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I think Hex may have just punched Bajo out. |
Oh no,I've lined it up for them. I've lined it up for them! No! |
Beautiful. Oh, yes, AGAIN! NO! BAJO! We still won. |
Oh, we did. Oh that was so close. |
We stopped them from getting another one, that's our victory. |
Hex, that did not go well, did it. |
No. Those beardies got us good. But as you saw, you don't need to be a pro at this game to enjoy it. The controls are so polished that anyone can pick it up and be having fun instantly. Especially thanks to smart options like being able to lock the view onto the ball. |
And the physics are just so spot-on aren't they? The ball always moves about believably. And rather than being bogged down with too much simulation - being able to jump and flip your car keeps it all fast and arcadey. |
Definitely - and the turbo boosts help on that count as well. Driving over the gold icons top up your turbo - which is essential for getting to the ball quickly. |
Yeah and thankfully the online matchmaking is just as speedy. You never have to wait more than a few seconds for a game. And I think part of the reason for that is because it supports true cross platform play - so both PC and PS4 players are thrown into the same games. |
It's great isn't it? I also heard that the devs are adding a patch soon that will allow Steam and PlayStation users to invite each other directly - instead of just being randomly combined like they are currently. |
Amazing. I wish every game had this. I dream of a future where the platform doesn't matter. Where everyone can come together, and play games together. And drive soccer balls with cars. At the moment you can pick between regular and ranked online matches, but really it's the number of players that has the biggest impact... |
Yeah it can feel like you're spending most of the match just chasing the ball down in 4 v 4, can't it. But wow, those 1 on 1 games are a stress-fest! |
So intense. I think they've done a terrific job with the multiplayer in general. But it hasn't left much room for any sort of meaningful single-player. |
No it hasn't. You've got the obvious options like quick Exhibition matches or the longer Season mode. But both are very light on options and feel more like glorified practice modes. |
Yes it's certainly not a patch on the big annual sporting blockbusters. And it's also far too easy to rack up high scores by getting cheap goals on kick off. |
And sadly, car customisation is entirely cosmetic as well. Being able to pick antenna accessories is all well and good but some engine upgrades would have been way more appreciated. |
Perhaps the devs thought putting in things like performance customisation might have hurt the accessibility of the game? But I don't care! This is worth the price of admission for the multiplayer alone. |
Yeah! I'm not usually a big sports fan but this has really won me over! In fact, this might actually be one of my favourite multiplayer games of the year so far - even though I'm absolutely rubbish at it! I'm giving it 4 stars. |
I'm giving it 4 stars as well. Maybe all sports should be, you know, with cars. |
Oh yeah! Like, car curling. |
Car golf? Car basketball? No, maybe just car soccer. |
President Trump, what will you do to draw immigrant scientists to the US? |
Top universities in the US are known for attracting some of the brightest talent from abroad to advance science — and some come from the countries President Donald Trump has proposed placing restrictions on. |
President Trump, how do you think states should ensure executions are humane? |
The state of Arkansas scheduled seven execution is 11 days. The first two were blocked by a federal judge and the rest are also at a standstill. These swift executions, many argued violate the prsioners 8th Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishment. |
President Trump, why won't you disclose who is visiting the White House? |
President Donald Trump is reversing an Obama era policy of revealing information about visitors to the White House. |
President Trump, how is letting internet providers sell consumers’ browsing data in the public interest? |
Your internet service provider can now sell your internet data — with or without your consent. |
President Trump, will you remove US nuclear weapons from Turkey? |
The United States keeps a stockpile of 50 nuclear weapons at a US air base in Incirlik, Turkey. As Turkey votes in a referendum Sunday that could give broader — critics say authoritarian — powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it's worth asking whether Turkey should continue to host US nuclear arms. |
President Trump, are you worried about this year's Easter Egg Roll — one of the largest public White House events? |
The stakes are high for this year's 139th annual Easter Egg Roll. Rumors are swirling of a hastily thrown together event with an absent first lady, egg intrigue and whether or not the event will feature the White House yoga garden. |
In this latest question in the #100Days100Questions campaign, we ask President Trump how his "school choice" proposal will impact public schools. |
The White House did not take kindly this week to reports that Iran tested a ballistic missile over the weekend. The Trump administration wasn't ready to explicitly accuse Tehran of breaching the deal, but the president did fire a warning shot. A very vague warning shot. |
Donald Trump's pick for the US Supreme Court has women's rights advocates appalled — saying that a women's right to choose is in jeopardy. But it's his use of the legal theory of religious freedom that worry some more. |
A post-election poll finds that many Republican men feel like the tables have turned — it's a better time to be a man than a woman. We wanted to know whether President Donald Trump felt similarly. |
The United Nations thinks the US owes reparations to African Americans. Does President Donald Trump agree? |
President Donald Trump is considering another executive order. His aim with this one? The financial industry. Trump called the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which set out to increase regulations of the financial industry in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a disaster. So if he cuts back Dodd-Frank, how will he prevent the... |
The executive order signed by the president called for a review of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which was designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis and was a major target of Trump’s presidential campaign. |
President Donald Trump's pick to lead the EPA, Scott Pruitt has sued the agency he's nominated to lead 14 times as the attorney general of Oklahoma. He's been openly hostile the agency in the past, which raises the question of whether he will allow the agency to advocate for citizens who need help most. |
It's Black History Month, and President Donald Trump still hasn't been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Will he make plans to visit before the end of February? |
A Mankato police officer said he got a phone call about 1 a.m. Tuesday from an old high school friend. |
The man on the other end of the line was Allen Lawrence “Lance” Scarsella III, who confessed that just two hours before he had shot five people at a protest outside the Minneapolis Police Department’s Fourth Precinct station, according to court documents. |
Hours later, authorities raided Scarsella’s Bloomington home, seizing a dozen weapons and making the first of five arrests in connection with the shooting, which heightened racial tensions in the aftermath of 24-year-old Jamar Clark’s fatal shooting during a struggle with police. |
New details of the hours following the shooting of Black Lives Matter protesters were revealed in an application for a search warrant filed Wednesday in Hennepin County District Court. |
Prosecutors said Wednesday afternoon that they will need more time to decide if charges will be filed against the four men still being held in connection with the shooting. |
In the warrant, Scarsella, who is white, tells the officer, identified only as “Levin,” that he and some friends had gone to the Black Lives Matter protest to live-stream it and that they had an altercation with protesters, leading to the shooting. The Mankato officer told Minneapolis police that Scarsella owns a .45-c... |
Employees of Estes Funeral Chapel raised their fists to show support for Jamar Clark's family in front of the Fourth Precinct police station November 25, 2015, in Minneapolis. |
In a search of Scarsella’s home, police found computer equipment, cellphones, camouflage clothing, an AR-15 rifle, bolt-action rifles, revolvers and ammunition. The search warrant also revealed that police were looking for white supremacist paraphernalia. |
He remains in the Hennepin County jail, along with Nathan Gustavsson, 21, of Hermantown, Minn., and Daniel Macey, 26, of Pine City, Minn., who turned themselves in. On Wednesday, police also announced the arrest of Joseph Martin Backman, 27, of Minneapolis, on suspicion of assault. |
A 32-year-old Hispanic man arrested in south Minneapolis Tuesday was later released because, police said, he was not at the shooting. |
Police said they aren’t seeking any more suspects. Authorities are weighing whether to treat Monday’s shooting as a hate crime, according to sources familiar with the investigation. |
At least some of the men arrested in connection with the shooting had shown up at the Black Lives Matter protests more than once. |
When about a dozen protesters attempted to herd the men away from the scene on Monday, witnesses said, the gunfire began and five protesters were hit. The victims — all black men ages 19 through 43 — were taken to hospitals. Their injuries were not life-threatening. |
In a subsequent incident early Wednesday morning, police responded to a “shots fired” activation from the city’s ShotSpotter equipment in the area near the Fourth Precinct station. |
The 12:40 a.m. report came from near the 1300 blocks of Newton and Morgan avenues N. No one was injured; suspects were stopped and identified by officers and one man was booked into jail. His name had not yet been released. A police department spokesman said he didn’t know if the shots were related to the protest. |
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said the deadline extension for charges will expire at noon Monday. |
The four men appear to have become acquainted in school and at meetups through “/k/,” a popular weapons-related message board with racist overtones on the website 4chan. |
Gustavsson, who is white, and Macey, who is Asian, both are students in the gunsmithing and firearms technology program at Pine Technical and Community College. Gustavsson has been enrolled there since 2012; Macey signed up in the fall of 2014. |
Records show that Scarsella, a 2010 Lakeville North High School graduate and Eagle Scout, graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 2015 with a bachelor of arts degree. |
Reached at her home outside San Antonio, Scarsella’s grandmother, Enriqueta Scarsella, said she was not aware that he had been arrested. |
“Oh, my gosh! Lance is a good boy — my oldest grandson,” she said, adding that she wasn’t aware of allegations that he could be involved in a racial confrontation. |
“Oh, no, he had all kinds of friends in school,” she said. |
At the funeral procession for Jamar Clark at the Police 4th Precinct, family members got out of the limousine to show support for the Black Lives Matter supporters. |
Scarsella, Gustavsson and Macey, along with the man who was questioned and released, are featured in several videos of a now-deleted YouTube page. The page’s banner featured two dozen men — some masked — holding weapons, along with a pair of Confederate flags. The videos were deleted by Monday afternoon, but they had b... |
Another video emerged as part of a live stream filmed at the protests Friday by the man known as “SaigaMarine,” who was later questioned and released by police. |
“If I get in trouble for yelling ‘master race,’ there’s only one final solution,” he said in the video. |
A masked man accompanying him who resembles Scarsella then enters the frame and joins protesters dancing to a hip-hop song. |
Members of the St. Kitts and Nevis Fire Rescue Services are directed in a rescue operation and training exercise by Sgt. 1st Class Robby E. Creech. |
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – Emergency response training, exercises and classes were recently completed by the St. Kitts and Nevis Defence Force, National Emergency Management Agency, and St. Kitts and Nevis Fire Rescue Services (SKNFRS). |
The activities were conducted by four members of Florida National Guard’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Enhanced Response Force Package (C-ERFP) supporting the State Partnership Program (SPP). The training classes were based on the Emergency Response Guidebook with a focus... |
Creech and his team of subject-matter-experts educated the local agencies on how to manage potential hazards, public safety (to include protective clothing and evacuation), fire, spill or leak and first aid. |
Although St. Kitts and Nevis have endured little to no hazmat incidents, members of the local fire department highly value the training. |
After the successful training sessions on the last day for the FLNG Soldiers of the St. Kitts and Nevis SPP mission, members from local agencies are already moving forward with additional requests for more training in the near future. |
Songwriter Clare Means performed at WriteGirl's Grammy weekend event. |
The organization recently hosted a workshop pairing women who've written hits for the likes of Demi Lovato with underserved teen girls looking to find their own voice. |
Louise Goffin knows something about songwriting factories, being the child of two legendary Brill Building songsmiths. But on Grammy weekend, she was taking part in a different kind of musical production line, as about 80 teenage girls cranked out lyrics in a conference room at The Huntington in San Marino, Calif. |
Sitting under a balloon that marked her as one of 13 professional singer/songwriters who would put music to and perform some of the girls’ songs, Goffin hunkered down with one aspirant after another, helping them figure out which lines from their sometimes epic lyric sheets might make for a chorus. |
The Saturday afternoon event is an annual highlight for WriteGirl, a charitable organization that puts on monthly mentoring workshops to help teen girls who come from disadvantaged backgrounds and underserved communities find their voices. Although most of their programs fly under or away from the showbiz radar, a Holl... |
“Last call!” yelled an organizer, collecting paperwork from the scribbling assembled. Each of the pros was handed a few sets of lyrics, from which they’d pick two to improvise a melody for in front of a theater full of teens, parents and guests. The girls whose work was spontaneously picked got an instant co-writing cr... |
Malena Ruth, a guardian, has been driving two girls in her charge to the group from Ojai every month for the last year, after seeing a flyer for WriteGirl at a bookstore in Silver Lake. Her teenagers suffered from something more extreme than routine bullying: Living in Tanzania with the condition of albinism, after los... |
This year, WriteGirl is adding a program on advocacy, blogging and advertising, set to take place next month at the branding agency 72andSunny in Playa Vista. The annual screenwriting workshop will take place May 20 in partnership with AMPAS at the Linwood Dunn, culminating in a ticketed program in which actors like Wa... |
These potato pancakes are appropriate for the Lenten season as a meatless main dish. |
Combine flour, salt, baking powder, pepper; stir thoroughly. Wash, pare, grate potatoes. Reserve. |
Heat oil, 1/4-inch deep, in heavy skillet. |
MARSHFIELD, Wisc. -- A school board member in Marshfield, Wisconsin, is making national news over her effort to ban a Muppets book from the school's kindergarten classes. |
The book titled "For Every Child, a Better World" is narrated by the character Kermit the Frog, and the book illustrates children living in poverty, homelessness and war. |
However, Marshfield School Board member Mary Carney said the book is too graphic for children. She told WTMJ she began to speak out this summer after reading the book for herself. |
"It's almost like it's the worst of the worst; if you do get a chance to look at some of the images, they're disturbing to look at as an adult," said Carney. |
School leaders did not answer WTMJ's request for comment. |
Carney said an eight-person committee voted to approve the book in the kindergarten curriculum Wednesday afternoon, starting in February. She also said the next step would be for superintendent approval and final vote of the school board. |
SOUTHERN PINES � Three Cleveland County golfers took part in the first of two days of the 3A state golf tournament Monday at Longleaf Golf and Country Club. |
Kings Mountain�s Madison Lutz fired a 97. Crest�s Lindsey Lane shot a 107, while the Lady Chargers� Brianna Plummer had a 114. |
Action resumes at 9 a.m. Tuesday. |
The Maharashtra Chief Minister's proposal to increase Floor Space Index (FSI) in the suburbs by 33 per cent hasn't gone down well with city activists, who have shot off a letter to him and the Municipal Commissioner, asking them to rethink their decision. |
Floor Space Index (FSI) is the ratio between the built up area allowed and plot area available. If the CM's decision came into effect, it would mean that buildings will grow taller. |
Fourteen activists, including Anil Galgali, Hema Sampat, Rajan Mehrotra, and Cypriano J Saldanha, have written to CM Prithviraj Chavan and Subodh Kumar stating that an increase in FSI will lead to a dip in the quality of life in the city, since an increase in high rises will result in increased congestion of people and... |
On October 20, the CM had proposed that suburban builders could avail of an increased FSI of 1.33 on the payment of a premium. The current permissible FSI limit is 1 in the suburbs and 1.33 in the island city. |
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