A Visualized Novel with Story Choices Part of the Space Empire Universe Mark and Michele Connors want to preserve the Space Empire's historic religious and personal freedom but Earth interference and imperial corruption threaten their way of life. Mark's cousin Daniel means to launch a gas collecting mission to Titan to strike a blow for energy independence. Espionage and sabotage dog the mission as well as media smears and intimidation tactics. Everyone must make choices as the mission proceeds and these can spell success or disaster at every turn as the launch window approaches and time and resources go critical.

DISC, the International Symposium on Distributed Computing, is an annual forum for presentation of research on all aspects of distributed computing, - cluding the theory, design, implementation and applications of distributed - gorithms, systems and networks. The 22nd edition of DISC was held during September 22-24, 2008, in Arcachon, France. There were 101 submissions submitted to DISC this year and this volume contains 33 15-page-long regular papers selected by the Program Committee among these submissions. Every submitted paper was read and evaluated by ProgramCommittee membersassistedby externalreviewers.The ?nal decisions regarding acceptance or rejection of each paper were made during the electronic Program Committee meeting held during June 2008. Revised and expanded versions of a few best selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal Distributed Computing. The Program Committee selected Robert Danek and Wojciech Golab as the recipientsofthis year'sBestPaperAwardfortheir paper “Closingthe Compl- ity Gap Between FCFS Mutual Exclusion and Mutual Exclusion.”The Program Committee selected Wojciech Wawrzyniak as the recipient of this year's Best Student Paper Award for the paper “Fast Distributed Approximations in P- nar Graphs” coauthored with Andrzej Czygrinow and Michal Han´ ´ckowiak.

Trading in the Zone introduces a whole new mental dimension to getting an edge on the market. Use it to leverage the power of the “zone” for unprecedented profit. Mark Douglas uncovers the underlying reasons for lack of consistency and helps traders overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost them money. He takes on the myths of the market and exposes them one by one teaching traders to look beyond random outcomes, to understand the true realities of risk, and to be comfortable with the "probabilities" of market movement that governs all market speculation.