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Reply to article: Joseph Bast: Correcting Greg Laden's 'Top Climate Stories of 2012′
Monday, December 31st 2012, 9:04 AM EST
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In a December 28 post, blogger Greg Laden, a self-described "biological anthropologist and science communicator," ranked The Heartland Institute's efforts to expose global warming alarmism as one of the "
top climate stories of 2012
I suppose we should be flattered, but Laden's error-filled explanation for including us in the list requires some corrections:
Heartland isn't a "climate denial 'think' tank." Last time I checked, no Heartland spokesperson ever denied the existence of the climate, or even climate change.
Heartland didn't "implode" or "suffer major damage" in 2012. In fact, we increased receipts by about 15% from 2011, increased the number of donors nearly four-fold, more than doubled the number of policy advisors (to 237), and set records for press attention and online traffic for our sites. 2012 was a breakthrough year for us, thanks in no small part to the attention generated by our work on global warming/cooling.
We have never tried to "prove that cigarette smoking was not bad for you." We do argue that taxes on smokers are too high and second-hand smoke is not the public health threat that anti-smoking zealots claim.
We were not "caught red handed trying to fund an effort explicitly (but secretly) designed to damage science education in public schools." That description is based on a fake memo circulated by disgraced water scientist Peter Gleick. We announced the curriculum project in our members newsletter and explained there that our intent is to help de-politicize the issue. How is that a bad thing?
We did run a billboard about global warming, but it did not "equat[e] people who thought the climate science on global warming is based on facts and is not a fraud with well-known serial killers." The billboard simply pointed out that Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, still believes in global warming, and asked viewers if they do, too. We know why lefties went nuts over it – Kaczynski, after all, is one of their own – but it wasn't inaccurate or offensive.
We lost a few corporate donors who couldn't stand the heat when liberal advocacy groups, using a donor list stolen by the aforementioned Peter Gleick, circulated online petitions demanding that they stop funding us. But as already mentioned, we gained many more donors than we lost and had an exceptionally good fundraising year.
Laden ends by saying The Heartland Institute, "which never was really that big, is now no longer a factor in the climate change." He's right that we aren't very big – about $6 million a year – but he's wrong about the role we continue to play in the international debate. Our Eighth International Conference on Climate Change, held in Munich on November 31-December 1, 2012, was a huge success. We've got projects on climate already lined up for 2013 that make 2012 look like a dress rehearsal.
In short, Heartland played a major role in shaping the debate over global warming in 2012, and we expect to play an even larger role in 2013. Sometimes it takes a little controversy to break through media bias and public indifference. Heartland achieved this in 2012.
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Original post from by Greg Laden on December 28, 2012
Top Climate Stories of 2012
A group of us, all interested in climate science, put together a list of the most notable, often, most worrying, climate-related stories of the year, along with a few links that will allow you to explore the stories in more detail. We did not try to make this a "top ten" list, because it is rather silly to fit the news, or the science, or the stuff the Earth does in a given year into an arbitrary number of events. (What if we had 12 fingers, and "10" was equal to 6+6? Then there would always be 12 things, not 10, on everyone's list. Makes no sense.) We ended up with 18 items, but note that some of these things are related to each other in a way that would allow us to lump them or split them in different ways. See this post by Joe Romm for a more integrated approach to the year's events. Also, see what Jeff Masters did here. We only included one non-climate (but related) item to illustrate the larger number of social, cultural, and political things that happened this year. For instance, because of some of the things on this list, Americans are more likely than they were in previous years to accept the possibility that science has something to say about the Earth's climate and the changes we have experienced or that may be in the future; journalists are starting to take a new look at their own misplaced "objective" stance as well. Also, more politicians are starting to run for office on a pro-science pro-environment platform than has been the case for quite some time.
A failing of this list is that although non-US based people contributed, and it is somewhat global in its scope, it is a bit American based. This is partly because a few of the big stories happened here this year, but also, because the underlying theme really is the realization that climate change is not something of the future, but rather, something of the present, and key lessons learned in that important area of study happened in the American West (fires) the South and Midwest (droughts, crop failures, closing of river ways) and Northeast (Sandy). But many of the items listed here were indeed global, such as extreme heat and extreme cold caused by meteorological changes linked to warming, and of course, drought is widespread.
This list is subject to change, because you are welcome to add suggestions for other stories or for links pertaining to those already listed. Also, the year is not over yet. Anything can happen in the next few days!
The following people contributed to this effort: Angela Fritz, A Siegel, Eli Rabett, Emilee Pierce, Gareth Renowden, Greg Laden, Joe Romm, John Abraham, Laurence Lewis, Leo Hickman, Michael Mann, Michael Tobis,, Paul Douglas, Scott Mandia, Scott Brophy, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Tenney Naumer.
1 Super Storm Sandy
Super Storm Sandy, a hybrid of Hurricane Sandy (and very much a true hurricane up to and beyond its landfall in the Greater New York/New Jersey area) was an important event for several reasons. First, the size and strength of the storm bore the hallmarks of global warming enhancement. Second, its very unusual trajectory was caused by a climatic configuration that was almost certainly the result of global warming. The storm would likely not have been as big and powerful as it was, nor would it have likely struck land where it did were it not for the extra greenhouse gasses released by humans over the last century and a half or so.
A third reason Sandy was important is the high storm surge that caused unprecedented and deadly flooding in New York and New Jersey. This surge was made worse by significant global warming caused sea level rise. Sea level rise has been eating away at the coasts for years and has probably caused a lot of flooding that otherwise would not have happened, but this is the first time a major event widely noticed by the mainstream media (even FOX news) involving sea level rise killed a lot of people and did a lot of damage. Fourth, Sandy was an event, but Sandy might also be the "type specimen" for a new kind of storm. It is almost certainly true that global warming Enhanced storms like Sandy will occur more frequently in the future than in the past, but how much more often is not yet known. We will probably have to find out the hard way.
Note that the first few of the links below are to blog posts written by concerned climate scientists, whom the climate change denialists call "alarmists." You will note that these scientists and writers were saying alarming things as the storm approached. You will also note that what actually happened when Sandy struck was much worse than any of these "alarmists" predicted in one way or another, in some cases, in several ways. This then, is the fifth reason that Sandy is important: The Earth's weather system (quite unconsciously of course) opened a big huge can of "I told you so" on the climate science denialist world. Sandy washed away many lives, a great deal of property and quite a bit of shoreline. Sandy also washed away a huge portion of what remained of the credibility of the climate science denialist lobby.
Is Mother Nature revving up an October Surprise (w/ human thumbs on the scale)?
Grim Trajectories
Has climate change created a monster?
Ostrich Heads in the Sand(y)? Does your meteorologist break the climate silence?
Climate of Doubt As Superstorm Sandy Crosses US Coast
Are Tropical Storms Getting Larger in Area?
What you need to know about Frankenstorm Sandy
Fox: Hurricane Sandy Has "Nothing To Do With Global Warming"
2 Related to Sandy, the direct effects of sea level rise…
… were blatantly observed and widely acknowledged by the press and the public for the first time
Sea Level Rise … Extreme History, Uncertain Future
Peer Reviewed Research Predicted NYC Subway Flooding by #Sandy
How peer-reviewed material understates likely sea-level rise and examining NY Times interactive graphic relying on this optimistic material.
See WMO summary of year for info on global extremes – especially floods in Africa, India, Pakistan, China
3 The Polar Ice Caps and other ice features experienced extreme melting this year.
This year, Arctic sea ice reached a minimum in both extent (how much of the sea is covered during the Arctic summer) and more importantly, total ice volume, reaching the lowest levels in recorded history.
Arctic sea ice extent settles at record seasonal minimum
Ice Loss at Poles Is Increasing, Mainly in Greenland
TV Media Cover Paul Ryan's Workout 3x More Than Record Sea Ice Loss
4 Sea Ice Loss Changes Weather …
We also increasingly recognized that loss of Arctic sea ice affects Northern Hemisphere weather patterns, including severe cold outbreaks and storm tracks. This sea ice loss is what set up the weather pattern mentioned above that steered Sandy into the US Northeast, as well as extreme cold last winter in other areas.
Arctic Warming is Altering Weather Patterns, Study Shows
5 and 6 Two major melting events happened in Greenland this summer.
First, the total amount of ice that has melted off this huge continental glacier reached a record high, with evidence that the rate of melting is not only high, but much higher than predicted or expected. This is especially worrying because the models climatologists use to predict ice melting are being proven too optimistic. Second, and less important but still rather spectacular, was the melting of virtually every square inch of the surface of this ice sheet over a short period of a few days during the hottest part of the summer, a phenomenon observed every few hundred years but nevertheless an ominous event considering that it happened just as the aforementioned record ice mass loss was being observed and measured.
Greenland Losing Ice Fast
Media Turn A Blind Eye To Record Greenland Ice Melt
7 Massive Ice islands…
…were formed when the Petermann Glacier of northern Greenland calved a massive piece of its floating tongue, and it is likely that the Pine Island Glacier (West Antarctica) will follow suit this Southern Hemisphere summer. Also, this information is just being reported and we await further evaluation. As summer begins to develop in the Southern Hemisphere, there may be record warmth there in Antarctica. That story will likely be part of next year's roundup of climate-related woes.
8 More Greenhouse Gasses than Ever
Even though the rate of emissions of greenhouse gasses slowed down temporarily for some regions of the world, those gasses stay in the air after they are released, so this year greenhouse gas levels reached new record high levels
United StatesGreenhouse Gas Levels Reach New Record High
World Meteorological Organization: Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Reach New Record
9 It Got Hot
As expected, given the greenhouse gases just mentioned, Record Breaking High Temperatures Continue, 2012 is one of the warmest years since the Age of the Dinosaurs. We'll wait until the year is totally over to give you a rank, but it is very, very high.
UK Met Office forecasts next year to set new record
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
10 …and that heat brought extreme, killer heat waves
Hot, Very Hot, Extremely Hot Summers
STUDY: TV Media Ignore Coverage of Climate Change In Coverage Of Record July Heat
11 For many areas, this was the year without a Spring.
The growing season in temperate zones is longer, causing the USDA in the US to change its planting recommendations.
It's the Heat of the Night
12 There were widespread, unprecedented and deadly wildfires…
…around the world and in the American West.
STUDY: Media Avoid Climate Context In Wildfire Coverage
STUDY: Media Begin To Connect The Dots Between Climate Change And Wildfires
13 There was a major drought…
…in the US with numerous negative effects including threats to the food supply
Drought, Water & Energy
What is the link between Global Warming and Drought?
Brutal Droughts, Worsened by Global Warming, Threaten Food Production Around The World
Alarm bells on climate change as extreme weather events sweep the world: CCSOS
The Bacon Shortage
14 River Traffic Stops
A very rare event caused by drought conditions was the closing of the Mississippi River to traffic in mid-summer at two locations. This is part of a larger and growing problem involving drought, increased demands for water, and the importance of river traffic. Expect to hear more about this over the next couple of years.
Drought Closes Mississippi River Traffic in Two Locations
14 Very, very bad storms.
In June, a major and very scary derecho event – a thunderstorm and tornado complex large enough to get its own Wikipedia entry – swept across the country. This was one of several large storm systems that caused damage and death in the US this year. There were also large and unprecedented sandstorms in Asia and the US.
June 2012 North American derecho
16 Widespread Tree Mortality is underway and is expected to worsen.
Dire Drought Ahead, May Lead to Massive Tree Death
17 Biodiversity is mostly down…
We continue to experience, and this will get worse, great Losses in Biodiversity especially in Oceans, much of that due to increased acidification because of the absorption of CO2 in seawater, and overfishing.
Big loss of biodiversity with global warming
18 Unusual Jet Stream Configuration and related changes to general climate patterns…
Many of us who contributed to this list feel that this is potentially the most important of all of the stories, partly because it ties together several other events. Also, it may be that a change in the air currents caused by global warming represents a fundamental yet poorly understood shift in climate patterns. The steering of Hurricane Sandy into the New York and New Jersey metro areas, the extreme killer cold in Eastern Europe and Russia, the "year without a Spring" and the very mild winters, some of the features of drought, and other effects may be "the new normal" owing to a basic shift in how air currents are set up in a high-CO2 world. This December, as we compile this list, this effect has caused extreme cold in Eastern Europe and Russia as well as floods in the UK and unusually warm conditions in France. As of this writing well over 200 people have died in the Ukraine, Poland and Russia from cold conditions. As an ongoing and developing story we are including it provisionally on this list. Two blog posts from midyear of 2011 and 2012 (this one and this one) cover some of this.
The following video provides an excellent overview of this problem:
19 The first climate denial "think" tank to implode as a result of global warming…
… suffered major damage this year. The Heartland Institute, which worked for many years to prove that cigarette smoking was not bad for you, got caught red handed trying to fund an effort explicitly (but secretly) designed to damage science education in public schools. Once caught, they tried to distract attention by equating people who thought the climate science on global warming is based on facts and is not a fraud with well-known serial killers, using large ugly billboards. A large number of Heartland Institute donors backed off after this fiasco and their credibility tanked in the basement. As a result, the Heartland Institute, which never was really that big, is now no longer a factor in the climate change discussion. We failed to drive the wooden stake through Heartland's heart when it was down. While Heartland has lost much of their funding and Corporate support Hearthland's Anti-Science Syndrome Hatred Of a Livable Economic System voices still get soapboxes in traditional media =91balance=92 articles and otherwise. Learning how to pound in the wooden stake has merit.
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City-wide plastic bag ban is back on the table
Original post made on Apr 13, 2012
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a resident of Cuesta Park
on Apr 13, 2012 at 9:28 am
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a resident of Shoreline West
on Apr 19, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Reusable bags are not so expensive that the poor really need to have an uprising about it. You can get a good quality canvas bag for less than three dollars. Given some of the things that I see in the shopping baskets of some of the low income members of our neighborhood, I am sure they can forego a few gallons of coca cola and purchase a canvas bag, but this is off topic now.
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Apr 21, 2012 at 6:49 pm
As I also said at the City Council meeting, I constantly reuse my bags, so the bag ban itself is not the problem. I also have a problem with the City forcing the stores to charge people as a way to bypass making it a tax, which people would then have to vote on in order for it to be approved. How can the city dictate how much stores must charge for a product? Can they also decide that sugar is bad and force the stores to charge an extra dollar for every bag of sugar? Can they decide that stores must charge 20 dollars per pack for cigarettes? How about 30 dollars for firewood? Why not? If they can get away with this, what stops them from ordering stores to charge any amount that they want for products that they don't like?
The City should not be run as an oligarchy, where a few people dictate how the rest of us live based on their own personal preferences. We elected the council as our REPRESENTATIVES not our masters! They should comply with the letter and the spirit of the laws, which means that anything that the council wants to do that will raise prices for its citizens has to be put to a vote!
Anyone who wishes to give away their protections guaranteed by our state and federal constitutions is free to do so, but don't try to give away or take away mine. This is a back door tax plain and simple. It is a clear violation of proposition 26. Although the prop 26 argument has been rejected by an LA Court, I am fairly certain that the ruling will be overturned on appeal.
If people in Mountain View are willing to VOTE for the ban and the associated charges, then I am all for it because it will have been subject to the democratic process and people will have had the opportunity to be fully informed about all sides of the argument. From what I have seen in the interviews with local residents, it seems that they think it is only a ban and do not know about the stores being forced to charge for paper.
a resident of Castro City
on May 23, 2012 at 2:53 pm
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I like the idea of a plastic bag ban.
Nice to see so much clever re-use of the existing bags already going on and I find it hard to understand the accusation of socialism (or maybe they mean totalitarianism?).
The idea of the community banding together to sew bags is hilarious. Next time you are on the street, count the next ten people that go by and imagine them getting together to sew cloth bags from scraps. It's sweet and funny. Come to think of it, when visiting a thrift store in Vermont I saw that had taken T-shirts and sewn a simple seam across the bottom to save the thrift store having to buy bags. Maybe Goodwill could organize unemployed or enthusiastic mountain view citizens to do that instead?
Well, thank you for the ban. I like it!
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Homecoming Fan Fest
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Giant Pink Cupcake
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Golden sponge with a single layer of jam and a double layer of buttercream filling in a sugar paste cupcake case, topped with vanilla frosting, sugar paste decorations, edible glitter and a cherry.
IngredientsSugar, FORTIFIED WHEAT FLOUR (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), pasteurised free range egg, palm oil, rapeseed oil, butter oil (milk), maize and wheat glucose syrup, RASPBERRY JAM (maize glucose syrup, raspberry, sugar, gelling agent pectin, acidity regulators citric acid and sodium citrates), humectants sorbitol syrup and vegetable glycerine, skimmed milk solids, rice flour, cream cheese powder (milk), skimmed milk powder, raising agents diphosphates and sodium carbonates, emulsifiers mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids and polysorbate 60, salt, cherries, wheat and maize glucose-fructose syrup, preservative potassium sorbate, flavouring, stabilisers tragacanth and diphosphates, maize starch, emulsifying salts sodium citrates and sodium phosphates, maize maltodextrin, dried free range egg albumen, wheat starch, beetroot juice, colours anthocyanins, beetroot red and titanium dioxide, acidity regulators citric acid and acetic acid |
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Typical values | per 100g | per slice |
Energy | 1803kj | 1930 kj |
Energy | 430kcal | 460 kcal |
Fat | 19.2g | 20.5 g |
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- Saturates | 8.8g | 9.4 g |
Carbohydrate | 61.5g | 65.8 g |
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- Sugars | 27.7g | 29.6 g |
Fibre | 0.4g | 0.4 g |
Protein | 2.6g | 2.8 g |
Salt | 0.50g | 0.54 g |
Typical values as sold. Contains 13 Servings
Component | Material | Recyclable |
base | Mixed Material | No |
box | Card | Yes |
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This contemporary highchair from Cosatto features a choice of 6 positions, 360 swivel, 3-position reclining back rest, and easy height selection thanks to the gas lift design. Great for up-to-the-table mealtimes. It has a dishwasher safe, adjustable, removable 2-part tray, plus a fully removable and very comfortable wipe clean cushion. The highest seat position is 102cm, while the lowest is 84cm. Under-base roller for ease of transportation.
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Lot 1: Baker (Sir Samuel W.). Ismailia. A Narrative of
Important Travel & Topography, Science & Natural History
by Dominic Winter Auctions
March 7, 2012
Near Cirencester, United Kingdom
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Baker (Sir Samuel W.). Ismailia. A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1874, portrait frontispiece to each, folding map, numerous wood-engraved illustrations, 55pp. pubs. list at end of vol. I, some spotting, previous owner signatures, original green cloth gilt, edges a little rubbed, 8vo. (2)
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- First off, Access Hollywood chatted with Jerome Flynn (Bronn) about his role in the coming season:
- Sophie Turner (Sansa) also dished on season three and her experience with acting alongside Peter Dinklage. (She has just turned 17, by the way. Happy birthday, Soph!)
- Next, this flippant interview with Finn Jones (Loras) at WhatCulture!
- And last but not least, a rare gem, an interview with a director, David Petrarca. An audio is also available when you follow the link. Here's a quote deserving of our attention:
Q: What is the experience like working with massive ensembles?
A: It's actually great, so you don't have two or three actors who are there all the time. Every actor's coming in fresh. They all want to be there. They all love the show. You're already ahead of the game. They're coming in completely in love with the material. They know their characters. They're amazing actors. They're coming in with strong choices already. You're doing such a huge amount of pre-visualisation on that show because of dragons and stuff like that, that the pre-production process is extraordinary. There's a full time storyboard artist. There's full time pre-vis/vis-effects people. I can come up with an idea and run over to the storyboard guy and say, "Hey, let's draw this up. Let's see what this feels like." I can take that over to the pre-vis department and say, "Let's do this in three dimensions. Let me look at a little movie of what it will look like. A cartoon of it." And they do it, and then it's, "Let's push the dragon over there. No, let's move the dragon there. Let's make it a little bigger." The shoot, on that show, is down the road. Your imagination is allowed to run wild. There's not a lot of, "No, we can't do that." It's, "Let's figure out a way to do it." And that's kind of great.
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DESTIN - Authorities in northwest Florida are investigating a car explosion outside a vacation home that killed one person and injured another person visiting from Illinois.
The state fire marshal's office said Sunday that the explosion was accidental and there's no indication of foul play.
Firefighters, paramedics and deputies responded to reports of a loud explosion and fire on Saturday evening in Destin.
The Okaloosa County Sherriff's Office says 35-year-old Michael Todd Brower died from his injuries and 58-year-old Luis Lopez remains in critical condition at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. Both were visiting from Illinois.
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We have always loved Konkana's arty-farty style, but this time around we are disappointed with what we saw her wearing at a recent event. Koko opted for a long black kurta which she teamed with a floor length skirt and a jhola bag. We aren't quite impressed with this ingenious combination, Koko. And before our statements raise your hackles, we suggest you quit the idea of turning into an experimental designer, 'coz that will definitely require a great amount of honing and we wonder if you can spare that kinda time.
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- Release Date: Oct 28, 2008
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This is the kind of hugely ambitious game that doesn't come around very often, and when it does, you'd be a fool not to play it and enjoy the hell out of it and look forward to the day (next-next-gen?) when the fidelity of open-world RPGs takes another big step closer to the uncanny valley's far side.
Yes, Fallout 3 is a lot like "Oblivion" (with guns!), but it's a superior game in nearly every way, as it features a more engaging storyline, impeccable presentation, and hundreds of hours of addictive gameplay. While the jury is still out on whether or not hardcore Fallout enthusiasts will accept the game as part of the storied franchise, Fallout 3 is a must-have title for most RPG fans, as well as one of the finest games of this generation.
That's the beauty of survival, and this world of fallout: It feeds on adventure and breathes in freedom, yet it dreams of order and the safety of the Vault. I can describe it, explain it, tell it in finely chosen words, but I can never make you fully understand for as long as you sit and listen. But even if I die, I do not worry. There will come a time when you will seize that lever and open that metal door, and it is then I will return.
The ironically devastated world of Fallout has never been better realized than in Fallout 3, offering a vast landscape that is almost relentlessly bleak in its hopelessness. It's absorbing, immersive, paradoxically beautiful, and kind of depressing to play over long periods of time.
GameProIt's an instant classic and one that will occupy you for a long time to come. [Dec 2008, p.86]
A massive, enthralling achievement.
The main quest is an enthralling tale that will thrust you into the battlefield of D.C., side-by-side with the Brotherhood of Steel, face to face with the illustrious DJ of Galaxy News Radio (my favorite station of the wastes), and aboard a reclaimed aircraft carrier. It's an epic journey, but when it's done, it's done. The only option after that is to start all over again with a brand new face. No complaints here.
After this game-experience negative points are hard to find. Sure, the radio program is not mind-blowing and the third-person-view is suboptimal. But this doesn't matter, as Fallout 3 is wonderful and even a class better than Bethesda's last title - Oblivion.
Fallout 3 is a fantastic game that was well worth the hype and the wait.
This is easily the best new role-playing game that will give you dozens of hours of additional gameplay along with the already lengthy required adventuring.
A stunning and emotive game, Fallout 3 is compelling, dark, funny and deep. Play it and glimpse the future of videogaming. And, possibly, of mankind.
The game boasts an adventure that is so epic in size that it can only be the product of Bethesda. The Oblivion engine is a perfect fit to create a Fallout game around, and Fallout 3 is that much better off for it. With a game world that's as large as a real world city, mechanics that are engaging and easy to use, on top of unparalleled depth...Fallout 3 is the no brainer choice for those looking to embark on an epic quest.
So what you have here with Fallout 3 is a great addition to the series, even if you are a die-hard fan of Black Isle Studios' work with the previous Fallout titles. It has some slight faults, but the quality of the rest of the package more than makes up for it all.
The game combines the strengths of two fine RPG series, which for Fallout 3 means compelling narrative in a post-apocalyptic setting and immersive gameplay in a huge, open-ended world. All of this just leaves one question to answer: is Fallout 3 a contender for Game of the Year? And the answer: undeniably, yes.
In the end, Fallout 3 feels like a Fallout game, and that is absolutely the highest compliment. Despite the changes, much of the charm and fun of the franchise remains intact, and despite the similarities to "Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion", I never felt that I was playing anything but a Fallout game.
This game is massive, and as your character's stature in the Wasteland grows, so does the excitement. It's not a true sequel to the Fallout series, but as a fan of the games of old, I found it to be every bit as good.
Fallout 3 is among the best games I've played this year, and represents both Bethesda's legacy and the legacy of the Fallout series incredibly well. It's easy to sink hours into exploring this world, and its depth will consume you if you let it. Fallout 3 is a must buy for anyone who loves games, regardless of your preferred genre.
Fallout 3 is a game that hits all the right notes and excels in being a role-playing game that wishes to challenge the genre to bring something bigger and better.
There's no doubt that many people already know that they will love Fallout 3: it offers the epic world that many yearn for.
Definitely, no videogame fan should let Fallout 3 escape. There are so many things you can do, places you can explore and situations to experiment, that regardless the many times we could say this is a superb title, an instant classic, there is no better way to understand the reason for such praise than to get lost in the ruinous Washington D.C. region.
It's rare that a game can hit the mark in so many different and often conflicting areas. Fallout 3 offers freedom without sacrificing a focused story. It delivers fantastic combat without forgoing a deep role-playing system. The characters you meet are engaging and oftentimes hilarious without feeling out of place in this harsh world.
Fallout 3 is an experience in itself, and while it may not offer as much replay value as Oblivion, it's so much more then an "Oblivion with guns".
It is no surprise to anyone that has played a Bethesda game that they have come through on a beloved franchise, well worth several hundred hours of your life!
Different from Oblivion but bound to be compared to it, Fallout 3 is deep, rewarding and as open-world as you get, with only a few issues that warrant a sight raise of the eyebrow.
This is a massive game: in a month that's seen the release of five or six of the year's best titles, I reckon this is the absolute peach. It's packed with interesting places, with choices to make, with that nebulous sense of adventure you only find in the best RPGs.
Fallout 3 represents one of the most ridiculously packed gaming experiences you're going to find this year.
Fallout 3 is filled to the brim with quality, worth every cent and pays us with dozens of hours of rich exploration, combat and enjoyable – if not exactly deep – role-play elements.
There's no denying Fallout 3 is little more than Oblivion in a post-apocalyptic setting. However that's more a compliment than complaint.
The overall experience of Fallout 3 is unmatched, and the amount of game Bethesda has packed into this $60 title can't be ignored. Flaws aside, taken as a whole, Fallout 3 is an astounding effort and easily one this year's best gaming experiences.
PSM3 Magazine UKImaginative, epic and brilliant, but not for instant fix gamers. [Dec 2008, p.26]
Fallout 3 is an outstanding title that sets a new standard for action role-playing games, and will appeal to fans of either genre.
Fallout is back and dare I say, better than ever.
Fallout 3 is a wonderful game for fans of the genre. It's humourous when it wants to be, yet also deep and worryingly tragic when required to be.
Playstation: The Official Magazine (US)And that's the draw of the game: interacting with a living, breathing world that centers on you as the star. [Holiday 2008, p.60]
Old fans of the series may not be expecting a game like this, but Fallout 3 is ambitious and more than lives up to the high standard it sets, and will be enjoyed by both newcomers and veteran Fallout players. Bethesda have managed to create a sturdy strategic element to the first person perspecitve but have ultimately failed in creating believable characters, which may disappoint some.
Fallout 3 is the biggest accomplishment in adventure gaming since Oblivion.
Immersive, expansive and funny to boot, Fallout 3 makes the end of the world something to look forward to, indeed.
Playstation Official Magazine AustraliaA flawed masterpice for the ages. [Summer 2009, p.76]
Playstation Official Magazine UKThe map is smaller than Oblivion's but it's more tightly packed with action and rounded characters. [Christmas 2008, p.90]
Kids, Fallout 3 is Oblivion with guns hands down. Again, that's not a bad thing, but it feels like Bethesda missed an opportunity here by playing things safe and that's fine.
In Fallout 3 Bethesda has made a very good thing, though it is somewhat hampered by the lack of variable scenery and a VATS that plays less than perfectly.
It's a game that provides action, adventure, exploration, interaction and excitement in a beautifully realised Armageddon that provides so many unexpected moments, but somehow manages to remain consistent and believable.
More than reinventing a game, Bethesda could assure a desirable evolution. In a world devastated by the war, the beauty of the entire environment is the greatest step in Fallout 3.
Gorgeous graphics, great RPG customisation and an interesting yet fun combat system, there's little to complain about Fallout 3, except for the odd slowdown or buggy camera angle. Be warned though, once you start playing, you will find it difficult to turn off.
Fallout 3 brings back a legendary saga to the foreground of video games and it does it with remarkable successes. Graphically it is a very powerful title, the ambience is carefully planned, and its size, freedom and scope are its principal highlights. It is as captivating a game in the beginning as easy to forget in the mid term; despite this, we can say that it is a title that is worth trying.
The only disadvantage of the PS3-version of the game compared to the PC-version concerns the handling. The aiming via stick is very difficult and if you want to crack a lock, you have to be very skilled too.
It's the big Christmas action game with brains and choices, and with an interest in constructing a refreshingly different world from all those austere near-future manshoots that clog up the shelves. In many respects, it's a far better game than Bioshock, most of all because you get the endless choice that promised but didn't deliver. So it's tragic that the often awful production values make a fool of it so regularly.
The options presented to you in Fallout 3 are so numerous and complex that you are likely to want to replay the game just to experience them.
In fact, Fallout 3 is leaner and meaner than Bethesda's previous efforts, less expansive but more intense, while still offering immense replay value and quite a few thrills along the way.
Despite being unable to match the PC in terms of graphical splendour, there's plenty here to keep you occupied, and fans won't be disappointed with what the developers have crafted.
Anyone who played Bethesda's Oblivion, 2006's 'Game of the year,' will find the mission structure familiar, save for the game's auto-targeting system, called V.A.T.S., which is sometimes more of a hindrance than help. Even so, gamers with a taste for detailed storylines and Mad Max style visuals, will find that Fallout 3 delivers a solid, entertaining role-playing experience that will keep you glued to the couch for hours.
For lovers of the genre, it's tough to go wrong with Fallout 3. However, if you're strictly a shooter fan or enjoy free-flowing combat, the plodding pace, vast amount of content, and RPG hallmarks (such as heavy inventory management, non-essential quests, and character leveling) may bore you. It's a good game, but certainly not without its faults. A new game engine and better controls would have served this title well.
It's unfortunate that Fallout 3 is saddled with so many little- and medium-sized issues, because they get in the way of what's an otherwise fantastic experience. The world is well-realized and full of options. It'll be a struggle in spots, but I'm willing to guess that most people will be able to overlook a lot of the game's problems and still have a very good time exploring the irradiated wasteland formerly known as Washington DC.
Oct 27, 2010Until you can play the game without unpredictable crashing and quirky issues surprising you it's going to be tough to find the maximum amount of fun I know this title can offer.
My issues with the game lie within the fact that whilst playing it, I wished I were playing something else. I wanted to play Bioshock for its heavy atmosphere and compelling story, or Mass Effect because I finally appreciate the dialog trees and voice acting. In Fallout 3, most of my decisions could be argued for the inconsequential feeling I associated with them. That's never a good thing, so it either means Fallout 3 wasn't my particular cup of tea or that it is actually that boring at times.
Edge MagazineIt's a game that rewards the long-haul with deep, inventive missions which eschew the usual fetch and kill structure, ensuring that the many hours spent in Fallout 3's wasteland aren't wasted. [Christmas 2008, p.88]
Yet the final product has been injured by this ambition, by having too many options and locations, the quality is spread thin and the lack of restrictions can daze some players.
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Using polymer nanofibers thinner than human hairs as scaffolds, researchers coaxed a particular type of brain cell to wrap around nanofibers that mimic the shape and size of nerves found in the body.
They've even managed to encourage the process of myelination – the formation of a protective coating that guards larger nerve fibers from damage. They began to see multiple concentric layers of the protective substance called myelin start to form, just as they do in the body.
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ABSTRACT - Current methods for studying central nervous system myelination necessitate permissive axonal substrates conducive to myelin wrapping by oligodendrocytes. We have developed a neuron-free culture system in which electron-spun nanofibers of varying sizes substitute for axons as a substrate for oligodendrocyte myelination, thereby allowing manipulation of the biophysical elements of axonal-oligodendroglial interactions. To investigate axonal regulation of myelination, this system effectively uncouples the role of molecular (inductive) cues from that of biophysical properties of the axon. We use this method to uncover the causation and sufficiency of fiber diameter in the initiation of concentric wrapping by rat oligodendrocytes. We also show that oligodendrocyte precursor cells display sensitivity to the biophysical properties of fiber diameter and initiate membrane ensheathment before differentiation. The use of nanofiber scaffolds will enable screening for potential therapeutic agents that promote oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination and will also provide valuable insight into the processes involved in remyelination.
The research involves oligodendrocytes, which are the supporting actors to neurons -- the "stars" of the central nervous system. Without oligodendrocytes, central nervous system neurons can't effectively transmit the electrical signals that control everything from muscle movement to brain function.
Oligodendrocytes are the type of cells typically affected by multiple sclerosis, and loss of myelin is a hallmark of that debilitating disease.
The researchers have also determined the optimum diameter for the nanofibers to support this process – giving important new clues to answer the question of why some nerves are myelinated and some aren't.
While they haven't yet created fully functioning "nerves in a dish," the researchers believe their work offers a new way to study nerves and test treatment possibilities. Corey, an assistant professor of neurology and biomedical engineering at the U-M Medical School and researcher in the VA Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center, explains that the thin fibers are crucial for the success of the work.
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This Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of one of the nearest globular star clusters, called NGC 6397, resembles a treasure chest of glittering jewels. The cluster is located 8,200 light-years away in the constellation Ara.
Here, the stars are jam-packed together. The stellar density is about a million times greater than in our Sun's stellar neighborhood. The stars are only a few light-weeks apart, while the nearest star to our Sun is over four light-years away.
The stars in NGC 6397 are in constant motion, like a swarm of angry bees. The ancient stars are so crowded together that a few of them inevitably collide with each other once in a while. Near misses are even more common. Even so, collisions only occur every few million years or so. That's thousands of collisions in the 14-billion-year lifetime of the cluster.
These Hubble images were taken for a research program aimed at studying what is left behind when such collisions and near misses occur. When direct collisions occur, the two stars may merge to form a new star called a "blue straggler"; these hot, bright, young stars stand out among the old stars that make up the vast majority of stars in a globular cluster. Several such bright blue stars are visible near the center of the cluster in the Hubble Heritage image.
If two stars come close enough together without actually colliding, they may "capture" each other and become gravitationally bound. One type of binary that might form this way is a "cataclysmic variable"� a pairing of a normal, hydrogen-burning star and a burned-out star called a white dwarf. In a binary system, the white dwarf will pull material off the surface of the normal star. This material encircles the white dwarf in an "accretion disk," and eventually falls onto it. The result of this accretion process is that cataclysmic variables are, as the name suggests, variable in brightness. The heat generated by the accreting material also generates unusual amounts of ultraviolet and blue light.
To search for cataclysmic variables, the program consisted of a series of 55 images of the cluster taken over a period of about 20 hours. Most of the images were taken in ultraviolet and blue filters; a few images were also taken at green and infrared wavelengths. By comparing the brightness of all the stars in all the images, the Hubble astronomers were able to identify several cataclysmic variable stars in the cluster. Comparison of their brightness in the different filters confirmed that they were emitting copious amounts of ultraviolet light. A few of these stars can be seen in the Hubble Heritage image as faint blue or violet stars.
One of the more intriguing results of this study was completely unexpected. Three faint blue stars can be seen near the center of the cluster � in the Hubble Heritage image they appear turquoise. These three stars don't vary in brightness at all, and were clearly not cataclysmic variables. These stars may be very-low-mass white dwarfs, formed in the cores of giant stars whose evolution is somehow interrupted before a full-fledged white dwarf has time to form.
Such an interruption might occur as the result of a stellar collision or an interaction with a binary companion. When a giant star interacts with another star, it can lose its outer layers prematurely, compared to its normal evolution, exposing its hot, blue core. The end result will be a white dwarf of a smaller mass than would have otherwise ensued. In any case, these unusual stars are yet more evidence that the center of a dense globular cluster is a perilous place to reside.
A large number of normal white dwarfs were also identified and studied. These stars appear throughout the cluster, since they form through normal stellar evolution processes and don't involve any stellar interactions, which occur predominantly near the cluster center. Nearly 100 such burned-out stars were identified in these images, the brightest of which can be seen here as faint blue stars.
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In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's praise for the work of other writers is almost undetectable, especially those from whom he had learned some elements of style—Gertrude Stein and Sherwood Anderson in particular. Early in his memoir, however, Hemingway singles out a novelist whose books provide what he calls "after-work" pleasures that will fill "that empty time of day or night." The pleasures he is referring to involve light reading, entertainment, and escapism; and the woman whose books have given him this variety of after-hours relief is none other than Marie Belloc Lowndes, author of The Lodger. About The Lodger and another Belloc Lowndes novel Hemingway displays a rare (for him) critical enthusiasm: "the people credible and the action and the terror never false. They were perfect for reading after you had worked…." This is patronizing, but it is still praise.
The Lodger is remembered today, when it is remembered at all, as the source for Alfred Hitchcock's third silent movie, which the director described as "the first Hitchcock film." More to the point, however, Hemingway did not discover The Lodger on his own. Gertrude Stein recommended it to him. He had announced to her that he had been reading the novels of Aldous Huxley, and Stein disapproved. "Huxley is a dead man," she told him. "You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad." Work from the middle range, what Dwight Macdonald would later call "mid-cult," she frowned upon. It is unclear whether she thought The Lodger was frankly bad, but she certainly liked it. Katherine Anne Porter, who was not sympathetic to Stein, noticed that Stein typically enjoyed the accumulation of dead bodies in stories:
These early passions exhausted her; in later life she swam in the relaxing bath of detective and murder mysteries, because she liked somebody being dead in a story, and of them all Dashiell Hammett killed them off most to her taste.
Stein was not alone among the modernists in having a happy response to literary mayhem. T.S. Eliot enjoyed detective stories. Faulkner repeatedly tried his hand at the genre for the money. Borges set his sleuths to work on metaphysical errands and mysteries. Even Henry James made one attempt at a potboiler with a ghastly murder in it, The Other House. Then there is the example of Graham Greene, who (as is well known) for many years separated his books into two categories, novels and entertainments, the fun-filled entertainments powered by violent action and suspenseful plots, the novels weighed down with spiritual matters. But with Greene, who was carrying on a tradition from Joseph Conrad, there was often a bleed-through in the membrane between action and thought: the events of Brighton Rock, for…
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