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2AM-BBS was an early bulletin board system(BBS) originally developed in 1985 for the Epson QX-16 and soon ported to IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS. It was written in Turbo Pascal by Neil Clarke and Chris Gorman as students at Drew University. The team later grew to include Tom Vogl (programming) and Meryl Yourish (documentation). Collectively, they were known as the 2AM Associates.

2AM-BBS was a message-oriented BBS with strong forum and email capabilities for its time. Other features included download libraries, multiline support, trivia, voting, doors, and remote management. Users could be granted individual "privilege bits" to manage any number of areas of the site and many 2AM systems made extensive use of BaseOps, which are more commonly known as forum moderators today.

Although copies of this software were in use world-wide, it was considerably more popular in the New Jersey area. It was kept in production through 1997, when the home BBS, The Conspiracy Theory, shut its doors. The last shareware release was version 4.1 in 1997.

The Krytos virus is a fictional bioengineered virus in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. The virus was released upon the capital world Coruscant by the Imperial leader Ysanne Isard just after the world fell to the Rebels (around 7 ABY). The Krytos virus helped ignite the conflict known as the Bacta War.

Background

Scientific
The Krytos virus was a deadly and highly contagious virus that only afflicted non-human species. It could be spread numerous ways, such as through water supplies and air. The virus often killed its host in less than two weeks, and caused a painful death.

The virus was specifically designed to be destroyed easily with bacta, a healing chemical. While Isard was certainly interested in killing as many individuals as possible, her primary goal was to cause discontent in the New Republic by making the demand for bacta skyrocket, then limiting its distribution, so as to make the treatment scarce and therefore very expensive. To counter this easy treatment, the virus was given a fast rate of incubation that made it kill a host very quickly, and Isard had her biomedical engineers design it so that it could spread easily, especially in the close confines of Coruscant.

The short incubation period of the virus proved to be its downfall: often, the virus killed its host too fast to allow it to spread as desired. Subsequent generations of the virus also became weaker and less virulent over time. Furthermore, large quantity of the virus had been frozen in ice as part of the plan to introduce it into Coruscant's water supply; Rogue Squadron boiled off a large amount of this ice in their action to capture Coruscant. Rogue Squadron's operations on the planet also allowed the New Republic to capture the planet much earlier than the Imperials had intended, so the production of the virus by Imperial bioengineers had also been cut short.

A from Thyferra offered his services to help cure the disease. He found that a mixture of ryll and bacta could be mixed together to fight the virus. This mixture, which came to be known as rylca, was manufactured by the Alliance at . It allowed for the treatment of those infected without using massive quantities of bacta. Finally, the liberation of by Rogue Squadron helped restore the flow of bacta to the galaxy and, most notably, the New Republic.

Political
While it seemed to the Rebels that Coruscant had legitimately fallen, the capture of the world was all a part of Isard's plan. Shortly before its fall, her biomedical engineers, including (who at one time had secretly run the Alderaan Biotics facility on Borleias), designed a deadly virus that attacked only non-human races. Isard hoped that this design, coupled with the Empire's subsequent capture of the bacta-producing world , would make bacta so scarce that the virus could not be treated. Thus, discord would be sewn in the newly-formed New Republic: alien races would be unable to get proper treatment, while humans would be completely unaffected (and indeed immune) to the virus. The New Republic would face a tough choice: acquire bacta at greatly inflated prices, or do nothing. Acquiring bacta at inflated prices would rob the fledgling government of much of its budget; doing nothing would make the sickened alien population resent the New Republic. The Bacta War was one of the first true tests of the New Republic.

In the end, disaster was averted by Corran Horn and Rogue Squadron, who helped free Thyferra from the clutches of Ysanne Isard and restore a free flow of bacta to the galaxy. The virus was quickly wiped out through numerous medical techniques, most importantly the administration of bacta to diseased individuals. This quick treatment, of course, destroyed the resentment building between New Republic humans and aliens; unfortunately, by this time, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of lives had already been lost to the disease.

The Krytos virus marks one of the most notable and prolific uses of biological warfare in the Star Wars galaxy.

The Knights of Saint Michael is a religious television series for children appearing on EWTN Catholic network. The show is written and produced by Richard LaHood, Jr., director of Providential Communications, a non-profit television production company. LaHood created both "Angel Force" and "Knights of St. Michael" television shows as well as assorted music videos which air on the television network EWTN.

About the Series
This Catholic variety shows a cast of eleven young adults. that teach the catechism of Christianity in a whole new way. This series encourages the young viewers to be proud to be a Catholic. These "Knights" have found themselves compelled to choose a side... fighting for God beneath His first defender, Saint Michael. Each thirty minute episode approaches a topic from several angles using different characters and situations.

Parts
There are different parts of the series.

Voices of the Past/God's Heroes
A "knight" dresses up as a saint, martyr, Christian, or historic person.

W.A.R.N. World News
Two of the "Knights", Matthew Rudolph and Mary Lahood, talks about what is currently going on in the Christian faith and how they can help.

Common Sense with Miss Liz
The "knight" Elizabeth talks about bibilical "common sense" to people who are crazy, too modern, or ignore the Bible.

Mister and Mini Positive, School of Deceit
These two "positives" are not "knights" at all. Actually, they are not "positive either". They work for Satan and try but never succeed to win the spiritual war.

Doctor Chris
A "knight" Chris answers questions from viewers. His quote is "all it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

House of the Royal Court
This is when the "knights" discuss how they willl win the war. This is when the show ends.