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Magnolias Cream Cheese Butter
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Did you use the brick cream cheese or the spreadable stuff in the tub? This looks yummy!ReplyDelete
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I've always enjoyed the combination of butter and cream cheese on a warm bagel, but I've never added the extra salt, lemon juice, or parsley. This will prove to be an even more delectable treat, I'm sure. Thanks, Nicole!ReplyDelete
Since we live in Greenville, we end up in Charleston at least twice a year. I keep meaning to try the nicer restaurants, but the shrimp song of SeeWee's and The Wreck keep singing me away. Still, this spread looks tasty, and similar to a Boursin replacement recipe I made one year.ReplyDelete
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CAITLIN BARRETT is a member of THE NIBBLE™ editorial staff, and she likes it hot.
October 2005
We recently discovered that we really like pain. Hot pain. We haven't been the same since we tried Original Juan's Pain is Good hot sauce.
Unfortunately, stepping on broken glass or stubbing your toe won't replicate the rush of pleasure that comes from Original Juan's "Pain Is Good" Hot Sauces. Each bottle features a pain gauge (as if the photo on the label isn't a good indicator) which rates the sauce on the Scoville Scale*. The Scoville ratings range from 1,500 to 3,500 Scoville units—more than munching on ancho or pasilla chiles and less than drinking pure Tabasco®.
*In order to really grasp how hot (or not) each sauce is, it is important to understand the Scoville Scale. Every chile contains capsaicinoids, the chemical compounds that give chiles their heat. In 1912, Wilbur Scoville invented this method to measure comparative heat levels of the different varieties of chiles, and it is still the most widely used today. For more information see our article on the Scoville Heat Scale and different varieties of chiles.
Yet, these sauces are not just for "hotheads." While you won't put them on French food, they can kick up baked potatoes, corn on the cob, pizza, scrambled eggs, steamed vegetables, burgers, chicken—anything in need of flavor.
Each of the sauces in the Pain is Good line has its own distinct personality—starting with the "screaming for joy" product spokesperson on the label. The "sultans of sizzle" include:
What to do with this wealth of heat? Order a bottle of each, invite your friends over and fire up the grill. Cook up kabobs of beef, chicken, pork, vegetables—even pineapple, bananas, and peaches for Jamaican Style—and mix and match the different sauces. No doubt, everyone will have a different favorite. Let each person take that bottle home to try it with his/her own recipes. (And because cold beer or iced tea isn't the best way to quench the fire, have a bowl of bland creamy dip (yogurt- or cream cheese-based) and crudités, salt-free pretzels and/or sliced baguette.
The original three sauces (Garlic, Jamaican, Louisiana) are available in a boxed package as well as in a gift basket along with three great salsas. At these prices, they're a nifty gifty for anyone in need of a little spice in his or her life.
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Stan Musial remembered at funeral Mass
ST. LOUIS -- Stan Musial was remembered during a funeral and memorial outside Busch Stadium on Saturday as a Hall of Famer and a St. Louis icon embraced by generations of fans who never had the privilege of watching him play.
Broadcaster Bob Costas, his voice cracking with emotion at times, pointed out during a two-hour Mass that in 92 years of life, Stan the Man never let anyone down.
Costas noted that even though Musial, who died Jan. 19, was a three-time NL MVP and seven-time batting champion, the pride of Donora, Pa., lacked a singular achievement. Joe DiMaggio had a 56-game hitting streak, Ted Williams was the last major leaguer to hit .400, and Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle soared to stardom in the New York spotlight. Musial didn't quite reach the 500-homer club -- he finished with 475 -- and played in his final World Series in 1946, "wouldn't you know it, the year before they started televising the Fall Classic!"
"What was the hook with Stan Musial other than the distinctive stance and the role of one of baseball's best hitters?" Costas said. "It seems that all Stan had going for him was more than two decades of sustained excellence as a ballplayer and more than nine decades as a thoroughly decent human being.
"Where is the single person to truthfully say a bad word about him?"
There was enough room in the large Roman Catholic church for a handful of fans. One of them wore a vintage, No. 6 Musial jersey. Another clapped softly as pallbearers carried the casket from the church to the hearse to the tune of bagpipes.
Among those in attendance were baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, former St. Louis standout Albert Pujols and Hall of Famers Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith, Bruce Sutter, Whitey Herzog and 90-year-old Red Schoendienst, who once roomed with Musial. Joe Torre, a former MVP and manager in St. Louis, and Tony La Russa, who became close with Musial during his 16 seasons managing the Cardinals, sat near the front along with current manager Mike Matheny.
Pujols, who had been on track to challenge many of Musial's franchise records before signing with the Angels 13 months ago, exchanged hugs with Fred Hanser, a member of the Cardinals ownership team, before taking his seat.
Jim Edmonds, a star center fielder for two World Series teams in the 2000s, has the same last name as one of Musial's sons-in-law. He said Musial informed him that they were distant relatives, and greeted him as "Hey, Cuz!"
"I thought he was kidding at first," Edmonds said. "That's pretty cool."
Jack Clark, a slugging first baseman for the Cardinals during the 1980s, said he perhaps respected Musial most for his decency during baseball's sometimes difficult period of integration in the 1940s and 1950s.
"Stan kind of crossed that color barrier. When people were getting on the African-American players, he stuck up for them. It was a time when you could kind of get your finger pointed at you for that stuff," Clark said. "People loved him, and he loved them right back."
Bishop Richard Stika, pastor at Musial's' church in suburban St. Louis for several years, speculated during the homily about why Musial was never ejected from a game during his career: "I think deep down, that was because he didn't want to go home and face Lil."
Musial's wife of nearly 72 years, Lillian, died last year.
Grandson Andrew Edmonds said the public Musial was no different from the private Musial, the grandpa who bought McDonalds for the family every Sunday. He recalled a fan telling him, "Your grandpa's best attribute is he made nobodies feel like somebodies."
Pallbearers included Cardinals President Bill DeWitt III, Musial grandsons Andrew Edmonds and Brian Schwarze, and the retired star's longtime business partner in Stan the Man Inc., Dick Zitzmann.
After the service, the hearse and vans filled with the Cardinals' delegation drove to Busch Stadium, where Musial's family laid flowers at the base of one of his statues -- the one that made the move across the street from the old Busch -- while being serenaded by "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Color guards from the city's fire and police departments flanked the statue, along with more than a dozen ballpark ushers. A single Clydesdale walked slowly down the street.
Cardinals closer Jason Motte shook his head.
"This is nothing like I've ever seen," he said.
During a funeral that was almost entirely upbeat, son-in-law Martin Schwarze got the biggest laugh when he recounted a 1995 radio interview with Jack Buck during which Musial was asked how good of a hitter he'd have been had he played in the modern era. Musial, who finished with a .331 career batting average, replied he probably would have batted about .275, and Buck said "Whoa, whoa, whoa," that's way too low.
Then Musial added with a chuckle, "Hey, Jack, I'm 75!"
Thousands filed through the Cathedral Basilica at Musial's six-hour public visitation on Thursday, and hundreds more attended the service.
Hundreds more were waiting at the more prominent of the two Musial statues outside Busch Stadium, where fans have gathered since Musial died after several years of declining health. Next to the statues were flowers, balloons, teddy bears, helmets, autographed items and a homemade sign that read "Thanks for the memories. You live in our hearts, No. 6."
"He's been a hero to us for four generations," Kathy Noorman of Wentzville, Mo., said, speaking near the statue. "He was such a good man, somebody you can hold up to grandkids and your own kids as an example of who they should be."
Mark Springman, 57, of Alton, Ill., brought a bottle of champagne to the statue shrine. He saw Musial play in 1963, Stan the Man's final season, and has been a season-ticket holder for about 15 years.
"He was more than a ballplayer," Springman said. "He was the man."


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Frack 2, Scene 1
In 2006, in the midst of the Rocky Mountain energy boom, Grand Junction and Palisade, Colo., lost a long battle to keep natural gas drilling off the forested mesa that supplies the two communities' drinking water.
Now, the drilling boom has moved out East, and the political landscape of the oil and gas fight appears to have undergone a tectonic shift.
New York City's 1,900-square-mile watershed supplies about 9 million people, and the state has so far resisted public pressure to ban gas development there. But in late October, Chesapeake Energy Corp., reportedly the only company with holdings in the city's watershed, announced that it won't drill them. CEO Aubrey McClendon told the New York Times that developing the 5,000-acre swatch, a fraction of Chesapeake's 1.5 million acres in the region, wasn't worth the backlash: "Why go through the brain damage of that, when we have so many other opportunities?"
Chesapeake is the largest leaseholder in the Marcellus Shale -- a vast natural gas deposit beneath West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York -- where companies have rushed to secure holdings in recent years. Drillers there, like their Western counterparts, rely on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- blasting water, sand and potentially toxic chemicals into the rock to crack it open and release gas up the well. Fracked gas wells and drilling fluids -- the composition of which has long been guarded by industry as proprietary -- have been implicated in multiple instances of water contamination. Yet oversight has been left to the states: In 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency decided, based on a questionable study, that it need not regulate fracking, and in 2005, Congress formally exempted it from regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
But thanks in part to the Marcellus' proximity to major population centers (which, ironically, also makes its gas more valuable) concerns about pollution have moved into the national spotlight. Major media outlets have blitzed fracking with negative coverage. In late September, McClendon and John Pinkerton, the CEO of Range Resources Corp., another company with Marcellus holdings, called on the industry to be more transparent about the chemicals it uses. Chesapeake, which keeps a log of its fracking chemicals on its Web site, has even endorsed New York state's proposal to require drilling companies to register their products and disclose the compounds used.
Congress is also beginning to move. In late October, Obama signed a bill containing a measure that calls for the EPA to re-study the environmental effects of fracking, using "the best available science" and "a transparent, peer-reviewed process." And another bill -- Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette's FRAC act, introduced in June -- would eliminate fracking's exemption from the drinking water law and require companies to disclose the composition of drilling chemicals. Though that measure appears to have stalled, it's received a lot of attention from industry and the media. Co-sponsors in the House had snowballed to 37 as of press time -- nine of them from New York state. A twin measure in the Senate now has five.
But the bill has sparked opposition in the West, particularly in DeGette's home state of Colorado, which relies heavily on natural gas revenue and recently passed its own tough new environmental rules for the industry, including one that requires disclosure of drilling chemicals. Grand Junction and surrounding Mesa County have adopted resolutions against the FRAC Act, as have many of the state's other gas-patch communities and counties. Even Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter effectively came out against DeGette's measure this summer when he called for more study before more regulation.
Ritter's stance isn't surprising: Like many Western leaders, he often favors a homegrown approach to managing natural resources. Plus, he may need to placate industry if he wants to be re-elected in 2010. Challengers seeking the Republican nomination -- including state Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry of Grand Junction, who just dropped from the race -- have been quick to blame the state's economic woes in part on Ritter's gas rules; they came into effect just as the bottom dropped out of natural gas prices and dozens of drilling rigs around the state went idle. "Our state now has the worst reputation in the country as a place for the natural gas companies to do business," the Republican front-runner, former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis of Grand Junction, said in a recent press release. "Colorado's loss in jobs and revenue is a gain for other states, including Pennsylvania."


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Thanks Mike, I wasn't kidding when you handed me the shirt and I said I'd look good while I was riding my bike! LOL!
Something I'd like to note...I am happy that the style shirt I chose is long enough to tuck in. That's important while riding so it doesn't blow up.


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Washington, DC, March 18, 2014—Hearing loss is about twice as common in people with diabetes, so Accurate Hearing Systems is urging those with diabetes to get their hearing checked and to make it a routine part of the their diabetes care and management—all in recognition of American Diabetes Association Alert Day® on March 25. Anyone can take the confidential online survey to determine if they need a comprehensive hearing test by a hearing healthcare professional.
Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is encouraging all adults to find out if they're at risk for developing type 2 diabetes by taking the American Diabetes Association's Diabetes Risk Test (ow.ly/uvLST). Although Alert Day is a one-day event, the Diabetes Risk Test and the Accurate Hearing Systems on line hearing test are available year-round.
What's the Diabetes-Hearing Health Connection?
Hearing depends on small blood vessels and nerves in the inner ear. Studies have shown that people with diabetes have a higher rate of hearing loss than people without diabetes. Although the relationship between diabetes and hearing loss is still being investigated, researchers theorize that, over time, high blood glucose levels can damage the blood vessels and nerves of the inner ear, diminishing the ability to hear. ( http://ow.ly/uCLit)
In a meta-analysis (ow.ly/uvK8y) published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, researchers found that people with diabetes were 2.15 times as likely as those without the disease to have hearing loss. Surprisingly, when broken down by age, the younger group was at greater risk. The results showed that those 60 and younger with diabetes were 2.61 times more likely to have hearing loss, while the risk for those older than 60 was 1.58 times higher. The meta-analysis looked at 13 previous studies that examined the link between diabetes and hearing loss.
According to Professor Hirohito Sone, Department of Internal Medicine, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan: "Our findings support routine hearing screenings for people with diabetes starting at an earlier age than for people without the disease. From a preventive healthcare perspective, this is very important because we know that when left untreated, hearing loss can exacerbate and perhaps even lead to other health problems, such as depression and dementia, making the diabetes burden even greater."
Likewise, research (ow.ly/uvJNQ) also suggests that by keeping diabetes under control, people can help minimize potential diabetes-related hearing damage. Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit found that women between the ages of 60 and 75 with well-controlled diabetes had better hearing than women whose diabetes was poorly controlled.
"A certain degree of hearing loss is common with aging, but it is often accelerated in patients with diabetes, especially if blood-glucose levels are not being controlled," said senior study author Kathleen L. Yaremchuk, M.D., Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
"Our study really points to the importance of patients controlling their diabetes and paying attention to their hearing health."
Unlike eye exams, hearing health examinations are often overlooked in the routine regimen of care for people with diabetes, despite the fact that the vast majority of people with hearing loss can benefit from hearing aids. In fact, almost all of the 400 people who underwent hearing tests at the American Diabetes Association's EXPO in Portland, Oregon in 2012 said they had never received a physician's recommendation for a hearing test. Yet more than half of these 400 individuals were found to have hearing loss. And nearly all of them said they did not know that hearing loss is associated with diabetes. (ow.ly/uvKmf)
For more information on hearing loss, visit www.BetterHearing.org. Read more about diabetes and hearing loss at http://ow.ly/uyuHt.
How Hearing Aids May Help
Research shows that hearing loss is frequently associated with other physical, mental, and emotional health conditions, and that people who address their hearing loss often experience better quality of life. Eight out of 10 hearing aid users, in fact, say they're satisfied with the changes that have occurred in their lives specifically due to their hearing aids—from how they feel about themselves to the positive changes they see in their relationships, social interactions, and work lives.
When people with even mild hearing loss use hearing aids, they often improve their job performance; enhance their communication skills; increase their earnings potential; improve their professional and interpersonal relationships; stave off depression; gain an enhanced sense of control over their lives; and better their quality of life.
Here are five little-known facts about today's modern hearing aids:
- They're virtually invisible. Many of today's hearing aids sit discreetly and comfortably inside the ear canal, providing both natural sound quality, and discreet and easy use.
- They automatically adjust to all kinds of soundscapes. Recent technological advances with directional microphones have made hearing aids far more versatile than ever before—and in a broad range of sound environments.
- You can enjoy water sports and sweat while wearing them. Waterproof digital hearing aids have arrived. This feature is built into some newly designed hearing aids for those concerned about water, humidity, and dust. This feature suits the active lifestyles of swimmers, skiers, snowboarders, intensive sports enthusiasts and anyone working in dusty, demanding environments.
- They work with smartphones, home entertainment systems and other prized electronics. Wireless, digital hearing aids are now the norm. That means seamless connectivity—directly into your hearing aid(s) at volumes that are just right for you—from your smartphone, MP3 player, television and other high-tech gadget.


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Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL news items for today:
Falling Short: Foxconn says it's having trouble manufacturing enough Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhones to meet consumer demand, Reuters notes. Apple unveiled its latest smartphone, the iPhone 5, in September, but reports have repeatedly surfaced that its Asian manufacturing partners are having difficulties with its super-slim design and display. On Wednesday, Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou conceded that the company was "falling short of meeting the huge demand" for iPhones. He explained that the phones were "not easy to make."
Free Apps: Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) will release free mobile apps for its popular Office Suite for devices running Apple's iOS and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android early next year, the Verge notes. The apps will permit users to view Office documents on their devices. Additional functionality — in the form of basic editing tools — will be available with a subscription to Office 365. An account with Microsoft will be needed to use the apps even without a subscription. The apps will support Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents, but will be severely limited compared to desktop versions of the software.
Cash Infusion: An analyst says Apple may have made a significant investment in struggling Japanese consumer electronics maker Sharp, AppleInsider noted. The suggestion was prompted by Apple's capital spending report, which was $2.3 billion higher than Wall Street had expected. Last year Apple forecast its capital expenditures for fiscal 2012 at $8 billion, but the recent report indicated that it had spent $10.3 billion instead. While the report didn't provide specifics, it noted that most of the capital outlays were aimed at "product tooling, manufacturing process equipment and infrastructure." Sharp, which makes the touchscreens used in iPads and iPhones, has been facing financial and operational difficulties. The analyst says Apple is investing in Sharp to make certain it has an alternative to Samsung for LCD supplies. Apple and Samsung, though long-time partners, are also competitors in the smartphone and tablet markets.
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Anita Sikma Design is excited to announce that on the evening of Friday July 7th she will be hosting her second set of wax carving workshops! These workshops will also be be held in Sikma's new Hastings Sunrise studio. This bright and inviting space will lend itself to a beautiful afternoon, introducing students to tools and tips with a hands on demonstration to the wax carving process. Absolutely no experience required! No restricted curriculum, sign up to learn and have fun! This class is designed for you, bring your enthusiasm, be fearless and imaginative, create your very own hand carved, sculpted, lost wax ring!
Registration is based on a first come first serve sign up basis, class is limited!
Location: 2132 E Hastings, Vancouver BC, 6-9PM
Each student will be provided a square block of green carving wax, all wax models are left with Sikma at the end of class. Sikma will cast in sterling silver, file, sand, polish and patina the rings and have them ready for pick up in 3 weeks. Amazing!
- students have the option of a 5mm or 8mm wax block for carving, that can be viewed and decided in studio. Ring sizes can range between a size 4-13.
- all necessary tools will be provided as well equipment if requested.
- if you plan on making a ring for someone else, bring in a ring so we can configure that size!
- each student will have hands on instruction and personal tips provided by Sikma
- I encourage you to begin sketching and gathering ideas for your ring immediately after registering.
- class space is limited to ensure proper instruction and develop personal relationships
Class registration is are non-refundable, be positive you can commit before you register your purchase.
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This artwork is an element of the project "Post vs. Porto Renaissance" presented in Italy, Venice, the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011.
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Material:The wooden element is in the form of an egg with a unique image inscribed in it, one-of-a-kind piece. Hand painting: acrylic, nitro enamel, oil.
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Dimensions: 4х4х1,5 inch / 10x10x4 cm
The base can be designed in two variants:MDF, nitro enamel. On the rear surface of the base, there is a metal suspension for attachment to a wall.
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Arden Bender Browning, "Empire", 2010, gouache and flashe on tyvek, 60″ X 106." Selected from the NURTUREArt Artists' Registry.
The annual NURTUREart Benefit Party is on Tuesday, October 12, at the ZieherSmith Gallery in Chelsea. As a member of this year's Benefit Committee, I'm urging you to support the event, which is being co-chaired by Edward Winkleman and curator Julie McKim.
About NURTUREArt: In 1997 George J. Robinson founded NURTUREart to help emerging artists. He mounted guerilla exhibitions in donated spaces whenever and wherever possible, and started a slide registry in a filing cabinet in his Washington Heights apartment. As the Artists� Registry grew exhibits took place in all over the city from the United Nations and Citibank to empty Lower East Side storefronts. In 2003 NURTUREart opened a gallery space in Williamsburg that featured collaborations between emerging curators and artists from the slide registry. In 2006 NURTUREart found a bigger and better permanent home on Grand Street in East Williamsburg/Bushwick and Karen Marston, a longtime volunteer and trustee, became the Executive Director. In 2007 Benjamin Evans bacame the Gallery Director.
About donating artwork for the Benefit: Because exhibition space is limited, a panel of notable curators has been asked to select work for the exhibition: Dan Cameron, Ceci Moss, Jane Panetta, and Krista Saunders. Each curator will view submissions and select work, which will be distributed to the guests (in exchange for the $200 admission fee) at the party. All proceeds go to fund essential NURTUREart programming for the coming season. No auction involved.
Submission details:
Submissions must be received by midnight Friday, September 3. Artwork can be in any 2D or 3D medium, framed or unframed, maximum 16″ in any direction including frame, as long as it is able to be installed on the wall. Sculptors may include a small shelf for display. Prepare a jpeg file no larger than 150 KB, between 200 x 200 and 600 x 600 pixels, and upload it to the benefit submission page for the curators review, one submission per artist only please. For more details, check out the Submission Guidelines here.
To attend: Purchase a VIP Combination Ticket before Oct 1st for $200 ($250 after October 1), which includes admission fo two people and choice of one artwork. The artwork can be selected during the VIP Preview at 6:30 pm.
NURTUREArt Benefit, ZieherSmith Gallery 516 West 20th Street New York, NY 1000. Tuesday October 12th, 7PM


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After indulging my senses in the wonder that is Halo on a regular basis for well over a month at the time of this writing, I realize that Halo is not only the most polished, unique shooter ever created, but a pivotal step in the evolution of its oft-recycled genre. Far from being a recycled first-person shooter, Halo is a milestone that seamlessly blends innovation and refinement into a thoroughly superlative gaming experience. While it is not without its faults, I found them to be negligible when juxtaposed with the game's unprecedented accomplishments. Halo is the first game since 1998's PC release Half-Life to truly breathe new life into the single-player first-person shooter, and it does so in ways that are both unexpected and delightfully original. But to understand why Halo is such an incredible game and why I feel it is deserving of our highest honor here at GameCritics, it is important to understand both the core elements of what makes a shooter successful and why Halo's innovations shatter the conventions that first-person shooters have succumbed to over the years.
After reading Dale's exceptionally thorough review, I realize that although I see eye to eye with him on much of what Halo both achieves and lacks, I ultimately have a differing view of the significance that can be attributed to those factors. First and foremost are Halo's spectacular environments. The detail, particularly in the outdoor worlds, is unrivaled. Stars literally sparkle in the sky; trees sway in the wind, clouds glide across the sky, the ocean tides splash gracefully against the shoreline. Even the grass has exceptional texture. The scale of it all is truly amazing: one can gaze far into the distance and view large portions of the level, yet every rock, tree, and plant is exquisitely detailed. The indoor worlds are also beautifully rendered with all sorts of amazing subtleties, many of which are somewhat hidden until players illuminate them with Master Chief's flashlight. The graphical splendor is grand enough, but Halo's worlds are convincing not because of their looks, but because of the logical implementation of the environments; it doesn't just look like a real world, it feels like one. Every object in the environments can be used to strategic advantage, and although the environments are not destructible, the reactions seem very natural. If a large blast hits the side of a cliff, for example, it will send a small avalanche of rocks and gravel tumbling downward. Stray gunfire will cause a reaction depending on the surface it hits, and explosives detonate in a lifelike plume of smoke and debris that falls naturally to the ground. The vehicles in the game have convincing physics, and are accordingly challenging to master but ultimately responsive and lifelike.
Halo excels with numerous innovations Dale mentioned in his review. The unique health/energy shield system negates the need for the arbitrary, illogical placement of health and power-ups. First-aid kits and human weapons are generally found by the bodies of dead marines, just as alien power-ups can be found in places where large numbers of the Covenant gather. The two-weapon system injects both a welcome dose of realism (I always wondered how game characters could simultaneously carry around a rocket launcher or two, multiple heavy machine guns, shotguns, etc.) and a healthy bit of strategy. While some weapons may not seem as useful initially, a little patience and experimenting will reveal that every weapon has a unique function with according strengths and weaknesses. The tide of various encounters can be altered radically depending upon which weapons the player chooses to use, and ultimately the weapons are exceptionally well-balanced, creative—and of course deadly.
The artificial intelligence (AI) in Halo similarly represents a solid step forward. The implementation of friendly tactical AI is a landmark in single-player games. Remember how the bone-headed Nataglia would run around aimlessly in GoldenEye 007? Your allies in Halo are not air-headed amateurs, but tough-as-nails marines that are full of personality and adept at utilizing their surroundings in combat. Not to be outdone, the alien enemies put up one heck of a fight and are similarly skilled in group tactics, evasive maneuvers, and deceptive offensive tactics. Their behavior is convincingly unpredictable, lending the game a feeling of randomness that only adds to the lifelike feel of the worlds. Even though enemies will always appear in the same spots in repeated play, one can never predict their reaction to a given situation. Try as I might, I have been unable to find exploitable holes in the AI. Interestingly, when the difficulty is cranked up, enemies don't so much become tougher as they become smarter, using more deft evasive maneuvers and showing surprising patience and tact.
The significance of integrating vehicles into the game cannot be overlooked either. Unlike Dale, I found the realistic physics to be enjoyable and ultimately satisfying, not cumbersome or obstructive. Halo's most remarkable achievement is the creation of a believable fantasy world, and the realistic feel of inertia that the vehicles (particularly the warthog) possess ads tremendously to the suspension of disbelief. While driving the vehicles is an art unto itself, practice will yield consistent consequences that are realistically predictable. Choosing whether or not to use a vehicle will have a noticeable bearing on the reactions of the enemies and affect the outcome of combat accordingly.
The icing on the proverbial cake is Halo's multiplayer. Far from coming up short, I have enjoyed it immensely and have found it to be quite well designed. Although the addition of computer-controlled "bots" would undoubtedly have been a plus, it is a rather insignificant blemish on an otherwise stellar multiplayer feature. There are leagues of games and rules to from which to choose, and it is even possible to mix and match rules and games to create a "custom" multiplayer mode. There are nice touches to the map layouts; for example, a sniper rifle may be appropriately hidden on a high ledge, but the thoughtful placing of a camouflage power-up at ground level prevents the sniper from dominating the game. While there are a handful of levels that suffer somewhat without large numbers of players, most are suitably small for four players. Nonetheless, I have to confess that many of the most nail-biting moments I enjoyed in Halo took place in the biggest multiplayer arenas with only myself and a single competitor to fill the roster. Rounding out the multiplayer options, the cooperative feature in Halo is just one more thing to love. This simple yet rare feature has not been so enjoyable since the days of two-player classics like Ikari Warriors and Contra. Halo's sense of randomness creates the necessity of near-constant planning and cooperative strategy. Hopefully, Halo's successful implementation of this highly enjoyable feature will challenge more developers to integrate it into future video games.
I believe that the greatest achievement to which any game can strive is to create a world so lifelike, so logically implemented, that it allows players to feel a suspension of disbelief that is uninterrupted by illogical inconsistencies. Every aspect of Halo—the amazing artificial intelligence, the realistic physics, the weapons and health management, the graphical detail—blend together seamlessly to realize a convincing world that is awe-inspiring and truly immersive. While physical laws are complex and predictable, Halo's world is permeated by a feeling of uncertainty that brings it to life in way that no other game has done before. It is the best single-player first-person shooter ever created, and its cohesive design will serve as a stepping stone for many years to come.
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PHOENIX (AP) — Yusmeiro Petit rarely pitched so well in his days with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
An older, wiser version of the former Arizona right-hander was on the mound against his old team on Sunday, and for the second straight start since he was called up from the minors, Petit was in control.
He struck out a career-high 10, Hector Sanchez drove in three runs and the San Francisco Giants beat Arizona 8-2 to take two of three from the Diamondbacks.
Hunter Pence homered, doubled and singled, driving in two runs and scoring three times as the Giants improved to 10-5 against Arizona this season.
But the story for San Francisco was Petit.
"I'm not going to say surprised, I'm going to say I'm happy for him," Pence said. "He's just gets his work done. He's done everything the right way. He's a good guy to have around the clubhouse. He's positive. He has tremendous command, he's got a couple of off-speed pitches to keep them honest, and it's been fun playing behind him."
Patrick Corbin (13-5), pitching on an extra two days' rest, allowed five runs on nine hits in five innings to fall to 1-4 in his last seven starts.
Petit (2-0), who pitched for the Diamondbacks from 2007-09, went six-plus innings, allowing two runs on seven hits in his first career start against Arizona. He also singled in a run, his second career RBI.
Petit was making his second start since being called up from Triple-A Fresno. He gave up two runs on six hits in six innings in a 5-3 win at Colorado on Tuesday.
"He's come up here and done all that we could ask for," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
Petit's previous career high in strikeouts was eight on three occasions, most recently July 29, 2009, while pitching for Arizona against Philadelphia. He said he's a "completely different" pitcher than he was in those days.
"Experience," he said with a teammate serving as translator. "Before I wasn't consistent with what I was doing. Now the experience is taking place in what I'm showing right now."
Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said Petit "is a little bit more mature" than he was in his days with the Diamondbacks.
"He had a good plan today and he hit his spots," Gibson said. "When you hit your spots with that much regularity it makes it tough."
San Francisco won its fourth consecutive series over the Diamondbacks overall and fifth series in a row in Arizona. The Diamondbacks last won a series at home against the Giants April 6-8, 2012.
The extra rest didn't do much good for Corbin. In his last two outings, the young left-hander has given up 14 runs, 13 earned, on 16 hits.
"I felt all right," Corbin said. "I just wasn't really locating anything and left some pitches up."
San Francisco scored three times with two outs in the fourth inning.
Buster Posey led off with a single, then Pence doubled to put runners at second and third. Pablo Sandoval flew out to right and Brett Pill grounded out to third and it looked as if Corbin might escape. But Sanchez doubled to left-center to bring both runners home and make it 3-1. Gregor Blanco's infield single put runners at first and third, then Petit's single to right put the Giants up 4-1. It was Petit's fourth career hit in 69 at-bats.
Pence's opposite-field home run on Corbin's full-count pitch with two outs in the fifth boosted the lead to 5-1.
Arizona scored first in the opening inning when Adam Eaton singled and scored from first on Martin Prado's two-out double. San Francisco tied it in the second. Pence drew a leadoff walk, advanced to third on Sandoval's single and scored on Sanchez's ground out to short.
Petit left after giving up a leadoff single to A.J. Pollock in the seventh. Left-hander Jose Mijares got Gerardo Parra to fly out, then struck out pinch-hitter Tony Campana. Willie Bloomquist singled to put runners at first and second, then Eaton's RBI single cut the lead to 5-2. Right-hander Santiago Casilla relieved Mijares and, on the first pitch, Paul Goldschmidt flew out to center to end the inning.
Posey doubled in two runs off and Pence had an RBI single off Heath Bell in the ninth.
NOTES: The Giants activated 2B Tony Abreu off the 15-day DL. Abreu missed 31 games with bursitis in his left knee. ... The Diamondbacks recalled two relievers from Triple-A Reno, right-hander David Hernandez and left-hander Tony Sipp. ... The Diamondbacks open a three-game series against Toronto on Monday night, with right-hander Brandon McCarthy (3-8, 5.03 ERA) going for Arizona and right-hander Esmil Rogers (3-7, 5.03) on the mound for the Blue Jays. It's the Diamondbacks' final interleague series of the season. ... San Francisco goes to San Diego for a three-game series, with Barry Zito (4-10, 5.81) starting for the Giants and Ian Kennedy (5-9, 5.10) for the Padres. ... Arizona acquired minor league RH reliever Matt Langwell from Cleveland to complete the Jason Kubel trade to the Indians.
PHOENIX (AP) — Yusmeiro Petit rarely pitched so well in his days with the Arizona Diamondbacks.