To John Edwards’s “Two Americas,” add the idea of “Two Campaigns.” The real election in November will involve 100 million voters, most of whom pay little attention until after the World Series. So from now until fall, another, smaller campaign–a mostly cable and Internet event of interest to 5 or 10 million people–will dominate. But not much of this Cable Campaign will leech into the consciousness of the larger voting public....
Come May 15, online servers for The Culling will be shutting off permanently. While the game still grants owners the ability to play offline, the lack of connectivity for a battle royale game is essentially the final nail in the coffin. The announcement comes from the game’s official website, where Director of Operations Josh Van Veld opened up about The Culling’s free-to-play option and how the development team had hoped for in-game purchases to help the studio continue to work on the game after its release....
Such is the tragicomic legacy of a scientist who was a celebrity in his time but is today overshadowed by his rivals Guglielmo Marconi (often credited with inventing the wireless radio) or Thomas Edison (DC electricity), while being most often linked to an ’80s hair band. Yet to a growing group of artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers, Tesla has become an inspiration. “He thought of invention as an art form, and that appeals to artists,” says Samantha Hunt, author of the new novel “The Invention of Everything Else,” a fictionalized depiction of Tesla’s life....
The reach of the Aurn Shinrikyo cult has proved wider than anyone expected. Its ranks included former members of organized-crime syndicates, policemen and more than 30 members of the Self-Defense Forces, Japan’s army. Two army sergeants warned their cult leaders in March of an impending raid, authorities said. Police arrested more than 150 cult members, but at the weekend, guru Shoko Asa-hara was still on the loose. Authorities had been holding off a manhunt until they’d recovered the culls stockpiles of the deadly chemical satin....
Wang says that when her father fell ill from a stroke 15 years ago, she resigned herself to paying his medical bills and to caring for him at home. By 1997, she was in a deep depression. A friend introduced her to Falun Gong, and she found the movement’s message of self-abasement brought her spiritual strength. She taught her father the slow-motion breathing and arm movements that are said to promote good health....
What stands out about The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes the most though, aside from an Indiana Jones style adventure setting and host of monstrous bat-like creatures, is the ultimate evil that the game is setting up. All indications and promotional material point to a demon named Pazuzu, an entity all too familiar to horror fans, being the one manipulating events behind the scenes. RELATED: House of Ashes Looks More Like Resident Evil Than Previous Dark Picture Games...
Perhaps best known for their breakout single ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’, the band, formed in 2000, are currently promoting their fifth album, Pinewood Smile, and have been talking to Goal about their love of all things football. From lead singer Justin Hawkins admitting he would rather be a footballer than a musician, to Frankie Poullain believing that his mum was to blame for Scotland’s awful 1978 World Cup campaign, no stone is left unturned....
More fuel was added to the fire after The Day Before’s latest release date delay. Developer Fntastic announced that it was pushing The Day Before from its March release date to November 10. This release date delay and the lack of new gameplay footage was blamed on a trademark dispute over the game’s name. According to Fntastic, someone else secured The Day Before trademark before it was able to, and now it’s working with its legal team on resolving the situation....
Erich Kaestner, said to be Germany’s last surviving WWI veteran, is making headlines not so much for his death but for the amount of time it took to realize his significance. He died on January 1 at the age of 107, but it was not until recently that word got out he was Germany’s last living link to the Great War. As the BBC reports: CBC News has Der Spiegel magazine’s interview with an official from Germany’s Military Research Institute....
The confusion continues straight to the notion of gender: Hernias are commonly associated with men, but women develop them, too. Furthermore, hernias can occur in people of any age, from birth to late adulthood. Most hernias are abdominal hernias. Anything that strains the abdominal wall—from lifting heavy objects to exercising—can predispose someone to a hernia and cause one, too. This article describes the seven types of hernias men are most likely to experience and the red flags that can alert you to the presence of one....
Why choose this moment to ‘fess up? Loose nukes have the Clinton administration more worried than ever before. Last week Secretary of Defense Les Aspin unveiled a “counterproliferation initiative” that directs military commanders to draw up battle plans against rogue nations with newly acquired nuclear capability, instead of former Warsaw Pact countries. This week, NEWSWEEK has learned, President Clinton will meet with senior advisers to consider the threat of terrorism and nuclear weapons....
Obviously, this bug set off the panic alarm at Ubisoft Massive, and the studio began to frantically seek out the bug. Thankfully, the studio has now confirmed that the error has been completely fixed, and players who had the misfortune of having their agents deleted can rest easy knowing that their high-level agents will soon be restored. As it turns out, the issue was caused by a malfunctioning server that wasn’t synchronizing character data correctly after the update....
As part of IGN’s ‘IGN First’ preview event for this month, the publication is offering gamers a closer look at The Division than ever before. It also happens to be timed perfectly with the game’s open beta, which is set to end this weekend. However, so far preview coverage for Tom Clancy’s The Division has been focused on the early parts of the post-viral outbreak shooter. We’ve seen how the various members of the titular agency will come together, how players will be able to spec their Division agents out with a variety of skills, and we’ve watched a few trailers focused on the game’s story....
The Tom Clancy series is no stranger to any of these types of media, yet the inclusion of a new mobile game is perhaps the most enticing part of the news. Because there have already been plenty of Tom Clancy books, films and console games, the second Tom Clancy mobile game has a lot to live up to, especially since it’s tied to the massively popular The Division series. While the other mobile game from the series, Tom Clancy’s Elite Squad, is undeniably popular, The Division mobile game needs to step things up to truly make it an essential part of the Division universe....
It is not just the left-leaning press taking at face value Biden’s calls to “put away the harsh rhetoric.” Conservative pundits are doing so as well. Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn called the speech “Lincolnesque.” Biden’s unity message was “exactly what the country needed to hear,” McGurn wrote. Daily Wire podcast host Ben Shapiro found the speech so pollyannish in its call for reconciliation as to be risible....
Last week John Ashcroft answered the question. In a televised press conference, the attorney general announced a sweeping 42-count indictment against four men, charging them with conspiracy in a major doping ring. The names Ashcroft read out are well-known, if controversial, figures only within the sports world: Victor Conte and James Valente, top executives of BALCO, a San Francisco-area sports-supplement company whose roster of clients includes some of the country’s top athletes; Greg Anderson, the trainer of baseball great Barry Bonds; and renowned track coach Remi Korchemny....
The spin-off series contains several Easter Eggs throughout its 127 chapter run, but one thing it does in particular is make several great Dragon Ball references, culminating in one of the most interesting Son Goku references seen in recent anime, Oboro Shirakumo. Here’s how My Hero Academia: Vigilantes makes extensive references to Akira Toriyama’s legendary franchise. RELATED: How Vigilantes Fit Into My Hero Academia’s Hero Society Vigilantes My Hero Academia: Vigilantes takes place a slightly confusing amount of time before the events of the main story....
So it’s nice to see that Lakers point guard Kendall Marshall, a North Carolina alum, thinks so highly of the footwear of teammate Ryan Kelly, who went to Duke. Is there a bigger slam known to man than that? OK, YES THERE IS.
Previous financial crises so weakened the banks and S&Ls that they lost their primacy. As recently as 1980 they supplied almost half of all lending—to companies, consumers and home buyers. Now their share is less than 30 percent. The gap has been filled by “securitization”: the complex bundling of mortgages, credit-card debt and other loans into bondlike instruments that are sold to all manner of investors (banks themselves, pension funds, hedge funds, insurance companies)....
RELATED: The Elder Scrolls: 10 Races From The Lore We Wish Were Playable These choice selections range from ancient times all the way to the present day. Classical, fantasy, mystery, it’s all buried in the lore, characters, and quests of The Elder Scrolls. Although not every reference is mentioned these entries should make every book lover smile. 10 Nulfaga’s Ramblings-Paradise Lost Nulfaga is the Dowager Queen of Daggerfall. Known as the “Mad Witch” she seeks to punish those responsible for the murder of her son, King Lysandus....
