From the terrifying Zurks to the drone B-12 to the robot companions players meet throughout the game, the world BlueTwelve has crafted is full of interesting characters. Though the ending provides a big revelation and serves as a solid finale for the adventure players embark on as the cute orange cat, it does not wrap up everything perfectly. As such, a Stray DLC could be a great way to give fans a more concrete endpoint....
Bankruptcy, which carries much less stigma than it used to, has become contagious because the business world has gotten so competitive. Older airlines are threatened by low-cost Southwest and upstarts like JetBlue. Old-line steelmakers are threatened by U.S. minimills and by foreign competitors. Debt-laden telecom start-ups are threatened by competitors who’ve shed their debt in bankruptcy proceedings. “When one participant in a commodity business is using bankruptcy to lower his cost structure, the competitors have to respond,” says Mark Feldman, a veteran bankruptcy expert....
Apple describes the plot of the series as “Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the series explores one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch.” This description makes it sound almost like the plot of the series takes place sometime after Godzilla: King of the Monsters but before Godzilla Vs....
Ramirez’s dream may not have the poignancy of the one made so famous by Dr. Martin Luther King, but it has sufficient power to fuel this portion of his political life. Ramirez was a principal in the spirited, though ultimately failed, campaign last year to make Fernando Ferrer New York City’s first Latino mayor, and he is now engaged in the fight to make Carl McCall New York state’s first black governor....
Colorado Parks and Wildlife released a statement on Thursday, saying there is now strong evidence to suggest “a pack of gray wolves may now be residing in Colorado.” According to JT Romatzke, CPW’s Northwest Regional Manager, “The sighting marks the first time in recent history CPW has received a report of multiple wolves traveling together.” There is currently an ongoing investigation by CPW to confirm the presence of the wolves....
It’s the Iranians who are hostages now, prisoners of the tired revolutionary rhetoric that most of them long to discard. That includes the new president, Mohammed Khatami, who won a landslide 70 percent of the vote last May on promises to relax the social restrictions that confine Iran’s 60 million citizens–and cover everything from what to wear to what to read. His election raised hopes that the United States and Iran might finally be able to sit down together at peace talks in Paris....
Marco Antonio Reyes Rojas was first featured on local television earlier this summer where he talked about the challenges of contracting monkeypox and needing to isolate. The 30-year-old Mexican-American, who is openly gay, shared photos of the pustules and rash he developed. He had previously been featured in the local press for his political advocacy on behalf of illegal foreign nationals living in the U.S. On social media, he blamed the United States for his suffering with monkeypox....
Or so a Russian informant–call him Ivan, a pseudonym-alleges in a confidential Pentagon report obtained by NEWSWEEK. Amid the excitement and doubt raised by President Boris Yeltsin’s talk of POWs in Russia, Ivan’s account tantalizingly suggests that at least one American serviceman could still be among the living. His story may not hold up under scrutiny. But since June 10, Ivan has provided U.S. investigators in Moscow with highly detailed accounts of Marken, whom he claims he befriended between 1982 and 1986 while serving as a fellow inmate of PL-350/5....
Self-described “Prozac survivors” now appear on “Donahue” to accuse the drug of turning sane people into murderers and self-mutilators. Scores of unhappy customers are filing lawsuits against Lilly, seeking huge awards for misfortunes they blame on Prozac (box). Some are using the drug as a criminal defense, saying they shouldn’t be held accountable for crimes they committed while taking it. One activist group, an offshoot of the Church of Scientology, is even demanding that the Food and Drug Administration remove Prozac from the market....
Of course, the White House doesn’t want to say that. It would be politically bad to acknowledge the situation that now exists. To avoid that, senior presidential aides and Cabinet secretaries like the Treasury Department’s Janet Yellen have been forced to turn rhetorical cartwheels while trying to explain that it isn’t really what the data tell us it is. Team Biden has masterfully avoided the invocation of the word usually employed after two consecutive quarters of what the economists call “negative growth....
RELATED: Pokemon GO: All The Pokemon That Can’t Be Caught In The Wild This unique mobile game lets players catch over 730 Pokemon from various regions and use them in intense competitive PVP trainer battles. Pokemon GO also features nearly every Legendary and Mystical Pokemon, but players must either battle in Raids or complete Special Research quests to obtain them. Players desiring to register Celebi into their Pokedex must complete A Ripple in Time special research, which can be tricky without the proper guidance....
When I think of my friend John Cardinal O’Connor, who died on Wednesday at the age of 80, I will most remember the sight of him running up the steps of St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the cardinal’s chair before mass. It always brought a smile to the 3,000 people who were there. Though he could not do it in recent months because his health had deteriorated, it is that movementthe energy level, the sense that there was so much to be donethat will always be my memory....
The title of the game could be Star Wars Jedi: Force Unleashed, and would serve as a reboot of the original The Force Unleashed series. Third-person action games have come a long way in the years following The Force Unleashed and its sequel. Now is a better time than any to do the premise of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice justice in a way that the original games couldn’t due to the limitations of their time....
We’re still moving in the wrong direction. U.S. manufacturers can’t fill almost a million open factory jobs. The National Association of Manufacturers forecasts a shortage of 2.1 million factory workers by 2030. Meanwhile, hourly factory wages have fallen to just 78 percent of non-manufacturing wages today, from 83 percent 10 years ago. Manufacturing productivity also declined during the past decade at an average annual rate of -0.1 percent. A lack of skilled labor hinders manufacturing investment, and a lack of investment erodes interest in skills training....
Technically, nothing changed in America’s policy toward Hong Kong last week. But Lee’s visit to Washington, which included a half-hour chat with President Bill Clinton at the White House, may be remembered as the moment that the United States threw itself squarely–and very publicly–behind Hong Kong democracy. Lee and Clinton agreed that China’s takeover of Hong Kong is an international issue. Beijing, of course, views Hong Kong as a domestic matter–and wants the world to butt out....
In the latest issue of his Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has revealed that the next Mac mini is set to replace the current Intel models. The new hardware will make use of what’s being referred to as Apple’s “M1X” chip (an unofficial name), which is a step up from today’s M1 chip. He also states that the new Mac mini is expected to release “in the next several months,” possibly hitting as early as this fall....
With the comedic talents of Craig Robinson, Sarah Cooper, W. Kamau Bell, Sarah Silverman, and Lewis Black, Bell and Mansbach humorously educate people about what effects calling the police on a Black person who’s doing nothing wrong can do. The comedians tell off the Karen (and “Kieran”) and educate them by both airdropping books like The New Jim Crow on the woman and putting things into perspective for the man....
The contents of this two-CD concert album, just released on Blue Note, lay undiscovered until they were recently discovered by the composer’s widow. What a find. The band on this date is the same seminal group that in Paris a month later, minus trumpet player Johnny Coles (sidelined with a stomach ulcer), would record the indelible “Great Concert of Charles Mingus.” The personnel on the Cornell date included Coles; Eric Dolphy on alto sax, flute and bass clarinet; Clifford Jordan on tenor sax; Jaki Byard on piano; Dannie Richmond on drums and Mingus on bass....
