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Freshman | Spring Orientation What to Expect at Orientation
On-Campus: Spring Orientation for Freshmen
New Student Orientation – Spirit, Pride & Tradition:
- One-day program designed to meet the needs of all incoming freshman and freshman transfer students and introduce them to the UTSA community
- Orientation begins at 7:45 a.m. and ends at 6:00 p.m.
- Participants must be available during this entire time
- All freshman and freshman transfer students are required to attend all orientation sessions. Failure to comply will result in students not being able to register for classes.
Schedule at a Glance
Show your SPIRIT by wearing your favorite UTSA gear. You will begin your Orientation experience with orientation check-in and UTSA Department Resource Fair. Spend the rest of the morning with your fellow new students, learning about UTSA. Academic advising and course registration will take place in the afternoon. Students can also take care of any business on campus prior to departing.
- The Spring 2017 schedule will be available soon
Students will receive a detailed schedule at orientation. This schedule is subject to change without notice.
Walking Note:
Please be aware that the orientation experience includes EXTENSIVE WALKING. Please plan accordingly as the university does NOT provide any mobility assistance equipment.
Online Orientation: Spring Orientation for Freshmen
Freshmen students who cannot attend an on-campus orientation program will have the opportunity to participate in an online orientation experience.
- The online orientation is filled with valuable information about UTSA services, resources, academic policies and much more!
- Online orientation will only become available, after all on-campus orientations are complete and prior to classes beginning for the Spring semester.
- No exceptions will be made for completing online orientation prior to this time.
- Students will register for the online orientation program in ASAP and complete the modules in Blackboard Learn.
- Students must successfully pass the quiz at the end of the online orientation with a 90% or better for their orientation hold to be outdated.
- The online orientation DOES NOT include academic advising therefore students must contact their academic advising center to schedule and complete their required advising appointment.
- Online orientation DOES NOT include testing therefore students must contact Testing Services to complete testing.
- Log in to your ASAP account to review and take care of any other possible university holds you may have.
- ASAP Main Screen > Student Services > Student Records > View Holds
- Please note that your advising appointment and course registration can only happen AFTER you successfully complete online orientation.
What to Bring
- Download the Orientation Checklist to ensure a smooth orientation experience.
Directions and Parking
Driving Directions from Downtown San Antonio
- From I-10 West & UTSA Blvd
- Exit UTSA Blvd from I-10 West
- Turn left on UTSA Blvd
- Turn right onto campus on Edward Ximenes Drive
- Turn left at the first stop sign (George Brackenridge Rd)
- Parking Lot BK1 will be on your right and left near the Convocation
- Park in any unmarked parking space located in Brackenridge Rd Lot 1 (BK1)
A temporary orientation parking permit is required and must be displayed to park on campus during on-campus orientation. Below is more information on parking for orientation:
- The temporary permit for the on-campus orientation can be found in your confirmation letter after you register in ASAP
- Follow all parking policies listed on this permit. Failure to do so will result in a parking citation
- The temporary permit will be marked with the dates that the permit is valid The temporary permit is good for unmarked spaces only in the designated parking lot listed [ex: Brackenridge Rd Lot 1, BK 1
- DO NOT park in Faculty/Staff or 24 HR RESERVED spaces
- DO NOT park in fire lanes, reserved spaces, service areas, loading zones, University Vehicle spaces or restricted areas
- The permit must be visible on your dashboard at all times to avoid receiving a citation
- Pay-by the hour parking is available in the Bauerle Road Garage (located on the opposite / south side of campus) or the Ximenes Garage
Any vehicle parked in violation of UTSA parking regulations will be cited. If you receive a citation at orientation, you will need to file an appeal with Business Auxiliary Services.
Orientation Housing & Meals
Orientation Housing—Not Available for Spring
Between the fall and spring semester, current UTSA students are still housed at various UTSA residence halls, therefore orientation housing is not available for the spring orientation programs. There are several hotels in close proximity to the UTSA Main Campus with special rates for UTSA students, families and guests.
Meals at Orientation
Orientation participants will be given a meal card at check-in. This meal card is preloaded with money for your lunch and can be used at the assigned dining venue on campus.
Family and Guests
Family and guests that wish to attend the Family Orientation program need their student to register them in advance. Family Orientation is a separate program track for guests that runs concurrently with New Student Orientation. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- For more on the program, visit the Spring Family Orientation page
The Student Orientation program is a closed program for pre-registered new students only. Guests cannot attend sessions with students.
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Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki told a German publication it won't "be easy to win" his heart in the aftermath of his broken engagement to former fiancee Cristal Taylor.
Nowitzki, who is in Germany, spoke openly about his romance with the 37-year-old for the first time to Bild Magazine. He covered many aspects of their time together, including how they met and their wedding plans, in a question-and-answer format, The Dallas Morning News reported.
Nowitzki said he was "disappointed, sad and furious" initially but now thinks "someday he will be over it totally."
Taylor was arrested on a probation violation and theft of services warrants at Nowitzki's Dallas home in May. She was indicted in 2006 for not paying a Beaumont dentist for 2004 work worth between $1,500 and $20,000 and remains in custody in the Jefferson County Jail.
Nowitzki wants sole custody of Taylor's unborn child -- if genetic testing proves he's the father.

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It's understandable that Illinois residents might be wary of Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's proposal to allow residents to register to vote online.
Illinois is, after all, the place where the phrase "vote early and vote often" is most identified with, an infamous reference to the supposed practice of corrupt politicians ensuring a win by finding creative ways to stuff ballot boxes.
Supporters say online registration could benefit 2 million people qualified but not registered to vote. Republicans often skeptically view ideas that make it easier to vote, since it likely would benefit those who traditionally vote for their opponents, such as low-income and minority voters.
Of course, registering to vote and casting a ballot should be easy. It's the most basic right citizens enjoy (and we certainly would be happy to see more of them exercising that right every Election Day).
But such efforts must include safeguards that only eligible voters are able to register online, as well as not add costs to our fiscally challenged state.
There are places to turn for guidance, as more than a dozen states offer online registration.
In 2002, Arizona was the first state to implement online voter registration. More than 70 percent of all Arizona voter registrations are now performed online, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Cost savings in Arizona came from eliminating the data entry process a paper-based system required: A 2010 report by Pew Charitable Trusts found that costs associated with paper voter registration were 83 cents, while the online costs of an online registration was just 3 cents.
Some of the states allowing online voter registration require a driver's license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number, allowing for immediate checks against duplicate records, the NCSL reports.
If Illinois does decide to go down this path, we urge lawmakers to put in the necessary checks and balances in order to weed out imposters.
And for those not registered to vote: Don't wait for this to get your name on the voter rolls. The last day to register for the April 9 election is March 12.
Be heard.


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MOUNT SHASTA – The Mount Shasta Police Department (MSPD) is investigating a Pine Street home invasion that occurred Wednesday evening. Two men were apprehended in connection with the invasion and one is still at large, stated a press release issued by MSPD.
Juan Angel Vidano, age 20 of Mount Shasta, and Sundance Angel Gonzalez, age 18 of Weed, were arrested early Thursday morning for armed robbery, burglary and conspiracy. Vidano was also charged with possession of a controlled substance.
The two invasion victims reported that three suspects – two of whom were allegedly armed with guns – forced entry into their home and restrained them. One victim was reportedly injured with blunt force to the head. The victims reported they were threatened, and told not to make noise, move or attempt to contact police.
According to the release, the victims recognized one suspect and on Thursday morning, the MSPD responded to a residence on Chestnut Street where the suspects were believed to be hiding. The 600 block of Chestnut Street was blocked off while a search warrant was obtained.
At approximately 8 a.m., prior to the warrant response, the resident surrendered and gave authorities permission to search his home for the suspects.
Vidano and Gonzalez were at the residence and they were taken into custody. In addition, David Benjamin Hernandez, age 29 of Mount Shasta, was arrested for being an accessory and harboring a fugitive.
The release stated that the investigation is ongoing and authorities are seeking the third invasion suspect.


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DeKALB – Adam Orton was looking for music.
What he found was love.
The Geneseo native and city of Sycamore treasurer has been playing the euphonium since he was in sixth grade in 1997.
Why the euphonium?
"My mother still asks me the same question," he laughed. "The men in my family play sax; the women, clarinet. I did my own thing. It was big and shiny, and it probably didn't hurt that my best friend played it."
After playing in the marching band at the University of Illinois, Orton earned his master's degree from Northern Illinois University. As he settled into this area, he wanted to get involved in the local community so he Googled local bands and discovered the Greater Kishwaukee Area Concert Band.
According to its website, Ronnie Wooten and Sue Huhta formed the all-volunteer band in 2002 to perform traditional concert band music "for the cultural benefit of residents of the DeKalb County area."
Orton called director John Hansen, who invited him to join. No one has to audition for the band, Hansen said. Everyone can play, regardless of their musical ability.
It was through the band Orton met Lauren Helmuth, one of the group's flute players.
"I'm so shy, so I was kind of nervous," Helmuth, of DeKalb, said. "I had a couple of my friends from work with me who said, 'Ooh, he's cute. You should go talk to him.'"
The couple became engaged Nov. 3.
"It was fate, I guess," Helmuth said.
"We not only make music, we make love," Hansen joked.
Helmuth also believes it was fate that reunited her with Hansen, who taught her to play flute many years ago. He taught music for 29 years in the Malta School District and five years at St. Mary's Catholic School in DeKalb.
"Her dad talked to me one time and said she might be interested in joining the band, but she was afraid she might be rusty," Hansen said. "She's not as rusty as she thought she was,"
Which is fairly common within the band.
"I won't mention a name or a position, but there was someone who hadn't played for a very long time," Hansen said. "But he practiced his head off and now he's as good as anyone. You think you forget a lot, but you don't."
Libby Witty is typical of many of the band members. Witty said she played drums from fourth grade through high school, then "kind of gave it up for awhile" until she saw an ad in the paper eight years ago about the band.
"Anyone who wants to can come out and play again," she said. "We probably have more fun than we're supposed to."
The Cortland woman noted that the band has a diverse background, including retired music teachers, farmers, doctors, engineers, academic advisers and members of just about every other profession. Although most members are from the local area, some come from Naperville, St. Charles, Geneva and Oswego.
Some members, like assistant conductor Dave Lehman, a retired band director, play in both the concert band and the Kishwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Hansen, who has played clarinet with the DeKalb Municipal Band for 38 years, said there are "different levels of ability" among the 55 concert band members, but if "you heard the band, you would say 'Wow!'"
Publicity chairman Elli McLaughlin, who has been with the group since its first rehearsal, said the band started out with about 15 members, of which seven or eight still remain. Members range in age from 18 to 81.
"It's a very polished group," Hansen said, adding that many of them are his former music students. "They take a lot of pride in what they do. They are hard workers."
The band gives four concerts a year in the Northern Illinois University Music Building. Its Christmas concert is Dec. 9.
"Millie Sulaver is sponsoring this concert in memory of her sister, Joan Sulaver," McLaughlin said.
Hannah Wood, who studied in Europe and now teaches at St. Paul's Lutheran School in Rochelle, will be guest vocal soloist.
Hansen said the show is about 75 minutes long.
"We don't want to bore anyone, but we want to make it long enough to make it interesting," he said. "There are so many selections to choose from that we alternate (every year), But we try to repeat some traditional songs that people like to hear. There's also a Hanukkah selection in there."
Greater Kishwaukee Area Concert Band 'Christmas Joy' Concert
3 p.m. Dec. 9
Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University
Free concert. Building is handicapped-accessible.
For information about joining the band, call John Hansen at 815-825-2350 or Sue Huhta at 815-899-4867 or visit www.kishconcertband.org.


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Walnut/Secure Distributed Computing/Capabilities
From Erights
|To be more specific, E uses object-capabilities, a type of capability security that has strengths not found in several weaker "capability" systems, as discussed in Paradigm Regained.
E uses capability based security to supply both strong security and broad flexibility without incurring performance penalties. Capabilities might be thought of as the programming equivalent of physical keys, as described with the following metaphors.
Principle of Least Authority (POLA)
When you buy a gallon of milk at the local 7-11, do you hand the cashier your wallet and say, "take what you want and give me the rest back?" Of course not. In handing the cashier exact change rather than your wallet, you are using the Principle of Least Authority, or POLA: you are giving the cashier no more authority than he needs. POLA is a simple, obvious, crucial best-practice for secure interactions. The only people who do not understand the importance of POLA are credit card companies (who really do tell you to give that far-off Internet site all your credit, and hand back what they don't want), and computer security gurus who tell you to use more passwords.
Children with your ID badge
Suppose all security in the physical world were based on ID badges and ID readers. At your home you might put an ID reader on your door, another on your CD cabinet, and another on your gun vault. Suppose further you had to depend on 4-year-old children to fetch your CDs for you when you were at the office. How would you do it? You would hand your ID badge to the child, and the child could then go through the front door and get into the CD cabinet. Of course, the child with your ID badge could also go into the gun vault. Most of the children would most of the time go to the CD cabinet, but once in a while one would pick up a gun, with lamentable results.
In the real physical world, if you had to depend on children to fetch CDs, you would not use an ID badge. Instead you would use keys. You would give the child a key to the front door, and a key to the CD cabinet. You would not give the child a key to the gun vault.
All current popular operating systems that have any security at all use the ID badge system of security. NT, Linux, and Unixshare this fundamental security flaw. None come anywhere close to enabling POLA. The programming languages we use are just as bad or worse. Java at least has a security model, but it too is based on the ID badge system--an ID badge system so difficult to understand that in practice no one uses anything except the default settings (sandbox-default with mostly-no-authority, or executing-app with total-authority).
The "children" are the applications we run. In blissful unawareness, we give our ID badges to the programs automatically when we start them. The CD cabinet is the data a particular application should work on. The gun vault is the sensitive data to which that particular application should absolutely not have access. The children that always run to get a gun are computer viruses like the Love Bug.
In computerese, ID badge readers are called "access control lists". Keys are called "capabilities". The basic idea of capability security is to bring the revolutionary concept of an ordinary door key to computing.
Let us look at an example in a computing context, of how keys/capabilities would change security.
Consider the Melissa virus, now ancient but still remembered in the form of each new generation of viruses that use the same strategy the Melissa used. Melissa comes to you as an email message attachment. When you open it, it reads your address book, then sends itself - using your email system, your email address, and your good reputation - to the people listed therein. You only had to make one easy-to-make mistake to cause this sequence: you had to run the executable file found as an attachment, sent (apparently) by someone you knew well and trusted fully.
Suppose your mail system was written in a capability-secure programming language. Suppose it responded to a double-click on an attachment by trying to run the attachment as an emaker. The attachment would have to request a capability for each special power it needed. So Melissa, upon starting up, would first find itself required to ask you, "Can I read your address book?" Since you received the message from a trusted friend, perhaps you would say yes - neither Melissa nor anything else can hurt you just by reading the file. But this would be an unusual request from an email message, and should reasonably set you on guard.
Next, Melissa would have to ask you, "Can I have a direct connection to the Internet?" At this point only the most naive user would fail to realize that this email message, no matter how strong the claim that it came from a friend, is up to no good purpose. You would say "No!"
And that would be the end of Melissa, all the recent similar viruses, and all the future similar viruses yet to come. No fuss, no muss. They would never rate a mention in the news. Further discussion of locally running untrusted code as in this example can be found later under Mobile Code.
Before we get to mobile code, we first discuss securing applications in a distributed context, i.e., protecting your distributed software system from both total strangers and from questionable participants even though different parts of your program run on different machines flung widely across the Internet (or across your Intranet, as the case may be). This is the immediate topic.
Language underpinnings for capabilities
There are a couple of fundamental concepts that must be gotten right by a programming language in order to use capability discipline. We mention these here.
Memory Safety: Reach objects through references, not pointers
Pointer arithmetic is, to put it bluntly, a security catastrophe. Given pointer arithmetic, random modules of code can snoop vast spaces looking for interesting objects. C and C++ could never support a capability system. Java, Smalltalk, and Scheme, on the other hand, did get this part of capability discipline right.
Object Encapsulation
In a capability language you can not reach inside an object for its instance variables. Java, Smalltalk, and Scheme pass this test as well.
No Static methods that grant authority, no static mutable state
In a capability system, the only source of positive authority for an object should be the references that the object holds.
Java fails here, along with Smalltalk and Scheme. A famous example of the trouble that static mutable state can get you appeared in Java 1.0 (corrected in 1.1, an upward compatibility break so rarely used they could get away with it). The object System.out, to which people routinely sent print messages, was replaceable. A programmer in the middle of a bad hair day could easily replace this object, reading everything everyone else was doing, and preventing anyone else from reading their own outputs.
Carefully design the API so that capabilities do not leak
You can make everything else right, but if the APIs for a language were designed without consideration of security, the capability nature of the system is seriously flawed. Let us consider an example in Java. Suppose you had an analysis program that would present graphs based on the contents of an existing spreadsheet. The program only needs read access on the one spreadsheet file, it needs nothing else in your file system. In Java, then, we would grant the application an InputStream.
Unfortunately, an InputStream in Java leaks authority. In this example, you could "cast down" to a FileInputStream, from which you could get the File, from which you could get a WriteStream and a whole filepath, which would give you total access and control over the entire directory system.
To fix this problem for a single object in a single application, you could write your own InputStream class that doesn't leak. This strategy does not scale, however: requiring the programmer to write replacements for every object in the API to achieve security will result in few secure programs (just as requiring the programmer to write his own bitmap handlers and gui widgets will result in few point-and-click programs). To really fix this security problem in Java, you would have to rewrite the entire java.io package, wrecking backward compatibility as a side effect. Without that kind of massive, serious repair, it is always easier to create a breach than to create a secure interaction. With an infrastructure actively trying to harm you, what chance do you really have?


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Word of the Titans
|Oh dear, it seems this article isn't up to scratch and could use some improvement. You can help Erfwiki by improving it.
It would be helpful if someone who contributed to Erfworld's 2012 Kickstarter (or in other words, can see the meta-comic here[1]) would quote the *text* (not the image itself!) from that comic into this section.
This is a collection of posts made by Rob Balder and Jamie Noguchi relating to Erfworld on the Giant in the Playground Forums. It is copied here for easier reference and to save the valuable information. It is... well, the Word of the Titans. Word of the Titans is considered canon, while not in comic it comes from those who shaped that world.
Newer posts first. References to forum posts are mandatory.
- How to reference
- Put a post's ID into {{WoT}} and it will be linked – e.g.
11/20/2014 post 3
In response to the stack bonus.
Oh, and the stack bonus stays consistent throughout the engagement. No suiciding low units to raise your bonus in combat. You would have to disengage from the fight, which carries the penalty of your opponents getting free hitsies as you run away.
11/20/2014 post 2
In response to the stack bonus.
With Transylvito's bats, you have 3 cases:
- The warlord wants to scout.
- The warlord wants to engage a target personally (using their own combat power)
- The warlord does not want to engage, but wants to put a lot of meat into battle
With 1, the warlord uses the bats as expendable spy drones and tries to avoid combat, because the bats are individually vulnerable.
With 2, the warlord would want to enter battle as an 8-stack, using the bats to screen the targets s/he doesn't want to engage, but hitting the desired targets personally (typically the leadership, special units, or any target supplying a bonus to the enemy stack).
3 happens when the warlord (especially a higher level one) is fighting a big battle, where there are units in the hundreds or thousands fighting on the scene. In that case, the applied leadership to the many is effectively a better multiplier than the stack bonus, and something like the logic in this comic applies. The warlords generally do not fight in this case, but try to overwhelm their opponents' unled and lower-level led stacks, plowing into an opposing army, defeating them stack by stack. Between engagements, they would call in reinforcements and re-stack.
There is a maximum possible stack size, which is some number like [unit class * unit levels] (Or maybe unit class * unit hits. I haven't fully fleshed this out down to the math, but this mechanical principle is settled). It may be that certain units have NO_MAX as their special, allowing swarmlike stacks as you saw in the battle at the pass, or it may be that the bats are so weak that that is a max stack. That's another case where I haven't settled that as a canon mechanic, but for dramatic purposes it's pretty clear in my head.
With mounted units, both units count toward the stack bonus. However! They do not count as "units past 8" toward the declining stack bonus. In this way, a warlord and 3 knights riding 4 heavy mounts would get the full stack bonus. But so would a warlord and 7 knights riding 8 mounts. Any units beyond that would begin to reduce the bonus, but that kind of firepower in one stack might already be a max stack.
Hope that clears things up. It's fine if people want to add this information to the wiki as proposed canon. ~Rob
11/20/2014 post 1
In response to the stack bonus.
The stack bonus does diminish beyond 8, and can reach 0 again (the same bonus as a 1-unit stack). If there's something in canon which says otherwise, then I'm afraid that's my mistake.
So a group of 16 unled units is obviously much more effective as two 8-unit stacks than as a single stack of 16.
With led stacks, you might think that you'd want to max them and sacrifice the stacking bonus for the broader application of the leadership bonus to more units. But you have to balance the worth of more units against the effectiveness of the warlord in combat. The stack bonus applied to the warlord can make him/her a much more powerful combat threat.
So with a stack of 8 with a level 2 warlord vs a stack of 16 with a level 2 warlord, the stacking bonus applied to the warlord in the smaller stack may give them the additional power to cut through the screen and take out their opposite number. That would leave a led stack against and unled one, and we know how that goes.
Warlords lead stacks of 8 because they like the bonus on themselves. They'd prefer to survive the battle!
In response to the popping of ships with units.
That's correct. A ship and its crew pop together and can be split up. A ship can also be built separately and manned by seafarer units.
In response to "Concerned that Isaac seems to be a Master of multiple disciplines, though." on Facebook:
You can only master other disciplines within the same class. Lookamancy and Thinkamancy are both Eyemancy. Titles like Headmaster and Grand Abbie indicate multiple mastery within the same magical class.
In response to questions concerning adding content from the physical Books to the Wiki:
At this point, I'll say transcription is okay. Please don't upload the images.
Battle Cameo
The gentleman in Panels 9, 10, and 12 of Page 098 is Kickstarter supporter Chris Miller, aka Firewheels. Chris donated the Mac Mini I am using on my end for the motion comic project, and it's a great machine. Thank you, Chris!
Dorothy is now Judy Gale
Dorothy was a placeholder name, but the character is more complex than just an homage to the Oz character. So I am retconjuring Dorothy's name to Judy (Gale). It's changed in the archives but not yet in the wiki. Could someone jump in there and fix that, including noting the retconjuration and a redirect from "Dorothy"?
There will likely be a number of retconjurations before taking Book 0 to print, some of them fairly significant. I did warn that this thing's a first draft when I started it. Sometimes you have to go back and change the weave a little. This change was worth doing right now.[2]
First Kickstarter Cameo
The Carnymancer in the brown suit and tie in Book 2 page 082 is Erfworld Kickstarter supporter Sean Mattox, whose generous pledge earned him the cameo as a caster in the Magic Kingdom. So I wanted to point that out, and send my thanks to Sean and to all others who pledged. A few of you have received your pledge rewards, but for the vast majority, we are still getting things like the Hamstard beanies and hardcover books made. Watch for news pretty soon.
The Ultimate Naughtymancy
There are a lot of difficult things about writing a story webcomic. But maybe the hardest one is this: the first draft is the final draft.
If a novelist gets to page 280 and realizes there's a basic conflict with something that was written on page 14, they can go back to page 14 and edit it, before they call the draft done. If a complete draft gets to an editor's desk and they say, "I loved it, but on page 194 you had the Fartaxians shooting lasers out of their sphincters when on page 75 you clearly said they shot antimatter beams," then the writer can say, "Oh, I'll change that." And the reader never sees the mistake.
I don't get to do that. When I come to a head-smacking realization about some detail in an earlier page, the page is already in the archives. It has already been read and discussed and speculated on and cited by one forumite to bludgeon another forumite in an argument. I have to live with it.
For the most part, I've been able to think ahead enough to avoid any really major mistakes. But there's this one that has been bugging me for the better part of two years, and I am going to fix it before the book goes to print.
It's one word. "Regeneration."
The graphic in Parson's Klog 4, where he puts on the 3-D glasses and looks at Bogroll's stats and sees that his special is "Regeneration" was something I suspected might come back to haunt me. But when I wrote that page, I needed to put something in that script to show for Bogroll's stats. So I guessed, before I had fleshed out stat systems and specials. "Regeneration" is a really common trait for trolls to have, so I put that.
But I realized within a few pages that it should have been "Fabrication." And I realized when Bogroll was going to have his apotheosis, that a whole lot of people were going to think he was coming back. Because of that one stupid word.
I talked to Rich Burlew about it many months ago, when we were getting close to the page that features Bogroll and Ansom. We talked about several possible solutions, and I took one of his suggestions: to show the Jetstone troops burning/destroying Bogroll's corpse. It did keep the speculation down. But it wasn't perfect, because it left me with this concept of Twolls in Erfworld as makers of things that wasn't supported by the text. It also left me eventually having to explain what Regeneration meant in Erfworld.
Well, I'm not gonna.
I am going to make a more drastic change. A change to the magic table. If you now look at Klog 2, you will see that the branch of magic I called "Deletionism" is no longer there. It has been deleted.
In its place is a new branch of magic: "Retconjuration." (The name was also Rich's idea.) This is a theoretical branch of magic, like an undiscovered element on the periodical table. No ordinary caster can practice it; there are no Retconjurers in Erfworld. It is reserved for the Titans. And I can tell you, they don't like it much and use it as seldom as possible. I apologize for invoking it now, especially to the wiki editors.
So, any differences you notice between the printed book and the old archives you can chalk up to Retconjuration, the ultimate form of Naughtymancy. [3]
Interesting discussion. Gotta settle it, though. "Flower Child" would be great, if anyone in Erfworld knew what a child was.
We're going to go with "Florist."[4]
"Scarlet" is the Jek Tono Porkins of Erfworld. :smallwink:[5]
We'll get this and other details codified and canon-ized in the wiki. Short answer: Cities have a limited menu of unit types they can produce. Gobwin Knob (city) can pop most dwagon types, but couldn't produce, say, a gwiffon.
Many types of units also pop randomly in the wild as barbarians, and that's complicated. We did not see it happen in Book 1 at all, and it is fairly rare (can you imagine the cries of "deus ex machina" if we had seen it happen?)
Warlords can pop randomly in the wild, even more rarely. This is why Ansom would not necessarily think Jillian was a Royal, as randomly-popped barbarians are way more common than heirs and rulers who lost their capitals.
Natural allies pop more of their kind via moneymancy, converting Schmuckers directly to units. This is why they typically ally with a strong side that can pay them for their alliance, and/or they mine and farm and hunt and do various other money-making things in the wild.
Part of the fun in Book 1 has been revealing many of the facts of the world as Parson learned them, or as they served the story. But for Book 2, we'll have a more comprehensive world knowledgebase for readers to draw on. So it's time we can definitively answer some of these questions.[6]
You have to understand that the denizens of Erfworld don't see a lot of what a player would see in a game. Including XP. Leveling is a surprise to them, and XP (or the equivalent) is a theory (albeit a pretty solid one). The people are in the dark and guessing, and it's kind of hard to build an XP table by actually finding 10 new level 1 Marbits to croak, discovering that you level, then discovering through experimentation that you need to croak 50 to level again.
From a narrative perspective, the fudge factor is high. But that does not mean there is not one consistent mathematical system governing leveling. It's just opaque to the characters and readers at this time.
The general answer to your question is that power gains are linear and level requirements are exponential. It's not perfectly simple as all that, but to generalize, yes.[7]
The relative combat power by level is NOT logarithmic or exponential.[8]
Higher levels cost more, on a kind of exponential scale that may vary by a large number of factors including the type of unit leveling, the type and number and levels of units croaked, and other activities involving the leveling unit's special abilities that may not even constitute combat. But the main thing is that you should imagine something like a logarithmic curve (not saying it literally is logarithmic), whereby low levels are achievable with a little combat, but levels above 10 or 11 become extremely difficult to obtain, and something like a level 20 unit is completely unheard of. Also notable is that not all of the numbers are available to the units and commanders to calculate, and so the existence of a predicable system of leveling at all is in the realm of the theoretical Mathamancers. Units cannot actually predict when they are going to level (Jillian is being flippant when she tells the Archons, "Cmon, it'll be fun. You'll level." but it would be a reasonable bet they might if they took out a stack of dwagons.)[9]
p64Erf-b1-p064-p3 panel 3 seems to be a major hangup. Wasn't intentional and I agree that it's misleading. We'll clarify that for the book.
For the record, the rule is actually pretty simple and I am amazed it's been such a sticking point for people.
- You can move only on your turn, and you can cast only on your turn.
- When an enemy comes to you on their turn, you can engage, and you can cast. This includes when they are attacking your city.
Why could Parson not have ordered a veil to be cast, even if the Foolamancer had been in the group with the wounded dwagons? It was not his turn, and they were not under attack. Once Jillian entered the hex, a theoretical Foolamancer within that hex could have veiled, but it wouldn't have been very effective at fooling her.
Why could Parson have his casters cast on the Coalition's turn, later in the story? His city was being attacked.
Why could the Archons cast the DDR spell? They were part of the Coalition and it was now technically their turn. But they could not move because all of Charlescomm's units' move went to zero when Charlie ended turn. Move and hits are restored to full at the beginning of a side's turn, and (re)forming an alliance does not count as starting a new turn.
Why could the Archons "cast" the contract, when it was not their turn? Well, why could they still fly? It's not a spell, it's a natural magic. There's also a heavy dose of "talking is a free action" in that scene, another thing about turn based games that is silly but almost universally true. It's no sillier than food popping at the start of a turn.[10]
p129 panel 1Erf-b1-p129-p1, change "leading" to "guiding" or possibly "directing."[11]
Courtyard refers to the portion of the Garrison that is above ground, within the walls, and not in or on the Tower. Wanda is not in the Garrison zone at all in page 122Erf-b1-p122. She's in the Outer Walls zone.
We've been attempting to avoid confusion by keeping it simple and avoiding unnecessary detail (like, for example, the fact that the Outer Walls zone also has parts to it, or that Parson's klog was referring specifically to attacks on the Garrison and that there are other sets of rules regarding movement by friendlies within the city).[12]
Note: p120Erf-b1-p120, Jamie did not draw the uncroaked Jaclyn in Wanda's stack and should have. It will be fixed for the book. She'll be in there in p121 and was in in p119. Just an oversight.[13]
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If she is in the Airspace, how can she get close enough to a non-flier to make a contract?
I'll answer this one question as an example of "yes, we did think about this stuff before we started writing." And then I'll stop before I get any farther into the tar pit of explaining the rules while we are telling the story.
Do you remember when Ansom was getting word passed along through the column about the results of Parson's attack? That was not on the Coalition's turn, but physical notes were still being passed between hexes. Did we specifically show a note passed across a hex? No. The story didn't need it. Compared to showing the abortive celebrations of the Coalition's leadership corps, it's dramatically trivial.
But that's what happened. I thought about it. I knew about it. We didn't show it.
Now, if you are seriously hung up on whether or not Ansom could touch a magical button projected in the air by an Archon hovering just above the city wall, then you are not really granting us any license at all for a joke, you know? There's occasionally some humor in this comic. The EULA joke is meant to make you laugh.
But yes, okay. It is absolutely physically possible for the Archons to project an image into the air, which Ansom, standing on the wall top, can see and touch.
We are telling a story set in a whole alien universe here. We have mythologies and character histories and world mechanics backing this up, but it's the story that matters. I care ten times more about Sizemore's emotional state in the heat of battle than I do about whether or not a sourmander could spit acid across a hex boundary. (But I still know the answer.)
As this goes along, some mechanics are going to be unclear at times. Please trust that we've thought about these things to the extent needed to support the story. We're not going to pull any major cheapness in how we tell the tale, and we have not written ourselves into a corner. [14]
Okay, I know it's bad policy to explain as the narrative is going on. Maybe a sign of bad storytelling that I feel like I have to. My fault, if so. But I can't watch you guys squirm any more. Future pages will touch on some of this, but it's very, very simple.
- You can only move when it is your turn.
- When it is not your turn, and someone moves into the space you're on (meaning hex or city zone), then you can engage them.
- Every side gets exactly one turn a day.
- There is a natural turn order. When sides ally, their next turn is shared at the latest slot in the day of any of the allied sides.
On this day, Charlescomm has had their turn. The Archons ended that turn in Gobwin Knob's airspace. If they ally with Jetstone (I am not saying they will), then they do not get another turn until tomorrow, after Gobwin Knob's next turn. If they don't ally, they'll go before Gobwin Knob. Either way, until their next turn, the Archons can only engage units that enter Gobwin Knob's airspace.
I think the main thing that's confusing people is this:
- If you own the city, you can move around in it without move cost.
That means even zone to zone, and even when it is not your turn, so the constraint does not apply to the defenders. Sorry if that's confusing, but it was more or less explained in a Klog.
I promise there is no long, complicated set of rules being made up to satisfy plot conditions. It's a simple list, and the plot will play out without breaking them, or inventing new ones.[15]
In Erfworld 39Erf-b1-p038 Jillian heals at dawn, while Erfworld 52/Parson's Klog 6Erf-b1-p046a states that Ansom's forces heal at noon.
Ah, that one's not a blooper. Jillian is captured at that point and shares "turns" with her captors' side. Eats prison meals that pop on Gobwin Knob's expense, etc. [16]
I want to know something a little more mundane from Rob/Jami:
What software did you use to bend the text and tables down toward the spine of the eyebook? That's a really nice touch, but I would think it would be a real bear to accomplish in something like Photoshop. Was it done in Illustrator or some other more vector-based program?
I letter the comic in Paint Shop Pro X, and for the eyebook pages I generally use the Mesh Warp tool. PSPX is way better than Photoshop (the versions I have used) for vector manipulation, so I use it for all the balloons, speech, and SFX words. PSP is cheap and powerful, and has a free downloadable demo. I recommend it highly, and I have done PartiallyClips entirely in it for years.
The only drawback to the Mesh Warp tool is that it's got to be the worst memory hog in the toolbox. Close all other programs![17]
Arghhhhh. *I* proofread it and someone else did, and the error still got through.
Clevermancy should have no Xs. It's raw magic dealing with raw magical forces. I will try and get an altered page up before everyone goes crazy with confusion. Sorry.[18]
I encourage and appreciate the feedback. I did post something about the pacing a few strips ago, on the order of "I feel your pain but this is the way the story needs to be told to get it across the way I imagine it."
Believe me, I agonize over this issue, but it's a problem with the whole medium of story webcomics. Telling an 80 to 90-page story at the rate of 2 pages a week is just bound to leave a lot of people frustrated, but there's no real way to adjust for it.
Since we're talking about craft, though, I'm willing to open up and talk a bit about the choices I made on this particular page.Erf-b1-p037 Potential spoiler follows, but not so bad. Mostly a sausage-making lesson you might not want to watch.
Yes, I did sit there and stare at that last panel for a long time. "This has no punchline," I said to myself. "This page has some funny stuff on it, but it ends with nothing. Is that what I want?" I considered two possible changes. I could force a punch on the last panel, but any little throwaway I came up with just didn't have as much oomph as the stuff that came earlier. It would have felt forced. Anticlimactic.
I could also have dropped a drama point there, by having Bogroll explicitly point out that if Parson failed to show up in the Situation Room at dawn, he'd have disobeyed Stanley's order and would die. I almost did that, but in the end I decided not to. Reason: Parson already knew it (and isn't really taking it seriously), Bogroll certainly knew it (and is taking it seriously, which shows), and the reader should know it already, too (and should be withholding judgement).
It would be a heavy-handed mood change in what was meant to be a light and personal scene. It would also be petty drama for nothing, since I had every intention of having Parson show up on time. We've got enough "DUM, dum, dummmmmmmmm!" in this story for now, relating to real plot points. No need for pointless foot-dangling when the whole story is set on a cliff edge.
So, in the end, I went with the natural "more to follow" panel that I think will flow quite well in a few months, when the story is one complete block. It wasn't exciting, but it did the job and it was exactly what Bogroll would say and do.
Sorry it wasn't fireworks, but this page really did a lot of necessary stuff. It established the Bogroll/Parson dynamic, did the costume change, began to answer some of the basics of daily life, and helped set a mood/tone we're working hard to establish. We want the comic to have that mundane feel of reality, even against a setting as bizarre and surreal as Erfworld. Jamie, I think, is doing a fantastic job at conveying that with his color choices (orange firelight before, and now ashen pre-dawn chill) and little visual details (the crumpled golem-skin on the bed).
I think I managed to do all of that, and still throw in three pretty decent gags. It just happened that none of them came at the very end. I really don't intend to make the whole Erfworld writing process transparent like I do with PartiallyClips. But I hope you guys can see that I'm actually giving a lot of thought to these choices, and I'm making the best calls I can.[19]
Re: What about Parson's friends?
True spoiler, from the author. Think before clicking, please. Seriously.
I was glad to see this thread, because there are some plans to involve Parson's gaming buddies in the future of Erfworld. If everything goes as we hope it will, then you have not seen the last of those guys.[20]
Sizemore Rockwell, eh? Nice one, Rob. References to obscure yet awesome local bands can only add to the intrigue of the comic. I can see the where the earnest dweeb look comes from, but you could have at least given him a fu manchu.
Heh, I borrowed only your names. I could never hope to capture the quintessence of Durt Sizemore and Riff Rockwell in the same character. The character comes from another source entirely.[21]
Hey hey, friendly neighborhood art monkey here. Most of these will be answered by the end of the first chapter here, some will be left unanswered for future stories, and a few will be answered right now!
I'll answer the ones I can and leave the others out.
3) What are the wiener dog/goat things viewable in the first panels of these pages?
Cute, ain't they! I won't tell you what they are, but we will get to see them again before the Battle for Gobwin Knob is through.
10) Can units willingly leave sides and become Barbarian units?
There's enough information in the comic now that you could make an educated guess about this one.
12) Do the ... extracurricular activities ... of Erfworld's characters have any bearing on royals and nobles "popping" from cities?
Again, you can make an educated guess regarding this one. Remember Wanda's surprise when Parson mentions "children."
16) What's the deal with items just disappearing? Does Erfworld have a Hammerspace? Is this some kind of natural magic? Is it that Jamie doesn't want to keep drawing them?
In some instances, they're honest mistakes on my part. Parson's watch is a good example of this. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. We've demonstrated that magical items like the EyeBooks are resize able. So you can shrink them down and put them in your pocket.
23) What's with those floating balls of light?
They light stuff. And they float.
25) Do Erfworlders bleed... at all?
Seen any spurting blood yet?
27) Do magic items and artifacts dematerialize like garbage? (For instance, would Manpower's sword, if it is magical at all, still be at the bottom of that lake where it fell?)
Remember when Jillian was first nabbed and she dropper her hat and sword? Those were recovered by Webinar's group.
That's probably all I can get away with answering now without spoiling too much. [22]
Yes indeed, the Battle for Gobwin Knob has a definite ending.
We started long ago just throwing some ideas around, some initial character descriptions and designs, some plot points. Rob then took all that brainstorming and created an overall outline broken down per page of the whole first arc. He has some notes on where we'll take Erfworld once this first bit is done.
Then comes the actual scripting. Rob takes his outline and starts filling in the blanks. The scripts are very detailed giving me dialog, page break downs, panel shots, action description, everything a comic artist needs. Every once in a while, Rob will ask if we can expand and add another page or two to give me some room to draw cool things and to give him some room to script. The Dwagon air battle is a perfect example of this.
As he continues scripting things out, I get started with small thumbnail sketches of the page I'm working on. I get scripts a few pages at a time which allows me to work on a few pages at once. Once I'm happy with my thumbnails, I break out my boards and start lining the borders.
I'm using Strathmore 300 series smooth bristol at 9X12. Not quite the standard 11x17 boards that the comic industry uses, but it serves my purposes. I use a variety of microns and other felt time pigment pens. They're permanent and don't smudge often. I use HB leads out of a Sumo Grip mechanical pencil. And of course, my gummy and Mars erasers.
After I line my borders, I sketch in my forms very lightly with my mechanical pencil. I concentrate mostly on the characters since a lot of the backgrounds will get painted in Photoshop, but every once in a while I throw in some detailed background work (Stanley's office for example). I use a thicker line to outline the characters. It's an old animation trick to pop the characters up a bit and push the backgrounds back. Then I scan.
I scan in at 600dpi and reduce to 300dpi. Reducing by half makes the lines look cleaner. Then I go ahead and paint the backgrounds first. This helps make some lighting decisions which become important when I go to color the characters. The characters all get the cell shaded look which actually takes the least amount of time in the whole process.
Once I'm done, I send the full resolution file off to Rob for lettering. Rob uses an archaic program to letter that is incompatible with my Mac which will offer us new challenges when we go to get this thing in print. Lettering each page himself gives Rob a chance to change some bits of dialog and add some sound effects or other touches that he thinks will work. "Boop" was originally supposed to be "meep."
Once he's done, he sends it off to Rich who uploads the page for all to see.
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I'm Baaack!! =]
Well, it's official! The spring 2014 semester has begun. All the students moved back into their rooms yesterday and classes started today! I'm definitely very excited to be back on campus after being gone all last semester for my internships, although I have to admit that it did feel a little weird to actually move in again. It feels like it's been forever since I lived on campus!
It's good to be back, though. On Mondays and Wednesdays I have a class called Visionary Leadership, and it's one of the last classes that I need to graduate! There are only seven people in it, which I think will lend itself to some great class discussions. I am also taking the communication capstone course and a legal studies class called Law, Ethics, and Morality. I imagine I will be writing a lot about my communication capstone class - from what I hear, it will be a lot of work! The legal studies class will be fun, too; I'm looking forward to evaluating some current social issues and examining both sides of the arguments. Finally, I'm taking the theatre senior project class, in which I will work with other graduating seniors to put on a show! It's going to be busy, but I think it will be a lot of fun!
Of course, my excitement to be back on campus goes much farther than just getting used to my new classes! I got my room all set up last night and I was finally reunited with Kassi, my amazing little sis in the Alpha Chi house! It is so great to see everyone again. I definitely missed being on campus last semester much more than I anticipated, so it is really great to be able to come back and enjoy spending time with everyone again for my last semester!
Well, I think that about wraps up this post... Since school is back underway, I will once again be posting every week! I hope you'll stick around as I journey through my last semester. Maybe I'll even get to meet some of you at one of the campus visit days or if you come get a tour! 🙂


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Interview: Anja Rubik — 25 Magazine
Anja Rubik re-launched her bi-annual magazine 25 in Cannes on Wednesday night at the Pierre Cardin Palais Bulles — a private villa that looks like the set of Star Wars meets Boogie Nights, with an awesome view. The magazine, which celebrates sex (from her Ed's letter: "We aren't trying to reinvent the wheel, just make it more lubricated for an easier ride") nudity and women, is a beautifully bound book with incredible photography. Of course it obviously helps that Anja is BFFs with most of the talent — the likes of Abbey Lee, Arizona Muse, Liya Kebede and Cocho Rocha all grace the pages, naked — but it actually makes for a good read as well.
I took some iPhone photos of the magazine and spoke with Anja about the concept behind the magazine, when she feels her sexiest, and her decision not to wear knickers to the Met Ball.
Alice Cavanagh: So is this a relaunch? Because you've worked on 25 before, right?
Anja Rubik: I've done 25 before but it was owned by a different person, so I have taken it over and changed the whole concept.
How long have you been working on this issue for?
I've been working on it for a year and a half — working on the concept and getting the team together. With my busy schedule, though, it is hard to find the time.
Tell me about the main concept behind the magazine.
I love this magazine from the late 60s, early 70s, called Viva, which was aPenthouse publication for women. It was very erotic, very sensual and I was looking through it and thinking, "What happened to erotica?" because, now, the whole idea of erotic sensuality has disappeared and the approach to sex and nudity is very awkward — either it is really 'cool' or really trashy. So we decided to bring the idea of erotica in the 70s back to life. I also wanted the magazine to be about very ambitious, very strong women and so I started looking at people in my field — especially the photographers who are so incredible — but I started thinking that there are so few female photographers; so I worked with many female photographers. And the issue is about very strong women, very ambitious; she does what she wants and she is comfortable with her sexuality.
Is that how you would describe yourself?
Of course!
When do you feel sexiest?
With my husband — he makes me feel sexy. But to be honest to have a project come true that certainly gives me confidence which makes me feel sexy. Sexiness is a lot to with being comfortable with yourself.
Can we talk about that dress you wore to the Met ball? That was certainly very sexy.
Yes, that was my friend Anthony [Vaccarello] who designed it. I love that dress.
Can I ask: were you wearing knickers?
Well it was a bodysuit attached, but no one knew.
So how often are you going to do the magazine?
The print is twice a year. We will have small prints in between, and videos and a lot of collaborations with artists. There are also going to be products behind it, so it's not only a magazine it's more like a 'vision'.
I know you don't have any advertising in this issue but will you eventually have advertising?
We're still debating about that. We have a different idea about how to get revenue and make this project run, so hopefully that works out… we'll see.
Cool. And it's only available at Colette at the moment?
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – John Brennan, who stripped naked last year to protest a security check at Portland's airport, said he expects to lose the first round of his legal fight against a $1,000 fine.
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Brennan has a court date on Tuesday before an administrative law judge. His attorney, Robert Callahan, said the free-speech argument won't be allowed as Brennan fights the fine, but an appeal in the federal court system would present an opportunity to make it.
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In April 2012, as Brennan started a business trip to California, he declined to step into a Transportation Security Administration body scanner.
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Brennan took off his clothes to show he wasn't carrying anything explosive and to get the security check over quickly, he said.
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What PC to build? An update...Harm Millaard Jan 11, 2012 6:37 AM
What PC to build, updated January 2012
A question often asked is what system to build for NLE.
The previous article about this topic dates back to March 2010, so it was due an update because there were so many new developments in the past two years, including CS5.5
Basically you can think along three roads, a budget PC, an economical PC and the warrior PC. Notice that MAC is not mentioned here. There are three reasons for that, one is I'm not qualified to really advise on MAC's, two is that they are way overpriced and three they are severely limited in component choices. So this is all about PC.
Whether you want to have a budget, economical or warrior PC, there are a number of common components that you will always need, a case, a PSU, CPU cooler, monitor, keyboard, mouse, DVD/BR burner and stuff like that so I'm not going into those components, with the exception of case, PSU and CPU cooler.
While the case of your choice is often determined by looks and what appeals to you (or your CFO, the wife), I want to stress that for all categories, budget, economical or warrior, it is better to use a BIG tower, instead of a mid tower.
Why, you may wonder. Actually there are a lot of reasons. Mid towers can limit your choices in CPU coolers, because the case is not wide enough to install certain CPU coolers. The height of the cooler does not fit in the case. They can limit your choice of video card, because these have grown in length significantly and mid towers often do not allow the installation of certain video cards due to the limited depth or prevent you from installing hard disks in certain slots. Mid towers will limit your expansion capabilities (less drive cages), make installation of components more difficult, have limited cable management features, have limited airflow and tend to become hotter than big towers and thus more noisy (the fans need to run at higher speed) and limit overclockabilty.
A BIG tower is the (only) way to go.
The PSU is one of the most crucial components in any system but also the one component most often overlooked. A good PSU will give you years of reliable work on your PC, a suboptimal or mediocre PSU will give you tremendous headaches and unexplainable crashes, hangs or errors, causing you to miss deadlines.
Go to eXtreme Power Supply Calculator Pro v2.5 and get the Pro version. Enter all your components, including planned expansions, set the Motherboard to High End - Desktop, set the CPU Utilization (TDP) to 100%, set System Load to 100% and Capacitor Aging to 30% and press the Calculate button. Add 10 - 15% to this Wattage for safety and note the required amperage on the various rails (+3.3V, +5V and +12V). Based on these figures, select a good GOLD label PSU, that meets the total wattage and the amperage on each rail. It is your best guarantee for long and reliable, troublefree editing.
Budget, economical or warrior system
Before going into these three systems, you can consider them to be a rough 'Best-buying Guide', let me remind you of the basic practical system requirements for CS5.5 and consider your own workflow to interpret these charts.
It starts with the codec:
Since DSLR is getting so popular, let me remind you that this is ranked under the 'Difficult' codecs and P2 is an 'Easy' codec. The more difficult the codec you use, the higher the system requirements. See:
For the full article, see Adobe Forums: System requirements for CS5
As a rough translation from 'Easy', 'Intermediate' and 'Difficult' to the kind of system you want to build, you could say that 'Easy' can be handled quite well with a 'Budget' system, 'Intermediate' is best handled by an 'Economical' or better system and 'Difficult' requires an 'Economical' or better system. A 'Budget' system may struggle with the load of such 'Difficult' codecs.
Note that in the following table, I have mentioned components in each category. These are just examples of what could fit in each category, they are not necessarily a combination of components that I would build per se.
Also note that I have not chosen the fastest CPU in each category, but only unlocked CPU's. Each can be overclocked for optimal results and then will deliver a better Bang-For-The-Buck (BFTB) than the highest clocked CPU in that range. Finally, note that the budget system can benefit from increasing memory to 4 x 4 GB for only € 38 extra. That is the weakest link in the budget system.
Prices mentioned are current day prices in the Netherlands (01-11-2012) including 19% VAT.
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The main difference in comparison to the previous guide, is that the i7-3930K appears to be faster and better affordable than a dual Xeon X5680 system.
Anyway, I hope this helps people comtemplating a new system to get the right components in an affordable system.


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…People are louder, too. They complain at length and in detail about their divorces or gallbladders a foot away from you in restaurants. A dreaded Amtrak type is the passenger who commences prattling on her cellphone the instant she sits down and doesn't hang up until she gets to her stop, unable to bear an undistracted instant in her own company. People practice rap lyrics on the bus or the subway, barking doggerel along with their iPods as though they were alone in the shower. Respecting shared public space is becoming as quaintly archaic as tipping your hat to a lady, now that the concept of public space is as nearly extinct as hats, and ladies. [Read more…]


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From aliens in Antarctica to deprivation chambers and DMT: the spirit molecule, Brian Kendrick and Paul London's Excellent Adventures DVD is one trippy, transcendental shoot interview.
"The sun is not actually hot," Kendrick shares a nugget of wisdom, opening his first of many beers that he and London consume over the four-hour long shoot. "It's photons interacting with the matter," he tells London, listening intently. "The sun is f------ cold!"
Traveling through time and space with London and Kendrick is indeed an adventure, and one of the most well crafted shoot interview DVDs released by Highspots.com. The use of greenscreen for an assortment of images behind London and Kendrick throughout the shoot is innovative makes for some great comedy, despite London's face getting repeatedly cut off every time he turns his head.
But these minor flaws, along with the distracting sound of clinking beer bottles at the feet of London and Kendrick can be overlooked as they share intriguing insight into the inner workings of every promotion they worked for -- from top independent promotions to WWE -- delivered with fearless honesty.
On the subject of Vince McMahon: "I'll be happy when he's dead," says London. "When he dies there will be rainbows with Lucky Charms falling all over the place.
"He doesn't have a very good grasp on his audience. He's very closed-minded. He's just another f------ guy," says London shaking his head. "I just think it's really disgusting how people would lay down and give up all their power to this guy who just seems like a rotten person -- just a nasty human being."
Kendrick, though not as malicious, has no regrets getting fired from WWE: "I don't want to spend another day in WWE -- not for any amount of money," says Kendrick. "I'm glad it's done. I'd rather work at Home Depot."
And if watching two wrestlers burn every bridge in WWE is your idea of entertainment, then it only gets better as London and Kendrick share in great detail their disgust for politicking, while mocking everyone from Shane and Stephanie McMahon to Triple H and The Undertaker.
On the subject of the Undertaker being burned in the pyro accident earlier this year at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view: "How awesome was that!" exclaimed Kendrick, nearly spitting out a mouthful of beer. Kendrick leaps out of his chair to comically mimic the Undertaker's trench coat catching on fire. "I was in heaven, man!"
A strange story follows about an Australian tour where the Undertaker held something called 'Wrestler's Court' in a hotel lobby to supposedly discipline one of the Divas. "Undertaker acted as Judge Judy at four in the morning," London recalls as Kendrick bursts out laughing.
London adds, "I'm not a fan of people who put 'Deadman' on their license plate. I'm not a fan of people who wear their own merchandise."
Clearly though, London and Kendrick are fans of each other as they put one another over throughout the shoot. Bringing up a match that London had against Jeff Hardy in Mexico, Kendrick beams with wide-eyed enthusiasm, "That match was f------ incredible! It was amazing! That match was f------ unreal!"
They also give plenty of credit to those they admire, like Jeff Hardy: "He's got some kind of magic," says Kendrick. London concurs, "Definitely a cool f------ guy."
On the subject of Matt Hardy, Kendrick and London don't see eye-to-eye, which makes for an intriguing discussion between two friends as they share their different experiences. "I love 'em! They're awesome!" says Kendrick of Hardy. London on the other hand shares a lengthy story of bad blood and miscommunication between him and Hardy, over romantic relations with Ashley Massaro. "Such a foul person," London says of Matt Hardy, who he once admired.
Never are London and Kendrick more berating than when they bring up Deuce, who they refer to as 'Douche' and agree, "is the worst wrestler ever." "What a c--ksucker!" says London. Kendrick chimes in, "This motherf----- wouldn't bump. He's a f------ piece of s---, living off the laurels of his dad (Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka)."
"Whoah! My dad's a hooker killer," London quips.
They spare no words for Joey Mercury either when asked about MNM. "He's a piece of s---," says Kendrick, matter-of-factly. "Nitro was cool, super nice guy but he's got no spine. He lets other guys bang his girlfriend," says Kendrick as an images of Melina and Batista comes up on the screen behind them.
"Joey was bangin' Alexis Laree (Mickie James)," Kendrick adds as pornographic images of a younger Mickie James fill the screen. "Who hasn't seen those pictures!" London says with a laugh.
Highlights of the interview include London and Kendrick shedding light on their journey through various promotions, including Zero One. "I love those goofy g----!" says Kendrick of his experiences in Japan. "They like rape! They smoke on buses with the windows up."
Stories involving Japanese women, and condoms that don't fit, follows as London shares personal insight: "They don't shave their pubes out there," says London, going into far more detail than necessary.
Juxtaposed with lengthy tales of international tours are brief segments where London and Kendrick opine on such topics as lasagne, horror movies, discontinued breakfast cereals, urinating on the band Air Supply, condemned criminals being used as lab rats, and outer space. "The moon is a space station. It's hollow," says Kendrick, showing London a copy of the book, Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA.
The interviewer consistently does a solid job getting them back on the topic of wrestling, time and again, as Kendrick and London drink two six-packs between them while sharing a joint. Revisiting their time in WWE multiple times throughout the shoot, London comes across as more bitter than Kendrick. "Dreams ruined," says London of his time in WWE. Kendrick adds, "I'm not going to say it's an evil company. It just wasn't the right place for me."
London explains that his, "introduction to the ass kissing bulls---" began when he arrived in the developmental territory, OVW. "If you brought (Rip Rogers) a protein energy bar you could sit out of training that day," says London, his face full of confused expression. "What kind of faggots are you training here?"
Kendrick shares his experiences in developmental as well, though praising the work and mentorship of Tracey Smothers, William Regal, and Bobby Eaton.
In great detail, London and Kendrick speak about the challenges they faced in WWE, from the moment they toured the head office building. Kendrick vividly remembers asking Shane McMahon about the role tag teams play in WWE: "Not since L.O.D. have I cared about a f------ tag team," Kendrick repeats what Shane McMahon told him.
Kendrick adds, "It's a TV show, and that's it. There's a list of 15 wrestlers that the company revolves around, and we're not part of the main cast."
"It's a vampire of a company," London responds.
And though Kendrick and London recognize they fulfilled their dreams, making it to the top and winning tag team championships, they both express their frustrations with the political games that topically weave a thread through the entire shoot.
One name after another is brought up as the interview begins to wind down, as London and Kendrick sing high praises for some of the top stars in WWE, while lambasting others, including writers and agents. "Mike Rotundo lied to our face. He's a coward," says London.
But it's during the segment, where the interviewer asks about Chris Benoit, that Kendrick seems almost complacent: "S--- happens," says Kendrick, referring to the Benoit family tragedy. "I really hope I don't kill my wife -- but s--- happens, man."
London follows with a story about Benoit and some sexually perverse behaviour in a Hooters restaurant late one night. "We knew he was crazy," says London of Benoit. "We used to say he was tri-polar."
Kendrick adds, "We looked up to him professionally." London: "I think the business drove him nuts."
In closing, London and Kendrick agreed they'd be nuts to ever return to WWE. "A gazillion dollars is our price," says Kendrick, whose last run in WWE was in the heel role of The Brian Kendrick.
A few more popular names are thrown at them by the interviewer as Kendrick declares, "Santino (Marella) is the funniest motherf----- on the planet!"
As Kendrick and London polish off the last two beers, the interviewer asks them to sum up their experiences in wrestling.
Ending just a strangely as the whole adventure began, Kendrick launches into conspiracy theories around 9/11, and how, "it was a work." London takes one last swig of beer and listens to his best friend. "Man, it was f------ holograms," states Kendrick. "Thanks for asking!"
And with that, Kendrick and London conclude four hours of jaw-dropping tales and insight on everything from the psychology of ladder matches to lasagne recipes to a day in the life of a WWE superstar.
Outrageously entertaining, Highspots delivers an honest and enlightening shoot interview like no other, and the first for Brian Kendrick and Paul London. Let's hope there's more to come of this dynamic duo's excellent adventures.


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As Mount St. Joseph Academy field hockey hopefuls assembled for their first practices last week, the Magic coaches were gratified to observe a significant uptick in numbers. Last fall, a relatively low turnout meant that no cuts were made when putting together the varsity and JV squads, but this time around a large pool of players will have to be trimmed down to a manageable size.
"We had 26 freshmen trying out for the team, and there's definitely some talent there," said second-year head coach Christina Post. "A lot of these young girls are serious about hockey and have been playing on club teams for a number of years.
"We have a handful of real stand-out players, but beyond that there are skilled juniors and sophomores who I think are going to make this a deep team," she continued. "Even after a couple days the coaches are going back and forth about a number of players because we know it's going to be challenging to make those cuts."
One of the "stand-outs" of whom everyone is aware is Emilee Ehret, a Wyndmoor native who already committed to play hockey at Penn State last year. She'll be a midfielder, most likely center mid, so that her skill and power can be used up and down the pitch.
Two other senior veterans hail from Norwood Fontbonne Academy, Ann Burgoyne and Julia Mustin. Burgoyne, a forward who is being eyed by a number of Division I programs, has been working on extending her shooting range, according to Coach Post. Mustin, a steady defender, has been dealing with a minor injury in the pre-season, but should be back in action shortly.
Burgoyne is team co-captain along with the fourth senior on the squad, Ali Waters. The lanky forward was not usually grouped in with the "big guns" on offense last year, but it was Waters who actually scored most of the Mount's goals in two meetings with league archrival Villa Maria.
In 2011, the Magic shared the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies championship with Villa, and finished fourth in the Class AAA District tournament. In the first round of the PIAA state playoffs, the Magic lost 1-0 to District 12 champ Archbishop Carroll, finishing up with an overall record of 17-4.
The goalie from that squad, Christina Black, is back in the cage as a junior, and the defensive unit will draw on players such as her classmates Cara Beal and Dana Scott. Another 11th grader, Millie Stefanowicz, will positioned in the midfield where, according to Post, her impressive skill set can be utilized on both offense and defense.
Forward Chrissy Pascali was a starter throughout her freshman season in 2011, and two other current sophomores, mid Katie Maransky and forward Stephanie Mahoney also gained a lot of varsity experience last fall. Post noted that fellow 10th grader Adrienne Pero, a back, has made a strong showing in the early practice sessions.
Seasoned assistant coach Sharna Shuford is back for her sixth season with the Magic, and a new addition to the staff is MSJ alum and newly-minted University of Pennsylvania graduate Kieran Sweeney. Sweeney was a four- year starter in goal for some of the strongest teams in Mount history, and her knowledge will come in handy this fall because both of the understudies to Christina Black are freshmen.
Two non-league opponents have been added to the schedule this fall, Council Rock North and Radnor High School. Both are Class AAA programs, like the Mount, and successful outcomes in those matches would help boost the Magic's standing when it's time to seed teams for the District tourney.