I then go into Services here to add...and I've picked guest executable, and now what it does is it says... put applications?" So you do a browse for it, find the application. Then follow it within, click the executable. You can put any arguments you want in there, pick the program, that sort of thing, and hit OK. And what that does is it takes a copy of that if you've set the thing, it creates this guest executable project. It creates a service manifest and you can see, this is all my assemblies. It's put them in there. So when I deploy it, it copies all those files over into Azure. Now similarly with a container, what I've done is I go back in here, do add. It's the same thing. This time I pressed container, and all I did in there was put my address of the Docker Hub where my container runs. So what I've built is a Docker container that's got an IS website in, and it just basically...hopefully, this is restarted. And all it does is when it runs, I get it to print out the machine name that it's running on. So I have three nodes. I have SF-0, SF-1, and SF-2. They're all running on my local cluster here, and you can see all they are is running on different machines. So that is a Docker container running on Service Fabric on my local box. So I haven't got that working in Azure yet. I think I need to configure up the... I just used the default template, and it didn't work, so I think I need to do something with that resource template to get that to work or just do some configuration or something. I'm not sure yet, but I'm sure I'll get that working at some point. So that was fairly easy to do. So I might already have with those two features alone, I could migrate a lot of my applications that I have into Service Fabric without having to rewrite anything. But what I do have is, I do have a lot of services, that dev CF, for example, which I want to move in, but I don't really want to rewrite them. So I have two applications which...sorry. I have one service which is basically that's dev CF service and that's the SQL data layer that sits behind it, so there are two projects. I've just imported them from my application I have already. I have not done any code changes to those at all. I've just put them in there so I can reference them. I've then created a stateless service, so I can host it in Service Fabric. So that's about how to set up. So if I deploy that now, Service Fabric will push that out and give me a dev CF service. It may give me multiple instances depending on how I've configured it, but I won't know where they are. So I've got the whole of the services. All this does is faithfully take documents that we've received from the customer, it stores them in the database. So I need to use that. I let my services to do this. They process the documents, so I need to know how to connect to them. So what I've done is I've got another service which effectively retrieves the documents, and then loads them into the service. So I have this file loader thing, and all this code is just, basically getting messages off the queue, but the bit that's interesting is I need to work how to find it. So there's a whole load of template code that Microsoft have provided which basically creates a TCP binding. You get your current resolver. You say, "I want it to be this dev CF instance." That's the service interface that I've got. And remember I said that there was a unique address? So that's the unique address for this service. So that's the application name, so if we look in the application manifest, you should see that. If you look in the service manifest for that service, you should see that. And then you basically that gets me a client which I can then call them method on. So this bit of code here is pretty much exactly the same code I would've written if I was using a dev CF client in my application. So I've not had to put any connection string in there. That piece of code there will go, and find out where that service is or find that instance of it, and give me a connection string, a connection to that. I can just call the services normal. So for that, I've not had to modify my dev CF service. I've just wrapped it up in this wrapper thing, and I've got it running. I've got it running in the in the fabric. So I talked partly there about configuration. So if I open the application back up and go to the application manifest file, you'll notice there's a whole set of parameters in here. And these bottom ones here are pretty much my custom properties that I want to send into some of my services. Some of the services will use them, and some of them won't. So I've got connection strings there, connections to queues, Redis, Storage Account, whatever. So if we scroll down a bit, we should see different settings. So this is one of my services there, a different service there. It has a different set of settings and the file store one which we saw just had a connection string. So I've defined those properties. If we go back to that file store service, this bit of code here basically goes and says, "Get me the configuration object called config," and I want to get the database connection string out of that. So that's how I pull that data out of those config files. Now when I'm deploying, every time you deploy you have what's called a publish profile, and each one of those publish profiles has a config file associated with it. So, if I go look at the one that's stored locally on my machine, I can see those connection strings there, so I've got a connection string to my local database. I've got Service Bus connection. I've got Redis connection and whatever. So that's configuring it. If I looked at the one that was in Azure, I'd have an Azure database connection, rather than my local one, and I'd have a different set of connection strings for the queues, and whatever. So every time I package up my application, so I right-click on here and do package. Is that going to pop it? Pop it, dial it up, probably not. If I go on here and do publish, that will pop it up. So this has to go on here, it's got a different set of published profiles. So I pick my demo one, it's pointing to my machine or my local VM. It's saying use a demo XML file. So I can set this up. I can practice that up with each of those. So I want a package for my Azure that I want to push in, give it out to my IT guy. Then I would package it up as the Azure one with the Azure XML file, and that would package that up and you'd be able to deploy that. There's, actually if we go to the scripts folder in here, there's a deploy PowerShell script. So you basically run that past the right parameters into the right files, and that will deploy out to Azure. Let's go back to the demo project. So in this application, I created a stateless service. I can equally do the same thing and go in here, and do... Wrong one. Hit add. I can go in and add a stateful service. So, again, this is going to create another service in the application, this time a stateful one. It'll do all the templated code for me, and, again, I could just publish that out straight away and it would run. I won't have to do anything. But what it's actually done is, again, it's created this stateful class. It's got that run async in there, and this time it's using a dictionary. So this is using that Reliable Dictionary so it pulls that dictionary out. I gave it a unique name and in order to use it, I have to use a transaction. It won't let me access it without putting a transaction in. So we create this transaction around the code. I'm doing something with it. I'm pulling the data out. If it's got a value, I'll print the value out. If not, the value doesn't exist, I then increment it. So pretty much the same as what the other one did, but this time it's stateful. So what that should mean is if things go wrong, I don't lose that data. To find out, hit F5, and deploy that out. So this is what this will do now is it will take my... So if we quickly go back to Service Fabric Explorer local host, I've got nothing in there. So I've got five nodes, but I've got nothing, no applications running. So, hopefully, when this actually deploys... That didn't work. That's the wrong one, anyway. So that's running now. So that should, I've now popped up one. So that's now deployed that application out. So every time I stop debugging, it removes it out of that cluster, and every time I start. So if we go into that application we should now see it's got two services in there, and add one, so it's got that stateful and stateless. I should get my Diagnostics Event window. Let's get rid of that there. And now you can see that this is scrolling up with different values. So the working dash is the stateless one. The current value is the stateful one. So if we go back into here, and look at the nodes, you can see what's deployed. So that's got stateful in there. [Inaudible] This has got stateful and the stateless in there, so I should be able to click through each one of them. So this one on node three is the secondary one, so this one should be the primary one. So what I can do... where are we? There's the stateless one. So this has only got one instance running. So if we just go back quickly to here, and see that we're looking at, it's up going on for 100 now. So next time, yeah, it's on 100. So if I go and do a restart... underscore... Is it two or three? It's three. So that should now restart that thing. So what we should see in Visual Studio is, you see this is now...and it's done something there. You see it caused it. We've lost the working node and now it's come back, and it actually has restarted it. I'll just pause that a sec. So it's restarted it because that was stateless and I restarted the server, it didn't have it stored. So we couldn't do anything about it. I'll keep that off again. So you can see this one's now, the stateful ones up at 150-odd. So if I go and look back to that... I'll get rid of that because that's just annoying me. So that's restarted, you've got that same executable, you've got the same experience. And it runs on Windows and Linux. You can program in any language. So you've got Java and Linux will run. If you've got C Sharp, dot.net, node, whatever, you can build applications. You can host them in Service Fabric. I've showed you the Reliable Services and how you get quite a lot of benefits from building that, and you get the stateful and the stateless. And I've shown you the differences between what events are for each with those, and I'm showing that Service Fabric when I was resetting those servers, it automatically spun them up elsewhere, and it moved the replicas around, and it did all that health stuff that I didn't have to worry about. So it's actually pretty good. And I think, to me, the fact that Microsoft uses it, and they're betting their business on this service, this technology, then I'm quite happy to use it myself. I'm quite happy for them to go and build all their services and get rid of all the bugs, and I'll take the benefits that they can get. I think it gives them credibility if they're actually prepared using it themselves, and that's it. Thank you very much.

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Mitchie "Little Tricky" Brusco is one of the most recognizable young skateboarders in the world. Recognizing his potential early on, Triple Eight has been protecting Mitchie since he was 8 years old with a specially designed "Little Tricky" youth line featuring all the style and protection of our adult line. Today Mitchie is one of the biggest names in the world of skateboarding, he wins X Games medals, and he's the youngest skater ever to land a 900 on the MegaRamp.


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Ministers and senior public servants attend an annual Budget Estimates inquiry to answer questions about the expenditure, performance and effectiveness of their agencies.
Budget Estimates is a key process for government accountability and transparency. The Budget Estimates inquiry involves detailed questioning on the decisions, actions and advice of ministers and public servants.
The Budget Estimates inquiry is conducted by the Legislative Council's six Portfolio Committees.
The dates set aside for the 2018 hearings are listed below:
Below is a copy of the Terms of Reference establishing the inquiry into Budget Estimates 2018-2019, including the dates for this year's Budget Estimates hearings, as agreed to by the Legislative Council on 20 June 2018.
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For more information on the Budget Estimates processes, please refer to the Budget Estimates Guide.
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We carried out an announced inspection between 6th and 8th September 2016.
This is the third inspection of this trust. The first in March 2014 led to an overall rating of inadequate and as a consequence the trust was placed into special measures by Monitor. A supporting performance management structure has been placed around the trust including the placement of a Monitor director of improvement. Following our second inspection in July 2015 the trust showed significant signs of improvement and an overall rating of requires improvement applied. We also made the recommendation that the trust remained in special measures as leadership was not substantive and a number of service improvements were not fully embedded in practice.
This inspection was specifically designed to test the requirement for the continued application of special measures to the trust. Prior to inspection we risk assessed all services provided by the trust using national and local data and intelligence we received from a number of sources. That assessment has led us to include four services (emergency care, medical services, maternity and gynaecology and end of life care) in this inspection. The remaining services were not inspected as they had indicated strong improvement at our last inspection and our information review indicated that the level of service seen at our last inspection had been sustained.Visit: https://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/new_reports/AAAF7927.pdf


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The Habit Action List. By Leo Babauta There are a ton of people who read self-improvement blogs and books, but never put them into action.
5 Common Mistakes That Cause New Habits to Fail (and What to Do About Them) Welcome to 2015.
It's New Year's Resolution time. Depending on where you get your numbers, somewhere between 81 percent and 92 percent of New Years Resolutions fail. [1] Translation: At least 8 times out of 10, you are more likely to fall back into your old habits and patterns than you are to stick with a new behavior. Behavior change is hard. No doubt about it. Why is that? I don't claim to have all the answers, but after two years of researching and writing about the science of behavior change, let me share the most practical insights I've learned so far.
The Interpersonal Neurobiology Behind Making Habits Stick. Most of us walk around in this world in a trance with the delusional belief that we are only autonomous beings that are completely acting with free will.
However, many scientists agree that we are interdependent with our environments and our brains are constantly making snap judgments based on internal and external cues. You have recall this quote by Albert Einstein: "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. The notion of willpower, pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, or manning up fails to take the psychological and scientific realities into mind.
36 Lessons I've Learned About Habits. By Leo Babauta I've learned these lessons the hard way.
I struggled to quit smoking in the early 2000s, failing seven times before finally succeeding in late 2005. I struggled with exercise habits, with changing my horrible eating habits, with waking earlier and being more productive and getting out of debt and simplifying my life. I failed a lot, and still do. It was through those failures that these hard-fought lessons emerged, and so I don't resent any of the failures.
Bad Habits. Self-Discipline. This Is How To Make Good Habits Stick: 6 Secrets From Research. We all want to get to the gym, be more productive, be kinder to our loved ones… and then we don't do it.
Why? Well, building solid personal habits can be hard. In fact, research shows it takes an average of 66 days to build a new good habit. From Oliver Burkeman's Help! How to be slightly happier and get a bit more done: On average, her subjects, who were trying to learn new habits such as eating fruit daily or going jogging, took a depressing 66 days before reporting that the behaviour had become unchangingly automatic. But it doesn't have to be that difficult.
For instance, wouldn't it be nice if you could build three good habits for the price of one? Actually, research says you can… 1) Start With "Keystone Habits" Exercising isn't just good for you. When I spoke to Charles Duhigg, author of the excellent book "The Power of Habit", he explained that exercise leads people to unknowingly create other, often unrelated, good habits. It makes you eat better. So maybe you already exercise. Wrong… How to Build a New Habit: This is Your Strategy Guide. According to researchers at Duke University, habits account for about 40 percent of our behaviors on any given day. [1] Understanding how to build new habits (and how your current ones work) is essential for making progress in your health, your happiness, and your life in general.
But there can be a lot of information out there and most of it isn't very simple to digest. To solve this problem and break things down in a very simple manner, I have created this strategy guide for building new habits that actually stick. Even more detailed information is available in my Habits Workshop and in my free guide, Transform Your Habits. But the basic principles mentioned in this article will be more than enough to get you going. 1. Make it so easy you can't say no. Sun Tzu: How to Use Military Strategy to Build Better Habits. Sun Tzu was a legendary military strategist in ancient China and he is the author of the famous book, The Art of War.
He was a master of "soft power" and the father of "agile warfare." Whenever possible, he preferred to win without fighting or, at the very least, to win the easiest battles first. He wrote, "In war, the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won." The 5 Ways to Trigger a New Habit. In his best-selling book, The Power of Habit (audiobook), author Charles Duhigg explains a simple three-step process that all habits follow.
This cycle, known as The Habit Loop, says that each habit consists of… The Trigger: the event that starts the habit.The Routine: the behavior that you perform, the habit itself.The Reward: the benefit that is associated with the behavior. How to Hack Your Habits. You know how it goes when you get triggered.
Something happens, and before you know it, you are hooked! Pulled into an auto-pilot repertoire of thinking and behaving, which inevitably leads to a less than ideal outcome. These traps are extraordinarily difficult for us to catch in flight precisely because they are so quick and automatic. We are all prone to this automaticity because the mind-body system is hardwired for habit formation. I Suck at Habits: How Do I Get Better?
By Leo Babauta I've had numerous readers tell me that they Suck at Habits.
And I totally get that, because in 2005, that's exactly where I was. The Smart Way to Stick to Habits. By Leo Babauta Sticking to a new habit isn't easy — but if you set up your habit change smartly, you can make it stick. Starting a new habit isn't too hard — we often get excited about starting an exercise plan or diet or waking up early, for example.


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Starwood Hotels & Resorts is the first American hotel company to sign a deal with Cuba since the 1959 revolution.
The company, which is already involved in a $13.6 billion takeover bid from Marriott, announced a multimillion-dollar investment.
Under the deal Starwood will manage and market two properties in Havana and signed a letter of intent to operate a third, it said on Saturday.
Deals like this are still prohibited under the US economic embargo of Cuba, but Starwood received special permission from the US Treasury Department last week.
Jorge Giannattasio, chief of Latin American operations, said the deals included a "multimillion-dollar investment to bring the hotels up to our standards," making Starwood the first US company to commit major money to Cuba since it lost its pro-American government on January 1, 1959.
The Starwood investment comes at a time when international visits have increased by 17% in less than two years. More than 3.5 million travelers visited Cuba in 2015.
Obama has called for Congress to do away with the 54-year-old embargo but he has been opposed by the leadership of the Republican majority.
Starwood will operate the military-owned Gaviota 5th Avenue Hotel under its Four Points Sheraton brand, and the state-owned Gran Caribe Inglaterra Hotel under its Luxury Collection brand.


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Stevenson family make donation to local cancer unit.
30/10/2017Ryan Stevenson along with his parents Deidre and Sam, have recently donated £850 to the Mandeville Unit at Craigavon Area Hospital. The Kilkeel family raised the funds for the donation by teaming up with Ryan's football team the 'Valley Rangers' who took part in a sponsored cycle in Silent Valley and a 22 mile 'Mourne Wall Walk'.
The family have thanked everyone who has helped, donated and supported them to make this donation to the Mandeville Unit possible.
Staff of the Mandeville Unit would also like to thank Ryan's family and friends for this very generous donation and congratulate those who took part in the challenging fundraising activities.


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Fearing a layoff? Tips to lessen the falloutWednesday, September 03, 2014 , Written by Anasua Chakraborty
An atmosphere of impending cutbacks, major restructuring within the senior management and frequent closed door meetings at office are indicators that downsizing is around the corner.
Such a situation puts added pressure on employees who are fearful of their jobs, and extra stress on supervisors who may be feeling guilty, or out of the loop themselves.
Be wise to identify sudden organisational changes like drastic dip in sales, cost cutting or regular meetings and brainstorming sessions - all these are signs of a possible danger ahead.
Don't lose your cool in such tumultuous times because the resulting anxiety can affect your performance. Here are tips to manage your career during a possible upheaval:
1) Stay disciplined, stay focused: This should be your mantra throughout the turmoil. Keep doing your bit as you used to before. Making an assumption that you'll lose your job can lead to declining performance, which can create a self-fulfilling prophesy. Try to maintain your composure and performance level, rather than get caught in a downward spiral that might only make things worse for you.
2) Update your resume: Don't wait for layoffs to happen in order to update your resume. An updated work profile is your ready reckoner and helps you avoid the panic of a job loss, in case one is on the way. After all, if you think your job is in danger, you have other things to do with your time. Always keep a log of your accomplishments in place to avoid relying on memory to fill in resume blanks. Keep your online resume updated so that you are there for available opportunities, and do not wait for a last minute panic situation.
3) Air your concerns: Consider having an open discussion with your reporting manager and clear the air about the situation. Clarify the state of the business and status of your employment too. Your calm request for information and effort to better understand the situation will allow your manager to address your concerns. This will also give you the opportunity to respond to firsthand information rather than speculation.
4) Reconnect with your network: Just like updating your resume, you mustn't stop networking. But if it's been quite a while that you are no longer connected with your professional ties, do it before you get laid off. Go out and talk to people and get to know them. Get their business card and connect with them on social networking sites or just stay in touch through email. You will find a job through networking faster than posting your resume on job portals. Also, rev up your social media presence to add to your job search process. Identify professional social media channels and keep them updated with your current resume and career goals to grab maximum employer eyeballs.
5) Remain on the cutting edge of your field: Participate in professional development opportunities through networking events, webinars and online group discussions that are specific to your industry and expertise. This will help you enhance your potential as a professional. Also, it's hard to lay-off someone who's considered the 'go-to' person in their line of work. So make sure you keep yourself updated and look for development opportunities.


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IDCS worked as a sub-consultant to Brown and Caldwell to standardize and optimize St. Louis MSD asset management practices. Our team utilized our experience with IBM Maximo software to research and analyze assets within the MSD system. These efforts were formalized into the Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) and Tactical Asset Management Plan (TAMP) reports.
For the St. Louis City Parks project, IDCS designed electrical upgrades at the historic Carondelet Park Boathouse and the Beckett Park comfort station.
IDCS was contracted to work on six operable IDOT bridges over the Des Plaines River in Joliet, IL. Each of the six bridges is subject to both automobile and pedestrian traffic, while the thoroughfare below is subject to varying levels of maritime traffic, both commercial and private in nature (e.g. freight barges and sailboats).
IDCS worked as a sub-consultant to SpecPro for power studies for an Air Force base located in Minot North Dakota. Utilizing SKM software IDCS completed a short circuit study which included over 300 bus points from the incoming service entrance to the panelboard distribution level.
Tyndall AFB Medical Center is a 50,000 square foot building contained over 70 distribution panels in various stages of life, as well as 30 transformers. The scope of this project was to update and eliminate panels and transformers where possible and create a new efficient electrical distribution system.
IDCS was contracted to participate in the East Cooling Tower Replacement project at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport. The East Cooling Tower is responsible for providing cooling to the Terminal Building at O'Hare International Airport.
Division XI is a state of the art 640,000 square foot, medium-security facility. Consisting of central core surrounded by four housing PODS, Division XI can house 1,536 male detainees.
Intelligent Design and Construction Solutions, LLC was subcontracted by MWH for the City of Chicago Department of Environment (CDoE) to visit and assess solar array sites. These sites varied in nature from Chicago Public Schools, to community centers, to a heritage museum.
Intelligent Design & Construction Solutions, LLC was chosen to team with M3 Engineering for the project to provide street renovations in the City of Clayton, Missouri, near Brentwood and Carondelet Avenues.
Largest CTA Fueling facility, that includes bus maintenance (both light and heavy duty) as well as bus washing. This facility services over 400 buses a day. IDCS involvement in the site improvements and remediation project was both mechanical and electrical in nature.
IDCS was responsible for providing the design of the Electrical Distribution and Lighting Systems for a new Firefighter Simulator Building for the City of Chicago at the O'Hare International Airport. The building was approximately 3,000 square feet and included an 18' high simulator area.


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I'm lucky enough that I work somewhere that doesn't have a strict dress code. This means that I generally dress to suit my mood. If I fancy dressing up a bit, looking smart and wearing some heels, then I will. Equally, if I'm tired and feel like dressing comfortably I'll happily wear jeans, a jumper and trainers to work. I was recently chatting to a work colleague who does exactly the same thing about how drastically the way we dress varies on different days and how other people in the office might view us. The main thing I thought was that people might think we're a bit confused about our own style and we can't make our minds up whether we're a smart, casual or in between dresser. Then I thought why should how smart you dress (or not) dictate your style? You can still have your own style and adapt it to any degree of smartness. I get the feeling I'm rambling now and also possibly not making any sense (a feeling I often get when writing blog posts unfortunately) so lets just move on to the outfit...
It's the trainers that are the main event for me in this outfit because they're new, so pretty and I'm just generally quite excited about them. I adore the colour, they're so comfortable and the soles are slightly platformmed (totally not a word) which a) looks awesome and b) makes them even more comfortable. I've been loving the whole fishnet socks trend and although I originally thought I probably wasn't cool enough to pull them off, I thought I'd try anyway and I love them with these trainers. My bag is a newbie too - in an Oxford Street New Look full of bags me and Ashton still managed to buy the same one because it's just so nice. It's cute and boxy with a velvet like texture and gold hardware and even though it's small, it fits everything in it you'd need for an evening out.
Blouse - New Look (old) | Jeans - Topshop (here) | Trainers - New Look | Socks - Asos (here) | Bag - New Look (here)
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StarCraft Trivia (Windows)
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1001 Video GamesStarCraft appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
Action figuresThe game even spawned a line of action figures from Davidson, including a Terran Marine, Zerg Hydralisk, and Protoss Zealot.
Board gameIn 2007, a board game adaptation of this game was released, eventually spawning a Brood War expansion set and small promotional bonuses.
Collector's editionsBlizzard originally released the game in three collector's boxes. Each featured one of the three races in the game: Terran, Protoss, or Zerg. The non-collector's box art now used is the same as the box art for the Protoss box.
- The Terran Dropship, in beta stages, had to land to pickup/dropoff.
- Blizzard originally intended to reuse the WarCraft II engine for StarCraft. In fact, they had a nearly completed version with the engine during E3 in 1996. Blizzard has also planned this to be their first game to support Battle.net, their free multiplayer service. However, due to criticism of the game at E3 (most called it "Orcs in Space"), Blizzard decided to start over and completely redesign the game and engine. It took two years, but StarCraft became one of their biggest sellers.
- If you extract the StarDat file, you find evidence of units found in Brood War that weren't used in the original game, and some indication that the Terran Marines were supposed to be able to throw grenades as well. This lead to many accusations toward Blizzard that they held back these units so they could release them in an expansion and make more money.
- The Zerg were referred to as the "Nightmarish Invaders" in the game's alpha build. Later, this was changed to "Zurg", and then altered to "Zerg" to prevent legal issues stemming from Buzz Lightyear's archenemy of the same name from the movie Toy Story 2.
DVDBlizzard released the StarCraft widescreen DVD which consists of cinematics from both StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War, digitally remastered for enhanced picture quality.
The DVD features:
- 36 minutes of cinema-quality digital animation
- Exclusive director's commentary
- Original development artwork and never-before-seen storyboards from the Blizzard Film Department
- Cinematic trailers for StarCraft, Brood War, Diablo II, the Diablo II Expansion Set, and Warcraft III
KoreaStarCraft has become a national phenomenia in Korea. The game has become so popular there, that it is found on bags of food items (such as potato chips), sticker sheets, backpacks, phone cards, and even in Korean music videos! Korea makes up the largest portion of Battle.net players in the world, surpassing even the United States!
NovelsIn addition to StarCraft Adventures, a pen-and-paper RPG supplement for Alternity, and some unusual short stories published in Amazing Stories magazine (Revelations (1999), by Chris Metzen and Samuel Moore in issue 596, and Hybrid (2000) by Micky Neilson in issue 601), its rich sci-fi campaign setting has resulted in several StarCraft novels being published through Pocket Books:
- Uprising (2000), by Micky Neilson (an e-book prequel);
- Liberty's Crusade (2001), by Jeff Grubb;
- Shadow of the Xel'Naga (2001), by Gabriel Mesta;
- Speed of Darkness (2002), by Tracy Hickman;
- Queen of Blades (2006), by Aaron Rosenberg; and
- Ghost: Nova (not yet in 2006), by Keith R.A. DeCandido.
ObserverStarCraft is very well known for its amazing UMS (Use Maps Settings) maps and their great quality. Over the years, one map has taken a 'cult' status and is being played daily on Battlenet by a huge amount of people. "Observer Madness", a fairly simple concept, but extremely hard to master! The "dodgers" as they call themselves, are all gathering in 2 Battlenet channels, one "Observer" on US-East server and one "a2848" on Asia server. They even made a shrine for the map here: http://kickme.to/ob-mad There are said to be over 50 known versions to Observer Madness! and more are being made on regular basis.
Operation C.W.A.L.A group named Operation C.W.A.L.(Can't Wait Any Longer) emerged on the Starcraft Pilot's Lounge Forum in Late 1997. This group filled the forum with stories of the fight between Blizzard and themselves to gain the release of StarCraft. Blizzard enjoyed the fan interaction so much then thanked Operation C.W.A.L. in the manual and used their name in a cheat.
RatingThe original rating given to StarCraft was a Mature rating. This was shown on the three collector's edition boxes. However, the game's rating was later moved down to Teen, which is what is now found on all the normal boxes.
- The dropship pilot's responses are modeled after the lines from the dropship pilot in the movie Aliens.
- The cheat code "there is no cow level" actually refers to the Diablo rumour which stated that you could access a secret level through a cow, the inclusion of this code was the most explicit claim made by Blizzard in deny of this rumour (though to this day there are people that claim such level exists).
- Even through its way too garbled, upon repeated selection the terran Goliath pilot says some lines from Robocop's ED-209 (which points the similarities in the unit's design and Robocop's ED) .
- The "Medieval Man" cheat code found in StarCraft is an obvious homage to WarCraft II, where a song named "I'm a Medieval Man" was composed to celebrate the game's release.
- Every unit in game has some secret speeches. They are activated by clicking on this unit several times. They are usually trivial and funny yet some of them are particularly interesting. Protoss Observer transmits the voice of Adria the Witch and Griswold the Blacksmith from Diablo.
- StarCraft contains many references to popular movies or books. For example, in the map editor players can choose a Terran Wraith hero called Tom Kazansky. Lt Tom Kazansky played by Val Kilmer is one of main characters in the movie Top Gun. There is also a Terran Firebat called Guy Montag. It is a reference to Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451. Zerg hero Yggdrasil is named after a computer in the Japanese anime movie Oh My Goddess.
SalesAs of 2000 StarCraft still sold in the top 10, 2 years after its release.
SpaceStarCraft is one of the first computer games to have ever physically made it into space. It was sent aboard Shuttle mission STS-96 on May 27, 1999 by Mission Specialist Daniel T. Barry, who is also a StarCraft fan. Another game that made an early voyage into into space was Twigger.
- Computer Gaming World
- April 1999 (Issue #177) – Best Strategy Game of the Year
- June 2000 (Issue #191) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
- March 2001 (Issue #200) - #4 Best Game of All Time (Editors' Choice)
- March 2001 (Issue #200) - "#6 Best Game of All Time (Readers' Choice)
- Game Informer
- August 2001 (Issue #100) - #98 in the "Top 100 Games of All Time" Poll
- GameSpot
- 2010 - "All-Time Greatest Game Villain" (for Kerrigan; users' voting). She defeated Darth Vader in the Final, with 60% of the votes. After being selected by the GameSpot staff as one of the 54 villains to make it directly into the First Round, her other "victims" were Gruntilda (with 77.9%) in the First Round, the Pac-Man Ghosts (57.8%) in the Second Round, Sweet Tooth (67.1%) in the Last Sixteen, Bowser (51.8%) in the Quarterfinals, and The Joker (55.2%) in the Semifinals.
- GameSpy
- 2001 – #9 Top Game of All Time
- GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 12/2008 - One of the "10 Coolest Levels" (for "New Gettysburg" because a plot point within this level proves how StarCraft uses a simple concept and script attacks to be more dramatic than other strategy games with FMV video sequences.)
- 2009 - #16 in the "Top 25 PC Games" list
- 2010 - #17 in the "Top 10 Videogame Villains" classification (for Kerrigan)
- PC Gamer
- April 2000 - #2 in the "All-Time Top 50 Games" Poll
- October 2001 - #6 on the "Top 50 Games of All Time" List
- April 2005 - #7 on the "50 Best Games of All Time" List
- February 2011 - #86 in the "Top 100 Best PC Games of All Time" list
- PC Powerplay (Germany)
- Issue 11/2005 - #1 Game Which Absolutely Needs A Sequel (it eventually got one in 2010)
- Origin Award
- 1998 - Best Strategy Computer Game
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Morning Grain Comments, 10/26/2015
Monday, October 26, 2015
The grains experienced a strong opening last night but have gone their separate ways since, with only wheat holding on to some decent gains this morning; however even WZ is struggling with resistance at $5/bu, with the complex slogging into the end of the massive harvest month of Oct.
The lowest offer in Ethiopia's tender for a full million tonnes of wheat (closing Friday) came in at $233/tonne C&F—just for 50k tonnes, and likely coming from the Black Sea or E.U. Shipment is sought within four months.
Jordan tendered for 100k tonnes of optional-origin hard wheat; the country's tenders for wheat ended without a purchase throughout the month of October.
South Korea's MFG has issued a tender for up to 120k tonnes of soybean meal, from either U.S., S.A., or China, for May 2016 arrival; the country's CJ Corp also bought 51k tonnes of U.S. wheat for March delivery.
An industry group in India sees soybean output at 7.2 MMT in 2015, down over 15% from last year due to inconsistent rainfall in the top two states.
Soy planting in both Mato Grosso (Brazil's #1 soy state) and the entire country came in near 20% on Friday, up from 13-14% the previous week but more or less in line with last year in both cases, according to multiple analysts.
Friday afternoon's USDA Cattle on Feed Report showed all U.S. cattle on feed as of October 1 at 102.3% of last year, above the average 101.8% trade estimate; September placements of 95.9% beat the 93.9% trade guess, while September marketings basically matched the estimate at 97.6% of last year.
Friday afternoon's Disaggregated CFTC Report showed managed money activity that was once again nowhere near where daily trade estimates had it pegged; corn lost 61.7k net contracts there against just a -3k net expectation, while beans added 2.2k net against –17k net estimates. Meal and oil also found up with sharper longs than expected despite minor moves, while Chi wheat liquidated 38.6k net contracts, with the trade looking for a –11k net there on the week ending last Tuesday (10/20). Producers and merchants subsequently added nearly 39k net corn longs & near 33.5k net Chi wheat longs.
Today's chart is an update on the November soybean seasonal, including three and five-year averages, along with recent seasons and this year's action so far. SX5 has been trading a pretty tight range since the August USDA report, consolidating towards the $9/bushel level as it heads into first notice day. Last year, SX4 managed an Oct rally to a peak at $10.87 just a couple days before expiration; SX8 had the worst ethanol-era finish, off the board at $8.78/bu.
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Dr. Henry is past president of the Wisconsin Orthopaedic Society and an active member of various orthopedic organizations including the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons, the American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine and the Arthroscopy Association of North America. Dr. Henry has presented original research at various national meetings and has published articles on a variety of orthopedic surgery and sports medicine related topics. As an invited master instructor at the Orthopedic Learning Center in Rosemont, Ill., and at various symposiums throughout the Midwest, Dr. Henry has taught orthopedic surgeons from around the world techniques related to shoulder and hip arthroscopy, knee ligament reconstruction, and cartilage restoration.
From 1996 to 2008, Dr. Henry served in the U.S. Army Reserves Medical Corps, including three combat duty deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Working from a combat support hospital, he treated U.S. and international soldiers as well as local civilians with war-related extremity injuries.
Dr. Henry has a passionate focus on sports medicine and is the acting medical director of the Aurora BayCare Sports Medicine program. His sports medicine practice includes joint preservation treatment for the knee, hip and shoulder. His practice philosophy and treatment goal is to help patients understand and overcome their orthopedic problems and ultimately restore their desired quality of life.
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Shell has become the first major to take proper advantage of the low oil price, taking out a company that it has long been interested in buying: BG. And the reason is a good one: not growth for its own sake but using BG's assets to help it achieve its own goals faster. The transaction is underpinned by BG's asset value, it said.
Shell sees deepwater activities and "integrated gas" – read, LNG, with or without upstream production – as yielding cashflow of between $15 billion and $20 billion each, thanks to the merger.
The deal will transform Shell, bringing in an array of assets for it to pick the biggest and best. BG's assets in Australia, Brazil and perhaps east Africa all bring something for Shell to work with.
Then it will dispose of the many more that will have dropped below the materiality threshold. Turkey, Namibia, China, and other areas where drilling is underway will remain on the slate, as will Schiehallion and Claire fields in the UK North Sea. And Shell is not planning to leave the Arctic undrilled – despite the environmentalists, it is going to see exactly what is there before deciding whether to walk away. There are some fringe benefits, such as marrying up Arrow LNG's equity gas with BG's expensive plant in Queensland. And Shell will for the first time be able to bring LNG into the UK using its own terminal – Dragon LNG, just down the coast from South Hook in west Wales.
But one can imagine that Shell will have little appetite for pursuing further production in Egypt – now becoming very much a domestic gas supply story – or technically challenging fields in the UK. It will have shareholders who will expect reward for their patience, share buybacks and debt gearing to dial back as priority goals. It has set a target of $30 billion from asset sales in the years immediately following the deal, although how long it will take to achieve those goals will depend on the oil price.
Ever since the UK monopoly British Gas demerged in the late 1990s, the exploration company was seen as a natural fit for Shell, and over the decades, weekend papers have regularly carried reports of an imminent takeover.
But analysts also doubted if the major could add more shareholder value than the existing board. While its own CEOs came and went, BG's longterm CEO, Frank Chapman, presided over a sustained period of wealth-creation, funded by remarkable exploration success and pioneering LNG strategy.
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In the post-Chapman era, BG's failure to hit output growth targets, its well-publicized problems in Egypt, the US shale story and its initially slow approach to asset disposals all contributed to a sharp decline in its share price, despite hitting key targets in Australian LNG and the Brazilian subsalt.
This falling share price opened up a value gap for Shell, which was able to make a generous offer that could deter a rival bid. It has offered a 52% premium to the 90-day average share price, valuing it at some $70 billion. Not every company could benefit as much as Shell from BG's particular set of assets, where cost savings in shipping and LNG trade will play a role in delivering annual savings of several billion dollars almost immediately.
On the skill side, both companies are familiar with deepwater exploration and production and have a predominantly gassy output, although BG more so than Shell.
And both are keen on LNG trading for its own sake, although more of Shell's equity production is tied up under long-term contracts sold by joint ventures such as Nigeria LNG and Malaysia LNG. Nevertheless, of the 34 million mt that it delivered last year, only 26 million mt/year were its equity share; the rest was from the market.
The deal will give the new Shell a total of about 45 million mt/year of equity production to market, taking out one of its biggest competitors and making it one of the single largest LNG suppliers in the world. Some of that LNG will be the cheapest US LNG, from the first two trains of Sabine Pass.
In a smaller market – global trade has been stuck at about 245 million mt/year for the last few years – this concentration would translate into upward pressure on prices. However, given that between now and the end of the decade, more than 100 million mt of LNG is anticipated to hit the market from projects in the US and Australia, the effect on LNG prices may not be immediately apparent.


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Dedicated to his friend and pupil Archduke Rudolf, Beethoven's expansive Archduke Trio is his greatest work in the genre, though increasing deafness meant it also signalled his final appearances as a performer. The cheerful Piano Trio in E flat major is an earlier work, though only discovered amongst the composer's papers after his death, and the Kakadu Variations is another good humoured work based on a popular song of the day. With the American Record Guide "impressed with every recording", Volumes 1 (8.557723), 2 (8.557724), 3 (8.570255) and 4 (8.570943) are also available.
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Xyrion Trio
Label: Naxos
Genre: Chamber Music
Period: Classical
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Release Date: 03/2013