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Two new prototype homes in Atmautluak don't look like experiments. They're rectangular with a slanted red roof. But how they were built: very quickly and with limited equipment, could serve as a model for other homes in remote communities.
The Cold Climate Housing Research Center builds a lot of advanced and experimental homes. This summer in Atmautluak, they helped on a project after being approached by the community
Jack Hébert is President and founder of CCHRC.
"It was the full package for us, because what we saw is the ability for job creation in Atmautluak, for training of a skilled workforce, and for demonstration for good building science for the region that would lower both construction costs and energy costs," Hébert said.
The community formed a tribally owned construction company, Pikat Construction Company. Aaron Cooke is an architectural designer who drew up the house. He said the company took the leadership role.
"They're handling not just the tool belt aspect, but the funding, the grant management, and ordering of materials. The did an incredible job of project management. They choose their own crew of carpenters, and laborers that they think have the most potential to stay on this crew," Cooke said.
The crew included a member from each family that would live in the home. The new company had their work cut out for them. The project aimed to raise a home from bare ground in nine short weeks. But to throw another curveball in the mix, the community of 277 people has few construction tools at their disposal.
"Since they have no heavy equipment, we've got to keep that short season with manpower only, with our hands. And that's when it gets very interesting, our solutions become more applicable to other communities," Cooke said.
Crews moved the trusses and framing materials from the barge landing by balancing them between two ATVs and navigating the narrow boardwalks. The actual framing was designed to be fast, according to Cooke.
"Since the trusses have the floor diaphragm, the walls and the roof pitch all integrated into one cross section of truss, basically what you do it tip them up on in order on two foot centers, and what that means is that you can frame an entire house in one day," Cooke said.
The three bedroom, 1,100-square-foot house is designed to use just 150 gallons of fuel oil a year. The use of a woodstove could cut down on the demand. The house is of course highly insulated with walls rated at R50 and floors at R60.
Other features include pilings that allow the homeowner to level it using just hand tools.
The CCHRC said they hope to be able to bring more of the process locally and manufacture the trusses in communities like Bethel. They would then move them out by barge in summertime, or even overland in the winter.

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Jan 5, 2012 -- Sprinkle some walnuts on your salad this evening. Your heart will thank you.
When it comes to heart health benefits, roasted and raw walnuts rule the roost, a new study shows.
Researchers from the University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa., compared the amount of powerful antioxidants called polyphenols in nine types of roasted and raw nuts and two types of peanut butter. They also tested just how effective the antioxidants in the nuts are in regard to heart health using lab analysis.
A clear winner emerged from the nutty bunch: the walnut.
The findings appear in the journal Food & Function.
Whether roasted or raw, walnuts beat the competition. Walnuts were loaded with the highest amount of polyphenols. These compounds are believed to reduce heart disease risk by lowering levels of blood cholesterol, improving blood flow, and cooling the inflammation that's been linked to heart disease. What's more, nuts -- which are high in fat -- don't necessarily lead to weight gain.
Walnuts not only have the most polyphenols, but they also have the most potent polyphenols, the researchers say.
Raw and Roasted Nut Runner-Ups
After raw walnuts, polyphenol amounts found in nuts in descending order are:
- Brazil nuts
- Pistachios
- Pecans
- Peanuts
- Almonds
- Macadamia nuts
- Cashews
- Hazelnuts
Among roasted nuts, the runners-up were:
- Brazil nuts
- Hazelnuts
- Peanuts
- Pecans
- Cashews
- Macadamia nuts
- Almonds
- Pistachios
The bottom line?
"Nuts are a nutritious snack and food additive, providing both nutrients and ... antioxidants, which provide significant health benefits," the study authors conclude.


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Continuing a trend that we can all get behind--that is, bundling great indie games and selling them for a ridiculous discount--developer Lunar Workshop has partnered with some other indies to provide a "5 for $5" bundle. The bundle is DRM-free, and all of the proceeds go directly to the developers.
The announcement trailer above shows bits of the five bundled games. Delve Deeper (Lunar Giant Studios) is a Dwarf-laden, turn-based, competitive, treasure-hunting strategy game. The turn-based strategic gameplay continues with Digitanks (Lunar Workshop), a wargame in which players compete for resources while trying to blow each other up.
Bullet hell shooter fans will likely enjoy Mactabilis (Blazing Bit Games), which features two-player co-op and deathmatch and some light RPG elements. For action that's a bit more puzzling, Spring Up Harmony (Frozax Games) offers a sort of Peggle/Breakout hybrid, and Steel Storm: Burning Retribution (Kot-in-Action Creative Artel) is a slick-looking top-down shooter with a bonus unlockable "First-Person camera mode."
Unless you're someone who's allergic to great deals--in this case, $40 worth of games for $5--I highly recommend giving the "5 for $5" bundle a chance. To give you a better idea of what each included title has to offer, check out the trailers for each, below.
If the bundle tickles your fancy, you can grab it from the Lunar Workshop Store through July 3.
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XMM-Newton overview
Increasing our knowledge of very hot objects created when the Universe was very young, XMM-Newton will help solve many mysteries, ranging from black holes to the formation of galaxies.
In operation
XMM-Newton is detecting more X-ray sources than any previous satellite and is helping to solve many cosmic mysteries of the violent Universe, from what happens in and around black holes to the formation of galaxies in the early Universe. It is designed and built to return data for at least a decade.
It is the biggest science satellite ever built in Europe. Its telescope mirrors are the most sensitive ever developed in the world, and with its sensitive detectors, it sees much more than any previous X-ray satellite.
XMM-Newton's high-technology design uses over 170 wafer-thin cylindrical mirrors spread over three telescopes. Its orbit takes it almost a third of the way to the Moon, so that astronomers can enjoy long, uninterrupted views of celestial objects.
What's special?
XMM-Newton has been able to measure for the first time the influence of the gravitational field of a neutron star on the light it emits. This measurement provides much better insight into these objects.
Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the Universe — a sugarcube-sized piece of a neutron star would weigh over a thousand million tonnes. Neutron stars are the remnants of heavy stars that end their life in a supernova explosion. In such cataclysmic events, most of the stellar matter is ejected into space (to eventually become the building blocks of all matter in the Universe, including ourselves). Part of what remains then collapses under its own gravity.
Scientists believe that, in a neutron star, the density and the temperatures are similar to those existing a fraction of a second after the Big Bang when the primordial soup of matter in the Universe was 'broken' into its most fundamental constituents. They assume that when matter is tightly packed as it is in a neutron star, it goes through important changes. Protons, electrons, and neutrons — the components of atoms — fuse together. It is possible that even the building blocks of protons and neutrons, the so-called quarks, get crushed together.
Scientists have spent the last decades trying to identify the nature of matter in neutron stars. To do this, they need to know some important parameters, very precisely. If you know a star's mass and radius, or the relationship between them, you can obtain its density. However, no instrument was advanced enough to perform the measurements needed, until now. Thanks to ESA's XMM-Newton observatory, astronomers have been able to obtain the mass-to-radius ratio of a neutron star for the first time and acquire the first clues about its composition. These clues suggest that neutron stars contain normal, non-exotic matter, although they are not conclusive. Scientists say this is a 'key first step' and that they will keep on with the search.
This measurement was a first in astronomical observation and it is considered a huge achievement. The method consists of determining the compactness of the neutron star in an indirect way. The gravitational pull of a neutron star is immense — thousands of million times stronger than the Earth's. This makes the light emitted by the neutron star lose energy. This energy loss is called a gravitational 'redshift'. The measurement of this redshift by XMM-Newton indicated the strength of the gravitational pull, and revealed the star's compactness.
XMM-Newton's name comes from the design of its mirrors, the highly nested X-ray Multi-Mirrors. These are enabling astronomers to discover more X-ray sources than with any of the previous space observatories. In one day, XMM-Newton sees more sources in a small area than one of the earliest X-ray satellites UHURU found across the whole sky during its three years in operation.
However, the programme also has a more formal name: the High-Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy Mission. Spectroscopy, the spreading of light into a spectrum, allows astronomers to measure a source's composition. In the same way the colour of a lamp indicates what gas is used in street lighting, the three scientific instruments on board XMM-Newton will reveal the deepest secrets of a source, its chemical composition, temperature, and even the velocity of the source.
XMM-Newton can change its orientation extremely precisely using two sets of four small thrusters that use hydrazine gas and four momentum wheels mounted on the spacecraft are the primary means to control its attitude. It builds on the system which previously flew on the ISO mission, and is now also in use on the Integral mission.
XMM-Newton, in its 48-hour orbit, travels to nearly one third of the distance to the Moon. At the apogee (furthest point) of 114 000 kilometres away from Earth, the satellite travels very slowly. At the perigee (closest point) it passes 7000 kilometres above Earth much faster at 24 120 kilometres per hour. XMM-Newton's highly eccentric orbit has been chosen so that its instruments can work outside the radiation belts surrounding the Earth.
The orientation of a satellite in space is crucial, whether for telecommunications, Earth observation or for astronomy missions. XMM-Newton will be targeting distant X-ray sources for long periods (often more than ten hours) and one of the key requirements of the satellite is its very high pointing accuracy and stability.
While orbiting the Earth in its highly elliptical orbit, XMM-Newton is steered to point its telescope towards targets selected by astronomers. The 3.8-tonne satellite slowly turns towards these celestial objects at a rate of 90 degrees per hour.
The pointing accuracy of the 10-metre long XMM-Newton is 0.25 arcsec over a 10-second interval. This is the equivalent of seeing a melon from a distance of 300 kilometres, using a handheld telescope and seeing it without the slightest wobble!
Before the late 1970s, only four galaxies had been detected emitting X-rays: the Milky Way, M31, and the Magellanic Clouds. Building on earlier work in the field, ESA's X-ray observatory, Exosat, was launched in May 1983. It was active until April 1986, by which time it had made 1780 X-ray observations.
In 1982, an 'X-ray Multi-Mirror' astronomy mission was proposed. In 1984, a group of European scientists developed the 'Horizon 2000' long-term plan for ESA's scientific programme. The idea was to achieve a 50% increase in the annual science budget over the following five years. Central to this plan was the concept of four 'Cornerstones' — large-scale missions whose scientific objectives would be achievable. The second Cornerstone was to be a 'High Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy' mission, or XMM by another name.
Serious work on XMM started in 1985 with the establishment of a number of working groups. The overall configuration was developed by 1987, looking very much like XMM as we know it today. Following the experience with Exosat, which demonstrated the value of a highly eccentric orbit for long uninterrupted observations of X-ray sources, XMM was to be placed in a 48-hour period orbit using the Ariane 4 launcher. The payload now featured only four X-ray mirror systems. However a very important feature had been added — the Optical Monitor — an instrument to allow simultaneous observation of the field of view the X-ray telescopes in the UV and visible bands. This was a lesson learned from the operation and exploitation of Exosat. An important part of XMM-Newton is that all instruments work in parallel — this is an extremely important tool in making the observatory more efficient.
ESA approved the mission in this form in June 1988. One year later the selection of the instruments and the long hardware development programme began. The Survey Science Centre was selected by ESA in 1995 to develop the processing of the XMM data.
XMM-Newton launched at the end of 1999.
The instruments have been conceived and built by European scientific institutes, and are each managed by a Principal Investigator (PI), heading teams of scientists and engineers from different countries. Overseeing the science of the entire mission is ESA's XMM-Newton Project Scientist.


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Yervant Zorian of Synopsys to serve as General Chair
LOUISVILLE, Colo. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — August 23, 2012 — The Design Automation Conference (DAC), the premier conference devoted to electronic design and design automation (EDA), has named the members of the 50th DAC Executive Committee (EC). The Executive Committee oversees the exhibition and trade show, plans the technical program, establishes new initiatives, and manages conference operations and publicity. The 50th DAC will be held at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas from June 2-6, 2013. Yervant Zorian, chief architect at Synopsys, will serve as general chair of the 50th DAC and lead the Executive Committee. Dr. Zorian studied computer engineering at University of Southern California, graduating in 1983. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from McGill University in 1987. Since then he has lead positions at Bell Laboratories, LogicVision, Virage Logic and Synopsys.
Dr. Zorian is joined on the Executive Committee by the following volunteers from across the electronics, semiconductor, embedded systems, and EDA industries and from academia:
- Vice Chair / Finance Chair – Soha Hassoun, Tufts University
- Technical Program Co-Chair – Donatello Sciuto, Politecnico di Milano
- Technical Program Co-Chair – Charles Alpert, IBM Corp.
- Panel Chair – Magdy Abadir, Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
- Tutorial Chair – Michael McNamara, previously with Cadence Design Systems Inc.
- Past Chair – Patrick Groeneveld, Synopsys Inc.
- Design Community Chair – Robert Jones, Intel Corp.
- Industry Liaison Chair – Tiffany Sparks, ARM Inc.
- Publicity Chair – Michelle Clancy, Cayenne Communication
- New Initiatives Chair – Nikil Dutt, University of California, Irvine
- Europe / Middle East Representative – Norbert Wehn, University of Kaiserslautern
- Asia / South Pacific Representative – Cheng-Wen Wu, National Tsing Hua University
- ACM SIGDA Representative – Naehyuck Chang, Seoul National University
- EDA Consortium Representative – Anne Cirkel, Mentor Graphics Corp.
- IEEE CEDA Representative – Andreas Kuehlmann, Coverity Inc
Kevin Lepine and Lee Wood of MP Associates, Inc, serve as conference manager and exhibits manager, respectively.
"For 50 years, DAC has been the key event for the electronic design, embedded systems and design automation communities to meet, learn and discover new research, new products, and new developments," said Yervant Zorian. "As we begin to plan DAC's 50th Anniversary in Austin, the executive committee is committed to providing attendees with an enhanced overall experience at both the exhibition and technical conference. We are looking forward to an exciting event to celebrate 50 years of innovation and research."
In addition, the executive committee has formed an Austin Local Committee (ALC) to serve as an interface between DAC and the electronics community in the Austin area. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact the DAC office at 303-530-4333 for more information.
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The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems and for electronic design automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. A diverse worldwide community representing more than 1,000 organizations attends each year, ranging from system designers and architects, logic and circuit designers, validation engineers, CAD managers, embedded software engineers, senior managers and executives to researchers and academicians from leading universities. Close to 60 technical sessions selected by a committee of electronic design experts offer information on recent developments and trends, management practices and new products, methodologies and technologies. A highlight of DAC is its exhibition and suite area with approximately 200 of the leading and emerging EDA, embedded systems, silicon, intellectual property (IP) and design services providers. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on Design.
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TOKYO – Bryan Caraway's run on "The Ultimate Fighter 14" was not his brightest moment. That said, it may very well have been one of the most important experiences of his fighting career.
"Being on there and not having my coaches, not having people I'm familiar with, not being able to talk to my family, made my anxiety hit a whole new level," Caraway told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "Having that make me feel so nervous made me break past it. I could finally relax after the show."
Caraway was one of 16 featherweights picked to compete on "The Ultimate Fighter 14." He progressed to the semifinals of the tournament but dealt with severe anxiety during his time in the "TUF" house. It's a challenge Caraway admits he's dealt with throughout his career but was brought to the forefront on the reality series.
"Being on 'The Ultimate Fighter' show, they decided to portray my nervousness more as being scared," Caraway said. "It's more of a performance anxiety. I would be so worried I wouldn't live up to other people's expectations or my own, and I would put all this pressure on myself.
"I would tend to try not to lose instead of trying to win. I was second-guessing myself. 'Do I really belong at this level? I'm from Goldendale – a 3,000-person town. What am I doing here?' It got to the point where I started hating the sport. I didn't want to be in it, and I didn't want to do it anymore."
It was a make-or-break moment for Caraway. It could have meant the end of his time in the cage. Instead, it launched a run that has seen him earn back-to-back wins in the UFC.
"I have a lot of pride and put a lot of work in," Caraway said. "It just got to the point where I realized if I hate the sport this much – a sport that's so pure and that I used to do for free – then I might as well not care about what happens. It's one or the other. It's either quit what I love because I'm letting it get to me or just say, 'You know what? Go out there and love it again. Who gives a s— what happens?' That's the point that I got. When I go in there, I'm going to give it the best I can, and I'm going to give it all I can.
"Ultimately, when it comes down to it, I don't give a s— that happens. I'm just going to have a good time, and if it falls my way, I'm stoked. Obviously, I still don't want to lose. I'd be super bummed. But I'm just not letting it consume me."
Caraway returns this weekend at UFC on FUEL TV 8, where he fights onetime WEC title challenger Takeya Mizugaki (16-7-2 MMA, 3-2 UFC). After earning official UFC wins over Mitch Gagnon and Dustin Neace, Mizugaki will certainly offer Caraway an opportunity to score the biggest win of his career to date. It's an opportunity he relishes.
"I actually asked to fight Takeya Mizugaki – not because of a lack of skill or lack of toughness," Caraway said. "That's exactly why I wanted to fight him. I want to fight guys that are tough and can put on a good fight and challenge me and get me either a 'Submission of the Night' or a 'Fight of the Night' bonus. I also want someone that will move me up the ladder. I want to fight people that will get me one step closer to the title."
It's a new attitude for Caraway. Confidence. Comfort. No self-doubt. After eight years in the game, it's all clicking – even if it almost went the other way.
"God's been in my favor and been by my side, and I've just been working hard," Caraway said. "It was just the pressure and the anxiety. But I'm winning a lot more than I'm losing, so I just look at it logically. I'm going to win a lot more than I lose, so have fun doing it.
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Happy morning everyone! It's a bit overcast looking outside but the air sure feels great! Hopefully it will be a wonderful day to head to the orchard to get apples and pick a pumpkin in one of our five patches!
We have some really unique and fun pumpkins in our patch! Once you've picked your pumpkin you just bring it to the weigh station we have set up between the two sheds, under the lean (near the glittered sewing machines), weigh the pumpkins, fill out the sheet that is at the station, put your pumpkins right in your car and just bring the sheet into the shop to pay. It gets to be a clutter to have all the pumpkins and wagons hauled into the shop so we've decided to trust folks and do things this way.
Apples! Of course we have apples still!
Final call – Jonathan, Bonnie's Best, Jumbo and Sno! It is unlikely that these varieties will be around longer than the weekend … if even through the end of Saturday.
Let's see … are you still super sad that the honeycrisp are all gone? Seriously – come on in and give the Snow Sweet a try. I think we'll have your new favorite apple (at least until next September). The flavor of the fireside and gala is also quite incredible if you are into sweeter apples.
Do you want something tart? The Northern Spy and Winesap have been pleasantly surprising many folks! The Haralson is also a safe bet!
Our Golden Delicious are beautiful and delicious this year! These are a fabulous all around apple – great for eating, baking, and drying!
Are you looking for a good, hard apple with a sweet with a hint of tart flavor – give the cameo a try!
Regents, Empire, and spartan apples are all great choices to make the whole family happy!
If you are a fan of the Red Delicious ours have been picked and are gorgeous.
The weekends get a bit crazy so if there's not a sample out on the shelf of an apple you want to try just pop your head into the sorting room and ask for one! We want you to try the apples so you know you're happy with the bag you selected!
Donuts and caramel apples are completely stocked to start the day today! We've been working hard to make sure there are enough to make the end of the day!


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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Jason Giambi sat his locker inside the Indians' complex, flecks of gray hair in his sideburns and stubble, smiling as he soaked in his new surroundings. He might be as surprised as anyone that he is being gifted with another shot at another season.
Giambi was nearly ready to accept that it might be time to retire from his playing days.
Eighteen years in the big leagues. He would have no reason to complain.
"I was prepared for that," said Giambi, who then laughed. "I've got a 15-month-old daughter. I finally grew up. So, it wouldn't have hurt my feelings. But to have this opportunity, I jumped on it in a heartbeat."
The opportunity at hand is a spot on Cleveland's Opening Day roster as a part-time designated hitter and pinch hitter. He served a similar role over the past few years with the Rockies, and learned to embrace being a mentor. Chatting up younger players, passing on what he has learned, Giambi says that has been his way of giving back to the game that has given so much to him.
Colorado appreciated what the 42-year-old Giambi did behind the scenes so much that the club went as far as interviewing him for their managerial job this past offseason. That Giambi was being considered for such a task was not surprising to those that know him.
Indians manager Terry Francona certainly wasn't surprised.
"I don't think it was probably too far from being reality," Francona said. "He's everything you want in a player. He's a good teammate. He respects the game. He plays hard. He wants to win. Even when he's on the other team, you always respected him. You just didn't want to see him up at the plate.
"This guy might be one of the most respected guys in the game."
That is a big reason behind the Indians giving Giambi a chance to extend his career.
Coming off a 94-loss season, the Indians have drastically reshaped their roster. General manager Chris Antonetti has added free agents Nick Swisher, Mark Reynolds and Brett Myers to the fold, and the Tribe is expected to officially announce the signing of Michael Bourn on Friday. Francona -- a two-time World Series champion -- was hired to lead the charge.
Each move -- even when it comes to the bench or Minor League depth -- has been with the intention of altering the culture surrounding the team.
Antonetti wanted Giambi to be a part of the process.
"Chris reached out to my agent," Giambi said. "They said, 'We're really interested. We want you to come,' so I ended up signing."
Giambi signed a Minor League contract and is in camp as a non-roster invitee, but he has a strong chance of making the Opening Day roster.
Francona feels Giambi's presence this spring, and possibly this season, will be invaluable.
"He's not just a vateran guy. I mean, he's like the veteran," Francona said. "I truly feel like it's an honor that he's in our camp. That's how strongly I feel about him."
Giambi has been to baseball's mountaintop and back.
In his 18 seasons, Giambi has hit .280 with a .403 on-base percentage, piling up 429 home runs, 1,334 walks and 1,405 RBIs along the way in stops with the A's, Yankees and Rockies. He won the American League Most Valuable Player Award in 2000, was named to five All-Star teams and reached the World Series with New York in '03.
Between the 2000-02 seasons, he hit .330 with a 1.096 OPS, averaging 41 homers, 37 doubles, 125 walks and 126 RBIs per year.
"You always felt like he was going to hurt you," Francona said.
Giambi has also had his low points.
Before the 2005 season, Giambi issue a public apology after his name surfaced in reports tying him to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Giambi later admitted to using steroids, and that admission will continue to follow him.
"I've been on top of the world in this game and I've been in the gutter in this game," Giambi said. "I've been trying to get myself back going again. I've faced a lot of adversity and I'm still here, sitting here in this chair, talking to you guys today."
Francona said the past will stay there.
"That's way in the rear-view mirror," Francona said. "I have so much respect for him that I probably don't have the ability to be not biased. I just feel that way. With certain people, you're like that."
At the time he signed with the Indians, Giambi knew that Cleveland was in the mix for Bourn -- a signing that will cause a ripple effect on the roster. Bourn will take over in center field and Drew Stubbs will shift to right, forcing Swisher to first base. As a result, Reynolds is expected to assume the bulk of the duties for the designated hitter role.
That could leave Giambi with limited at-bats.
That said, Giambi's recent experience with Colorado was similar. He had 396 at-bats total over the past three seasons, during which he hit .245 with a .370 on-base percentage, 20 home runs, 72 walks and 75 RBIs in 211 games.
"I had a meeting with Tito today and I was excited," Giambi said. I said, 'Hey, listen. As long as I don't have to face anybody in the ninth all the time throwing 100 mph, I don't care. As long as I can get some consistent at-bats -- four in a game once or twice, or three times a week -- I don't care. I'm all for it. And that's really what my role would be here."
For now, Giambi is thrilled simply to be here.
"It's definitely a gift and I'm grateful for it," he said. "It's been a long road and I've had the greatest time in the world. I'll give it one more shot and see what I have left."


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In Health Insurance Wastelands, Rosier Options Crop Up for 2019
In recent years, places such as Memphis and Phoenix had withered into health insurance wastelands as insurers fled and premiums skyrocketed in the insurance marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act. But today, as in many parts of the country, these two cities are experiencing something unprecedented: Premiums are sinking and choices are sprouting.
In the newly competitive market in Memphis, the cheapest midlevel "silver" plan for next year will cost $498 a month for a 40-year-old, a 17 percent decrease. Four insurers are selling policies in Phoenix, which then-presidential candidate Donald Trump highlighted in 2016 as proof of "the madness of Obamacare" as all but one insurer left the region.
Janice Johnson, a 63-year-old retiree in Arizona's Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, said her premium for a high-deductible bronze plan will be $207 instead of $270 because she is switching carriers.
"When you're on a fixed income, that makes a difference," said Johnson, who receives a government subsidy to help cover her premium. "I'll know more than a year from now if I'm going to stick with this company, but I'm going to give them a chance, and I'm pretty excited by that."
Across all 50 states, premiums for the average "benchmark" silver plan, which the government uses to set subsidies, are dropping nearly 1 percent. And more than half of the counties that use the federal healthcare.gov exchange are experiencing an average 10 percent price decrease for their cheapest plan.
In most places, the declines are not enough to erase the price hikes that have accrued since the creation in 2014 of the health care exchanges for people who don't get insurance through an employer or the government.
Instead, experts said, next year's price cuts help to correct the huge increases that jittery insurers set for 2018 plans to protect themselves from anticipated Republican assaults on the markets. Although Congress came up one vote shy of repealing the law, Trump and Republicans in Congress did strip away structural underpinnings that pushed customers to buy plans and helped insurers pay for some of their low-income customers' copayments and deductibles. Insurers responded with 32 percent average increases.
"Insurers overshot last year," said Chris Sloan, a director at Avalere, a health care consulting company in Washington, D.C. "We are nowhere close to erasing that increase. This is still a really expensive market with poor benefits when it comes to deductibles and cost."
For 2019, the average benchmark silver premium will be 75 percent higher than it was in 2014, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent program of the foundation.)
When Republicans failed to kill the health law last year, they inadvertently may have made it stronger. Insurers banked hefty profits this year, and new companies are moving in.
All these factors were especially influential in Tennessee, where the average benchmark premium is dropping 26 percent, according to a government analysis. That is more than in any other state.
In 2018, 78 of 95 Tennessee counties had just one insurer. That monopoly allowed the insurer to set the prices of its plans without fear of competition, said David Anderson, a researcher at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy in Durham, N.C. "They were massively overpriced," he said.
But for the coming year, 49 Tennessee counties will have more than one insurer, with a few — like Shelby County, where Memphis is located — having four companies competing. There, Cigna dropped the price of its lowest-cost silver plan by 15 percent. Nonetheless, it was underbid by Ambetter of Tennessee, which is owned by the managed-care insurer Centene Corp.
"We're finally at the point where the market is stabilized," said Bobby Huffaker, the CEO of American Exchange, an insurance brokerage firm based in Tennessee. "From the beginning, every underwriter, and the people who were the architects, they knew it would take several years for the market to mature."
Still, the cheapest Memphis silver premium is nearly three times what it was in 2014, the first year of the marketplaces. A family of four with 40-year-old parents will be paying $19,119 for all of next year unless they qualify for a government subsidy.
"The unsubsidized are leaving," said Sabrina Corlette, a professor at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute. "They are finding these premiums unaffordable."
The landscape in Phoenix is greatly improved from when Trump visited after the federal government announced a 116 percent premium increase for 2017, as the number of insurers dropped from eight to one.
But now, three new insurers are entering Maricopa County. Ambetter, the only insurer this year, dropped its lowest price for a silver plan for next year by 12 percent and still offers the cheapest such plan.
Ambetter's plan is still 114 percent above the least expensive silver plan in the first year of the exchanges. And none of the insurers are offering as broad and flexible a choice of doctors and hospitals as consumers had back then, said Michael Malasnik, a local broker.
Since the start of the exchanges, he said, insurers have "raised their rates by multiples, and they've figured out you have to be a very narrow network."
Each plan for 2019 contains trade-offs. He said only Bright Health's plan includes Phoenix Children's Hospital. Ambetter's plan includes the most popular hospital and doctor groups, but they are not as conveniently located for people living in the southeastern corner of the county, making other insurers' plans appealing.
"Geography is the name of the game this year," Malasnik said.
Theresa Flood, a preschool teacher who lives outside Phoenix, said none of the plans she considered accepted her doctors, who include a specialist for her spine problems — she has had four surgeries — and a neurologist who monitors a cyst and benign tumor in her brain.
"I have to establish care with a whole new spine doctor and establish care with a whole new neurologist if I want to follow up on these things," Flood, 59, said. "You're going from established care to who in the heck am I going to see?"
The plan she chose would have been too expensive except that she and her husband, John, a pastor, qualified for a $1,263-a-month subsidy that will drop the cost to $207 a month. That bronze plan from Ambetter carries a $6,550-per-person deductible, so she expects she'll still have to pay for her doctors on her own unless she needs extensive medical attention.
"It's gone from being able to have a plan that you could sort of afford and got some benefit from, to putting up with what you can afford and hoping nothing happens that you actually have to use your insurance," she said. "At this point, I'll take what I can get."
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There's only eight months to go until the Winter Olympics, and two-time Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones has offended her new bobsled teammates.On Monday, Jones posted a Vine video cheekily complaining about her $741.84 check from the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton ...
There's only eight months to go until the Winter Olympics, and two-time Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones has offended her new bobsled teammates.On Monday, Jones posted a Vine video cheekily complaining about her $741.84 check from the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, which decides pay based on performance results. "Several months with bobsled season. The whole season. That's it. I'm going to be a little late on my rent this month," Jones wrote.Fellow bobsledder Steven Holcomb called Jones' comments "a slap in the face."PHOTOS: Hot summer TV eye candy"It wasn't taken very well," Holcomb told USA Today. "People were really kind of insulted. You just made $741, more than most athletes in the sport. So what are you complaining about? The way it came across to a lot of the athletes here was kind of snobby because she's one of the most well-known athletes in the world and she's making pretty good money in endorsements. And to basically turn around and slap us in the face because you didn't make any money this year in bobsledding while taking money from other's athletes? She slapped pretty much every athlete in the U.S. federation in the face. That was the general consensus."Jones attempted some damage control Monday night, explaining how the Vine was meant to draw attention to the larger issue at hand. "I didn't want to offend anyone, and I've always wanted to help out my bobsled teammates," a statement from Jones read. "Some of them have debt because they've given their life to the sport. My partner Jazmine [Fenlator] and I had to raise money for the bobsled to be funded just to finish the season, because only two of the three sleds are funded by the team. I can't imagine halfway through my track season having to stop and raise money to finish.11 shows you're breaking up with next season"The Vine of the paycheck is just showing the difference between track and bobsled, and to be honest bobsledders work more hours than track! The bottom line is that all Olympic athletes dedicate their lives to their sports and do not receive lucrative paychecks like athletes in mainstream professional sports. So hopefully this will make people appreciate just how hard Olympians work, often just for the love of the sport," Jones concluded.While many bobsledders were still rankled by Jones' comments, one of her teammates, Elana Meyers, was grateful that Jones put the issue out there. "thanks for bringing the issues to light! Bobsledders aren't high paid pro athletes like you see on tv," Meyers tweeted.What do you think of Jones' comments?
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by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier
Gamo P-25 is a 16-shot blowback pellet pistol.
Today is accuracy day with the Gamo P-25 air pistol. I inserted a fresh CO2 cartridge into the gun, loaded both of its 8-shot rotary clips and then slid the magazine into the grip.
I shot the pistol at 10 meters, which seems appropriate for a gun of this type. I shot it rested with a two-hand hold and my arms resting on the sandbag but the pistol free to move.
The pistol has open sights that are not adjustable. They have white dots, both front and rear, but that was cancelled by lighting the target brightly and shooting from a dimly lit place. I used a 6 o'clock hold, and the sights were very sharp and easy to align.


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Farmingdale State - 86, The Sage Colleges - 70
Farmingdale, N.Y. - Farmingdale State earned an 86-70 win over The Sage Colleges this afternoon and improved to 10-1 in the Skyline Conference and 13-8 on the season. The Gators dropped to 13-9 overall and 8-4 in conference play.
Trailing 27-26 with 6:07 remaining in the first half, sophomore forward Aries Adams (Bronx, N.Y.) hit a layup and senior guard Nicky Young (Queens, N.Y.) connected on back-to-back 3's to put the Rams ahead 34-27. Farmingdale State took a seven point lead, 44-37, into the halftime break. The Rams were a perfect 10-for-10 at the line in the first half.
Leading 51-43 early in the second, Farmingdale State used a 10-0 run to increase the advantage to 18 points with 12:06 left to play. The Rams led by as many as 23 over the final minutes en route to the 86-70 victory.
Young led all scorers with 22 points (9-of-10 FT's), while junior guard Camille Romero (Queens, N.Y.) had 20 points and a game-high six assists.
The Gators were led by junior forward Amie Jefferson (Albany, N.Y.) who tallied 18 points on 7-of-9 shooting and eight rebounds.
Farmingdale State next will travel to St. Joe's for a Skyline Conference game on Wednesday, February 19th at 5:30 p.m.


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Lhamo Tso has not spoken to her husband Dhondup Wangchen since March 17, 2008. She, their four children, and his elderly parents live in India, and hear of him only when his sister visits the Xichuan Prison in Qinghai province, western China, where he is serving six years. Through glass, he passes on the news: He's contracted hepatitis, though the prison won't let the family pay for proper medical treatment. He's working less -- promoted from 17-hour days in a brick kiln to manufacturing acupuncture needles. His two lawyers have been told their Beijing-based firm will be put out of business if they continue to work on his case.
Like her husband, Lhamo Tso did not go to school. She bakes bread to support her family. But after her husband's 2008 arrest for filming 35 hours of interviews with Tibetans about life under Chinese rule, she was faced with a decision that would challenge the most experienced publisher. Friends brought her the footage, edited into the documentary "Leaving Fear Behind," and asked her permission to distribute. She was in Dharamsala, a center for Tibetans in exile in northern India, safe from reprisals that follow from anti-government expression in Tibet. But her husband had disappeared into Chinese custody.
"It was very difficult," she told CPJ on a visit to New York, speaking through a translator. "He hadn't been sentenced yet. We didn't know if publicizing it would hurt his chances. But in the film, so many people spoke out about their opinions, about the Dalai Lama. So many had spent time, effort, energy on this film. I thought my personal family matter was less important. The film should be shown."
Lhamo Tso's soft-spoken manner and sweet, shy smile hide a determination that has taken her to Europe and America to publicize Dhondup Wangchen's imprisonment. A local court sentenced him for inciting separatism in December 2009, and he was denied appeal. Since then, she has been a dogged advocate for his release. "I'm doing this to free my husband, and to speak for the families of other Tibetans in jail," she said. "He was not a filmmaker, so I was surprised when he made the film, but also very inspired as a Tibetan. It is a matter of pride for all of us." She is supporting a petition created by his film company: http://leavingfearbehind.com/take-action/.
The Chinese government can appear impervious to pressure regarding its crackdown on Tibetan voices. CPJ has watched the number of jailed journalists from the region climb since Tibetans and Han Chinese clashed in March 2008, when demonstrations marking a failed uprising against Chinese rule spiraled out of control. Foreign journalists are barred from the Tibetan Autonomous Region and Tibetan areas of western China. News and communications from the region are heavily restricted. The massive security presence is apparently serving to provoke locals into increasingly drastic means of self-expression: Over 25 ethnic Tibetans have set themselves on fire in the past year, according to the BBC.
But Lhamo Tso believes that pressure does make a difference. The reason Dhondup Wangchen's working conditions improved, she said, is because of the vocal support he is getting from outside prison walls. Besides, her children, who range in age from 11 to 16, want their father back. "You're travelling so much to tell people about father's case," her 13-year-old daughter told her before she left on her latest trip. "He must be released soon."
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[Amended 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01]
It is intended that the application of the landscape standards set forth below will reduce the visual and environmental impacts of large expanses of parking areas. Breaking up of paved parking areas with plantings will provide improved aesthetics, stormwater runoff absorption, and microclimatic benefits by reducing heat and glare. Guidance for designing parking areas to achieve this intent is contained in Appendix E.[1]
Editor's Note: Appendix E is included as an attachment to this chapter.
New sites. No new parking areas shall hereafter be constructed or used unless landscaping is provided as required by the provisions of this article.
Existing sites. No parking areas shall be expanded, moved or removed and/or reconstructed unless the minimum landscaping required by the provisions of this article is provided for the property to the extent of its alteration or expansion, but not for the entire property.
Change of use. No use shall be changed to another use for which this chapter requires additional parking over and above that required for the previous use, unless vehicular use area perimeter landscaping as required by this article is provided for such additional parking. The provisions of this section shall be effective regardless of whether or not new construction is necessary to meet the parking requirements for the new uses. Where new construction will not be necessary to meet the parking requirements, such additional required parking shall be deemed to be on the perimeter for as much as possible of the existing vehicular use area. Where the previous use had no required parking, perimeter landscaping shall be provided for the entire vehicular use area serving the new use. Interior landscaping shall not be required where only the use of the property is changed and no new construction or reconstruction is proposed.
Change of zone. No use of an existing building, structure or vehicular use area shall be commenced subsequent to a change in zoning unless property perimeter landscaping as required herein has been provided.
The owner of an existing parking lot may convert existing parking areas based on the design standards and parking requirements of this chapter, upon the Zoning Officer's approval of a site plan showing the new arrangement. The site plan shall provide landscaping as required in this section.
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[Added 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01[1]]
For calculating the gross area for landscaping, the actual measured paved area or a minimum 400 square feet per parking space, whichever is greater, shall be used.
In any parking lot perimeter or interior landscaping area, there shall be a distance of at least four feet from the center of all planted trees to the edge of paving.
No paving may be placed within 12 1/2 feet (measured from the center of the trunk) of any tree retained to comply with this section.
New trees planted to comply with this section are to be surrounded by at least 200 square feet of unpaved area.
All landscaping areas are encouraged to be designed as bioretention areas to accommodate stormwater management.
All landscaping areas are encouraged to be flush with the pavement. If not flush, all landscaping areas are to be protected by curbing or curb stops six inches in height or approved alternative. Curb cuts and curb stops are allowed to provide water flow to bioretention areas and access to pedestrian crossings.
Landscaping for parking areas shall be installed and continuously maintained by the owner according to the requirements contained in this chapter.
Landscape material type and quality shall comply with the provisions of the landscaping and buffer yard guides of this chapter (see Articles XXI, XXII, and XXIII and Appendix E) and the following:
Ninety percent of all required perimeter and shade trees are to be native Maryland species;
Nonnative, invasive plant species identified by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Wildlife and Heritage Division are prohibited for required landscaping; and
A maximum of 1/3 of the trees are to be a single species.
All soils in interior landscape areas shall be loosened and amended to a depth of 2 1/2 feet.
All plant materials required to meet this chapter are to be inspected for the use and occupancy permit and shall be labeled with the Latin name and bonded for two years. The labels may be removed from the plant material after the bond is released.
Plan submission and approval. Whenever any property is affected by these parking area landscape requirements, the property owner or applicant shall prepare a landscape plan for approval by the Zoning Officer.
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Property line landscape buffers between adjacent land uses shall be provided in accordance with the requirements spelled out in the landscape and land use buffer articles of this chapter.[1] In addition, the following buffers are required:
Where a parking area of 10 spaces or more abuts property with a single-family detached house that is closer than 100 feet, the parking area must be screened by Buffer Yard C. (See Article XXIII.)
Any parking area of 10,000 square feet or more that is adjacent to a road or public right-of-way shall provide a landscaping area width based upon the following right-of-way width:
Editor's Note: See Art. XXI, Landscaping of Parking Facilities, Art. XXII, Screening and Trees, and Art. XXIII, Buffer Yard Requirements.
The Zoning Officer may allow deviations from parking buffer requirements when it finds that the site in question exhibits irregular, confining or otherwise unusual characteristics. In no case shall the required landscape area width be less than 8 1/2 feet.
Grass or native ground cover shall be planted on all portions of the landscape area not occupied by other landscape material.
Landscape plantings that are planted within the sight triangle shall conform to the following standards:
Special notes on existing natural vegetation.
In cases where significant natural vegetation exists, limits of clearing/grading areas shall be established during site plan review to protect and preserve the natural area. These protected areas will not be disturbed by the installation of any structures, utilities, storm and sanitary sewers, water lines, sediment and erosion control traps, stormwater management systems or signs. Existing landscape material which is proposed to be used to fulfill landscape requirements shall be shown in the required plan and measures taken to protect these areas from disturbance during construction using forest conservation techniques such as protective fencing and root pruning.
In the case where buffers are created by this chapter, no structures, utilities, storm and sanitary sewers, water lines, sediment and erosion control traps, stormwater management systems or signs will be permitted in the buffer yard.
Where pedestrian and bike paths are proposed in the landscape area, such paths shall be meandering in order to preserve the existing trees.
Any natural vegetation outside the limits of disturbance shown on the approved site plan that is damaged or destroyed by construction activity within one year of the issuance of the first use and occupancy permit for the property shall be replaced at a ratio of 2:1.
Landscaping in easements. An area located in a utility or other easement may be included in the calculation of the required landscaped area only when:
For any parking lot containing more than 6,000 square feet of area or 15 or more spaces, interior landscaping shall be provided in addition to the previously required perimeter landscaping.
[Amended 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01]
Where a parking area is altered or expanded to increase the size to 6,000 or more square feet of area or 15 or more vehicular parking spaces, interior landscaping for the entire parking area shall be provided, and not merely to the extent of its alteration or expansion.
Landscape area. For each 100 square feet or fraction thereof of gross parking area, 10 square feet of landscaped area shall be provided.
[Amended 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01]
Interior landscaping shall be contained in islands having a minimum soil area of 153 square feet, having a minimum width of 8 1/2 feet and a minimum length of 18 feet.
[Added 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01[1]]
Landscape islands.
[Amended 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01]
If bioretention is provided in the landscape area, one island is required for every 15 spaces.
All interior parking aisles shall end in a landscape island.
A minimum of one walkway per 10 parking spaces across landscape islands shall be provided.
Maximum contiguous areas for interior parking lot landscaping. In order to provide that the required landscape areas be properly dispersed, no required landscape area shall be larger than the following:
[Amended 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01]
Landscape areas larger than the above are permitted as long as the additional area is in excess of the required minimum, except that landscape areas larger than the maximum permitted may be allowed as required landscaping areas in those cases where significant natural vegetation exists and are protected as set forth in § 297-358E.
[Amended 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01]
Minimum plant materials.
[Amended 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01]
Preservation of existing shade trees is preferred over planting new trees. Shade trees shall meet the following requirements:
Using the standard of each large tree shading a circular area having a radius of 15 feet with the trunk of the tree as the center, there must be sufficient trees so that 35% of the parking area will be shaded. Small trees used for perimeter landscaping requirements may be counted towards shading as described in Appendix E.[2]
Editor's Note: Appendix E is included as an attachment to this chapter.
Conservation landscaping or preserved plant material shall be provided for a minimum of 50% of all portions of the landscape area. Grass or native ground cover shall be planted on all portions of the landscape area not occupied by other landscape material.
Landscaping for service structures. Service structures shall include propane tanks, dumpsters, air-conditioning units and condensers, electrical transformers and other equipment or elements providing service to a building or a site. All such structures shall be fully screened except when located in a single-family, agriculture or industrial zone or when located more than 35 feet above the established grade. Service structures in an industrial zone shall be fully screened when located within 100 feet of any zone other than industrial.
Location of screening. A continuous planting, hedge, fence, wall or earth mound shall enclose any service structure on all sides unless such structure must be frequently moved, in which case screening on all but one side is required. The average height of the screening material shall be one foot more than the height of the enclosed structure, but shall not be required to exceed eight feet in height. Whenever a service structure is located next to a building wall, perimeter landscaping material or vehicular use area landscaping material, such walls or screening material may fulfill the screening requirement for that side of the service structure if that wall or screening material is of an average height sufficient to meet the height requirement set out in this section. Whenever service structures are screened by plant material, such material may count towards the fulfillment of required interior or perimeter landscaping. No interior landscaping shall be required within an area screened for service structures.
Protection of screening material. Whenever screening material is placed around any trash disposal unit or waste collection unit that is emptied or removed mechanically on a regular basis, a fixed barrier to contain the placement of the container shall be provided within the screening material on those sides where there is such material. The barrier shall be at least 18 inches from the material and shall be of sufficient strength to prevent possible damage to the screening when the container is moved or emptied. The minimum front opening of the screening material shall be 12 feet to allow service vehicles access to the container.[3]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection I, which provided for landscaping installation and maintenance, former Subsection J, which provided landscape material type and quality requirements, and former Subsection K, Plan submission and approval, all of which immediately followed this subsection, were repealed 5-7-2008 by Bill No. 2008-01.


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Review: Fable 3
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It's time for a revolution in Fable's Albion. Chicken kicking optional.
WOW, way to post a review at the closing bell...
Or is this the lifting of the press blackout? It's 12 am where you guys are isn't it?
Anyway, I may pick this up as it seem to be the first Fable (for me anyway) that looks worth playing.
Dark and mature = over-blown and ridiculous, doesn't it?
Great always technical issues that drag the score down. I'll buy it anyways.
Goddammit why can't this come out for PS3?!?! Or I win the lottery so I can buy a 360 and/or a better computer.....actually I'd prefer that one, I need money.
When I have money, I'm definitely getting this, I loved Fable 2!
sounds cool. It will be mine.
Well if bugs are your only concern, then I'm really looking forward to this game when it comes out for PC. Hooray for near-constant patches!
It sounds like fun. Too bad I can't play it because the dipshit developers are withholding the PC version most likely for shits and giggles. At the very least with how long it's delayed the PC version better have virtually no glithes or else I will personally deliver a savage beating to everyone associated with the game.
Did Fable 2 ever come out for the PC? I enjoyed Fable: TLC, but was never able to find Fable 2. I see Fable 3 is up for pre-order on Amazon, so hopefully we'll see it eventually.
Interesting review to be sure.
How bad are the bugs compared to Fallout New Vegas? I just find it crazy how these big mainstream titles have bugs and are for consoles. Bugs are more annoying on the 360 than other systems as well because you never know when it could be a hint of something like the RROD... Seriously, Fallout New Vegas froze on me multiple times which I don't mind except for the fact I'm always afraid maybe it may be something wrong with the console...
Since I bought F:NV going to be playing that for a while. Hopefully by the time I rent or buy Fable 3 (for probably 20 or 30 bucks), most of the bugs would be patched.
Yeah, between this and Fallout: New Vegas we're seeing a disturbing trend in the Good Game to Bugs ratio.
Still, it's nice to know that the Fable series is getting better with each iteration.
This. I was quite disappointed, yet thrilled with Fable: The Lost Chapters, and hope that this will kill my disappointments.
Sweet, (bugs not withstanding) it looks like a great game. My CE should come in the mail on Wednesday, YAY!
I WILL play this when it's released on PC. I really enjoyed the previous Fables and saying that this one is the best yet, it's an obvious must buy for me. I hope these issues doesn't rear their ugly heads in the PC port.
This is why Susan is my favorite reviewer. She's to the point and analytical, but can still be funny as hell when she wants.
Thinking I might rent this one. Just to see. The co-op is going to be a big thing for me, so I'm sad it wasn't online for the review. Ah well.
Looks decent. I might 'try' it for PC.
I just got done with a Fable 2 grind session, so I'm pretty well equipped to deal with any bugs that I find. The ones in Fable 2 were annoying, but not game breaking, and if Fable 3 is better, with the same bugs and hopefully not new ones, then I'm still glad I pre-ordered it.
I was going to pick this up Friday anyway but it's good to know I wasn't wrong about buying it, it looks brilliant. Thank you for the great review!
John Cleese is my butler, that's enough for me.
Hmm, I never really liked Fable,
Well I'm certainly in no hurry after they hit me in the face with the boredom of Fable 2.
It seems more or less the old formula, except that odd gauntlet - spell thing, why can't they just stick with a formula that works...
Unless your name is what?
got this one on reserve and can't wait to pick it up, I love me some Fable
Fable 2 was pretty addictive. May borrow this one just to continue the adventure.
I have been waiting for that one game that's worth buying a 360 for. I have passed up several that I want to play and a few that I really want to play, but I *must* play Fable 3.
I really wish this would come out for the PS3.
I'm considering getting this just because it has so many awesome voice actors in it.
John Clease, Simon Pegg, Ben Kingsly and Stephen Fry?
I might faint ^-^
Is it just me or does it look like they brought back the mana-less spell casting...? God, I hated that system before, I don't think my opinion will change... Though spell weaving looks pretty dang cool
Really loved the hitchhikers guide reference with the gauntlets haha
yeah, looking forward to the game, though im flat broke from new vegas ]:
I've always wanted to play the Fable series. *Dam my rampant Sony fanboyism*
Nice hitchhikers reference by the by!
Really, they decided to bring back Fable 1's "Giant area of destruction" spell that you ca upgrade until you don't need anything else in the game.
I'm waiting it patiently to pc.
By the way, any owner can tell me if you can still bulk your hero?
Or how morphing your weapon works?
Anyone know if decisions from Fable 2 effect Fable 3? It's just that I lost some of my save data and I can't be arsed to play through Fable 2 again.
Is this coming out on Pc? Will i get this game?
The answers are the same for both questions... sadly.
EDIT: after doing some reaserch I have found out that it is, just microsoft have no realse date for it.
Would love for this to come out on PC. Some of us liked the Fable 1 port.
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A different New York artisan every week.
After moving around a lot as a self-proclaimed "theater gypsy," Alison Walla was excited to move to Fort Greene and stay in one place for a while. "I wanted to put roots down and get to know my neighbors," she explains, "and in my very midwestern way, I'd bring them some cookies."
One of those neighbors happened to own the gourmet shop Greene Grape and said they would stock her wares should she ever decide to start a business.
"My two dreams were always to be on Broadway and have a bakery," Walla says. "I thought, you know, here's a door. Why not now?"
With her company, Butter + Love, she aims to pay homage to time-honored family traditions. Her variations on sandwich cookies and shortbread began with her grandmother's recipe for Raspberry Lemon cookies, and Walla credits many of the flavor combinations she's developed to her mother's "amazing herb garden" and encouraging attitude toward experimentation.
"After all this time, I still love the strawberry balsamic cookie," she says, "especially paired with marjoram, which has some balsamic notes." Eventually, she plans to introduce a line of jams and preserves, which will be used in the cookies as well as sold on their own. For the time being, she works with local jam makers as much as she can, though she says it can be hard to procure in the quantities that she needs.
While Butter + Love will be at some of the holiday markets around the city, including the Brooklyn Flea and the Columbus Circle market, Walla notes that all of her cookies—sandwich cookies, shortbread, and the especially charming gingerbread mustaches (for the Movember participant in your life, perhaps?)—hold up particularly well when shipped. "They have a naturally long shelf life, they're sturdier cookies," she says.
Regardless of the variety though, all of the cookies are "cut and jammed and carefully packaged by hand," Walla says, explaining, "That's the love part."
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I want to see the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
I will visit my cousin Danielle in Los Angeles.
One winter, I'll take advantage of the free lodging at Aunt Lynne's second home in Florida.
I will cross the Ambassador Bridge and leave the country just for dinner.
I dream of seeing all of the figure skating events at a Winter Olympics.
I will splurge at the annual Vera Bradley outlet sale in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
A creepy man will make a pass at me in a foreign country.
I'll compete at the ISU adult figure skating competition in Oberstdorf, Germany.
I want to see Racine, Wisconsin through adult eyes.
Meg and I will explore New York City together.
I might go on a honeymoon with the man I marry, but I won't be upset if we don't.
I will take a business trip to someplace other than Michigan's upper peninsula.
I will accompany Colin to an out-of-state tournament that he is refereeing, just for the chance to be with him.
I'll choose a cruise ship just because it has an ice rink onboard.
I will leave my comfort zone.
Lucy and I will relive our glory days on a concert road trip.
I'll rent a house and take a weeklong vacation on Mackinac Island.
I will go somewhere romantic with someone I am madly in love with.
I pray for the opportunity to see Norway with my mother, my sister and my grandma.
I will go to St. Petersburg, Russia.
I'll be in Chicago sometime in the next year, but not necessarily for Mara's wedding.
I need to renew my passport.
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*girl from florida*
Don't forget your future visit to Key West!! :)
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