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The Dark Knight returns this September with the conclusion of writer Grant Morrison's time-travelling tale "The Return of Bruce Wayne." However, at Comic-Con International's Batman: The Return panel on Friday, the DC Comics Bat-family of writers and artists discussed what exactly that return means for the DC Universe. On stage was DC Senior Story Editor Ian Sattler, Batman Group Editor Mike Marts, writers Gail Simone, Bryan Q. Miller, Paul Cornell, Paul Dini, Scott Snyder, Judd Winick and Grant Morrison and artists Frazer Irving, David Finch and Dustin Nguyen.
As the panel gets underway, CBR News was there to bring readers all the news on the panel's events.
Marts started things off by discussing the recent announcements regarding the Bat-books, including Tony Daniel as writer and artist on Batman, Pete Tomasi and Patrick Gleason on Batman and Robin, Snyder taking over Detective Comics, Cornell as writer on Knight & Squire, Finch as the writer and artist and The Dark Knight. Marts then turned the mic over to Morrison, who announced what's next for him in the Batman Universe-"Batman: The Return" one-shot and a new series, "Batman, Inc."
"All I'm going to tell you up front is basically it's almost a team book," explained Morrison. "I was looking at the Brave and the Bold cartoon which I love and I wanted to do that kind of thing-Batman with other people. We're come up with a structure that let's us do kind of a team book."
"This is why the book was called 'The Return of Bruce Wayne,'" he added. "This is what happens when Bruce is more in the equation and what he does with the Batman idea and turns it into a franchise."
The writers then all talked about their various series. Cornell joked that he plans on introducing at least 100 new villains in the "Knight & Squire" series. "We managed 50 in the first issue alone. This is a plot to kill the editors of DC through sheer hard work," he laughed. He added that his first arc featured Richard III brought back to life as a clone with an army of monarchs who try to re-conquer the world through Facebook. "That's what I'm doing right now."
In regards to his upcoming run on "Detective," Snyder said that "It's going to be back to basics, but with a new twist." The book will includedbackups about Commissioner James Gordon. "I'm really thrilled and honored to be doing this."
Dini will be writing a sequel to his "Detective" arc, "Heart of Hush" called "House of Hush" in "Streets of Gotham." The arc discusses the Wayne and Elliot families backstory much more than has been seen before. It also involves a prisoner released, one who went to jail long before Bruce's birth, but whwants to kill Bruce Wayne. "It's a long story. It's going to stretch into December, January and is just getting started right now."
Simone thanked fans for the sales of the relaunched "Birds of Prey." "Yay, go girls!" she said. "We're going to learn who the White Canary really is" the writer revealed. She also said that the arc is with artist Alvin Lee and takes place in Bangkok. "it's going to be amazing."
"Stephanie is White Canary," joked Miller. "She's not." The writer said that while Year one of "Batgirl" established Stephanie Brown as Batgirl, "Year two is more, 'I'm Batgirl. Now what?" He also develops her first rogues gallery as well as "A love interest she does want, a love interest she doesn't want and a love she'll never return. And she gets a car and a dog-Ace the Bathound."
Finch is finishing up "The Return." "There's a new costume for Batman that Grant had a lot of input in a lot of specific things that he wanted from just the look of Batman," he said. "I'm starting drawing a lot of big bats, it's a lot of fun. It's a great re-imagining and re-establishing of Bruce as Batman."
Morrison talked up the upcoming issue of "Batman & Robin." "The next issue does have a really good scene with Professor Pig does botox," he said. "There's a reason for it. He's actually already appeared in the issue that's out." In returns to "The Return," the writer said, "Batman the Return opens with five pages of bats. It's like a natural history document. But again, I can't tell you anything because I'm at the end of my story."
Questions then opened to the audience. In regards to the rumor of Quitely returning for the final three issues of "Batman & Robin," Morrison confirmed that he will not. Instead Frazer Irving and Cameron Stewart wrap up the series.
Later a fan asked whether previous Batgirl Cassandra Cain is possible. "We may see Cassandra Cain appear in an upcoming issue of one of our titles," said Marts. "Perhaps in November."
In response to a question on his upcoming "Detective" run, Snyder said he draws a lot of influence from the old series and that the book deals with "How Gotham is changing now that Bruce is back." "A lot of CSI: and high-tech" is involved. "This is really focusing on Batman as the world's detective as he tries to solve a series of mysteries that all tie together," he said.
In regards to Batman Beyond's return to the DC Universe, a fan asked if there might be a series written by Paul Dini. "That would be great," teased Marts. "I would pick up that comic."
Later, a fan asked about Bane and Deadshot's response would be to the return of Bruce Wayne. "You have to read 'Birds of Prey' to find out," laughed Simone.
Another fan asked about the future of Jason Todd. "I think we can all say comfortably that Jason Todd will be staying around," Winick said. "He won't have his own book." The writer joked that villains shouldn't have their own book, but when a fan pointed out that Simone writes a book with six villains, Winick said they're looking for five other Jason Todds. "We called it 'Jason Todd and Friends' for a month. But it sounded weird."
A fan asked about the possibility of a Black Canary and Zatanna team up. "Paul and I are discussing something, but we can't talk about it," teased Simone.
A fan brought up the relationship between Tim Drake and Batgirl. He asked whether Miller consciously made the decision to separate the two characters in order to help Stephanie stand on her own. "Exactly what you just said," replied Miller. "In the interest of Stephanie becoming her own person and not chasing after Tim anymore. She may end up bumping into Tim sometime in the future, but not at the moment."
In regards to the amount of Bat-titles, Morrison said that "I think it's good to have a lot of different Batman books. I much prefer you can write all these different stories." The writer mentioned how his Batman R.I.P happened the same time as Dini's "Heart of Hush. "You just have to buy into that because it's comics. But that must have been a hell of a week in Batman's life."
Another fan asked Cornell what it's like building his own world in his upcoming "Knight & Squire" book. "It's excellent. It's a beautiful tabla rasa," he said. "I took that as my cue and thought, 'Well, six issues, we can introduce an awful, awful lot. It's a big bang. It's a wonder feeling that we get to add and add and add."
A fan brought up whether Morrison thinks the Joker knows who Batman who. Although Morrison said he think the Joker does, he added, "It's not important to the Joker to know that. But who's going to say, 'Hey, I know your identity' to Batman. I think everyone at the Daily Planet knows about Superman but they say, 'Listen, don't say anything. He thinks we don't know and it's really important to him.'"
Later, a fan asked the panel if they could steal anything from the Bat-cave, what they would take. Winick wants the giant penny. "How much do you think the giant penny is worth," laughed Morrison in response. Cornell said he'd go with the Dinosaur. Snyder wants the' 60s Batmobile. Dini on the other hands wants the Denny O' Neil Batmobile. Bat cycle went to Simone. Alfred's tray said Miller. Any batmobile, said Finch. Bat-roller skates, laughed Morrison.
"I'll take Alfred," said Marts. "Not the tray."
"I thought that'd sound creepy," said Miller in response.
"You were right," laughed Morrison.
When a fan asked Irving if he's working on an issue of Morrison's eventual "Multiversity" series, Morrison himself injected "Yes you are Frazer Irving!" before the artist could respond.
The last question of the panel went to Miller, who discussed Batgirl heading into the greater DCU rather than sticking to the Bat-family as far as encounters.
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I believe in flavor, a wonderful or horrible sensation felt on all of our tongues everyday. From sweet to sour all flavors have a purpose. Some flavors act as comfort food to make those whose self-esteem isn't so high, better. Others stimulate and wake us up and others to calm us down. Flavors can be related to events in everyone's life. A common flavor is that of a cake. Everyone can relate cakes to birthdays and weddings because that is a happy celebratory flavor that goes with a happy celebratory time. Not many people would eat a cake at a funeral that is because it's a sad time and a time of sorrow.
I grew up learning that sweet was a taste for celebration or for after dinner. The sweetest foods were served on holidays and birth days. Other flavors also come into play in our lives. The flavors of the green vegetables served to kids who will refuse to eat is what most consider to be the flavor of healthy foods. People can't live on sweet alone because if a flavor is redundant it looses its former glory and people will grow tired of it. I used to eat the same cereal for breakfast everyday but then I grew tired of that flavor. Then I switched to a different flavor then I ended up just not eating cereal at all. Now I eat a variety of food for breakfast to keep myself form growing tired of that food.
All food has flavor and those few foods that don't aren't very popular. I've only had tofu once but I put a sauce on it to give it flavor. If I were to have eaten it plain I would have felt unsatisfied with it. It is hard to eat something with no flavor without adding flavor. It's also hard for me to eat something I don't like without drowning it in some sort of sauce. At that point I fell like a little kid who can't eat a meal with our putting ketchup on every thing. I was never one of those kids; I would always savor the flavor of the meal. If I ever need to add flavor to a meal I would add barbeque sauce. Barbeque was and still is my favorite flavor because there's a large variety but it all has the same basic flavor.
Flavor connects the world's cultures. Some cultures are expressed through out the world through food. Chinese food can be found through out the western hemisphere. The pizza can be found in a large number of countries and is very popular across the world. Along with pasta and many other food that is eaten normally. Flavor connects the world and that's why I believe in it.
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International House London and Cambridge ESOL have announced that they are working together to extend opportunities for trainee language teachers, following an agreement signed this week. The two organisations – leaders in the field of teacher training and assessment – are collaborating on a project to create an online CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) course with the aim of increasing access to teacher training in this growing sector.
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To diagnose the symptoms of common ailments, observe the length of time the symptoms last. For example, the common cold typically lasts for one week, states WebMD. The symptoms of viral or bacterial pneumonia and the flu worsen over time and last longer than one week, reports eMedicineHealth.
The symptoms of common ailments, such as a cold, typically include a runny nose, cough, congestion and a sore throat, according to Mayo Clinic. Serious health conditions, such as the flu, display additional symptoms, including fever, fatigue, muscle aches and vomiting, reports WebMD. The symptoms of viral or bacterial pneumonia include common cold symptoms along with fever, mucus, appetite loss and shortness of breath, notes eMedicineHealth.
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OAKLAND — The FBI and IRS have opened a criminal investigation into a charter school whose former director allegedly funneled $3.8 million from the school to companies he owns for construction and classroom rental spaces.
On Wednesday afternoon, the federal agencies executed search warrants at three of the school locations and the Oakland home of former American Indian Model Schools director Ben Chavis.
FBI spokeswoman Julie Sohn would not say when the investigation into AIMS started or what it entails.
"These are sealed search warrants, and they are part of an ongoing criminal investigation," Sohn said.
A state audit last year found that Chavis, who now lives in North Carolina, broke state laws, including the Political Reform Act, when he directed the school to hire his companies.
IRS special agent and spokeswoman Arlette Lee said agents were at all three school sites in Oakland from 5 p.m. Wednesday until about 1 a.m. Thursday. Speaking in general terms, she said the IRS investigates cases of tax fraud and other types of federal financial crimes such as money laundering.
"Whenever we work a case, we're trying to find out where the money comes from and where it's going," Lee said.
Agents searched Chavis' Oakland home and his mother-in-law's house, removing several boxes.
Chavis called the development a "strange coincidence," especially since an Alameda County judge ruled Monday that the charter can remain open while it appeals a decision by Oakland Unified School District to close it because of his alleged improprieties.
"If I stole money, put my (expletive) in jail, but keep the school open," he said. "They are out to punish the kids."
He said he welcomed the federal government's involvement because it will prove there was no wrongdoing on his part.
The school's current director, Nabeehah Shakir, said Thursday she did not know what the investigation was about.
"We're not focused on the FBI," Shakir said. "We're focused on keeping the school open."
Shakir said the FBI and IRS agents were respectful, did not make a mess and waited for children to go home for the day before they began their search.
In June, Chavis said the money he got from the school for renovation and construction was money he donated to the school and that he rented buildings to the school at below-market rates.
"If there is $3.8 million missing, there should be checks," Chavis said. "Show me the checks."
A lawyer for the school has argued Chavis did not break the law because he disclosed the contracts to his school board and recused himself from voting on them.
The Oakland school district revoked the school's charter in March based on the audit and ordered the school to close. The Alameda County Board of Education affirmed that revocation, but the school filed a lawsuit challenging the revocation, and on Monday an Alameda County judge issued an order allowing the school to stay open.
Oakland schools Superintendent Gary Yee said Wednesday he did not know about the federal investigation.
"The audit showed there were some state and federal funds involved, so it's my guess the investigation has something to do with that, but we really don't know," Yee said.
Doug Oakley covers Berkeley and the Oakland school district. Contact him at 510-843-1408. Follow him on Twitter @douglasoakley.


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TV show trailer & clip for ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Spacetime. With the Inhuman arms race ramping up, Agents takes a look ahead, with one of the more novel flash-forward gimmicks of the genre. In failing to keep HYDRA from snatching an Inhuman right out of her grasp, Daisy's (Chloe Bennet) brief contact with him grants her a vision of the future. It's not good – the genre mandates as much. While it's left unclear how much of the promo's content will be present, versus future, some definite upgrades appear to be on the way – at least, for the bad guys.
The notion that Coulson (Clark Gregg) always has a plan has become something of a series banner, for fans; but this time around (perhaps due to Daisy spoilers), he seems to be the one on the outside of someone else's master plan – with little more than the knowledge that it exists. The good news, however, is that Team Coulson finally gets eyes on one of those upgrades: a pair of ghosts – an old one for Coulson, a new one for Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) – in a single form.
Hive will be upgrading its Ward (Brett Dalton) suit from shut-in casual, to Matrix-chic, for a little sit-down with Gideon Malick (Powers Boothe). When one of the most powerful men on Earth gets schooled in what true power is, by way of a world-ending immortal, it's bound to make him a little uneasy. Having Hive turn out to be all he had hoped, after all, may yet leave Malick with a sense of buyer's remorse. The mortal power he does have, however, looks to at least get him shoulders deep in the upgrade cookie jar.
'Spacetime' features Ming-Na Wen, Elizabeth Henstridge, Henry Simmons, Luke Mitchell, Mark Dacascos, Markus Flanagan, Alexander Wraith, Wolfgang Bodison, Lola Glaudini, Bjorn Johnson, Matthew Willig, and Blair Underwood. It airs Tuesday, Apr. 5, at 9:00pm EST, on ABC.
Watch the trailer & clip, for 'Spacetime,' and leave your thoughts below, in the comments section. For more Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. photos, videos, and information, visit our Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Page, subscribe to us by Email, follow us on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, or "like" us on Facebook.


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Yale Partners With Avalere to Design Process to Craft Outcomes Measures for Medicare and Medicaid
Dec 02, 2010, 12:55 EST
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Avalere Health has been awarded a contract by Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation/Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (YNHHSC/CORE) to assist in the development of a road map to identify patient outcomes measures as mandated by the Accountable Care Act (ACA).
As part of the new health reform law, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is required to develop no fewer than 10 measures related to acute care within the next 18 months and 10 measures related to primary and preventive care within the next 30 months.
As part of this contract, Avalere will work with Yale to prepare a white paper to support CMS selection and proposal of measures. Avalere analysts will consider the:
- Landscape of existing quality outcomes measures, relative to primary care and preventive services, currently in use by public and private payers,
- Gaps in current measure development related to multiple co-morbid conditions and the integration across care settings,
- Methodological challenges often associated with data collection and public reporting of outcomes, and the
- Recommendations for measures by key experts, stakeholders and end-users.
"We are thrilled to work with Yale to assist CMS with identifying directions for outcomes measurement within an integrated healthcare delivery system. Improving the healthcare system is a core aspect of Avalere's mission, and we look forward to bringing the resources of our firm to bear on this important effort to improve the way care is delivered and paid for in the U.S.," said Kristi Mitchell, a vice president at Avalere Health.
Avalere Health is an advisory services company whose core purpose is to create innovative solutions to complex healthcare problems. Based in Washington DC, the firm delivers research, analysis, insight, and strategy for leaders in healthcare business and policy. Avalere's experts span 130 staff drawn from the federal government (e.g., CMS, OMB, CBO, and the Congress), Fortune 500 healthcare companies, top consultancies, and nonprofits. The firm offers deep substance in areas ranging from healthcare coverage and financing to the changing role of evidence in healthcare decision-making. Its focus on strategy is supported by a rigorous, in-house analytic research group that uses public and private data to generate quantitative insight. Through events, publications, and interactive programs, Avalere also translates real-time healthcare developments into actionable information.
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NZ Rainwear Label Makes a Splash on Kickstarter
Okewa Rainwear MEDIA RELEASE
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NZ Rainwear Label Makes a Splash on Kickstarter
In less than two weeks, Okewa Rainwear has taken the world by storm. Born in Wellington, Okewa grew out of a personal frustration of not being able to find a decent raincoat suited for the urban lifestyle.
Since launching their crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter.com, founders Nick and Nevada Leckie have since discovered they are not the only ones on this hunt for a decent raincoat. They have already reached their initial funding goal of $24,000 only half way through the campaign, which runs until Saturday 23rd August.
Nick and Nevada believe the outdoors adventure market is well-supported by highly functional rainwear but many of the options just don't fit the city, particularly in their home of Wellington where they live without a car.
Okewa has developed The First Five - a premium range of men's and women's raincoats that are lined, completely waterproof (fully seam-sealed), hooded and cut from hi-tech two-layer waterproof fabrics woven in the best fabric mills of Japan and Korea.
To produce their first run, Nick and Nevada have chosen to work with family-operated manufacturers in Auckland who are well versed in the technical demands of safety clothing.
The Kickstarter campaign breaks away from the traditional investment model by raising funds directly from 'backers.' For Okewa, a $340 pledge will secure a 'backer's' pre-order at a reduced price than its intended retail value.
Following the Kickstarter, Okewa uses the funds raised to begin production, and orders are delivered to backers around late-October.
Not a foreigner to the fashion industry, Nevada Leckie has previously designed and produced two lines for twoWORLDS clothing. Now, it's Nick and Nevada's turn to release their own label and with a dose of classic kiwi ingenuity and the support of crowd-funding, they are well on their way.
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Teachers union, North Hills board agree to 5-year deal
A five-year contract agreement between the North Hills School Board and the teachers union will give the district an advantage in planning for the next several years, district leaders say.
The school board and members of the North Hills Education Association, or NHEA, approved a five-year contract on Jan. 22 that will take effect after the current contract expires Aug. 23.
The school board voted unanimously to approve the agreement, which had the support of an "overwhelming majority" of union members, John Thomas, president of the NHEA said.
"From our perspective, this is very big and crucial for the district to get this agreement," board President Ed Wielgus said. "This really does give us an edge for planning the next five years."
The NHEA and district administrators have been negotiating since June. The agreement was approved eight months before the current contract expires.
Under the current contract, teachers' salaries in the 2013-2014 school year range from $43,665 to $95,514. That will rise to $45,127 to $99,126 next year.
North Hills spokeswoman Amanda Hartle said teachers across the pay scale will see an average raise of about $2,787 each year.
Teachers at the top of the pay scale, which accounts for about one-third of current teachers, will receive a 1- to 2-percent raise each year. Under the current contract, a teacher on the top step of the salary schedule makes between $89,085 and $95,514, depending on how much education the teacher has beyond a bachelor's degree.
The contract mandates that next year, each teacher will contribute $165 a month toward the cost of their insurance benefits, $10 more than they have been contributing. This number will increase $10 per year for the life of the contract.
With this increase, North Hills teachers will contribute the highest amount for their health insurance of any of the county's 42 suburban school districts, according to Hartle.
Thomas said coming to an agreement on salaries and benefits was the most challenging aspect of the negotiations, but people on both sides were cooperative and open. Neither side was surprised to reach an early contract.
"Both sides approached this thing seriously," Thomas said. "It's not about concessions. It's about commitment."
Hartle said it is difficult to project the overall cost of the contract, as administrators do not know how many teachers will be retiring, but, she said, the contract is a "fiscally responsible agreement" for the district.
There are no significant changes in working conditions in the new contract, Hartle said.
Superintendent Patrick Mannarino said the two sides were able to reach an early agreement because of cooperation on both sides and because the expiring contract was a base that strong and fair to both sides.
"We did everything we could because we are working in the best interest of the kids," Mannarino said.
Paul Girdany, an Pennsylvania State Education Association, or PSEA, Uniserv representative who was involved in negotiations, said that union members and district officials had "a cooperative relationship."
Fritz Fekete, Southwest Region advocacy coordinator for the PSEA, with which the NHEA is affiliated, said that a five-year contract is "not unusual at all if both parties are amenable."
Kelsey Shea is a staff writer at Trib Total Media. Reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 724-772-6353.


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After a go at a Reading Comprehension passage or two, you've come to realize that Reading Comprehension might not be a total breeze just because you know how to read. But then you hit your next mental block, which is the belief that studying for RC is pointless. How can a few months of studying change the way you read? You've been reading for hundreds of months—since you were a wee thing—and how you read now is just ingrained in you, right?
Be honest, how often do you regularly read something that is multiple paragraphs long while keeping track of multiple things at once? (The pictures in the BuzzFeed "articles" don't count as paragraphs). With the reading for your classes, you're either reading for the facts or for a general sense of what's going on so you can raise your hand at least once a class (or every other class). And, you have as much time as you're willing to spend to reread paragraphs to make sure you have the right idea.
RC is completely different from the reading you typically do, which means that how to do RC is actually not already ingrained in you. It's a skill set that you can master with practice.


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NYCC: Edmondson's "Punisher" Brings his War to the City of Angels
The Los Angeles-based criminals of the Marvel Universe have things a lot easier than the ones that prey on the citizens of New York. This is due in part to the fact that there's a scarcity of costumed heroes operating out of L.A., but the main reason comes down to one man's war on crime. New York is home to soldier-turned-vigilante Frank Castle who, as the Punisher, puts his Marine and Special Forces training to use, conducting a relentless, one-man-war against the criminals of NYC.
This winter, the Los Angeles Underworld will come to know the same fear and terror that grips their New York based brethren. In February, writer Nathan Edmonson and artist Mitch Gerads, the creators of Image Comics' military thriller series "The Activity," kick off a new ongoing "Punisher" series which finds the title character relocating his war on crime to the City of Angels. CBR News spoke with Edmondson about the series which was announced by Marvel during their "Superior Spider-Man & Friends" panel at New York Comic Con.
CBR News: You and Mitch Gerads regularly tell tales of Special Operations soldiers in your Image Comics series "The Activity." How does it feel to be given the chance to chronicle the war of the Marvel Universe's top rogue Special Forces operator? Were you guys' fans of the character? And if so were there any runs that you especially enjoyed?
Nathan Edmondson: Well, no, I'd never heard of Punisher before, and Mitch isn't into comics, but I think he had some Spider-Man pajamas at one point.
It feels fantastic. Mitch and I feel perfectly matched with this book. We're launching "The Punisher" for All-New Marvel NOW! It's pretty sweet. And we've poured ourselves into it to make a bad ass Punisher book that feels like, well, exactly the kind of Punisher book this one should be. It's fast, it's furious, it's out of control. Punisher is hunted, challenged, up against it.
And yes, I'm a fan of the character, and Mitch may in fact have Punisher pajamas. He definitely has a Spider-Man onesie.
One interesting phenomenon I've noticed from talking with Punisher writers is that the character almost sort of casts a spell on his creators and they end up falling in love with writing Frank Castle. Has that happened to you? How much do you enjoy working on "Punisher?"
I'm still in the thick of it, and for me I get to know the characters I write more intimately as the artist brings them to life. I can't say he's cast a spell on me, but the more I write, the more we pit Frank against killers and drug thugs and villains, the more we get to know him, the closer I am to putting on all the Crye Precision gear I have from their sponsorship of "The Activity" and becoming the most bad ass neighborhood watch guy ever.
Let's talk a little bit about your take on Frank. Which aspects of his
character are you especially interested in exploring? And one of the big questions Punisher writers have to answer for themselves is whether or not Frank is insane. What's your feeling on that?
He's not insane. He's tortured, in constant pain; his conscience is warped. In his pain, he's reverted back the machinery of his military training, and he's taken that to another level. I'm thrilled to explore his psyche, but especially fun are his more human moments; his interactions with "normal" people. His breakfast habits and animal friends, for example. We've got a whole issue where he just talks about his favorite moments in "Rizzoli & Isles."
How will your vision of Frank manifest on the page? Can we expect a classic take with an inner monologue, or will he be more of a taciturn man of mystery like he was in Greg Rucka's recent run?
I tend to veer pretty light on the inner monologue and let the action do the talking as much as possible. We're showing a side of Frank that's, dare I say, relatable and human and even a bit likable. Not like he shops at Ikea or anything, but we'll peek into Frank Castle when he's not The Punisher. Witty dialogue, yes. Man of mystery, yep. Kick butt tactical operator, you betcha.
The Punisher's usual stomping grounds are New York City, but you're relocating Frank to Los Angeles for this series. Can you talk about the story reasons for this relocation? And what kinds of story opportunities does Los Angeles present for you?
Los Angeles offers all kinds of fun opportunities. There are mountains, skyscrapers, beaches and slums all in a sprawl big enough to host a variety of villainous antagonists. The southern border may play a part of the story, too. L.A. is a schizophrenic city — it has so many identities, we can never get bored having Frank interact with each of them. And nearby are military bases.
I don't want to talk to much right now about why, in the story, Frank has gone west, but it's all part of the big picture, both for him personally and for the Marvel U.
To us, Frank feels protective of his city; it's not just a place for him, it's a person that he must keep safe; or at very least its a home he must protect and rid of its pests. So the city has to interact with him, and feel like a living thing. That's not difficult for LA, and LA to most people is a city you love to hate, or hate to love, which makes for a more interesting relationship. (Personally, I'm a fan of LA, so it's a joy to write. I even have an I *heart* LA t-shirt.)
For the most part, we'll see the "grounded" aspects of the town, but — well, actually yes to both. Frank will run afoul of some fantastic villains and heroes, whether they're native to the city or not. He might even ruin a movie set or two.
What can you tell us about the supporting cast of your "Punisher" book? We know Frank will clash with criminals, but will he have any regular allies or enemies on the right side of the law?
Frank has a few "friends," to the degree that Frank has friends. We'll meet a beat cop with a crush on Frank. Frank has a buddy who supplies him with weapons. I mentioned an animal friend above, we'll learn more about that. For the most part, though, Frank is alone in LA, with just his guns and his mission.
What can you tell us about Mitch's work on "Punisher?" How does it compare to his work on "The Activity?" And will Mitch color his work on "Punisher?"
Mitch is coloring his own work, yep. What he's done so far has been his best work to date, no doubt. We've got all of his quality from "The Activity" but he's exercising his art-chameleon abilities and giving the pages a slightly more superhero style, that's still gritty and dirty in the right places. You're going to love it.
Finally, you've touched on it briefly, but what can you tell us about your initial "Punisher" story? Is this a shorter story about Frank getting the feel of a new battlefield? Or is this the start of a longer campaign against a particular target?
We're playing a long game here. The title of the first arc is "Black and White" and there are a lot of questions of morality vs law that will rise to the surface. Each issue early on has Frank on the offense, big time, hunting and punishing and doing aha the does best. The big thing here is the 131. They're hunting Frank, but who are they, and why? What division of the government sent them, and why now? Frank doesn't know the s*** he's in, at least not initially.
Even if you haven't been a fan of the Punisher's before, don't miss issue 1. If for no other reason than of course you can ebay it. But I think our approach will appeal to YOU, sir and ma'am, and maybe even your brother, and sister, and mom and dad. Don't miss out. All the cool kids will be reading this book. Oh, and follow mitch and I: @nhedmondson, @mitchgerads!
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Jacquie from Tallgrass Prairie Studio shared some ingenious ideas for simplifying straight-line quilting. Her tips are directed at machine-quilters, but I am going to try the tape idea for this current quilt I'm working on hand-quilting. Marking long, straight lines on huge quilts is particularly tedious and leaves lots of room for errors. I'm going to make a Home Depot run tomorrow ... for quilting supplies. Ha! I love it.
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'Friday Night Lights': Aspiring to gridiron greatness
If you're not on the edge of your seat during the last 10 minutes of "Friday Night Lights" (7 p.m. Tuesday, WMAQ-Ch. 5), you simply don't have a pulse.
The final sequence in the premiere depicts the first game of the season for the Dillon Panthers, a Texas team that's a perennial contender for the state championship.
The coach is new, the Panthers fall behind, and anyone who has ever attended a closely contested football game will recognize the sense of enraptured attention -- shared by the crowd and the players -- that "Friday Night Lights" so masterfully conveys in the closing minutes of the game.
This drama has a deep bench; it's not only "inspired by" H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger's enthralling 1990 book of the same name, but it also was directed by Peter Berg, an actor/director ("The Last Seduction," "Chicago Hope") who helmed a 2004 feature film based on the book.
Berg's feel for cinematic narrative is sure and subtle; he knows that the look on a tortured fan's face says more than pages of dialogue and one long shot of a Hail Mary pass is more effective in silence than accompanied by a blaring soundtrack.
Few shows convey a sense of place more convincingly than "Friday Night Lights," which is shot in Texas. Dillon is a town with one burger place for the high school kids, a strip mall with Applebee's and the like, and not much else. Berg deftly portrays the wide-open spaces of this dusty, working-class town and the sense of claustrophobia that comes from not being able to escape your friends, neighbors or co-workers.
The cast of football players in "Lights" mostly look too old to be high schoolers, but that small flaw is not hard to overlook when the characters are etched so memorably right out of the gate. There's the cocky runny back, "Smash," who's full of bravado and NFL dreams; the clean-cut, All American quarterback, who knows the entire town's hopes rest on him but endures the pressure with gentlemanly grace; the outsider, a nervous second-string quarterback who lamely hits on a girl by telling her he's gotten to hold the ball a few times during extra points.
The most compelling character is running back Tim Riggins, who is, on the surface, a wild man uninterested in anything but drinking beer and hurting other guys on the field. Without much in the way of dialogue, actor Taylor Kitsch conveys the anguish of a young man who has never been given the words to understand what he feels when things go badly.
The entire town of Dillon is populated by recognizable types that fall just short of stereotype; there's the paunchy car dealer who unofficially runs the town, the local team boosters, for whom football is a religion and a sassy high schooler, Tyra, who is as risk-prone as her sometime boyfriend, Riggins.
Caught fooling around with another player, Tyra's marched outside by the player's no-nonsense mother: "I work at Planned Parenthood -- you haven't seen the last of me yet," the mother snaps.
There are two problems with the mostly promising "Friday Night Lights": The first has to do with the by-now overused conceit of the jiggly camera. A sense of motion and tension in camera movement is fine, but the series goes overboard in the use of jagged, jumping camera movement, to the point that it distracts from the fine acting and overall top-notch production values on display.
The other rests in "Lights'" depiction of life in Dillon: It may be too accurate to be enjoyable in the long run. In several scenes, we see the new Dillon coach, Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), bite his tongue as locals give him a never-ending stream of advice about the how to run the team, and the background noise of the show is the constant throb of talk-radio types ranting about this or that aspect of the Panthers.
Seeing Taylor constantly swallow that relentless pressure is realistic yet often uncomfortable to watch. A tightly wound man under a microscope is a fine subject for a film, but perhaps not for a TV show, unless there's a chance for all that pressure to be released in some meaningful way.
Still, the show's creators display many smart moves. They resist the temptation to make the show's second episode conclude with yet another "big game" sequence, and they appear to know that the show rises or falls on what the players and coaches do off the field as well as on it.
It'd be giving too much away to reveal what happens to some key characters in the first two episodes, but the dramatic tension of the first two hours makes it clear the producers of "Friday Night Lights" have no need for a Hail Mary pass yet. This is one show that could, with the right kind of leadership, make it to the playoffs.


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While we might agree on the weather (hot), crops (growing), or the right amount of sauce for barbecue (none), there is one thing in Alabama we can just about all disagree on: who to pull for come Saturday. It fuels our discussion at the barbershop or in line at the grocery store and gives us bragging rights for the next 364 days unless we happen to pull it off again. At holidays or neighborhood get togethers we're all civil, up until the time someone goes off and bad-mouths our team.
And that's the beauty. We can all agree to disagree in 'Bama. Cause we're all in it together no matter what colors we bleed.
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I am working on a corporate site for our company, the colors are their choice but the clean simplicity is mine. Anywho here is is http://back40group.com/.
Thanks in advance folks, I appreciate any feedback you may offer, please be constructive however, it will make any individual more receptive to your advice and suggestions.
its a little boring if you ask me.
simplicity is good, but this is too simple… maybe add some images to give it a professional touch.
Yes I do agree I will work on a logo on Monday and a possible background image. Thanks much.
Site looks good at 800px wide, but when you view it in a bigger screen 1280px here (not that big)
the reading becomes borderline illegible,
you also might want to set a min-width to your site, so when folks decide to re size to smaller then 800 they don't get stuff overlapping. also setting max-width would be a good ideal too to control the length of text
i would increase the line-height to improve readability, and maybe switch the font-sizes you got going, make the main content bigger then the sub content
also the menu is sightly off in ie6
All right thanks much I will work on it.
OK I am working on the graphics stuff and I added some graphics to the site. I do not like the swirly things (I hand drew them and added them) but I will leave them for right now. I am working on some more complex stuff for the background. I did bullet some stuff and changed several fonts around. I will work on the CSS stuff tonight or tomorrow.
OK I have finished adding graphics for now, and I need to embed the Swoop.ttf font and then I can tackle the CSS stuffs, thanks for all of your input.
I'm not quite sure that this design reflects on you as a company as a "an Internet based web site which primarily retails books and video products to the general public". This looks more of a country inn type of design.
I'm on a wide screen monitor and it really breaks the design. the background image for the content kinda floats to the right so only half the content is on it. Also the font is way too small! I can barely read it, and the background image makes it that much harder.
I do really enjoy the green/yellow colors, and really like the header. The only thing is the font looks so plain and boring.
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I have always loved Halloween. Dressing up, trick-or-treating, jack-o'-lanterns, et cetera, et cetera. Perhaps that's because I would watch Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas on VHS over and over and over again as an impressionable 6-year-old.
I believe my all-time best Halloween costume as a child was The Patchwork Girl of Oz. I read L. Frank Baum's book that summer — I think I was most impressed by the idea of the "Square Meal Tablet." For the costume, I just remember my mom helping me stitch "doll seams" into pink stockings — a bit like Sally from Nightmare.
I love Halloween so much that, in high school, I wrote a graphic novel called Every Day Should Be Halloween. The basic premise was about a high schooler plagued not only metaphorically but literally by a monkey on his back. I never finished the series… But I completed the written script, the character designs, the costume designs, and a rough sketch outline (see above) of every last page (a little over a hundred in total).
Now, my default costume is Daria Morgendorffer, as in MTV's animated series Daria (see above). I label this "default" since I just pull from my closet a number of articles from my high school days and voilà!!! This year, it's a particularly fortunate costume since Wes told me his very first crush was on Daria (´∀`)♡ (okay, I admit it — I totally had a crush on Trent; and Wes does an uncanny impression of the Mystik Spiral vocalist).
Anyway, here's a sneak peak of my costume…
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-- William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties
I've spun off my work-related ramblings over here. You can tell it's hardcore, because it's green text. Like jwz.
Our build files live on a Solaris 10 NFS server. The build client lives in a zone on a separate host. The build files are exported via v3 and tcp to the client.
Periodically the client would hang and require a zone reboot. Needless to say, this was astoundingly annoying if you didn't realize it had hung until you had started your build or push processes. An
init 6 always fixed it... for a while.
Looking at
snoop on the NFS server, it looked like a bunch of tcp:664 packets came in and go... nowhere. They hit the interface and vanish. Gee, I thought. That's odd.
Finally I got sick of this, and Googled around and found some references to port 623, a Linux bug that sounded pretty similar, and other Solaris users experiencing the same problem.
The first post is really the most useful. Different port, but same behavior.
After creating the
rmcp dummy service in
inetd, and restarting the zone, the problem has not resurfaced.
It's pretty interesting that this particular bug manifests because a chip on the motherboard eats traffic silently. "Interesting", anyway.
Co-worker asked for this. After a few minutes poking at the Makefile, I just googled and hit this page which gave me what I needed.
Yay for lazyweb.
Someone on Sun managers asked for advice on moving from Linux to Solaris and tips on living with Solaris in general. I guess I kind of have a lot to say about it, actually..
One thing I forgot to mention is using SMF. You may have two software repositories (Sun's and pkgsrc), but you only want one place to manage the actual services. Write SMF manifests! It's easy, and you can use puppet to manage it all.
From: Bryan Allen <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: Jussi Sallinen
Subject: Re: Looking for tips: Migrating Linux>Solaris10
Reply-To: firstname.lastname@example.com
In-Reply-To: <20090624113312.GA32749@unikko>
AIM: packetdump
| On 2009-06-24 14:33:12, Jussi Sallinen wrote:
| Im new to Solaris and about to start migrating Linux (Gentoo) based E450 server
| to V240 Solaris 10.
| Currently running:
| -Apache2
| -Postfix
| -Dovecot
| -MySQL
| About 70 users using WWW and email services.
| So, to the point:
| In case you have tips and tricks, or good to know stuff please spam me with
| info regarding migration.
A quick note: I work for a company where I migrated all our services from Linux
on whiteboxes to Solaris 10 on Sun hardware. It was a major effort, but
garnered us many benefits:
* Consolidation. Thanks to the faster harder and Zones, we are down from 50+
Linux boxes to a dozen Sun systems. And for honestly not that much money.
* Much greater introspection (not just only mdb or DTrace; the *stat tools are
just that much better)
* Before ZFS, we were mostly sitting on reiserfs (before my time) and XFS
(which I migrated as much as I could to before getting it on ZFS). ZFS has
been a huge, huge win in terms of both reliability and availability.
This turned out to be quite an article, but here are some "quick" thoughts on
using Solaris particularly, and systems administration in general:
* Read the System Administrator Guides on docs.sun.com if you are new to
* No, seriously. Go read them. They are incredibly useful and easy to parse.
* Follow OpenSolaris development, either via the mailing lists or #opensolaris
on freenode. This gives you a headsup and stuff that might be getting into
the next Solaris 10 Update, so you can plan accordingly.
* Use a ZFS root instead of UFS (text installer only, but you really want to
use JET -- see below)
* Use rpool for operating system and zoneroots only
* Set up a tank pool on seperate disks
* Delegate tank/filesystems to zones doing the application work
This minimizes the impact of random I/O on the root disks for data and vice
versa (just a good practice in general, but some people just try to use a
single giant pool).
It also negates the issue where one pool has become full and is spinning
platters looking for safe blocks to write to impacting the operating system or
application data.
* Use Marin Paul's pca for patching
The Sun patching tools all suck. pca is good stuff. You get security and
reliability patches for free from Sun; just sign up for a sun.com account.
You don't usually get new features from free patches (you do for paid patches),
but regardless all patches are included in the next system Update.
* Learn to love LiveUpgrade
With ZFS roots, LiveUpgrade became a lot faster to use. You don't have a real
excuse anymore for not building an alternative boot environment when you are
patching the system.
Some patches suck and will screw you. Being able to reboot back into your
previous boot environment is of enormous use.
* Use NetBSD's pkgsrc
Solaris 10 lacks a lot of niceties you and your users are going to miss.
screen, vim, etc. You can use Blastwave, but it has its own problems. pkgsrc
packages will compile basically everything without a problem; they are good
quality, easy to administer, and easy to upgrade.
If you aren't doing this on a single box, but several machines, you would have
a dedicated build zone/host, and use PKG_PATH to install the packages on other
systems. Since you are using a single machine, see below about loopback
mounting the pkgsrc directory into zones: Compile once, use everywhere.
The services you listed are available from pkgsrc and work fine. The one thing
you might want to consider instead is using Sun's Webstack and the MySQL
package, as they are optimized for Solaris and 64bit hardware.
In addition to the above, we use pkgsrc on our (dwingling number of) remaining
Linux hosts. It means we have a *single version* of software that may be
running on both platforms. It segments the idea of "system updates" and
"application updates" rather nicely with little overhead.
* Use Solaris Zones
Keep the global zone as free of user cruft as possible. If you segment your
services and users properly, zones make it incredibly easy to see what activity
is going on where (prstat -Z).
It also makes it easy to manage resources (CPU, RAM) for a given set of
services (you can do this with projects also, but to me it's easier to do at
the zone level).
Install all your pkgsrc packages in the global zone and loopback mount it in
each zone. This saves on space and time when upgrading pkgsrc packages. It also
means you have one set of pkgsrc packages to maintain, not N. It's the same
concept as...
* Use Sparse Zones
They are faster to build, patch and manage than full root zones. If you have
recalcitrant software that wants to write to something mounted read-only from
the global zone, use loopback mounts within the global zone to mount a zfs
volume read-write to where it wants (e.g., if something really wants to write
to /usr/local/yourface).
I also install common software in the global zone (e.g., Sun's compiler,
Webstack or MySQL) and then loopback mount the /opt directory into each zone
that needs it (every zone gets SSPRO).
* Delegate a ZFS dataset to each zone
This allows the zone administrator to create ZFS filesystems inside the zone
without asking the global admin. Something like rpool/zones/www1/tank. It's
easier to manage programmically too, if you are using something like Puppet
(see below) to control your zones. You only have to edit a single class (the
zones) when migrating the zone between systems.
* Use ZFS Features
No, really. Make sure your ZFS pools are in a redundant configuration! ZFS
can't automatically repair file errors if it doesn't have another copy of the
But: ZFS does more for you than just checksumming your data and ensuring it's
valid. You also have compression, trivial snapshots, and the ability to send
those snapshots to other Solaris systems.
Writing a script that snapshots, zfs sends | ssh host zfs recvs is trivial. I
have one in less than 50 lines of shell. It gives you streaming, incremental
backups with basically no system impact (depending on your workload,
Note that if disk bandwidth is your major bottleneck, enabling compression can
give you a major performance boost. We had a workload writing constantly
rewriting 30,000 sqlite databases (which reads the file into memory, creates
temp files, and writes the entire file to disk -- which are between 5MB and
2GB). It was incredibly slow until I enabled compression, which gave us a 4x
write boost.
You can also delegate ZFS filesystems to your users. This lets them take a
snapshot of their homedir before they do something scary, or whatever.
* Use the Jumpstart Enterprise Tool
Even though you only have one Solaris system, if you're new to Solaris, the
chances are you're going to screw up your first couple installs. I spent months
trying to get mine just the I wanted. And guess what, installing Solaris is
time-consuming and boring.
Using JET (a set of wrappers around Jumpstart, which can also be annoying to
configure), you have a trivial way of reinstalling your system just the way you
want. I run JET in a virtual machine, but most large installs would have a
dedicated install VLAN their install server is plugged into.
Solaris installs have a concept of "clusters", which define which packages are
instaled. I use RNET, the smallest one. It basically has nothing. I tell JET to
install my extra packages, and the systems are configured exactly how I want.
You use the finish scripts to do basic configuration after the install, and
to configure the *rest* of the system and applications, you...
* Use a centralized configuration management tool
I use Puppet. It makes it trivial to configure the system programmically,
manager users and groups, and install zones. It's a life and timesaver. In
addition to making your system configuration reproducible, it *documents* it.
Puppet manages both our Solaris and Linux boxes, keeping each in a known,
documented configuration. It's invaluable.
I also store all my user skel in source control (see next), and distribute them
with Puppet. Users may be slightly annoyed that they have to update the
repository whenever they want to change ~/.bash_profile, but it will be the
same on *every* host/zone they have access to, without them doing any work,
which will make them very happy.
* Store your configs in a source control manager
Both your change management and your system configuration should all be
versioned. Usefully, you can use your change management to manage your system
We have an internal directory called /sw where we deploy all our software to.
Older services have configs hard-coded to other locations, so we use Puppet to
ensure symlinks exist as appropriate. We deploy to /sw with a script that
checks the tree out of git and rsyncs it to all machines. It's pretty trivial,
and very useful if you have more than, say, two hosts.
/sw is also a loopback mount into every zone, and read-only. It enforces the
idea that all config changes must go into the repository, *not* be changed
locally... because developers can't write to /sw just to fix something quickly.
* Solaris Sucks At: Logging, by default
The default logging setup is awful. Install syslog-ng from pkgsrc, and write
your logs to both a remote syslog server and the local disk (enable compression
on your logs ZFS filesystem!)
* Solaris Sucks At: Firewalling
ipf is a pain in the butt. Unless you absolutely have to do host-based
firewalling, set up an OpenBSD system and use pf.
I'm sure I could think of quite a lot more (DTrace, Brendan Gregg's DTrace
Toolkit, RBAC, mdb), but it's dinnertime. :)
Hopefully the above will prove somewhat useful!
cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk.
Watching Outlander (2008), and spamming irk while doing so. It stars James Caviezel. You know. Bondage Jesus. He plays an alien who crashlands in Viking-era Norway (Earth being an abandoned alien seed colony).
At one point, Space Jesus has a bunch of Vikings building a trap for the Space Dragon.
< bda> "Is it deep enough for ya?" "No. Four more feet. And when you're done, I need two rows of postholes running up both sides." "Postholes. What do you need postholes for?" "...posts." "<dirty face>"
< bda> Jesus needs a postholer.
< bda> C'mon, no takers?
< bda> "What does JESUS need with a POSTHOLER?!"
< rjbs> I'm not going there.
< rjbs> Nobody fucks with the Jesus.
< ejp> I was going to say something, but I got hung up.
* bda groans.
< ejp> happy to help.
It's a pretty decent Beowulf story, with surprise John Hurt and Ron Perlman. Hard to argue with that.
Starting hypnosis next week.
That should be alarming.
For what?
To learn how to hack my brain.
Uh.. huh.
They tried that with me once.
Didn't work.
That's what they want you to think, but you still bark anytime anyone asks you the time.
I've been meaning to blog this for a while. Very useful in Jumpstart finish scripts.
eeprom console=ttyb
eeprom ttyb-mode="115200,8,n,1,-"
echo "name=\"asy\" parent=\"isa\" reg=1, 0x2f8 interrupts=3;" >> /kernel/drv/asy.conf
svccfg -s system/console-login setprop ttymon/label = 115200
svcadm refresh system/console-login
svcadm restart system/console-login
perl -pi -e 's/^splashimage/#splashimage/' /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst
perl -pi -e 's/$ZFS-BOOTFS$/$ZFS-BOOTFS,console=ttyb/' /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst
bootadm update-archive
So I have a device failing in one of my zpools:
extended device statistics ---- errors ---
r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b s/w h/w trn tot device
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fd0
0.0 2.0 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0 0 1 0 0 1 c0t0d0
0.0 2.0 0.0 8.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0 0 1 0 0 1 c0t1d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0 100 1 3 4 8 c0t2d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c0t3d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c1t2d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c1t3d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c1t4d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c1t5d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 c2t0d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 c3t0d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 6 2 0 8 c4t0d0
extended device statistics ---- errors ---
r/s w/s kr/s kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t %w %b s/w h/w trn tot device
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fd0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c0t0d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c0t1d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0 0.0 0 100 1 3 4 8 c0t2d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c0t3d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c1t2d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c1t3d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c1t4d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 1 0 0 1 c1t5d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 c2t0d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 c3t0d0
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 6 2 0 8 c4t0d0
It's part of a mirror:
pool: tank
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An
attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected.
action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors
using 'zpool clear' or replace the device with 'zpool replace'.
see: http://www.sun.com/msg/ZFS-8000-9P
scrub: none requested
tank ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c0t2d0 ONLINE 0 6 2
c0t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t4d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c1t5d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
So I reckon I'll just
offline it and go replace it.
[20090401-17:20:12]::[root@shoal]:[~]$ zpool offline tank c0t2d0
cannot offline c0t2d0: no valid replicas
err... what?
So I
detach it from the mirror instead, which does work.
I ask jmcp if he has any insight into why this might be, and after a few minutes he asks if disconnecting the device works.
[20090401-18:01:57]::[root@shoal]:[~]$ cfgadm -c disconnect c0::dsk/c0t2d0
cfgadm: Hardware specific failure: operation not supported for SCSI device
So that's the culprit, I think. A
disconnect is implicit when doing a
zpool offline?
Not a good error to throw back to the user, either.
So Linux has a history of hosed db interfaces. Apache worked around this about ten years ago by including their own SDBM in their distribution.
pkgsrc separates their Apache packages into DSOs. So mod_perl, mod_fastcgi, mod_ssl, etc, are built as separate packages. However, when you compile Apache1 with no SSL, it disables SDBM, so mod_ssl (which requires some sort of DBM) fails.
The PR is here.
My workaround was to do this:
ap-ssl$ vi /usr/pkg/pkgsrc/www/ap-ssl/work/mod_ssl-2.8.31-1.3.41/pkg.sslmod/libssl.module
Search for the first instance of APXS.
Add the following two lines above it:
And ap-ssl will compile happily.
Over the last two weeks we (read: rjbs) migrated our Subversion repositories to git on GitHub. I was not very pleased with this for the first week or so. By default, I am grumpy when things that (to me) are working just fine are changed, especially at an (even minor) inconvenience to me. That is just the grumpy, beardy sysadmin in me.
After a bit more talking to by rjbs, things are again smooth sailing. I can do the small amount of VCS work I need to do, and more imporantly: I am assured things I don't care about will make the developers lives much, much less painful, which is something I am certainly all for.
git is much faster than Subversion ever was, and I can see some features as being useful to me eventually. Overall, though, what I use VCS for is pretty uninteresting, so I don't have much else to say about it.
I had a couple basic mental blocks that rjbs was able to explain away in a 20 minute talk he gave during our bi-weekly iteration meeting. It was quite productive. There are pictures.
Work has otherwise consisted of a lot of consolidation. I have finally reduced the number of horrible systems to two. Yes. Two. Both of which are slated for destruction in the next iteration. Not only that, I have found some poor sucker (hi, Cronin!) to take them all off our hands. Of course, they'll be upgrading from PIIIs, so...
I also cleaned up our racks. A lot. They are almost clean enough to post pictures of, though I'll wait until I've used up more of the six rolls of velcro Matt ordered before doing that.
Pretty soon we'll have nothing but Sun, a bit of IBM, and a very small number of SuperMicros. My plans are to move our mail storage from the existing SCSI arrays to a Sun J4200 (hopefully arriving this coming week). 6TB raw disk, and it eats 3.5" SATA disks, which are ridiculously cheap these days. I really, really wanted an Amber Roads (aka OpenStorage) J7110, but at 2TB with the cost of 2.5" SAS, it was impossible to justify. If they sold a SATA version at the low-end... there has been some noise about conversion kits for Thumpers, but that's also way outside our price range.
I doubt conversion support will become more common, but if I could turn one of our X4100s and the J4200 into an OpenStorage setup, I would incredibly happy. If you haven't tried out the OpenStorage Simulator, I suggest you do so. Analytics is absolutely amazing.
People on zfs-discuss@ and #opensolaris have been talking about possible GSoC projects. I suggested a zpool/filesystem "interactive" attribute, or "ask before destroy." However you want to think of it. Someone else expanded on that, suggesting that -t be allowed to ensure that only specified resource types can be destroyed. I have yet to bone myself with a `zfs destroy` or `zpool destroy` but the day will come, and I will cry.
I see a pkgsrc upgrade in my near future. I've been working on linking all our Perl modules against it, and I want to get the rest of our internal code linking against it as well. It will make OS upgrades so, so much easier. Right now, most code is either linked to OS libraries or to an internal tree (most of which also links to OS libraries).
We've almost gotten rid of all our Debian 3.1 installs, which is... well. You know. Debian 5.0 just came out, and we've barely gotten moved to 4.0 yet. Getting the upgrade path there sorted out will thankfully just be tedious, and require nothing clever.
I really hope that the Cobbler guys get Debian partitioning down soon, and integrate some Solaris support. I tried redeploying FAI over Christmas and man, did it so not work out of the box. I used to use FAI, and was quite happy with it. I had to hack it up, but... it worked pretty well. Until it stopped.
If Cobbler had Solaris support, I would seriously consider moving our remaining Linux installs to CentOS. We use puppet already, so in many ways Cobbler is a no-brainer. We are not really tied to any particular Linux distribution, and having all our infrastructure under a single management tools ken would be really nice. To put it mildly.
30% curious about OpenSolaris's Automated Installer project, but it's so far off the radar as to be a ghost.
I picked up John Allspaw's The Art of Capacity Planning, and it's next on my book queue. Flipping through it makes me think it's going to be as useful as Theo S.'s Scalable Internet Architectures.
What with all my microblogging... well, anyway.
H is in Boston visiting her sister for the weekend, so I've been left to my own devices. Which seem to consist of many naps, baths, and lots of reading. I finished The Iron Dragon's Daughter, by Michael Swanwick. Nothing I'd recommend to anyone. Maybe to people who enjoy Laurrel K. Hamilton and are looking at a poor gateway to better fiction. Started the sequel, The Dragons of Babel, which is much, much better.
Beyond that, I've done little. The XBOX 360 is still broken (bloody Microsoft) and I haven't had the mental power to get over to Gamestop to get it replaced yet. I should do that. H is no doubt missing rocking out, and I'm sort of interested in Dead Space after hearing rjbs and a few other guys on IRC talk about it for a couple weeks now.
Tonight I apparently missed out on Social Activities, thanks to napping and headphone usage. Phone being on mute probably didn't help much.
I made some edamame to snack on earlier (yum!) but should probably find something more akin to an actual meal. meh.
Today Harry and I were walking to Five Guys to get some lunch and an old woman and her grandson had just gotten nailed by the PPA. She was doing this Old World Damn the Man Dance on the crumpled up parking ticket.
Philadelphia was very colorful today.
Andy Zebrowitz
Bryan Allen
Andy Zebrowitz
Hang on. ^_^
Bryan Allen
Andy Zebrowitz
Shut up.
I already know what you're going to say.
Bryan Allen
Andy Zebrowitz
The colon/semicolon key is broken, okay?
Bryan Allen
< bda> Dude.
< bda> So I'm in bed reading and hear buzzy flapping coming from my desk.
< bda> Like a moth on a lightbulb.
< bda> So I look at my lamp and there's some shit going down behind the bulb. I can see some movement through the holes in the back, by the switch.
< bda> So I wait for shit to resolve itself, thinking "A moth got caught back there? Weird."
< bda> But I don't see any wings or antenna, and it seems to have an awful lot of legs for a moth.
< bda> Finally it stops moving and I take a closer look, through the holes.
< bda> A fucking spider went into my lamp after a fly and fried itself!
< bda> Now I'm worried a fucking bird is going to fly into the damn thing!
< robf> I guess not every insect can be on the varsity team.
The proper way to boot a ZFS mirror
[via Auralis]
Lightning flashes through the hole in the dome. Creeper vines cover most of the ancient crystal, diffusing the crisp white tear into a mottled static. The heavy upper atmosphere gives the lightning a good five or six second lifespan. Its tendrils flash and dig through dense cloud.
Dim light filters through the creepers, the second moon something half-seen through clouds, hovering over the hole itself. That particular damage to the
City had been caused by some form of bombardment; its origin, reasoning, lost
to time and media corruption. Chunks of the dome litter the City, along with
hundreds of years of other debris.
Carter ducks and rolls as the ground around him is lit, moving as quickly away from the exposed position as possible. Lots of folk might tend to freeze, let anyone trailing them get a scope on them, even in the sudden glare and burn. He'd done it. Didn't see why anyone else couldn't.
No shots rang out, but he honestly hadn't expected any too. His quarry was known to be more hands on. More personal.
The breather mask covering his face obscured his vision; sound already tends to slow, distort. His thermal and microwave rigs have both already been destroyed or discarded during the long hunt. Against the android's senses, Carter is at a definite disadvantage.
Given the choice, he might give up. Crawl back down into the tunnels under the City, tell his employer he lost the android at the edge of the dome. It got out into the World, and while Carter is known to play it fast and loose, he followed some rules. No one went outside.
Given the choice.
Something that felt older and angrier, something cold and reptilian, something deeper and stronger than even the most basic of survival instincts, had taken Carter in its grip. Had sharpened him. The android had thrown Davis into a vantree; Carter had been half a mile away, but Davis' screams had carried, warbling and horrible in the heavy air.
Until the tree's slow mind noticed its gift, and Davis was silent.
They'd split up at Carter's suggestion, figuring the skinjob would be focused on escape. Instead it had doubled back, rallied against its hunters. Carter's fault Davis was slowly melting away in the trunk of some damn plauge-twisted tree.
So revenge kept him up here, trying to track the runner. Oxy tank low, resources minimal. He tried not to think about the damage to his leg. The suit's drugs were taking care of most of the pain, and the armor had stiffened and frozen into a kind of brace. He could get along. Wouldn't give himself much in the way of odds if he did manage to catch up to the bastard again, though.
After Davis went down, Carter had lost his cool. He'd tried to tank the
skinjob; it must have thought Davis had been the only tracker. Carter had a
piece of the dome thrown into him for his trouble. He's almost got out of the
way, but not quite. He'd been limping since, and through the drugs, he was
starting to feel bones grating together, somewhere deep in his leg. Somewhere
close to an artery, the way his luck was going.
Good word to describe this job from the start.
Finally got around to doing a Jumpstart for 10/08 today. After one little hitch (u6 renames the
cNdN devices in my X2100s to the more proper
cNtNdN), it all worked as expected.
fdisk c1t0d0 solaris delete
fdisk c1t1d0 solaris delete
fdisk c1t0d0 solaris all
fdisk c1t1d0 solaris all
install_type initial_install
pool rpool auto auto auto mirror c1t1d0s0 c1t1d0s0
bootenv installbe bename sol10u6
Yay, ZFS root!
Solaris 10 10/08 (Update 6) was released yesterday. Release notes here.
I grabbed SPARC media and headed down to the colo yesterday to reinstall our T5120 (previously running b93). Fed the media in, consoled in via the SP, booted the system, and then left.
From much more comfortable environs, I got the system installed (service processors really are the best thing ever) without issue, and then, thanks to hilarity with my laptop, lost the randomized password I'd set for root. So whatever, I boot single-user and ... get asked for root's password. This is very similar to most Linux single-user boots these days, and more recently OpenSolaris.
I really, really didn't expect Solaris to follow suit. At least not for .. a while.
Very annoying. At dlg's suggestion, I tried booting
-m milestone=none, but still had no joy. Ended up just booting
cdrom -s and munging
/etc/shadow that way.
Very annoying.
Anyway, having ZFS root in Solaris GA is pretty great. There are a number of really awesome features putback from Nevada this release, along with zfsboot. Check out the release notes. Good stuff.
Ceri Davies corrects me:
Just a note, because it sounds as if you think otherwise, that this behaviour has been present since at least update 3; ie. at least two years. You can turn it off by creating /etc/default/sulogin with the line PASSREQ=NO.
I don't recall seeing this behavior with u4 or u5, so evidently I am a crazy person. Thanks to Ceri for the info.
sulogin(1M) for further details.
<kitten> sup.
<bda> Not much.
<bda> Workin'.
<kitten> On the weekend?
<bda> Everybody is.
< bda> Some girl in the elevator just slapped my ass and told me to get some.
< bda> A bunch of drunk Phillies fans.
< rjbs> That's what they wanted you to believe.
< bda> They were all wearing Phillies shirts, and were all very drunk, and asked me if I cared about the Phillies at all.
< bda> I believe they were drunk Phillies fans.
< bda> They were doing something illegal to a potted plant, too.
< rjbs> Right. They wanted you to believe they were drunk Phillies fans, so they put on Phillies shirts, talked about the Phillies, and affected a drunken demeanor.
< rjbs> Poor Bryan. So credulous.
< bda> And then she planted a tracking device on my butt?
< rjbs> no, that was just courtesy
Melissa suggested I should have asked her if she was volunteering. Why can't I think of these things when random drunk people are slapping my nethers?
Ben Folds with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia last night, at the Mann Center.
Just amazing.
"Steven's Last Night in Town" pretty much requires an orchestra, really.
He played a couple new tracks last night, too, for the album dropping on the 30th. Definitely looking forward to it.
Even in the middle of a little hurricane, the place was packed. Everyone decked out in rain gear and ready to have an excellent time. And they did.
We ran into Nick and Mariah while looking for seats, which was hilarious though -- really -- not all that unexpected. (We hit up Doobies after with them, and ran into Gallo (Hi, Eric!), who is back in town and sounding very productive. Very excited for him.)
And, as H commented after the "three part harmony" section of the night, the Mann center has great acoustics.
Seriously. Last night was awesome. There's a reason H has seen Ben Folds twelve times now. I certainly hope I get to; I can't imagine it ever getting old.
* solios imagines that's Lud in the distance, squees
New Dr. Horrible content in the works, and the soundtrack is apparently soon to be released.
Recently I moved our x86-64 pkgsrc build zone to another system. When I did so, I had forgotten I had built the original zone as full, to get around an annoying
install(1M) bug. Basically, when you tried to build a package, it would attempt to recursively
mkdir /usr/pkg. On sparse zones,
/usr is shared read-only from the global zone.
So the install would fail, because it couldn't create
/usr for obvious reasons. At the time, I thought I had tried various
install programs, but given that the problem was being re-addressed and I didn't feel like reprovisioning a zone, I figured I would tackle it again.
After some minor discussion on
#pkgsrc and grepping through
mk/ I "discovered" the following variable:
Added to
mk.conf and all is good. Mainly because
ginstall actually uses
mkdir -p, so...
The contents of
pkgsrc/mk/platform/ are very useful if you aren't on NetBSD.