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SPWS needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
My Client has had the same design for over a *decade*!! We're looking for a PSD that we can use as a template for all pages of the site. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE CLIENT DIRECTLY.
We've used 99d once so far, and were REALLY pleased with the results - I promise to give as much detailed feedback as possible, and we'll be using the winning design for sure.
The Client likes the following sites:
The first thing you'll notice is that they're both Flash sites, which we DO NOT want! But you'll notice the simplicity and class of the sites - that's why I reference them. They have a "movie" at 1viralmarketingpros.com, which should serve as the basis for your color scheme - the first part of the animation will be used as a "splash page" for the site (which is outside of the scope of this deliverable.) We'll take your design (as a PSD) and build a DWT, into which we'll populate the content as it is now. So the navigation stays as it is on the current site.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE SITE OWNER DIRECTLY - I'll be sharing your designs with him, along with my own feedback, to add value to the process.


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Team Maggie Update Day 20
Nearly three weeks since Maggie received Lucas' super bone marrow, but there's still work to do! Maggie's counts continue to look good, but there is a challenge, and you can help with a prayer or two!
The doctors are now trying to wean Maggie off the IV medicine and transfer her to oral medicines. She does have a little bit of an abnormal heartbeat, and she now has to take an antifungal medicine orally, but can't. It's a combination of gross tasting and a tummy that hasn't had a lot of food and drink, so it balks when things come down. Everyone has told Lauren that if you hold your nose, and swallow it, you can't gag, but she won't and now the medical team is contemplating putting in a tube down her nose into her stomach, so we need some prayers that Maggie doesn't have to do that, and can tolerate the oral meds!
On the positive side, if you missed last night's update, Maggie received 73 cards and letters yesterday! The volume of mail and best wishes is just unbelievable, and the family is so thankful!
Some reminders
Just a couple of reminders.
Mark your calendar for Monday, August 19th, because that night will be a Team Maggie Night at Miguel's Mexican Restaurant on the Hogan Road in Bangor. They will be donating 10 percent of all the dinner sales to Team Maggie, and there will be a 50/50 raffle. If you would like to help with the planning, please call Chris Popper at 941-1994 or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Maggie turns 5 on August 19th. She will be in the hospital still on her birthday. If you'd like to send a card or a gift, her address is
BMT Unit Floating 6
Attention: Maggie Rudnicki
750 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
I asked Maggie's mom what she likes and this is Lauren's reply
"She loves the Boston bruins, lip gloss and scary things (ghost stories, vampires, goosebumps books etc) those are a few favorites but honestly just well wishes are all she needs!"
Please keep praying. Prayers do work! They've made those little white cells grow, and those white blood cells are what's making Maggie feel so good. The change in in the past Week has been nothing short of miraculous! Pray for a peaceful night and week ahead. Pray for a sense of calmness for Maggie, Lauren and the entire Rudnicki family. Pray that those white blood cells continue to grow, and grow quickly! Pray for healing, pray for strength! Pray that they can be discharged to the Neely House soon! Pray that Maggie can swallow the medicine and not need a nasal tube.
You can make a donation to help defray the medical and travel costs associated with Maggie's care. Maggie has been down in Boston for over 4 weeks. If you want to make a donation, click HERE for the details
We now have over 100 photos of Team Maggie support up on the site. If you want to send your picture, you can upload it HERE or just click HERE to view them all.Please note, if you do upload them, they don't appear instantly, as we are moderating all pictures, just to insure appropriate content. You can also send me your pictures directly at email@example.com.
More later. Keep the faith Team Maggie!

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Film and television actress Delnaaz Irani, who was not on talking terms with her ex-husband Rajeev Paul before entering the Bigg Boss 6 house, is happy to be friends with him and thanks the reality show for bridging the communication gap.
"Even though we are not leaving the show as a couple, I am glad we are friends," she said in a press interaction held on Thursday inside the Bigg Boss house.
Quite true to its tagline "alag chhe (it's different)", the inmates of the sixth season were allowed to interact with media during the show, something never seen in the earlier five seasons.
After staying married for 14 years, Delnaaz and Rajeev got divorced last year. She revealed that she experienced mixed feelings when she met him on the show.
"I had a hint that Rajeev might be part of the show. I had mixed feelings when I saw him. I was shocked, took a step back and then smiled when I saw him," she said.
In the Bigg Boss house, Rajeev has been romantically linked to his co-inmate, actress Sana Khan.
When asked if she had any issues with that, Delnaaz said: "I have no jealousy. In fact, I am happy. I told Rajeev that from my side there is closure. We didn't used to even talk before this (the show)."
"He is a wonderful human being and very caring. I have always asked him to move on and I would be happy if he does," she added.
The finale of the show, which went on air on Colors in October last year, is said to be on January 12 and the winner will reportedly take home Rs.50 lakh.
Bigg Boss 6, being hosted by Salman Khan, kicked off with 15 contestants and right now Delnaaz is inside the house along with Rajeev, Urvashi Dholakia, Sana Khan, Sapna Bhavnani, Imam Siddique and model Niketan Madhok.
Delnaaz is nominated this week and if she survives eviction Friday, she will be in the finale along with Niketan, who is the first to enter the finals.


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One of my favorite things about camping is the food. Food cooked on a fire tastes so much better than the "everyday" food we make at home! A couple of weekends ago we went on a camping trip as a family – it was wonderful!
Other than my kids catching their first fish (I think they trained the fish at that campground to come when they see a fishing pole – we caught 5 in half an hour!), the highlight of our trip were campfire cones that we made. These "Smore Cones" were so yummy a fun fruit hack and are super easy to make!
Ingredients we needed for our Fruit & Smore Cones:
Chopped Fruit. The kids chose strawberries and bananas – but I bet any berries, even tart apples, would be perfect!
Chocolate Chips. We used semi-dark, chocolate chips – love the extra antioxidants.
Waffle Ice-Cream Cone. Unfortunately, not any icecream cone will work – we tried 🙂 I'd love to experiment with waffle bowls next time.
Tin Foil. To wrap your cone once you have it stuffed to capacity.
First, we chopped our fruit into smaller, more manageable bits. Then, we mixed all of our ingredients (the fruit, marshmallows, chocolate, etc.) together into a metal bowl. We wrapped the cones in foil and the kids had fun stuffing the waffle cones till they were brimming and overflowing! We folded the foil over the top and laid them over the fire, once the coals had turned gray. We rotated our Fruit and S'more Campfire Cones a couple of times. In about 5-7min they were ready to eat! The kids ate their cones as you would icecream (just digging their faces in), hubs and I preferred a spoon – this is a very gooey treat!
Other variations we hope to try in the future include using Carmel bits and apple slices, or adding toffee, or another favorite candy bar chopped into bits.
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Don't cut planetary science funding, members of Congress urged NASA on Friday.
In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urged the space agency to maintain funding levels for missions to Mars and the outer planets that were allocated by Congress this spring -- and not to react to budget pressures by making disproportionate cuts to the science budget.
"While we fully understand that the funding levels ... are subject to change to reflect across-the-board and sequester cuts, we expect that the balance among programs will remain consistent with the structure directed by Congress," they wrote.
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Maps of electoral wards 2007 onwards
Dumfries and Galloway council area maps
The wards shown on these maps resulted from our Fourth Statutory Reviews and have been used in elections since 2007. These maps show the ward boundaries and names as implemented by Scottish Ministers after we submitted our report on this review. In this local authority the implemented wards were the same as those recommended, as detailed in the Dumfries and Galloway section in the Fourth Reviews page.
If you want to find out which ward you are in, use our Your Area search facility. All of these documents are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Details of how to handle PDF files, and in particular large PDF files such as those on this website, are available in the Technical section of our Frequently Asked Questions.
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I just posted the 1000th online strip of The Order of the Stick, which is impressive mostly for being a nice round number for those of us using base-10 number systems. It's been about a month shy of twelve years since I started the comic, and everything I said on the occasion of the tenth anniversary (itself a very base-10-centric occasion) still holds true. Interestingly, I've done so many multi-page strips and offline supplementary material for the comic that the true number number of comic pages I've created is actually more like 1585—more than half as many again than the strip number indicates. I don't expect to get to strip #2000, but two thousand pages drawn seems pretty achievable before we wrap this thing up.
In other news, for years now readers have been requesting—sometimes very urgently—digital editions of the OOTS print books, and I've always resisted for various economic reasons. Well, I'm officially caving in. I'm pleased to announce new PDF versions of the first two books in The Order of the Stick canon, Dungeon Crawlin' Fools and On the Origin of PCs. We're selling them through Gumroad, which allows us to offer them at a lower price while not having to deal with electronic fulfillment ourselves. The new cover-watermarked PDFs feature scalable vector art that looks good at any resolution (you know, relative to the material), updated fonts to match the current comic, and are fully bookmarked, with all strip number references in the commentaries hyperlinked to the strip in question. Dungeon Crawlin' Fools also features an all-new Afterword by me looking back on that era of the comic and all the things that make me cringe now. I'd like to specifically point out that this is the first time On the Origin of PCs has been available in non-tree-corpse format, so everyone who hates owning physical objects can now enjoy it (as long as they still own a computer or tablet or whatever).
This is still a bit of an experiment, keep in mind. If you want to know when the remaining OOTS books will be released in this format, the answer will depend heavily on how popular these end up being. The more we sell, the quicker you'll see the rest of the series in this format. As always, if you have any questions, I've set up a thread on the message board.
Back when I ran the Kickstarter campaign, the top reward was a walk-on cameo for a D&D character of your creation. It's taken a while, but today I fulfilled that reward in strip #986. Veldrina the elven priestess is the creation of one of my loyal backers and has been included here at their request. In fact, upon hearing the character's description for the first time, I immediately decided to slot her into an existing spot in the upcoming story where a divine caster would make the most sense, so she will be sticking around a bit more than the one page that was paid for. It just took a long time to get to this specific point in the narrative, though luckily the backer has been very gracious and patient for this entire time. So enjoy the first-ever fan-created OOTS character for however long she's here.
I also fulfilled another promise with today's strip, if a less joyous one. Mark Monack, who went by the screen name "Wrecan," was a pillar of the message board community for many years. He was, among his other roles, the founder of one of the forum's odder traditions: counting the number of strips each character appears in, a project that continues many years after he began it. When he passed in 2013, I asked his wife Jodie if there was anything I could do to help out. She told me he would have loved nothing more than to have a walk-on character named Wrecan in OOTS. Now, there is one.
Just a quick update on the books and calendars. All items arrived in the Ookoodook warehouse late last week and they've been packing them up ever since. Many of them will get where they're going before Christmas; many will not (including most international orders). If you ordered the book and/or calendar as a present for someone, I've designed a fold-up card PDF that you can download and print to give to the person to let them know that their package is on the way.
This year's OOTS Holiday Ornaments are now up at CafePress, along with the now-traditional new selection of t-shirt designs. This year's main ornament features Thor enjoying a refreshing nog beverage, while the battle ornament has Haley vs. Sabine. We also have new designs featuring gnomes, steampunk, rainbows, and healing potion endorsements, among others. If you want to see close-ups of all the new designs, I started a thread with all of them on the message board.
Last news update, I said I was going to answer any questions in a day or two, and there didn't end up being as many as I thought there would be, so I didn't. But I will now!
Q: Are the books printed yet?A: They're being printed right now. I tweeted an image of the book proofs on November 18th, and I approved them the next day. The printer said that it would take three weeks from proof approval for delivery, which would put the books arriving on December 10th. I do know that the Thanksgiving holiday that just passed may mess with that by a day or two, but the upshot is that books should start shipping by the end of that week, which would put them in the hands of all US customers and many international customers before December 24th. Calendar proofs are still on the way, but that should have a much quicker turnaround than three weeks so I expect everything to ship together.
Q: Is the reduced cost shipping option still available?A: Yes. It will be available until the books arrive in the warehouse.
Q: Will there be tracking on the reduced pre-order shipping option?A: There will be tracking numbers available in case your package gets lost, yes. But they won't be sent out en masse when the orders are mailed; the Ookoodook staff will have a list that they'll be able to look up with the bulk shipping company, and if your package is overdue you'll be able to contact them and they'll contact the shipper about it. But there won't be real-time internet tracking like you might be used to from USPS. For that, you'll have to select one of the more expensive options.
Q: Will there be books or calendars still available later if I don't pre-order?A: The book should be in print from now on, yes. For the calendar, we will only be printing about 100-200 extra from what we pre-sell, and when those run out, that will be it.
Q: Can I order the book and ornament (or any of the t-shirts) from the same place to save on shipping?A: Unfortunately, no. All of the stuff produced by CafePress is made print-on-demand, and needs to be manufactured by them wherever their facilities are, while the books are shipping from the Ookoodook warehouse in Houston, TX. Neither one can ship the other's products.
We've been teasing this all weekend on the Twitter so here goes: The fifth book in the Order of the Stick story is now available for pre-order. Titled Blood Runs in the Family, this is a huge book that covers everything from the point where they first arrive on the Western Continent to the first look inside Durkon's eyes. I've set up a product page that can give you more details on what bonus material the book covers. You should go read it, it's much funnier than this announcement, because I wrote it when I was better rested. The book will also be available through all the regular channels that OOTS books are sold, including your local game shop.
I'm also happy to announce our second OOTS calendar, the 2015 Heroes Calendar. This time, each month will feature a different OOTS hero battling monsters or doing something else suitably heroic. Like the book, this is now available for pre-order; unlike the book, this is an Ookoodook-exclusive. That means you can only order it here. Like last year's calendar, I'm really trying to push the edges of my art style on this one and I'm excited for how well it's turning out.
Also, for the duration of the pre-order, Ookoodook is offering reduced shipping costs on all orders that include one or both of the above items. And we're also repeating the charity donation thing from last year—we'll donate $2.00 for every calendar sold.
OK, that's the big announcement. I expect there to be 734 questions about the book; rather than try in vain to predict them, you can just ask them on the message board or Twitter, and I'll update this News page with some answers in a day or two. Cool?
The folks at Morland Miniatures have asked me to mention that they're releasing a new batch of OOTS miniatures, and this time, there are four different characters—or seven, depending on how you want to count them. First up is O-Chul, then Redcloak (or "Hobgoblin Cleric," depending on how you want to paint him), then a Hobgoblin Warrior (or again, "Goblin Warrior," if you prefer green to orange), and finally The Monster in the Darkness—who comes with a set of his own Demon Roaches. That's a lot of miniatures right there, and some of them even don't draw attention to my lazy palette-swap character designs. You can get them at Morland's website via those links above, but if you're headed to GenCon, you can also pick them up at Morland Miniature's convention booth. I don't have the booth number, sorry, but it should be in the guide booklet. Also, if you happen to be a Kickstarter backer, that super-secret free-domestic-shipping code I gave you waaaay back when the first Roy miniature was still released? It's still valid, so use it.
Also, I apparently never mentioned the last set of miniatures to be released: a stand-alone Xykon and an alternate sculpt of Vaarsuvius with original hair. So if you missed those, you can toss them in now. Oh, and they also wanted me to mention that due to a bunch of production reasons that I don't pretend to really understand, they've been able to permanently lower the price of the giant Xykon on a Zombie Dragon miniature, so that's cool.
So, the Order of the Stick has been appearing quarterly in Gygax Magazine. If you don't know what Gygax Magazine is, it's an ongoing "old school" roleplaying game magazine, in print and PDF, that attempts to capture the feeling of the old Dragon Magazines—specifically, the late 80's, which coincidentally is when I was first discovering them. For three issues, I've provided an all-new one-page OOTS comic to the magazine, sort of continuing the adventures of the alternate versions of the characters that appeared in the actual Dragon Magazine (and then encountered their Fourth Edition counterparts in Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales). Issue #4 of Gygax Magazine is on sale now.
If you're wondering why I haven't managed to announce this before now, it's because I never seem to know when, exactly, a new issue is being released. I know I provide my comic, and then three months later I hear that the issue has been on sale for over a month. I think they make all their announcements on Facebook, or something, but whatever. The point is, it's on sale now—as are subscriptions, if you'd rather not rely on my impeccable track record for timely notifications for some reason.
It's the end of this (very long) story arc, so that means it's time for me to take a break from the regular updates in order to prepare for the next (probably also very long) arc. The main comic here on the site will return on March 31st, with a whole new story far away from the desert and Elan's family and all that. Downside: Less dinosaurs. Sorry. As for what I'll be doing for those six weeks, I wish I could say, "tropical vacation," but no such luck. Here are the highlights:
The thing I'm not going to be working on that might be expected is the preparation for the next compilation book, even though this strip (#946) was definitely the last that will be included therein. There's too much other stuff for me to get done right now, and prepping that book will be a lot of extra work. I'd rather spend my limited time away from the regular strip getting old work off my plate than putting new work onto it. As far as when that book might make it to print, I'm aiming toward later this year, though beyond that I'd prefer not to make any (more) commitments I might have trouble keeping.
Anyway, the bottom line is I'll still be around the forums and Twitter during my "break," at least as much as normal. I'll just be working on different stuff than normal. As always, thanks to all the readers that have supported the comic through this section of the story and I hope you enjoy everything I have in store for the next one.
Things have not been going too well for the process of actually getting the calendars printed, as shown by this image, but they are definitely now en route to the Ookoodook warehouse. That does mean that it's highly unlikely that they will arrive in any customer's hands in time for Christmas, however, for which I apologize. If you were planning on giving the calendar as a gift to someone, I've whipped up a quick printable card for you to give them explaining the situation. Just download it from that link, print it, fold it in quarters, and give it to the intended recipient.
In other (bad) news, those who have been following my Twitter feed know that my longtime computing companion has decided to pursue a new career direction as an extremely heavy metal box. That is to say, my main computer melted down Monday morning, and the whole week has been spent trying to retrieve data and switch everything over to my laptop. I lost a few recent original files, but overall I had pretty good backups. But if you notice some minor art inconsistencies in the next few weeks with the strip, that's me ironing out the various settings and preferences of the new set-up.
It's that time of year—the time when I announce a bunch of new OOTS products two weeks later than I would have liked. This year, we're kicking off with a celebration of ten years of OOTS in paper form—the 2014 Tenth Anniversary Order of the Stick Wall Calendar, featuring twelve scenes from the comic's history re-imagined in stunning Moderate Definition™. It's available only from Ookoodook, and we're taking pre-orders for mid-December delivery now. You can find out more details (including a second sample page) on this thread on the message board.
As always, we also have the 2014 OOTS holiday ornaments. We're back to having two this year after last year's slight snag: Tarquin vs. Julio in one, and Elan vs. Nale in the other. There is also a whole slew of new t-shirt designs, based both on the comic and the Monster for Every Season set of paper miniatures I've been making for Kickstarter backers. There are some pictured below, but if you want to see them up close, you can check out that same thread on the message board.
Finally, I wanted to mention that, in association with Ookoodook, Giant in the Playground will be donating $2.00 from every calendar and $1.00 from every ornament to help with ongoing disaster relief in the Phillippines after the typhoon that struck on November 8. Of course, if you don't want a calendar or an ornament (or even if you do), I urge you to donate directly.
Today is the Tenth Anniversary of The Order of the Stick. Which is pretty amazing, considering that when I started it, I had no intention of it being anything more than a momentary diversion. The comic has officially outlasted the game system that it was originally making fun of, and is on the verge of outlasting its replacement, too. There have been 921 strips so far, but somewhere north of 1400 pages of comic when you take into account multi-page strips and bonus stuff like the prequel books. It ran in Dragon Magazine until the end and now runs in Gygax Magazine. All in all, it's been a pretty good run so far.
Normally, this would be where I would say that I'm just getting started, but that's not really true. There's still a lot of story to go, but we're definitely on the back nine. My best guess on how much is left is about four years. When you factor in my scheduling deficiencies and my tendency to run long, though, who knows? What I do know is that there is a set amount of story that needs to be told, and I'll continue to tell it until I'm done. I hope you all stay with me to see it to the end, too. And then maybe stick around for whatever's next.
Thanks to all those who have supported OOTS over the last decade, regardless of the format that support may have taken. It is only because of the response from you that this story ever grew beyond a bunch of lame jokes about skill points. So if you like reading the story as it is now, pat yourself on the back for making it happen. Or pat each other on your respective backs, since that's probably easier.
The last two members of the Order are being released in miniature form. Durkon and Vaarsuvius will be up for sale on August 15th, both at Morland's GenCon booth (#1449) in Indianapolis and in their webstore. You'll also be able to order the whole Order now, which is fun to say if nothing else. Durkon features a shield that can be worn on his arm or fastened to his back, while Vaarsuvius has two different Blackwings: one that perches on the elf's arm and one that is mounted on his own base for unfettered raven familiar exploration.
But they're not the only new sculptures from Morland. The absolutely incredible "Xykon riding the zombie dragon" miniature pictured will also be on sale. I'm totally blown away by their sculpting on this one; I've been checking my mailbox every day waiting for my sample just so I can stare at it. This thing is big—Xykon is in scale with the existing miniatures—and only being cast in one limited production run. Unlike the members of the Order, it won't be re-ordered when it runs out. Like Durkon and V, it will be on sale (online and at GenCon) starting on the 15th. You can see more pictures of it here on the forum.
In addition to these goodies at Morland's GenCon booth, the other spot you might want to hit if you're going to the convention is the APE Games/Ookoodook booth (#1509). They'll have all the OOTS books and the OOTS board game on sale—plus lots of the remaining Kickstarter swag, like the Order of the Stick coloring book, hit point pads, stickers, and the Sticky Shticks mini-expansion to the board game. They'll also have their new not-OOTS-but-still-looks-cool board game Island Siege for sale for (I think) the first time.
One of the rewards that was promised during the Kickstarter campaign was a set of ten all-new wallpaper images that would be available to everyone—not just those who pledged. The first of these is now available here, and there will be nine more released sporadically over the rest of the year.
I also should mention that if you've been collecting the Morland Miniatures figures, last month saw the release of Haley and Elan, bringing us two steps closer to the full Order in resin and metal.
The GITP server was compromised last night for a little over two hours. After our last brush with server problems a few weeks ago, the system software needed to be reloaded, and apparently the hosting company did not configure something properly. So last night, someone got in and put a bunch of bad code in our website. It's gone now, but if you accessed the site between 12:30 am and 3:00 am Eastern US time (4:30 to 7:00 am GMT), you may have seen a weird pop-up or had your security software issue an alert. We don't think that any malware was installed on anyone's computer because our system administrator (known on the forums as Rawhide) caught the intruders before they were able to upload everything. He shut the whole thing down and closed the hole in our defenses, which took a few hours.
However, for your own protection, we recommend that anyone who visited the site during that time period clear the cache for any browser used and then run whatever sort of virus scans or other security you might normally use. Here's a post with some suggested options, if you need them. No forum passwords were downloaded, but it's never a bad idea to change yours once in a while anyway, so feel free to do so.
One of the downsides of now having a Twitter account is that it seems I'm forgetting to make announcements over here, too. So let's play catch-up:
You've almost certainly noticed that I've been posting new comics every day, and some people have asked me if this is intended to fulfill my Kickstarter promise of nine comics in a row at some point. And the answer is: Maybe. I haven't actually finished all nine comics yet, and it's possible my thumb might tell me, "No way, buddy," before I do. If that happens, then this is just a nice little bonus run of comics for you, and the real nine-in-a-row will happen some other time this year.
As far as my thumb's progress, it's been doing well. I'm not 100% yet—I still need to take frequent breaks, and my lines don't always go where I want them to go—but it's been getting better. My doctor recently told me that my tendon has healed enough that I'm no more likely to snap it during regular activity than anyone else is, so I've been trying to work every day in order to get some of this enormous backlog off of my plate. I know the tendency is for people to tell me to take it easy and not push too hard, but I just wanted to assure everyone that I'm keeping a close eye on it and will stop work for the day at the first sign of trouble.
And since I forgot to mention it here: The Belkar Bitterleaf (and Mr. Scruffy) miniatures came out last month.
OK, so, there's a new Order of the Stick. My thumb has been making a lot of progress, and I had set myself the goal of updating the comic before the end of the year. Which I have now done.
The important thing to keep in mind, though, is that no one should expect me to start churning out new strips particularly quickly. My thumb is still not 100%—or even 80%, really—and it requires a lot of rest between activities in order to keep from swelling up. I finished this comic over the course of three days, and it was relatively simple (since I was able to lift three panels directly from older strips). So there's no telling how long it will take for each new strip to appear—much less the backlog of Kickstarter stories that a lot of you are waiting on. I'm just going to take it slowly and pace myself so I don't end up straining anything.
A lot of people who have been collecting the holiday ornaments for the past eight years have asked whether there would be a 2012 edition, and the answer has changed over the weeks. In late October, the answer was, "Sure!" because I was hopeful I'd be back to work. Then by the beginning of this month, it was, "No," because I wasn't. But now, it's, "Surprisingly, yes," and it's all because of a forgotten file.
See, back in 2007, I had intended for the yearly ornament to feature everyone's least-favorite paladin, Miko Miyazaki—but there were problems. She had met her final fate that year, and speculation was rampant that she would return in one form or another. The more I thought about it, the more I was sure that releasing the ornament with her (back in blue, no less) would fuel rumors that she would be back. I didn't really want to send that message. Plus, I was afraid that a Miko ornament wouldn't sell very well; she was never the most popular character, and my finances were particularly tight that year. So I changed my mind and decided to go with the Linear Guild instead...
...but not before drawing the Miko ornament! I suddenly remembered over the weekend and spent hours searching old backup CDs in order to find it: a perfectly usable ornament design from five years in the past. All I had to do was change the date and resave it. So I'm proud to announce that yes, there IS a 2012 OOTS holiday ornament featuring Miko in her one-horse open sleigh. Of course, usually this announcement comes with a slew of new shirt designs, and this year, that ain't happening. It's just the ornament, or the ornament design loaded onto a shirt.
In unrelated news, Giant in the Playground is proud to announce that it is a corporate sponsor of Child's Play for the upcoming year. If you're not familiar with Child's Play, it's a great charity founded by fellow webcomic creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik that provides games and toys to children undergoing medical treatment in hospitals worldwide. They've raised an all-time high of $3 million this year, but can always use more. If you'd like to make a donation, you can do so here. I'd originally planned on providing some crayon art for their charity auction, too, but obviously that didn't work out.
And finally, the Thumb Report: Encouraging, with a 20% chance of pen-holding. More soon.
First, here's the latest on my thumb: I still have the splint, but I'm mostly wearing it when I sleep or go out. I can move my thumb roughly and even bend it a little, but what I really lack right now is strength. Everything basically slips through my grip, making it hard to pick up objects or even move them around with any precision. Holding a pencil or click-and-dragging a mouse are literally beyond my grasp. My physical therapist has me working on exercises for that, though, so hopefully it will get better soon. All in all, things are progressing, even if only at a very slow pace.
Second, for anyone who missed the Kickstarter drive back in February, Ookoodook has finally put up some of the leftover "swag" that they had sitting around now that 99.5% of the packages for which they were responsible have shipped. This includes the Order of the Stick Coloring Book, the OOTS hit point pad, the OOTS sticker sheet, and the mini-expansion to the OOTS board game, Sticky Shticks. It does not include some of the items that were deemed exclusive to the drive. They have a lot of leftovers, but supplies are not infinite; when these run out, they're just gone. Also, they inform me that they're getting to the end of their stock of the original Good Guys / Bad Guys mega poster set, which is not going to be reprinted when it sells out. So if you wanted that, I recommend getting it now.
Third, there's a list of Kickstarter backers who MUST contact me in order to get the stuff they ordered. I posted it over on the Kickstarter site as an update, but on the off-chance that one of these 40 people reads this post and not that one...go read that one if you're a Kickstarter backer who has not yet provided me with their address.
One of the unexpected benefits of the Kickstarter drive getting so much attention is that I had a few companies approach me after it was done with ideas about licensing new OOTS products. The first of these went on sale yesterday: Morland Studios will be producing a line of officially licensed The Order of the Stick gaming miniatures. They're 35 mm metal-and-resin figures for you to assemble, paint, and then send to their doom against your other more fearsome miniatures. The first in the series is Roy Greenhilt, naturally. One of the things I like best about this sculpt is that it includes two different eyebrows, letting you customize Roy's facial expression from "calm" to "angry" to "Elan is nearby." Morland is planning on bringing the rest of the Order (and some of their villains) to three dimensions as well over the coming months.
Right now, Roy is available only at the Morland Studios webstore, but they're teaming up with Ookoodook to run a special cross-promotion: If you're buying at least $50 of stuff at Ookoodook.com between now and December 1st, they'll send you a coupon code for free shipping on a Morland order that includes Roy. So your shipping cost will be the same as if Ookoodook was carrying it directly.
Before anyone gets mad about me putting out a new product when I can't do any work, studio owner Maya Morland contacted me back in April about this and has been working on it in secret all year—all I really did was give notes and approve the end result. She was already considerate enough to hold off on releasing back in September because I was hurt; I couldn't ask her to continue to sit on her thumbs until mine gets better. Me getting hurt shouldn't have to impact her company's well-being. I know we're still working to get the last few customers their Kickstarter packages and everyone wants to see the regular comic come back, but please, don't take it out on Tiny Metal Roy. He just wants to fight tiny metal monsters for you.
I got my cast taken off on Friday—the hurricane pushed my appointment back a few days—and had my first physical therapy appointment Monday. I have a splint now, but I can take it off for a few times a day to stretch my hand. The surface wound is healing well, but right now I have almost no mobility in my thumb. I can slightly wiggle the tip, and that's about it. It's going to take some time to get back to the point where I can hold a pencil or use a mouse with that hand (and I don't have enough control with my left hand to draw). I can type normally again for short bursts, if I'm careful, though my wrist on that hand is now very weak from being immobilized for so long. So I'll be getting some work done, even if it will be all behind-the-scenes work for the time being. And I'll be able to return to more frequent status updates on my condition and what's going on around here. Will I get to update the comic before the end of the year? I really don't know. It depends on how therapy goes, but I'm trying my hardest. Right now, therapy is my full-time job and I'll be working only when it doesn't interfere with that. All I ask is for your continued patience as I relearn the process of moving my hand.
On an unrelated note: I grew up in NJ and lived most of my adult life in NY, so I would be remiss not to point you to the American Red Cross and ask you to donate to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy, if you haven't already done so through other means (or even if you have). Or consider a donation to the efforts of the Humane Society to help care for the stranded pets of evacuated residents and reunite them with their owners. Or give to the Community Food Bank of NJ, if you want. Whatever makes you most comfortable. But they're getting hit by a winter storm again tonight, so there's going to be more need before this is over.
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Department of Defense: Federal Jobs Overview
Partnership for Public Service, _Where the Jobs Are: Mission Critical Opportunities for America_, 2007
November 06, 2007
The mission of the Department of Defense (DoD) is to protects and advance the security and interests of the United States, deters aggressors and, if deterrence fails, defeats any adversary.
Unlike the other executive level departments, DoD includes three sub-departments, the Departments of the Navy, Army and Air Force. Each of these departments includes a multitude of individual agencies administered by them. Check out the links below for more information on each of these departments and which federal jobs are in greatest demand at each.
There are also several agencies, and nearly 100,000 employees, administered directly by the DoD. The five largest such agencies are the Defense Logistics Agency, the Department of Defense Education Activity, Defense Commissary Agency, Defense Finance and Accounting Service, and the Defense Contract Management Agency.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 34 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a new company based in New York, catering to the tri-state area. We are two Chef's with a lot of passion for food, and love what we do. We pride ourselves in the exceptional culinary feasts we prepare, as well as providing exemplary service to our clientele. Our clients are our main priority.
A brief history of how we arrived with our Company Name... We have been in the catering industry for over ten years and during that time have worked for less than moral people. Our prior employers were driven by money and not by providing the best possible product. We want to wow our clients, whether they have a small budget or a large one.
Over a dinner conversation, while preparing paperwork for the company, we were frustrated and somehow remembered 'Slow and Steady wins the race.' This brought about further conversation of the timeless morals in Aesop's Fables. Suddenly, we had a eureka moment and discovered we would name the company AESOP'S TABLE. This said everything we wanted to say about the type of Company we are.
We do not want to isolate any potential clients with our logo and branding. That being said, we are looking to target a high-end audience through branding and keep them coming back with great food. We are realistic in knowing that the higher end market is drawn to chic, clever, stylized and sophisticated art. In our logo development we would like to keep this in mind.
When developing the logo please keep in mind that it will go on Letterhead, Business Cards, Menu's, our website, chef jackets - just to name a few. It would be useful is the text and art could be used separately for different applications.
We would like you to be a free and creative as possible. Please remember the logo will have to be reproduced on items other than paper, so please keep the amount of colors used at 7 or less. We would like to see the posts in both black / white and color.
We also would like to nod to the Aesop's Fable theme as our company is a play on words.
The finish art will need to be presented in and Adobe Illustrator file as well as a standard JPEG.
Please see attached some inspiration photos. We do not necessarily need the logo to involve the Tortoise and the Hare, there are many great Aesop's Fables feel free to be inspired by any of them.
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CLEVELAND, Miss. -- Don't ask Charles Wax, an assistant state climatologist and head of Mississippi State University's geosciences department, exactly what kind of weather Mother Nature will wield. He doesn't have a crystal ball, after all.
But he can tell you, based on trends and cycles and cause and effect, what is likely to happen and why.
"Why was 2005 hurricane season so active? Everybody is thinking, 'Oh my, it's global warming. It's changed. Life will never be the same thing again,'" he said during a presentation at the annual Delta Ag Expo in Cleveland, Miss. on Jan. 18.
"I can tell you with some assurance that none of those assumptions are true."
While residents along the Gulf Coast, and particularly New Orleans, continue to rebuild homes and entire communities, farmers of all kinds are also wishing the harshest tempests endured will not reoccur anytime soon.
Don't get your hopes up, Wax conveyed.
Since 1995, he said, meteorologists have noted that the amount of seasonal hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean, technically referred to as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, has been locked in on high mode.
"We had a most active hurricane season and we are most likely going to have another one next year (2006)," he predicted. "And I think that is pretty good science and not in the realm of magic. It's something that has been measured and mapped out the past few years."
Weather trends in the Atlantic Ocean, Wax explained, generally last several decades in either low or high modes of activity.
"There are decades-long — 20, 30, 40 years — natural cycles in cyclone activity. When it is in high phase we have a lot of hurricane activity in the Atlantic; when it is in a low phase we have very little activity."
He said charting the AMO over the years indicates a cyclical pattern that climbs up, falls down, climbs up and falls down again.
Wax said there are about six variables that combined influence phases of high or low activity. One critical factor involves vertical wind shears.
"In a year where we are having a lot of shear in the upper atmosphere in the tropical region, it will destroy the storm. You won't have hurricanes. In a year where there is low or no shear in that part of the world, that storm is going to blossom up and become a Category Five hurricane over and over again. That was the case last year."
A second critical factor concerns oceanic temperatures.
"When ocean temperatures are high, the AMO is high and conversely, when temperatures are low, the AMO is low." Such was the case last year.
In recent years, scientists have mapped out what's known as the Global Ocean Circulation Current, which ties large currents of water together around most of the world. Within these connected currents, Wax said, there are layers of warm water and cold water, which periodically flip flop. Whichever water conditions are on top also affect the AMO activity level.
Better detection, same patterns
While scientists have been well aware of some kinds of weather patterns for many decades or centuries, such as El Niño (since 1540), many people believe that severe weather has increased in recent memory and hold global warming accountable.
He's skeptical, at best, asserting that weather patterns have stayed consistent.
Thanks to technology advancements, scientists have only in recent history had a better chance of identifying storms, he observed.
Citing an example, he said 1933 stands behind 2005 as having the most hurricane activity recorded. However, 1933 was prior to the development of radar and satellites, meaning many more storms probably went undetected.
While many countries have made efforts to track temperatures in recent years, there have been errors made in methods, leading to climate discrepancies, as well as political arguments.
Many scientists and others contend that one climate anomaly, such as Arctic glacial warming, is a reflection of the entire globe. But, he said, since 1880, weather patterns have undergone colder than normal periods, followed by warmer than normal periods, and one region's weather conditions are contradicted by another region's at any point in time, called geographic non-uniformity.
He said while urban sprawl and carbon emissions do affect the atmosphere, during the decades 1940 and 1970 — when the level of carbon oxide emissions in America skyrocketed — climate temperatures stayed relatively low.
"Remember the 'now' is just the end of a very long story of ups and downs," he said.
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6 young students hospitalized after science experiment explodes
Six students at a day school in Houston were taken to the hospital with burns after a science experiment went up in flames.
The students were injured shortly before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Yellow School at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. They were outside working on the experiment when it exploded, said Bob Giles, the business administrator for the church.
The blast caused pandemonium at the day school. Chemicals landed on at least a half-dozen students, who were taken by ambulance to the burn unit of Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital, said David Foster, fire chief for the villages.
"We just thank God that she's OK and she didn't get hurt," said Alison Shanklan, whose 5-year-old granddaughter, Kate Earnest, was at the school during the explosion.
The children's injuries did not initially appear to be serious. They were in good condition Tuesday afternoon, said Memorial Hermann spokeswoman Rhiannon Collette.
Parents were notified Tuesday afternoon. The school stayed open, but some later headed to the campus to pick up their children.
"I'm not sure what happened," said David Jalinski, who came to get his daughter, Morgan. "All I know is that there was an experiment and it scared some of the kids."
The Yellow School provides programming for children age 3 through kindergarten, according to the school's web site.
Wind may have played a factor in the explosion, Foster said.
The type of chemicals that landed on the students was not immediately released.
The Houston Fire Department sent an additional ambulance to the school, said HFD Senior Capt. Ruy Lozano.
The Yellow School will be open for normal hours Wednesday.


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TimoHansen needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 30 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
findle (http://www.findle.co.za)
We had our findle logo designed here on 99 designs (http://99designs.com/contests/21417) and was very happy with the results. findle is still in a beta stage, but we need to start working on a unique website to be ready to launch version 1.
We know that website templates take a lot of time to design and noticed that the participation in website designs are not that great. We are really willing to give a lot of feedback and assist with any more info you might need. We really need a great design.
This contest is for a great home page with a design that can be applied to any new pages we would like to add later.
Links to our logo in three formats:
http://www.findle.co.za/logo/findle fonts.zip
Use the blue logo on the black background.
This contest if for the design only. We will do the coding ourselves.
findle is document management software designed for small to medium organizations. It allows paper intensive businesses to easily manage and organize their files and go paperless. It's like Outlook for files.
Please do not include or theme the website around files and documents. Document management websites all look the same but we want some new and fresh. The design does not have to indicate that the software is for document management.
We need a unique web design that is build around findle. We don't want a website that was build on a website template. We want something special.
Some ideas:
1. We don't want photos of people sitting around a computer, photos of hardware, etc. We are not sure we want any photo at all. We are not excluding photos, but we don't want it to look like a templatemonster.com site. Also no images of software packaging.
2. We want a very clean and professional looking site without being corporate.
3. The logo is on a black background so the site must have some black. We really like black but are cautious of using too much. It easily looks like a developer or underground site that is not very inviting to business users, but if you can make it work you are welcome.
4. We think the text have to be on white or some shade of gray. We also won't have a lot of text. Have a look at http://www.copilot.com for an idea of how much text we will put on the site. We just want a basic explanation of what the product does. ONLY use this site for an idea of how much text.
5. We will have the following menu items: Home, learn more, support and downloads.
6. Our icon is a comet - the dot of the i in findle. We would like to incorporate this into the site. Maybe the tail of the comet as a wave across the screen. It does not have to be the complete comet.
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We had our first significant outage with ADFS this weekend. During a Sunday morning change control we updated the communication certificates on all our STS and Proxy servers and promoted a newer signing certificate from secondary to primary, following the directions at AD FS 2.0: How to Replace the SSL, Service Communications, Token-Signing, and Token-Decrypting Certificates. As our PKI infrastructure was recently changed the new signing certificate chained up to a new root, but all of our Dev and QA tests were successful on the new chain.
All changes tested out successfully; our relying parties that only trust one certificate had switched to trusting the new signing certificate and users could still access the relying parties. So the change control was closed.
Monday morning we received notification that users connecting externally were receiving an error message rather than getting to the Forms-Based Logon page. What was odd for this outage was that all our internal access to ADFS was fine, it was only external access through the proxy servers having issues.
The proxy servers ADFS logs were filling with Event ID 364 errors:
Encountered error during federation passive request.
Additional Data
Exception details:
System.ServiceModel.Security.MessageSecurityException: An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the other party. See the inner FaultException for the fault code and detail. ---> System.ServiceModel.FaultException: An error occurred when verifying security for the message.
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Server stack trace:
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SecurityChannelFactory`1.SecurityRequestChannel.ProcessReply(Message reply, SecurityProtocolCorrelationState correlationState, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.SecurityChannelFactory`1.SecurityRequestChannel.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.RequestChannelBinder.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message)
Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Protocols.PolicyStore.IPolicyStoreReadOnlyTransfer.GetState(String serviceObjectType, String mask, FilterData filter, Int32 clientVersionNumber)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.PolicyModel.Client.PolicyStoreReadOnlyTransferClient.GetState(String serviceObjectType, String mask, FilterData filter, Int32 clientVersionNumber)
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.ProxyConfiguration.ProxyConfigurationReader.FetchServiceSettingsData()
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.ProxyConfiguration.ProxyConfigurationReader.GetServiceSettingsData()
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.ProxyConfiguration.ProxyConfigurationReader.GetFederationPassiveConfiguration()
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.PassivePolicyManager.GetPassiveEndpointAbsolutePath()
at Microsoft.IdentityServer.Web.FederationPassiveAuthentication.GetPassiveEndpointAbsolutePath()
System.ServiceModel.FaultException: An error occurred when verifying security for the message.
Our first troubleshooting activity was to restart the ADFS service on the proxy server. When we did that it logged an Event ID 248 error:
The federation server proxy was not able to retrieve the list of endpoints from the Federation Service at corp.sts.WIDGETS.com. The error message is 'An unsecured or incorrectly secured fault was received from the other party. See the inner FaultException for the fault code and detail.'.
User Action
Make sure that the Federation Service is running. Troubleshoot network connectivity. If the trust between the federation server proxy and the Federation Service is lost, run the Federation Server Proxy Configuration Wizard again.
Frustratingly, no inner FaultException was present.
We re-ran the Federation Server Proxy Configuration Wizard and it completed successfully but the same 248 error occurred at service start. We also verified the new signing cert did chain up to a root that the proxy server trusted. Turning up full debug on the proxy server did not provide any additional useful data.
On a functional proxy server one expects service start to result in Event ID 245
The federation server proxy retrieved the following list of endpoints from the Federation Service at 'https://corp.sts.WIDGETS.com:443/adfs/services/proxytrustpolicystoretransfer':
To help isolate the problem we configured a local hosts entry on the proxy server to bypass the load balancers and hit a single STS. We could NetMon trace the service start and see the SSL handshake and traffic going only to the expected internal STS. As we saw no traffic trying to go anywhere except to the STS we were fairly certain there wasn't an issue with validating the new chain. But given the error message for receiving an incorrectly secured response and that we just changed all the certificates we were fairly certain the switchover was the problem, but we had yet to figure out the solution.
Finally we decided to try restarting the ADFS service on the STS the proxy server was using, even though that STS was not exhibiting any errors. So we restarted the STS and restarted the proxy, and the proxy service started without error. SUCCESS!!
We restarted the service on the other STSs in the pool and restarted our other proxy server and it started working as well.
My guess for what happened is that the proxy servers reached their 4 hour trust renewal cycle after the change control verification had completed. At that time, I am guessing the SOAP responses to the proxytrustpolicystoretransfer endpoint requests were still being signed with the old signing certificate when the proxy was expecting them to be signed with the new, hence the "incorrectly secured" error. I'm guessing the service restart forced the STS to pick the new certificate to use to sign its SOAP responses for the proxytrustpolicystoretransfer endpoint. I'm also guessing we missed this in Dev and QA because the proxy usage is a secondary use case and was likely tested after a service restart or server reboot on the STS.
We're still waiting on our Microsoft PFE to return with root cause analysis to see if Microsoft acknowledges a bug in the certificate handling. But for now, the short story is to cycle the STS services when rolling to new certificates.
I have updated the instructions in the AD FS 2.0: How to Replace the SSL, Service Communications, Token-Signing, and Token-Decrypting Certificates wiki article to include the STS service restart step.


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Bleeding Swans is a music zine from Arizona.
Released in the 1990's, Bleeding Swans is a cut and paste publication put together by Jason Colgin, with the help of a number of contributors, who came from different parts of Arizona. Two issues emerged and the focus was on alternative, punk, grunge and garage music.
Issue One featured articles on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Sonic Youth , The Fall and a critical history of the Manson Family.
Issue Two included a feature interview with Fifth Column, who also appeared on the cover, and interviews with Today Is The Day, and Elastic Purejoy, an interview with Jim and Debbie Goad, as well as a continuation of the critical history of Manson.
Both issues also included many reviews of both live and recorded music and zine reviews, as well as illustrations, poetry, and reworked ads and new items.


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diegorotalde needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 68 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Looking to redesign the Askdestiny logo to reflect a new image.
It is not necessary to base the re-designed logo on the old one in the website.
The Ask Destiny website is Gary Spirer's effort to provide practical expertise in wealth-building; no-nonsense techniques that have been proven to work. He will sell an e-book, post articles, advertise seminars and build a community through the AskDestiny website.
We want a logo produced in shades of grey, black and white. We'd like to focus on typography and form.
The logo should display the AskDestiny name and the "The Insight Site" timeline.
Logo should communicate the following words: Professional, enticing, different, innovative, successful, community-oriented.
- Include the "AskDestiny" name
- Please include the tagline: The Insight Site.
- Shades of grey
- Style? Sober, proffessional, clean cut, good typography work.
- Horizontal alignment preferred, since it will be on a website header.
- Look at our current logo and decide for yourself, I am thinking something of the sorts of no dollar signs, or question marks.
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It's all-out action in the Valiant manner! X-O Manowar #9 starts the prelude to "Planet Death!"
"It is only a weapon – and all weapons can be beaten!"
Most of the time, when a character in comics utilizes a powered suit of armor in his adventures, said armor doesn't serve as much more than as an extension of the character wearing it. The issues of man/machine interface kind of get glossed over in order to get to pages and pages of the hero kicking ass. X-O Manowar, however, stands out from the pack. Here, the titular suit of armor means something profound to both hero and villain. For Aric of Dacia, the Visigoth warrior abducted and imprisoned by The Vine, an evil alien race given to warfare and military might, it was a way to get away from his captors and to fight their agents here on (present-day) Earth. For The Vine, however, it's much more. It's a religious artifact, one that's worshipped by priests as an almost divine entity (how appropriate for a race for whom might makes right). What's really sticking in the craw of The Vine is the fact that this holy suit of powerful armor has bonded with someone from a "lower" race, and that it's now being used against them. That has led to a bit of a crisis among their ranks.
As X-O Manowar #9 opens, this crisis is front and center. Military leader Admiral Xylem wants the Manowar armor destroyed at all costs so it can't be used by Aric anymore, while the priesthood believes that such an action is sacrilege. Writer Robert Venditti uses the Manowar armor to elucidate for the reader just what drives The Vine and its civilization. As a race, they are all about destruction and conquest, but there are still differences amongst the different powers in the civilization in how those goals are to be achieved. We'll most likely get to see even more of The Vine's civilization in the upcoming "Planet Death" storyline in X-O Manowar, which promises that Aric of Dacia will head to The Vine homeworld and bring the fight to them. For now, we have the first part of a two-issue prologue to that story in issue #9. The Vine is carrying out an all-out assault of Earth in order to get to Aric, so he needs to fight back. Throughout the run of X-O Manowar, Aric has been gaining new powers and abilities as he's gotten more and more proficient with the armor. In issue #9, when he suddenly does something he never could before, he confronts Admiral Xylem, who informs him that "many have tried to bond with [the armor] – none have survived. It is why the priests fawn over you. They believe the armor has chosen you. That it somehow deems you worthy of it." He then pointedly adds "I say the armor is broken. It is a sham." In this scene, Venditti illustrates the different sides of The Vine's belief system, establishing that although they are singularly evil, they do not possess a monolithic credo and that there are philosophical conflicts among the different factions of their culture. It's all heady stuff, and hopefully Venditti will make it a point in "Planet Death" to really fill out what we know of The Vine, and show more of their civilization.
For now, though, it's time to do battle. X-O Manowar #9 is in many ways a war comic, and the artwork by Trevor Hairsine and Brian Reber more than bear that out. Hairsine's gritty, textured pencils really bring the brutality and danger of the story to the forefront, while Reber uses a muted, muddy (in a good way) color palette to establish a mood of foreboding and the sense that things are about to get really dirty and bloody. The second half of X-O Manowar #9 is a super-powered brawl between Aric and the forces of the invading Vine, and it's all rendered in a savage, bone-crushing way, leaving no room for doubt exactly what this comic is.
X-O Manowar #9, like every issue of the series so far, is a purely entertaining jolt of ass-kicking goodness. It's an adrenalized action-adventure comic, but it's action with a brain. The book is really about how worship and belief systems clash with modern day martial practicality. It also serves, as can Marvel's Iron Man, as a treatise about the way technology extends human ability and experience, often in unexpected way (while Admiral Xylem believes sees only "the weapon," believing it can simply be blown up, he fails to understand that the man wielding the weapon is the bigger threat). Mostly though, it's about loud action and explosive spectacle. It isn't always easy to combine all of that, but X-O Manowar #9 solves that very easily and in an entertaining package.


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The thought first hit Kobe Bryant when the Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics in the 2008 NBA Finals — maybe Shaquille O'Neal was right.
"I thought maybe I can't win a title without Shaq. I thought that is my one opportunity and I blew it," Bryant said.
History and Bryant, of course, proved Shaq wrong as the Lakers won two titles without the Big Diesel. But that is just one topic Bryant touches on in a wide-ranging interview with Yahoo!Sports' Graham Bensinger.
Bryant said that the Celtics not only provided him with one of his lowest moments,but also one of the greatest in his 17-year career. Of all the games he has played since joining the NBA at age 17, rallying from a 15-point deficit in Game 7 of the 2010 NBA Finals to win his fifth championship remains his greatest highlight.
"That was the hardest one," Bryant said, pointing out that the victory came against four future Hall-of-Famers.
Bryant also reflected on the effects the dismissed sexual assault charges had on him in 2002. He said facing criminal charges changed his outlook on himself and what's really important in life.
"That's real pressure," he said. "That's life pressure. That's not a game-winning shot where if you make it, you win and if you don't you don't. That (facing possible jail time) is real pressure. "
Bryant, 34, also held fast to a comment he made during his first NBA season when he said that at age 35 he would be retired and "relaxing with his family overseas."
"That's still probably accurate. I don't know if I will play longer than that," he told Bensinger, adding that there are several things he can no longer do at his age.
"I don't have the same motor," he said.
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Journey through Houseboat in Kerala
Kerala Houseboat
My stress took me to rejuvenation! Sounds odd, but true. Once I realized that my work is getting heavies and unbearable day by day, I planned a week-long trip to Kerala. It was the first month of monsoon and Kerala backwaters welcomed me with full enthusiasm. I was booked in a Kerala houseboat. A houseboat in Kerala is a medium that can let you explore all the major parts of this green state and offers true joy of living on waters. Moreover, you can halt at any of the beach resorts to savour lip-smacking Kerala cuisine and a wide variety of sea food delicacies. These beach resorts also offer a wide range of Ayurveda therapies for complete rejuvenation of mind, body & soul.
My sightseeing stated with Alleppey – the Venice of the East. My guide told me that these luxurious houseboats were earlier called 'Kettuvalloms' and were used as a medium to transport food grains and spices. My houseboat was well equipped with facilities like spacious bedroom with attached bath, kitchen, dining area, sun deck, living area etc. it was no less than an accommodation unit of a star rated luxurious hotel. The best part with the houseboat was it was completely made of natural products like bamboo mats, sticks, palm leaves and wood. The smooth wooden flooring and coir mats also added to the beauty of my houseboat.
The houseboat took me to places like Kumarakom, Kasargod, Guruvayur, Periyar, Cochin and Thiruvananthapuram. While staying on waters I easily explored all these cities. I wandered across market streets and collected some of the rarest handicraft items. I visited the most ancient Hindu temples. I witnessed the finest of greenery. I spotted the rarest of animals in picturesque wildlife sanctuaries like Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary and Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary. The best part of my tour in Kerala was a long relaxing nature walk amidst spice and tea/coffee plantations in Periyar.


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Appearances might be deceiving but they can also be revealing.
According to one new study we can accurately judge another's attractiveness in just 13 milliseconds. That is faster than the 100 milliseconds researchers previously thought we took and much faster than the blink of an eye (which takes 300 to 400 milliseconds).
More new research by neuroscientists at York University confirms that first impressions count.
In the first rapid fire moment of assessment, researchers found that we process facial features, attributing them to traits like dominance, submissiveness, trustworthiness, intelligence and approachability.
To determine the accuracy of these deductions, the researchers created mathematical models of different faces capturing the physical traits associated with those characteristics.
They then showed participants in the study the faces to confirm that the impressions and physical traits matched up.
"First impressions of social traits, such as trustworthiness or dominance, are reliably perceived in faces, and despite their questionable validity they can have considerable real-world consequences," the authors said.
Lead author Tom Hartley warned that in the real world different features often combine on one face meaning such deductions aren't so simple. Still, they found someone with a broad smile is seen as more trustworthy and approachable while someone with a good tan and strong jawline is considered to be more dominant.
Separate studies published this year have further explored our impressions as well as the link between facial and character traits.
One found that while there is no correlation between face shape and intelligence, we have the impression that there is.
Faces that are perceived as highly intelligent are longer with a broader distance between the eyes, a larger nose, a slight upturn to the corners of the mouth, and a more pointy chin.
Another new study found that while not necessarily smarter, moon-faced men are more financially savvy than thin-faced fellows.
The study, by University of California-Riverside, London Business School, and Columbia University, found strong-headed men were more tenacious negotiators.
In scenarios set up by the researchers they haggled for higher bonuses, getting nearly $2200 more than men with a more narrow face. They also managed to negotiate higher prices when selling fictional properties.
That said, researchers found that fat-faced men tended to behave more selfishly and were more likely to lie and cheat while men considered to be more attractive were better collaborators.
The study did not examine whether the same was true for women, but facial structure it seems can predict certain characteristics, the authors said.
A separate study by Cornell University researchers explored the real-world consequences of judging a book by its cover.
Participants were shown a photo of a stranger and asked for their instant impression.
The strangers were then introduced more than a month later and, it was found, the participant's initial instinct was surprisingly accurate.
Others warn that going on first impressions is something best kept for face-to-face interactions. This is because the context of environment can help us make more rounded evaluations.
Yet the evidence that instinct can be impressively accurate stacks up.
"Despite the well-known idiom to 'not judge a book by its cover', the present research shows that such judgments about the cover are good proxies for judgments about the book – even after reading it," said the Cornell study author Vivian Zayas in a statement.
This is significant given that these days our first impressions of others are often online.
The findings from such studies may lead to computer programs that pick which pictures will help us put our best face forward.
"You would be able to use these kind of [findings] to decide when is a good time to take a photograph, or maybe to choose the photograph that's really optimal in putting forward the best possible impression," Tom Hartley said, "and you might want to put forward different kinds of social impressions in different situations."
Sarah Berry is a lifestyle and health writer at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Last Chance to eat at Kampachi's Buffet @ Equatorial Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Sultan Ismail, Kuala Lumpur
I'm sure you have heard already that Equatorial Kuala Lumpur will be soon closing their doors.
The target date is 31 March, when they start tearing the old hotel to make way for the new.
While rumours are adrift on whether the hotel returns or not, one thing is sure we will be missing this stalwart when it is gone.
I have fond memories for the whole hotel since I was a kid.
Long ago, the Golden Phoenix Restaurant was THE Chinese restaurant in Kuala Lumpur.
Every time we had an occasion to celebrate, it would be held there. So many fond memories for its dishes such as the onion chicken (crispy skin chicken topped with aromatic onions), the apple fish (their sweet and sour fish with sliced apples instead), the sponge-like tofu with its holes and the sharks fin soup. Their yee sang was also the best in town.
However things went pear shaped for them as the old chef retired and most of the loyal staff also left to join one of the off shoots i.e. Pik Wah at MABA Building. Even though the hotel kept serving the old dishes, things were never the same.
I also loved Chalet as a child and it used to make me laugh whenever they served the sabayon since they put up such a performance whisking the cream until one of the waiters would dance around the trolley.
Etoile for us was where we got our goodies and birthday cakes. Then for Kampachi, it was for maximum Japanese pleasure especially their buffets. When I was a kid it would have been the Sunday all you can eat one but nowadays I prefer the Saturday version where you pick and order what you like.
Hence we decided to give the place a last hurrah before it closes.
Friends of mine have been visiting it regularly to relish its last moments. Best you all start jumping on the bandwagon too.
The selection is small but good enough to satisfy our hungry tummies.
We order loads of sashimi - salmon, yellowtail, butterfish and tuna. Everything is super fresh and delicious. They also do hand rolls.
There is also a selection of appetizers laid out on a table for us to select and of course, we all get plates of edamame to snack on. There are also makis (rolls) and deep fried soft shell crab.
I love the teppanyaki steak, cooked to medium juicy perfection. There is also sukiyaki and assorted tempura.
We discover that the cold soba noodles are wonderful and bouncy that we all order bowls to slurp it down. The hot cooked ones don't stand a chance against the cold ones as they seem almost flaccid compared to the more elastic tasting strands.
To end, it was green tea ice cream and something not on the menu, mini dorayaki or pancakes.
They are beautifully cooked and look more like blinis except we slather on creamy peanut butter and red bean paste to enjoy the Japanese sweets.
Equatorial Kuala Lumpur
Jalan Sultan Ismail
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-2161 7777
(Pork Free. The buffet set lunch for Saturday is from 12 noon to 2.30pm for RM90++ per person. For the full set of pictures, see the Flickr set.)
*Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here is entirely based on my personal tastebuds and may vary for others. This review is time sensitive; changes may occur to the place later on that can affect this opinion. The reviewer also declares that she has not received any monetary or non-monetary compensation from this place for writing the review.
14 comments:
- The Yum List said...
Giving a closing date will make me put it in my diary as a place to visit soon! Food looks great.
- boo_licious said...
The Yum List - Nice to see you at Chuck Hughes. Yes, do go before this place closes. Even though there are a few Kampachi outlets this is the original and the best I reckon.
- CUMI & CIKI said...
bye bye kampachi.. sniffle..
- 24mall.my said...
Hi boo_licious
Kindly be informed that this post has been reprinted on JoinMe.com.my, thanks. ^^
P/S: We have put your name and link credit back to this article.
- ckiong said...
Only tried the Kampachi in Pavilion, although Equatorial hotel just opposite my office. LOL
I think we should go and try the original one before they close.
- Au and Target said...
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! We love the Chalet Suisse restaurant upstairs and the spinach quiche sold downstairs. Darn, we'll miss that place!
- Simple Person said...
Yup I heard tat kampachi @ hotel equatorial is d best...
Shall try b4 it's too late....
- 比比 said...
Been reading your blog for quite a while and decided to drop you a thank you note for this message, if not I would have missed their closing date~
I totally agreed with you that this is the original and the best!
- Kenny Mah said...
Devil and I totally went to Kampachi after reading your post - it was time & money well spent, lovely place and food.
Now I only wish we had gone earlier and many times before - now there's less than a month to go before they close, sighs.
P.S. I "pinjam-ed" the "Last Chance to Eat" from your post title, hope you don't mind, dear. *winks*
- Pureglutton said...
I must go before 31 March...so sad they're closing :-(
- KLMystic said...
This Hotel F&B outlets will always have a special place in my heart! My Dad's insisted his assistant ta pau food from Kampachi probably knowing that would be his last. I proposed to my wife at Chalet. I ate my very 1st King Alaskan crab @ Golden Phoenix. And many family meals at all the outlets! I won't forget dancing @ the lounge & yes I will be sad when this nostalgic building is brought down!Goodbye old Equtorial! :(
- Nate @ House of Annie said...
It's always sad when a beloved Japanese restaurant is forced to close. At least you have more options there in KL.
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- Chopinandmysaucepan.com said...
Dear Boo,
I fondly remember this buffet especially the long queues for the grilled salmon head and collar bone, among many other long queues.
The Golden Phoenix had the best grilled pork ribs with chinese mustard IMHO. Also, the Chalet is such an elegant and cosy restaurant.
I hope they return better than before.


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September 2011
Table of Contents
Fewer antiretroviral options exist for children than for adults. Last year's Pipeline Report introduced a new chapter looking at pediatric formulations of antiretrovirals.1 The chapter detailed some of the hurdles to be overcome to ensure access to antiretrovirals in appropriate forms for children with HIV. It also showed some recent advances.
Since last year's report, new pediatric development has been scant. Despite incentives and penalties from regulatory authorities to innovator manufacturers designed to ensure that children benefit from these drugs, the disincentives to develop and produce them are considerable. Pediatric drug markets are generally smaller and less interesting to industry than those of adults. In rich countries pediatric HIV has been almost eliminated, meaning there is decreasing demand in these markets.
The best way to deal with pediatric HIV is to prevent it from happening in the first place. At present the elimination of mother-to-child transmission continues to elude most poor countries. Paradoxically, if maternal health and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs become more effective, the advantages in child health this brings will reduce demand further in the pediatric antiretroviral market.
Children are also unaffected by the growing case to provide treatment as prevention.
All this not withstanding, there has been significant progress in recent years in terms of both research and treatment scale-up. United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) such as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI); and UNITAID and other major donors have made a concerted effort to highlight children with HIV and ensure that they have access to the medicines they need.
However, an analysis of the global pediatric antiretroviral market performed in 2010 revealed only a few generic fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) in solid and dispersible forms quality certified by the World Health Organization (WHO) Prequalification Programme or the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 2005.2 One qualitycertified manufacturer produced most (67%) of these FDCs, and they combine only older antiretrovirals. UNITAID accounted for 97-100% of 2008-2009 FDC market volume.
Price reductions for pediatric FDCs do not have the same potential as those for adults due to small volume. The analysis reported low uptake of FDCs, but this is likely to be largely due to the time required to register products and phase out syrups rather than countries not wanting to use them.
Meanwhile, in 2009 an estimated 2.3 million children were living with HIV. Although an impressive 355,000 children started antiretrovirals that year, 370,000 were newly infected. HIV kills 700 children every day.3
Data produced by CHAI, as part of an internal review, illustrate the pediatric antiretroviral development inertia.4 They show that pediatric determination (PD) -- which occurs when manufacturers have completed all FDA requested studies and pediatric exclusivity is awarded -- took an average of 6.5 years to achieve after approval for use in adults. This ranged from a laudable less than a year for abacavir to a spectacularly sluggish 14.9 years for saquinavir, which was never approved for children (see Table 1).
|Table 1. Time Frames Between Adult Approval and PD for Antiretrovirals With Pediatric Exclusivity
|Calendar Years
|Time in Years Between Adult Approval and PD
|Bristol-Myers Squibb
|Bristol-Myers Squibb
|Boehringer Ingelheim
|Boehringer Ingelheim
Source: CHAI
* Still not approved.
When drugs are approved for children, multiple label changes may take place because pediatric populations are studied in sequence. As pediatric investigation plans work in de-escalated age bands, the youngest age groups will have the most prolonged delay in labeling.
Sometimes there is no indication or appropriate formulation for the very youngest children, complicating the implementation of universal treatment as early as possible in infancy.5
Perhaps the most notable change since the 2010 Pipeline Report is that Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) has recently entered the field. That this organization considers pediatric HIV to be a neglected disease speaks volumes.6
This chapter gives an update on recent results from clinical trials that will help inform guidance, new approvals and contraindications, the generic and innovator pipelines, "ones to watch," and how the new drugs might be used.
WHO guidelines recommend that young children less than two years who have been exposed to maternal or infant nevirapine or other non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) for maternal treatment or PMTCT, start antiretroviral therapy with a lopinavir/ritonavir-based regimen. Nevirapine- or NNRTI -unexposed children, or children older than two years, should start with an NNRTI-based regimen of nevirapine, or efavirenz if the child is older than three years.
Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) backbones should be one of the following pairs: lamivudine plus zidovudine, lamivudine plus abacavir, or lamivudine plus stavudine. Stavudine is no longer preferred due to its toxicity.
Results from two recent studies may have an impact on future guidance with regard to the use of NNRTIs versus protease inhibitors (PIs) for younger children.
Findings from the IMPAACT P1060 study showed about 20% higher rates of failure at 24 weeks in children aged two months to three years receiving NNRTIbased regimens compared with those receiving PI-based regimens with or without NNRTI exposure.7,8 These results are unsurprising for the NNRTI-exposed children. What is surprising and controversial is the superiority of the PI regimen for NNRTIunexposed children in this trial -- particularly for providers with experience in using NNRTIs in this population in resource-limited settings.
In reality, many caregivers in resource-limited settings prefer nevirapine first-line, even for children exposed to it in utero, due to cost constraints, ease of use, and to preserve lopinavir/ritonavir for second-line.
The NEVEREST trial, also recently presented, showed that children started on lopinavir/ritonavir-based regimens who remained on them had about 10% higher rates of virological failure than children switched to nevirapine.9,10
Currently, WHO guidelines remain unchanged from last year, and opinion differs as to whether it is better to start with a PI or an NNRTI for all young infants. It is argued that many children will still not have been NNRTI- exposed through PMTCT, but this is usually poorly documented. NNRTI-based regimens remain attractive because of cost constraints, formulation, and palatability. PI-based regimens are more potent and can be used in exposed or unexposed children. NEVEREST data suggest it may be possible to switch to an NNRTI after initial suppression with a PI, but this would depend on access to virological monitoring.
There is agreement, however, that current drugs are far from perfect and a suitable first-line agent, to fit with current guidance, could be a cheaper, more user-friendly PI or a more robust NNRTI suitable for exposed or unexposed children (see Table 2).
As far as older children are concerned, data from the PENPACT-1/PACTG 390 study showed no significant difference at four years with viral suppression with regimens containing either an NNRTI or a PI.11 The PLATO II/Cohere study showed no difference in triple-class failure by initial regimen at four years of age in European children starting treatment with three or more antiretroviral drugs.12
|Table 2. Use of NNRTIs Compared to PIs in Young Children in Resource Limited Settings
|Neviripine-based: US$55-209 per patient year
|Lopinavir/ritonavir- based: $218-329 per patient year
|Several pediatric nevirapine-based FDCs
|No three-in-one FDCs with lopinavir/ritonavir; heatstable liquid must be used for very young children*; children over 10 kg may be able to use a 100/25mg heat-stable tablet (cannot be crushed)
|Single-point mutation can confer resistance
|Multiple mutations needed
|Following NNRTI exposure for PMTCT
|Not recommended
|Recommended exposed or unexposed
|Use with TB medicines
|Complicated: lopinavir requires extra ritonavir boosting or higher dose
|Aligned with adults
|Boosted PI is an adult second-line drug
|All age groups
|Yes, nevirapine. Efavirenz not recommended less than 3 years
|Yes, lopinavir/ritonavir
|Use second line
|Second-generation PIs
Increased lipids
Central nervous system
Increased lipids
Gastrointestinal problems
Premature infants at increased risk of toxicity associated with lopinavir/ritonavir oral solution†
|FDCs OK
|Lopinavir/r liquid unpleasant bitter taste
* At temperatures higher than 25°C, the oral solution of lopinavir/ritonavir requires refrigeration. There are no stability data at temperatures higher than 25°C for lopinavir/ritonavir. Some providers cannot safely prescribe this to infants in households without a fridge.
† Sometimes called "baby grappa"! The lopinavir/ritonavir syrup contains 42% ethanol and 15% polyethylene glycol.
Induction/maintenance strategies (where people are started on very potent combinations of drugs which are then reduced in number once full viral suppression is achieved) are underexplored in children, -- as are questions as to whether a child starting treatment in infancy can ever stop.
Data from several ongoing studies, which will give more information about these issues are still awaited:
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
GGGG Grandmother Mary PILES
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Our GGGG Mary was certainly a bit of a girl.... does that mean that John who was born to her and is on the tree is actually a Chew and not a HINDLE????ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM
I think if we were there right now, it would probably be hard to prove who the father was, if for no other reason than Mary may not be absolutely sure herself. Move forward to the 21st century and maybe we could dig up John HINDLE and his supposed father John CHEW and check their DNA. At the very least I think the results would be interesting, no matter who the father was.ReplyDelete


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China's urbanization lessons can benefit the global community
We all know urbanization is important: Nearly 80% of gross domestic product is generated in cities around the world. Countries must get urbanization right if they want to reach middle- or high-income status.
But urbanization is challenging, especially because badly planned cities can hamper economic transformation and cities can become breeding grounds for poverty, slums and squalor and drivers of pollution, environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions.
That's why it's important for us to build cities that are livable, with people-centered approaches to urbanization and development. That will allow innovation and new ideas to emerge and enable economic growth, job creation and higher productivity, while also saving energy and managing natural resources, emissions and disaster risks. When the process is driven by people, it can lead to important results, the same way London and Los Angeles addressed their air pollution problems.


text: On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > I don 't think this is all that hard - once we got the cycle counters > synchronized > here at SiCortex, the rest of Linux behaves fairly well. > > The first trick is to get all the timer interrupts to happen at the same > time. On > our MIPS cores, this is easy by using an interrupt generated by a comparator > against the cycle counter (architectural feature). I would hope there is > something > similar in x86. > > Once the timer interrupts are synchronized, pretty much all background tasks > become > syncronized. This even works for many device drivers that use the device > interrupt to > schedule a tasklet or top half. > > The next step is gang scheduling of kernel threads, so that all the, say, > kswapd's system wide > chose the same timer tick to wake up. > > The next step is gang scheduling of user threads, so that all the, say, cron > daemons > wake up on the same timer tick. > > Our experience is that just aligning the timer interrupts helps a lot. "At the same time" on what granularity? Timer is 1 KHz, right? So do the timer interrupts have to be aligned to within a single clock tick, a nsec, a usec? A usec is still quite small compared to a msec. rgb -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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The original Nappy Lady - waste free parenting workshops.
Taken by: The Nappy Lady - Kate Meads.
Want Free Nappies? Come along to one of the Nappy Lady workshops and learn all about your nappy options and how you can save lots of money.
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At the Nappy workshop The Nappy Lady will:
- Show you the modern nappy options
- Explain how all of the different styles of nappies work
- Help you choose the best nappy for your baby and budget
Cost: $20.00 per couple or parent attending on their own.
Email 'The Nappy Lady' firstname.lastname@example.com or call (027) 22 11 242 for more information.
You are welcome to bring along your babies if they are breast feeding to the workshop and your partner, or perhaps your mum.
Event held in the The Sound and Vision Zone.