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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) The starting quarterback is out, the offensive line is in tatters and the opponent apparently is without flaw.
No wonder Missouri is a three-touchdown underdog to top-ranked Alabama heading into Saturday's game.
Coming off a deflating upset loss at home to Vanderbilt, Missouri (3-3, 0-3 Southeastern Conference) is still seeking that elusive first SEC victory.
Alabama (5-0, 2-0) has won eight in a row by 19 or more points, and it's been five years since its last loss to an unranked opponent. Next up is an unranked opponent flopping big-time in its debut season in the SEC. Plus, the Crimson Tide is fresh after taking last weekend off.
That leaves Nick Saban to conjure adversity, and he portrays the school's first visit to Missouri since 1978, and just the fourth overall meeting between the schools, as a major challenge. Perhaps that's out of deference for his former Kent State teammate, Missouri coach Gary Pinkel.
Earlier this week, Saban pointed out the frequent upsets this season while chiding reporters who perhaps have prejudged this an easy win.
``The teams that most of you in this room make head and shoulders above other teams obviously showed you how badly you can be mistaken,'' Saban said. ``I know I can be mistaken and get criticized, but you all are badly mistaken when you make teams so much better than everybody else.''
Missouri has a bit of history to lean on. Oklahoma was No. 1 in the BCS, and No. 3 in the poll, before getting knocked off 36-27 in Columbia, Mo., in 2010.
Plus, it's got an offense that Saban dislikes. The Alabama coach spoke out against the no-huddle earlier this season, saying leaving defenses on the field for extended periods with no chance of substitution creates fatigue and potential injury issues.
On the other hand, Alabama just beat another hurry-up school, Ole Miss, and handily, too. So that'll help making the adjustments.
``Very much,'' Tide cornerback Dee Milliner said. ``Ole Miss is a team that has a fast-paced offense, I think they match up great with Missouri.''
Alabama had three interceptions to compensate for sputtering offense in a 33-14 victory at home over the Rebels, trailing for the first time this season - for all of 15 seconds, erased when freshman Christion Jones responded with a 99-yard kickoff return.
A.J. McCarron is the first quarterback in school history to throw 12 touchdown passes in the first five games, and he leads one of three offenses in the nation that doesn't have a single interception.
Even after losing eight players to the NFL draft, there's been zero letup anywhere. Alabama is the stingiest team in the nation in terms of points allowed, total yards allowed and yards per play.
Players don't seem too worried about the unknown associated with coming to Columbia, Mo., for the first time. They're expecting a raucous welcome from a hopeful sellout crowd, but a gathering that is likely to contain thousands of Alabama faithful.
``I mean, it's a different atmosphere and it's just something you have to get adjusted to,'' safety Robert Lester said. ``Usually for me, personally, once I get started on the field everything else is an external factor, and it hasn't really bothered me.''
At midseason, Missouri's streak of seven consecutive bowl trips is in jeopardy. The hope is that redshirt freshman backup quarterback Corbin Berkstresser, who was just 9 for 30 for 189 yards and one touchdown last week after stepping in for injured James Franklin, will play with more confidence and fewer jitters this time around.
``That really wasn't me, I felt uneasy about myself,'' Berkstresser said. ``I'm not that guy that becomes nervous or anything, and I definitely felt uncomfortable. But definitely this week, I will be composed and ready to play.''
Berkstresser will be taking snaps from another replacement, with Brad McNulty in for injured center Mitch Morse. Left tackle Elvis Fisher has been less than his best physically. Somehow, this offense must produce against a team allowing only a touchdown per game.
``They're pretty darn good,'' offensive tackle Elvis Fisher said. ``We've got to be able to come out there ready to play our `A' game.''
Wide receiver T.J. Moe said the most notable aspect of the Alabama defense is its pursuit.
``It's not that every guy's dominating everybody on the field, it's just that if you make one guy miss, there's three guys waiting for you,'' Me said. ``So, you've got to get straight up field and get your yards.''
Eliminate the mistakes, too.
``Nobody's ever played a perfect game,'' Moe added, ``but we certainly have to play a lot better than we've played so far this year.''


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"The two main issues with fuel economy are idle time and how you drive the truck. Those are management issues, not engine design issues." –Tom Diefenbacker, director of diagnostics, electronic features, support for Navistar and former director of electronic products for Detroit Diesel Corp.
It's funny, in a way: so much of the truck fuel economy discussion emanating from any number of corners in government these days is focused almost solely on the hardware involved, yet ignores what's likely the single most important factor in reducing fuel consumption: the skill of the driver behind the wheel.
I touched on the subject of drivers in this space earlier this week, but it still just amazes me how much driver behavior gets overlooked by folks outside the trucking business.
The quotation from Tom Diefenbacker above sums it all up pretty neatly, I think – and those words are over seven years old now, uttered right as the industry began its long government-mandated emissions journey to remove particulates, oxides of nitrogen, and other pollutants from truck exhaust.
Countless truck engineers from all the major OEMs – engine and truck makers alike – have told me (and continue to tell me) that all the design improvements they make to improve heavy truck fuel economy can be nullified simply by poor driving and operating habits: excessive engine idling, improper shifting, excessive road speed, hard braking and accelerating … the list goes on.
Yet it's also not easy to drive a truck to maximize fuel efficiency, either. Just watch as Detroit Diesel's one-and-only Chuck Blake provides some fuel efficiency tips to drivers below. Note that drivers really need to pay attention to what they're doing to operate their vehicle in its fuel sipping "sweet spot" over the course of different road conditions.
[And also note that this video was produced for the now long-departed Sterling Trucks.]
Now, sure, many of the government's fuel economy experts rightly note that using automatic or automated transmission to make all the proper shifts for the driver can keep a vehicle in its best fuel-economy mode while driving.
But that ignores the fact that most heavy trucks today are still spec'd with manuals, with fleets largely favoring 10- and 13-speed models, while others (largely owner-operators but some fleets as well) stick with 18-speed monsters.
Do you think it's easy to stay in the proper gear to maximize fuel economy with a manual? I sure don't. It's a skill acquired after years of experience – I know because I've talked to the men and women who spent careers gaining said experience.
[Just watch as an Eaton engineer explains how to properly shift both a 13- and 18-speed transmission. You sure don't learn how to do that in just a couple of hours with a trainer!]
Finally, it's also important to note some design differences that affect the "driving style" for the diesel engine brands and models in the market today.
The old saying that "no two drivers are alike" can also be applied to diesel engines as well, for each make and model comes with their own specific fuel map, horsepower ratings, peak torque and rpm [revolutions per minute] points, and operating characteristics, just to name a few.
Knowing how to drive one type of engine to obtain ideal fuel economy doesn't automatically mean a driver can perform the same feat with a different model.
[For instance, watch this video from Navistar concerning driving tips for its MaxxForce diesel engine line. Note that a 5 minute warm up is needed for these engines. But if you recall the old Sterling video at the top of this post, Detroit Diesel models did NOT require a 5 minute warm up: a small difference, yes, yet it's one that adds up in terms of fuel economy and engine health over time.]
A final note: research by Schneider National indicates that fuel economy and safety are interrelated when it comes to drivers
Two years ago in a Fleet Owner webinar, Don Osterberg, Schneider's vice president of safety, driver training, and security, stressed that there's a strong the correlation between fuel-efficient driving and safe driving.
"If you are wondering why the safety person is talking about MPG (miles per gallon), based upon our analysis, our best drivers for MPG are also our safest drivers," he noted.
In a study, Schneider's top 100 drivers in terms of MPG had a 37% lower accident rate than the 100 drivers with the lowest MPG, he pointed out, while the top 500 MPG drivers had a 23% lower accident rate and the top 1,000 MPG drivers had a 21% lower accident rate than the lowest 1,000 MPG drivers.
Those are some pretty striking numbers – illustrating that, wherever we go in terms of heavy truck fuel economy mandates, the driver must remain a key part of the calculation.

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Talk:Pedestrian Dialogue
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Before this topic falls into oblivion, I broke the first ground. Some lines are some kind of strange, so check them out, maybe some of the lines are wrong. Hope to see a lot more lines in the next days here, so everyone can enjoy them. Good idea, Chief of Staff! Zaibatsu 22:22, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- Alright, exactly what I have in mind! Thanks! Good work as usual, Zaibatsu! ;D --Legion 23:14, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you very much, Legion (no longer Chief of Staff, sorry). But I have to say I don't like the structure of the Police Helicopter section because of the horizontal lines, it doesn't look very good I think Zaibatsu 13:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- LOL I am no longer Chief of Staff here, huh? :P Well anyway, about horizontal lines, I don't know about it. I'm not exactly decisive on style matters. :p I guess we can get others to offer their input on that particular issue. *shrugs* --Legion 13:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Hey, it's me again! Do you want to separate this article into III, VC, SA, LCS & VCS? It would be a good idea. It's because you are creating some categories... Zaibatsu 16:29, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
- Sure, if you want. Probably best to start with this article until we have sufficient content for a specific game to move into its own article under respective game's dialogue category. Those categories are just created to be ready in future whenever that time comes. It's like Dark fiber. It don't get used until we get to the point where we need to use it now. ;D --Legion 17:46, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
VCS section
I have been working and added a bunch of quotes from VCS (Vic's lines specifically), GTA3 needs a bunch to be done, it has only been started by someone, but I'm not an expert with it so someone who has been playing the game a lot can expand it. --GTA 4 PC 16:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
- I'll take care of that. After playing the game since it came out, most of it is stuck in my memory.
Needs to be separated
Eventually, this article needs to be separated. Tommy alone has over 1000 lines of dialogue. I'm currently trying to compile all the dialogue made by peds in VC. It's an extremely tedious job and I have done like 100 out of over 5000 lines said by the peds. I'll post a link if I feel like I have enough lines.--Spaceeinstein 05:47, April 11, 2010 (UTC)
Is it really necessary to have this page? there must be millions upon millions of spoken dialogue in the GTA series, but I doubt there is even a third of it here.
Granted, it COULD be edited over time, but is it possible to make it hidden [unable to see], except from certain people, i.e: a handful of dedicated editors?
It seems sloppy, that (i.e: sections about police), one section might have several different categories with dozens of lines in each, but ANOTHER section (still about police) has only 1 general section, and a handful of lines. CAPTAINMSKII 18:38, April 11, 2010 (UTC)
- There aren't "millions upon millions of spoken dialogue" in all of the GTA games combined. I'm guessing at most 50,000 dialogue in all of GTA combined and most of them are short and unimportant, like "Hey" and "No problem."--Spaceeinstein 01:15, April 12, 2010 (UTC)
- It might be worth breaking out into one page for each game. However, I think it is necessary, since the pedestrian/NPC dialog in the environment is part of what makes the GTA games special. It's also a significant amount of the voice work in each game, and I have definitely looked for what a particular pedestrian is saying. I think some of the funniest parts of the GTA games are what the pedestrians say!
- Things to work out to make the page better:
- one long page or several smaller pages?
- should sections be organized, e.g. alphabetically?
- is there a "filter" for what should be in here and what shouldn't? For example, not "hey" but include "Hello there, handsome!"
- --Bort 18:15, 29 April 2011 (BST)
I actually quite like this page - there's some funny stuff in there. I think it should be split into 1 page per game (or group of games, like IV/TLAD/BOGT). But this main page should have some featured dialogue with a selection of the funniest extracts. Gboyers 01:11, 30 April 2011 (BST)
- Broke it out and made it a disambiguation page, since that's the closest to what I think it could be. I like the idea of some clever quotes on the page, though. Feel free to cull some and put them here. I may also get into improving the structure of the "child" pages.--Bort 15:26, 30 April 2011 (BST)
This isn't really a disambiguation page - that's where a page could be for several different things. This page should be about pedestrian dialogue (how it works, who does it, who writes it) with some examples, and the full lists being on other pages. Also "dialogue" means a conversation between 2 or more people, so that is the wrong title for this. Perhaps 'pedestrian speech'? Gboyers 15:57, 30 April 2011 (BST)
- Yeah, that's much better. "Quotes" perhaps? --Bort 16:29, 30 April 2011 (BST)
- I think we use peds as a technical term to refer to any non-playable character. Certainly protagonists/playable characters aren't included in that. So perhaps we should have 'Pedestrian Speech' and 'Protagonist Speech'? Quotes is good too. This page can also link to mission and radio station transcripts etc; and we could have a central Speech page which links to them all. Gboyers 10:56, 1 May 2011 (BST)


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Arts & Antiques | Big mistake on Ebay
Every one of us has at some point found ourselves with an old bottle in our hands — some older than others. I get questions about how to tell a valuable bottle from a cheap one all the time. I wrote this article based on a cautionary tale that I heard recently.
A woman attended my antiques appraisal event in Houston, and she recounted this story about the sale of an old bottle on eBay.
She said her friend sold an old bottle on eBay for $1,200. They were thrilled about the sale until the buyer, who turned out to be a bottle dealer and the head of a national bottle collecting society, revealed that he had purchased her bottle with the winning bid.
He did not write to thank her. He wrote to boast. He had the audacity to write to the seller to tell her that she was a stupid woman. That's what he wrote — "stupid."
Why was she stupid? Because, he revealed, she had sold that bottle on eBay for $1,200 and he knew it was actually worth $60,000. So, this dealer added insult to the unknowing seller's $58,800 injury. These are the kind of people that you hope get their due in a manner of the old saying "What goes around comes around." Disgusting!
This is a perfect example of something I have been saying for many years. While I hope this story teaches you something about why some antiques dealers deserve the lousy reputations that they have, it also demonstrates something that is tremendously important about online auction websites. Online auction sellers don't always know what they are doing.
Do not use eBay as a credible resource for researching the value of an antique. Right now, on the eBay auction record site, there is an incorrect value for that bottle. It states that the bottle is only worth $1,200 when it is actually worth $60,000. If you are researching eBay sales records and you come across that bottle, you are going to look at the photograph of the bottle and think that you have a bottle like that one and think it is only worth $1,200. But, it is actually worth more — a lot more — to the tune of $58,800 more.
This is the major problem with people who do not have experts evaluate their antiques before posting them on eBay or any online website. This is also the problem with the people who offer to search eBay records for you and sell you an online appraisal for $9.99.
I offer online appraisal services, and what they are doing is not an online appraisal. Those people are not evaluating the object; they are just searching posted online sales records that can be horribly wrong.
You would save time by just throwing $10 down a drain. There is no identification, no evaluation, no credible sales record source. It's a mess.
The problem is that just like this seller, people are selling objects online and they do not know what they are selling, they do not know the current market or appraised value, and they do not know that there are snakes out there ready to take advantage of your ignorance. Again, do not use eBay or any online auction to determine value. Get a real appraisal — online or traditional — from an expert.


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Selling more American goods and services in expanding markets of nearly half a billion middle-class consumers could be a win-win proposition for both countries: it would serve China's goal of economic modernization while boosting America's growth through smaller trade deficits.
But not much was heard about trade. That is in sharp contrast with the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang's recent visit to Germany, where trade was hailed as part of the Sino-German "Dream Team." And dream it is. Last year, the German trade shortfall with China came in at less than 5 percent of the whopping $315 billion US trade deficit with Beijing. US and German exports to China were roughly comparable in 2012, but US imports from China were 4.4 times bigger than what Germany bought in China.
This year the US trade deficit with China will probably be even worse. China's moderating economic growth will slow down its import demand, but the continuing recovery of the US economy will provide expanding markets for Chinese exports.
US Gets the Heartburn, Allies Get the Sweets
In spite of that, there are no reports that the US was seriously talking trade with China during what White House called a "unique" summit meeting. We just got all those extremely contentious issues like North Korean nukes, Iranian suspected nukes, intractable conflicts in Central Asia and territorial spats in the Sea of Japan and the East and South China Seas.
All the topics that (a) exacerbate our adversarial tensions with China, (b) lead to extremely dangerous intrusions into each other's cyber space and (c) prompt our security strategists to move nearly two-thirds of our naval assets into China's neighborhood.
And then we want to build trust with China. Don't bother, say the Chinese. In a tense debate between the top American and Chinese military officials during the conference organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore May 31-June 2, 2013 (the "Shangri-La Dialogue"), the Chinese Major General Yao Yunzhu (she is also director of the Center for China-America Defense Relations at the People's Liberation Army) firmly declared that the US policy of "rebalancing" (or "pivoting") to Asia was intended to contain China.
No wonder the Chinese want a "dream team" with Germany. During his visit to Berlin two weeks ago, Prime Minister Li urged closer cooperation in manufacturing and said that China would give Germany preferential treatment for investments in logistics, education and healthcare. That is in addition to the huge local production of German cars and top-of-the-line machinery imports, in exchange for Chinese exports of textiles, electrical goods and toys.
Interestingly, before visiting Germany, Mr Li stopped off in Switzerland to sign the framework of a free-trade agreement, the first with a west European economy. China is looking for Swiss pharmaceutical products, watches, precision machinery and food processing technology. Mr. Li also said that China envisages to make Switzerland its preferred financial center for offshore yuan trading – a piece of business fiercely contested by London and Paris, and a dig at the US at a time when Washington is dismantling Switzerland's centuries old bank secrecy laws and practices.
(Read More: China Data Highlights Weak Economy, Remedies in Focus)
China Doesn't Do "Unscripted" Business
This, too, is "unscripted," as our strategic analysts would say?
Nothing is "unscripted" in Chinese global political and economic strategy. Those who think that the Chinese president came for "unscripted" talks with his chief geopolitical adversary should think again. As the Singapore "Shangri-La Dialogue" showed, Beijing has clear strategic markers about Sino-American relations. And all these "red lines" come from the Politburo - China's highest policy making forum.
Here is another detail for those who need to understand the long arm of China's party bosses. The Politburo held a special session on the economy in mid-April, instructing the government that "China needs to cement its economic growth momentum and guard against potential risks in financial sectors," adding that "macro-economic policies should be stabilized while loosening micro controls in some sectors."
These are clear marching orders – and performance evaluation criteria - for both the current economic management and economic reforms presently under way and those to come.
Clearly, strategic considerations and development programs are at the heart of China's quest for a "dream team" with Germany and a preferred offshore financial center in Switzerland. Apart from the fact that Germany is eager to sell the technology China needs, and that Switzerland has the expertise and the financial infrastructure to help China's gradual introduction of the yuan as a global currency, neither country is Beijing's strategic adversary.
And here is what that means. When Mr Xi talks about new world power relationships, he clearly has in mind China's key (i.e., dominant) position in Asia. But that is the position the US holds and is unwilling to relinquish. In fact, the whole "rebalancing" to Asia is part of Washington's intention to remain a dominant Asia-Pacific power. China is unlikely to mount a military challenge to the US for the time being, but Mr Xi's frequent visits to various army units are assorted with impatient and widely reported exhortations to "get ready to fight and to win wars," with particular emphasis on the need "to win regional warfare under conditions shaped by information technologies."
That is a clear collision course. President Obama wants to manage that course by attempting to put an end to cyber intrusions, and by dissolving the Korean crisis through an uncertain cooperative effort to get rid of North Korean nuclear arms.
But that is crisis management rather than a mutually acceptable and sustainable Sino-American modus vivendi. "Unscripted" summits and multi-level bilateral talking shops may be useful only if – and that may be a big if -- they are underpinned by a deeper, broader and more balanced economic engagement of the world's two largest economies.
A good place to start testing this proposition would be a fully scripted agreement at the highest level to swiftly rebalance the US trade relationship with China, and to ensure a more open access for American companies to Chinese markets.
It is unfortunate that these two problems were glossed over in California.
Michael Ivanovitch is president of MSI Global, a New York-based economic research company. He also served as a senior economist at the OECD in Paris, international economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and taught economics at Columbia.


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Sipe '78 Drawn Back to Wabash Collegeby Scott Morrison '14 • July 3, 2012 Share:
For many Wabash men, something about Wabash College keeps them coming back throughout their lives. For Dr. Timothy Sipe '78, a college-owned 180-acre section of woods on Sugar Creek named Allee Memorial Forest has called him back to the College for decades.
Dr. Sipe has returned to Wabash for the second straight summer to conduct research in the Allee Forest. Franklin and Marshall College junior Robert Yamulla and Wabash sophomore Jackson Schroeder are interning alongside Dr. Sipe this summer. The team has been gridding, mapping, measuring, and coring trees in order to learn more about growth rate and the changing dynamic of the trees. They are also quantifying tree sapling populations and measuring light patterns among other goals and projects.
Dr. Sipe has come back every decade since his graduation to study the trees in the woods that introduced him to the type of work he has pursued the rest of his career. Dr. Sipe, who is now a Associate Professor of Biology at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was the first person in his family to attend college and believes Wabash had a tremendous impact on his life.
"For me, going to any college would have been a transforming experience, but the luck of going to Wabash and being transformed by the liberal arts education really shaped my world view," Sipe said.
Sipe was interested in the sciences, but did not really get his best experience until between his junior and senior years. That summer was when his advisor, Dr. Robert O. Petty, invited him to do his first research in Allee Forest. Dr. Sipe was contemplating studying forestry, but because of the advice of Dr. Petty, decided to pursue ecology instead. "Having learned from Dr. Petty and other faculty here and having the ability to do one-on-one research with faculty really helped me going on to graduate school," Dr. Sipe said.
Sipe then earned his master's in ecology at the University of Tennessee. He found himself back in Crawfordsville in the spring of 1982 serving as a visiting professor in the biology department. He realized that spring that teaching was something he enjoyed, and afterwards he pursued his doctoral which he received from Harvard in 1990.
Since then, he has spent time researching in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and has taught at Franklin and Marshall since 1997. Looking back, Franklin and Marshall has been a great fit. "Like Wabash, F&M is a highly regarded liberal arts college with a strong commitment to excellence in both teaching and research," Sipe said.
Despite having found a great place to live and work at Franklin and Marshall, Allee Forest has always held a special place in Dr. Sipe's heart. "I have always wanted to come back and do a little more research here," he said. "I wanted to come back to see how the forests have changed over the past 50 years. I view it as a way of giving back to the College by opening up research opportunities for the Biology Department and students here."
So far, Yamulla (at left) and Schroeder (above right) have enjoyed the opportunity. Both appreciate the ability to do research and have found the opportunities to work and research outside of a lab very beneficial. "It has been a great experience," Yamulla said. "The coolest part of this is the ability to have independence as an undergrad to make decisions and go out and do research in the field. It's not like being in a traditional lab setting; in this case we are writing the manual. It has been cool to get out of the controlled environment of the biology lab, and that is what attracted me to this opportunity."
Schroeder, a rising sophomore, has been soaking up the opportunity to do such extensive research. He has seen this summer as a time to learn more about research and see a field which he may want to pursue after Wabash. "It is really nice having the real life science experience," Schroeder said. "It has been nice seeing Dr. Sipe's and Robert's different points of view and the stuff they have learned."
The three have enjoyed the experience of working together, and it has been especially interesting for Yamulla to see the unique qualities of Wabash. He was surprised by the unmatched excitement Wabash students have for the College. "There is almost a different culture here at Wabash," Yamulla said. "There is an extraordinary pride here in the community about Wabash, and it seems like everyone shares in it. It is like Wabash is one big fraternity that everyone comes together under."
Schroeder will finish his work with the project around July 19, and Yamulla and Dr. Sipe will return to Pennsylvania and continue their research in the lab there. Yamulla will be working on this project under the supervision of Dr. Sipe for the next year.


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Since his celebrated debut JAPÓN (2002), the Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas (*1971) has been a prominent representative of audacious auteur cinema. He is known for his headstrong cinematic language. His works are characterized by mesmerizing and mysterious imagery and based on an intellectual analysis of the medium of film and the technological possibilities, such as format or optics, that it offers. Reygadas often opts to use brutally honest and intimate material that revolves around the essential questions of existence and to feature people who cross boundaries in their search for the meaning of life in the modern age. His narrative approach is spiritual and inspired by the works of Andrei Tarkovsky: Long takes in a natural landscape devoid of people that often appears to be post-apocalyptic, a moving camera which seems to continue the thoughts of the protagonists and the specific use of music are typical elements of his oeuvre. Reygadas almost always works with non-professional actors, whom he uses - in a Bressonian sense - as models, shaping them such that their extraordinary physical presence carries his films. All of his works have premiered at major European festivals, fascinating and polarizing audiences in equal measure.
We are very glad that Carlos Reygadas will be present in Berlin for a preview of his latest film NUESTRO TIEMPO and the screening of POST TENEBRAS LUX (2012) as part of this retrospective. There will also be a masterclass moderated by Nicolas Wackerbarth at Arsenal that has been organized in conjunction with the dffb. Everyone is welcome.
Over a period of more than 60 years now, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill have created a filmic cosmos that is unrivaled in its polymorphic experimental visual and tonal abundance. Their works range from documentaries to experimental films, from multi-screen installations to performances and sound art. Between 1971 and 2000, they also edited and published Cantrill Filmnotes, an international journal about experimental film, video and the applied arts. Their oeuvre explores artists, social movements and particularly Australia's landscape. The partly structural approach of their films transcends itself by highlighting the sensory aspect of the cinematic experience and seeking ways of revealing this and making it palpable in their works.
The Cantrills' keen interest in the relationship between landscape and the form of film soon led to a more profound conception of the Australian landscape as a part of Indigenous heritage and environment. The political dimension of the films illuminates their determined appreciation. "We are interested in a continuing dialogue between content and form. We also see this synthesis of landscape and film form as bringing together our attitudes as citizens to the conservation of land, forests and, seashore, and to Indigenous land rights. We have no difficulty in sharing the Indigenous belief that the landscape is the repository of the spiritual life of this continent." (Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, 1982)
Their artistic interest in technological approaches in film, film theory and reflections in film history led them to explore two and three-color separation extensively, resulting in some of the most beautiful works to use the medium of film to create a sensory realm of experience. Their oeuvre breathes a free spirit that is both beguiling and contemplative.
Arsenal, which has had Cantrill films in its archive since 1982, acquired further works in 2018. Our retrospective is the most extensive in Europe ever and offers a rare opportunity to discover the Cantrills' oeuvre.
Ogawa Pro, the filmmaking collective set up by the Japanese filmmaker Shinsuke Ogawa (1936–1992), is unique in the history of film: For over 25 years, the collective's members lived and worked together, creating an unrivaled oeuvre that tells of political resistance as well as of traditions in remote mountain villages. Shinsuke Ogawa, who had already made films about the student movement, found his first major field of activity in 1966 in Sanrizuka, near Tokyo, as the government was planning to build Narita International Airport, which would involve appropriating the land of many local residents who would have to be resettled. Like many other left-wing activists, the collective joined in the protests that would last many years, making several films, in which political and cinematic commitment merge. This alternative way of filmmaking was also reflected in the distribution. All over Japan, especially founded committees organized screenings and created a network of supporters. After living among the local residents for many years, the filmmakers shifted their focus to explore rural life in more detail. Ogawa saw the origins of the stubborn resistance to the state authorities in the toughness of peasant life, in the the rootedness in nature and in a historical past. So Ogawa Pro moved further north to a village in Yamagata Prefecture and with great care turned its focus to agriculture, especially rice farming. The first films, documents of a culture understood to be on the way to extinction, emerged after years of communal life. It was an "organic" form of filmmaking that required a particular relationship between those filming and what was being filmed. The approach had its contradictions: Financial stability was impossible because of the unrestricted personal involvement and most of the collective's members were denied their own artistic practice because of Ogawa's charismatic personality. We are screening seven Ogawa Pro films as well as others about the collective.
Special or visual effects have long since ceased to be a marginal element of film, with an illusion generator of increasing perfection having emerged from the many early experiments, discoveries and techniques. The numerous innovations made in the SFX field during the analogue era were followed by a digital revolution around 90 years after Méliès' first "magic" films, opening up cinema to a seemingly limitless domain of computer generated images (CGIs for short). Computers or their "analogue" forebears are not merely capable of generating past or future realms and their inhabitants in the process, but can also create complex visualizations of whole worlds of feeling, perception and thought.
This month's Magical History Tour throws light on the multi-faceted world of special and visual effects.
What do 16mm, 35mm and 70mm actually mean? What is screen masking and what is it used for? How does a dissolve work? And what is actually happening when the image on the screen stops moving and begins to melt? If you're interested in finding out how films get on to the screen, Arsenal would like to invite you to take a peek behind the scenes on one of our projection room tours. Our projectionist Bodo Pagels will show you round the projection room, tell you all about film formats, projectors and projection techniques, demonstrate how films are fed into the projector and provide a full introduction to the secrets of film projection. He will also be happy to answer any questions you might have about the cinema set-up and will adapt the tour to your wishes and interests as far as possible. The next scheduled tour will take place on Saturday May 25, at 4pm. Please register in advance.
Welcoming address and opening of the festival: Marc Glöde
10.30: Untitled (the Great Society) II Rodney McMillian 2006 3 min
Preacher Man Rodney McMillian 2015 6 min
Untitled (Sheet Performance) Rodney McMillian 2005 4 min
A Song For Nat Rodney McMillian 2012 6 min
Untitled (The Great Society) II Rodney McMillian 2006 16 min
A Migration Tale Rodney McMillian 2014–2015 10 min
Courtesy by Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects
11.30: Farocki James Benning 2014 77 min
Courtesy by Neugerriemschneider
13.00: A Family Finds Entertainment Ryan Trecartin 2004 40 min
Junior War Ryan Trecartin 2013 25 min
Courtesy by Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Sprüth Magers
14.30: Hit Wave Alex Hubbard 2012 5 min
Courtesy by Galerie Neu
Federal Building Julie Becker 2002 29 min
Courtesy by Estate and Greene Naftali, New York
New Wave Theatre With Peter Ivers Vol. 1 Peter Ivers 1982 28 min
15.30: Rainbow Party on 70mm Film Jennifer West 2008 1 min
A 70mm Film Wearing Thick Heavy Black Liquid Eyeliner that Gets Smeary Jennifer West 2008 1 min
Salt Crystals Spiral Jetty Dead Sea Five Year Film Jennifer West 2013 1 min
Spiral of Time Documentary Film Jennifer West 2013 9 min
Pink Beach Red Desert Dream Sand Film Jennifer West 2017 4 min
Film Title Poem (Special short version) Jennifer West 2016 35 min
Courtesy by Marc Foxx
Jennifer West in person
16.30: Until, Until, Until... Edgar Arceneaux 2015 30 min
Courtesy bySusanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects
Edgar Arceneaux in person
17.30: Statements and projections – Talk: 50 Jahre Partner Cities Berlin / LA
18.15: Baldessari sings LeWitt John Baldessari 1972 13 min
Courtesy bySprüth Magers
18.45: () Parenthesis Morgan Fisher 2003 21 min
Picture and Sound Rushes Morgan Fisher 1973 11 min
() Parenthesis Morgan Fisher 2003 21 min
Courtesy by Buchholz
Morgan Fisher in person
19.45: Statements and projections – Artist talk: "What is political?"
20.30: Los Angeles Sarah Morris 2004 27 min
Courtesy by Capitain Petzel
21.00: Concert: Stephen Prina
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*The Scarlet Empress Josef von Sternberg USA 1934
With Marlene Dietrich
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GOP takes stand against single-payer plan
February 03, 2014
MONTPELIER — The Republican State Committee approved resolutions Saturday formally opposing Gov. Peter Shumlin's single-payer health care plan, and putting more pressure on Lt. Gov. Phil Scott, the party's only statewide candidate, to declare his own position.
One resolution approved Saturday at the Montpelier Elks Club urges "legislative and statewide candidates to publicly oppose single-payer/government run health care due to the negative impacts on the state's economy and the lives of Vermonters."
Shumlin, a Democrat, hopes to implement a universal, publicly financed health care system in Vermont in 2017. The governor said he will present a financing plan to lawmakers next January followed by a benefits package offered to Vermonters under the system.
Republicans, who are vastly outnumbered in the Legislature, have little power to slow the Democrat-led march toward Green Mountain Care. But Darcie Johnston, head of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, said the resolutions approved Saturday provide a clear position for voters and should give the party a boost on Election Day.
"I think it's the ticket to raising money. I think it's the ticket to recruiting candidates to run," she said.
Scott is in an awkward position, however. Now in his second term, Scott, who serves as a member of Shumlin's cabinet, has not publicly opposed Shumlin's plan. Rather, he has professed to be skeptical of it.
Scott said the resolution "sounds like a bit of a litmus test" by those upset with his position.
"There's a particular few frustrated with my not coming out and saying that single payer is the worst thing since Genghis Khan," Scott said.
Windham County Democratic Sen. Peter Galbraith has introduced legislation to finance Shumlin's plan through a payroll tax. After reviewing that bill, Scott said he took a more forceful stand.
"If that's what single payer is, and that's how we're going to fund it, then I don't believe it will work for Vermont because I don't know how we can be competitive with other markets, with other states," he said.
But for staunch single payer opponents like Johnston, Scott's position is still too passive and not good enough. "Voters need to know," she said.
"I think it's time for the lieutenant governor to be very clear with Vermonters on what his position is. We've been in this debate for three years now. There is plenty of data out there to take a position. It is not going to change. Being a skeptic is not leadership," she said.
There could be repercussion for Scott and the party should he not take a stronger position against single-payer health care, according to Johnston.
"I don't know what the consequences may or may not be. I would expect his fundraising would be more difficult. He could have a primary challenge. He won't be helpful to other candidates on the stump," she said.
But Scott is unlikely to take a stronger position — for now. He said on his travels around the state Vermonters have expressed mixed feelings on Shumlin's plan.
"There are many that want health care and they want to be able to afford it. I think that's what everyone wants. There are many that feel that single payer won't work and there are many that feel that single payer is the only thing that will work," he said.
The voice vote taken on the resolution was not unanimous, and at least one party leader raised concerns that the resolution seemed to target Scott. Senate Minority Leader Joe Benning of Caledonia County called it "sort of a curve shot at our own lieutenant governor."
"I am reminded ... of our lieutenant governor's position. He has repeatedly been asked to take a stand on this question. He repeatedly has said, 'I can't because I don't know what the plan is,'" Benning said.
The resolution is akin to a litmus test, Benning said.
"I'm a little concerned that we're trying to present a litmus test on an issue that still hasn't been identified," Benning said. "As long as there is no plan I don't think we as a party should be sending a signal that implies our lieutenant governor needs to get off the pot."
State GOP Chairman David Sunderland said the resolution is aimed at the frustration behind the "cloud of mystery" regarding Shumlin's plan. It is not directed at Scott, he said.
"The Vermont Republican Party is certainly very pleased and very proud of our lieutenant governor and we're very thankful to have a voice in statewide elected office in Montpelier," he said. "I think the lieutenant governor is asking the same questions that Vermonters are asking right now. I think he's correct in asking how much it's going to cost, who is going to pay, why does it have to hide behind this cloud of mystery."
Still, Scott, who did not attend the Saturday meeting, said he wants more information about the origin of the resolution.
"I am surprised that a resolution such as that would be put forth without any notice to people like myself. I look forward to getting to the bottom of it to find out how and why. I think that's disappointing," he said.
A second resolution adopted Saturday lists reforms the party does embrace, including a voluntary online exchange open to additional insurers. The resolution calls for the exchange to "protect the confidentiality of patient records," allow for the purchase of insurance across state lines and provide a variety of plans, including catastrophic coverage with high deductibles.
Other items approved by the committee include:
Medical malpractice reform to reduce the cost of defensive medicine;
Changes to community rating to the maximum allowed under federal law;
Ensure access to specialized care and patient choice in health care options;
Preserve "the rights of doctors to be in private practice";
Maintain adequate reimbursement to providers; and
Ensure that reforms do not create economic hardship for Vermont citizens, employers or the state's economy.
Johnston said the resolutions will lay out the Vermont Republican Party's positions and what its candidates stand for.
"We've said what we stand for, but we need to decide where the line in the sand is. I think our voters need to understand that very clearly," she said.
Sunderland said Republicans will present an alternative health care plan for Vermonters to consider in November.
"We will have a positive, forward looking solution for Vermont's health care challenge that I am confident will address our need and desire for universal health care, but won't remove the patient from the decision-making process, which as I understand it, the governor's single-payer scheme will."


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President Obama has canceled plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at an upcoming summit in Moscow, reports the Washington Post. The White House cited Russia's decision to grant asylum to Edward Snowden, as well as human rights and arms control concerns.
Obama had intended to visit Russia's capital and meet with Putin in advance of next month's Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg. But he has decided he will not meet with Putin one-on-one — a rare diplomatic snub — and will attend only the G-20 summit.
"Following a careful review begun in July, we have reached the conclusion that there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda with Russia to hold a U.S.-Russia Summit in early September," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
Carney cited a "lack of progress" with Russia over the past 12 months on a broad range of issues including missile defense and arms control, trade and commercial relations, global security and human rights and civil society issues. Carney added that Russia's "disappointing decision" last week to grant Snowden temporary asylum, allowing him to live and work in Russia for up to a year, was also a factor.
The Kremlin says it is "disappointed", reports RT.
By calling off Obama's visit to Moscow, the US has shown it is not ready to build relations on an equal footing, the Kremlin says. The Snowden situation, on which the decision was based, is not Russia's fault, presidential aide Yury Ushakov stressed.
"We are disappointed by the US administration's decision to cancel the visit of President Obama to Moscow that was planned for the beginning of September. It is clear that the decision is related to the situation around the former intelligence agency employee Snowden – something that was created not by us," Ushakov told reporters.
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Food+Tech Hackathon
On December 4th, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and general food enthusiasts came together at the Food+Tech Hackathon to develop and explore applications to help evolve the food and information technology community. The event, which was part of the International Open Data Hackathon, was in New York City and was organized by Danielle Gould from Food + Tech Connect, Marc Alt from Open Source Cities, and Tian He from Gojee.
Evan Patton and I had a chance to come down and help out with the day's hacking. I kicked off the event with a lecture on Open Data and the Semantic Web. I gave some background on the Open Data movement in the last few years, discussed some of the current challenges in open data, and talked about how Semantic Web technologies can help address these challenges.
Evan helped explain some of his work on publishing USDA nutrition data on semanticdiet.com and discussed the Wine Agent's food ontology and recommendation with participants. Semantic Diet uses semantic web technologies to bring together nutrition data, recipes contributed by users and crawled off the web, and personal dietary needs. Having these data organized and encoded using semantic technologies allowed groups to query and reason about food data, and even link it into their own hackathon ideas.
During the hackathon there were thirteen groups work on everything from application to help people eat more sustainably to projects that allowed people to understand price fluctuations in food products over time. We were thrilled to see some of the groups using some semantic data and technologies provided by Semantic Diet and TWC's LinkedOpen Government Data project. Evan and I spent most of our time educating and assisting teams on using semantic technologies and data. It was great to see so many people enthusiastic about semantics and thinking about how they could use open data to start a project or improve existing projects.
All in all I feel the hackathon was a huge success. At the end of the day we had many applications and projects that have potential to really move forward and make a real impact in the community. Evan and I would like to thank the sponsors and organizers of the first ever Food+Tech Hackathon and hope to help and participate in many more.
Links to other great blog posts on the Food+Tech Hackathon:
- http://www.goodlifer.com/2010/12/hacking-for-social-good/
- http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/will-hack-food
- http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2010/12/initial-data-posting-and-the-foodtech-hackathon/
- http://www.foodandtechconnect.com/site/2010/12/open-data-food-ontology-semantic-web-primer/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/goodlifer/sets/72157625412227253/


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|2012-08-16, 08:51
|Link #3041
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
|2012-08-16, 09:00
|Link #3043
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Join Date: Jan 2011
|2012-08-16, 09:42
|Link #3045
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 35
But this is only all true if he's fighting against Gods and super powerful mages. He's super weak against "dangerous" "normal people" - I want to see him be able to get out of a bank robbery with normal thugs with guns and knives.. Heck, that could be an interesting side-story or arc "Godou vs. normal people / mercenaries"
|2012-08-16, 11:39
|Link #3046
Butt Theory Creator xD
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: california
he needs to learn martial arts or at least sword fighting
because as he is he cant pull the 100 % of the camel .. or the hundred % of the bull
also weird question ...
does godou at some point in the Ln lip rape Alice or the reverse trap miko ??? ..
|2012-08-16, 12:22
|Link #3047
100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
So if he has to carry the world, the bull will adapt so he can do so.
Martial arts?
Why does he need martial arts?
Godou depends more heavily on tatics, and not skill.
Why does Godou need to learn kendo when he has no real sword?
Unless u want to take away Ena's sword...
And the Golden sword is not a true sword... its a power canceler.
|2012-08-16, 12:27
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Butt Theory Creator xD
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: california
the sword belongs to him ....
by the way .. does the sword still allows enna to use his powers ?? :S?.. and im not talking about her demigod possession ...
also weird question ...
does godou at some point in the Ln lip rape Alice or the reverse trap miko ??? ..
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|2012-08-16, 13:16
|Link #3049
100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
It belongs to Godou. However its ena's weapon.
U need to sacrifice one for the other.
Losing half of ena's battle prowess is not worth an upgrade.
Basically, Ena is probably Godou's most powerful non-deity fighter.
She is stronger then erica.
Do you really want to gimp your strongest harem member for a powerup which i dont feel you truely need.
|2012-08-16, 15:06
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Join Date: Aug 2008
if godou grants ena the sword, why would the sword have any say in it? it's godous freaking power. ena just needs godous permission
also i don't see any reason why godou would need to learn any non-deity level skills.
i mean if it really came down to it, he could go out of character and target the largest building at the current site and call down the boar.
he did it against erica in their little duel. it's his strongest ability that can be used even against non deities. and nothing is capable of stopping the boar unless you are a deity on the power scale of perseus.
|2012-08-16, 15:27
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Also, if you people had joined us on IRC, you could have gotten a peek at the translation of the latest short story. Oh, well...
|2012-08-16, 15:37
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Join Date: Aug 2008
godou usually says he doesn't want to destroy the normal everyday stuff if he can avoid it
so it would be out of character for him to use the boar on normal people just to deal with them
i thought he owns the sword and its authorities, isn't that the same?
could you pm me the short story?
|2012-08-16, 15:49
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100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
Godou can use Raptor, Boar, Horse, Camel on normal humans.
Those arent restricted like Goat, Ram, sword, youth.
Why does Godou need a powerup against a non deity?
He doesnt, cuz Erica, Lily, and Ena will wipe the floor off anyone thats not a god who poses an annoyance for godou.
Basically why powerup when you have beautiful harem members who will do it for you without u even asking.
Even if Godou had a powerup, Erica probably wouldnt let him use it, as it would reveal a hidden card.
And Erica isnt stupid, she plays one hell of a poker face, and likes to keep it that way.
Also zzhk has told us many times, Ena has Kusanagi's Tsurugi... which obviously means Godou has lent it to her.
|2012-08-16, 15:59
|Link #3055
Join Date: Feb 2012
And that short story is under the same restrictions as everything else I do: You get to see it once it's presentable. Unless you are there while I translate it (I'm about 50% done right now, btw, there's still a chance)... or unless I like you. But I don't so that's out.
|2012-08-16, 16:20
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100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
i think what kadi is trying to say...
you kill the god.
The god's conscience goes away, and his powers you take.
The sword on the other hand..
Godou beat the crap out of it. and now it went Deredere on Godou calling him the new master.
So he didnt upsurp the sword, he more like charmed it.
|2012-08-16, 16:21
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2011
By the way
Can the Raptor be trained by martial arts?
I seriously think some people are overstimating martial arts, the only one of his autorities that this may help is the bull.
the reason why Godou cannot train his Autorities except in combat is because of his restrictions and the exceptional that this are. If he wanted someone to train him there would be a need for it to be a God or a Campione with the same Autorities as him.
And by the way does he have talent in martial arts or magic?
|2012-08-16, 16:58
|Link #3059
Join Date: Aug 2008
sword isn't all deredere on godou. he took it just like he would take a deities authority, except the sword ain't a heretic deity.
|2012-08-16, 17:00
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100% Tsun... 0% Dere
Join Date: Jan 2012
What is martial arts?
Its a combination of attack and defense.
What is raptor?
Super Fast movement.
Have you seen Superman or the flash ever bust out kung fu?
No he just zips at super speeds and PWN.
so against normal humans, raptor is way more then enough.
So the sword itself is conscience.
Did godou get any of the steel god's attributes? NO.
Is the steel god still stuck in the sword? Yes
Who does that steel god now answer to? Godou
Who does that sword have conversations with? Godou.
Its deredere over Godou...
Otherwise the last 4 statements wouldnt apply.
(or better word.. NTR - yes i brought it... sorry)
While your EX GF says, that guy charmed me and won me over.
^ how is that any different from the sword's position?
The sword lost to godou, and pulled a NTR.
Hence why susanoo is pissed.
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(ALS; Lou Gehrig's Disease; Motor Neuron Disease)
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive nervous system disorder. It gradually destroys the nerves responsible for muscle movement. Over time, ALS leads to almost total paralysis of muscle movement, including breathing. Eventually, the disorder leads to respiratory failure.
The Nervous System
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The cause of ALS is unknown. Genes may play a role.
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of ALS include:
- Having a family member with ALS
- Being in the military or having other occupations with risk of exposure
- Having certain genetic mutations
Symptoms of ALS include:
- Progressive weakness in arms and legs
- Wrist or foot drop
- Difficulty holding things
- Frequent tripping while walking
- Muscle twitching
- Unpredictable and changing emotions
- Slurred speech
- Hoarseness and coughing
- Trouble chewing and swallowing, resulting in frequent choking and gagging
- Weight loss due to trouble eating
- Trouble breathing
- Excess salivation, drooling
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. There are no tests that can diagnose ALS. Tests may be used to rule out other medical conditions.
Imaging tests may include:
Other tests may include:
- Blood tests
- Lumbar puncture to evaluate cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord
- Biopsy to evaluate tissue under a microscope
Your muscles and nerves may be evaluated. This can be done with electromyogram (EMG)/nerve conduction velocities (NCV).
Your cognitive skills may be assessed. This can be done with neuropsychological testing.
There is currently no cure for ALS.
Treatment may help to reduce or manage symptoms. A combination of treatments may work best. This may include:
- Taking medications
- Working with therapists and joining a support group
- Participating in social activities
Treatment options include:
The drug riluzole has been approved for ALS. The drug may slightly improve functioning, but it does not stop the disease from progressing.
Medications may include:
- Muscle relaxants reduce spasticity
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and other pain medications
- Atropine, scopolamine, botulinum toxin, antihistamine—To reduce heavy drooling
- Antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs
- A combination of dextromethorphan and quinidine—to treat inappropriate laughter or crying
Other Types of Treatments
Supportive care may be needed as ALS progresses, including:
- Physical therapy—To reduce pain associated with muscle cramping and spasticity.
- Respiratory care—In some cases, you may need to receive a mixture of air and oxygen from a machine. A device may also be used that helps your breathing muscles contract. If you cannot move enough air in and out of your lungs, you may need surgery to have a tube inserted into your airway.
- Nutritional care—Your doctor may make changes to your diet. In some cases, getting nutrition through tube feeding is needed.
- Speech therapy—Speech therapy may be used to optimize communication. Therapy may include exploring alternate methods of communication.
There are no current guidelines to prevent ALS because the cause is unknown.
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ALS Society of Canada http://www.als.ca
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text: A total of 106 candidates for graduation from the whole ISU system will march up the stage to receive earned academic honors for SY 2014-2015 during the recognition day in the different campuses this April. Topping the list is BS Accountancy major Benigno Jose I. Bernardo from the Echague campus who garnered a Grade Weighted Average of 1.281 and will be conferred the Magna Cum Laude honor. ISU Echague will confer the most number of academic honors as it will graduate five Magna Cum Laudes and 32 Cum Laudes. ISU Cauayan will recognize 35 candidates with Cum Laude honor; ISU Cabagan will recognize one Magna Cum Laude and 15 Cum Laudes; Roxas 12 Cum Laudes; Ilagan three Cum Laudes; Jones two Cum Laudes; and Angadanan one Cum Laude.


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Fiscal cliff threatens factory comeback
Connecticut's manufacturing sector appears to be poised for growth, but larger economic forces that might cost the state 20,000 jobs next year stand in the way.
The University of Connecticut's quarterly The Connecticut Economy was released Wednesday in Shelton at manufacturer Lex Products, highlighting the importance of the sector to the economy.
This quarter's issue provided an analysis of the state's sector and found it tied for sixth in the nation for the best overall manufacturing environment.
Steven Lanza, the author of the new index on manufacturing, said Connecticut factory productivity is among the highest in the nation with output growing by 50 percent between 1990 and 2007 despite a drop in employment of 35 percent.
He found that factory employment in the state has stabilized around 165,000, appearing to finally halt decades of job shedding.
In 1969, one of three jobs in Connecticut was in a factory, he said, but today manufacturing accounts for less than 10 percent of all jobs.
Despite the job slide, manufacturing has continued to be an economic engine in the state, accounting for 25 percent of gross domestic product growth last year. Only the financial services industry played a larger role.
With manufacturing being brought back from overseas and high wages being paid, Connecticut manufacturing should be poised for growth, but the quarterly's forecast for 2013, tells a different story.
Using four different scenarios, the quarterly found at best, Connecticut could add 10,000 jobs in 2013, providing Congress comes up with a deal to prevent an economic plunge over the fiscal cliff.
The president and congressional leaders are trying to find a way to soften the blow to the economy from the combination of tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to begin in January.
The worst case scenario shows the state losing 20,000 jobs next year. The expected situation, according to the UConn publication, is for the state to add about 7,500 jobs.
"It's a year to get through," said Nick Perna, an economic advisor to Waterbury-based Webster Financial, of 2013.
He said even if Washington, D.C., addresses the fiscal cliff, they will leave behind, "a fiscal pothole."
He said there's no way they can completely eradicate the $700 billion drag the nation is facing, and that will ultimately result in some spending cuts and tax increases. After 2013, he said, the nation should be on better footing and hopefully, so will Europe.
Europe is important, he said. Because once it recovers from a recession, the euro will be stronger in relation to the dollar and that is good for U.S. exporters.
The biggest issue at the federal level for Connecticut manufacturing in 2013, is probably defense cuts, he said.
But manufacturers and other businesses are also facing a big state issue, Connecticut's growing budget deficit.
Perna said the uncertainty over how that will be addressed does not bode well for growth here.
He pointed to Massachusetts as a good foil for Connecticut. The Bay State has solid growth in jobs and economy and does not face the budgetary problems that Connecticut does.
Jerry Clupper, executive director of the New Haven Manufacturers Association, said the industry has a lot on the positive side these days and the troubles ahead are familiar ones: tight credit, slow growth and European debt troubles, to name a few.
"All the things that people are worrying about, even with them, we've been able to sustain a modest growth pattern," he said.
Part of that is due to efficiency in factories, but also due to an expansion of markets, with many smaller manufacturers exporting products.
Clupper said the best chance for growth in Connecticut is from innovation and he cited several smaller firms -- with fewer than 50 employees -- that are exporting innovative metal forms to power products.
Lex Products itself makes portable power for both civilian and military uses.
"There's a reason to be positive," he said.


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Kids' Books
December 2016
"Take this treasure, leave one of your own, and remember this truth: You are not alone."
~ from Elaine Vickers'
Like Magic
Recent Releases
Into the Lion's Den
Linda Fairstein
Mystery. As the daughter of a police commissioner, Devlin Quick has crime-solving in her genes. After she and her friend Liza witness someone stealing a rare map from a book in the New York Public Library, Dev's sleuthing instincts take over. Since the police don't believe her, she's got to rely on her own skills, as well as some help from friends and family, to crack the case. Weird-but-true book facts and visits to NYC landmarks pepper the plot of this page-turner, the 1st in a series. While you wait for Devlin's next case, you may want to try bookish, city-wide mystery in Jennifer Chambliss Bertman's
Book Scavenger
Journey's End
Rachel Hawkins
Fantasy. Near the tiny Scottish village of Journey's End lurks the Boundary, a mysterious (and possibly paranormal) fog bank. Twelve-year-old Nolie's father is a scientist who's studying the strange phenomena, and when Nolie visits him in Journey's End, she makes two new friends: Bel, a local girl who's grown up with legends about the Boundary, and Albert, a boy who emerges from the fog after being lost for 100 years. As the Boundary begins to drift ashore, threatening the village, the friends begin to wonder: could Albert's past hold the answers that might save Journey's End? Find out in this suspenseful, eerie tale of myth and magic.
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
Megan Shepherd
Historical Fiction. There are horses inside the mirrors at Briar Hill hospital. Only Emmaline, a very sick young patient, can see them, and peeking into their world offers her a welcome break from her loneliness and frustration. When an injured winged horse escapes from the mirror world into the hospital garden, Emmaline devotes herself to protecting the unusual visitor, even as her own health fails. Set in World War II England,
The Secret Horses of Briar Hill
is a quietly touching story that "blurs the line between real and imaginary" (
), inviting you to dive deep into Emmaline's world.
The Secret Life of Lincoln Jones
Wendelin Van Draanen
Fiction. The kids at school already give sixth-grader Lincoln a hard time because he's new in town and he has a Southern accent. Lincoln can't imagine what they'd do if they found out that he spends his time writing stories and hanging out with the "oldies" at Brookside, the nursing home where his ma works, and where food fights and naked dancing are as common as sickness and death. While Lincoln is determined to keep the two parts of his life separate, his classmate Kandi is just as determined learn his secrets. Similar to Teresa E. Harris'
The Perfect Place
, Lincoln's story overflows with quirky, complex characters both young and old.
Like Magic
Elaine Vickers
Fiction. Although they haven't met, Malia, Jada, and Grace are linked through the personal tokens they add to a mysterious treasure box found at their local library. It's the summer before fifth grade, and each of the girls is facing a challenge: Malia is uneasy about the arrival of her new baby sister, Jade wants to find her long-absent mother, and Grace feels lonely after her best friend moves away. With some inspiration from the shared treasures, however, and a nudge from the unusual librarian, the three girls might find the friendship they all need. If you like realistic, hopeful stories with diverse characters, don't miss
Like Magic
A Touch of Magic
Each of these down-to-earth stories offers just a little bit of magic, making them great picks for fans of fantasy and realistic books alike.
Katherine Applegate
Fiction. Crenshaw is back, and he won't go away. The giant talking cat used to be Jackson's imaginary friend, back when Jackson was in first grade and his family lived in their minivan. Now, Jackson is almost in fifth grade, and though his family has a place to live, it's hard to find enough money for rent or food. Already worried about losing his home again, Jackson is baffled and annoyed by Crenshaw, who does cartwheels, demands purple jelly beans, and refuses to disappear, even though Jackson no longer believes in imaginary friends. Why has Crenshaw returned? You'll have to read this authentic, gripping, and offbeat book from Newbery Medalist Katherine Applegate to find out.
The Astounding Broccoli Boy
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Fiction. After his skin suddenly turns from normal brown to broccoli green, 12-year-old Rory is quarantined in a London hospital. Even worse, he's forced to share a room with the only other green patient: Tommy-Lee, a mean kickboxer who gives Rory a hard time at school. The two enemies become friends, however, after they start to suspect that their new hue can only mean one thing: they're superheroes! To test their powers, they sneak out of the hospital and go on a series of nighttime escapades, including freeing zoo animals, breaking into Buckingham Palace, and other outlandish hijinks that are sure to please fans of Dave Barry and Tom Angleberger.
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer
Kelly Jones; illustrated by Katie Kath
Fantasy. Moving to her family's newly inherited farm is tough for 12-year-old Sophie. She misses her life in Los Angeles, where she wasn't one of only three brown-skinned people in the neighborhood. Feeling lonely, Sophie writes letters to her Abuelita and Great-Uncle Jim (both deceased), as well as to Agnes, the peculiar owner of Redwood Farm Supply. Agnes teaches Sophie about poultry care -- a necessary skill, since chickens with paranormal abilities (invisibility, levitation, telekinesis) keep turning up on the farm. Quizzes, clippings, and expressive black-and-white drawings illustrate this funny, moving, and unique tale.
Elvis and the Underdogs
Jenny Lee
Fiction. Though Benji is excited about getting a therapy dog, he isn't quite prepared for
Parker Elvis Pembroke IV.
a giant, talking Newfoundland, is
supposed to help Benji deal with his various medical issues (including seizures, allergies, and fainting under stress), but the dog's bold and bossy attitude also helps Benji find the confidence to make friends with some fellow misfits at school. The goofy, heartwarming, and drool-covered escapades of Benji and Elvis continue in a sequel,
Secrets, Secret Service, and Room Service
. If you're curious about real-life dogs like Elvis, pick up Linda Tagliaferro's
Therapy Dogs
All the Answers
Kate Messner
Fantasy. When 12-year-old Ava nervously scribbles a question on her math quiz using an old blue pencil, she's startled to hear an invisible voice tell her the answer. As she tries writing more questions, Ava discovers that the pencil has answers to a lot of the questions that plague her: Will her parents get divorced? Will she tank at band tryouts? Will her beloved grandfather die? Having the answers isn't all it's cracked up to be, and you'll want to root for sweet, worried Ava in this upbeat story about tough situations and small acts of bravery.
Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Archive for the 'public health' Category
Make like Apple: Think Different
About half way through my term of service with AmeriCorps, I have written lesson plans for our new college counseling curriculum and I am building our volunteer managment program from the ground up. I can imagine these activities are similar to the process needed to write a communication plan for a health behavior intervention and then work to train the community health workers that would education the community about that health intervention, but I can not be sure. I have amazed myself with how much my thought process has changed in such a short period of time. My first concern has become what is probable rather than what is possible for organizational sustainability. Where I used to focus on only the program I worked on, I now have to make tough decisions about our limitations.
I know that professional and personal development has improved as a result of my daring to think differently about my potential and my role in a nonprofit.
GlaxoSmithKline is daring to think different(ly) as well by expanding access to medicines for neglected diseases in some of the least developed countries. The corporation also plans to open access to their medical technologies in development to other sciences to expand research on treatments for neglected diseases. Whether out of a moral obligation or the pursuit of a financial opportunity, this unprecedented level of access has the potential to help countless numbers of patients. Furthermore, this is the first time that I have heard of a private sector company acting on the reality that universal access to treatment while necessary is not sufficient for eradication of certain diseases.
There needs to be a simultaneous focus on expanding access and improving health systems to build capacity for increased usage. Even then, it is unlikely actions GSK takes now will become the only road for eradication of diseases. As a corporate social responsibility venture, GSK may reap the benefit of positive public relations and somewhat increased profits from the now possible sales. However, it is difficult to tell how many countries will be able to afford medicines even at these discounted profits. The real benefit for developing countries lies in the potential for increased research for neglected diseases that affect developing countries most. OneWorld Health is the only major nonprofit pharmaceutical company that focuses on research and development of treatments for neglected diseases; having a major Big Pharma company devote more time and resources might be enough to tip the balance for some substantive development.


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Watch These Dogs Sticking Their Heads Out Car Windows — Daily Distraction
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There's something about a car window that dogs just can't resist.
And that's fine. They clearly have so much fun doing it, why should we question it? It makes us want to go on a road trip. Ah, summer's approaching, time for a good cross-country adventure. With the dog too, obviously.
The Daily Distraction is your Internet break from reality. Whether you're eating lunch at your desk or avoiding high school exes on Facebook, you might just laugh, say "aaahhh" or not believe what you just watched.