A Penn State Fan Cruise Set Sail Despite Coronavirus Warnings

On March 9, 171 Penn State University alumni and fans boarded a Celebrity Infinity cruise ship for a five-day trip to benefit the Special Olympics. The group departed from Port Miami, and stopped along the way at Key West and Cozumel, Mexico. Originally, 198 people were scheduled to be on the cruise; some people were sick, but 16 canceled out of fear. Celebrities onboard include Sue Paterno, the widow of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno; NFL Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris, and NFL star running back and College Football Hall-of-Famer Lydell Mitchell....

January 16, 2023 · 3 min · 622 words · Roderick Mccullough

A Peppa Pig Game Is Coming To Xbox Next Month

My Friend Peppa Pig looks to be a story driven game, with players creating their own animal character and spending time with Peppa and her family. This is no doubt a dream come true for young players that like to watch the show, but it will also serve as a font of inspiration for comedic content creators on sites like YouTube and Twitch. The trailer doesn’t give too much insight on how what the actual gameplay will be like, but it does claim to be “actual gameplay footage” almost the entire way through and show a good bit of its fun-looking character creation....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 358 words · Jolene Bair

A Piece Of The Action

THE JET’S WINDSHIELD SHATtered at 45,000 feet. Without warning. Three hours over the Atlantic. They could press on for Europe or make an emergency landing in Maine. Only one man could make the call: Sylvester Stallone. ““Should we go on? We might make it’,’’ the pilot shouted. ““Or we could turn around and go back to Bangor.’’ Stallone thought of his girlfriend, his daughter and, strangely, of Woody Harrelson. Harrelson had skipped the flight at the last minute....

January 16, 2023 · 8 min · 1509 words · Ronald Ortiz

A Plague Tale Innocence Passes One Million Copies Sold

A Plague Tale: Innocence is a horror/stealth game that revolves around Amicia, a young woman, and her brother trying to survive the Hundred Years’ War as her lands are invaded. The tale is full of amazing medieval history, scary, emotional, and traumatic, giving players a deep connection. It was released in May 2019 to big praise by critics, even if the sales numbers didn’t originally match the critical hype....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 234 words · Fred Collier

A Plague Tale Requiem All Possible Endings

Players are forced to choose between two difficult options at the end of A Plague Tale: Requiem, which will affect the final chapter of the game. Although there are two different endings, the final results will stay the same. RELATED: A Plague Tale Requiem Chapter List All Possible Endings In A Plague Tale: Requiem In A Plague Tale: Requiem, players will have to choose between two endings. Both will occur in chapter 16, King Hugo, in the last act....

January 16, 2023 · 3 min · 496 words · Christopher Walker

A Prelude To Icc Twenty 20 World Cup 2012

Coming very soon is the season of exploding entertainment - a period of emptied evening streets and increased TRPs! Half a century scored in a matter of dozen or more balls, 260 runs in 20 overs, six sixes in an over and more… All these can happen only here – Twenty 20 cricket. Slow and steady “never” wins the race. Hit & win is the only theme in this three-and-a-half-hour battle....

January 16, 2023 · 3 min · 477 words · Jennifer Winchester

A Real Piece Of Work

The strong economy obviously helps, but it’s not a complete explanation. In the 60-year history of welfare, through many fat economic times, the largest previous caseload drop was 250,000 in a single year. And it’s not as if folks are getting routinely booted off the rolls. Only Florida and Wisconsin are doing that now. In other states, the time limits haven’t kicked in yet. So what accounts for the change?...

January 16, 2023 · 4 min · 806 words · Tina Escalante

A S Draftee In Very Serious Condition After Drive By Shooting In New York

Mike Nolan, a 6-7 left-handed pitcher taken in the 18th round of the 2014 MLB Draft, was also shot in the torso and is fighting for his life, his father, Jimmy Nolan, said, according to NBC New York . MORE: Homecoming foe turns friend for school hit by wildfire The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. ET outside a Burger King restaurant, police said. Nolan, 23, was standing with friends outside his car when he was shot by a suspect who drove up on a service road and fired five or six times before driving off....

January 16, 2023 · 1 min · 130 words · Dennis Howard

A Senator A Reformed Numbers King And Family Reunions

Sen. Brooke, who died in January at 95, was a pioneering figure in American politics. In 1966, Massachusetts voters elected Brooke to the Senate. He served two terms as a centrist Republican who was much like Jackie Robinson, an ardent advocate for racial equality, fair housing and integration. Known as a coalition builder, Brooke was also an independent voice within the Republican Party; he was the first Republican senator to demand the resignation of President Nixon for his role in Watergate....

January 16, 2023 · 6 min · 1204 words · Robert Fraher

A Simple Guide To Using Structures In C

The struct type is comparable to classes in object-oriented programming. Sometimes you may need to assign values to objects with the same properties. Instead of creating multiple variables for these objects in your C program, you can define them in a struct. Creating a Struct To define a structure, use the keyword struct, followed by the structure name. Inside the structure, you can specify variables of different types: You can define several instances of Car by adding those instance declarations after the right brace in your struct declaration:...

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 263 words · Virginia Janssen

A Star Is Rehired Fabulously

Sawyer, along with the likes of Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather and Ted Koppel, had long ago jumped out of the status of mere reporter and into the realm of superstar draw. But the wooing revealed how the networks are counting on news-magazine shows – and marquee talent like Sawyer – to stop the decline in prime-time viewers. Facing viewers who are increasingly fickle and full of options, the networks are concluding that a news show hosted by a brand name like Sawyer will fare better than the typical hour of drama....

January 16, 2023 · 4 min · 697 words · Ricardo Britten

A Step By Step Guide To Recording Vocals In Garageband For Mac

With that in mind, here’s an easy-to-follow guide on how to record your vocals in GarageBand to make sure they sound as good as possible. Make Sure You’re Ready to Record Before we begin, it’s important to make sure that you’ve got everything you need to get a solid vocal recording. There are some key factors to consider when recording vocals at home, which you should check out. But to keep things simple here, it’s worth making sure you’ve at least got a good-quality microphone, the correct equipment for it, a pair of headphones, and a pop filter....

January 16, 2023 · 7 min · 1336 words · Shaniqua Stokes

A Step By Step Guide To Searching Mail In Mozilla Thunderbird

Use the Thunderbird Search Bar The quickest option is to use the search bar above your messages. Select the search field and type a person’s name, an email address, or any keyword that might appear in the message subject. If there are multiple matches, select one of the auto-completion choices. Thunderbird Quick Filters Select Quick Filter at the top of Thunderbird to see a list of search filters. Select one or more of the filters below to see all messages that match the criteria....

January 16, 2023 · 2 min · 270 words · Roselee Hicks

A Strange Friendship

The Abacha clan is not usually credited with promoting either family values or social welfare. Since seizing power m a November 1993 coup Nigeria’s seventh military, ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha, has jailed the country’s elected president, cracked down on the pro-democracy press, imprisoned as many as 7,000 political opponents, allegedly stolen more than $1 billion in oil revenues and presided over the country’s economic collapse. Last November the dictator ordered the hanging of playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and nine other environmental activists from the Ogoni tribe-executions that provoked international outrage and led to a now faltering campaign to impede economic sanctions against the junta....

January 16, 2023 · 4 min · 657 words · Judith Gear

A Minecraft Player Takes Inspiration From Rockstar S Red Dead Redemption To Create A Western Styled World For Reddit Users To

Minecraft has a large community of users that post their creations to Reddit to show off their hard work. User Sir_archi posted in the Red Dead Redemption 2 subreddit with pictures of their newest creation: a western-style Minecraft world, that he says has been working on “for a while.” Sir_archi includes four photos of their work - each a different part (and building) of his big project. RELATED: Minecraft: What Does Aqua Affinity Do?...

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 422 words · Robert Miller

A Muslim Writer On Finding Her Voice In Post 9 11 Post Trump America

Emotions from that day feel so much closer than two decades ago. My stomach turned in revulsion. My body tightened with fear for my relatives who worked there. Dread settled like a heavy rock on my chest. Like other Americans, I wondered, who was attacking us. But as a Muslim, I had other questions, too: Did the attackers claim to be Muslims? And, if so, what would happen to the rest of us?...

January 15, 2023 · 9 min · 1809 words · Leslie Blais

A New Baby Debate

The latest twist in the ever-complicated world of reproductive medicine, embryo donation is attracting increasing attention as an option for couples who have had no luck with IVF or who are looking for a less-costly alternative. At the same time, the legally murky practice of formally adopting embryos, as the Vests did, has opened a new front in the abortion battle. Snowflakes, the first embryo-adoption program in the country, began matching donor embryos to infertile women in 1997 with the help of the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family....

January 15, 2023 · 2 min · 338 words · Christopher Mann

A New Capital

January 15, 2023 · 0 min · 0 words · Joseph Taylor

A New Love For The Local

That’s changing fast. Encouraged by the preponderance of mandarin collars on Italian dresses and Chinese antiques in fashionable New York interiors, more and more urban Chinese are embracing locally inspired styles once shunned as tacky and old-fashioned. Their newfound popularity is a sign of how rapid China’s modernization has been: the young, in particular–who are accustomed to Western goods and who never had to live through the years of choosing between different shades of drab green Mao suits–are the most avid consumers of homegrown products....

January 15, 2023 · 3 min · 625 words · Joseph Brown

A New Meal Tax

January 15, 2023 · 0 min · 0 words · Lillian Jacobsen