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EDITOR'S NOTE: Mobile phones can help improve learning in sub-Saharan Africa, according to Jenny Aker and Kristy Bohling of the Center for Global Development, citing a new CGD study. In Niger, beneficiaries of a mobile literacy program, they add, demonstrated improvements in literacy and numeracy skills.
I recently received a text message from my friend Karim in Niger, asking "Keski ce passe?" (What's happening?). Those of you who know French might notice his text is an abbreviation of the much longer expression for "Qu'est-ce qui se passe", which is formal and proper but a bit long when you only have 140 characters. Such abbreviations in French, English and other languages have caused teachers and parents alike to blame texting for corrupting our language and "degrading [the] spelling of [our] youth." Existing studies in the UK and elsewhere have debunked these claims, and, the National Adult Literacy Database called on people to celebrate International Literacy Day by "reading or writing, tweeting or texting." In fact, mobile phones and texting might be a new tool in the arsenal against illiteracy: our new research in Niger suggests that mobile phones could promote literacy and numeracy skills in sub-Saharan Africa.
Less than 15 percent of Niger's adult population are considered to be literate and numerate– meaning they can read, write and conduct simple calculations in any language. For decades, governments and NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa have tried to improve educational outcomes in a variety of ways, from school construction and inputs to school feeding and conditional cash transfers. Adult literacy programs, however, have gotten a particularly bad rap — criticized for low levels of enrolment, poor graduation rates and a rapid loss of skills. These factors are often cited as the reason for the marked reduction in the World Bank's financial support of adult literacy programs since 1990.
Are adult literacy programs really so bad? Or have we been expecting too much from too little? Literacy programs in developing countries are often short and intense, trying to cram several years of education into a short time period (usually 8-10 months' of instruction over two years). This can result in short-term learning, but can fall flat if students are unable to practice their literacy skills after the course ends. This isn't surprising – think about how good your Spanish was high school versus how much you remember now (especially if you haven't used Spanish recently). If you don't use it, you lose it. This is similar in West and Central Africa, where non-governmental organizations might offer literacy classes in local languages, but where there are few, if any, local language newspapers to practice the skills. And even if such newspapers exist, getting them to rural areas is a problem.
The idea for Project Alphabetisation de Base par Cellulaire (ABC) was precisely to overcome this constraint. Mobile phone coverage and usage has grown dramatically in Africa over the past decade, and certainly in Niger. Combined with adult literacy and numeracy classes, Project ABC teaches students how to use simple mobile phones – finding the numbers on the keypad, making and receiving calls and writing and reading SMS. Implemented by Catholic Relief Services/Niger, and in collaboration with Tufts and Oxford Universities, the project started in 59 villages in February 2009, reaching over 2,950 literacy participants in the Dosso and Zinder regions of Niger. In an effort to disentangle the effects of using mobile phones from the literacy curriculum, the program implemented Project ABC in only half of the villages, which were randomly chosen.
The below figure summarizes the main results of the program, which shows students' test scores before, immediately after and eight months after the first year of the program. First, all students (ABC and non-ABC) improved considerably as a result of the literacy program: going from "beginner" (someone unable to recognize letters or numbers to level 2 (someone able to read and write simple words and do simple calculations). Second, students in the ABC (mobile phone) villages had higher test scores than their non-ABC counterparts – in the case of math, about ½ point higher. And third, while both groups lost some of their skills between the first and second year of classes, the rate of skills loss was less in the ABC villages, especially for math.
While the figure provides some intuition for the impacts of the ABC program, statistically speaking, we find that the effects are mainly for math (rather than writing), and are stronger for one region and for younger populations. But considering that adults only had 6 weeks of the mobile phone module in 2009, the impacts suggest real learning.
Will mobile phones boost education outcomes in developing countries? We don't know yet – but the results are promising. We will be looking into additional impacts now that the second year of the program has finished. Plus, the results of other mobile phone literacy programs in Senegal (The Jokko Initiative), Pakistan and South Africa will provide additional evidence in other contexts. But if mobile phones provide a bigger bang for our literacy buck, then governments and donors might need to rethink their investments in literacy programs.
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Each year, the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University lists the top 10 new species from the previous year, as selected by an international committee of experts. The list includes the world's smallest snake, known as Leptotyphlops carlae or the Barbados threadsnake. This specimen was found on Barbados and measures only 4.1 inches (104 millimeters) long. Click on the "Next" button to see the nine other species.
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The Tahina palm, or Tahina spectabilis, is a gigantic new species of palm represented by fewer than 100 specimens, concentrated in a small area of northwestern Madagascar. The plant works itself to death, producing a spectacular display with countless flowers. After fruiting, the palm dies and collapses. Soon after the publication of the species, seeds were disseminated throughout the palm grower community. Sales raised money for conservation efforts, and it has become a highly prized ornamental.
World's longest insect
Borneo's Phoebaeticus chani is considered the world's longest insect, with a body length of 14 inches (35.6 centimeters) and an overall length of 22.3 inches (56.7 centimeters). The inset shows the insect's head.
My little sea pony
Satomi's pygmy seahorse, also known as Hippocampus satomiae, is the smallest known seahorse with a standard length of 0.54 inches (13.8 millimeters) and an approximate height of 0.45 inches (11.5 millimeters). The specimens were collected in waters off Derawan Island in Indonesia by dive guide Satomi Onishi.
That's one spooky slug
The ghost slug, or Selenochlamys ysbryda, was found in Cardiff, Wales - one of the last places on earth where you'd expect to spot a new species. Its species name is derived from "ysbryd," the Welsh word for a ghost or spirit. The name alludes to the creature's ghostly appearance, its nocturnal, predatory behavior and the mystery surrounding its origin.
Snail with a weird twist
This gastropod species, Opisthostoma vermiculum, represents a unique morphological evolution in its manner of shell twisting. Most gastropod shells tightly coil according to a logarithmic spiral and have an upper limit of three coiling axes — but O. vermiculum, discovered in Malaysia, has four different axes.
Nemo's true blue cousin
The Deep Blue Chromis, or Chromis abyssus, is a deep-dwelling fish from the neighborhood featured in the popular animated film "Finding Nemo." It was one of the first new species described in 2008. The discovery in the western Pacific, near Palau's Ngemelis Island, highlights how little we know about deep-reef diversity.
Devonian delivery
This artist's conception shows the recently named species Materpiscis attenboroughi, the oldest-known vertebrate that bore live young. The fossil, discovered in Western Australia, preserves the remains of a mother fish giving birth during the Devonian Period, about 380 million years ago.
Caffeine-free coffee beans
Charrier coffee, also known as Coffea charrieriana, is the first known naturally caffeine-free coffee species found in Central Africa. The plant was found in Cameroon, which is a center of coffee diversity. The wild species could be used for breeding naturally decaffeinated coffee beans for commercial production.
Bacteria in your hairspray?
Japanese scientists discovered the species of extremophile bacteria now known as Microbacterium hatanonis in a most unusual place: plain old hairspray. The bacteria apparently suvive quite well as a contaminant amid the pressurized chemicals. "Further testing will establish whether the species is a threat to human health," one of the researchers said.


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A column has been percolating in my brain for weeks now, but it didn't come to fruition by deadline. Here's an old one from five years ago that I hope I haven't repeated already.
By COLLEEN LEDDY
I knew, as soon as the car pulled out of the driveway that I had left the cell phone in the house. But I figured I was with David and the kids were all wherever they were—I didn't need to worry about anybody.
So, I didn't yell, "Wait a minute! I forgot something," as I am wont to do whenever we set out on any journey. This journey was only to Sylvania for dinner and then the mall to buy a present for our future daughter-in-law's lingerie shower.
It wasn't until we passed by the Sarnacs' house on Morenci Rd., that it hit me—I need that phone to consult with Rozee or Maddie about what to buy Sarah. I knew we had exceeded the distance beyond which David would be willing to backtrack, so I kept quiet.
After dinner, we headed to the mall, but David couldn't be budged to come inside and help me with this purchase at Victoria's Secret.
"What do I know about lingerie?" I asked. "What the heck is lingerie, anyway?"
"Pajamas," he said.
"C'mon, come with me!" I begged. But he begged off, and settled in with the only book I had brought with me, "The Borrowers."
I berated myself for forgetting the cell phone—Rozee or Maddie would have talked me through this task, guiding me to the right garments—instead, poor Sarah would be faced with trying to act pleased about whatever I picked out. I rationalized that she could return the purchase, but I didn't want to burden her with the hassle.
I entered the store through the collegiate clothing section and immediately was drawn to a cottony looking pink striped little dress sort of thing with ruffles. It looked like something Sarah would like.
Then the clerk asked me what I was shopping for today and instead replying with my usual, "Oh, I'm just looking," I figured I could use any help I could get—obviously, none would be forthcoming from my husband.
I told her I was shopping for my future daughter-in-law's lingerie shower and she directed me to the next section—the land of "Holy Moly!"
I almost burst out laughing. I could not see myself buying a, a, uh, aw, heck, I don't know what the heck they are called, but they are full of lace and ribbons and black netty stuff and cover the torso of a woman's body.
I was just about in the "get me out of here" stage, contemplating sending Maddie to the mall in Ann Arbor to do my bidding, when I discovered a few more rooms of more modest undergarments.
I was fingering one skimpy little thing when a man sidled up to me and burped in my ear. It almost brought the Bronx out of me, but I recognized the burp as that of my husband.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Your book wasn't any good," he said.
"What do you think of this for Sarah?" I asked, holding out a skimpy thing that didn't seem quite like a slip, but I don't know what else it would be called.
"Yeah, that looks like Sarah," he said decisively.
That was all the endorsement I needed and we headed for the checkout counter, choosing the faster-looking of two lines. Then something caught my eye and I handed David the garment.
"Here, hold this and stand in line," I said. "I'll be right back."
I walked over to look at something else that looked like Sarah and suddenly a man was by my side, whispering in my ear.
The man, of course, was my husband—not standing in line.
"What the heck are you doing?" I asked.
I turned to the line. "Look at that! Two more people are in front of us now! You were supposed to stand there and hold my place in line!"
I couldn't believe it! Rozee and Maddie would never do something like that!
"Are you in a hurry or something?" he asked, which brought me up short, because, no, I wasn't in a hurry.
Still, I didn't want to spend time standing in line at Victoria's Secret when I could be standing in line at Handel's ice cream store for a mint chocolate chip Handel Pop, the nearest thing to heaven.
He was right, there was no reason to be ticked off at him, so I let go of his shirt, stopped beating him up over wayward shopping behavior and we made it out of the mall without further incident.
"What the heck did I buy anyway?" I asked David on our way to the car.
"Pajamas," he said.
When Sarah opens this present and says, "Thank you," I'm going to use one of Liz Stella's famous lines, uttered whenever she gives something wonderful such as a loaf of her homemade bread and honey, downplaying her generosity.
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This is the first in a 3-part series on food science from the Modernist Cuisine team. Stay tuned: On October 8th, we'll be selling Modernist Cuisine at Home at an exclusive discount in the FOOD52 Shop, and giving away a copy too!
Today: Learn heat transfer's tricky ways (and stop burning so much toast).
It's Getting Hot in the KitchenBy Nathan Myhrvold and Judy T. OldfieldHeat is the fundamental transformative force in almost all cooking, yet it works in counterintuitive ways — unless you know a bit about the basic physics of heat transfer. In the kitchen, heat moves around in three main ways: by conduction, by convection, and by radiation. Most cooking techniques involve more than one form at once, but let's take them one at a time.
ConductionWhen you put a pan on a hot stove, the heat moves from the cooktop through the solid bottom of the pan and into the food that contacts it. This is conduction: fast-moving (in other words, hot) molecules in the flame or heating element bump into molecules in the pan and impart some of their energy. Those molecules then zip around in every direction to jostle their neighbors, and so on. The heat spreads, both sideways and upward.
How fast the heat spreads depends a lot on the material: it moves 5,000 to 10,000 times faster inside a metal pan than it does inside a steak, for example, and some cuts of meat heat more quickly than others. But the rate of heating also depends greatly on distance, and this is the source of many cooking mistakes. Many cooks expect a steak that is two inches thick to take twice as long to cook as a steak that is just one inch thick. Logical as that may seem, it is wrong. For steaks and other water-heavy foods, each time you double the thickness, the cooking time roughly quadruples.
When you're buying new pans, think about how they will conduct heat. Yes, heat moves through copper a bit faster than it does through aluminum, so all else being equal, a copper pan will get hot faster. But if even cooking is what you're after, the thickness of the pan is the bigger factor. In a thin pan, the distance from flame to food is so short that hot spots are inevitable. Thicker pans give the heat time to spread sideways on its way up, so the food experiences less various in temperature across the pan.
Practice the art of conduction with one of our favorite steak recipes: The Cowboy Rubbed Ribeye.
ConvectionWhen you steam broccoli or boil pasta, you're cooking by convection. The molecules in water, steam, and other liquids and gasses don't have to collide with their neighboring molecules in order to transmit their energy. They can simply change their position — and take their heat with them. That flexibility can accelerate cooking enormously, and you can help it out by making sure the fluid has room to move (don't overcrowd your pasta!) or by stirring it directly.
Just how much the currents speed things up is a tricky question, because you have to account for the density and viscosity of the fluid, as well as the velocity at which it is flowing. Fortunately, there is a single number, called the heat transfer coefficient, that summarizes the effects of these factors. It reveals that sous vide water baths and forced convection ovens heat food up to ten times as fast as the natural air convection that happens inside a conventional oven. That is why you can extend your hand safely for a moment into an oven filled with 350 °F air, but will get a nasty burn if you hold your hand for long over a steaming pot of boiling water.
Convection heating has its shares of subtleties. Steam transfers energy more efficiently than boiling water, so like many chefs, we assumed that steaming vegetables is always faster than boiling them. But when we put that idea to the test, our experiments showed that steaming is actually slightly slower for most vegetables (although we still prefer it, for reasons of taste and nutrition). As the steam condenses on the surface of the food, it releases a great deal of heat — but the resulting droplets merge and cool to form a thin layer of water that partially insulates the vegetable from the steam.
Harness the power of steam (and convection) in your scrambled eggs.
Radiant HeatThe radiation you cook with is not the nuclear kind; it's some form of light (mostly invisible to the human eye). Microwaves, broilers, grills, toasters, and glowing coals all pump out energy through radiant heat. But, being light, the rays can reflect off the food. So how fast food grills, broils, or roasts depends in part on its color. It's like walking barefoot on a sunny summer's day. A concrete sidewalk may be quite comfortable on your feet, but step onto blacktop and you start hopping!
Similarly, shiny fish scales and white floured dough reflect heat rays really well, so they absorb heat slowly at first. But as food browns, the faster it absorbs heat, and cooking accelerates dramatically.
You may see this when you toast a piece of white bread. After two minutes it pops up too light for your liking, so you press the lever and toast it again.
By the time you've poured your orange juice and the toast pops back up again, your toast is charred. What happened? As soon as the bread started to brown, its reflectivity began to plummet, and heat absorption skyrocketed. Bread goes from brown to burnt in a tenth the time it takes it to go from white to brown.
Who us -- burn toast? Never.
So next time you grill fish, boil pasta, or broil a steak, think about heat transfer and how you will control it. With that fundamental handled, you'll find it easier to innovate and express your artistic ideas through your cooking.
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John Frank Adams
Born: 5 November 1930 in Woolwich, London, England
Died: 7 January 1989 in Near Brampton, Huntingdonshire, England
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Frank Adams's mother was Jean Mary Baines, a biologist, and his father was William Frank Adams, a civil engineer. He was the eldest of his parents two children, having one younger brother. The family was evacuated from London during World War II which somewhat disrupted his early education. As a consequence he attended school in a number of places but his education was mainly at Bedford School. By the time his schooling was completed World War II had ended but Britain still had national service and all young men were required to serve for two years. Adams served in the Royal Engineers during 1948 and 1949 before beginning his university education.
Adams entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1949 to study mathematics. He took Part II of the Mathematical Tripos in 1951, and Part III in the following year. After taking his first degree he started graduate work at Cambridge with Besicovitch on geometric measure theory. He married Grace Rhoda Carty in 1953. James writes in [1]:-
Soon after their marriage she became a minister in the Congregational church. They had a son and three daughters (one adopted). Family life was extremely important to Adams, though he preferred to keep it separate from his professional life. The family used to do many things together, especially fell-walking in the Lake District.He changed supervisors and began working on algebraic topology with Shaun Wylie. However, he was most strongly influenced by Henry Whitehead, who led the foremost British school of algebraic topology. This happened during the year 1954 which Adams spent as a junior lecturer at the University of Oxford. He won a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, with his doctoral thesis on spectral sequences On Special Sequences of Self-Obstruction Invariants which he submitted in 1955. He returned to Cambridge in 1956 to take up the Fellowship and during this period he developed the spectral sequence which today is called the "Adams' spectral sequence".
Adams won a Commonwealth Scholarship which enabled him to visit Chicago as a research associate in 1957-58. While in the United States he also visited Princeton. Adams said:-
... I regard the progress of my researches in America as most successful. ... By good luck, moreover, my new methods were sufficiently powerful to answer one of the classical problems of my subject, that proposed by H Hopf in 1935.The conjecture that Adams solved was the famous conjecture about the existence of H-structures on spheres.
On his return from the United States he became a College Lecturer at Trinity Hall Cambridge. His work turned towards K-theory, the generalised cohomology theory on vector bundles. Using this theory he solved another important conjecture, this one being about vector fields on spheres.
After spending further time in Princeton, Adams took up a post at Manchester as a Reader in 1962, being appointed to Newman's chair when he retired in 1964. At this time he became Fielden professor. He continued to produce work of outstanding depth and originality, and during his first few years at Manchester he wrote a series of papers On the groups J(X) which were highly influential in homotopy theory.
In 1964 Adams was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In [3] James says:-
It was in 1965, however, that he suffered the first attack of a psychiatric illness, as a result of which he was on sick leave for some months. It was apparently brought on by the worry caused by his responsibilities as head of department ...In 1970 Adams succeeded Hodge as Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge, and at this time he returned to Trinity College. His research continued to be of fundamental importance in the homotopy theory of classifying spaces of topological groups, finite H-spaces and equivariant homotopy theory. Around this time in addition to his research papers, he began to publish expository work, some resulting from lecture courses. These books are of major importance, and include Stable homotopy theory (1964), Lectures on Lie groups (1969), Algebraic topology: a student's guide (1972), Stable homotopy theory and generalized homology (1974), Localisation and completion (1975), and Infinite loop spaces (1978). Let us say a little about these works.
Stable homotopy theory (1964) is a short 74 page book which is based on six lectures Adams gave at the University of California at Berkeley in 1961. Lectures on Lie groups (1969) is described by N R Wallach as follows:-
This book covers in a concise manner the fine structure and representation theory of compact Lie groups, with emphasis on the classical groups. The exposition of the book is aimed at the reader who has some understanding of algebraic topology and would like to understand the aspects of the theory of compact Lie groups that are relevant to algebraic topology. The book fulfils its aims admirably and should be a useful reference for any mathematician who would like to learn the basic results on compact Lie groups.Algebraic topology: a student's guide (1972) is rather unusual. It is in two parts, the first contains a description of the topics that Adams thought essential for any young mathematician interested in algebraic topology. It links to a wide variety of textbooks with Adams indicating the one which treats the topic in the way he considers best. The second part contains excerpts from some famous papers on algebraic topology together with surveys of generalized cohomology theories and complex cobordism written by Adams. Stable homotopy theory and generalized homology (1974) comprises of three lecture courses, one on the algebra of stable operations in complex cobordism delivered in 1967, the second on complex cobordism theory delivered in 1970, and the third on stable homotopy and generalized homology theories delivered in 1971.
Stewart B Priddy, reviewing Infinite loop spaces (1978), writes:-
Over the past few years, various topologists have been heard to complain about the lengthy and technical nature of infinite loop space theory. Even if one suspected that some of these detractors had not come to grips with the problems involved, there was still an undeniable need for a compact and moderately elementary introduction to the subject and to the current literature. Adams' book fills this need nicely and it can be recommended to anyone seeking a substantial overview of the main topics.As is evident from the lecture courses which Adams published, his lectures were well prepared but usually hard. He once received a letter from a second year undergraduate class saying:-
The class wishes to inform Professor Adams that it has been left behind.He replied:-
At any rate I have done exterior algebra, even if the second year haven't.In [1] James describes his attitude to research students and to research:-
Adams was an awe-inspiring teacher who expected a great deal of his research students and whose criticism of work which did not impress him could be withering. For those who were stimulated rather than intimidated by this treatment, he was generous with his help. The competitive instinct in Adams was highly developed, for example in his attitude to research. Priority of discovery mattered a great deal to him and he was known to argue such questions not just as to the day but as to the time of day. In a subject where 'show and tell' is customary he was extraordinarily secretive about research in progress.Adams received many awards for his work. Among these was the Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society of London which was awarded to him in 1982:-
... in recognition of his solution of several outstanding problems of algebraic topology and of the methods he invented for this purpose which have proved of prime importance in the theory of that subject.The London Mathematical Society awarded him their junior Berwick Prize in 1963, and their senior Whitehead Prize in 1974. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (United States) in 1985 and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in 1988.
His health continued to cause him problems with another psychiatric illness in 1986. Perhaps his health contributed to his death since he decided to go to London, despite feeling unwell, to a celebration for the retirement of a friend. He was killed in a car crash only a few miles from his home on the return journey. He had apparently always had a reputation as a car driver. According to [3]:-
He drove cars with remarkable skill but in a style that left a lasting impression on his passengers.Finally we note that seven years after Adams died another book was published based on his lecture courses. This is Lectures on exceptional Lie groups published in 1996. The book is based on lectures which Adams gave at Cambridge which he considered to be sequel to his book Lectures on Lie groups (1969).
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Facebook takes on Google in search with new feature
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MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook fired a direct shot at Google and its vast search-engine empire on Tuesday with a new search tool for users to sift through piles of pictures, posts and places.
The new Graph Search feature, which will be slowly rolled out over weeks, is designed to keep Facebook's 1 billion users on the site, lure data-obsessed advertisers and make a dent in Google's multibillion-dollar search machine. It might also butt heads with services such as Foursquare and Yelp.
"This is one of the coolest things we've done in awhile," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a packed press conference at the company's headquarters here. "It's the kind of product we love to build at Facebook: It's for a big technology problem and big social problem."
Anticipation of the first big news from Facebook in months had prompted investors to snap up shares and and push them above $30 — though still shy of the company's IPO price of $38 in May.
Yet, on Tuesday, investors were unimpressed: Facebook shares tumbled 2.7%, to $30.10.
The hoodie-wearing Zuckerberg says the tool could offer Facebook a path to crack the online-dating market and compete with such sites as LinkedIn that specialize in job recruiting. In one example, he showed a list of Mexican restaurants that his Facebook friends had visited and "liked."
But he and other Facebook executives emphasized Graph Search is not a Web search, and can only view content that friends have shared.
What also distinguishes the new Facebook search: You can use real sentences and questions, not just key words.
"This is big data at its biggest," Gartner analyst Brian Blau says. "It will eventually affect any company that deals with a large amount of data."
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Google took home 15% of the nearly $15 billion U.S. display ad market, with Facebook close behind.
Payments accounted for Facebook's remaining $800 million in 2012 revenue, eMarketer estimates.
Don't expect a mobile version of Graph Search soon. "It's going to take years and years to index (all the information on Facebook)," Zuckerberg says. "In the future, we want to get to mobile, non-English languages, and all the posts and all of the content on Facebook."


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I bet I can fix number 14 (reviving dead characters with damaging scripts). That'll either be a field fix or a exe tweak.
Make sure to specify which tab. There are a few #14s... though I assume you mean Field #14.
the whole alpha blending transparency issue which also affects the savepoints and other stuff. The issue is that the PC renderer has two different alpha values (vertex alpha, texture alpha) and the game doesn't specify which one to use (AFAIK), so sometimes the correct thing to do is to just use texture alpha, sometimes vertex alpha and sometimes the two should be combined to produce the correct result. The way it works now is correct most of the time but not always.
the world map is already completely broken (shadows follow the rotation of the camera instead of being fixed in the world)
I think the function needs to be able to do that in other places though. To be able to revive or kill based on simple assignments to HP of a character. I'm not sure where else it's used. What was really needed was a function to set HP to an absolute number rather than "decrease" and "increase". They likely came up with the idea of "make HP 1 after being hit with the needles" later in development. What I am doing for Weapon is simply making these needles and so on an instant death or other bad effect like decrease HP. If all 3 chars are 0 HP, then game over. The latter is already another bug (all 3 chars can be dead on field), which will need fixing.
#General - FF7 -exe - the coordination for the light sources are wrong (field and WM), which produce a different light on PC as on PSX (I would say its 90° clock-wise, it looks as if x and y are swapped[?]). The field could be fixed by changing the values in the model loader.
I can't believe I never noticed that before. The lighting on the PC version looks almost... inverted. It's not flipped on an axis. Rather, the areas that should be dark are light and the areas that should be light are dark. It's like a sign on a variable for light value got flipped somewhere.
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Castleford Tigers' Adam Milner has been drafted into the England squad for Sunday's second Test against New Zealand when James Graham will captain the side in his home city of Liverpool.
Loose forward Milner comes in for Sean O'Loughlin, the Wigan Warriors and England captain who suffered a calf injury in last Saturday's first Test victory in Hull.
Milner, 26, made his debut in the 44-6 win against France last month and is the only change to Wayne Bennett's 19-man squad.
Meanwhile, St George-Illawarra prop Graham, the most-capped player in the England squad with 42, takes over from O'Loughlin.
The former St Helens star has led his country before and will now bid to help England clinch the series at Anfield.
England 19-man squad: Bateman, G Burgess, T Burgess, Clark, Connor, Gildart, Graham, Hill, Hodgson, Lomax, Makinson, McGillvary, Myler, Milner, Percival, Thompson, Tomkins, Whitehead, Williams.


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Yep, bad paint,
I really don't think "bad paint" was what killed this line.
Does anyone know how long Hasbro holds the license for this property, or how much they paid for it?
Heck, even here on a Star Wars forum, look how few of us overall were buying/posting/discussing this line compared to the total number of members.
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