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The Sky Blues may have shut the A-League premiership window on second-placed Melbourne Victory less than a week after opening it slightly, with a brace to Bobo and Brandon O’Neill’s free-kick seeing Sydney overcome 10-man Melbourne City 3-1 on Friday night. Graham Arnold’s Sydney moved 11 points clear of Victory ahead of the rest of Round 21’s fixtures. COMMENT: Sydney FC will win A-League premiership The pre-match narrative for City versus Sydney had been that if the FFA Cup winners could hand the A-League leaders a second straight loss, Victory could have moved within five points of the Sky Blues ahead of next week’s Big Blue....

Le Piano owner Chad Willetts was quoted comparing the two kinds of regulations in a Facebook post by the restaurant on Tuesday. The post read: “Willetts adds a parallel analogy, ‘A woman’s essential right to choose grants a personal responsibility that affords a basic and dignified format upon which she determines what is, in fact, essential to her, without fearing judgment and criticism.’” It continued. “Within the compliances of established law, and in this reference, the people’s right to choose should be equally relevant and deemed essential to them, to visit a bar, a restaurant, a jazz club, comparatively....

World of Warcraft is an MMO, and just like every online game on the market, it wants to keep players playing. The way that Blizzard achieves this is by spreading patch content out over multiple weeks so that players keep logging in. While some timegated features may be an issue, a lot of what players claim to be problematic timegated content may not be. RELATED: Races that World of Warcraft’s Ninth Expansion Could Add...

In a study appearing Sunday in the online version of the journal Nature, an international team of scientists reports on a group of four new gene variants that appear to play a role in influencing susceptibility to type 2 diabetes. These are clearly not the only genes involved in diabetes risk. But their discovery marks an important step toward unraveling the genetic “fingerprint” of the disease. NEWSWEEK’s Anne Underwood spoke with Dr....

With all that said, that second Fortnite game (which was the original Fortnite before the battle royale mode took off) really leaves something to be desired. It would be nice if the Fortnite universe could get another game. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is already pursuing this with a couple of other games in its universe, and Apex Legends is a sequel to Titanfall. Fortnite could make major waves if it came out with a new game that had elements of the original but in a whole new genre....

BIN TALAL: No, never. Giuliani should never have politicized the matter. Look, America has to face reality if they don’t want to fight terrorism for the next 100 years. You’re going to kill bin Laden, you’re going to kill the Taliban, but you’re going to have tens of bin Ladens and tens of Talibans coming. What the Americans are doing now in Afghanistan is right. I’m with them all the way....

[HTML1] Before Bethesda officially revealed The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, some suspected that it could be the first ever online multiplayer game in the franchise. That wasn’t the case, but only a few months later Bethesda’s parent company ZeniMax announced that The Elder Scrolls Online was a game their own studio had been developing for several years. In response to The Elder Scrolls Online announcement trailer however, fans expressed quite a bit of dissatisfaction with the game’s art style, which seems to have been inspired more by other MMOs including Lord of the Rings Online and World of Warcraft as opposed to the brand it represents, The Elder Scrolls....

Making Kafka himself the hero of a “Kafkaesque” thriller proves to be little more than a gimmick-the movie has no interest in exploring the writer’s psyche or the details of his life. As played by Jeremy Irons, he’s a diffident insurance clerk who gets caught up in a murder mystery, becomes entangled with a gang of anarchists and ultimately ventures inside the ominous bureaucratic Castle (here the film turns to color), where the crypto-fascist horrors of governmental power are spelled out with a literalness that probably would have appalled old Franz himself and that will strike any viewer over 20 as old hat....

A small sum HMO patients contribute to their bill for every doctor visit. What you’ll get in the end, at the minimum; a set of guaranteed medical services. The oldfashioned way-you pay the full bill (or split it with your insurer) each time you get sick. primary-care doctor as traffic cop: he or she OK’s all visits to higher-billing specialists. Replaces the more accurate but less catchy “health-insurance purchasing cooperatives” (HIPCs)....

Fox apparently never doubted that he would win. When he received the first exit-poll data suggesting his victory–he was watching the Euro Cup soccer final with his children at the time–he was remarkably relaxed. His calm confidence reflected his belief that the Mexican people were fed up with the PRI. The exit polls confirmed it: more than two thirds of Fox’s supporters voted for him because they identified him as an agent of change; a similar percentage of Cuauhtemoc Cardenas’s followers cast their ballot for his PRD for similar reasons....

Guerrilla Games is far from done with the franchise, and gamers can expect Horizon Call of the Mountain on PSVR 2 after the headset launches. There have also been rumors that a Horizon Zero Dawn remake may be on the way. Although some fans are questioning whether a re-release is necessary and whether it will start a trend of remaking fairly recently released games, it will certainly make it easier for newcomers to enter the series....

The 9-year-old hero, Omri (Hal Scardino), gets three presents for his birthday–an old cupboard, a special antique key and a miniature plastic Indian. It proves to be a magical combination, for when he puts the three-inch figure in the cupboard, it comes to life as a real, albeit tiny, Iroquois named Little Bear (Litefoot), transported from 1761 and terrified by the giant New York City kid peering down at him....

Barbosa had plenty of company. After making gains among Latino voters for three election cycles in a row, the GOP suffered a sobering reversal in this month’s midterm elections. Exit polls show that Republican candidates won only 30 percent of the Hispanic vote–the fastest-growing segment of the electorate–while Democrats garnered 69 percent. Compare that with 2004, when President George W. Bush captured at least 40 percent of that vote. While Latinos were just as concerned about Iraq and the economy as the electorate generally, according to surveys, they were more driven than usual by immigration....

MATCH DETAILS Saturday, 25 March 2017 Brisbane Roar FC v Melbourne Victory Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane Kick-Off: 6:50PM (Local) (7:50PM AEDT) Referee: Matthew Conger Assistant Referee 1: Nathan MacDonald Assistant Referee 2: David Walsh Fourth Official: Jarred Gillett TV Broadcast: Live coverage on Fox Sports 505 from 7:45pm (AEDT) and Sky Sport 4 (New Zealand) Radio Broadcast: ABC Grandstand Online & via the ABC Radio Mobile App – A-league Live, 1116 SEN (Melbourne)...

The cheapest adult ticket for every BBL regular season match is a flat price of $20, while kids can be admitted for as little as $5. However, to buy a general admission adult ticket for Melbourne Victory and Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park on December 28, it will set you back a whopping $38 - and the cheapest junior ticket is $12. Interestingly, the least expensive adult ticket to watch Victory play Perth at the same venue on January 13 costs $29 - revealing a significant drop in price from their previous home match....

In our world, Kenneth Auchincloss, NEWSWEEK’s editor-at-large, who died last week at 65, should have been a misfit. He respected privacy. He loved a good story and he could be wickedly funny, but he was not very interested in the latest gossip about who was up or who was down. Working at a magazine that aims to be hip and ahead of the curve, he was a little clueless about pop stars and sometimes happily behind the times....

Aziz told them he hadn’t seen the dictator for several weeks. Then the troops took Aziz off to captivity in a bare, stifling room at Camp Cropper, the U.S. internment camp at the Baghdad International Airport. Now Aziz’s family is outraged about the conditions of his imprisonment–and what they say is the more favorable treatment for the top Iraqi officials who are cooperating with U.S. forces by telling all they know about weapons programs and Saddam’s possible hideouts....

And so it goes, in a stock-happy world where mouse potatoes rule. Never has prudence seemed so pointless or classic investment advice so wrong. In recent years, you could double and redouble your money–easy, one-hand–even without owning Internut stocks. All you needed were large and prospering U.S. companies, such as Intel, General Electric and Microsoft. The record shows that, from 1995 through 1998, big U.S. growth stocks did better by far than a typical diversified portfolio (big stocks, small stocks, internationals)....

Ok, fine, that’s not entirely true. I actually love it. I don’t watch sports that are dumb, only pro wrestling and golf, so WrestleMania is like my Open World Superbowl Series Cup. I’ve been wearing only wrestling t-shirts since Royal Rumble, I’m hosting parties every night this weekend starting with the Hall of Fame. I got a New Day unicorn horn and KO shorts, an Alexa Bliss shirt and Lucha Underground socks all laid out....

“Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn” (Verve) was promoted as a comeback, but that alone doesn’t explain its success. Although he’s made only one studio album in 11 years, Henderson never stopped touring and recording. “He’s always been as great as he is now,” says pianist Renee Rosnes, who often works with him. Nor is the retro approach to the latest release obviously the key: this is the fourth recent celebration of the quirky, haunting compositions of Strayhorn, Duke Ellington’s main co-writer between 1939 and 1967....