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Anyway, in the reins of der Kleriker, I'm pleased to present my own OP for my...
~Chronicles of Ancient Belka : Twilight and Oblivion of the Night Sky~
Alternatively titled, Belka Ataraxia Romance, the Story of Saga and Tiara, etc, if you wish.
OP : endscape by uverworld
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~Opening Instrumental Guitars~
A fleeting camera paced shots ranging from overlapping to slow out zooming that shows the landscapes of the Ancient Belka lands from the brightly illuminated capital of Opel and Vauxhall under the night sky, to the the torn, fiery remnants of a battlefield under the crimson, orange sunset... lastly zooming outwards to the very continent and lastly the planet shot itself from space...
Then...the screen shows a man with black eyes...
nee kotae ha nai yo...
There's no answer for you…
His eyes opened to show a pair of eyes...one jet black and the other crimson red...
kyou no keshiki o...
Today's scenery before you...
Opening up his arms, a pair of wings, one of darkness and one of light sprouted from behind him, and black and white feathers slowly fall....
wasure nai youni to boku ha iki o tomeru n da.
I'm holding my breath so that I won't forget it.
The title screen appears...with the background shot showing a field of pearl white flowers...under the moonlight of a night sky.
mukashi no keiken ni ashi o torarete...
Held back my past experiences....
A child Saga is shown looming over his parent's grave, his face filled with grief... as he looks down holding Null...
ari mo shi nai kabe o jibun de tsukutte tan da.
I created the nonexistent wall over myself.
The shot relayed over to a child Tiara, crying and grieving at her mother's death bed...
~The music drags for a few seconds~
Both of them, raised their heads, but their tears dry up, as their eyes are filled with determination, their faces almost in merge as one.
daiji ni shi sugiru to koware te iki sou de.
If I treasure it too much, I'm afraid I'll break it.
The shot then shows a child Saga's shot changing to a teenager Saga's shot holding Null in his keyblade mode, and then showing adult Saga...donned in full armor, his eyes serious and showing...
kakegae nai mono o tsukuru no ga kowakatta.
I'm afraid of making things that can't be replaced..
Then, amidst a field of flowers...Saga's head turn to look at...
-cut to-
bokutachi wa kono sekai ni nagaku iki sugi ta no kana.
Maybe we have lived in this world for too long.
A panning shot into the chambers of the Opel castle... as the camera slowly changes to show a child Tiara, growing into teenager Tiara with teenager Signum and Shamal by her side, and then into the adult Tiara, with Wolkenritter assembled behind her...
The camera then cuts over to her in a field of flowers...turning her head to see Saga...as she held out her hand towards him as he does to her...
~The instrumental drags...~
However, before their hands touched, the wind blew the a storm of flower white petals between them, as the camera shifted over again.
nee kotae wa nai yo.
Hey, there is no answer.
A shot of Saga, fully dressed in ceremonial armor as the Zerstoritter, Isdera, Wira and Astra stood behind him, with their Knight Armors and devices ready...standing over a castle balcony looking at a distance...
As the camera superzooms over the continent over to another castle balcony several thousand kilometers away where...
kyou no keshiki o...
Today's scenery before you...
A similar group shot, however with Tiara, fully dressed in her black knight armor with markings, as the Wolkenritter stood behind her armed and ready, from Signum to Vita to Shamal to Tesla and even Zafira.
wasure nai youni to boku ha iki o tomeru n da.
I'm holding my breath so that I won't forget it.
Saga and Tiara are then both shown, looking at something distances away with a feeling of sadness, pain and grief, as we see a shot of Saga's shadow spiralling into an abyss and a shot of Tiara's body unconscious, in something like a free fall condition in dark space...
atae mo shi nai noni motome sugi teitan daro u toki ni.
Even though it's not given, I have asked too much.
The shot then shoots over to the Saga vs Tiara, shooting their own Breaker Spells over the skies, causing a large explosion as the camera pans over Zerstroritter vs Wolkenritter, each one fighting one another, as the camera pans over again to a huge war-scale battle between thousands of Belkan Knights.
ayamachi ga boku no kokoro o tamesu..
The errors sometime test my heart...
Saga and Tiara are then shown sitting down together in the field of flowers...looking up in the sky, smiling....
miageta yozora kanae tai mirai o...
The night sky above...and the future I want to fulfill...
Saga and Tiara are standing back to back...their eyes closed, slowly opening in a backdrop of the starry skies... but as the lower mouth of one of them showed a trail of tears dropping with the mouth speaking something, muted...
hiraku hitomi ni tsuyoku utsushidasu.
They are reflected strongly in my open eyes.
The last shot is a stil that shows Schwertekruez Null's in her keyblade form and the Tome of the Night Sky in the middle of the flower field, with nothing else around them...
Part 11 is coming soon...hopefully. Ironic how Saturday and Sundays are the times where I can post the least, despite having no classes.
@USB I'm Malaysian too!
Aw... Two souls wrought with agony, lonely hearts finding sudden rapport, and yet they are unable to escape the cruel scissors of the sisters of fate... It conveys a lot of feeling there, and I say it's a perfect fit! Quite a contrast to the poppy light-headed New Velka Chronicles.
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Part 4.1 : ENDGAME~Eins
I used Sonic Move to get away, using an Acceleration Field facing the opposite direction for a quick stop. I took out the vibrating VKA 03, a dagger which has been loaded by my Roulette beforehand. I threw it at the Acceleration Field, where it shot towards the momentarily defenseless 'Reinforce' at a phenomenal speed. Not stopping, I punched in a manual command for Almaria.
[Stinger Blade: Execution Shift]
Upon contact, my dagger exploded with the force of twelve cartridges, followed by roughly around two hundred Stinger Blades. I grabbed my head. Argh… It's starting to throb even more. I hope it's over. She won't be destroyed, I'm sure. But hopefully, the attack is enough to knock her out.
Just when I thought it was over, a wide beam of energy shot from the smoking area and headed straight for me. This time, I wasn't able to defend properly and I got hit with around a quarter of the overall force of the shot. Damn, DAMN! Still not over?! I managed to catch myself before I completely dropped from the air.
A pulsating sphere of energy emerged quickly from the wreckage, later revealing the figure of Reinforce. How did she-? Wait, her wings are razed? That's it! She used her wings to defend against my last attack!
Despite the serious damage to her magical wings, 'Reinforce' still kept her ever-steady poise while she looked at me as nonchalantly as ever. She assumed a crucifix position, and to my absolute amazement, started casting the spells that made her well renown in the past few days.
"No way…"
I couldn't believe my eyes. I've heard the details first hand from Hayate. But I never imagined it would be THIS powerful! It's not like I've never seen them do these movs at well. But this is just overkill!
Almaria called me I've never heard such urgency from her voice in the several years I've been with her. But she's right. This isn't the time to be gawking at this little show of fireworks. I grit my teeth and let out a small growl of frustration. Looks like I'll have to-
[Chief, requesting permission for Battle Plan X.]
And now she's even suggesting
? Well, theoretically it could- No. Not in my present condition.
"No. It's Battle Plan Y. Ready, Almaria?"
[But Chief, estimates shoe only a 16.67% chance of-]
"You know I hate gambling, don't you? But now, there are six sides on the dice. One of them is blue. And I'm betting against the odds! Just focus on keeping yourself alive so can focus on doing this! Trust me, Almaria…"
[… Understood, Chief. Please be careful…]
I felt Almaria's magic signature diminish to almost none upon activating her safety mode. Now figuratively alone, I faced my executioner and opened up another telepathic link.
'Really now… What do you take me for? I'm just a simple researcher who happens to know your Mistress.'
I took out my three remaining Roulettes, attaching one to Reishiki's base flipping a switch on the two others, triggering their grenade mode.
'I don't know what you want, and to be honest I'm not sure I want to know. However, I also have future assignments aside from keeping alive right now. So, would you mind if I try to avoid my death sentence? Don't think that I'd let you be the only one to give the finale on our little date.'
I terminated the link and flew upwards to slightly below her level and several meters away. This is the last…
She just kept on looking at me outlined between a gigantic Belka Sigil behind her. The lower left point had a massive sphere of gathering energy, the lower right had a towering pillar of light that seemed to suck in lightning from the heavens and the one on the tip beared smaller Belka symbol, the three points drawing energy from the center.
I could only barely make out what she's doing from such distance. But I'm perfectly sure what she's saying right now. They are:
Plasma Zamber,
"Plasma Zamber…"
and Ragnarok.
And since I'm sure I'm correct, may I have this final dance, my lady?
Does it seem to be getting out of hand?
The Light bless his soul...
Though from the looks of the title, she might well be getting ready to blast the horde of Einst
---New intelligence data updated---
Somebody call... Tyrannid Tsukaima?
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Sample #55
Magic Rank:
No hair, but azure blue scales on yellow underbelly
A little hard to describe...
Usual wear:
No clothes
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Xealot was a large, strange, powerful creature, centauroid in appearance, with two powerful arms and 4 legs, as well as a total lack of oral organs. Communicates purely by psychic means, and is a very powerful offensive Psioniker. He had a prodigious ability to assimilate the cultures (language, customs, practices) of other races, thus acting as diplomatic conduits for when he was still enslaved. Can transform his forelimbs and parts of his carapace into biological weapons. Regenerates rapidly with ingested flesh.
Xealot was first found severely wounded on a distal planet of the TSAB (notably within half a kiloparsec from Megiddo) around the time a report was made by Lt. Glock Heckler regarding alien life forms on the archaelogical planet. When scientists made an attempt to experiment on it, it went berserk and slayed the team, ingesting their flesh and regenerating itself. Several Enforcer teams did their best to put it down, but it was the efforts of renown xeno-biologist and Saint Church training coordinator Setra das Oracle who managed to establish a mental link with the creature, discovering his name as Xealot, and convinced him that the Enforcers weren't the "Red Ones" who he had been escaping from.
Once placate, Setra treated him as it was with any sentient creature she had encountered in her long lifetime. From there, more of his past came to light: His race had been enslaved by another, which he called the Teraglynsis, generations before, and he and some of his brethen managed to escape to a human world, but due to the raving mad actions of the demented few, they were deemed hostile and exterminated. He ran at first sign of danger, doing a blind blink to any random location, and found himself floating in some kind of void he had never seen before. The next thing he knew was that something yanked him out of the void and he went comatose from planetary impact.
Xealot moved to the zoological department, the center of xeno-biologist attention from all over Ordered Space, but with Setra's supervision. He was granted refugee status, but for the sake of the MCeans he couldn't leave the compound.
Proposed additional history
One day, he couldn't take it and longed to escape. His mental songs of loss, confusion and boredom reached out far and wide, a faint buzz in the psynet system with left engineers scratching their heads. This lead him to another important person in his life, the infamous "Hell Girl", Enna Mai. While cruising the psynet, Xealot found a bare-boned netpage that merely said "We shall remove the sorrow of the person whose name is entered here." And Xealot did.
Mai responded, but she wasn't afraid of him, not even remotely surprised, but instead offered a listening ear. They have become friends since.
I hope Mai set up an interesting "Aunt Iggy" service inspired by the Jigoku Tsunshin...
In case you can't tell, Xealot is a
, an extinct genus of the Tyrannid.
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Most of my cruise was fine until Thursday. Two days before the end of the cruise sewage started backing up in my shower drain. After I heard the noise and checked it out I called guest services. They called the plumber, who was there within 1/2 hour. By that time the sewage had filled up the whole bathroom floor "pan. " As the ship rocked the sewage started pouring over the threshold onto the carpet. I was put out of my room for a couple hours while the plumber worked on it and the staff cleaned up.
While the plumber was working I went to guest services and asked to change cabins which I thought was reasonable given what I saw. The staff person gave no apology or even empathy, and dismissed me saying there were no cabins available. I doubt that cruise was sold out, and even if it was some people had gotten off at one of the More ports. I don't expect kid glove treatment, but I hoped to get my problem addressed with a little respect. The way she made me feel left me depressed for the rest of the cruise. After the cleanup I had one of those big blowers/ dryers in my room for two days.
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Mood disorders occur more frequently in family members of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) than in the general population. There may be associations between maternal mood disorder history patterns and specific ASD phenotypes. We therefore examined the relationship between maternal mood disorders and child autism spectrum disorders in 998 mother-child dyads enrolled in a national online autism registry and database. Mothers of children with ASD completed online questionnaires addressing their child's ASD as well as their own mood disorder history. In multivariate logistic regression models of ASD diagnoses, the odds of an Asperger disorder versus autistic disorder diagnosis were higher among those children whose mothers had a lifetime history of bipolar disorder (OR 2.11, CI 1.20, 3.69) or depression (OR 1.62, CI 1.19, 2.19). Further, maternal mood disorder onset before first pregnancy was associated with higher odds (OR 2.35, CI 1.48, 3.73) of an Asperger versus autism diagnosis among this sample of children with ASD. These data suggest that differences in maternal mood disorder history may be associated with ASD phenotype in offspring.
A higher prevalence of depression and bipolar disorder has been consistently reported in family members of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) compared with family members of children with other types of disabilities [1–3]. Furthermore, a large population study found that parents of children with autism were more likely to have been diagnosed with and hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder than parents of children in the general population [4].
It has been suggested that a history of parental mood disorder may be more strongly associated with certain ASD phenotypes. DeLong [5] hypothesized that there may be two "taxa" of ASD, one that is higher functioning, with prominent anxiety, obsessiveness, mood disorder, and a family history of major mood disorder, and another that is lower functioning, with a history of language and learning disability and no family history of mood disorder.
Two studies have found that prevalence, types, and patterns of familial mood disorders indeed vary by ASD phenotype. DeLong and Dwyer [6] were the first to report such an association in their exploration of the family history of 51 individuals with ASD and a wide range of cognitive abilities. Their data revealed higher rates of Asperger disorder (also known as Asperger syndrome) in families of subjects with a verbal IQ (VIQ) greater than or equal to 70 compared to those with lower VIQs (68% versus 8%). They also found higher rates of bipolar disorder in families with a history of Asperger disorder compared to families with no such history (6.1% versus 3.3%) as well as a higher incidence of bipolar disorder in the families of children with VIQ greater than or equal 70 (although the latter finding did not achieve statistical significance). In a subsequent cross-sectional clinic-based study of 122 children with ASD, Cohen and Tsiouris [7] found that recurrent maternal depression was associated with higher cognitive and adaptive functioning, increased behavior problems, and an internalizing behavioral style in offspring. All mothers with recurrent major depression reported onset of their mood disorder prior to having children, providing support for the idea that depression in mothers may result from genetic contributions rather than solely from caregiver stress [7]. The findings of both studies suggest that familial mood disorders may be more common among children with higher functioning ASD.
There is increasing acceptance that individuals with ASD at whatever level of functioning share essential autistic deficits, falling along a spectrum rather than representing distinct syndromes. However, it is also clear that children with an Asperger disorder (ASP) diagnosis represent a cognitively normal-to-gifted, verbal, and relatively more socially engaged group relative to those with an autism (AUT) diagnosis. Other distinguishing features of ASP include an all-consuming preoccupation with one or more topic areas, an "eccentric and one-sided social approach to others," and higher verbal relative to nonverbal skills [8–11]. In contrast, children with AUT may or may not have intellectual disability, delayed language, an "aloof" or "passive" style of interacting, and weaker verbal compared to nonverbal skills [8]. As a result of these differentiating clinical features, both researchers and clinicians use the ASP category (e.g., [12–15]) alongside established and anticipated (i.e., DSM-V) classification schemes.
An association between maternal mood disorders and a higher functioning ASD phenotype, such as ASP, could help identify a subtype of ASD that is genetically and neurobiologically associated with maternal mood disorders. Previous smaller studies on this topic lacked power to evaluate and adjust for potential confounders or to include a significant number of participants who were positive for ASP, maternal bipolar disorder, or maternal depression. Therefore, in a large sample of 998 US mother-child dyads participating in an online autism research project, we examined the potential association between a lifetime history of maternal mood disorder and a high functioning phenotype of ASD in offspring. Using the ASP diagnosis as a proxy for a high functioning phenotype of ASD, we hypothesized the following.
This study was conducted through the Interactive Autism Network (IAN), an online US based research registry and database launched in April 2007. IAN participants complete online questionnaires on a variety of topics to create a very large autism-focused dataset. IAN is open to all families living in the United States with at least one child with an ASD whose diagnosis was established by a professional in the community. More than 14,000 children younger than age 18 with ASD and their immediate family members are enrolled.
The Johns Hopkins Medicine Institutional Review Board approved all study procedures, and electronic consent was elicited from participating families. After enrollment, parents completed registration materials and were then invited to complete several questionnaires. These questionnaires were collaboratively developed by the IAN research team and members of the IAN Science Advisory Committee, subsequently piloted with families, and revised as needed. Established instruments such as the Social Responsiveness Scale (see below) [16] were also completed online. Analyses for the current study were based on data from questionnaires focusing on child ASD diagnosis, mother demographic and medical history, and maternal mood disorder history (MatMoodQ) completed between April 2007 and November 2008. IAN questionnaires are available at http://dashboard.ianexchange.org/DataExplorer.aspx.
Our initial sample consisted of 5,714 mother-child dyads in which
The derivation of the study sample is illustrated in Figure 1. Of the 5,714 eligible mothers, 2,544 (44.5%) completed the MatMoodQ. There was no difference between responders and nonresponders in terms of race, ethnicity, urbanicity, or child gender. Differences in mean maternal and mean child age at the time of MatMoodQ completion were statistically but not clinically significant between the two groups and are considered an artifact of the large sample size (effect sizes of .046 and .029 for maternal and child age, resp.). College educated mothers were more likely to participate (52.6% versus 46.9%, P < .001). Nonresponders were less likely to have completed the online SRS, but the difference in mean SRS T-scores for the two groups was not significant. Responders and non-responders did not differ in their responses to questions about mood disorder history on a basic medical history questionnaire. Specifically, nearly half of MatMoodQ responders (48.4%) and non-responders (46.4%) had reported a history of being "diagnosed with or treated for depression" (P = .158), while 5.0% of responders and 4.9% of non-responders said they had "been diagnosed with or treated for bipolar disorder" (P = .854).
The child ASD questionnaire solicited information about ASD diagnosis and developmental history. Response choices for ASD diagnosis included autism, Asperger disorder, pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD NOS), pervasive developmental disorder (PDD), and ASD. Response choices for the type of professional who had established the child's ASD diagnosis included a pediatrician, primary care doctor, developmental pediatrician, psychiatrist, clinical psychologist, neurologist, team of health professionals, team of professionals in a school system, and speech and language pathologist.
The Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) is a 93-item interview that the clinician administers to the parent or caregiver in order to assess for the presence of an ASD in the child. In one study of 107 children participating in the IAN registry, parent report of professionally diagnosed ASD was confirmed by developmental history using the ADI-R [17] in 99% of cases and by both ADI-R and direct observational assessment in 93% of cases [18]. Similarly, 98% of 116 IAN families participating in a second study were able to provide documentation verifying a professionally diagnosed ASD [19].
For the current analysis, children were sorted into one of three ASD categories: autism (AUT), Asperger disorder (ASP), or "Other ASD." The "Other ASD" group (n = 918) was comprised of those with less well-defined diagnoses (PDD-NOS, PDD, or ASD), who were therefore excluded from further analysis because they comprised a more clinically heterogeneous group of children compared with those in the AUT and ASP groups [8, 20]. The Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), a 65-item questionnaire completed by a caregiver or teacher to assess social awareness, social cognition, social motivation, social communication, and autistic mannerisms in a child, was then used to validate the parent-reported ASD diagnosis. As an SRS T-score of 60 or higher reflects social disability and probable ASD [16], we excluded 294 of the remaining children with AUT or ASP for whom SRS T-scores were unavailable (n = 245) or were less than 60 (n = 49) for an intermediate sample size of 1,332 (see Figure 1).
The maternal mood disorder questionnaire elicited data on lifetime history of professional- and self-diagnosed mood disorder as well as associated clinical features, such as when the mood disorder began (before or after having children) and its clinical severity as reflected by psychiatric hospitalization, suicidality, and number of recurrent episodes of depression. Participants could report none, one, or more than one of the following diagnoses: bipolar disorder, cyclothymia, major depressive disorder (MDD), seasonal affective disorder, dysthymia, postpartum depression, other "hormonal" depression (premenstrual syndrome, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or depression related to menopause), or "some kind of depression" (refers to mothers who did not know their specific diagnosis). The overall approach was similar to the clinically validated method for collecting child ASD diagnosis online described above.
Mothers were categorized into four groups based on mood disorder status: no history of mood disorder (n = 509), bipolar disorder (BP) diagnosed by a professional (n = 74), depression (DEP) diagnosed by a professional (n = 415), and "other mood disorder" (n = 334). Those who reported both BP and one or more depressive diagnoses were included in the BP group (i.e., BP and DEP were mutually exclusive).
The "other mood disorder" group (n = 334) consisted of mothers who reported any of the following: cyclothymia, a nonspecific mood disorder, not knowing which professional established their mood disorder diagnosis, self-diagnosis of their mood disorder, or receiving treatment for a mood disorder without a formal diagnosis. This group of mothers with indeterminate mood disorder status was excluded from our intermediate sample of 1,332 mother-child dyads for a final study sample of 998 mother-child dyads with the most well-characterized ASDs and mood disorders (see Figure 1).
Race, ethnicity, mother and child date of birth, and child gender were ascertained from information shared by families upon IAN registration. Child developmental history, including language acquisition, most recent IQ score, and history of intellectual disability, was obtained from the child ASD questionnaire. Data on IQ and/or intellectual disability status and language development were reported for only a limited group of children (see Table 1).
Urbanicity was analyzed using the six-level 2006 NCHS Urban-Rural (NCHSUR) Classification Scheme for Counties [21]. For this study, we created 4 categories from the 6-item NCHSUR scale: large city (large central metro), suburban (large fringe metro), small/medium city (combines medium metro and small metro), and rural (combines micropolitan and noncore).
All questionnaire data were maintained in the Internet Mediated Research System (IMRS) database (MDLogix, Baltimore, MD, USA). Analyses were performed using STATA 11.1 (College Station, TX, USA) on the live database. Fisher's exact tests and t-tests were used to compare demographic and clinical characteristics between children with AUT and ASP.
Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to estimate whether maternal BP (presence or absence) or DEP (presence or absence) was associated with a greater likelihood of having a child with an ASD diagnosis of ASP compared to AUT. The model included maternal mood disorder variables and a priori covariates such as child gender, maternal race, and maternal education level. Child and maternal age at the time the MatMoodQ was completed were also included as a priori covariates to account for the older mean age of the children with ASP and their mothers, and hence longer exposure time to develop a mood disorder. Urbanicity was not significant on bivariate analysis and was therefore not included. A P < .05 was considered significant for all analyses.
Table 1 presents the demographic and clinical characteristics of the mothers and their children. Compared to mothers of children with AUT, mothers of children with ASP were older, more likely to be white, less likely to be Hispanic, and more likely to have received a mood disorder diagnosis. Children with ASP were, as a group, older than children with AUT. There were also more males in the ASP group although this result was not statistically significant (P = .052).
Clinical characteristics of the 489 mothers with a professionally diagnosed mood disorder are presented in Table 2. Mothers with mood disorders, particularly BP, had high rates of depression recurrence. Most mothers with BP and DEP had the first onset of their mood disorder prior to their first pregnancy.
We employed multivariate logistic regression to test the association of parent-reported, professionally-diagnosed lifetime history of maternal mood disorder with child ASP over AUT diagnosis, by specific mood disorder, as shown in Table 3. Maternal history of BP was associated with significantly higher adjusted odds of having an affected child with ASP compared with AUT (OR 2.11, CI 1.20, 3.69). Similarly, maternal DEP was associated with a significantly greater likelihood of ASP versus AUT (OR 1.62, CI 1.19, 2.19). The mean variance inflation factor (VIF) for the model was 1.23 indicating minimal collinearity.
Next, employing the same statistical method, we tested our second hypothesis to find out whether the adjusted odds of having a child with ASP versus AUT would be greater for mothers who first experienced their mood disorder prior to having children compared to mothers who first experienced their mood disorder after having children. As shown in Table 4, mothers with prepregnancy mood disorder were 2.35-times more likely (CI 1.48, 3.73) to have a child with ASP versus AUT. The mean variance inflation factor (VIF) for the model was 1.28, again indicating minimal collinearity.
The results from this study add to a small body of literature demonstrating an association between maternal mood disorders and a higher functioning phenotype of ASD. We found that a lifetime history of maternal BP or DEP each was more strongly associated with having a child with ASP compared to AUT after controlling for relevant maternal and child covariates. The data suggest that this association was stronger for maternal BP than DEP. Furthermore, having a child with ASP versus AUT was more likely if mothers had the first onset of their mood disorder prior to having any children. These findings are consistent with those of DeLong and Dwyer [6] who found higher proportions of bipolar disorder in the first and second degree relatives of probands with a family history of ASP [6], and also with those of Cohen and Tsiouris [7] who found associations between maternal depression and a high functioning ASD phenotype in offspring. Our data extend prior work by examining these associations using an internet-based study design that collected maternal self-report data on community-based clinician diagnoses of maternal mood disorder and child ASD.
Why might maternal mood disorders be associated with a higher functioning phenotype in offspring with ASD? One hypothesis is that psychosocial factors may play a role; mothers of children with ASP may experience a different type of caregiving stress than mothers of children with AUT. For example, children with ASP typically receive their diagnosis later than children with AUT [22, 23]. It is possible that this prolonged diagnostic odyssey, combined with the baffling mixture of strengths and deficits displayed by these children, results in stress different from that experienced by families of children with a more severe, but less ambiguous, status. In addition, children with ASP have high rates of psychopathology, which can exacerbate caregiver stress [20, 24, 25] and are also most likely to be educated in typical classrooms where they may face difficult social challenges on a daily basis. However, it is difficult to imagine that mothers of children who are higher functioning experience greater overall stress than mothers of more severely affected children. Moreover, our data as well as the findings of other studies indicate that the likely attribution of maternal mood disorders to psychosocial stress is low because most mothers were diagnosed with a mood disorder prior to the birth of their child [2, 3, 7, 26, 27]. Therefore, psychosocial stress is unlikely the sole determinant underlying this association.
Alternately, there may be a genetic etiology underlying the association between maternal mood disorders and the ASP, rather than AUT, subtype of ASD. As previously mentioned, Delong [28] proposed two "taxa" of ASD: one that is higher functioning, associated with comorbid anxiety and mood disorders, and linked to a family history of mood disorder (ASP-related), and another that is lower functioning and not linked to a family history of mood disorder (AUT-related). It is possible that shared genetic susceptibilities may give rise to both mood disorders in the mother and the ASP phenotype in offspring. Current research suggests that different genetic etiologies may give rise to different subtypes of autism [29]. For example, in a sample of 119 males with ASD, autism severity in terms of aggression, fears, and rituals was modified by the mother's monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) genotype [30]. There is also evidence of differential heritability for different ASDs and ASD-associated traits, as illustrated by a study of 277 twin pairs where at least one twin had an ASD and in which there was higher psychiatric comorbidity, functioning level, and Asperger syndrome concordance among affected monozygotic versus dizygotic twins [31]. An alternative genetic explanation for the current findings is that maternal mood disorders may "exert a protective effect on cognitive and adaptive functioning" [7]. According to this idea, in offspring predisposed to developing an ASD, the presence of a maternal mood disorder exposure modifies expression into ASP rather than AUT. Our finding that onset of mood disorder before having children is associated with having a child with ASP, as opposed to AUT, potentially provides support for either of these hypotheses, both of which merit further investigation.
It is important to note that even mothers of children with AUT had high rates of mood disorder, and that a significant number of all mothers with BP or DEP reported inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, suicidality, and recurrent episodes of depression. Clinicians caring for children with ASD are therefore encouraged to consider screening for mood disorders in the mother and to be ready to offer appropriate treatment resources and referrals.
This study has several unique strengths, most notably its large sample size, which enables research on patterns of disease that may be difficult to appreciate in smaller samples. The large sample size also allows for adjustment of potentially confounding variables such as child gender, age, and maternal education level. An additional strength is that health information was collected via the Internet. Current research supports web-based surveys of medical information as a reliable means of data collection [32]. This has been demonstrated by a similar registry for a disorder related to autism, Rett syndrome [33], and in other studies using IAN data [34]. Advantages of internet-based studies include low cost, decreased response burden, greater ease of participation, access to families from rural areas, and anonymity [35, 36]. Internet usage is high among individuals of parenting age in the US (79% to 87% in 18 to 54 years old; [37]).
This study has several limitations. First, ASD and mood disorder diagnoses were based on maternal self-report of a clinician diagnosis rather than an in-clinic assessment conducted as part of the study. However, our research was intentionally designed to examine community-based patterns of disease in children with ASD using a self-report data collection method. IAN data show that this method is reliable and valid for ascertaining community-assigned ASD status in participating children [18, 19]. An IAN validation study of the maternal mood disorder diagnosis has not been conducted. The current study, however, applied stringent self-report criteria by only including mothers who reported a diagnosis of BP or DEP made by a medical or mental health professional and eliminated the 25% of mothers reporting a less well-characterized mood disorder (e.g., self-diagnosed, treated but not formally diagnosed). Some diagnostic misclassifications may have occurred, but these are likely to be overcome by the study's large sample size. Another point to note is that the intent of this study was not to approximate a generalizable population prevalence of actual maternal mood disorders in families of children with ASD, but to determine relative frequencies of illness within the IAN population and examine associations with child phenotype.
Our sample of families may not reflect all US households. The mothers in our study were primarily white, non-Hispanic, highly educated, and over the age of 30 years. However, this demographic profile is similar to that of subjects in other online and clinic-based studies [38–42], and there is evidence that web-based samples may actually be more representative of the general population than samples in center-based studies [32, 43]. Further, although there is a risk of self-selection bias, with affected mothers more likely to complete a maternal mood disorder questionnaire, our findings are based on between-group comparisons, which are largely resistant to this type of selection bias. In addition, when examining frequency of self-reported BP or DEP on a general medical history survey, we found no difference in responses between MatMoodQ responders and nonresponders. In other words, those who had earlier reported a history of BP or DEP were no more likely to take the MatMoodQ than those who had not.
In summary, data from this large community and internet-based study suggest that mothers of children with ASD who have a lifetime history of BP or DEP are more likely to have a child with the ASP versus AUT phenotype. Similarly, among mothers of children with ASD who report a lifetime history of mood disorder, those with prepregnancy onset are more likely to have a child with ASP than AUT. While the precise etiology of this link remains unclear, these findings are consistent with prior studies and merit further exploration.
The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
The authors would like to thank Dr. Mary Ann Winter-Messiers (University of Oregon) and Dr. Regina Conti (Colgate University) for their contributions to the maternal mood disorder questionnaire.
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Professor Simon Watkins
Professor Simon Watkins is responsible for undergraduate courses in Thermo-fluids and Vehicle Aerodynamics and is involved with many final year and postgraduate research projects in aerospace and automotive engineering.
Professor Watkins was the originator and architect of the first automotive engineering degree in Australia and also set up RMIT Racing in 2000. RMIT Racing is one of 200+ teams from universities around the world that design and build open-wheel racing cars, winning the FISITA Formula Student World Cup in Silverstone UK in 2007 and the American FSAE event in Detroit in 2006. He now supervises the design, build and testing of all electric FSAE cars. He also leads a Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) Group at RMIT (see later) with funding from the USAF supporting several PhD students.
Employment history
- Professor, Automotive Engineering, SAMME, RMIT, 2008- present
- Program Leader, Bachelor of Engineering (Automotive), 2000-2006
- Director, Society of Automotive Engineers-Australasia (SAE-A), 2000-2007
- Faculty Advisor RMIT FSAE Racing Team, 2000-2010
- Visiting Professor, University of Stuttgart, June 1999 and June 2000.
- Manager, RMIT Industrial Wind Tunnel, 1995-2009
- Research Engineer, The City University, London (1980-1983)
- Graduate and Trainee Engineer, British Aerospace, UK (1977-1980)
Professional interests and links to the industry
- Fellow, Society of Automotive Engineers-Australasia (SAE-A)
- Member of the Royal Society of Victoria
- Member of the Society of Automotive Engineers-International (SAE-Int)
Accomplishments and achievements
- Chair, Vehicle Wind Noise Committee, SAE International (Detroit, 2000-2003)
- Numerous overseas invited seminars (e.g. CALTECH, 15/1/08, Imperial College 26/6/07)
- Aerodynamic consultant to Ford of Australia, General Motors Holden, Tenix Defence System
- Research commercialisation includes truck aerodynamic drag-reducing devices following over $500,000 of NERDDC grants in the early Eighties. Approximately 1/4 of fuel-saving aerodynamic devices on Australian Trucks are from patented/registered designs that arose from the research.
- Aerodynamic consultant for the Aurora Solar Vehicle that won the World Solar Challenge in 1999 and the Sunrace in 2003.
- Successfully supervised students: 20+ PhD or MEng students, many with ARC support, including five APA(I) and six APA students.
- Provided infrastructure, in conjunction with Monash University, extensively supported by ARC funding. This includes the largest wind tunnel in the Southern Hemisphere and key infrastructure arising from several ARC Grants (including Linkage-Infrastructure, two ARC RIEF and two ARC Mechanism C) totalling $2.649m.
What the MAV Group does
MAVs are "a class of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that has a size restriction and may be autonomous. Modern craft can be as small as 15 centimetres. Development is driven by commercial, research, government, and military purposes; with insect-sized aircraft reportedly expected in the future. The small craft allows remote observation of hazardous environments inaccessible to ground vehicles. MAVs have been built for hobby purposes, such as aerial robotics contests and aerial photography"
My interest in micro planes has resulted in a research group in the MAV Group which we started in 2001, by producing one of the lightest airframe (7.3g) membrane-structure micro air vehicles in the world at that time. In the last few years we have been awarded 8 grants by the USAF for work on understanding the dynamic response of fixed, rotary and flapping wing MAVs in turbulent flow, including 5 Window on Science travel grants to give invited talks at USA and European meetings. Most research is now focussed on understanding MAVs and the influence of both their design type (e.g. fixed wing vs flapping vs rotary) and how these differing designs cope with the effects of atmospheric turbulence. I supervise several PhD students in this area.
We have been focusing on how MAVs will cope with the turbulence inherent in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer (ABL) in order to make MAVs more useful. Our previous work documented the temporal and spatial environment of flight through turbulence inherent in the ABL, as would be perceived by MAVs, both manmade and natural (e.g. small birds, insects). This has involved working with the instrumented eagle of the Oxford Animal Flight Group where we took multi-point measurements of turbulence whilst the instrumented eagle was soaring and high speed videoing on locusts flying in smooth and turbulent flow in our wind tunnels. Depicted below is the largest bubble in the world, which shows some of the turbulent structures in the ABL which MAVs have to traverse.
We have replicated this turbulent environment in several wind tunnels, including the largest wind tunnel in the Southern Hemisphere and shown that aspects of the naturally turbulent flow environment had been reproduced with good accuracy.
Flying experiments
We have flown instrumented fixed wing, rotary wing and flapping MAVs in the tunnel, including some aerobatics (and many crashes!). Pilot inputs and aircraft accelerations were recorded on the MAVs. For some tests, synchronised measurements of the approach flow time history (u,v,w sampled at 1250 Hz) at four laterally disposed locations were made and retro-reflective markers and six video cameras permitted video tracking. The piloting aim was to hold straight and level flight in the 12m wide x 4m high x ~50m long test section whilst flying in a range of turbulent wind conditions. The results showed that the rotary craft were less sensitive to the effects of turbulence compared to the fixed wing craft. It was found that whilst fixed wing aircraft were relatively easy to fly in smooth air, they became extremely difficult to fly under high turbulence conditions. Rotary craft, whilst somewhat more difficult to fly per. se. did not become significantly harder to fly in relatively high turbulence levels.
Videos for some of the more adventurous flight experiments in wind tunnels can be found on the www, including:
First attempts at aerobatic MAV flight in a wind tunnel
High speed videoing of locusts in a wind tunnel
Pressures varying around a flapping wing MAV
The background to our USAF-sponsored MAV work in turbulence can be downloaded from:
MAV project – final report (PDF 3.3MB 83p)
MAV project – addendum (PDF 85KB 4p)
Mitigating the Effects of Atmospheric Turbulence: Toward More Useful MAVs (PPT 5.1MB 11p)
- PhD (RMIT)
- BSc Hons (Bristol, UK)
- Kloet, N.,Watkins, S.,Clothier, R. (2017). Acoustic signature measurement of small multi-rotor unmanned aircraft systems In: International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles, 9, 3 - 14
- Panta, A.,Watkins, S.,Marino, M.,Petersen, P. (2017). Investigation of the dynamics of leading edge control surfaces for MAV flight In: Proceedings of the 17th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 February 2017
- Panta, A.,Watkins, S.,Marino, M.,Petersen, P. (2017). Investigation of the dynamics of leading edge control surfaces for MAV flight In: Proceedings of the 17th Australian International Aerospace Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 February 2017
- Prudden, S.,Fisher, A.,Mohamed, A.,Watkins, S. (2017). An anemometer for UAS-based atmospheric wind measurements In: Proceedings of the17th Australian International Aerospace Congress (AIAC 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 26-28 February 2017
- Latifi Khorasgani, M.,Prohasky, D.,Burry, J.,Moya Castro, R.,McCarthy, J.,Watkins, S. (2016). Breathing skins for wind modulation through morphology: Toward integrating turbulence studies within tectonic scale for design of fa�ade components In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016), Melbourne, Australia, 30 March - 1 April 2016
- Prohasky, D.,Moya Castro, R.,Watkins, S.,Burry, J. (2016). Design driven physical experimentation: a flexible wind sensing platform for architects In: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 30 March - 1 April
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- Swarming: micro-flight data capture and analysis in architectural design. Funded by: ARC Linkage Grant 2015 Round 1 from (2015 to 2018)
- Turbulence Mitigation for Aircraft in Urban Environments. Funded by: Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program Grant 2015 from (2015 to 2017)
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When I was a kid I loved to take my R/C car out and destroy it. Yeah, I loved the idea but couldn't control it until I was older, but luckily the big kid in me still loves a bit of R/C action. I am not alone either, as there is a fully fledged R/C community out there. We imagine that community will be wetting themselves when they see the Mammuth Rewarron, The world's first 1:3 scale production R/C car!
This car is a beast, a big beast at that, and one that can be controlled by remote control. So, just how big is the MammuthRewarron ($5-15,500)? Well, it measures 1850mm x 900mm x 750mm, which is roughly two meters long and about a meter wide and high.
The Mammuth Rewarron is about the size of a small city car, but it does not perform like one, with three engine choices available. You will of course need an airfield's worth of space to play with this particular toy, but when you get it out in the open you will reach dizzying speeds and have a load of fun while you're at it.


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Psilocybe azurescens is a psychedelic mushroom whose main active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. It is among the most potent[1] of the tryptamine-bearing mushrooms, containing up to 1.8% psilocybin, 0.5% psilocin, and 0.4% baeocystin by dry weight, averaging to about 1.1% psilocybin and 0.15% psilocin. It belongs to the family Strophariaceae in the order Agaricales.
Pileus 30-100 mm in diameter, conic to convex, expanding to broadly convex and eventually flattening with age with a pronounced, persistent broad umbo; surface smooth, viscous when moist, covered by a separable gelatinous pellicle; chestnut to ochraceous brown to caramel in color often becoming pitted with dark blue or bluish black zones, hygrophanous, fading to light straw color in drying, strongly bruising blue when damaged; margin even, sometimes irregular and eroded at maturity, slightly incurved at first, soon decurved, flattening with maturity, translucent striate and often leaving a fibrillose annular zone in the upper regions of the stem. Lamellae ascending, sinuate to adnate, brown, often stained info-black where injured, close, with two tiers of lamellulae, mottled, edges withish. Spore-print dark purplish brown to purplish black in mass. Stipe 90-200 mm long by 3-6 mm thick, silky white, dingy brown from the base or in age, hollow at maturity. Composed of twisted, cartilaginous tissue. Base of stem thickening downwards, often curved, and characterized by coarse white aerial tufts of mycelium, often with azure tones. Mycelium surrounding stipe base densely rhizomorphic (i.e., root-like), silky white, tenaciously holding the wood-chips together, strongly bruising bluish upon disturbance. They have no odor to slightly farinaceous. Their taste is extremely bitter.
Habitat and distribution
Cespitose to gregarious on deciduous wood-chips and/or in sandy soils rich in lignicolous debris. Aspect collyboid, generating an extensive, dense and tenacious mycelial mat, Psilocybe azurescens causes the whitening of wood. Fruitings begin in late September and continue until harsh frost, usually mid-November.
Cultivated patches occur worldwide, but natural patches are found along the US Pacific coast, north of Seaside, Oregon, as well as Astoria, Oregon. Isolated patches have been found as far south as Arcata, California and are very common in Humboldt County, CA.
Legal status
Possession and/or cultivation of this species is illegal in a number of countries.
See Psilocybin: Effects.
- ↑ Paul Stamets, A Comparison of Combined Maxima of Psilocybin, Psilocin and Baeocystin in Eleven Species of Psilocybe Fungi Perfect
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Mitt Romney made the following statement on comments made by the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium about Israel:
"President Obama must fire his ambassador to Belgium for rationalizing and downplaying anti-Semitism and linking it to Israeli policy toward the Palestinians. The ambassador's comments demonstrate the Obama administration's failure to understand the worldwide campaign to delegitimize Israel and its appalling penchant for undermining our close ally."
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Huron County Press News on AG Mfg $1.2M Award
Congresswoman Candice Miller visits Harbor Beach
Congresswoman Candice Miller stopped in Harbor Beach last week at the AG Manufacturing plant to give comments and tour the facility.
She recently secured $1.2 million in federal funding in the Department of Defense Appropriations, which will allow AG Manufacturing to continue to produce wire harnesses for the U.S. Air Force.
AG Manufacturing's operations span from providing automotive components for DaimlerChrysler ,General Motors and Navistar to supplying the U.S.military with wire technology. The 53,500 sq.ftAG plant has served Huron County for over 20 years.However, just over three years ago, the facility was acquired by the now Chairman and CEO Victor Edozien.
AG Manufacturing processes wire harness assemblies, P.V.C. injection molding, ultrasonic splice welding ,crimp monitoring and unit packaging and drop shipping.
"That first yea r was really tough;the former owner wanted to move it off-shore," said Edozien.
He said Huron County Economic Development Director Carl Osentoski was very instrumental in helping him purchase the facility.
'When Iacquired the facility, we had to do some changes to keep the operation from going off-shore; we have proved you can have a line of business and not move off-shore ," explained Edozien.
He is anticipating approximately $6 million in contract sales for this year.
Edozien said the venture also has given them the opportunity to show the United States Military what the facility can do for them.
Edozien is also proud of the fact that they have mainly local employees. "We have received a training grant and that has really helped us; all our employees are local residents," said Edozien.
Many of the current employees have a history of the business and Edozien took the time to build the management team, creating an effective work force. "Our employees are very dedicated."
"I don't care what technology you purchase , ifs about the people,you have to have a team," said Miller.
"Now Idon't have to be here everyday; Ican be out looking at other ventures," said Edozien.
The facility has reduced their automotive industry exposure by increasing work in the heavy truck lines and the military needs.They are also looking to expand in the recreational vehicle ,busses and further into the military areas.
'We are looking for that low value product, as a niche market for aftermarket sales," said AG Manufacturing General Manager Russ Schneidewind .
He added ,"We would like to venture out further into the heavy truck market,too."
'We have a dedicated work force, we just need to get the contracts here and keep the jobs here,and in the process we have to keep diversifying; we have to do what we can do" said Miller.
She added, ''You (AG Manufacturing) can make a product, keep on budget and make itwork."
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The Essence of the Ordinary
de René C. Gallet - Photographer
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Photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in ordinary places. I have always felt the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary objects and to always leave for the viewer a touch of mystery in each created image.
As a photographer, I have become fascinated with the artistic attributes of the many unique materials, objects and displays that populate the antique, restoration, and resale venues. The patina of age, the details, the juxtaposition of objects, and the vast assemblies of objects familiar and foreign all provide the potentials for creating unique and memorable photographic compositions that can stimulate the emotions of the viewer.
Within this portfolio book, I have attempted to capture the inherent beauty, composition, detail, and distinctiveness of these inimitable objects which are frequently overlooked by the passer-by and the casual observer.
A mentor of mine once observed that 'the sign of a truly successful photograph is that it creates the extraordinary from the ordinary'. I hope you will agree that these images have achieved that lofty goal. ~~~ Explore & Enjoy.
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- Categoría Fotografía artística
Apaisado estándar, 25×20 cm
80 Páginas
- Fecha de publicación oct. 10, 2011
- Etiquetas fine art, fle market, yard sale, treasure chest, black and white, designers., memorable, detail, oddities, Georgia, Atlanta, industrial, collectables, junk, color, Rene, René, Gallet, antiques, resale, objects, artistic, aged, American, treasures, consignment, architectural, salvage, history, memories, vivid, windows, doors, french, vibrant, decorators, decor, old, outlets, malls, patina, distinctive, composition, ordinary, monochrome
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René Gallet has been actively involved in both the art and the business of photography for over 50 years. As a self-taught photographer and visual artist, Mr. Gallet has participated in and taught numerous workshops and seminars. René's fine art images have been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe in both solo and group gallery presentations. René's portfolio encompasses a wide variety of subject matter, image compositions, and photographic styles, resulting in an impressive body of work, which ranges from the traditional landscape to the strongly abstract image. His striking landscapes and intimately detailed imagery demonstrate an optimal blending of artistic vision and technical control of the demanding photographic process. Mr. Gallet's work can be found in both private and public photographic collections and many of his images have been featured in numerous artistic, trade, and commercial magazines and publications.
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Zono has created an innovative new device to diminish the use of the PC mouse, which works surprisingly well on PS2 and Xbox controllers. Employing a freely growing circle to select units, players depress the analog button to enact the lightly tinted sphere, which is both quick and accurate. It looks and works perfectly. Each race can be controlled using the inputs Gather, Follow, Way Point and Patrol, while groups can be commanded to stand guard, act aggressively, defend or to simply not attack.
The game's depth and interest lies in the strategies you'll employ in the role of each race. The Marines depend on a healthy amount of numbers, but more significantly on superior technology and high-tech weaponry. Created by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation to save the population on LV-742, the Marines wield a range of excellent weapons, including Pulse Rifles, Spear guns, Blazer Cannons, and the famous Exosuit equipped with twin miniguns. Players must decide on their individual strategy, order their custom army from a roster of units, upgrade their militia using detecting vision modes to best attack their enemies and compile excellent weapon enhancements to finish the job. Marines can even contact Commtech in orbit to launch a devastating airstrike if a situation grows dire enough.
Aliens, on the other hand, attack best in hordes. Their quickness, strength, devastating attacks, acidic blood and horrific means of reproduction is more than enough to intimidate any army, be it Predator or Human. Each alien race offers a bestiary, so players can sift through the various kinds of units they can create, birth, and carry out various survival objectives. The Alien and Predator annals are especially intriguing, each with familiar and surprising new offerings. The Alien Bestiary includes Drones, Runners, Warriors, PredAliens (a hybrid Alien/Predator), Praetorian, Queen, Carrier, and Ravager, all of which you can control and command.
Here are a few interesting factoids. Praetorians are the only Aliens that can morph into Queens. Players can either drag comatose enemies to their eggs, which hatch immediately upon sensing prey, or the eggs can be carried to the prey itself. Also, players can prematurely hatch Alien eggs and then command the face huggers to follow your character to prey, but they only have a limited amount of time to do so. The growth cycle of an Alien from Facehugger to fully grown Warrior, for instance, is incredibly quick, in case you were wondering. They bloom inside the chest, and then form a cocoon from which they become fully grown fighters all in a matter of seconds. If you want to grow an Alien Queen, you have to upgrade to a Praetorian, which requires a second cocoon stage and specialized upgrades to boot. Ultra-specialized warriors like the Alien Carrier, which is able to bring Facehuggers to the battlefront, can be created to round out your army. Lastly, in case it wasn't obvious, each Alien kind -- Ravager, Runners, etc. -- perform the general task after which they're named.
The Predators are awesome. They look a weeee bit small in comparison to Aliens, and considering how large they are compared to regular humans -- Yao Ming -size -- they look puny in contrast to the Queen Aliens. Predators rely on sophisticated weaponry, cloaking (which is put under a time limit) and power to devastate their enemies. Employing stealth and stylized hunting techniques to slaughter their opponents, Predators are more like athletes or Native American tribal warriors, simply trying to gain respect from their council of Ancients. Super specialized units are exemplified by the severely brutal, heavily armored Military Predators.
The Predator bestiary is also lovely to observe and study. Players can select from the Brawler, Hunter, Spear Master, Stalker, Disc Master, Vangard, Hydra, Blazer, PredGun, and Shrine. So yeah, you'll generate specialized Predators that are masters at special attacks, whether they're using Discs, Spears, Guns, or whatnot. One neat thing about the Shrine is that it's mobile, even if it's a little slow. Each species uses a different style of currency to buy more units. Marines collect Oxygen, while Predators amass skulls.
This game was truly created with its fans in mind. Fun things are built into it specifically to please those obsessed fanboys out there, including the ability to spot and zoom in on the characters in mid-game play, as well as the use of original artwork in the menu, original musical compositions from both the Alien and Predator movies, and more.
In the end, Aliens Vs. Predator: Extinction won't fulfill its incredibly fertile potential on the consoles, due to the fact that it's a single-player game, but Zono, EA and Fox appear to have worked hard to get the balance between each race right, to infuse each one with a level of unique fun and coolness, and to create an RTS worthy of its various licenses. The T-rated single-player game is due by July's end, and we look forward to seeing its completion.