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Q. What great experiment by a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist was dreamed up in a dream– twice? D. & P. Everly
A. In 1920, German-born Otto Loewi was working on an experiment to see whether nerves send messages chemically or electrically, says A. Alvarez in Night. But details of the experiment stumped him, until on Easter Sunday they came to him in a dream. "He woke, scribbled it down, then went back to sleep. But by morning the dream had vanished, and he could not decipher his nocturnal scrawl," Alvarez writes.
No problem. The next night he dreamed the dream again, and this time went straight to his laboratory at 3am. He prepared two frogs and stimulated the vagus nerve of one, slowing its heart rate. Then he transferred blood from this frog's heart to the other's, and when its heart slowed too, Loewi had his answer: Nerves are not like tiny wires, but transmit their signals chemically.
The chief chemical, it later turned out, is acetylcholine, the neurotransmitter that triggers dreams. "A dream, in short, had provided a clue to understanding the chemistry of dreams," the author concludes.
Q. ESP has yet to be convincingly demonstrated in the laboratory. If and when it is, what is one scientific law it will almost certainly have to obey? S. Barling
A. Einstein once remarked that he had an open mind on ESP but would not believe it until a "distance" effect had been demonstrated, says physicist Lawrence Krauss in Beyond Star Trek. After all, long-range forces in nature like gravity, light, and radio waves grow less intense the farther away the source, so why not ESP, which would presumably be transmitted via some sort of brain waves?
Even "Hollywood has generally caught on to this sensible idea," Krauss writes. In Star Trek, Spock has to touch the person whose mind he is reading, and Deanna Troi must be close by to sense someone's feelings. The captured alien in Independence Day seemed to have to be in the same room with victims to commit psychic killings. And the spooky children in Village of the Damned could sense others' malevolent thoughts only if nearby.
"Some of the wackier shows on TV lately seemed to stray from this principle– but then, they're wacky," says Krauss.
Q. What would life be like if people couldn't lie? T. A. King
A. Volunteers who kept "truth diaries" reported telling a lie or two a day, to flatter, to protect others' feelings, to avoid embarrassment or loss of face, or for personal gain, say Carole Wade et al. in Psychology.
If nobody could lie, life would be rougher, many relationships hard to maintain, says psychologist Paul Ekman in Telling Lies. The friend who kindly conceals boredom would be unmasked. The husband who pretends amusement when his wife tells a joke badly, the wife who feigns interest in her husband's tale of how he fixed a gadget, may feel abused if the pretense is challenged.
On the other hand, imagine a world where everyone could lie perfectly. We would all be misled much of the time. "Basically, the world we live in– where we can lie but not perfectly is probably the best."
Q. If you could rocket to any planet in our solar system, where would you see the most spectacular sunsets? W. Von Braun
A. We Earthlings alone enjoy the riotous palette of colors marking day's transition to darkness, says astronomer Bob Berman in Secrets of the Night Sky. "Throughout most of the universe, the sun sets and... wham, it's a power failure, a bewildering snap into blackness."
Occasionally there's a lingering slow transition from light to dark, as on a slowly-rotating or cloud-covered planet like Venus, but lacking Earth's atmosphere, no color is generated. Typical is the experience on our moon: day or night, the sky is inky black, pricked with stars. The sun hangs as a lone light engulfed by darkness. Only Mars offers "an anemic attempt at twilight tints. Its thin air, however, is incapable of reproducing Earth's rich hues."
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Architecture is another form of language. -Guillermo Gómez Rivera-
Last Monday, young hispanista JC Bernardo, a Biñense born and bred, alerted me about the start of the anticipated demolition of the fabled Casa de Alberto, the home where José Rizal's mother, Doña Teodora Morales (Alberto) Alonso Realonda y Quintos, grew up. Upon getting JC's message, I immediately felt sick in the stomach.
The first time I saw this house was in 5 September 2004, when I transferred my family to nearby San Pedro (Tunasán). It was a Sunday. My wife, hearing our San Pedrense neighbors about the bargain prices which Biñán's famous public market offers to its buyers, had wanted to pay the town a visit. So after mass at the mysterious Santo Sepulcro, off we went to the town of puto biñán.
I had a different agenda, of course.
I had always wanted to visit places I've never been to before, especially those which have historical worth. It was a virtual thrill for an Antillean-house connoisseur like me. As the jeepney we were riding was passing through the town's arterial road, I saw from afar the glaring and imposing red-tiled rooftop of the said mansion. Although I still didn't know it back then, something within me told myself that it was the ancestral house of Rizal's maternal relatives. And I was right off the bat when, after inquiring from some market vendors about the owners of the fantasy mansion, they confirmed my hunch. "It's owned by the Albertos," they said. "But they are already selling the house."
Little did I know that this "sale" meant its impending doom six years later.
We weren't able to get inside the house because the owner wasn't there. But my family (Yeyette and I still had two kids back then) was able to get inside the poorly concretized patio* where the zaguán** was. My wife was thrilled to have touched the centuries-old adobe walls of the house. Too bad we didn't have a camera back then.
The unbelievable thrill of having been to that "unrecognized" historic house (unrecognized, because the authorities concerned didn't even bother to put up a historical marker) prompted me to write an email message to my contertulios in Círculo Hispano-Filipino:
Mon, September 6, 2004 11:57:35 PM
¡Un buen día a todos!
Ayer, después de la misa de mañana en la iglesia milagrosa de Santo Sepulcro (San Pedro, Laguna), traje mi familia (mi esposa Yeyette y nuestros niños Krystal y Momay) a Biñán que está al lado de San Pedro. Mi esposa quiso visitar el mercado de Biñán que es famoso del precio bajo de sus materias y comidas (carne, verduras, etc.). Biñán es también famoso de su "Puto Biñán," aparte del hecho que José Rizal estudió allí durante su juventud.
Al llegar de Biñán, estuve decepcionado cuando averigüé que el lugar ha perdido su toque rural. La plaza delante de la iglesia de San Isidro Labrador (¿era la misma iglesia dónde Rizal solía ir durante su breve permanencia allí en el dicho lugar?) y el ayuntamiento fue atestada por vendedores y tiendecitas. El lugar era tan lleno de tráfico humano y vehicular, sin contar la contaminación del aire producida por triciclos ruidosos y numerosos.
El lugar me recuerda de Divisoria en Manila (pero oí que el Alcalde Joselito Atienza ha hecho maravillas para aquel lugar).
El único contraste absoluto sobre todo los horrores urbanos fue esta vieja casa grande con un techo de azulejos rojos delante del ayuntamiento.
Es tan enorme, tan antillano. Inmediatamente asumí que podría estar donde Rizal había vivido cuando él se quedó en Biñán. Pero no confiando en mi presentimiento, pedí a mi esposa a preguntar el dueño de la casa; ella lo hizo después de comprar nuestros comestibles y el "Puto Biñán."
Lamentablemente, la casa no era más en buenas condiciones. La parte inferior de la casa ha sido convertida en varias tiendas, rodeado por vendedores. La parte superior me parece abandonada.
Mi esposa, que es la persona más amistosa entre dos de nosotros, se enteró de la gente cerca de la casa grande que fue poseída por el clan Alberto.
El nombre Alberto de repente "me suena de nombre" dentro de mi cabeza—¡recuerdo que el abuelo maternal de Rizal es un Alberto! Dije este hecho a Yeyette, que inmediatamente fue excitada (últimamente, ella se ha hecho interesada en la historia filipina, también). Ella dijo que quizás podríamos entrar. Estuve sorprendido. Pareció imposible; la casa grande me pareció abandonada, y no hay nadie a que podríamos dirigirnos para entrar, o confirmar si este fuera en efecto la casa grande de un pariente de Rizal.
Pero la confianza en la ingeniosidad de mi esposa (su lema es "what Jenny wants, Jenny gets—lo que Jenny quiere, Jenny se pone"), ¡éramos capaces de descubrir más!
Ella era capaz de localizar donde podríamos entrar, y hasta éramos capaces de dirigirnos al conserje de la casa. El anciano, que puede hablar un poco español, confirmó que sí, esta era la misma casa donde Rizal se había quedado cuando él estudió en Biñán bajo el Maestro Justiniano Cruz. Lamentablemente, él tenía órdenes del dueño de no permitir a turistas durante fines de semana, pero él nos invitó a volver en cualquier momento durante días de semana (esta información particular me dejó perplejo). Pero él nos permitió a visitar los alrededores el patio. Mi esposa, que llevaba Mómay, entrevistó el conserje. Tomé Krystal conmigo para vagar en el patio. El lugar entero es desvencijado. Alcé la mirada a las paredes inlavadas de la casa grande, y la luz deslumbrante triste de las ventanas me contempló. El zaguán está lleno de chatarra. Casi trajo lágrimas a mis ojos; una casa tan hermosa y muy filipina no debería haber sido ignorado como así. Solamente toqué sus paredes para tener una "sensación" de historia. Sin embargo, me alegré que mi hija todavía tenga una experiencia de primera mano de ver una herencia cultural, una herencia que se está desvaneciendo rápidamente…
Cuándo volvimos a la entrada de la casa grande, ¡me dijeron que la casa grande ha estado de pie allí durante más de cien años ya! Éramos capaces de echar una ojeada en una de sus ventanas principales, y vimos una escalera enorme que conduce hacia el caída. Encima es un espejo antiguo y probablemente algún mobiliarios antiguos.
Sí, efectivamente: ¡volveremos allí! Y el conserje nos dijo que él se alegraría de recorrernos dentro de la casa grande y nos indicará el dormitorio donde Rizal se había quedado.
Pero comencé a preguntarme: ¿por qué no está allí ningún fechador histórico (historical marker) atado a aquella casa grande si esto es realmente la casa dónde Rizal se había quedado? Enfrente de esa casa es una plaza donde un monumento en honor de Rizal está erigido. Seguramente, nuestros historiadores no habrían olvidado esta enorme casa que es tan llena de la historia.
En realidad no estoy familiar a Biñan y yo no estoy seguro y consciente si la escuela donde Rizal había estudiado ha sido conservada, ni sé donde está localizada.
Además, era el mediodía pasado, y era el tiempo para volvemos a casa. Estuve a punto de ir a la casa del Señor Gómez. ¿Sin embargo, a mi sorpresa, mi esposa insistió que localicemos la escuela (donde Rizal estudió)… estábamos ya en Biñán, y esto sería un buen viaje educativo para Krystal entonces, ¿cómo no?
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Fast forward to today. After that first visit, I went back to that house several times. Arnaldo and I first visited the house together two years ago:
We returned there late last year and eventually met the current owner, Gerardo "Gerry" Alberto, a distant relative of Rizal:
I even toured my family there early this year, during my son Jefe's third birthday:
With the continuing existence of the Alberto Mansion at the heart of Biñán town, its cultural –as well as its people's local– identity remains intact and secure. The Alberto Mansion is a classic example of an Antillean house, a bahay na bató. The bahay na bató is what gives its own individuality, thus differentiating her from her Latino sisters such as México, Puerto Rico, Cuba, etc. The bahay na bató, which is diminishing at a very alarming rate annually, gives us a sense of belongingness to our country no matter which part of the archipelago we go. Even if, for example, a Bicolano is stranded in Cebuano frontier, for as long as he sees a bahay na bató in another "tribal" turf, he is still at home. A Tagalog will still call Mindanáo as his domain inasmuch as these Antillean houses reign supreme in that island forever blessed by La Virgen del Pilar. I even dare say that Ilocanos can lay claim to "ancestral domain" to Sámar or Cebú or Batangas because their Vigan houses have countless relatives in those faraway areas. As the great nationalist and filipinista Guillermo Gómez Rivera put it, "architecture is another form of language".
Aside from the Spanish language, the bahay na bató is what fuses the Filipino Identity. Furthermore, the bahay na bató physically gives form to a town's Filipinoness. No amount of intricately designed Manny Villar or Henry Sy mansions can ever Filipinize their private subdivisions and villages as long as there are no Antillean houses within their suburbs.
In other countries, establishments of historical value –no matter how old they are– are almost regarded as sacred temples. But in this side of the world, we desecrate historical sites, whether they are houses or, worse, churches. The Alberto Mansion is no ordinary home —
In my helpless rage, I am tempted to declare that this country, particularly Biñán, is filled with mindless and heartless government officials. But as I write this, I discovered this on the net just a few moments ago…
Laguna town prevents demolition of Rizal mom's home
The city government of Biñán in Laguna on Wednesday stopped the demolition of the 200-year-old ancestral home of the family of Teodora Alonso, mother of national hero Jose Rizal, and announced plans to acquire the property so as not to lose the city's cultural heritage to a resort in Bataán.
The two-story house, with a floor-area of about 600 square meters, was built in the 1800s in the heart of the city opposite what is now the Biñán city hall.
The house, locally known as the Alberto Mansion, was owned by the family of José Alberto Alonso, the father of Teodora.
According to the local group United Artists for Cultural Conservation and Development, the current property owner Gerardo Alberto, had closed a deal to sell off the house to Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, a heritage resort, in Bagac, Bataán.
It said about 20 percent of the house's interior was already "demolished" as of this week.
"All the antique furniture were already taken out. The ceiling was also already taken off," said Rosauro Sta. María, the group's president and executive director, whose honorary chairman is also Biñán Mayor Marlyn Alonte-Naguíat.
Sta. María said the demolition was being carried out despite the non-issuance of a demolition permit by the city government to the property owner.
"We fully understand the plight of the Albertos—how costly it is to maintain such an old house and maybe that was why they were forced to sell it," said Sta. María.
But Sta. María appealed to the Albertos not to take the valuable piece of heritage out of Biñán as losing it means losing the identity of the city.
"Understanding the present, means knowing the glorious past," he said, adding that little is known about Biñán being a part of the history.
He said both Rizal's parents, Franciso Mercado and Teodora, were natives of Biñán. The hero himself spent years in Biñán while he was in grade school.
"I asked our city engineering office to order a halt to the demolition. We have not issued them a permit for the demolition," said Vice Mayor Arman Dimaguila in a phone interview.
He said the city council in a hearing on Thursday will discuss the mechanics of acquiring the house, which the city government could renovate to house a proposed Binan cultural affairs office.
The house was priced between P500,000 and P1 million.
"Our call is for the Albertos to heed the proposal of the city government of Biñan. If that won't do, we are appealing to Jerry Acuzar, owner of the heritage resort, to instead donate the house to Biñán City and we will forever be indebted to him," Sta María said.
Bryan Jason Borja, artistic director of the United Artists for Cultural Conservation and Development, said they were organizing a cultural protest and were inviting artists and cultural workers to join their campaign against the demolition of the heritage home.
During one of my final visits to that place, Arnaldo and I were questioning Gerry Alberto's decision to sell his forefather's house, arguably one of the most historical sites in the country. But he told us that he's financially helpless to support a house that someday might topple down on its own due to wear and tear. I asked him straightforward if he still wanted to save his house. He didn't say "yes". Rather, he said that he receives no compensation from the government.
"The government has no money!" he complained to us.
In the middle of our conversation, he suddenly handed me a printed document. It was an email conversation between a female relative of his and a noted historian. They were discussing the imminent sale of the house to Jerry Acuzar, back then a strange name to me. They were planning to have the whole Alberto Mansion dismantled and then reconstructed in his Bagac, Bataán resort. The place is called Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar. It is a seaside resort where many prominent Antillean houses (including the Maxino house of Unisan, Quezon, my dad's hometown) found all over the country are relocated.
Ivan Henares of the Heritage Conservation Society has been a staunch critic of Acuzar's resort. In his popular travel blog, Ivan About Town, he wrote:
The main issue here is not simply the transfer but the fact that Acuzar is actively shopping for old houses, trying to woo the owners into selling their properties to him! How ironic that he mentions Scandanavia where "culture is preserved in structures." If he was indeed to follow the example he cited, structures should remain where they are, preserved together with the environment they were built in!
This is a strong accusation. Arnaldo is actually a supporter of Acuzar's project and had wanted to defend the controversial architect-cum-resort magnate from Ivan's attacks. Arnaldo has good enough reason to do so. Indeed, why let old houses topple down and rot by themselves if their owners have already lost the heart (and the financial means) to maintain them? But in view of the abovementioned news article, it appears that the demolition of the Alberto Mansion was done rather deceitfully. Biñán native JC Bernardo confirmed this treachery just a few minutes ago (see screenshot below).
JC recounted that the demolition was done in the dark. The demolition started from within the house so as to avoid immediate public scrutiny! And before the local government was able to do some defensive action, the damage was already done: about 20% of the house was already desecrated!
These developments put Mr. Acuzar's motives in question. Is his Bagac resort a haven for troubled ancestral houses? Or is Mr. Henares' accusations true, that Acuzar is actually "shopping" for such houses, i.e., bribing beleaguered owners such as Gerry Alberto, into selling their homes that their ancestors had built and tried to preserve for future generations?
Too bad that document which Gerry gave me is still missing. It will prove to be a crucial piece to this criminal puzzle of destroying our nation's historic jewels.
In the meantime, while there is still a standoff, I am calling all Biñenses and those Filipinos who still value our country's patrimony to fight for Biñán's identity!
*patios — are enclosed al fresco courtyards.
**zaguán — is where carromatas (horse-drawn carriages, the "private cars" during olden days) and floats of family icons (santos) are kept. It is made of stone. It is the equivalent of today's garages.

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A report in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms previous studies suggesting that long-term treatment with the type of drugs commonly prescribed to treat restless leg syndrome (RLS) can cause a serious worsening of the condition in some patients. The year-long study from a multi-institutional research team found that pregabalin - which is FDA-approved to treat nerve pain, seizures, and other conditions - was effective in reducing RLS symptoms and was much less likely to cause symptom worsening than pramipexole, one of several drugs that activate the dopamine neurotransmission system and are FDA approved for treatment of RLS.
"Our key finding is that dopaminergic drugs, while very effective for many people with RLS, can worsen symptoms in some patients over time, while non-dopaminergic pregabalin is not associated with this disturbing side effect," says John Winkelman, MD, PhD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry, senior author of the study. "Those treating RLS patients with dopaminergic drugs need to be aware of this common complication and exercise caution if their symptoms worsen."
RLS is a neurological disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to move the legs that occurs when resting - usually during the evening or at night - and is temporarily relieved by movement. Because RLS interferes with normal sleep, affected individuals may have chronic exhaustion that interferes with work, personal relationships and activities of daily living. Serious RLS affects 2 to 3 percent of the U.S. and European populations and is commonly treated with drugs that activate the dopamine system.
While it has been known for several years that over one-third of RLS patients on long-term treatment with these drugs develop more frequent and intense symptoms that can extend to the upper extremities, many physicians treating RLS patients are unaware of the risk, Winkelman explains. In addition, it has not been clear whether symptom augmentation reflects a natural progression of the condition or is the result of treatment with dopaminergic drugs, which also have movement-related side effects when used to treat Parkinson's disease and other conditions. The current study was designed to answer that question and to investigate whether a different type of drug could relieve symptoms without leading to augmentation.
Conducted at more than 100 sites in the U.S. and Europe, the study enrolled more than 700 adults experiencing moderate to severe RLS symptoms 15 or more nights a month for 6 months or longer. All participants had stopped taking any medications for RLS for at least two weeks before beginning the study. For the first 12 weeks of the study participants were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups that received daily doses of either 0.25 mg of pramipexole, 0.5 mg pramipexole, 300 mg of pregabalin - all dosages currently used for FDA-approved applications - or a placebo. After the first phase, all participants receiving placebo were randomly assigned to one of the active drug groups for the remaining 40 weeks of the study period. At regularly scheduled study visits, participants submitted symptom diaries they had compiled during the week before each visit and were assessed with standard scales measuring RLS symptoms and their augmentation.
At the end of the 12-week, placebo-controlled phase, patients receiving pregabalin had significantly greater symptom improvement compared with those receiving placebo, as did those receiving the higher pramipexole dose. Over the full study period, only 2 percent of those receiving pregabalin experienced symptom augmentation, compared with almost 8 percent of those on the 0.5 mg pramipexole dose and around 5 percent of those getting 0.25 mg of pramipexole. The longer participants were taking any of the tested drugs, the more likely they were to develop augmentation.
"Pregabalin is not FDA-approved for the treatment of RLS, but a number of published treatment guidelines do list it as a first-line treatment option. Another medication in that class, gabapentin enacarbil, has been FDA-approved for RLS," notes Winkelman, an associate professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "Probably the most important message for physicians treating patients with RLS is to be aware of the risk of augmentation with dopaminergic drugs, to regularly follow up with patients and not to just increase dosage if symptoms worsen. We're going to be working to improve our understanding of the mechanism behind augmentation and whether we might be able to predict which patients are at risk of this complication."


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Wood-fired electricity generation would have potentially flooded the market with green certificates, thus lowering their market value.
The withdrawal of green-certificate support for large wood-based biomass in last month's government decree on the draft renewable-energy law was seen as a victory for the low-carbon energy-generation sector over conventional thermal generation. The Polish wind industry expressed surprise when wood-based biomass was included last year as it would potentially be burned in thermal coal power plants and was not deemed sufficiently low-carbon to deserve green-certificate incentives.
Electricity suppliers in Poland have to accumulate the certificates to demonstrate they are sourcing a set proportion of their sales from renewable-energy sources. Last year's draft gave the green light for large-scale wood-burning power plants to receive green certificates. Certificates when biomass was to be included stood at PLN 282/MWh (EUR67.14/MWh). Green-certificate prices have been on a steady growth path since their introduction in 2004 when they stood at PLN 240/MWh. Renewable generators get a guaranteed price floor of PLN 197/MWh.
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Michal Cwil, director of Polish renewable organisation Polska Izba Gospodarcza Energetyki Odnawialnej, pointed out that small power plants with capacities up to 5MW would still be able to burn wood and receive green certificates. Large-scale coal power plants, which dominate the Polish power sector, will also still be allowed to burn wood fuel, but without financial incentives.
However, Ministry of Economy officials also said last month that the draft renewable-energy law through which the green-certificate changes will be implemented would not be published before government elections in October.
The draft was originally intended to be published in July and is already nine months late - it was required by a European Commission directive, which was supposed to be implemented by the end of 2010.
As the draft will not be published before the elections, the public consultations will also be delayed, meaning the law cannot be passed until the middle of 2012, extending the period of uncertainty for investors. Previously, the Ministry of Economy said that it had planned to cut the number of green certificates awarded to wind farms by 20%.


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The intensive multi-day competition, which was attended by thousands of fans, educators and industry leaders, tested the skill of more than 60 high school student teams from around the world in their ability to design and build a robot required to undergo specific tasks in the action-packed competition.
In this year's challenge, Ultimate Ascent, teams working with professional engineering mentors over a six-week period were tasked to fabricate a robot that scored points by flying 11-inch discs into 8-foot-tall goals during two-minute matches.
"The six-week build season starts the first Saturday in January and ends the Tuesday after Presidents' Day weekend. It starts off with a kick-off event where FIRST announces a new game and releases the game manual for that year," said Holy Cows' mentor Jon Jack. "Prior to this point, the teams have no idea what the game is going to be, so what follows is an intense period of strategy, design, fabrication, assembly and testing."
Jack and his robotics team met every day during the build season, developing strategy, testing robot actions, simulating the game and prototyping the robot from CAD models before finally to bringing their robot, "Daisy Thunder," to life.
The team's diligence paid off, with "Daisy Thunder" wowing the crowd at the competition by winning 16 of 17 matches and earning Holy Cows the highest honor in the regional competition for the fifth consecutive year.
In addition to the obvious benefit of developing key engineering talents, students on the robotics team also acquire invaluable skill sets beyond the fields of science and technology.
"They learn how to work in a large team, time management, public speaking and leadership skills," said Jack. "FIRST also opens the door to college scholarships. Many colleges and universities realize the type of students FIRST produces and want those students at their school."
Some past team members who may never have thought of science and technology as a career option have gone on to college to pursue degrees in engineering and design thanks to the benefits of the program, said Jack.
Despite the team's many past and present successes, Jack emphasized the importance of positive progression as his team looks forward to its next challenge at the world championships.
"One of our tenants is continuous improvement. We never look at our robot and go 'it's done.' No matter what, there's always something we can do better or improve on," he said. "The next three weeks, we'll be making changes to the robot and testing those changes. One of our goals every year is to build a robot capable of competing for a world championship and this year is no different."
Despite previously making it to the "Sweet Sixteen" in the world championships three times, team Holy Cows has yet to secure the world championship's highest title, the Chairman's Award – an achievement the team hopes to accomplish in this year's competition.
"Winning this award would be a huge honor as there are only three teams west of the Mississippi to have won this award," said Jack. "This year we hope to get over that hump and hopefully bring a world championship to San Diego."
What's with the name?
An often-overlooked component of the FIRST competition is the need for teams to stand out — both in skill and in name, said Jack.
After High Tech High's robotics team, formerly known as "A Fistful of Motors," attended its first competition in 2005, the team realized its team name was indistinguishable from the rest.
"There are over 2,000 teams in FIRST and so it's easy to get lost in the crowd when regional competitions have between 40 and 70 teams, and the championships have almost 400 teams competing," said Jack. "We wanted to stand out and be noticed and easy to remember."
Over the next year, the team began brainstorming new names, listing around 50 potential names on a white board for review between the 2005 and 2006 seasons.
"Brett Peterson, who was a humanities teacher at the time and is currently the director of High Tech High, walked in and said, 'Holy Cow! That's a lot of names!'" said Jack.
From that point on, the Holy Cows was added to the white board and the name stuck.


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IT projects benefit from an outside vantage
IT pros have to wear many hats when it comes to major projects, but consultants can make it easier. Find out what services are out there and how to hire the best one for a project.
Face it, you're in over your head. On a daily basis you're expected to be an expert in computing, networking, electrical and mechanical engineering and probably more. But when it comes to major projects, such as assessing your operations or designing a new data center, you're likely to seek outside help.
To some, consultant is a dirty word. But a growing number of midsized data centers are turning to outside architects, engineers and IT pros to assist with big-ticket, critical projects.
"Ten years ago, a data center was a room with power and air conditioning, and that was it. Today, it's much more demanding. You need flexibility, which means much more attention to integrated design. That just doesn't happen without someone on top of the project," said Robert McFarlane, an expert in data center design and principal with New York-based Shen Milsom & Wilke Inc.
IT pros tell McFarlane that the various contractors working in their data centers aren't interested in aspects outside of their own projects. So coordinating, designing and assessing the various components falls to the facility manager or the IT staff.
"Most of them don't have the time or the experience to deal with this," McFarlane said. "You can't expect people to keep up with it."
Tony Scordino, manager of network services for Westchester Community College in Valhalla, N.Y., used consulting services from Blue Bell, Penn.-based Unisys for this exact reason when updating his data center.
"We added a second A/C unit, a UPS for the entire facility, additional electricity in the data center and a generator with an automatic transfer switch. [Unisys] also included little extras like an enunciator panel for the generator in the data center and got us started on all of the proper maintenance procedures for the equipment," Scordino said. "One of the best things they did was coordinating all of the subcontractor work from pouring cement for the generator to all of the internal electrical work. It was truly one-stop shopping."
Scordino said when individual contractors are doing work in his data center, he's had to keep a greater watch over them -- which isn't how he'd like to spend his staff's time and resources.
"Usually they are in for a special project and I only see them once. When [the contractors] are in the data center, one of my staff is with them at all times," Scordino said.
What services are out there?
Third-party companies are offering more services than ever to integrate and tune your data center operations, running the gamut from a simple survey of your IT staff to computational fluid dynamics analysis of your cooling structure.
Some possible services include:
Consulting options
The types of companies offering data center services falls into three categories. IT infrastructure vendors such as West Kingston, R.I.-based American Power Conversion Corp. (APC) and Columbus, Ohio-based Liebert Corp. offer data center services. Also, major IT companies such as Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Global Services, Unisys and Dell Inc. have consulting divisions. Additionally, data center operation specialists such as New York-based EYP Mission Critical Facilities (EYP MCF), Shen Milsom & Wilke and Chicago-based System Development Integration provide an independent view.
Both vendor-based and independent consultants offer similar benefits, but it boils down to each company's priorities.
Tom Condon, senior consultant with System Development Integration, said non-vendor consulting services are valuable for their independence. "The resources of the big companies are impressive, but it's also geared toward sales," Condon said.
According to McFarlane, if your consultant is selling a product, they're clearly going to go with what they're selling. The strong point there is that the vendor will know how to optimize performance of its products better than anyone else.
McFarlane said some shops like the idea of standardizing on one vendor because all of the parts work together. When something goes wrong, there's one throat to choke.
On the other hand, single-vendor shops won't get the benefit of more cost-effective or better technologies that are outside of the vendor's portfolio.
"A good independent consultant is going to give you a wider range of information," McFarlane said. "I've seen situations where people representing a manufacturer as a data center expert were often trained at a manufacturer's course. They're operating from a menu or a formula with a checklist, and that's not consulting in my mind."
McFarlane also said to watch out for independent consultants who have one person present the plan to the company, but send the underlings to do the work.
"If the principal gives the presentation, but you're never going to see him again, you're not getting your value," McFarlane said.
Why go with a consultant?
IT pros need to know what an outside consultant will do for them. Data center consultants at EYP MCF, Shen Milsom & Wilke and APC offered these reasons:
"You can never have all the required trades at the required level of expertise to evaluate all your systems in-house," said Kfir Godrich, senior electrical engineer, EYP MCF.
On the other hand, not every IT pro feels the need to hand over the reins to an outsider.
Jim Wilson, an advisory system engineer at San Mateo County, Calif., has spent nearly 40 years working in the data center and feels very confident that his team can come up with the right solutions, without spending the money on third-party help.
The problem, Wilson said, is that oftentimes upper management doesn't feel the same way.
"The project I'm working on now [mainframe elimination] is huge. Both my boss and I would be very comfortable working without a consultant because we've done so many different system conversions and migrations. But since our customer departments don't have that confidence, we have retained a consultant to work with us during the strategic planning phase," Wilson said.
Wilson acknowledged that sometimes a company needs to hire a consultant. But just make sure you hire the best one for your project.
"If you don't have enough knowledge to make an intelligent selection, find someone in another installation who can give you some pointers. This is where your peer network becomes really valuable. Otherwise, you could very well end up wasting a lot of money," Wilson said.
Even with an outside consultant running the show, data center managers won't be able to kick back. Throughout the process, in-house IT pros will need to be involved. Data center managers will need to provide documentation of the facility and operations. They will also need to approve any decisions made by the consultant. And lastly, companies should conduct a post mortem analysis of the project to make sure it was worth their time and money.
Let us know what you think about the story; e-mail: Matt Stansberry, News Editor
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Or Would You Be Like Dr. Petit In
The Gut-Wrenching Story You're About to Read…
Afraid… Powerless… Helpless
Dr. Petit seemed to have an ideal life.
A prominent doctor with a lovely wife and two young daughters, he lived in your typical suburban town in Connecticut. But his typical life was about to be turned upside down in a way that's almost too horrific to even share with you.
But I'm telling you anyway – because you need to know what you're up against:
CHESHIRE, Conn., (CBS/AP) The two men accused of a brutal Connecticut home invasion may not have had violent crimes in their long lists of prior convictions, but sources tell local newspapers the pair's record changed when they invaded the home of a prominent doctor early Monday morning.
"I'm thinking of the father. I can't imagine what he has to come back to," neighbor Linda Layman told CBS News . "Nobody should have to go through that. It's very devastating. It's just horrible."
Ok, so now you're probably saying...
"C'mon...isn't this home invasion story
just some sort of scare tactic?"
You're Damn Right It Is!
And I Make NO APOLOGIES For It!
I've made "survival" the focus of my entire life.
My name is Jeff Anderson and I'm the Executive Director of The New World Patriot Alliance member-based organization.
Yeah sure...I have a long resume as a decorated combat veteran of the U.S. military; did my time as an executive protection specialist, Certified Protection Professional (CPP), security consultant and Master CQC Instructor.
But NONE of these are the "role" I'm reaching out to you as today.
Today, I appeal to you as a husband and a father!
My wife and my three kids mean the world to me and their safety is my responsibility just as your responsibility is to protect those you love from harm.
If scaring the hell out of you is what it takes to get you to open your eyes to the fact that violent home invasions are on the rise and they can happen ANYWHERE, then I've done my job.
Problem is, most people that read these words will stick their head in the sand and if that's you, then...
I know at this moment you're probably saying to yourself...
"I'd NEVER let that happen to me and MY family!"
You probably feel like you've got it all figured out, right?
...that you'd "pull out your Glock" and waste any man stupid enough to break through your front door...
...that your dog and your 12-gauge are all you need to keep some psychopath from taking you and your loved ones hostage...
...that "that's what my home alarm system is for"...
...that "the cops will save me"...
...and that no handcuffs, rope, or duct tape in the world could be strong enough to hold you back from coming to the rescue of your family member being brutalized by the sadistic pervert in the next room...
I'm sure that's what Dr. Petit thought...right before he sat beaten and tied up in the basement, listening to
6 hours of blood-curdling screaming as his wife and children were sexually assaulted - pleading for him to help.
Unfortunately guns, alarm systems and "hoping" nothing bad will happen isn't enough to protect you when it comes to the criminal mind you're dealing with in a home invasion.
Home Invaders Know Your Biggest Weakness!
Home invaders know that once they put a knife to your spouse's or child's throat...you'll do ANYTHING they tell you to do!
WARNING: Home invaders are NOT
your "average criminal"!
They're Smarter...More Organized...
And MUCH More Dangerous...
...Because They Know EXACTLY
How To Control You
To Get Anything They Want!
Home invaders usually travel in pairs and while some are looking for valuables...
...many of these perverted pieces of human excrement actually get off on inflicting pain and suffering on their victims - often torturning and raping them (sometimes for days!) - before finally killing them!
The home invader knows that once he puts a knife to your spouse's or child's throat, you'll do anything he tells you to.
And the unfortunate fact is, no matter how "prepared" you think you are, it's actually quite EASY to enter someone's home with just a little bit of creativity.
Let me show you just how easy it can be to become a victim of a home invasion - let's take a short little quiz:
Look, I know it isn't pleasant to think about...but it IS necessary.
And that's exactly why I needed to get this message to you TODAY!
Like me, I know that the thought of some twisted sicko
laying a hand on your family is enough to make your blood boil...
So Now You Have To Ask Yourself...
Frankly, most don't even HAVE a "plan" for how to deal with this type of brutal crime!
99% of the people out there live a "nothing bad will ever happen to me" existence.
They think that the police will protect them...
...that a neighbor will hear the screams and call for help...
...that crime only happens in urban populations and doesn't touch the lives of upstanding ordinary citizens!
These are the same people who end up as a front page headline in the newspapers because they didn't have the "survivor's mindset" you and I both know is needed to prevent and defend against the lowlife scumbags that target the most upstanding citizens like a "victim buffet"
But I have a hunch that this ISN'T the type of person YOU are!
Am I right?
You Know That To Really Call Yourself A "Survivalist",
You Have To Throw Out All The "Rules" That
Small, Ignorant Men Live By Every Day!
Let's face it...you've at least made it this far in this letter and that says something about you.
YOU, my friend, are a survivor!
And being a survivor, I know that you're constantly looking to improve your level of preparedness and you know something that most people don't know...
...that when it comes to battling the kind of sadistic predators who will invade your home just for the thrill of it...you need every sneaky trick you can pull out to survive!
Unfortunately, most of the home invasion information out there basically just deals with "lock your doors and windows"..."turn your porch light on"..."blah, blah, blah".
It doesn't prepare you for what to do once a predator is IN your home, has taken you by suprise, and handcuffs you to a railing right before he takes your family into the next room!
At least no other program prepared you for these impossible odds...until NOW!
Because today you have the opportunity to get your hands on the ISCQC's latest brainchild, a true "home invasion survival guide" called...
This is NOT your momma's "don't talk to strangers" advice!
In fact, your very mental fiber is about to be challenged as you're forced to consider the very real possibility of your own family being subjected to the most vicious acts of deprived criminals.
That's not easy for ANYONE to think of..but it must be done NOW because the time to "learn" how to defeat multiple attackers who have broken into your home is NOT when your spouse or children are tied up and taken hostage!
And in this "home invasion survival guide" – I'll show you exactly what you need to know to throw off the attacker's thought process, protect your home, and save your life – including how to escape when it seems that all is lost...
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Bound-gagged-beaten-duct taped! Yes...you CAN survive!
Discover 5 sneaky "escape tricks" beginning on page 90 that would make Harry Houdini look like a high school talent show hack!
I won't lie to you...
The odds are stacked against you from the start!
No matter how "prepared" you think you are, home invaders show up at your door with their own plan and the element of surprise on their side.
In those first few critical seconds, it's easy to overwhelm you regardless of how well armed you are or how handy you are with your hands and feet.
That's why you absolutely MUST have a game plan for every single worst case scenario you could confront!
I'm talking about moments where most people give up – like:
The "Home Defense Tactics" guide is over 80 pages of
jam-packed "how to" strategies! I'm talking REAL...
Because it's not just about surviving. It's about having a plan to prevent home invasion in the first place, and being able to make your attackers sorry they ever chose you or your family as a target.
That's why you'll also learn...
|Inside the sick and twisted mind of the home invader! To defeat a home invader you have to think like one. We're not talking about a "common criminal" - this is someone who has no regard for human life...and gets a thrill from watching you and those you love writhe in pain and suffering! Page 12
|Are dogs a good defense against home invasion? That all depends. If yours is like the one listed on Page 35, it may not serve you as well as you need!
|Step-by-step "family rehearsal"! A plan unpracticed is a crime scene in the making. I'll show you how to train every family member to make the right moves when they all need to be on their game. Pages 63-65
|The hardest question you'll EVER have to ask yourself (NOW...BEFORE something happens) that will form the entire foundation of your home invasion survival plan. (There are no easy answers but I'll give you all the pro's and con's so you can create an educated action plan!) Page 67
|The absolute WORST MISTAKE every "real man" makes after being taken hostage that actually works AGAINST your odds of escaping with your family alive. (You'll recognize this as your first instinctual reaction. Do it and you're likely to get yourself or a family member killed as a result of your actions!) Page 72
|What if you had to rescue a loved one being held somewhere in your house? The "room clearing" strategies you'll discover on pages 83-90 will instantly grant you the tactical skills of a high level S.W.A.T. team member!
Plan The Perfect
A front corner room is a great option for a family "safe room" because you have two angles of outside view and escape...and can signal the police or passers by!
I'll reveal your "must have" safe room equipment plus the single most overlooked room on page 38 that's ideal for when you're forced to
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|No need for expensive bulletproof doors or high-tech gadgets. I'll show you how to create the perfect "safe room" that will act as a powerful force field between you and any madman trying to claw his way to your family. Pages 40-43
|Make these 2 simple (and cheap) adjustments to your safe room door (1 on the left side - 1 on the right side) and any criminal trying to enter will need an M1-Abrams tank to get through! Page 39
|Survival equipment you should consider stocking in your safe room now so you're armed to the teeth...and prepared for anything that comes your way!
|The inexpensive "savior" you can pick up at any local hardware store that instantly defeats a "final blow" commonly used by home invaders to finish you off for good! Page 40
Own a gun? Well there's much more to "combat shooting"
than just knowing how to pull a trigger! A LOT more!
Coming Face-To-Face With An Armed, Deranged
Murderer In Your Home Requires That
You Damn Well Better Know What You're Doing!
That's why the "most prepared" buy a gun in the first place, right?
Look, the reality is that the bad guys are armed and if you don't at least consider the option of a home defense weapon, you're crazy...and you're at a SERIOUS DISADVANTAGE!
Unfortunately, almost all gun owners master their so called "tactical shooting skills" from what they see on TV and in the movies - the exact opposite of how you need to react in a real life armed confrontation in your home!
Hell, even the proud "range warriors" who can shoot a 1" shot group are only half prepared if they don't know how their shooting skills at a serious disadvantage if you're relying on your relaxed range skills
That's why we cover every single aspect of home defense weaponry...and how to "master your home" to gain and maintain the tactical advantage at all times, like...
|The "corridor of death"! Know your home's "fatal tunnels" that make your vulnerable to an sneak attack! Pages 86-87
|No guns? I gotta be honest...owning and knowing how to shoot a gun certainly levels the playing field a bit. But that doesn't mean you don't have options if you don't own a gun. On pages 55-60, I'll arm you with my the very best alternative defense weapons you've probably never thought of!
|Light mount or no light mount? The startling reality you DON'T want to learn in the middle of a flurry of bullets. Read page 53 and you'll see why your decision could cost you a loved ones life!
|4 surprising ways to ambush your attackers and regain the tactical advantage to take them out quick! (They'll never know what hit them after you discover these sneaky "psychological break states" on page 77!)
|What calibre handgun is best for stopping a madman in his tracks? (You may be surprised at the "truth" you find on page 50...and rethink your current weapon selection!)
|The home defense assault rifle? Yes...there are arguments for stocking an assualt rifle to protect your home. I'll explain why on page 48 and reveal the real-world urban story of when they were used effectively to defend life and property!
|Why you must know your home inside and out before ever choosing which weapon, caliber, and ammo to use.
Pages 46-47 (Almost no one considers this very important factor!)
Home Defense Weapons & Ammo!
Which is the most effective home defense weapon for a home invasion:
In "Home Defense Tactics" you''ll evaluate the pro's and con's of each as well as the biggest mistake all the "heavy artillery" guys make (on page 46) when choosing "terminator ammo"!
(Hint: It has nothing to do with "stopping power" but it's nearly as important to your family that you get this right! Not doing so could cost you a lifetime of grieving that no law-abiding family should suffer...EVER!)
Ok, I think I've made my case, right?
Now comes the moment of truth – the question I always hear from people as soon as they read this page or the harrowing story of Dr. Petit and say "I refuse to become a victim!"
– They ask me, "so how much is this gonna cost me?" And I have to watch that I don't positively gape back at them in utter disbelief and say --
"Are You Seriously Going to Put a Price Tag
On Your Life or the Life of Your Family?"
No Amount Of Money In The World Can Grant You The Instant Knowledge Needed To Know EXACTLY What To Do When Your Wife Is Dragged Off Kicking And Screaming Into The Next Room!
Listen, I want you to be as well-prepared as you can possibly be. Obviously – I hope you never, ever have to use the strategies in this guide.
But I do want you to have the knowledge that defending your home, your property and your family is your right and your duty. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say.
So I'm ready to give you the entire "Home Defense Tactics" for about the cost of a few of boxes of ammo. Just $27.
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|A small, inexpensive "toy" to attach to your keys acts as your silent "communication tool" with local law enforcement! I was shocked when Louis told me about this...and I went straight from our interview to the local drug store and bought one right away!
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|Your first line of defense in preventing a home invasion! (Hint: it's NOT your front door! Take a lesson from executive protection specialists who know where the REAL danger begins!)
|Home Defense Weapons! What's the best personal defense weapon to criminal who breaks into your home? Lots of our callers shared what they personally use and why!
|Sneaky places to hide your home weaponry! Wait until you hear our Colorodo caller who has a nasty little surprise waiting for the criminal stupid enough to attack his home!
|How to prepare your family to take FAST ACTION should you be the victim of a surprise attack in your home!
|My personal "gang crippler" that I used against a group of 18th Streeters who hovered outside my rural home! I didn't have to fire a shot...this simple $20 "weapon" I got at the local auto parts store took the juice right out of them!
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Applause. . . Atlanta—The Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia Society of CPAs has made the following committee appointments: Robert E. Minnear, chairman—Program Committee; Hank Davis, Attendance Committee; and Willard Hurst, Friday Luncheon Committee. The following appointments have been made to committees of the Georgia Society of CPAs: Robert E. Minnear, chairman—Meetings, Indoctrination Luncheon and Committee Day Committee; Accounting and Auditing Procedure Committee; and Harry A. Halberg, Cooperation wth Bankers Committee. Birmingham— | n October, Rex Price led discussions on Basic Records, Budgetary Control and Forecasting at a seminar sponsored by the University of Alabama Continuing Education Services in cooperation with the City of Gadsden and Etowah County. Chicago— At the request of DePaul University, Donald I. Hausman has developed and is now presenting as a graduate Seminar, a course in Advanced Federal Income Taxes. The course contents and presentation are an experiment in advanced tax education techniques. Allen C. Howard has been named to serve on the National Legacies Committee of the United Nations Association. Dayton—Dane W. Charles has been appointed a member of the Board of Governors of The Ohio State University Alumni Association of Montgomery County. Mr. Charles is also co-chairman of The Ohio State University Development Fund for Montgomery County. Irl C. Wallace has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Dayton Chapter of the Ohio Society of CPAs. The following committee appointments have also been made: Dane W. Charles, chairman—Auditing Procedure Committee and member—State Committee; Leon J. Sachle-ben, committee chairman—State Taxation Committee and member—State Committee; John E. Scott, chairman —Accounting Personnel Committee and member—State Committee. Denver-On November 10, Carleton H. Griffin participated as the representative of the Colorado Society of CPAs in a day-long seminar with 35 accounting professors and business school deans reviewing the future course of accounting education. Detroit—Kenneth S. Reames has been elected to the board of directors of the Citizens Research Council of' Michigan. Mr. Reames was also elected assistant treasurer for the organization. John W. McEachren was re-elected as a trustee of the Citizens Research Council of Michigan. Terrence N. Conway has been elected president of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration Alumni Association of Carnegie Tech. Paul E. Hamman has been named director of the Michigan Association of CPAs for 1967-1968. Committee appointments include: Charles E. Weiser, Accounting and Auditing Procedures; Rosemary Hoban, Annual Meeting; Roger H. Oetting, Relations with Attorneys; Kenneth S. Reames, By-laws and Nominations; Richard F. Van Dresser, Relations with Educators; David J. Vander Broek, Federal Taxation; Ramon P. Vallez, Graduate Study Conference; Edward A. Baumann, Insurance and Pension; Henry E. Bodman, II, Legislation; Daniel J. Kelly, Management of an Accounting Practice; Harvey E. Schatz, Management Services; Harry G. Troxell, chairman—Membership; Walter B. Fisher, Personnel; Aloysius M. Mlot, vice chairman—Practice Review; Robert D. Wishart, Professional Education; Paul E. Hamman, Professional Ethics; Bray E. Liston, Publication; Phyllis E. Peters, vice chairman—Public Service and Information; and Elmer M. Houghten, State Taxation. Executive Donald W. Jennings has accepted an appointment to the World Affairs Committee of the Greater Detroit Board of Commerce. On October 18, the report of the President's Commission on Budget Concepts was released to the public. Robert M. Trueblood served as a commission member for the six months of the Commission's duration. The Commission studied the major concepts underlying budget presentation. The principal recommendation of the Commission was that a single uniform budget summary be prepared and presented by the President in place of the three currently existing budgets. There were many other recommendations in support of this major proposal. Mr. Trueblood has agreed to be a participant in a series of symposiums known as the Industry-Government Seminar Group which is under the auspices of the 64 THE QUARTERLY


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Thera is a bullet hell computer game. It depends on both python 2.x and the associated pygame. It is licensed under the simplified bsd license.
Richard Gonzalez
Thera depends on both python 2.x and the associated pygame.
Thera is licensed under the simplified bsd license.
To play Thera, download either the zip archive or tarball, uncompress, and execute the thera.pyw script.
Now for Thera's controls...
Menu Controls
UP_ARROW / DOWN_ARROW: Move selection (either up or down).
RIGHT_ARROW / LEFT_ARROW: Used to modify options on the option menu. Also used on title menu for modifying starting episode for `Start From Episode' entry.
ENTER: Select selection.
Gameplay Controls
ARROWS: Move Miyu (main character of Thera).
z key: Make Miyu (main character of Thera) attack. Hold key for a continuous attack.
x key: Make Miyu (main character of Thera) perform a special attack if able.
p key: Brings up the pause menu.
Dialog Controls
ENTER: Next
p key: Brings up the pause menu.
Episode Start Screen Controls
ENTER: Next
p key: Brings up the pause menu.
Credits Phase Controls
p key: Brings up the pause menu.
- Home Page
- http://flux.yuku.com/forums/97/Thera
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Jouni Järvinen 2011-08-24 18:09:45
Some points about the code, nothing more than recommending:
1) Classes like Error Classes, lines, 101-123, can be forgiven to be ugly one-liners, since they serve no commands, instead of two-line idlers.
2) You can use Ternary Conditional Operation for less lines (and maybe faster code, don't know) when there's §if§-§elif§-§else§ with almost identical result. I recommend an advanced feature like this, it wouldn't be there else. With enough coherence you can drop many lines from code and the §exec()§ method will help -alot-. Lines 146-151, for instance.
3) §while True§ is, according to the devs (if I recall correctly they told me, but anyway), slower than §while 1§, since §True§ already resolves into §1§ after doing a trip or two, which in turn means §1§ and §True§ are the same thing.
4) In Python you don't need to indicate end of a line inside brackets, meaning you take out the backslash from lines like 1715-1717 for identical result. There's more lines like that.
Other than those and the length of it, the code is good.
If you can, switch over to BZip from GZip, it's far better.


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Modifying Your Server's Add-ons
Warning: These instructions do not apply to server with the Gateway interface (more info).
You can modify your server's add-ons at any time.
Note: Add-ons that are not removed will be charged on the next billing cycle.
To Modify Your Server's Add-ons
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- Click Servers.
- Next to the server you want to use, click Options.
- Go to the Customize tab; from here you can make any adjustments you want.


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Bidding strange hands is not easy, but understanding strange bidding is most difficult. Twhis East-West pair was using a weird bidding system, which is tried by few in the United States. The system is called "The Strong Pass." Part of this system requires an opening bid on all hands that are below opening-bid strength, in normal methods. This accounts for East's rather strange initial reaction.
South made a takeout double, and North's double of one heart was for penalties, just in case his partner had hearts. South jumped in diamonds to show a strong suit. After North bid his clubs, South tried the Blackwood convention and confusion set in.
What prompted South to bid five notrump, even if his partner showed a king, is also strange. For most bridge players who use Blackwood, a bid of five notrump does more than ask for kings; it implies that the asker's side has all the aces.
Certainly North interpreted the bid that way. He felt he had more than was promised by the bidding, and he bid the grand slam. Too bad he chose to bid it in notrump. After checking to make sure he was on lead, West led his ace of hearts.
With a pass by East, North-South can reach a six-diamond contract. When the queen of trump drops, 13 tricks are easy.
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My mom's brilliant biography of Thornton Wilder debuted in October of last year, and today marks the 75th anniversary of his most enduring work, Our Town. Here's a little something Mom wrote up for the Wall Street Journal in honor of the play, the day, and the man himself.
Why Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town' is 75 Years Young
By Penelope Niven
When Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" opened on Broadway February 4, 1938 – 75 years ago today — no one was more surprised by its success than Wilder himself. He did not foresee that the play would win the Pulitzer Prize, or that well into the 21st century, "Our Town" would survive and thrive on and off-Broadway, and in theaters across the United States and around the world. As the play went into previews, Wilder was afraid it would be a failure. In January 1938 he wrote, "OUR TOWN, opening in Boston, had such bad reviews that a second week was canceled, and the manager engaged a New York theater which was free for only a week and a half."
But 75 years later, people are still watching the play. Ford's Theatre in Washington is hosting the national celebration of this anniversary with an "Our Town" production that runs through February 24. There are 75th anniversary stagings around the country and abroad. "Our Town" was borne out of the American experience, yet other countries import it as their own. The play still speaks across cultures, across time zones, across languages. By some accounts it is the most produced American play ever.
I discovered "Our Town" as a teenager in Waxhaw, North Carolina, population nearly a thousand. I was positive the play was written about Waxhaw. This was 1957 in my town, not May 7, 1901 in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, Thornton Wilder's mythical town. In a 1938 preface Wilder wrote that his play "sprang from a deep admiration for those little white towns in the hills and from a deep devotion to the future. These are but the belated gropings to reconstruct what may have taken place when the play first presented itself — the life of a village against the life of the stars."
He went on to clarify the "unremitting preoccupation which is the central theme of the play: What is the relation between the countless 'unimportant' details of our daily life, on the one hand, and the great perspectives of time, social history, and current religious ideas, on the other?
"What is trivial and what is significant about any one person's making a breakfast, engaging in a domestic quarrel, in a 'love scene,' in dying?"
Wilder the dramatist was writing, he said, for and about everybody, for and about each one of us. "Since my play is about Everybody, everybody is in my play," he reflected in later years.
He had been writing plays and acting in them since boyhood. In the fall of 1938, he briefly played the Stage Manager in "Our Town," filling in while actor Frank Craven took time off from the very successful Broadway run that would ultimately total 366 performances in ten-and-a-half months. Wilder was nervous about memorizing the lines he had written. He "wasn't very good," he wrote to his sister Isabel after one performance. He got better, however. "I went through my paces without a single fluff, 'tho' I perhaps didn't put quite enough umph into the prelude to Act III," he wrote. He took the criticism in stride when reviewers assessed his performance: "I see in the paper. . . that I was no ball of fire."
But he got mostly stellar reviews as a playwright, including a recent tribute from Edward Albee: "If I were asked to name what I consider to be the finest serious American play, I would immediately say Our Town– not for its giant Americanness but because it is a superbly written, gloriously observed, tough, and breathtaking statement of what it is to be alive, the wonder and hopeless loss of the space between birth and the grave."
Albee's words go to the heart of Wilder's intentions for the play. Wilder wrote, "In the last act of 'Our Town' the author places upon the stage a character who – like the members of the audience – partakes of 'the smallest events of daily life' and is also a spectator of them.
"She [Emily] learns that each life – though it appears to be a repetition among millions – can be felt to be inestimably precious, though the realization of it is present to us seldom, briefly, and incommunicably. At that moment there are no walls, no chairs, no tables = all is inward. Our true life is in the imagination and in the memory."
Seventy-five years ago, having poured his imagination, his memory and his heart into his play, Wilder grew more confident about the future of "Our Town." He wrote to a friend, "At all events I do not mind from critics the charge of immaturity, confusion, and even pretentiousness." The play was "a first sally into deep waters." He hoped "to do many more – and better – and even more pretentious. I write as I choose; and I learn as I go; and I'm very happy when the public pays the bills."


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Vhe Homestake Mine BY ARTHUR P. METZGER > PARTNER, SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE Sunk more than a mile deep into the Black Hills that rise above the old buffalo grazing lands of South Dakota is the gold mine of Homestake Mining Company. Home-stake has been a client since 1935 when Jim Runser, long the partner in charge of our San Francisco Office, journeyed there to make the first independent audit of the Company. The Homestake Mine has been a successful enterprise for almost 90 years. Although mining gold today bears little resemblance to the work of the early-day prospectors and miners, it is still confronted with problems that call for the same venturesome spirit, tenacity, and ingenuity. Getting gold from the earth has always been a tough and risky business—in terms of both human effort and economics. Miners are a hardy breed. Today, Home-stake must bring from the depths of the earth more than three tons of hard rock in order to extract one ounce of gold for which it receives $35, a price fixed more than 30 years ago by the Federal government, which by law is its only customer. With constantly rising costs and the need to follow the ore body ever deeper into the earth, Homestake has had to search continually for new methods by which the ore can be mined and milled and the gold recovered more efficiently. Inflation and the fixed price of the product have to some extent obscured spectacular achievements, but the fact that the mine is still profitable is evidence of the Company's character and resourcefulness. Gold and Indians Homestake's history begins in 1874, when General George Armstrong Custer carried out a reconnaissance into the Black Hills, Dakota Territory. Rumors of major gold discoveries soon turned a minor rush into a stampede of prospectors to mountains which were sacred to the Sioux. Custer's Last Stand on the Little Big Horn River in 1876 was not unrelated to this conflict of interest. In the same year, two prospectors discovered the Homestake Ledge or Lead (pronounced "Leed," meaning an outcrop of ore); hence the name of the mining town which grew up around the Homestake Mine. A San Francisco group including Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst, and L. B. Kellogg, an expert and practical miner, optioned the Homestake and one other claim for $70,000, and the Company was established in 1877. Ox teams hauled equipment almost 300 miles from Sidney, Nebraska, the nearest railhead of the Union Pacific. Homestake's first financial statement for the period to August 31, 1880, reported revenue of $1,925,000 and dividends of $600,- 000. The Homestake Mine has been in almost continuous operation for nearly a century and has produced almost $1,000,000,000 of bullion at today's price. With annual revenue of over $20,000,000, the mine today is one of the world's major gold mining properties and the largest gold producer in the Western Hemisphere. H&S in a Mining Camp A short uphill walk from our lodgings in the Company's apartments on Main Street brings us to a rather inconspicuous marker which pronounces the altitude to be one mile above sea level. Looking on up the hill to the green line of jack-pine against the snow, we recall tales of how Jim Runser used to walk with his audit assistants through the upper streets of Lead (once at 40 degrees below) for a break before their regular evening 15
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Chetkovich, Michael N.
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Gustafson, John K.
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Firebase Invites
Firebase Invites are an out-of-the-box solution for app referrals and sharing via email or SMS. To customize the invitation user experience, or to generate links programmatically, use Firebase Dynamic Links.
Firebase Invites builds on Firebase Dynamic Links, which ensures that recipients of links have the best possible experience for their platform and the apps they have installed.
Key capabilities
|Rich sharing that's easy for users
|Firebase Invites makes it simple for users to send content to their friends, over both SMS and email, by ensuring that referral codes, recipe entries, or other shared content gets passed along with the invitation—no cutting-and-pasting required.
|Rich sharing that's easy to implement
|Firebase Invites handles the invitation flow for you, allowing you to deliver a straightforward user experience without taking engineering time away from the rest of your app.
|Invitations that survive the installation process
|Because Firebase Invites is built on Dynamic Links, invitations work across the App Store and Play Store installation processes and ensure that recipients get the referral code or shared content, whether or not they have your app installed.
Complete list of features
|Sending invitations
|Combines the most common sharing channels
|Firebase Invites can be sent over SMS or email.
|Merged contacts selector
|The share screen's contact list is populated from the user's Google Contacts and the contacts stored locally on the device.
|Recipient recommendations
|The share screen recommends recipients based on the contacts the user communicates with frequently.
|Customizable invitation message
|You can set the default message to be sent with invitations. This message can be edited by the user when sending invitations.
|Customizable rich-text email invitations
You can customize email invitations in either of two ways:
|Low friction for users
|Android users can send invitations without signing in to your app.
|Receiving invitations
|Installation flow initiation
|Firebase Invites smartly directs the recipient to the appropriate store when they open the link and need to install the app. iOS users are sent to the App Store, Android users are sent to the Play Store, and web users are sent to the store for the sender's platform.
|Installation flow survival
|Invitations use Dynamic Links, which ensure that the link information contained in the invitation doesn't get lost, even if the user has to install the app first.
|Low friction for users
|iOS and Android users can receive invitations without signing in to their Google Accounts.
How does it work?
When a user taps one of your app's Share buttons and chooses the Firebase Invites channel—usually named "Email and SMS"—the Firebase Invites sharing screen opens. From the sharing screen, the user selects recipients from their Google contacts and contacts stored locally on the device, optionally customizes the invitation message and sends the invitations. Invitations are sent by email or SMS, depending on the available contact information, and contain a Dynamic Link to your app.
When the invitation's recipients open the Dynamic Link in the invitation, they are sent to the Play Store or App Store if they need to install your app; then, your app opens and can retrieve and handle the link.
Implementation path
|Handle links in your app
|Enable linking directly to the content you want to share. You handle links on iOS by using custom URL schemes or Universal Links and on Android by using intent filters.
|Add Share button to your app
|When users click a Share button, use the Firebase Invites SDK to set up and open the sharing screen.
|Handle Dynamic Links in your app
|To enable your app to receive invitations, when your app opens, use the Dynamic Links SDK to check if a Dynamic Link was passed to it. If so, get the link from the Dynamic Link data and handle the link as necessary.
Next steps
- Add Firebase Invites to your Android or iOS app.
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The search for that well priced three bedroom two and a half bath in lower Manhattan ends here. 2C is that illustrious smart design with not one inch of wasted space. Facing west, with endless light and air, this residence offers versatility with a movable kitchen island and sliding secondary bedroom doors.
Sweeping expanses of glass, punctuated by carefully placed privacy panels maximize natural light and dynamic views. Custom wire-brushed oak flooring lends warmth to the interior. Italian-made translucent sliding doors by Rimadesio give residents a uniquely flexible living space.
Modern kitchens feature Italian custom cabinetry, honed Caesarstone countertops and high-end appliances including Smeg range, speed oven, integrated Liebherr refrigerator and a separate wine refrigerator in select units.
Honed Pelle Grigio marble cascades from ceiling to floor in the master bath and acts as a canvas for the floating Gluck + designed ash wood vanity with wall-mounted fixtures from Brooklyn's Watermark.
Life at 150 Rivington is a natural extension of the building's setting in a neighborhood replete with creative energy and cultural cachet. A sophisticated lobby with a 24-hour attendant greets residents with warm wood accents and comfortable seating. Interiors are outfitted with smart home technology to allow for temperature control through mobile devices and. management of lighting, shades, home audio and more through a single device. A dramatic 1,570 square foot landscaped rooftop terrace with an outdoor kitchen, fireplace and a spate sun deck for yoga. Additional amenities include a fitness center, bike storage and individual storage for purchase.
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The lower portion of the Tiffin River (Bean Creek) is included in a study conducted by the Ohio EPA this summer to examine water quality of the Maumee River.
A major water quality study of the Maumee River mainstem—the primary downstream segment of a river—will include the two tributaries, the Tiffin and Auglaize rivers. The land draining to the Maumee River is one of the largest watersheds in Ohio, spanning 4,820 square miles and covering all or parts of 20 counties in northwest Ohio.
The study will focus on the full length of the Maumee River, from the Indiana state line to Lake Erie. The field work is the first step in a federally required study called a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). A TMDL is the maximum amount of pollutants a water body can receive on a daily basis without violating water quality standards.
Ohio EPA staff will collect water samples and fish and macroinvertebrate species from June through mid-October. The physical, biological and chemical data will help determine water quality problems in the rivers and develop options for improving resource quality in degraded areas.
The Tiffin River will be studied from its mouth at the Maumee north to Brush Creek near Evansport. From previous studies, the Tiffin River watershed shows adverse impacts from channelization and other hydromodification changes; a lack of woody areas along streams; a lack of stable woody debris left in the stream channel; lethally low dissolved oxygen concentrations at night from biochemical decay; nutrient enrichment agricultural runoff, faulty wastewater treatment plants, urban stormwater and runoff fertilizer; and sedimentation from runoff.
The largest cities on the Maumee River are Defiance, Napoleon, Perrysburg, Maumee and Toledo. The majority of the watershed is cultivated crop land. Approximately 11.5 percent of the land is urban development and several communities withdraw drinking water from the Maumee River, including Bowling Green, McClure, Napoleon and Defiance.
Ohio EPA will share results of the study with communities in the watershed. The Agency relies on community input to develop watershed improvement plans. A number of public meetings will be scheduled during the watershed plan-writing process.
Ohio EPA employees carry a photo ID and will request permission from private landowners if access to their property is needed.
For more information, contact Ohio EPA's Public Interest Center at 614/644-2160 or go to http://www.epa.ohio.gov/dsw/tmdl/monitoring_MaumeeRiver.aspx.