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Wednesday, March 09, 2016
Just released xockets.io-2.0.2 up on openntf. The main enhancement behind this release is getting the websocket and http/s server running off the same port. If configured, the proxy server loads when the XPages runtime loads and proxies all HTTP requests to the Domino back-end server, while any websocket connections are handled directly. This is NOT a full featured proxy server, and is only meant to front-end Domino to create a single port for both protocols. Below are the setup instructions (assumes you already have the plugin installed, see websocket-setup.pdf for plugin installation instructions). Also note, tc-native (Netty's OpenSSL implementation of tomcat's native SSL) has been included. Right now the tc-native implementation is Windows only. I had to back-port the java code to 1.6, and create a local build of the .dlls. I just didn't have time or patience to create a Linux build just yet. I'll do it if anyone asks. Note, you can still use this on Linux, but will default to the JDK's SSL / TLS implementation. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. BTW.. be sure you upgrade to FP5 for this release.
1) Setup Domino to use alternate port(s):
2) Setup websocket config with the new config parameters:
3) Do a full bounce of Domino
4) Test the sample chat application
NOTE: If you plan on using tc-native + OpenSSL you will need to use a slightly different configuration. Below are the config settings I used to test the .dll
6 comments:
- Marky Roden said...
Genius !!!
- Rene Flores said...
Hi Mark , congratulations great job , I need your help please , I installed the plugin on my server 9.01 , the designer is also 9.01 , everything works ok , but when I change the chat.nsf bd and want compliar me the following error message: Resource Description path Location Type
Unable to build XPages library as the following : com.tc.websocket.library , is not installed xsp.properties chat.nsf / WebContent / WEB -INF XSP.Properties Properties Application Error .... can you help me please , thank you
- Mark Ambler said...
Hi Rene,
Make sure the XPages extension library is also installed.
- Rene Flores said...
Hi Mark ,
XPages extension library reinstalled and works fine , thank you very much... Great Job
- Christian Gravgaard said...
Hi Mark
Thanks for an excelent websocket implementation. It works wonders - when I use Your examples.
My problem is like Rene:
- Unable to build XPages as the following library: com.tc.websocket.library, is not installed
I've searched for the various solutions online - and applied - without success, to be able to compile an xpage solution starting with the chat xpage. Just a compile.
- I've installed the updatesite into our development and intalled the feature on my Notes Client/Designer.
- I've added the security policies, as explained in your guide.
- I've made sure that the XPages extension library is installed
- I've removed my intire Notes Client install with the NICE tool and started all over.
Nothing helps. As soon as I compile - I get the error.
What am I missing out?
Best Regards
Christian Gravgaard,
Gravgaard Group - https://www.gravgaard-group.com
- Mark Ambler said...
Hi Christian,
Try the following:
1) Create a .bat file with the below command (change path to match your notes install)
C:\IBM\Notes\notes.exe -RPARAMS -console "=C:\IBM\Notes\notes.ini"
2) Run the .bat file from the command line
3) From the notes console run the diag command (diag com.tc.websocket)
if successfully installed output should read:
update@../../../Data/workspace/applications/eclipse/plugins/com.tc.websocket_2.0.3.jar [1740]
No unresolved constraints.
if not.. should tell you what dependencies are missing
Let me know


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ZURICH (Reuters) - Embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Thursday the corruption scandal surrounding the world soccer body had brought shame and humiliation to soccer.
In a defiant speech at the opening of a FIFA Congress in Zurich at which he expects to be re-elected president for a fifth term, Blatter said there could be no place for corruption of any kind in the game.
Seeking to distance himself from the scandal in which seven senior FIFA figures have been arrested in Switzerland on U.S. corruption charges, he said: "I cannot monitor everyone all the time. If people want to do wrong they will also try to hide it."
He added that FIFA had lost trust and must earn it back, starting tomorrow. More needed to be done to make sure everyone in soccer behaves responsibly and ethically.
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I have not been drinking much milk at all for months. Because of my shut up shot, I suffer from frequent urination. I was not plagued by this today. Let me announce to the world why!!! I drank a glass of buttermilk yesterday. I researched it today and sure enough, buttermilk helps with frequent urination. I don't know if it is the helpful bacteria or what but my spastic overactive bladder is not happening today. I wanted to spread the world to all the other people, especially the elderly. You might say, "but butter milk is all fatty." Nope. It is thick, not because of fat. It is thick because it is cultured. Buttermilk is actually not that fatty. Fat in the diet from dairy is okay if you are already a pescatarian (fish eater) . I rarely eat meat, so fat from dairy is not a problem for me.
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An observation is NOT needed for the Indiana Swimming state meet series (DIV, SR & AG) and Central Zone Sectionals as printed results are sufficient forms of proof of entry time at this time. Observations will be needed for SWIMS results for Grand Prix, Juniors, US Open & Nationals. Some national-level invites, not held in IN, and that use Online Meet Entry, may also require that a result be in SWIMS (therefore, an observation is needed).
Observations cannot be granted "after the fact". This is similar to a sanction or approval process (see below). Please allow enough time to get your meet observed.
As per the forms below, the most misinterpreted portion of the form is that the non-USA Swimming host organization (IHSAA or NCAA) must have a minimum number of IHSAA or NCAA officials running the meet like USA Swimming does (4 officials). Therefore, if your meet has two (2) assigned IHSAA/NCAA officials, and neither are USA Swimming officials, you will have to get four (4) USA Swimming officials to observer your meet. If your meet has two (2) assigned IHSAA/NCAA officials and one (1) is a USA Swimming official, then, you only need to get three (3) additional USA Swimming officials. I hope that these examples above make this requirement a bit more clear.
REQUEST FOR OBSERVATION - Form A
This form can be saved and clubs can key in their information, save and email back. It is to be used to request observation for verification purposes at High School or Collegiate meets that are NOT season-culminating championships. Example of meets that would need to submit Form A- High School Conferences or County Champs or Invites; Collegiate Duals or Invites). The observation program is NOT available for any high school dual meets or any middle school dual meets or time trials. See above opening statement that observations are not needed to enter Indiana Swimming's championships (DIV, SR & AG).
REQUEST FOR OBSERVATION - Form B
This form can be saved and clubs can key in their information, save and email back. It is to be used to request observation for verification purposes of High School or Collegiate meets that are part of the progression for the season-culminating championship or the actual season-culminating championship. Example of meets that would need to submit Form B - High school – Sectionals or State; College – Conference or NCAA's.
Observation authorization for meets that are not in the qualifying progression (they are NOT High School Sectionals or Collegiate Conferences) must be requested on Request for Observation - Form A.


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In the Season 14 opener, Owen's sister receives help from Meredith and the team. Meanwhile, Bailey must give the hospital a face-lift after the fire; Amelia deals with conflict over a patient; and the doctors are introduced to a few new faces.
In the Season 14 opener, Owen's sister receives help from Meredith and the team. Meanwhile, Bailey must give the hospital a face-lift after the fire; Amelia deals with conflict over a patient; and the doctors are introduced to a few new faces.
When one of Grey Sloan's own lands in the hospital, Bailey tries to figure out what happened while the rest of the doctors jump in to help. Meredith juggles huge secrets that affect her relationships with Alex and Maggie. While Richard helps Jo with a big decision, April and Catherine clash over the new baby.
Seattle Grace Hospital springs into action to save the lives of two young girls whose powerful story will force some of the doctors to revisit the effects of bullying on their own pasts. Meanwhile, Meredith must adjust to changes at home with her new roommates while Bailey continues to fight for the Chief of Surgery position and Jackson prepares for April's return to Seattle.
Jackson and April must deal with some heartbreaking news, Derek gets ready to move to Washington, D.C., and Amelia and Arizona plan their move to talk to Dr. Herman about her condition.
Meredith's life is chaos both at work and at home. Callie and Arizona come to a decision about the surrogacy. Amelia learns a secret.
Alex hears news about his dad and becomes angry. Meanwhile, Derek doesn't keep a promise, leaving Meredith feeling betrayed; Arizona and Callie make a decision about their relationship; and Bailey uncovers the real reason why Ben returned to Seattle.
In the 10th-season opener, mudslide victims arrive in the ER. Meanwhile, Meredith faces a tough choice; Callie deals with Arizona's unfaithfulness; and Richard's life is in jeopardy, The staff continue to assist mudslide victims. Meanwhile, Callie comes to a decision about her relationship; and tragic news brings the doctors together.
As Derek and April work around the clock to find a solution for the hospital, Cristina struggles to respect the wishes of a family whose son is dying. Meanwhile, Arizona empathizes with a teenager who faces problems similar to her own.
In the ninth-season opener, the doctors try to deal with the fallout from the plane crash, which includes adjusting to changes and moving on from loss.


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T lymphocytes : from basic biology to immunotherapy
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The T-TIME Project is designed to assemble a critical mass of knowledge and expertise enhancing Belgian competitiveness in the field of immunology. To address this issue, we focused our project on T lymphocytes as a global working theme, organized around 5 workpackages with the aim of taking advantage of complementary skills of the partners in major areas of immunology. Research objectives are to allow each team to deepen their expertise in a given field of immunology, foster collaborations and interactions between research groups, and build a large Belgian collaborative integrated research and training Consortium in Immunology.
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text: Comprehensive characterization of all signaling molecules in a nervous system with chemical, spatial and temporal information is often critical to deciphering the functionality of a neural circuit yet it presents a daunting challenge. In this presentation, I will present our recent progress on the development of a multi-faceted MS-based analytical platform to probe neuronal signaling with enhanced sensitivity and selectivity. By combining chemical labeling, micro-scale separation, and tandem MS sequencing techniques, we discovered more than 300 novel neuropeptides in crustacean nervous systems. The novel utility of ion mobility spectrometry for enhanced peptide identification and characterization will be highlighted. More recently, we expanded our research efforts to biomarker discovery in several neurological disorders including autism and Alzheimer's disease. Using a combination of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometric imaging (MSI) and top-down proteomics, the utility of MALDI-MSI as a discovery tool for potential biomarkers is highlighted. Furthermore, endogenous peptidome of the cerebrospinal fluid samples were also examined for the first time to reveal potential AD biomarkers. Finally, novel dimethylated leucine (DiLeu) isobaric tagging reagents have been developed and evaluated for their utility in large-scale multiplexed quantitative proteomics. Several on-going efforts and future perspectives provided by these enabling technologies will be discussed. https://pharmacy.wisc.edu/li-lab/


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An empanada is a stuffed bread or pastry baked or fried in many countries in Latin America, Southern Europe, and parts of Southeast Asia. The name comes from the verb empanar, meaning to wrap or coat in bread. Empanada is made by folding a dough or bread patty around the stuffing. The stuffing can consist of a variety of meats, cheese, huitlacoche, vegetables or fruits among others.
Empanadas trace their origins to Galicia and Portugal. They first appeared in medieval Iberia during the time of the Moorish invasions. A cookbook published in Catalan in 1520, the Libre del Coch by Ruperto de Nola, mentions empanadas filled with seafood among its recipes of Catalan, Italian, French, and Arabian food.In turn, it is believed that empanadas and the similar calzones are both derived from the Arabic meat-filled pies, samosas.
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In Galicia and Portugal, an empanada is prepared similarly to a large pie which is then cut in pieces, making it a portable and hearty meal for working people. The filling of Galician and Portuguese empanada usually includes either tuna, sardines, or chorizo, but can instead contain cod or pork loin. The meat or fish is commonly in a tomato, garlic, and onion sauce inside the bread or pastry casing. Due to the large number of Galician immigrants in Latin America, the empanada gallega has also become popular in that region.
In Sardinia, the salad cake is named Sa Panada (meaning "meat ball cake"), or Impadas.
The dish was carried to Latin America and the Philippines by Spanish colonisers, and to Indonesia by the Portuguese, where they remain very popular to this day. Empanadas in Latin America, the Philippines, and Indonesia have various fillings.


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Lauren Phillips is fresh off the bus in Tinsel Town. When she answers an ad for a role in Xander's latest movie, she finds herself cast in his personal twisted narrative of bondage, captivity and anal sex!
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Famous Women in History
Meet a few of America's most inspirational female figures with this history sheet. Your student will match up each woman with her accomplishment. This is a great activity for kids studying women's rights, or it makes a great review sheet for U.S. history students.
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about 1 year ago
An alert reader recently tipped me off about construction work in Beirut that appeared to have unearthed an ancient site (buried two to three meters below the surface). In the reader's photos, a road and at least one structure were clearly visible. Alas, by the time I went to the site in person, the structure had been replaced by a gaping hole and the road was being dug up. I'm continuing my investigation into the systemic reasons why this is happening across Lebanon. Please see my post about the site on the Beirut Reporter website.


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Old Apparatus
Old Apparatus
Deep Medi Musik
Released: 14th March 2011 | 2 track dubstep single
Limited edition screen printed sleeve. Mala's DEEP MEDi Musik label are readying the launch of a new single by (at this point in time) unknown artist(s) Old Apparatus. Nothing is known about this production outfit right now but the MEDi camp has unleashed a taster mix onto their website which should shed a little more light as to who is behind the music and the rather surreal imagery. Old Apparatus Mix: www.deepmedi.com/oldapparatus/
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Release date: 14/03/2011
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We have created many stand alone applications (see "Custom Programming") that link to theSBT Accounting and Accpac® Accounting packages, creating a seamless integration. We provide complete installation, training, data conversion, customization and overall project implementation to insure a successful installation. We expect to have a long relationship with our clients and a happy one.
We have extensive experience with Manufacturers and Distributors. .We can provide e-commerce and other Internet supplements that work withSage Pro ERP to handle Web Orders, Customer Inquiries and Salesperson reports that are current, without compromising your systems securities.
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Waid on the keys to 'Kingdom,' defining Hypertime and overturning 'Crisis'
Over the last few years, DC has put its "skip weeks" – the occasional fifth week every few months that don't fit into the monthly publication schedules – to good use. The "skip weeks" have been turned into occasions for themed sets of special issues, like the DC/Marvel "Amalgam" titles, the "Tangent" books, "Girlfrenzy" or "New Year's Evil." But there's always been a minority of fans who have felt the events were wasted opportunities, that these events never have any real "importance" to the comics of the regular year.
They can't say that any more.
Yesterday saw the publication of "The Kingdom" #2, the concluding part of a special event featuring a return to the characters and setting of the fan favorite 1996 "Kingdom Come" miniseries.
But the book did much more than that. Thirteen years after the DC Universe's cosmology was radically streamlined, with an infinite number of universes winnowed down to just one, in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" limited series, "The Kingdom" threw those closed doors back open again.
The decision to have a sequel to the series hasn't come without fan criticism of its own. But according to Mark Waid, the writer of both the miniseries and the new set of specials, DC Comics knew they wanted a follow-up to "Kingdom Come" from almost the beginning.
"Kingdom Come" artist "Alex [Ross] and I were invited to discuss it with [editor] Paul Levitz before the fourth book shipped, during 1996's San Diego convention," Waid told the Comic Wire Monday.
Initially, the talk was of an ongoing series, set in the modern day DC Universe.
"Alex and then-'Kingdom'-artist Gene Ha wanted the series to begin, as I recall, with an arc which had a lot to do with the 1998 super-heroes' relationships with their respective gods. I know that one of us — and if it wasn't me, I'm sure Alex will set that straight — suggested that Gog himself could be the last of the 'Old Gods' who preceded [Jack] Kirby's New Gods. Unfortunately, with that in place as a working concept and after I produced many, many, MANY pages of notes, plots and outlines in this direction, someone at DC told us we couldn't go there because [then-'New Gods' writer John] Byrne – or someone – was apparently planning/had already seeded 'the last of the Old Gods.' Bang, zoom, all those plans gone. Swell. In the meantime, Alex and Gene were still hot on the Olympian/Kryptonian/Shazam/etc. gods connection, and while it sounded great, while I knew that's where Gene's heart was, I just couldn't turn it into something I was comfortable writing given the circumstances, and with deep regret, we mutually decided to all go our own separate ways. At one point, I know Alex and Gene were lobbying to do their story as a separate work at DC, and I was all for it. Don't know what became of that."
Here, as has been documented by the Comic Wire and elsewhere, notably including this month's "Wizard" magazine, the two "Kingdom Come" creators' vision of "The Kingdom" became very different indeed.
"At that point, I elected to start from scratch and jettison any ideas that had been Alex's – not out of petulance, purely out of creative courtesy. I had become quite taken with Magog and began blocking out an origin for him which transformed him from a parody into a complex and unique character. Those plans are still viable and that's a story I'd like to tell someday; maybe I'll get there. But that wasn't working out either, not at that point. Sadly, none of the 50 pages of outlines and notes I have on the stillborn 'Kingdom' ongoing ever quite gelled, and though there are still a lot of workable ideas in there to be mined, most of them will never see the light of day. In fact, long before 'Gog' #1, I'd written an entire 38-page Magog-centered 'Kingdom' #1 which no one loved, including myself, and which no one will thus ever see."
While "The Kingdom" wasn't stillborn, its birth was a troubled one, and the project only began to get back on track about last year, in time for the "New Year's Evil" week of specials.
"Finally, about the time I offered to do 'Gog' #1 as a show of good faith that I hadn't altogether forgotten about my promise to do a KC follow-up, the pieces began to come together," Waid said. "Still, until Grant Morrison, Tom Peyer, Dan Raspler and I sat together last summer and created Hypertime, 'Kingdom' didn't crystallize. After that meeting, it was set, and the plot suddenly moved like clockwork."
That fortuitous moment, one that would ultimately reshape the modern DC Universe, came during last August's San Diego Comic-Con International. Beyond just an idea that felt right to the creators assembled, Waid felt that "The Kingdom" merited a grand gesture of some kind.
"DC's pitch to me was to do 'Kingdom' week as a bunch of one-shots. I didn't think that was what the readers had been waiting two years for and pushed to bracket those books within a greater story – but didn't know what that story WAS until all the bull sessions began to make it apparent that, with the encouragement of Dan Raspler, I could use this opportunity to affect not simply the KC Universe, but the entire DC Universe."
Who actually came up with Hypertime, though, is tough to say.
"Hell if I know," Waid said. "As far as I'm concerned, it came from all four of us working in tandem. As far as I remember more specifically, I think I had the basic notion that Gog was inadvertently killing Supermen from different timelines, at which point Grant was the one who realized how that meant that 'it's all true,' that all our stories existed in one big Kingdom. I came up with the name Hypertime, Tom was the one pressing hard to keep us from thinking of it as simply a return to pre-Crisis and instead to shape it into a more modern spin on the old 'multiple Earths' reality, and I'll never forget Grant actually showing me, early one morning weeks later, the cocktail napkin upon which, in typical Morrison-channeling-Einstein fashion, he'd actually DRAWN Hypertime. Who 'created' Hypertime? I prefer to believe that it was there all along and we just found it."
While Hypertime is briefly explained in "The Kingdom" #2, Waid offered this explanation by way of clarification:
"Hypertime is our name for the vast collective of parallel universes out there, in which you can somewhere find every DC story ever published – but it's also more than that. The standard model of parallel timelines is the branches of a river, right? The main timeline is the main stream while tributaries symbolize the alternate timelines? Well, imagine that sometimes those tributaries feed back IN to the main stream, sometimes for a while, sometimes forever. Other times, they cross OVER for only a MOMENT before going in an altogether NEW direction – and for the most part, no one notices these discrepancies but the fans. In short, the reality of the main DC Universe is a lot more malleable than we've ever given it credit for and allows for more wonder and more possibilities than we'd ever imagined."
Rumor has long had it that an already-published comic set in the DC Universe featured something that could only be explained by Hypertime. What was it? Try Waid's last big name limited series.
"Best simple example: the use of the Blackhawks in 'JLA: Year One.' According to some DC stories, Chuck and Andre were killed during the 1950s and couldn't have been present in 'JLA: Year One,' not if there were only one inviolate timeline. So what this suggests is that, sometime in the past, the Blackhawks split off into a Hypertime tributary in which all seven lived – and that tributary fed back into the main DC timeline later down the line so that all seven could live on to become the ghastly super-hero Blackhawks for a minute or two. Did they continue living in this timeline? Depends on where the next writer wants to take it, which Blackhawks they want to write about.
"Confusing? A little, at this early stage – but so was Earth-Two until Julie Schwartz and Gardner Fox were able to play with it for a little while and define the rules. We're still massaging the fine points, we're still tweaking the machine with help from Karl Kesel, the first to do a big Hypertime story (in "Superboy"), but that's the basic notion. As Rip Hunter told the DC heroes in 'The Kingdom' #2, don't be scared by Hypertime, don't feel your sense of order threatened by these occasional Hypertime fluxes, these carryovers from one 'kingdom' to another. Instead, let them be a reminder that the lives of the heroes you love are simply part of a greater legend, a world of wonder where anything can, has, and will happen. Every story you ever loved, every character you ever cared about – they're still out there, they still exist. Take comfort in that."
In other words, to echo the mantra the Hypertime creators gleefully repeated at panels that week in San Diego (sometimes in unison): It's all true.
"The possibilities are endless. Hypertime is an unashamed reaction to nearly 15 years of comics being made 'more realistic,' less 'larger than life.' As far as we're concerned, DC Comics shouldn't be about rules and regulations and 'can't happen's and 'shouldn't be's; they should be about anything and everything that tells a good story and gets fans excited."
Considering that previous policy was one handed down from on high, it might surprise some fans as to the reaction of DC's current editorial head honcho. Certainly Waid and his fellow brainstormers were surprised.
"Mike Carlin was all for it, which stunned us – but he let us run with the ball. Thanks, Mike."
Although he will now forever be linked with overturning the DC Universe's big continuity revision of the modern era, Waid wasn't going gunning for "Crisis" out of malice.
"I thought it was a necessary evil at the time," Waid said. "It certainly created a new, much-needed DC fandom. The problem was that DC was unable to sustain that new cohesive reality not just because of the Superman revamp but because (in, to me, a worse offense) a later editor who need not be named was too obstinate to put the three simple words "Ten years ago…" on the first page of the 'Hawkworld' mini which relaunched Hawkman, the poster child for Baffling Continuity. Man … think about how easy that would have made everything.
"Unfortunately, because Byrne got to revamp Superman [in the 'Man of Steel' miniseries], every editor at DC suddenly got it in their heads that ANY character was fair game for a similar continuity-discarding revamp, and the results, if the objective was to create a cohesive universe, were so disastrous that no one will EVER be able to repair them. Given that, we decided, why not go the other way? Instead of continuing the sisyphian task of building a continuity on shifting sand (to mix a metaphor), why not instead invent a mechanism through which inevitable continuity fluxes can be explained? Voila. Hypertime."
All this serious pontificating doesn't mean there weren't fun moments in the creation of "Kingdom" #1 and #2. In particular, Waid enjoyed inserting "the images of Hypertime, all culled from my own comics collection. (And thanks to assistant editor Tony Bedard for orchestrating the production work. Bravo!)"
Now, at the conclusion of the project, Waid's not sure whether he feels the weight of comic history upon his shoulders, or simply that of a high-profile project.
"Somewhere in between. Historical occasions are determined strictly through the benefit of hindsight. Does 'Kingdom' mark a milestone in DC history? Only time will tell," he said. "I'm as proud of the five solo books as I am of anything I've been a part of, and I can thank the great artists for that, as well as my Secret Advisory Squad of Brian Augustyn, Christopher Priest, Devin Grayson and Tom Peyer, all of whom spent many long phone hours with me helping me massage their stories (YOU try writing five books in two weeks!). As far as the bookends go, I'm too close to them. All I can hope is that they fulfill their promise."
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