Despite how popular Call of Duty multiplayer has been for so long, it can be said that there has been very little iteration to the series’ online modes in recent years. With this in mind, a dedicated and fully supported map creator that could be used by the CoD community seems long overdue, and could be massive at helping stave off some of the tedium that fans may be feeling....
After almost two months of searching for answers, investigators are now trying to assemble an hour-by-hour time line of the day Levy went missing, interviewing friends, family and co-workers, scouring phone records and e-mails and canvassing Washington’s leafy Rock Creek Park–all in an effort to identify patterns or clues that have so far eluded them. Police have also contacted morgues across the country, establishing that no Jane Does matching Levy’s description have surfaced....
“The remote control to nothing,” my sister said, recalling what another friend had remarked when she saw all the television and stereo equipment lying in wreckage and all that she could unearth was the remote. I myself was knocked conscious by my great old Rudolph (Rudy Valentino book, a collector’s item given to me by my old boyfriend Dan, who, in 1971, was here for another earthquake and left L....
After winning four of its first six matches, and boasting one of the league’s most exciting attacks, LAFC will get to play its first home game in front of a sellout crowd of 22,000 in the $350 million Banc of California Stadium. Goal got an inside look at LAFC’s birth as a club and its year-long evolution, going from just an idea to being one of the best teams in MLS in a matter of months....
It may seem like a wonkish concern, but the federal government’s computer problems have created everything from alarming security breaches to annoying glitches that make the bureaucracy more inefficient than it already is. The General Accounting Office recently issued a Greatest Hits collection of reported federal government computer foul-up Since 1989, GAO investigators have found 16 cases involving security breaches, albeit few as egregious as that involving Hayes. (The Justice Department says it has dispatched investigators to its offices all over the country to ensure such a foul-up is never repeated....
But now, even the dream books have had to wake up to the penny-pinching ’90s. After expanding dramatically in the past decade, with many new titles, the field is now feeling the squeeze. In November, Metropolitan Home was sold and scaled back to six issues a year. In March, Conde Nast, publisher of HG, bought Architectural Digest, and last month it announced that the new kid had beaten out the old; HG’s July issue will be its last....
Abba discussed the plan in the spring of 1945, at a dinner of survivors and refugees. Fittingly, it was Passover, and the fighters must have thought of the Hebrew slaves, not yet Jews, waiting in that brief pause in Egypt, after Pharaoh said go but before he gave chase. Standing at the head of the table, hair pushed back, voice climbing, Abba said yes, the war is over, but no, not for the Germans; it is time for Germany to suffer; the Germans, who killed the Jews, must now pay with their own lives....
But Ecclestone’s once ironclad hold on F1 is being threatened. He no longer has a lock on the TV rights; after a series of deals ending in 2001, Kirch Media acquired 75 percent of SLEC, the Ecclestone rights company named after his Croatian wife, Slavica, a former model. When Kirch collapsed, a consortium of banks took control of the firm. And now there’s a new challenge: the top F1 car manufacturers–Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, Renault and Ford, which underwrite the racing teams and give the sport its considerable technological cachet–are poised to grab a much bigger chunk of the financial pie for their teams....
For once the Grammys were promising spectacle, and in large part they delivered. The performances that coupled old and new artists were contrived, but they generally succeeded in spite of it. There didn’t seem to be any good reason to pair Rihanna with Prince confrères Morris Day and the Time, but who’s going to protest a performance of “Jungle Love?” Not me. In more sensible pairings, Daft Punk joined Kanye West for a performance of “Stronger,” West’s song that samples the Parisian dance duo....
How Are Read and Write Speeds Measured? Read and write speeds are typically recorded with the letters ps (per second) at the end of the measurement. For example, a device that has a write speed of 32 MBps means that it can record 32 megabytes of data every second. It’s also common for speeds to be expressed in MB/s. How to Test Read and Write Speeds CrystalDiskMark—a freeware program for Windows—tests the read/write speeds of internal and external drives....
The CIA denied there was any cover-up. ““It’s very important to explain publicly that we are not holding back information,’’ CIA Director John Deutch told NEWSWEEK. Pentagon officials pointed out that a massive scientific inquiry has been looking into the veterans’ ailments for years now. ““Make no mistake, they are experiencing real symptoms and illnesses with real consequences,’’ says Dr. Stephen Joseph, the Pentagon’s top health official. But the science is being overwhelmed by politics in what Joseph calls a ““tidal wave’’ of conspiracy theories and cover-up charges....
““Message in a Bottle’’ has its dumb points: too many shots of churning surf and lovers nestled in beach blankets, not to mention the premise that women find incommunicative, hulking shells like Blake the height of irresistibility. But it gets you. Wright Penn is luminous in a trench coat and sneakers. Paul Newman, as Costner’s crotchety dad, gets the best lines. ““That’s a mistake, letting her taste your coffee,’’ he offers, as Costner packs a boating picnic....
They all mattered in some way to fans of the Matrix universe, and hopefully more will come some day after the new Matrix movie. The first game to be made was Enter The Matrix, which released in 2003 alongside The Matrix Reloaded movie, revealing new plot details. Then, followed The Matrix: Path of Neo, a game from Shiny Entertainment, released in 2005. The last installment of the series was The Matrix Online, which, despite launching a few months prior to The Matrix: Path of Neo, endured for four years, being an MMO....
During a recent stream, Pokimane chatted with her viewers about young users of Twitch and suggested that the streaming platform should introduce a special content roster similar to YouTube Kids. Parents would certainly appreciate having a clear list of family-friendly channels that their kids can enjoy. If Twitch does create some sort of Twitch Kids subsector of itself, however, viewers won’t be the only ones impacted. Streamers, both well-known figures and newcomers from the children’s entertainment side of YouTube, might flock toward family-friendly Twitch streaming in the hopes of capturing part of the Twitch Kids audience in a new streaming meta....
Poe, now 39, had long wanted to run her own show. An aerobics fanatic, she also longed for lighter, more comfortable workout shoes. So she left her job as national sales manager for a gift manufacturer to try her hand at high-tech cobbling. Investors were cool. “Because I had no track record in the industry, no financial experience–I never even graduated from college-they laughed at me,” says Poe. “How can you think you can go up against Nike and Reebok?...
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Headquartered in Tokyo, Studio Trigger has produced some of the most intensely entertaining and popular anime content in recent years. For its combination of artistic stylization, intense action, and offbeat comedy, Trigger has become a household name in the anime world. With several iconic productions as well as a healthy spate of more niche cult classics, there are multiple good ways for getting into one of the anime industry’s most idiosyncratic yet iconic studios....
The church has sent conflicting messages. No one doubts that many gays and lesbians, attracted by the church’s “gilt without guilt” atmosphere, have joined the Episcopal clergy. Integrity, the church’s gay and lesbian caucus, estimates that anywhere from 10 to 40 percent of Episcopal deacons, priests and bishops are homosexual. In urban areas like San Francisco and Chicago, gay clerics are believed by many congregants to outnumber the heterosexuals. In 1994 homosexual couples won the right – with their bishop’s approval – to live together in housing provided by General Theological Seminary in New York....
