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World-wide security training you cannot afford to miss!
03 Apr 2014 Julia Yuchin Cheng
The Honeynet Project will offer 4 world-class training courses for the 2014 workshop. The topics are as follows:
1. Understanding and Mitigating Botnets by Tillmann Werner: Tillmann is a specialist in botnet takeover. His talk will take the form of a comprehensive class beginning with botnet architecture introduction, ranging from old-school centralized IRC botnets to advanced P2P botnets. Learn, using hands-on exercises, the techniques used in modern botnets to improve resilience and discussed strategies to take them down.
2. Virtualization Security by Brian Hay: Brian is a researcher who specializes in virtualization and virtual machine introspection. He will introduce and overview virtualization, virtualization architectures, and virtualization platforms. Security challenges when using virtualized environments will be addressed along with the different security risks and mitigation strategies.
3. Reverse Engineering Android Malware by Mahmud Rahman: This speaker is a regular at popular conferences giving advanced security courses. His most recent talk was on reverse engineering android malware training in Dubai. He is going to offer this excellent course again in Warsaw. His hands-on course introduces the Android application framework, architecture and how to analyze and reverse engineer Android malware. Ample lab exercises will allow interaction with Android malware and reverse engineering of real-life Android samples.
4. Malware Reverse Engineering by Dr. Felix Leder: Dr. Leder, the director for malware research at Blue Coat, initialized and led the development of Norman's Malware Analyzer G2. He has focused on new methodologies for executable and malware analysis for the last few years. In this course, Felix will teach the advanced method of structured reverse engineering to efficiently investigate malware by identifying major properties and identification criteria. The course will also present and utilize state-of-the-art tools for real world exercises. Note that this course is not for beginners.
More courses introduction is on the http://warsaw2014.honeynet.org/trainings.html. Don't miss the trainings and register it now !


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Fees for Service of Process
Fees for service are generally governed by 17.1-272 of the Virginia State code, which are:
A. The fees for process and service in the following instances shall be twelve dollars:
- For service on any person, firm or corporation, a order, notice, summons or any other civil process, except as herein otherwise provided, and for serving on any person, firm, or corporation any process when the body is not taken and making a return thereof, except that no fees shall be charged for service pursuant to 9-6.14:13 of the Virginia State code. (Administrative agencies. Subpoenas, depositions and requests for admissions. The agency or its designated subordinates shall have power to, and on request for any party to a case shall, issue subpoenas requiring testimony or the production of books, papers, and physical or other evidence.)
- Summoning a witness or garnishee on an attachment.
- Service on any person an attachment or other process under which the body is taken and making a return thereon.
- Service of any order of court not otherwise provided for, except that no fees shall be charged for protective orders issued pursuant to 16.1-226 of the Virginia State code.
- Making a return of a writ of fieri facias when no levy was made or forthcoming bond taken.
- Summoning a witness in any case in which custody or visitation of a minor child or children is at issue.
- Service and publication of any notice of a publicly-advertised public sale.
- Service of a writ of possession, except that there shall be an additional fee of $12.00 for each additional defendant.
- Levying upon current money, bank notes, goods or chattels of a judgment debtor pursuant to 8.01-478 of the Virginia State code.
- Service of a declaration in ejectment of any person, firm or corporation, except that there shall be an additional fee of $12.00 for each additional defendant.
- Levying distress warrant or an attachment.
- Levying an execution.
Pursuant to Va. Code §17.1-272 as amended...Sheriff and High Constable fees for processes returnable to states outside the Commonwealth of Virginia are to paid in advance, and are as follows:
- $75.00 per entity--corporation, individual
- $75.00 per address where service is to be attempted.
- $75.00 per document served
- $75.00 per case number assigned
- Two persons at one address, $150.00
- One person at two different addresses $150.00
- $5.00 Notary fee effective July 1, 2005 Virginia Code § 47.1-19
- Service will be 'IN HAND' ONLY, unless substitute service is authorized by you.

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Having discovered that my WordPress 1.5 upgrade broke the CSS and
customized template I had designed for WordPress 1.2, I've been
shopping for a new theme at the WRC Theme
Viewer site. I'm looking for something clean and simple that I
can customize to my taste.
Having browsed through over a hundred and fifty themes, I'm left with one
burning question in my mind: why are 90% of these themes designed by
utter pinheads who don't understand basic Web concepts like letting the
viewer control the presentation?
I've ranted about the drooling idiocy of pixel-sized fonts before.
Many of these themes not only make that mistake (which hoses anyone in
a screen with a DPI different from the designer's), they cram the
content into boxes or vertical bands that don't resize when you
widen or narrow the browser.
There are a handful of honorable exceptions: Clasikue. Anarchy.
Curtains up. Dixie Belle. Elvgren. Flex. Fullwidth. Gentle
Calm. Gila. Greenwood. Ice. The three "Journalized" themes. Man-ja.
Operate. Placidwide. Psycho. Rampart. RohitKumar.org.
Sixties. Steam. But by and large, almost all of the more than 250
themes at this site (and elsewhere I've looked) make the same basic,
unforgiveable error. They treat the display like fancy paper under
the control of the theme designer rather than allowing the
user's preferences to control font sizes and the width of the
display area.
It's the web, you morons! Stop wasting readers' screen
space with frames and diapered borders. They have better use for
their pixels than all that frou-frou crap.


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Researchers at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC), The Jackson Laboratory and other institutes have uncovered 27 new candidate genes for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), a common and often deadly birth defect.
Their sophisticated data-filtering strategy, which uses gene expression during normal development as a starting point, offers a new, efficient and potentially game-changing approach to gene discovery.
Babies born with CDH -- representing one in every 3,000 live births -- have a hole in the diaphragm that separates the abdominal cavity from the chest cavity, and may die due to poor growth of the lung.
Patricia K. Donahoe, M.D., director of the Pediatric Surgical Research Laboratories at MGHfC, explained, "That hole can be fixed surgically if CDH has been diagnosed in time. But even surgery does not rescue the infants' impaired lung development, which often leads to fatal respiratory complications." Patients who survive into adulthood "tend to have a lot of ongoing health issues," she noted.
Donahoe and her colleagues Meaghan Russell, Ph.D., and Mauro Longoni, M.D., and Jackson Laboratory Professor Carol J. Bult, Ph.D., a computational biologist, led the research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team had two goals: to identify the genes and gene networks that cause the hole in the diaphragm in order to develop new diagnostics and preventive treatments, and to learn more about how healthy lungs form to boost lung development in post-operative infant patients.
Bult and her Jackson colleague Julie Wells, Ph.D., generated gene expression profiles -- snapshots of gene activity -- for embryonic mouse diaphragms at multiple stages of development. Using algorithms designed by the JAX-MGH team, they used these data to then predict genes likely to contribute to diaphragm defects.
Bult said, "We asked which genes in our developmental data sets work together in common pathways, and which of these pathways contain previously known CDH genes from human studies and mouse models?"
To build gene networks, the researchers used the Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) data base resource based at The Jackson Laboratory. MGI, freely available to the research community, maintains the most comprehensive collection of mouse genetic and genomic information.
The researchers' filtering strategy identified 27 new candidate genes for CDH. When the investigators examined the diaphragms of knockout mice for one of these candidate genes -- pre-B cell leukemia transcription factor 1 or Pbx1 -- they found previously unreported diaphragmatic defects, confirming the prediction.
The next step in the project is to screen patients for mutations in Pbx1 using the collection of CDH patient data and DNA that MGHfC and Children's Hospital Boston have been accumulating for years in collaboration with hospitals from around the world.
The research reported in the paper opens the door "not only to further research to explore the effects of the other 26 CDH candidate genes," Bult said, "but to a disease gene identification and prioritization strategy for CDH, an approach that can be extended to other diseases and developmental anomalies."
MassGeneral Hospital for Children is the pediatric service of Massachusetts General Hospital (www.massgeneral.org), the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $750 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, reproductive biology, regenerative medicine, reproductive biology, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine.
The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution and National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center based in Bar Harbor, Maine, with a facility in Sacramento, Calif., a future institute in Farmington, Conn., and a total staff of about 1,400. Its mission is to discover the genetic basis for preventing, treating and curing human disease, and to enable research and education for the global biomedical community.
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April's Last Word (bit.ly/H-Pservice) explored the concept of thinking about home performance as integral to what you do as a complete home comfort services company, rather than an add-on to your business.
One important aspect of this approach is integrating inspection and testing of the home and HVAC system into your annual performance tune-ups, as well as your maintenance agreements. It means focusing on customers' safety, health, comfort, and energy efficiency by inspecting their entire home, not just maintaining their HVAC equipment.
There are some key steps you can make part of your maintenance work and/or agreements as they relate to each of the four above-mentioned performance factors. The items below are in addition to the normal maintenance tasks your techs currently perform. I'll identify each performance factor followed by one or more of the following abbreviations:
- S=Safety,
- H=Health,
- C=Comfort, and
- E= Energy Efficiency.
Perform a visual inspection of the home's exterior and interior condition and note any apparent issues. This assessment should be visual. Where problems are identified, you can offer further inspection and/or testing based on your findings.
This is not meant to replace whole-house and HVAC system testing, but rather acts as a preliminary assessment. Teaching your techs to perform this inspection and document findings is huge! They can become true customer heroes by identifying small issues before they become big problems.
Your visual inspection might include looking at overhangs, gutters, roof and chimney conditions from the ground, drainage plains on the home's perimeter, condition of exterior elements such as windows, doors, siding, etc. It can also include looking at interior element conditions such as the attic, basement or crawl space, and a visual inspection of the HVAC distribution system, including registers and grilles.
Remember, this isn't a comprehensive whole-house and HVAC system test. It's just preliminary, designed to lead to further testing as necessary. By the way, we call this lead generation (S, H, C, E).
Perform a Carbon Monoxide (CO) safety inspection and test to insure the home is as safe and healthy as possible when you leave. CO can be caused by a number of issues or defects including poor venting and/or combustion air, incorrect equipment installation or defects, maintenance issues, pressure imbalances in the home, and a number of other potential problems. Good training in CO and combustion testing is critical. A quality low-level CO monitor can help safeguard technicians and customers from both a safety and health standpoint while you're there and after you leave (S, H).
Perform a quick pressure, temperature, airflow, and "delivered BTU" test on the entire HVAC system to get an initial idea of how well the system is delivering the correct airflow and heating or cooling BTUs at the registers. When issues are uncovered, full room-by-room testing should be offered to get a more accurate idea of the entire system's condition and what it would take to get it to perform correctly. Severe airflow imbalances can also cause pressure imbalances, making it an issue that could reach across all four performance factors (S, H, C, E).
Make note of possible safety hazards and other mechanical issues in the home on items like electrical safety violations, unsafe steps, railings, etc. Note other issues that could lead to deterioration of the home including water heater condition, and water leaks in basement or crawl space (if easily accessible).
Again, this isn't meant to act as an official home inspection, rather a heads-up of things your technician noticed while performing his normal maintenance and testing duties.
In your reporting you need to make sure that you note that these are just quick visual findings, and are not meant to substitute a thorough inspection of the various conditions found. Be sure to include disclaimer language in your reports to this effect to cover yourself from a liability standpoint. Typically uncovering potential issues, particularly with respect to safety make you less liable than not disclosing them (S, H).
There are a number of other tests and inspections you could add to your list to differentiate your maintenance agreements. Use your imagination. Open your mind up to looking at the entire home, not just the HVAC equipment.
This year at Comfortech 2014 (www.comfortechshow.com), Contracting Business.com is dedicating an entire track to this important evolution of your service business. NCI instructors will delve into each of these areas to provide you with some great training and tools to help you on your way to becoming a comprehensive home comfort services company.
Dominick Guarino is CEO of National Comfort Institute (NCI), (www.national comfortinstitute.com), a premier performance-based training, certification, and membership organization, focused on helping contractors grow and become more profitable. His email is [email protected]. For more info on performance-based contracting, go to WhyPBC.com or call NCI at 800/633-7058.


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Opinion: Year in Review: Congress' 10 biggest enemies of the Earth
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Republicans launched an unprecedented frontal assault against environmental protections and regulations this year, prompting Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to call his chamber 'the most anti-environment House in history.' Here are the 10 most powerful and outspoken opponents of clean air, clean water, conservation and climate action.
10. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. Thought to be the biggest lifetime recipient of oil-industry contributions in the Senate, Cornyn has rewarded Exxon-Mobil's largesse by supporting the industry's position on pretty much every energy or environmental issue that has ever appeared before him. That's why he, like everyone on this list, has a '0' on the League of Conservation Voters' scorecard for pro-environment votes.
9. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska. A tireless advocate for opening Alaska's pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, Young was involved in one of the more entertaining name-calling spats in Congress this year when he got into a tiff over the refuge with author and professor Doug Brinkley. You can be the judge of who won by watching the video replay.
8. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista. There may have been a time when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lived up to its name, investigating and bringing to light incidents of government waste, fraud and abuse. But I can't remember back that far. In recent decades it has served as a tool for the majority party in the House to bash and embarrass the presidential administration, at least during times such as now when the House isn't controlled by the president's party. Issa, the committee's current chairman, has turned such political gamesmanship into an art form, and has been particularly keen to attack environmental regulators and policymakers. In so doing he has turned up precious little waste or fraud, but provided plenty of political theater for those who want to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency or end subsidies for clean energy.
7. Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio. Latta has the distinction of sponsoring the most far-reaching and destructive amendment to the most egregious anti-environment bill passed by the House this year. The TRAIN Act, approved by the House in September but not expected to get through the Senate, is a breathtaking (literally) gift to polluters that creates a committee to study the costs but ignore the benefits of environmental regulation, while also blocking EPA efforts to crack down on deadly emissions from power plants. Latta's contribution is an amendment that undermines a cornerstone of the Clean Air Act, requiring the EPA to take industry costs into account when setting health-based standards. This would allow corporate polluters to overrule scientists and strikes at the heart of the polluter-pays principle that has guided environmental policy for 40 years.
6. Rep. Edward Whitfield, R-Ky. Another architect of the TRAIN wreck, Whitfield offered an amendment that would block the EPA from regulating mercury and other toxics from power plants, and from coming up with a rule on smog and soot that crosses state lines. Together, these two regulations would save an estimated 51,000 lives per year. But what are a few thousand lives when utility profits are at stake?
5. Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla. One of the most outspoken climate-change deniers in the Senate (he's renowned for calling global warming 'the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people'), Inhofe is also one of the most influential Republicans in the country when it comes to environmental policy. As ranking member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, he uses his position to push for expanded oil drilling and reduce environmental regulation. Inhofe sometimes even finds himself to the right of the polluter-packed U.S. Chamber of Commerce; this summer he placed a hold on President Obama's nominee John Bryson as Commerce secretary, even though Bryson had the blessing of the Chamber, because Inhofe felt Bryson was too pro-environment.
4. Rep. Michael Simpson, R-Idaho. Simpson has stepped to the front lines of his party's war on Mother Nature by adding dozens of anti-environment riders to must-pass budget legislation. Among other things, Simpson aims to let mountaintop coal-mining operations continue to pollute streams, prevent the EPA from regulating coal-ash disposal, and exempt pesticide sprayers from complying with the Clean Water Act.
3. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. The enforcer of Republican Party discipline, Senate Minority Leader McConnell is among the key architects of his party's stance on environmental issues. In 2009, when Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was among the few Republicans willing to discuss a bipartisan climate bill with Democrats, it was McConnell who reportedly convinced him to back away. This spring he led a failed effort to block the EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and overrule its finding that climate change threatens public health -- tantamount to a statement that politicians know more about the dangers of climate change than scientists.
2. Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va. The House Majority Leader released a memo in late August listing the top 10 'job-destroying regulations' his party would battle in the remainder of the congressional session. Seven were environmental rules opposed by the fossil fuel industry, including restrictions on emissions from industrial boilers and cement plants, and proposed rulemaking on smog, farm soot and greenhouse gases. None of these rules really threaten jobs, but failing to approve them would certainly threaten lives.
1. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Upton is the gatekeeper for many of the disastrous anti-environment bills that have been approved or proposed in the House this year. Ironically, he was once known among his state's conservatives as 'Red Fred' because of a somewhat pro-environment voting record, but a recent electoral challenge from his right changed all that. Because of his powerful position and newfound disdain for green regulation, he represents one of the biggest threats to planet Earth on planet Earth.
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-- Dan Turner


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I've been designing like this since I first started designing websites for clients. But I don't really design any sites larger than 10 pages.
To me though, the beauty of a website is more about the experience and not so much about what the site looks like (I may be generalizing that a bit too much, because I do love a beautiful "looking" site).


text: Wasp last edited by SlamAdams on 01/31/24 01:25PM View full history OriginPym turning Janet into the Wasp.Janet Van Dyne is the daughter of world-renowned scientist, the late Vernon Van Dyne. In her early years, she was a beautiful but flighty and self-centered dilettante, living resplendently off of her father's fortune. She had an on-and-off romantic relationship with the world-renowned soldier-of-fortune named Paladin. Tragedy struck when a deadly alien called a Kosmosian was brought to Earth as a result of one of her father's experiments, and the elder Van Dyne was murdered by the alien. A grieving Janet then contacted her father's colleague, Dr. Henry Pym. She told Pym of her resolve to bring her father's killer to justice. Pym, who was attracted to Janet and anxious to help, revealed his secret identity as Ant-Man and offered to give her similar powers. Janet underwent an advanced biochemical process involving his Pym Particles that allowed her to shrink to insect-sized proportions and to grow translucent insect wings. Furthermore, Pym outfitted her with personalized wrist devices which allowed her to discharge bio-electric energy blasts which she called her "wasp stings." Designing a colorful costume for herself (the first of many), Janet Van Dyne became the super-heroine known as the Wasp.CreationThe Wasp was originally created in 1963 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as a sidekick and love interest for Hank Pym, who at the time went by his Ant-Man persona in Tales to Astonish. Her first appearances was in this series in Tales to Astonish #44. The Wasp became a founding member of the Avengers and its first female member, as well as the character credited with naming the team.Character EvolutionShe was created by her husband's discovery of the Pym Particle which enables a human to shrink into any different size. The Wasp held true to a pattern common among Silver Age female characters. This was demonstrated in one of two ways. She was generally demonstrated as dependent on her male partner (Hank Pym) for all of her super-abilities, and was mostly incapable of her own scientific understanding and ability. This extended as well to her playing the damsel-in-distress role from time-to-time, also a common trait among female characters in the Silver Age. As was also common for the period, her early appearances featured a somewhat standoffish attitude to those around her because of her wealthy upbringing. Later, as the Wasp was incorporated into the mainstream monthly activities of her superhero team, her mostly stereotypical behaviour disappeared, to be replaced by that of a strong ally and loyal teammate. As comics aimed to become less light and to appeal to an older audience in the 1980's and 1990's, her character underwent further change to make her more realistic, as well as deal with modern social issues (in Janet's case, with domestic abuse).Major Story ArcsFounding the AvengersJanet's original Wasp costume.Using their superpowers, Jan and Hank tracked down and defeated the Kosmosian who had murdered Jan's father, banishing the alien to its home dimension. After sharing more adventures, Hank and Jan gradually fell in love with each other; Jan reminded Hank of his deceased first wife, Maria. Pym and Van Dyne became crime-fighting partners in their costumed identities, and became two of the founding members of the Avengers (along with Thor, Iron Man and The Hulk) after responding when Hank's helmet picked up Rick Jones' fateful call for help. It was, in fact, the Wasp who suggested the name "Avengers" for the group which had gathered. A further milestone in Avengers history, Jan and the other founders (minus the Hulk) were the discoverers of the great World War II hero, Captain America, still frozen since the last days of the war. Being a fashion designer, the Wasp would become known for her frequent costume changes.Jan with the AvengersJan's attitude towards crime-fighting was, at first, very carefree, and she did a lot of flirting with other members of the team, especially Thor. She saw it as her way of attracting Hank's attention for his failure to commit. The studious Pym began to experiment with Pym Particles, and found that he could cause himself to grow beyond his normal height. By this time, both crime fighters had been exposed to the Particles long enough to change size at will rather than rely on gas capsules or potions, and Jan could fire her stinger blasts without the aid of wrist devices. Changing his costumed identity to "Giant-Man," Pym eventually experienced bodily strain due to the physiological effects of the growing process. Because of this, Pym decided to take a break from costumed adventuring. With the stress of constant threats from Pym's enemies (such as Egghead and Whirlwind) as well as confronting Kang the Conqueror and the Masters of Evil with the Avengers, Jan was ready for a break herself. Meanwhile, Thor and Iron Man took their leave of absence from the Avengers, leaving Captain America to preside over a new incarnation of the team. Jan remained in her civilian career as a fashion designer, with Pym continuing his scientific pursuits. Sometime later, however, Pym and Van Dyne learned that Namor the Sub-Mariner was heading for New York City. Fearing trouble, they decided to alert the Avengers. The Wasp was captured first by Namor's foe, the undersea barbarian leader Attuma, and then by the Collector. In order to help the Avengers rescue Janet, Pym decided to use his growing power again; he donned a new costume and adopted the new name of "Goliath."A Rocky MarriageYellowjacket & Wasp vs. the Circus of Crime.Pym had always loved Janet, but various inhibitions kept him from proposing to her -- feelings of inadequacy due to her wealth were primary among them. One day, while he had still not fully mentally recovered from the stress of accidentally creating one of the Avengers' greatest foes in the form of the robot known as Ultron, Hank had a lab accident with experimental gases. These caused a reaction in him that broke his inhibitions down, and induced a severe case of schizophrenia. This was his second breakdown, the first having been after his first wife, Maria, had been killed. Believing himself to be a new person named "Yellowjacket," Pym broke into Avengers Mansion and told the team that he had killed Henry Pym. When the team attacked him, he captured the Wasp and escaped. Soon after, the Avengers were shocked to hear that Janet, who suspected it was Pym all along, was going to marry him. Their wedding at Avengers Mansion was attended by a who's-who of active superheroes at the time. Immediately following, the Avengers were attacked by the villainous Circus of Crime. Janet later felt guilty at having taken advantage of Hank's mental state to finally get married, but the couple was initially happy.JocastaJanet being used as a template for Jocasta.Hank later had a third breakdown, during which he was captured and brainwashed by an upgraded version of Ultron, causing him to revert to his earliest days as Ant-Man. Ultron then sent Hank back to Avengers Mansion to attack his own teammates. During the fighting, it was the Wasp who took down her wayward husband. Undeterred, Ultron attacked the Avengers and captured the Wasp, with the intention of using her brain patterns as a template for his female robotic 'bride,' Jocasta. However, Ultron underestimated the heroic influence that Janet's personality would have on his creation. Once animated with the Wasp's brain patterns, Jocasta contacted the Avengers, who arrived in time to rescue Janet and defeat Ultron.With Ultron's defeat, Hank's brainwashing was reversed. But Janet suspected that this episode, culminating in being brought down by his own wife, may have further exacerbated her husband's already fragile mental state. He became overbearing, paranoid, and verbally abusive, releasing pent-up tension which was a result of his sense of failure in science, made worse when compared to his wife's financial success.DivorceThe blow that ended the marriage.When the Avengers were battling the Elfqueen, Hank blasted the villainess from behind during a lull in the fighting, even though Captain America had nearly succeeded in talking her down. Rather than ending the struggle, Hank's unnecessary attack provoked yet another round of fighting. Afterward, Captain America charged Hank with reckless behavior, since innocent bystanders could have been killed.Cap's reprimand led to Pym's fourth nervous breakdown. An increasingly unstable Pym decided that if he could build a robot to attack Avengers Mansion, he could then defeat it and be a hero again in the eyes of his teammates. He included a special hidden weak spot on the robot just for this purpose. When Jan discovered Hank's plan and protested, Hank lashed out, brutally striking his wife. His plan went awry, and when the robot attacked the mansion, it was the Wasp who disabled it. In the following court-martial, Pym was stripped of his Avengers membership. Meanwhile, Janet decided that she had had enough and filed for divorce.Continued Avengers Service & ChairmanshipTeam leaderOver the years, Janet had become a seasoned hero, a far cry from the ditzy thrill-seeker she had been when first teaming with Pym. She continued service with the team after Hank's fourth breakdown despite the tremendous stress of the situation. After the divorce, she at times revisited her old dallying romance with Paladin. The Wasp was elected as chairman of the Avengers, a position she held for a long time (second to only Captain America), having been molded into a savvy and capable leader. Janet and several other Avengers were among the group of heroes summoned to Battleworld by the Beyonder to fight in his Secret Wars. During the conflict, the Wasp crash-landed an aircraft stolen from Magneto and took refuge with the outcast Lizard. She was gravely wounded by the Wrecker when the Wrecking Crew was dispatched by Doctor Doom to retrieve the Lizard. In a death-like state, she was revived by the alien healer Zsaji.While Avengers chairman, the Wasp led the team in discovering Jean Grey, a member of the X-Men long thought to be dead. Her teammate Black Knight had an unrequited crush on her for some time, while another, the Greek god Hercules, chafed at being given orders by a woman. The most serious test of her leadership ability came when the Masters of Evil under Baron Zemo attacked and conquered Avengers Mansion in the Under Siege story arc. With every other active team member incapacitated and a small army of super-villains controlling their headquarters, it was up to the Wasp to assemble a rescue squad and mount the assault to retake the mansion. Eventually Hank Pym's mental balance returned and he was reinstated as an active Avenger. Janet was briefly assigned to the West Coast branch after this. The two managed to rekindle a friendship and, some years later, a romance. While on a trip to Las Vegas, however, Jan turned down a proposal of Hank's. She said she would not marry him again.The Crossing & OnslaughtAfter sustaining severe injuries during the Crossing, Pym put Janet through the same process that he had originally used to give her her powers. This temporarily mutated Janet into an almost completely wasp-like form. In this form, she was among the Avengers who seemingly gave their lives to absorb the energy of Onslaught, in reality being shunted to an alternate dimension. She was later returned to normal by Franklin Richards, and helped to re-assemble the team after this event.Heroes Return & HawkeyeJan increases to new heights. Following a membership evaluation after dealing with the sorceress Morgan Le Fay in the Morgan Conquest story arc, Wasp was left in a reservist role for a time but eventually re-attained full membership and even regained the chairmanship. Janet hosted the television show "America's Next Superstar" for a time. Jan then had a dallying affair with Hawkeye after he re-joined the Avengers, which left Hank reeling. She soon returned to her longtime, if rocky, flame. Around this time, Jan also began using Pym Particles to grow to immense heights, just as Hawkeye (as Goliath) and Pym had done.Avengers DisassembledOne day at the pool, while discussing her fling with Hawkeye to the Scarlet Witch, a slightly tipsy Wasp confessed to a pregnancy scare and inadvertently mentioned Wanda's own children, whose unnatural existence Agatha Harkness had erased from Wanda's memory. The Wasp's slip of the tongue, combined with the Scarlet Witch's increasingly unstable mental state and growing powers caused Wanda to suffer a mental breakdown which led to the events of "Avengers Disassembled". Janet was knocked into a coma by a rampaging She-Hulk during an attack on Avengers Mansion by the Scarlet Witch. Hank watched over her as she laid in the hospital, and when she recovered, they reconciled. The two retired from the Avengers in order to pursue a new life together in Oxford. The Wasp reappeared with Pym in the miniseries Beyond! and had themselves a mini-adventure. At this point, Hank was still her ex-husband and, over the course of the events chronicled in this series, it was revealed that they had called off their most recent attempt at a romantic relationship although they remained on good terms.Civil WarWasp and the Mighty AvengersWith the onset of the superhuman Civil War, Hank helped spearhead the pro-registration movement. Janet was also pro-registration (although she was very upset about the murder of her friend Bill Foster) and had become the host of a pro-registration reality show called America's Newest Superhero. When selecting the roster for the latest incarnation of the Avengers team, this time as part of the Fifty States Initiative, Tony Stark selected Janet as a founding member of the Mighty Avengers. When alien symbiotes attacked New York, Janet used a refined growth formula given to her by Hank Pym which allowed her to shift to giant-size without side effects. It was later revealed, however, that Hank had been replaced by a Skrull impostor by at that point, so it was possible that some flaw had deliberately put in the formula. During the beginning of the fight, Janet was briefly turned into a symbiote monster before a cure was created by Stark.Secret Invasion & DeathJanet becoming a bio-bombThe Wasp was among the Mighty Avengers fighting the Skrull forces, some disguised as various Earth heroes and attacking from Skrull starships during the Secret Invasion. She was later seen with the rest of the Avengers heading to New York to confront more invading Skrulls. While fighting the Skrulls, the true sinister purpose of the serum that the Skrull Hank Pym gave her was revealed. After the Skrull Queen Veranke was shot and killed, Skrull Pym activated a button that made Jan increase in size, very rapidly. Jan realized that the particles Pym had given her in earlier were now turning her into a bio-bomb. Jan was seen growing huge and emitting a black-purple matter in a precursor to an explosion. Knowing she was about to die, she tried to flee the battlefield and take as many Skrulls with her as she could. In order to save countless innocent people, Thor was forced to teleport Jan to another dimension before she could explode, vowing to avenge her in the process.Post-Secret InvasionAfter the death of Janet Van Dyne, the real Hank Pym was discovered to be a captive on board one of the Skrull starships, along with many other missing heroes who had been replaced by Skrull impostors. Much to Hank's shock, he learned that his former wife had been used as a Skrull weapon in the invasion. Earth's heroes then had to break the news to Hank that Janet had died as a result.The news devastated Hank, and for a while he went into seclusion in his lab. After he re-emerged, he decided to honor the woman he regarded as 'the greatest hero he had ever known' by taking up the hero's mantle again and creating a new alter ego for himself: the Wasp.Afterlife AppearancesThe celestial entity mistaken for WaspShortly after her death, it seemed that Janet's soul-spirit was encountered by her former Avengers teammate Hercules when he journeyed to the underworld. Since Janet felt as though she still had unfinished business among the living, her spirit was shown trapped in the dimension of Erebus and relentlessly attempting to gamble her way back into the living world. It was noted that the gambling games that the trapped souls played in Erebus in search of their release had the odds of a win stacked overwhelmingly against them, though these odds did not deter Janet from playing.Meanwhile, Hank Pym discovered a massive and seemingly female celestial entity in the alternate dimension of Underspace while experimenting with dimensional technology. The entity featured a pattern on her body that strongly resembled the Wasp costume Janet last wore when she exploded, so Hank become convinced the entity was in fact Janet herself. Hank established an extradimensional headquarters called the Infinite Avengers Mansion in the location of one of the entity's "eyes." He designed the Infinite Mansion to act as a dimensional "harness" to keep her particles from drifting apart completely, and then began work on a device that would restore her to human form. But one of Hank's young Avengers Academy members, Veil, grew desperate to make a good impression on Hank and decided to trigger the device prematurely in an attempt to bring Janet back. When the entity returned to human form, it turned out to be Carina Walters (the ex-wife of super-villain Michael Korvac), not Janet. Hank Pym had transferred Janet's memories into Carina's energy form when he thought she was his late wife. The memories inspires Carina to live by her own wishes and not her father or husband's.Meanwhile, a version of Janet's psyche still lives on in the robotic form of Jocasta, though Jocasta has developed her own feelings for Hank. Jocasta, now an honorary Avenger and Hank's assistant, has grown increasingly distraught by Hank's obsession with bringing Janet back. A cyborg Janet Van Dyne also appeared, serving Father. She fought against Hawkeye and the Secret Avengers.Return from the Microverse & joining the Uncanny AvengersWasp in her Marvel NOW! costumeRecently, it has been revealed that the actual Janet Van Dyne was still alive in the Microverse, apparently having been flung into that dimension when her body seemingly exploded during Secret Invasion. During all this time, she was presumed dead. When in reality, she had been seeking a way back to her proper dimension. She was finally discovered in the Microverse by the Avengers (most notably ex-husband Hank Pym, Thor, Captain America and Iron Man) and has since returned to the normal Marvel reality.She became a member of the Avengers Unity Squad. There she developed a relationship with Alex Summers, also known as Havok. They eventually fell in love. In the Apocalypse Twins storyline, the Apocalypse Twins use Scarlet Witch to send all the mutants to their own planet. Janet goes with them and, when there, she and Alex marry and have a child. When they are returned to the normal timeline, the memories of their marriage and unborn child remain. After the ordeal of losing her children from an alternate timeline, Wasp took a long leave of absence.Rage of UltronJanet came back to active duty and helped her fellow Avengers when a version of the evil Ultron returned from space and tried destroying the Avengers and the Earth. Wasp and her fellow Avengers managed to capture Ultron and send him off into space, but with the result of seemingly killing Janet's ex-husband Hank Pym, whom was sent into space with Ultron.Return of Ultron & rejoining the Uncanny AvengersAfter Janet's ex-husband Hank Pym was seemingly killed, she again took a leave of absence. She was not seen again until many months later, when Hank Pym seemingly returned to Earth and the Avengers, claiming that both he and Ultron had merged together and that Hank had now taken control of Ultron. The Avengers contacted Janet, asking her to verify if it was truly Hank they where dealing with. She soon found out that it was not Hank, but Ultron that actually in control. When confronting Hank with this, a fight between the group and the evil robot emerged. They eventually managed to take out Ultron, seemingly forever, sending him into the sun...but unbeknown to Janet and her teammates, Ultron survived once more.Rejoining the Avengers with the Agents of WakandaLater on, Janet was recruited into the Avengers' sub-team, the Agents of Wakanda. She was the leader of this team which consisted out of Gorilla-Man, Ka-Zar, Dr. Nemesis, and Okoye - among others. While there, she assisted the Avengers on a number of missions, including the one in which she saved Blade from a group of vampires, and even became romantically involved with her teammate Iron Man. However, the relationship was not meant to last, since after the Robot Rebellion, she confronted Tony and told him that she had moved on.Small WordsJanet promised her adopted daughter, Nadia, that she would help her investigate the deaths of Nadia's birth mother and grandfather at the hands of the Red Room. However, their investigation was interrupted by Whirlwind, forced to attack them by the private spy agency, WHISPER. He was armed with a special formula formic acid that Jan recognized as the weapon that killed her own father. Believing their may be a connection, Jan and Nadia retraced Whirlwind's steps to find his employer. Unfortunately, they found Pilai, the alien creature that killed Jan's father.Pilai was controlling the presumed dead Janos Trovaya, Nadia's grandfather. Janos had created WHISPER to get revenge on the Red Room and the murder of his daughter, however, Pilai was able to use his telepathy to take over WHISPER and make it what it is today. Believing the Wasps would come for Janos one day, he lured them there early and trapped them in their own psychic nightmares. Nadia was back in the Red Room, while Jan saw an alternate history where she was the primary suspect in her father's murder.The Wasps proved harder to break than Pilai thought. Without Hank Pym to guide her, Jan still became a hero. He attempted to merge their psychic illusions by sending newly trained assassin, Nadia, after the world-renowned Jan, but this meeting backfired when their recognition of each other broke the illusion. Using a portable cathexis ray Nadia had been working on, they converted Pilai's own gamma radiation into cosmic rays, destroying the beast and freeing Janos.Avengers, IncAvengers IncDuring the Devil's Reign event, Mayor Wilson Fisk enacted legislation abolishing costumed crime-fighting from New York City, except his designated and government-run Thunderbolts. The law was so popular that when Luke Cage defeated Fisk in a campaign for mayor, Luke was unable to abolish it. Instead, he encouraged Janet Van Dyne to starting Avengers Inc, an investigation consulting firm with no costumes. She had just created the Jarvis Lounge, a top floor lounge with an Avengers only VIP space, that could be used as a headquarters. Despite some reluctance, Janet eventually agreed.The first case Luke asked Wasp to look into was the murders of five Raft inmates, one of which Wasp was responsible for putting their, Whirlwind. Their killer had avoided every security measure, and Luke needed to know how. However, while Wasp was investigating the bodies, they were miraculously revived as if nothing has happened, except for Whirlwind's body, which was now possessed by an entity claiming to be Victor Shade, an old alias of The Vision. He even has a scar in the shape of a diamond on his forehead that making him appear like Vision. Turning her investigation to what happened to Whirlwind, Wasp hired Victor Shade as the first employee of Avengers, Inc so she could keep an eye on him.While investigating villains who were being killed in the same manner as Whirlwind but not revived, Avengers Inc were led to Hank Pym, who was posing as a medical examiner and forging the morgue documents. Pym freely volunteered all of his information to her. While stuck in the future, he used All-Father Ultron power to remove himself from Ultron and return himself to present, albeit aged and weakened. He started faking the deaths so that he could recruit villains to a new Lethal Legion that could stand guard until Ultron resurfaced. The resurrected Raft villains rejected his offer so were returned with their memories wiped. However, a biological version of Ultron remained inside Pym, manipulating him to assemble a team Ultron could turn into a hivemind army.Thankfully, the Victor Shade personality revealed itself to be Ultron-12, a version of Ultron's software that saw Pym as a father. He had taken over Whirlwind's body to lay in wait for Ultron to make his move. Wasp also had a number of other heroes on standby. Assembled, they were able to free the Lethal Legion from Ultron's grasp, but Pym took his team into Subatomica to prepare for Ultron's inevitable return. Powers and AbilitiesSmaller than a cigar ring.Making use of sub-atomic Pym particles, the Wasp possesses the power to alter her physical size, causing her body's mass to be shunted to or gained from an alternate dimension known as Kosmos. She is able to shrink to a minimum of half an inch or grow to a maximum of several hundred feet. Smaller or larger sizes are possible but the exertion begins to put a strain on her body. Initially, these abilities stemmed from use of a Pym particle gas released from special capsules. Over time, however, her body has absorbed enough particles to allow her to alter her size at will.At miniature size, her strength level increases as her body's mass is compacted. At giant size, her strength and endurance increase geometrically with her height, reaching superhuman levels. Despite the advantages of giant-size, Janet usually prefers to remain the diminutive Wasp, calling on her growth power only in times of extreme emergency. At miniature size, the Wasp grows a pair of translucent insect wings from her back, a result of genetic modifications provided by Hank Pym. These grant her the power of flight at incredible speeds.The Wasp is able to harness and augment her body's natural bio-electric energy, releasing it from her hands in powerful electrical bursts, which she calls her "stinger blasts" or "wasp stings." Originally, she required special wrist devices to produce these but again, Pym particle absorption has allowed her to create the ability unaided. The Wasp's genetic modifications also grant her the ability to sprout small prehensile antennae from her forehead which allow her to telepathically communicate with and control insects. However, this is an ability that she rarely uses.Janet Van Dyne has also displayed several non-superhuman abilities that have garnered her special fame and attention, foremost of which is her fashion sense. She possesses considerable talent as a clothing and costume designer, and in her early appearances she showcased many different costumes, all designed and created herself. She also helped her Avengers teammate Ms. Marvel create her own signature costume.In addition, the Wasp is one of the most intuitive and deductive members of the Avengers. She effectively deduced that a chemical accident had created a schizophrenic break in Henry Pym. She was the first Avenger to realize that the relationship between the Scarlet Witch and the Vision was the result of the infused personality of Wonder Man, and also was the first to correctly guess the identity of Iron Man at a time when Tony Stark faked his own death.As a founding member of the Avengers, the Wasp has learned a great deal by fighting alongside veteran heroes like Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and many others, and has grown into a strong and capable leader in her own right. She has served both as field leader and as chairwoman of the team many times during her Avengers tenure.Personal DataCharacteristicsJanet Van DyneHeight: 5' 4" (normal)Weight: 110 lbs. (normal)Eyes: BlueHair: AuburnUnusual features: Translucent wasp-like wings sprout from Janet's back when she shrinks to under 4 feet tall.StatusCitizenship: AmericanPlace of Birth: Cresskill, New JerseyIdentity: Public identityMarital Status: DivorcedOccupations: Avenger, adventurer, TV show host, fashion designer, independently wealthy socialiteKnown Relatives: Vernon Van Dyne (father, deceased), Dr. Henry Pym (husband, divorced), Ultron (self-declared "son"), Jocasta (first "daughter-in-law"), Alkhema (second "daughter-in-law"), Vision ("grandson"), Scarlet Witch (former "granddaughter-in-law")Alternate RealitiesEarth-1610Ultimate WaspIn the Ultimate Universe, Janet is of Asian descent, rather than Caucasian, and she is a scientific genius in her own right, holding 2 PhDs. She is also a mutant, but it is unknown to everyone except SHIELD and her boyfriend Hank Pym. Her mutant powers allow her to shrink and grow wings when she is shrunken. She can also produce energy blasts which act like wasp-stings. Her powers have strange side effects however, which include causing her to eat insects, forming her own larval nests, and laying eggs. She started dating Hank during college, but even during college Hank was extremely abusive to her. She was a roommate of Betty Ross, and Betty remembers times where Janet was missing chunks of her hair.Their relationship would not change in time though. Hank tried to improve his behavior with medication and joining the Ultimates program. Janet also became good friends with Captain America, which made Hank jealous. After a humiliating loss to the Hulk, he took out his frustration on Janet. He started attacking Janet, which caused her to change size and start firing wasp-blasts at him. Hank got even more angry and ordered his ants to attack Janet. The swarm of ants began biting the wasp-sized Janet, and she was left in a coma due to the ant attack. After Cap tracked down Hank and beat him to a pulp for what he did to Janet, he went to visit her. Janet became outraged at Cap for beating Hank and was embarrassed at people talking about her personal life. However, after they finished a mission, Janet and Cap reconciled and would slowly develop a romantic relationship. When Hank came back to reconcile with her, Janet refused. However, Janet would tell Hank about her relationship problems with Cap, stating that his age gap and the friends he hung out with made it hard for her to connect. Janet would continue to see Hank secretively. Later, when the Liberators attacked America, they failed to take Janet into account. By the time they found her, she had already freed Captain America who was being held captive at the Triskelion. She and Cap later met up with Nick Fury and Betty Ross and helped free the President. With the Giant-Man serum given to her by Hank Pym, she helped fight the Liberators and killed the Liberator named Swarm.Wasp's Earth-1610 DeathAs she had in the main reality, the Wasp later became the leader of the Ultimates, though her tenure proved to be short-lived. During the disaster known as the Ultimatum flood, the Wasp disappeared. Hank and Hawkeye both searched for her, and they later found her corpse being eaten by the evil mutant known as the Blob. Upon this gruesome discovery, Hank flew into an uncontrollable rage. He grew to giant-size and bit the Blob's head off, killing him and avenging the Wasp's death.Hank met his own demise later in the story arc, as did many of this reality's heroes and villains. The surviving heroes carried out Hank's dying wish of bringing Janet's body to his lab and activating what he called the "Jocasta Project," the results of which have yet to be revealed.Earth-2149In the Marvel Zombies universe Wasp was, as most of this reality's heroes, transformed into a zombie. Wasp was the zombie that first bit Magneto and was the reason for Magneto's death by consumption from other zombies. Later on, she finds Giant Man eating a piece of Black Panther and Black Panther himself without an arm and leg. Wasp is enraged by this and attacks Giant Man. She is easily defeated by Giant Man by getting her head bit off and spat out by Giant Man. Black Panther escapes Giant Man's place and takes Wasp's head with him. She tries to persuade Black Panther to let her have a bite of him, but is denied of this request. They are found by Magneto's Acolytes and they are taken by the Acolytes to Asteroid M, with the exception of one acolyte, because Black Panther had thrown Wasp's head at the acolyte, killing him. Wasp is given a cybernetic body by Reynolds (a surviving highly intelligent Acolyte) and Forge, and is used for experimentation to find a cure for the virus.Zombie WaspForty years later, Wasp is still there in an upgraded robotic body; seemingly no longer experiencing the zombie plague's hunger. Her function in the still floundering remains of human society is unclear though she seems to always spring to King Black Panther's defense, so perhaps she is an official body guard. After an attempt on Black Panther's life by an assassin tasked by the son of Fabian Cortez, leader of the mutant opposition, that leaves him fatally wounded, Wasp bites Black Panther in order to preserve his life the only way she can (at the request of Panther's wife and queen). Black Panther becomes a zombie. Wasp and Panther go into seclusion for a time during which they can both get their blood-lust out of their systems before returning to human society.Shortly after their release, the power cosmic empowered zombies return to earth and attack the human compound. Wasp joins her king and their few other combat ready heroes in attempting to repel the evil zombies; constantly imploring them that she can help them to conquer their blood-lust as she has cured herself of it; but falling upon deaf ears. In one of these conflicts, Wasp's robotic body is damaged and while she is being repaired by Reynolds, Reynolds reveals his romantic feelings for her and the two share a kiss that shocks and appalls all onlookers, human and zombie alike. In the next battle, Wasp's robotic body is destroyed and she is presumed dead. Reynolds, who had fallen in love with her and is despondent due to her apparent demise sacrifices himself by allowing himself to be eaten by a rampaging zombie Hulk; banking on that if Hulk's hunger is sated, he will revert to Banner. Reynold's sacrifice pays off and, once Hulk has reverted to Banner, Banner allows himself to be killed for the greater good before he can become the Hulk again. By this point, the last remaining power cosmic empowered zombies have stopped feeling their hunger pangs and they all try to band together to help the humans. During the cleanup and repair efforts on the human compound, Wasp's head is discovered, still "alive". She is given either a new robotic body or an unused older model to get by with. She mourns for Reynolds and reveals to her long ago husband Giant Man that Reynolds was the greatest man she had ever known. Shortly thereafter, Wasp, along with the few other remaining zombies is tricked by Cortez and is teleported to another dimension.Earth-20051Janet Van Dyne as Giant GirlThe Marvel Adventures: The Avengers series (set in its own continuity) features Janet Van Dyne as Giant Girl, showcasing her ability to grow rather than shrink, which she uses most frequently in combat. She is younger than her main universe counterpart and she cracks jokes along with her teammate Spider-Man. Issue 13 of the series reveals her origin as a wealthy socialite given access to size-changing Pym particles by scientist Henry Pym (here an employee of Janet's father, rather than a superhero). Janet does not appear to have ever used her Wasp identity in this version. It has been revealed that Janet can shrink to wasp size but, unlike in Marvel's main reality, she sees no point in being tiny. Her maximum size is unknown but she has grown tall enough to catch a school. Instead of having her powers naturally, Janet requires a suit powered by Pym particles to change her size. Like her Earth-616 counterpart, Janet seems to change her costume regularly. Originally she wore a skin-tight full body suit that accurately accentuates all her curves along with her muscles and primarily purple with some blue costume with a mask that was similar to that of Giant-Man. It included the antennae (although she never used them). They left her vulnerable to insect mind control as seen in issue 13. Her second costume was primarily blue with some purple set in a v-pattern from her waist running all the way to her posterior regions and lacks a mask or antennae. A recent preview of Marvel Adventures: the Avengers 19 has shown her wearing a costume which is primarily blue but has gold/yellow. Whether this costume increases her maximum size is yet to be seen. She has also mentioned that she has at least two brothers although they have never been seen or given any names (see Marvel Adventures: the Avengers #3).Earth-982In the MC2 universe (an alternate future timeline), the marriage between Janet Van Dyne and Hank Pym was more successful and they had a son and a daughter. But Hank, as Giant-Man, was killed during the final mission of the original Avengers, and Janet died of a broken heart soon after. Their children blamed the Avengers for their parents' deaths and used Hank's technology to give themselves super-powers. Hope Pym gained her mother's Wasp powers and became the Red Queen, while Henry Pym Jr. gained Hank's growth powers and became Big Man. Red Queen assembled a supervillain team called the Revengers, who battled A-Next, the next generation of Avengers.Earth-9811In this reality, also called Battleworld, Wasp and Human Torch married and had a son called Firefly.Earth-58163Earth-58163: House of MDuring the House of M story arc, the Scarlet Witch went insane and created an alternate reality where mutants became the ruling class and humans the oppressed class. In this reality, Janet Van Dyne was a normal human who had never gained her Wasp powers. Due to her great artistic talent, she overcame prejudice against humans and became a renowned fashion designer with headquarters in Paris. She was famous for designing the uniform of Ms. Marvel (who was a wildly popular hero in this reality), and powerful and successful mutants routinely went to Janet when they wanted distinctive costumes made for themselves.Earth-398Earth-398: "Pixie"Earth-398 was created when a longtime Avengers enemy, the sorceress Morgan Le Fay, stole a powerful Asgardian artifact called the Twilight Sword and used it to transform reality into a medieval society, with herself as its queen. She bewitched all members of the Avengers and made them into her personal bodyguards called Queen's Vengeance, with their code-names and costumes altered to reflect their medieval setting. The Wasp was a member of Queen's Vengeance and became known as "Pixie", wearing a green fairy-like costume. Eventually the Scarlet Witch broke free of Le Fay's mind control and used her powers to free her teammates. The Avengers then defeated the sorceress and restored reality to normal.Earth-2301Wasp of the Mangaverse. In the Marvel Mangaverse, Janet Van Dyne was an employee of Stark Industries and the creator of the technology called W.A.S.P. (Winged Amplification Surge Plasma) which allowed her to fly. This differed from the original Wasp whose powers came from experimentation by Hank Pym, and changed size via a serum.What If: Volume 1 #35Black WaspHank Pym died at the hands of Elfqueen. Janet blamed herself for his death, for not arriving in time to save him. That thought took her to a dark place where she wanted to punish every criminal much harder than before, and she eventually took up a new name: Black Wasp.Ultraforce/Avengers #1In this alternate reality, Jan grieves after Hank Pym is killed by Loki. Ten years later, Jan now calls herself Black Widow and seeks vengeance along with her team of Avengers against Loki.Darkhold DefendersJanet was fighting Bi-Beast when she suddenly had a vision of Victorious calling her the "Artist". Then, she was magically transported to Abysmia, and found that Iron Man, Blade, Black Bolt, and Spider-Man had been transported there, too. It was there that Scarlet Witch explained to them that the Earth was threatened by Chthon being awakened and because of a spell that Doctor Doom had performed, Janet and the others had been called on to fulfill roles (for Janet, it was being the Artist) and to go up against Chthon and defend The Darkhold. Despite knowing the risks, Janet was the first of the group to enthusiastically declare that she was going to help Wanda.When Doom returned from the Other-Realm and refused to tell the group what he had seen there, Janet tried to get him to. She also attempted to convince Black Bolt to help Wanda. Then, she and the others read from The Darkhold. However, they accidentally read too much and were possessed by an unknown force, becoming evil.Other MediaFilmThe Avengers (2012)Animatics showing the Wasp during the final battleThe Wasp was nearly featured as a main character in the film, mirroring her role in the comics as a founding member of the team. She was written into the script to replace Black Widow when it looked like the character would have to be omitted due to salary issues with Scarlett Johansson, and according to Joss Whedon, she was essentially a viewpoint character for the audience. Unfortunately, it was decided that it would take too much time to establish the character and explain her origin, especially with six other Avengers in the film (since Johansson did ultimately come to a deal with Marvel, allowing Black Widow to return), which resulted in Wasp being cut from the movie.Ant-Man (2015) Concept art of JanIn the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Wasp was a costumed S.H.I.E.L.D. agent during the 80's, working alongside Hank Pym. At an unknown certain point she married him and they had a daughter, Hope. In 1987 she undertook a mission to disable a Russian nuclear missile with Hank. Unfortunately, they couldn't breach the missile's titanium outer shell. In order to breach it, Janet shrunk to dangerous sub-atomic levels and destroyed the bomb at the cost of her own life.However, at the end of the film, Scott Lang manages to survive after being trapped in the Quantum Realm, the same place Janet was supposedly sent, causing Hank to conclude that Jan may still be alive somewhere. The film's mid-credit scene later shows Hank presenting Hope with an unfinished Wasp suit he had been developing with Jan prior to her sacrifice, passing the torch from mother to daughter.In contrast to the comics, Wasp's wings and abilities appear to come from her suit.She was played by Hayley Lovitt.Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)Michelle Pfeiffer as JanJanet plays a major role in the sequel, portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer. In the movie, it is revealed that Janet actually survived her apparent death, but ended up trapped for decades inside the Quantum Realm. At the start of the film, Scott Lang is shown having odd dreams involving Janet and Hope despite having never met the former. It is revealed that due to Scott's trip to the Quantum Realm in the previous film, Janet has been able to mentally send messages to him. With Janet confirmed to be alive, Hank and Hope set out to try and free her from the Quantum Realm. At the end of the movie, Hank successfully manages to bring Janet back to the physical world, where she reunites with her daughter and uses her newfound quantum abilities to help soothe Ghost's pain.In the mid-credits scene, Janet is seen with Hank and Hope while they are monitoring Scott on another trip to the Quantum Realm. However, all three members of the Pym family are turned to ash after Thanos uses the Infinity Gauntlet to wipe out half of all life in the universe, an event depicted in Avengers: Infinity War (released the same Summer).Michelle Pfeiffer reprised her role in a brief cameo in Avengers: Endgame, released the following year. After Janet and the rest of Thanos' victims are restored to life by the Hulk's use of the Infinity Gauntlet, she and Hank are seen at Tony Stark's funeral.AnimationThe Marvel Super Heroes (1966)Wasp's animated debut in "Marvel Super Heroes".Wasp's first animated appearance was on the 1966 cartoon Marvel Super Heroes. She along with the rest of the Avengers appeared in a few Captain America episodes.X-Men: The Animated Series (1995)Wasp in X-Men: The Animated SeriesWasp makes a brief, non-speaking cameo appearance in the episode "One Man's Worth", where she appears as a member of the Avengers.Avengers: United They Stand (1999-2000)Wasp in Avengers: United They StandThe Wasp was featured as a team member of this short-lived Avengers animated series. Her look was redesigned to include red and gold insect-like armor. She was voiced by Linda Ballantyne.Ultimate Avengers (2006) and Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006)Wasp in Ultimate AvengersAs the titles suggest, the characters and storylines of these animated adaptations were based on the Ultimate Universe reality rather than the main reality. The Wasp was a featured member of the team in both movies. She was voiced by Grey DeLisle.Next Avengers: Heroes Of Tomorrow (2008)The Wasp is mentioned in the film, though like the other Avengers, she is dead by Ultron's hand long before the events of the movie take place. However, her son Henry appears as a central character.The Super Hero Squad Show (2009 -2011)Wasp in The Super Hero Squad ShowThe Wasp joined the Avengers in the fourth episode of this animated Marvel title and became a regular team member. She wears the same black and gold wasp-patterned costume that she last wore in comic book continuity, though her proportions are drawn in the "cute" toon style of the show. She is voiced by House star Jennifer Morrison.Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010-2012)Avengers: EMH WaspWasp appears as a main character in the new animated Avengers TV Series, which airs on Disney XD. In this series she is the youngest member of the team, being a college student in her early 20's. She has a flighty and flirty personality reminiscent of her early days in the comics. This led many of her teammates to underestimate her but over the course of the series (as in the comics) she proved her dedication to the team as well as her potential as a hero. She also has a relationship with Hank Pym (ant man) that is similar to there comic counterparts. Despite her flirty personality she is always supportive and dedicated to him and is the one who tries the hardest to keep him on the team with her. Her costume is a black and yellow skirt with a yellow antenna-like head piece. She is voiced by Colleen O' Shaughnessey.Marvel Disk Wars (2014)Wasp and JessicaThe Wasp appears as one of the characters in this Japanese anime series, voiced by Kaori Mizuhashi. Her partner in the show is a young heiress named Jessica Shannon, voiced by Naomi Ozora.Marvel Future Avengers (2017)Wasp in Future AvengersWasp appears as one of the leads in the anime Marvel Future Avengers, voiced by Kaori Mizuhashi in the Japanese version and Kari Wahlgren in the English dub.What If...? (2021)Zombie JanWasp appears in the episode "What If... Zombies!?" When her husband Hank travels to the Quantum Realm to rescue her, he discovers that Janet has become infected with a zombie virus during her time stuck there. She bites Hank, who in turn brings her and the disease back to Earth and causes a full blown pandemic.Video GamesCaptain America and the Avengers (1991)Wasp in Captain America and the AvengersThe Wasp appeared as a NPC in the game, flying onto the screen at certain intervals to help the player attack enemies.Marvel: Avengers Alliance (2012)MAAWasp appears as an unlockable character in the Marvel: Avengers Alliance video game on Facebook. She is an Infiltration Class character.Her bio says: To avenge the murder of her father, Janet Van Dyne sought the aid of Dr. Henry Pym, better known as Ant-Man. Pym's treatments allowed her to grow or shrink in size, and gave the ability to fly and fire bursts of bioelectric energy. In time she left Pym's shadow to become a hero and leader in her own right, and one of the most steadfast members of the Avengers. She was one of the founders of the Avengers.Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2Avengers Alliance 2Wasp is a playable character in the game. She is a Tactician class.Her bio in the game says: In order to avenge her father's death, wealthy socialite Janet Van Dyne sought help from Hank Pym. Pym imbued her with his remarkable 'Pym Particles,' granting her the ability to shrink and grow at will, as well as the power to sprout wings and project bio-electric 'stings.' Often underestimated for her size, Wasp has repeatedly proven herself to be one of the most effective, fearless and loyal members of the Avengers.Marvel Super Hero Squad OnlineMSHA OnlineWasp is a playable character in the game. She is voiced by Tara Strong.Her description says: Whether she's stinging bad guys or designing awesome new outfits, Wasp has got great big talents to go with her tiny body.Marvel: War of HeroesWar of HeroesWasp is featured in several of the cards in the mobile game War of Heroes. Her cards are:Wasp[Pixie] Wasp[Stylish] Wasp[Surprise Appearance] Wasp[Woman Worth Marrying] Wasp[Cool and Collected] Wasp[Dimension Jaunt] Wasp[Sleuth] Wasp[Tragic Bond] Ant-Man & WaspMarvel HeroesMarvel HeroesThe Wasp appears as a Team-Up character. Though she herself is not playable, she can be equipped to provide support for one of the playable heroes. She is voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey.Lego Marvel Super HeroesWasp in Lego Marvel Super HeroesThe Wasp is playable character in the game.Marvel Puzzle QuestWasp is a playable character in the game.Wasp in Marvel Puzzle QuestHer bio in the game says: Hoping to avenge her father's death, socialite and fashion designer Janet Van Dyne sought help from her father's colleague Hank Pym. Revealing himself to be Ant-Man, Pym performed a procedure granting Janet the ability to shrink and grow wings, transforming her into the Wasp!As a founding member and longtime leader of the Avengers, Wasp has proven that despite her size she can still be resourceful and effective asset to any team!Disney InfinityWasp in Disney Infinity WarThe Wasp appears as a non-playable supporting character in one of the missions for the Avengers toy box. She is once again voiced by Colleen O' Shaughnessey.Marvel Future FightWasp in Marvel Future FightWasp is a payable character in the game. She is a blast type, and her description in the game says: Janet van Dyne was a daughter of a wealthy scientist named Vernon van Dyne. During an experiment, however, an alien monster was unleashed and Dr. van Dyne was killed. Her father's associate, Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym, had created a substance called "Pym Particles", which allowed the user to grow or shrink in size, and had become the superhero Ant-Man; when Janet's father died, she convinced Pym to help her, and he gave her a supply of "Pym Particles" and subjected her to a procedure which granted her the ability to, upon shrinking, grow wings and fire blasts of energy, which she called "wasp's stings".She was release in several costumes:Wasp - ClassicWasp - All-New, All-DifferentWasp - Marvel´s Ant-Man and the WaspMarvel Avengers AcademyWasp in Avengers AcademyA teenage version of the Wasp is playable in the game, voiced by actress Alexandra Daddario. She is recruited during the tutorial.Lego Marvel's AvengersWasp in Lego Marvel´s AvengersThe Wasp appears as a playable game in two iterations. Her comic incarnation is playable in the standard version of the game, while the MCU version of the Wasp is playable as part of the Ant-Man movie DLC Season Pass.Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black OrderUltimate Alliance 3Wasp appears as a playable character in the third Ultimate Alliance game, voiced by Kari Wahlgren.MerchandiseMarvel Legends and BishoujoToy Biz released a Wasp figure for the short-lived Avengers: United They Stand line.Toy Biz released a Wasp figure for the M.O.D.O.K. 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Murphy Cocktail Table
The rich finish and unique rustic design of the "Murphy" accent table collection creates a warm inviting furniture collection sure to enhance the look and feel of any living room. The rich style of the burnished medium brown wood finish features a chiseled effect that adds to the rustic beauty of these tables to create a relaxed environment perfect for any home. With the deep bronze color finish of the metal brackets adorned with nail head detailing, this accent table collection fits comfortably into the decor of any living area. Create a home to be proud of with the warm rustic design of the "Murphy" accent table collection.


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…you can put your good china away — for now.
Although the former World No. 1 is hanging around at No. 90, and has won only one match in six so far this year (he lost to American Bobby Reynolds at this week's Sony Ericsson Open), he's not going anywhere:
"I'm trying, and it doesn't come out my way. But (that) doesn't mean that I have to stop because I'm not winning matches. I enjoy what I'm doing… I have plenty of cash to do what I want to do, so what I want to do is play tennis."
I was going to write a post about how much longer Safin can sustain these kinds of losses before he conteplates retirement, but clearly it's of no concern. Whew.
Safin also reminded reporters to look on the bright side, highlighting his determination to keep playing even after a severe left knee injury three years ago that forced him to change his style of play.
"It takes a lot of courage, you know, to try and still go on the court when you're ranked 85 in the world… So I need to get some credit for that. I could have retired after I got injured with the knee, I could have retired right there, but I was trying. I'm trying already for three years, so I deserve some credit for that also.
Yep, we'll give you the credit you deserve. Speaking of giving: adidas, can you give Marat some new clothes? Lime's time is over.
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Toehold Hyperflex Engineering: A breakthrough design featuring the most advanced technology available for bowlers today. Dexter's state-of-the-art T H E 9 footwear is equipped with a revolutionary new Toehold system that is designed to resist abrasion and can be replaced when needed, extending the life of the shoe. Innovative Hyperflex channels at two stress points on the foot provide the bowler with added flexibility and comfort and help resist sole cracking. THE 9's patented symmetrical design allows the soles to be interchangeable so that the traction and slide sole can go on either foot without trimming. The versatile universal heel system works with every replacement heel in the entire Dexter collection.
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...making Linux just a little more fun! |
By Vinayak Hegde |
If you did come to the site to read an article about Tux the Penguin -- the lucky mascot of Linux -- you might be disappointed. But don't go away just yet: read on to find what TUX the webserver can do do for you in terms of performance and you will be delighted. You might just discover something to hack on and tweak. This is an article about TUX - the webserver embedded within the Linux kernel.
The name TUX comes from 'Threaded linUX webserver'. TUX was written by Red Hat and is based on the 2.4 kernel series. It is a kernel-space HTTP subsystem. As you may have guessed by now TUX is released under the GNU GPL. So in the free software tradition, you are free to tweak it and modify it to meet your own specific needs. One of the ways of adapting TUX for our needs ,is by writing TUX modules, which can be user-space or kernel-space modules. The main goal behind writing TUX was to enable high-performance webserving on Linux. This was especially important as Linux is extremely popular in the webserver market.
TUX is not as feature-filled as Apache and has some limitations. But nevertheless, TUX is a complete HTTP/1.1 compliant webserver supporting HTTP/1.1 persistent (keep-alive) connections, pipelining, CGI execution, logging, virtual hosting, various forms of modules, and many other webserver features. TUX is now officially known as the Red Hat Content Accelerator (RHCA).
Though quite some amount of today's webcontent is dynamic generated, most of the webcontent is static. Take for example static webpages and images. This leads to quite a overhead as user-space webservers such as apache have to be use some system calls for actually serving the content. The frequent context switches between kernel-space and user-space programs is quite a performance hit. TUX is a saviour here. TUX can be built into the monolithic kernel or dynamically loaded as a module. The first approach is preferable for servers which are dedicated to webserving. When built as a loadable module, it can be dynamically inserted and removed, as when the service is started or stopped respectively. This approach affords some amount of flexibility.
TUX is used primarily for serving static content, leaving generation and serving of dynamic content to backend webservers such as Apache. Now, newer versions of TUX have the capability to cache dynamic content as well. TUX modules can create "objects" which are stored using the page cache. To respond to a request for dynamic data, a TUX module can send a mix of dynamically-generated data and cached pre-generated objects. Thus, most of the requests which are just "network-copy" operations can be handled efficiently by TUX. The new version of TUX uses zero copy block IO instead of a temporary buffer as in TUX 1.0. Also virtual hosting support has been enhanced for TUX and the number of virtual hosts that can be supported is only limited by disk space and RAM.
Now that we know what TUX is capable of, we can move to installing and configuring TUX. All the information that follows has been tested on Red Hat 7.2 with TUX-2.1.0-2. Due to ease of use and familiarity Apache has been used as the user-space webserving daemon.
Check whether you have tux installed using the command :-
# rpm -q tux
You may get messages similar to the ones below :
# rpm -ivh tux-2.1.0-2.i386.rpm
# patch -p0 < tux2-full-2.4.10 # make oldconfig (enable tux here,recompile and install the kernel)Install the user-space utilities
# tar xzvf tux-2.1.0.tar.gz # cd tux-2.0.25 # make # make install
Create the directory /var/www/html (or some other directory of our choice) and make it the root directory of TUX by changing the value of DOCROOT in /etc/sysconfig/tux. Also you can give the path where your CGI-scripts are stored to CGIROOT. Also the TUXTHREADS variable can be set to an appropriate number here. Also create the index.html page in the root directory. This will be used for testing later.
TUX can be started by using the command. (As superuser)
# service tux start (on RH systems) # ./tux.init start (on non-RH systems) # lsmod Module size Used by tux 75568 0 .... ....Now point your favorite browser to localhost and you should see the index.html page we created earlier. If not something has gone wrong or the configuration is not proper. Check step 8 for details.
# lynx localhost
By default, logging is disabled. To enable logging and referrer logging, give the following commands.
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/tux/logging # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/tux/referer_logging # cat /proc/sys/net/tux/logfile /var/log/tux (this is the default logfile)
For each request, TUX logs the address of the requester, a date and time stamp accurate to at least one second, specification of the file requested, size of the file transferred, and the final status of the request. The log files for TUX are stored in /var/log/tux (as seen above) in binary format. In this binary format, the log files are approximately 50% smaller than standard ASCII text log files. To view log files issue the following command
# tux2w3c /var/log/tux 127.0.0.1 - - Wed Nov 20 00:22:24 2002 "GET /manual/sections.html HTTP/1.1" - 5523 200 127.0.0.1 - - Thu Nov 21 01:36:55 2002 "GET / HTTP/1.0" - 2890 200 127.0.0.1 - - Thu Nov 21 01:37:20 2002 "GET /manual/index.html HTTP/1.0" - 5557 200 127.0.0.1 - - Thu Nov 21 01:37:24 2002 "GET /manual/mod/index-bytype.html HTTP/1.0" - 6186 200The tux2w3c program converts the binary log files into into standard W3C-conforming HTTPD log files.
As we already know TUX is all about speeding up the response time. Using Gzip compression, it is also possible to reduce the download time as well as save some bandwidth. But for this feature to work the client must support Gzip compression. By default, this data compression is disabled. To enable it, do the following:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/tux/compressionTo enable it at startup add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf
net.tux.compression=1Also Gzip file with the extension .gz must be in the same directory as the uncompressed versions of the pages you wish to serve.
We are not finished with configuration yet. There are some more interesting features/tweaks which you can use. (Some of these are available only in RHCA v2.2)
As mentioned before, the recommended configuration is to use TUX as a front-end Web server listening on port 80(the default http port) and to use a back-end Web server (Apache is used here as an example) on port 8080 for answering requests that TUX does not understand (generally dynamically generated content eg.PHP pages). For this configuration, some changes have to be made to the httpd.conf file of Apache webserver.
Replace the line Port 80 with Port 8080 (port on which Apache will listen)Also to prevent users from bypassing TUX and directly accessing apache make the following changes. This may be necessary for security reasons.
Replace the line BindAddress * with BindAddress 127.0.0.1 (loopback address)Finally, restart httpd using
# service httpd restart
You can stop/restart TUX using the following commands:
# service tux stop (for RH-Systems) OR # ./tux-init stop (for non-RH Systems) # service tux restart OR # ./tux-init restartFor debugging purposes you can use the gettuxconfig script in the /usr/share/doc/tux-version/ directory. If you have an SMP system you can check whether all the interfaces have been setup properly using the checkbindings scripts. It is also present in the same directory.
As we have seen above, TUX helps a lot to improve the efficiency of webservers by shifting some of the operations from user-space to kernel-space. This results in better performance and better use of server resources. TUX is very configurable and has a number of interesting features. Hope you enjoyed the article. Happy Hacking!!


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7113.7 - Agriculture and Fishing, Northern Territory, 1996-97
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