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|No one man can carry this burden, I tell you. It is far too heavy. Saving their souls is too costly. No-one. Ever. No. Never.
|~ Satan trying to tempt Jesus in the Garden.
Satan is one of the main antagonists in the controversial film The Passion Of The Christ and is depicted as a more spiritual menace than his stereotypical appearance as a satyr-like monster in modern culture - in fact in the film Satan is depicted as a being that is hard to place in terms of gender (though the role was played by a woman) or power and is ghostlike in mannerism.
Though Satan has not directly harmed anyone in the film, he is implied to be the one who intially started off a chain of events that would often result in brutal deaths but this was necessary as it was part of God's plan. Satan was initially a high ranking angel of God but his rebellion, he became a deceitful being who uses his knowledge of God's word to manipulate others-including Jesus Christ himself.
In the beginning of the film, Satan catches Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane and tries to convince him to not sacrifice himself for humanity's sins as he wants Jesus to fail to carry out God's plan. As Jesus's sweat drops to the ground like blood, a serpent, similar to the serpent in the Garden of Eden, crawls out of Satan but Jesus crushes the serpent and Satan disappears.
After Judas betrayed Jesus, presumably under demonic influence, a group of children run to him and begin to torment him. The children later turn out to be ferocious demons and under the presence of Satan, they later drive Judas insane and force him to hang himself. Meanwhile, Jesus is interrogated by Pontius Pilate and is later sent to be whipped and tortured by his centurions. Satan walks in the background and watches sadistically as Jesus was tortured and he is later revealed to be carrying a demonic baby, to mock about how he himself could take care of his children better than God himself. During the torture, Satan is presumed to be one controlling the men torturing Jesus by abusing their free will as he appears at irregular moments. He has probably done the same thing with evil men before Jesus's crucifixion.
However, at the end of the film, Jesus succeeds in sacrificing himself for humanity's sins and at the same moment, Satan is sent back to an isolated and parched area of Hell, where he screams in agonising defeat.

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Victoria Azarenka's bid to become the first woman in more than 20 years to successfully defend her Indian Wells title crashed to a halt Thursday as she pulled out with an injury.
The world No. 2 from Belarus pulled out shortly before her scheduled quarter-final clash with eighth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, granting the Dane a semi-final berth on a walkover.
In an odd twist, Wozniacki's semi-final opponent also advanced on a walkover on Thursday as fourth seed Angelique Kerber went through when Samantha Stosur pulled out with a calf injury.
Organizers announced that Azarenka had a right ankle injury, and the Australian Open champion had spoken of ankle pain after her 6-3, 6-1 fourth-round victory over Urszula Radwanska.
But she said an MRI performed Wednesday showed inflammation and tendinitis in her foot, and doctors had told her rest was the best medicine.
"There is big inflammation and tendinitis," she said. "It cannot get better with me playing on it, especially playing last three matches on it, it's just worse.
"I tried not to practice yesterday and see if it will settle down a little bit.
"I felt yesterday was better, not walking in my tennis shoes. But today, once I started doing the exercise, that was it."
Azarenka said she still hoped to play the elite hard-court tournament starting in Miami next week.
She planned to travel to Florida on Sunday, but would have to see how the injury responds to rest and treatment.
"That's frustrating for me as a player, not knowing," she said over the uncertainty of her expected recovery time. "Sometimes you think, OK, well, I rest three days and I'm going to be fine with it.
"But when you don't know the healing process it's a little bit frustrating. I'm going to give my 200 percent to do everything I can for treatment and just be focused on that. That's going to be my priority to get ready (for Miami)."
Azarenka is unbeaten on the court in 2013, a 17-0 run that includes the Australian Open and a title in Doha.
But this is the second time she has surrendered a walkover. She withdrew before her scheduled semi-final against Serena Williams in Brisbane with an infected right toe that resulted from a pedicure.
Azarenka, who routed Maria Sharapova in last year's final, was trying to become the first woman since Martina Navratilova in 1990-91 to win back-to-back Indian Wells titles.
"I tried absolutely everything I could to do, but I have been advised by the doctor, by my own team, that it's just a very high risk to make it much worse," she said of her decision to withdraw.


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6 Months In, CNN's Great Big Story Videos Are Drawing 40 Million Views a Month
The startup is a hit with millennials
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CNN Bumps Up Original Programming
9 p.m. slot will now feature series and documentaries
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Restructuring squeezes out CNN vet Greg D'Alba
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Piers Morgan's 9 p.m. show on CNN is ending, the host told the New York Times' David Carr. Morgan is one of the few remaining high-profile hires from Jonathan Klein's…
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Mel Gibson Accused of Anti-Semitic Drunken Tirade
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According to TMZ.com, the arrest report for Mel Gibson's drunk driving escapade earlier in the week has allegedly been doctored to cover up Mel's inebriated tirade in which he threatens to fuck a lot of people, as well as blame much of the world's woes on the Jews. The entire sordid story is here… but here is some of the juicier bits.
Once inside the car, a source directly connected with the case says Gibson began banging himself against the seat. The report says Gibson told the deputy, "You mother f****r. I'm going to f*** you." The report also says "Gibson almost continually [sic] threatened me saying he 'owns Malibu' and will spend all of his money to 'get even' with me."
The report says Gibson then launched into a barrage of anti-Semitic statements: "F*****g Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Gibson then asked the deputy, "Are you a Jew?"
The deputy became alarmed as Gibson's tirade escalated, and called ahead for a sergeant to meet them when they arrived at the station. When they arrived, a sergeant began videotaping Gibson, who noticed the camera and then said, "What the f*** do you think you're doing?"
A law enforcement source says Gibson then noticed another female sergeant and yelled, "What do you think you're looking at, sugar tits?"
We're told Gibson took two blood alcohol tests, which were videotaped, and continued saying how "f****d" he was and how he was going to "f***" Deputy Mee.
Talk about being persecuted! (On the other hand, I don't believe Jesus Christ ever said anything about fucking Pontius Pilate.)


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I've heard you say on different occasions that you've worked a lot with those books.
Did you use his fingerings as well? how important do you think they are ?
Cheers, JFB
A question for kurt(of anybody who knows) regarding Van Eps' Mechanisms(2 posts)
I've heard you say on different occasions that you've worked a lot with those books.
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I found it useful to go through the suggested fingerings as they are awkward and can give new ideas but for issues of speed or context they may prove to be difficult ( if not not that useful - unless you devote a huge chunk of your time to getting with his physical ballet ). And some of those 10ths exercises I don't see why he changes the fingerings ( for different strings ) when the sting groupings and placement of shifts is the same even for a new key ... This seems as if to allude to some meta position to keep certain fingers for thereby certain fingerings as to optimize an alleged economy throughout the neck. What is cool to try to get under your fingers is the picking hand fingering : in successive chords on a same string set , say: 10 this on the 6th &3rd strings you would alternate between p/m and i/a; to get a consistent timbre you may need to pivot your wrist or examine your nails ... Or maybe you dig the difference. It feels weird at first but then you get this galloping effect and that will be useful and makes sense for speed. I kept a photocopy of the string set chart as a bookmark until it made sense. There was too much going on at once. Sometimes the book (s) would drain me and I decided it wasn't good to attempt to check things out late at night as I would just feel stupid going beyond a couple bars ( especially the satellite concept stuff in I believe volume 3 )... Ultimately , I decided to check out what he advised as for the mechanics but pick and choose if I was going to integrate that- the main nuggets were the actual HARMONIC ideas being conveyed .
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Vortigaunts,[2][3] also known as Alien Slaves,[4] and affectionately known as Vorts by their allies, are a hive-minded, energy-wielding, sapient alien race found throughout the Half-Life series.[5]
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[edit] Physiology
In appearance, a Vortigaunt is roughly humanoid with two legs and two arms, but has an additional arm protruding from its chest. This extra limb is a feature also found in other bipedal, sapient species from Xen, including the Alien Grunt and the Nihilanth. This similarity, along with other shared features such as red eyes and back-jointed legs, is strongly suggestive of a common ancestry with other intelligent Xen life forms, which are said to be all from the same world, and is the reason why the Nihilanth had a particular ability to control them.[6] Vortigaunts have mottled green-brown skin, sharp teeth, and clawed hands. Vortigaunts have a slightly hunched posture, and their faces are dominated by a large, single eye with a maroon sclera and a heterochromic red-yellow iris with a yellow pupil, surrounded by three (in the original game, five) smaller eyes. They have two noses on each side of their head as small tubes.[a] Another interesting feature of the Vortigaunts is that they have no tongue or teeth on their lower jaw, yet they can speak English fluently, albeit with a strange accent and some sort of speech impediment when using S's and R's.[7][8]
[edit] Intelligence and culture
Vortigaunts are very intelligent and social creatures. Throughout the Half-Life series, they can be seen in pairs or groups, and are capable of developing intelligent strategies. When faced with a superior enemy, Vortigaunts will often run away, and if possible, group together with other Vortigaunts to form a stronger force.[9] Unlike other aliens, they don't eat human corpses. They are seen cooking Headcrabs in Half-Life 2, first in a cave over a fire, and later in a kitchen at Black Mesa East.
Brief glimpses into the Vortigaunt culture can be gained by occasional speeches given by them in Half-Life 2, and in scenes during the original Half-Life. In the original game, Vortigaunts were enslaved by the Nihilanth and used as workers and drone soldiers.[9] Based on comments by the Vortigaunts, it seems that the species has endured slavery for many generations[10] and enforced servitude appears to have formed the bedrock of Vortigaunt history and culture up to the events of the first Half-Life. In Half-Life 2, Vortigaunts make occasional references to their species' culture. They have many traditions, including an apparent oral tradition of passing down poetry,[11] songs,[12] and philosophical sentences[13] from generation to generation. Vortigaunts are not typically seen wearing clothing, although several are observed wearing lab coats and chef's clothing in the course of Half-Life 2 and its expansions.
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Vortigaunts possess their own native form of vocal communication, which, in Half-Life 2, is referred to as "flux shifting," and can be heard in rare instances when two Vortigaunts are engaged in conversation. According to the Vortigaunts, flux shifting cannot be understood by "those whose Vortal inputs are impaired."[7]
By the beginning of Half-Life 2, Vortigaunts have learned to speak at least one human language, which, in the English language version of the game, is predictably English (in the international versions of Half-Life 2, Vortigaunts speak the appropriate language for the country of the game's release; e.g., in the French language version of the game, the Vortigaunts speak French). However, the Vortigaunts' use of English is slightly strange, as they often use verbose sentence structures without contractions. The Vortigaunts encountered in-game also tend to refer to characters by adding "the" before their name, such as "the Freeman" or "the Alyx Vance".
Vortigaunts believe in a binding life-force which they call the "Vortessence".[7] Due to their use of this force, which remains untapped by humans,[14] the Vortigaunt species can communicate with one another telepathically. They believe Vortessence is the fabric of the universe, made of "vortal cords," of which everything is woven (and therefore everything is connected). The Vortigaunts are able to read and control this force for their electrical powers, nearly hive-mind telepathy and, likely, their ability to take power from objects. They can use their powers coupled with "the extract" of Antlion larvae to bring the nearly dead back to life (however, it is shown in Episode Two that they cannot do this alone).
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[edit] Half-Life and its expansions
In Half-Life, Vortigaunts are common enemies in both Black Mesa and Xen. While they usually attack aggressively, they often become timid when injured, preferring to run away rather than risk further combat and possible death. They are also able to heal themselves by using Healing Chamber if they become damaged.[15]
In the Xen Mines Gordon comes across a number of Vortigaunts which, despite being aware of his presence, are not aggressive towards him unless attacked first. They do, however, resume their normal hostile behavior while in the presence of Alien Controllers.
Vortigaunts have two modes of attack: an energy attack in which they fire powerful green lightning-like energy beams that require a vulnerable period of "charging-up" before being unleashed, and, when close to opponents, a claw attack. Significantly, in Half-Life all of the Vortigaunts wear green collars and shackles. Later events reveal these to be a means by which they are controlled by a remote master, the Nihilanth. Vortigaunts often act as support for Alien Grunts, making the Vortigaunts more likely to be able to use their attack, as the player is usually concentrating on killing the tougher Grunts.
[edit] Half-Life 2 and its episodes
In Half-Life 2, their electrical attack is far more devastating, as it tends to kill whatever it hits immediately and knocks the target back a considerable distance. They can be seen using their electrical attacks several times in the game. When charging up the generators in the Black Mesa East, which can be seen during the elevator ride to Eli's Lab, later when they're defending the facility against the Combine. Finally, when the Vortigaunt extracts Bugbait from a dead Antlion Guard.
It is also suggested that Vortigaunts can siphon an opponent's life-force with their energy beam attack, as they are heard saying phrases like "Give over your essence!" or "Empower us!" during some of their attacks in Half-Life 2. In the Half-Life expansion Decay, the player plays as a Vortigaunt in a bonus mission, and the beam attack does indeed 'steal' life-force from enemies.
The extent of the Vortigaunts' powers are revealed fully in Episode Two, where a group of Vortigaunts use it to defend an underground outpost from a massive Antlion attack. It is shown to be powerful enough to kill Antlions and Zombies, and causes a shock wave strong enough to knock over other nearby foes. Freeman's Vortigaunt companion uses this ability to aid him in his attempt to raid an Antlion nest.
Furthermore, as was revealed in Episode One and Episode Two, Vortigaunts, under certain circumstances, are capable of manipulating space and time to an impressive degree. In Episode One, the Vortigaunts show the ability to teleport, and possibly use a limited form of time travel.[16] In Episode Two, with the aid of a larval extract from an antlion nest, a group of Vortigaunts are capable of healing Alyx after she sustains near-fatal injuries from a Hunter.
[edit] Appearances
[edit] Half-Life and its expansions
Vortigaunts first appear in the chapter Anomalous Materials, during the Resonance Cascade. Several Vortigaunts teleport in from the ceiling of the test chamber, disappearing as they near the floor. A few moments later, when Gordon Freeman is briefly teleported to Xen, he appears in a dark room, with four Vortigaunts standing in a half-circle around him; however, they do not attack him. Later on, in Unforeseen Consequences, they can be found as standard enemies, and remain so for the rest of the game. They also appear in the expansions as regular enemies. In Decay, the players can find a dead Vortigaunt with his collar and shackles removed and connected to a machine in the Alien Quarantine Labs.
In Half-Life for PlayStation 2, the players are able to play the game as a Vortigaunt in two game modes: Xen Attacks, which is a bonus mission for Half-Life: Decay, and in Alien Mode, which allows the player play through Half-Life as a Vortigaunt.
[edit] Half-Life 2
In Half-Life 2, it is revealed that Gordon Freeman inadvertently liberated the Vortigaunts by killing their master, Nihilanth. Rather than fall under the dominion of the Combine, the Vortigaunts joined the human Resistance against the Combine, after being persuaded by Eli Vance, who was the first human being to make peaceful contact with them,[17] and earned their trust. The game also reveals that the Vortigaunts are capable of using their electrical attack productively, in the form of a blue energy stream that can recharge batteries, power electronic circuits, fuse objects together and even power up Gordon's HEV suit.
The Vortigaunts credit Gordon Freeman with their freedom, and hold him in high esteem as "The Freeman". However, not all Vortigaunts have been freed. In the first chapter of Half-Life 2, Point Insertion, it is possible to catch a brief glimpse of a Vortigaunt working under the Combine. Wearing a collar and shackles similar to those worn in Half-Life (with an additional band around the waist), the Vortigaunt is shown slowly and meticulously using a push-broom to sweep dirt and garbage in the City 17 Trainstation.
When exploring Nova Prospekt, the player comes across a dead Vortigaunt, wearing collar and shackles, sitting in a restrained chair. Interestingly, this occurs in block A2 about which Overwatch had directed shortly before: "De-service all political conscripts in block A2 - prohibit external contact." It appears that the Vortigaunt had died during electrical torture by the Combine, which would explain Alyx Vance's comments that the Resistance's only knowledge of Nova Prospekt is through telepathic communications from Vortigaunts taken there for torture or interrogation.
[edit] Half-Life 2 episodes
In the beginning of Half-Life 2: Episode One, a group of Vortigaunts free Gordon from the G-Man and save Alyx from certain death after the explosion of the Citadel's Dark Fusion Reactor, teleporting both of them to the relative safety of the center of City 17, just outside the Citadel—revealing the Vortigaunts may be more powerful than previously speculated, even to the point of challenging the G-Man. Strangely, the Vortigaunts appear purple-colored in this scene.
Despite being part of the Resistance, some Citizens still distrust the Vortigaunts, as heard in a rebel safe house during Episode One.
Vortigaunts play a much larger role in Half-Life 2: Episode Two. After a Hunter mortally wounds Alyx and traps Freeman under a collapsed building, a Vortigaunt saves the former from being eaten by an Antlion. The Vortigaunt then stabilizes Alyx's condition and carries her to an underground Resistance outpost, where, with the help of three more Vortigaunts, they beat back a heavy Antlion incursion. A Vortigaunt then accompanies Freeman in a quest to harvest the larval extract of the Antlions to save Alyx's life. The Vortigaunt proves a valuable companion, as it kick-starts generators by giving them an electric jolt, its lightning attack damages and knocks over nearby Antlions, and it also charges up Freeman's HEV suit on occasion. Eventually, Freeman is able to access the Nectarium, where the Vortigaunt harvests a small quantity of the larval extract. Both Gordon and the Vortigaunt travel back to the outpost and begin a ritual to heal Alyx.
After the Vortigaunts begin the ritual, they begin to turn purple-colored just as in the beginning of Episode One. It is at this point the G-Man reestablishes contact with Freeman. He states "...but I had to wait until your... 'friends' were otherwise occupied...", suggesting up until then the Vortigaunts had somehow been keeping the G-Man at bay. The Vortigaunts are unaware of the intrusion, and they never mention the G-Man, nor the service they rendered Freeman and Alyx at the beginning of Episode One.
The Vortigaunt then accompanies Freeman and Alyx a little further on before heading back, mentioning that he and his cohorts are occupied with searching for Combine Advisor pods. Another Vortigaunt, given the name Uriah by Arne Magnusson, aids Freeman briefly later on in the Episode at White Forest.
For gameplay purposes, if Gordon strays too far from Alyx during the course of Episode Two to some specific place where she cannot reach, the screen briefly shows the text 'The Freeman must proceed with the Alyx Vance, else our struggle is doomed to failure. Those who do not learn from their mistakes are doomed to an endless Vortal Loop.', after which the game will reload the most recent save (referencing that those who continue to leave Alyx will keep reloading the game).
[edit] Related Achievements
|Half-Life 2
|Vorticough (13G)
|Discover the hidden singing Vortigaunt cave in chapter Water Hazard.
[edit] Behind the scenes
[edit] Half-Life
Originally known simply as Alien Slaves, the alien species was eventually given the name of "Vortigaunt" during the development of Half-Life.[1] Although never mentioned during gameplay, this title was first revealed in the Prima strategy guide for the game.[2] Additionally, the in-game monster entity has two internal designations in the code: the generic "
monster_alien_slave" along with "
monster_vortigaunt". Vortigaunts are also referred to as "Vortigons" in text messages leftover by the developers in a test map "
hl1devteste" included in Half-Life: Source.[18] Furthermore, the name "ISlave" appears in the game files.[19][20][21]
In Online Gaming Review's early Half-Life Monster of the Week Feature preview, Vortigaunts were given the taxonomic designation "Xenotherium subservilia." They were described as being highly subservient creatures bred to be unquestionably loyal to its masters. They had an indiscriminate diet, choosing to abstain from even the lowly Chumtoads, as they were only afforded the scraps from battlefield remnants and whatever little else they could scavenge. Vortigaunts are said regularly groom Alien Grunts, their most common masters, and dine on the ectoparasites gathered in this process. When ordered into combat, they fight with a fervent vigor heedless of their own personal risk as they fear the wrath of their superiors more than their enemies. They are commonly sent first in battles as cannon fodder or bait. Outside of the eye of their masters, Vortigaunts would act remarkably cowardly and choose to flee from hostility, becoming virtually harmless. They were thought to be of low intelligence, seemingly being incapable of independent thought and their original survival instincts being altered by their masters. Nonetheless, it was still apparently necessary for its overlords to implement slave collars on all units to keep any chance of rebellion under control.[22]
Gordon Freeman was originally to win the Vortigaunts over as allies on Xen, then lead them to outright rebellion. This plan proved impractical but was reused for Half-Life 2.[23]
Some unused content can be found in the game files. They have an unused melee attack called Major Rake[2] (clawrake), which is a duplicate of their claw attack in the code, but stronger. The damage values can be found in the skill configuration file (
skill.cfg). The Vortigaunt could resurrect dead Vortigaunts using their beam attack in Half-Life.[19]
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The Vortigaunts originally played a slightly bigger role in Half-Life 2. City 17 was originally to be filled with Vorti-Cells, Combine devices used as stations siphoning power from trapped Vortigaunts.[23] Friendly fire was originally possible on Half-Life 2's Citizens and Vortigaunts, as in with the Black Mesa personnel in Half-Life. Upon being damaged by the player in the leak, Vortigaunts will respond with remarks like "You have given me no choice but to eliminate you," or "Let me return your gift," although they do not fight back.[24] Furthermore, the Citizens were originally to say "Hey, stop that! The Vorts are on our side, now!" if the player would harm the nearby Vortigaunts.[24] The leak files also contain a texture of a charred Vortigaunt body.[24] Unused animations show a Vortigaunt being caught, pulled, and killed by a Barnacle.[24] The small number of Vortigaunts in City 17 was a result of a lack of resources needed to fully develop the urban combat. The developers instead decided to involve the creatures far more substantially in the sections of the game taking place outside the city.[25]
The Tau Cannon was apparently supposed to be removed from the Scout Car by a Vortigaunt. An unused animation shows an individual firing the gun.[24] According to David Speyrer, the Vortigaunt who's been tortured to death in Nova Prospekt, was alive late in the development of the game, and was sitting in his cell. The player could let him out, and fight alongside him.[25] The leftover entities that can still be found in the map indicate that this sequence would feature the Tau Cannon.[24]
In Half-Life 2, the Vortigaunts are voiced by Louis Gossett Jr.; he declared having interest in working for Valve himself. According to Bill Van Buren, who described the search for a voice actor for these creatures as a fun challenge, the team had been getting rather bad audition tapes for the Vortigaunts until they gave the casting agents some additional direction, clarifying that they "want somebody speaking human language, but not human." In Raising the Bar, van Buren gave the examples of Vincent D'Onofrio's work for Edgar in Men in Black, and Lou Gosset, Jr.'s work in Enemy Mine.[23] Lou Gossett's voice lent itself to a mystical and mysterious characterization of the Vortigaunt.[26] Robin Williams also expressed interest in voicing the Vortigaunts, but scheduling conflicts prevented him from playing the role.[27] In Episode Two, the Vortigaunts' voicing was done by Tony Todd. In his reading, the team heard new possibilities for a Vortigant "who is more of a mystic martial artist." With new attack animations and companion behavior, they worked with Tony to build the Vortigaunt into a powerful ally, "a full-on alien ass-kicker."[26] As noted by John Guthrie, the team, however, didn't want to make them too powerful as that would take away from the player's fun, but also wanted him to be a good ally to have around. One solution was the shock attack where the Vortigaunt would stun a group of Antlions, so that the player could finish them off.[26]
According to the series' writer Marc Laidlaw, one of the most important goals with Episode Two was to expand on the Vortigaunts as characters, as opposed to just "purveyors of bugbait or Xen koans". As such, Valve added new behaviours, new animations, and new audio to the Vortigaunts. In the developer commentary for Episode Two, Danika Wright noted that turning the Vortigaunt into an expressive character was a challenge for animators, given that they don't have a "traditional face". To bring out their personality, the animators concentrated on shifting bodyweight and broad hand gestures. Most importantly, where human characters tend to move their heads a lot for emphasis, the developers concentrated Vortigaunts' performances on expressive spinal motions.[26] Their smoother, shinier and slug-like appearance originally introduced in Episode Two was later added into Half-Life 2 and Episode One in The Orange Box 2010 update.
Some of the Episode Two locations were designed with Vortigaunts in mind. According to Doug Wood, during the development of the Antlion battle in the Victory Mine, Valve was careful to make it fairly easy for the players to sit back and enjoy watching the Vortigaunts clear the room of Antlions during the last wave. The developers wanted to show off the Vortigaunts' new abilities and get the player excited about the role they were going to play as active allies in the struggle against the Combine.[26] According to Jason Brashill, after a new model was created for the generator, the developers decided to exploit the Vortigaunt's natural relationship with electricity by having him charge the generator in a similar way he charges Gordon's suit. They were then able to use generators as "Vortigates" throughout the level to indicate areas the player could enter only with a Vortigaunt's assistance.[26] According to Leslie Hall, as the Vortigaunt's dispel attack that takes out a swarm of Antlions looks most impressive when seen from above, though that's not a perspective the player gets very often in the Antlion tunnels, the team designed the exit from the battle at a overrun Resistance outpost in the Victory Mine purely to give the player a view from above so the Vortigaunt could put on a show.[26] According to Ted Backman, making the Overwatch Sniper Rifle found near the Muscle Car bridge visible and accessible to the player required the team to come up with a way to make the rifle usable only with the Vortigaunt's help.[26]
The Vortigaunts are mentioned in Marc Laidlaw's BreenGrub, a fan fiction story set in the Half-Life universe.
[edit] In modding
In the Half-Life mod Point of View, one can play as a Vortigaunt during the Black Mesa Incident.
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[edit] Concepts and screenshots
Vortigaunt in a Healing Chamber.
Burnt Vortigaunt corpses in Uplink.
Vortigaunts in a conference room in Opposing Force.
The HUD used when playing as a Vortigaunt.
A group of Vortigaunts hold back the G-Man at the start of Episode One.
Alyx and the Vortigaunt outside the Victory Mine.
[edit] Models
Half-Life Alpha version.
Half-Life: Day One version.
Dreamcast version.
PlayStation 2 version.
High Definition version.
Decay arms viewmodel.
Unused gib model.[i]
[edit] Other
[edit] List of appearances
- Half-Life: Day One (First appearance)
- Half-Life
- Half-Life: Uplink (Non-canonical appearance)
- Half-Life: Opposing Force
- Half-Life: Blue Shift
- Half-Life: Decay
- Half-Life 2
- Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
- Half-Life 2: Episode One
- Source Particle Benchmark (Game files only) (Non-canonical appearance)
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two
[edit] Notes
- ↑ The name of the textures used for the tubes are:
Nose1.bmp, for the side of the tubes, and
Nostrils1.bmp, for the holes on the tubes. In Half-Life 2, the tubes use the flexes used for the nose of human characters.
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chuck Jones' personal website
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Half-Life Prima Guide
- ↑ Worldcraft, Half-Life Game Definition File (
- ↑ Half-Life, entity name:
- ↑ Half-Life 2 Prima Guide
- ↑ Marc Laidlaw on the Vortigaunt slaves
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Half-Life 2
- ↑ Half-Life 2: Episode Two
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Half-Life
- ↑ We have endured these chafing bonds for eons, yet a single moment of further servitude seems intolerable!
- ↑ Our finest poet describes it thus: Gallum galla gilla ma.
- ↑ Your song we sing and shall sing for eternity. No matter the consequences of this struggle.
- ↑ We are mindful of the words of our greatest philosopher: companum gannennen vorgenot!
- ↑ We are a tapestry woven of Vortessence. It is the same for you if only you would see it.
- ↑ Half-Life - Vortigaunt Healing Itself on YouTube
- ↑ Marc Laidlaw on the time between Half-Life 2 and Episode One
- ↑ The Eli Vance was our first collaborator.
- ↑ Use this turret to kill Vortigons. / Vortigons should spawn here with effects. When one dies, another will spawn 5 seconds later.
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Half-Life SDK,
- ↑ Half-Life, filename:
- ↑
- ↑ Half-Life - Monster of the Week feature on Online Gaming Review (1997) (archived)
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 Half-Life 2 leak
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Looking Back... Half-Life 2: Episode One on Computer And Video Games (October 19, 2006) (archived)
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 26.3 26.4 26.5 26.6 26.7 Half-Life 2: Episode Two commentary
- ↑ The Final Hours of Half-Life 2 on Gamespot (November 12, 2004) (archived)
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Meal size and frequency affect neuronal plasticity and vulnerability to disease: cellular and molecular mechanisms
Version of Record online: 13 JAN 2003
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.01586.x
Journal of Neurochemistry
Volume 84, Issue 3, pages 417–431, February 2003
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How to Cite
Mattson, M. P., Duan, W. and Guo, Z. (2003), Meal size and frequency affect neuronal plasticity and vulnerability to disease: cellular and molecular mechanisms. Journal of Neurochemistry, 84: 417–431. doi: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.01586.x
Publication History
- Issue online: 13 JAN 2003
- Version of Record online: 13 JAN 2003
- Received August 12, 2002; revised manuscript received October 31, 2002; accepted November 6, 2002.
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- Alzheimer's disease;
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Although all cells in the body require energy to survive and function properly, excessive calorie intake over long time periods can compromise cell function and promote disorders such as cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes and cancers. Accordingly, dietary restriction (DR; either caloric restriction or intermittent fasting, with maintained vitamin and mineral intake) can extend lifespan and can increase disease resistance. Recent studies have shown that DR can have profound effects on brain function and vulnerability to injury and disease. DR can protect neurons against degeneration in animal models of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and stroke. Moreover, DR can stimulate the production of new neurons from stem cells (neurogenesis) and can enhance synaptic plasticity, which may increase the ability of the brain to resist aging and restore function following injury. Interestingly, increasing the time interval between meals can have beneficial effects on the brain and overall health of mice that are independent of cummulative calorie intake. The beneficial effects of DR, particularly those of intermittent fasting, appear to be the result of a cellular stress response that stimulates the production of proteins that enhance neuronal plasticity and resistance to oxidative and metabolic insults; they include neurotrophic factors such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), protein chaperones such as heat-shock proteins, and mitochondrial uncoupling proteins. Some beneficial effects of DR can be achieved by administering hormones that suppress appetite (leptin and ciliary neurotrophic factor) or by supplementing the diet with 2-deoxy-d-glucose, which may act as a calorie restriction mimetic. The profound influences of the quantity and timing of food intake on neuronal function and vulnerability to disease have revealed novel molecular and cellular mechanisms whereby diet affects the nervous system, and are leading to novel preventative and therapeutic approaches for neurodegenerative disorders.


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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
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Wilms tumour: prognostic factors, staging, therapy and late effects
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- , Jeffrey S. DomeAffiliated withDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- , Paul S. BabynAffiliated withDepartment of Radiology, Hospital for Sick Children
- , Norbert M. GrafAffiliated withClinic for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital of the Saarland
- , Paul GrundyAffiliated withDivision of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, and Northern Alberta Children's Cancer Program, University of Alberta
- , Jan GodzinskiAffiliated withDepartment of Oncological Surgery for Children and Adolescents, Mother and Child Institute
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Wilms tumour is the most common malignant renal tumour in children. Dramatic improvements in survival have occurred as the result of advances in anaesthetic and surgical management, irradiation and chemotherapy. Current therapies are based on trials and studies primarily conducted by large multi-institutional cooperatives including the Société Internationale d'Oncologie Pédiatrique (SIOP) and the Children's Oncology Group (COG). The primary goals are to treat patients according to well-defined risk groups in order to achieve the highest cure rates, to decrease the frequency and intensity of acute and late toxicity and to minimize the cost of therapy. The SIOP trials and studies largely focus on the issue of preoperative therapy, whereas the COG trials and studies start with primary surgery. This paper reviews prognostic factors and staging systems for Wilms tumour and its current treatment with surgery and chemotherapy. Surgery remains a crucial part of treatment for nephroblastoma, providing local primary tumour control and adequate staging and possibly controlling the metastatic spread and central vascular extension of the disease. Partial nephrectomy, when technically feasible, seems reasonable not only in those with bilateral disease but also in those with unilateral disease where the patient has urological disorders or syndromes predisposing to malignancy. Partial nephrectomy, however, is frequently not sufficient for an anaplastic variant of tumour. The late effects for Wilms tumour and its treatment are also reviewed. The treatment of Wilms tumour has been a success story, and currently in excess of 80% of children diagnosed with Wilms tumour can look forward to long-term survival, with less than 20% experiencing serious morbidity at 20 years from diagnosis. The late complications are a consequence of the type and intensity of treatment required, which in turn reflects the nature and extent of the original tumour. Continual international trial development and participation will improve matching of treatment needs with prognosis, reducing long-term complications in the majority. The advent of molecular markers of disease severity and improved functional imaging might help.
KeywordsNephroblastoma SIOP COG Staging Surgery Preoperative chemotherapy Children
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- Title
- Wilms tumour: prognostic factors, staging, therapy and late effects
- Journal
Pediatric Radiology
Volume 38, Issue 1 , pp 2-17
- Cover Date
- 2008-01
- 10.1007/s00247-007-0687-7
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- 1432-1998
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Nephroblastoma
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- Preoperative chemotherapy
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- Sue C. Kaste (1)
- Jeffrey S. Dome (2)
- Paul S. Babyn (3)
- Norbert M. Graf (4)
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- Gill A. Levitt (7)
- Helen Jenkinson (8)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Radiological Sciences, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 N. Lauderdale, MS #752, Memphis, TN, 38105-2794, USA
- 2. Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA
- 3. Department of Radiology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
- 4. Clinic for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, University Hospital of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany
- 5. Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, and Northern Alberta Children's Cancer Program, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- 6. Department of Oncological Surgery for Children and Adolescents, Mother and Child Institute, Warsaw, Poland
- 7. Paediatric Oncology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children NHS Trust, London, UK
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