I’ll explain. According to William Poundstone, 52, author of “Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren’t Fair” (to be published early next year by Hill and Wang), George W. Bush reached the White House as a beneficiary of our reliance on a demonstrably flawed system of registering voter preferences, known as plurality voting. In this scheme the winner among multiple candidates running for a single office is the one who gets the most votes....
Developer Asobo Studio and publisher Focus Interactive announced A Plague Tale: Requiem during their E3 2021 press conference. Picking up six months after the events of A Plague Tale: Innocence, it sees Hugo and Amicia searching out a cure for Hugo’s mysterious illness while continuing to evade the soldiers of the French Inquisition. RELATED: A Plague Tale: Requiem Has Gone Gold Ahead of Release Voice actors Charolette McBurney and Logan Hannan will reprise their roles as siblings Amicia and Hugo de Rune....
The Dutch manager did not say that United are interested in Ronaldo in particular but admitted that the Portuguese international is the kind of player who would complete his squad. The 63-year-old said that he understood what the United faithful feel about their former star and that they feel bringing him back would be the perfect signing. “I can imagine that. He is a fantastic player, I like him,” Van Gaal said....
Not hardly. Deion Sanders–‘Niner defensive back, Cincinnati Reds’ center fielder (in nonstrike weeks), shuck ’n’ jive boxer, New Jack hip-hopper and, of course, Mr. P-R-I-M-E T-I-M-E, his own serf–are very much alive, flourishing and absolutely lighting up the city by the bay. He’s there by his own hand. For months he peddled his considerable wares on the free-agent market, then chose the 49ers-a staid, conservative organization not known for sass and flash....
Before Antonia Bird’s Priest comes to its highly charged conclusion, all Greg’s notions of sin, of his vocation, of the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the community and of his own identity will be subject to painful re-examination. During confession a 14-year-old girl (Christine Tremarco) reveals that her father is molesting her. Horrified, Greg wants to intervene but can’t – it’s forbidden to break the seal of the confessional. Burdened with her secret, he then must grapple with his own....
As part of the updates brought about by the language’s evolution, C++ added support for lambda expressions in its 2011 release. What exactly is a lambda expression, and how can you use it to your advantage as a C++ programmer? What Is a Lambda Expression? A lambda expression is also known as a lambda function. It’s an inline expression with the ability to accept arguments, carry out operations, and return a value, just like a typical function....
The A Quiet Place franchise continues to be one of the most popular horror entries in quite some time thanks to a cast that has included Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Djimon Hounsou, and Cillian Murphy among others. The first two installments were so popular that a spinoff was greenlit shortly after A Quiet Place 2 hit theaters, but now people are going to have to wait just a little longer before they get to see it....
Sharp-witted and unwilling - some say unable - to keep his opinions to himself, Sheehan has alienated his fellow brass with merciless public critiques of the military. A longtime frontline officer, he thinks about what makes sense in the field - which isn’t always the same thing that flies in Washington’s budget-hearing rooms. His basic complaint is that the armed forces are clinging to vast bureaucracies and enormous weapons systems created to fight a war that never came....
Resident Evil 4’s action-focused campaign came bundled with some tense set pieces and anxiety-inducing quick-time events that took the series veterans by surprise and enticed an entirely new set of audience. And while Resident Evil 4’s success inspired many other popular video game series later down the line, including Dead Space and The Last of Us, not everything it did was perfect. RELATED: Resident Evil Village Taking Inspiration from Resident Evil 4...
Beginning the project four years ago, YouTuber and streamer Minthical has dedicated a large chunk of their in-game playtime to almost hollowing out their entire Minecraft world. A video uploaded to their channel last month shows the enormity of the work that they’ve managed to achieve so far, with the minute and a half footage showing them atop a crafted structure, which looks out into an ever-expanding view of emptiness, save for the very low floor and beacons scattered about....
The introduction says in part: “Taking his time, George W. Bush formulates a measured response–which turns out to be the most expensive bollocking ever unleashed against shepherds.” It concludes: “Today in these pages, we help you make up your own mind about the absolute necessity of fighting the ongoing war that is Operation Improving Bloodbath.” Ouch. The rest of the page is filled with an iconic photo of the World Trade Center towers shrouded in smoke and flames–alongside the now-famous contemporaneous photo of President Bush, seemingly dazed and confused, as an aide whispers into his ear the terrible news of what has just happened in New York....
The high-school drop out and “magazine nerd,” imbued with H.L. Mencken (no fan of higher education himself), began publishing authors such as Tony Early, Donna Tartt and William Gay, in addition to uncovering previously unpublished short stories by Faulkner, Walker Percy and Zora Neale Hurston. But like all fledgling magazines, he had trouble paying the bills. In late 1994, John Grisham, a graduate of Ole Miss and an Oxford resident, stepped in as benefactor and figurehead publisher, or as Smirnoff calls him, “angel” and “godfather....
As the poet-critic Gustave Kahn put it, Seurat was “a young man crazy about drawing.” He worked in conté crayon (a kind of greasy charcoal) on toothy Michallet paper, without the safety net of lines. Seurat just filled in tone, progressing from light, speckled grays to velvety blacks, until the drawing “developed” like a photographic print in the darkroom. Nominally, “Railway Tracks” is a precise view of a railroad embankment punctuated by electrical power poles and a tall stand of trees....
Water resistant iPhone This is definitely one of the big ones for me. It seems only inevitable that Apple eventually goes this way with Sony and Samsung already having tried their hands at it – with varying degrees of success. ConceptiPhone has a nice video out for a water and dust proof iPhone, perfect for those with an active lifestyle. Folding Screen Many people have come out with concepts for a folding iPhone, some are very well thought out....
Just why top-selling Prozac and similar antidepressants work for PMS is unclear, says Dr. Meir Steiner of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, who led the study. What doctors do know is that raising levels of the brain chemical serotonin can alleviate tension and irritability. The study, published in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, is the first to establish Prozac dosages for PMS. Nearly haft the women who took a high-end dosage of 60 mg dropped out, mainly because the side effects–insomnia, nausea–were so severe....
RELATED: Batman Arkham: 5 Things We Want To See In The Sequel (& 5 We Don’t) Seductive, violent, and creepy, Harley Quinn is a central figure in Batman video games. She most often is the villain, but she has also played the hero. Did you know that Harley Quinn once joined the Justice League, DC Comic’s team of fictional superheroes? “A-Okay, Mr. J.” This is ranking the ten best video games with Harley Quinn....
Later this year the concept may finally be emerging from the collective techie imagination. Danger Research, a 15-month-old company based in Palo Alto, Calif., will introduce a wireless gadget that it says will display the full variety of offerings on the Net–from graphical images on the Web to e-mail to instant messages. It’s meant to compete with RIM’s Blackberry pager, which sends and receives e-mail, and devices like the Palm VII, the Compaq iPaq or WAP phones, which download bits and pieces of customized Net content....
