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Nicoll Hunt was a man with a mission: He wanted to create the best brawler ever. When Hunt approached Kickstarter with his idea, the community happily embraced his wacky, 8-bit Fist of Awesome, in which players fight angry deer and bears that are trying to destroy humanity. Did we mention there's also time travel invol... |
Fist of Awesome is out on iOS, Android, OUYA and GameStick, with PC and Mac versions in the works. It costs $3.99. |
Cooperative games are rare, wonderful finds, especially ones that mix action and puzzles well. The team behind Forced was so committed to good co-op, they spent years living in closed quarters to get their game made. |
Forced is a top-down, twin-stick action game for PC, Mac, Linux and Wii U that forces up to four players to cooperate to survive levels of punishing gladiator training. Each player has their own unique powers and weapons. |
The game is fast-paced, and each stage adds a new challenge. It fills a huge gap in the co-op world. |
Forced is out this week for $15. |
Lego games have their own special kind of appeal, uniting kids and adults with their whimsical and fun gameplay. |
Lego Marvel Super Heroes continues that unique tradition by allowing players to inhabit all of their favorite Marvel characters in minifig form. Users can inhabit the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Spider Man, members of the X-Men and even famous comic creator Stan Lee, as they battle through a Lego version of New York ... |
Lego Marvel Super Heroes is out this week for Wii U, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, 3DS and PS Vita. It will also come to next-generation consoles when they launch. |
If you've missed yelling "Objection!" at every turn, gaming's favorite attorney is back with his fifth game to hit North American shores. |
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Duel Destinies is the series' first entry onto the more powerful 3DS handheld. |
Players go through five cases with Phoenix and his protégés, Apollo and Athena. Fun for fans of the series as well as new players, it's a game with a quirky story and lots of detective work. |
Duel Destinies debuted Thursday for 3DS. It costs $39.99. |
Yankees closer Andrew Miller (left) shakes hands with former Yankee great Mariano Rivera as Miller is awarded the American League's 'Closer of the Year' award before Game 2 of the 2015 World Series. |
Yankees' closer Andrew Miller was named American League Reliever of the Year Wednesday evening before Game 2 of the World Series in Kansas City, an award presented to him by Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred. |
The award, officially named the "2015 Mariano Rivera American League Reliever of the Year Award Recipient," is presented on behalf the The Hartford. Its president, Doug Elliot, along with Rivera, were also there to present the award. |
"I've been lucky," Miller told reporters at Kauffman Stadium. "The Yankees are about as good an organization as you can find. Their reputation is impeccable. Having the opportunity to play there is better than I ever dreamed of...This is an incredible honor, something I never dreamed of. |
Rivera, of course, is the Yankees' former closer who holds the MLB record in saves, with 652. He retired after the 2013 season. |
Miller, in his first season with the Yankees, finished the year with 36 saves and a 2.04 ERA in 61.2 innings pitched. He missed nearly a month due to a forearm strain but otherwise nearly lights out--he struck out 100 batters and walked only 20. He and eighth-inning power arm Dellin Betances were among the most dominan... |
Greg Holland, of the Kansas City Royals, won the award in 2014, the first year it was issued. |
Evaline is an exciting band with simple enough origins: six buddies from California who banded together for the love of music. They started performing in very modest settings until eventually they found themselves on big stages and famous venues. Since the beginning they’ve consistently kept making infectious sounds an... |
Bloginity met with one of the Evaline’s core members, the band’s guitarist – Christian Lewis, and takes a peek into the highlights of band’s life, from gigs, to recordings and everything in between. Looks like the future’s bright for this Californian act – it’s a sure bet. |
Julija: Could you give us a brief history of Evaline? |
Christian: We started playing music together at a fairly young age and were all friends before we started playing in the band together. We have been through a lot of crazy years together and have been lucky enough to have some amazing people who have believed in us along the way. We are just a group of kids who started... |
Julija: How would you describe your music to people? |
Christian: I would say it’s a melodic rock. I usually just tell people it’s rock and then change the subject. |
Julija: What are your memories about the days when you were recording your debut album Woven Material? |
Christian: My memory seems to be getting so bad these days. I do remember it being an amazing experience. It was our first time recording a full length record and our first time being in England. We had so many good times and are so lucky to have gotten that experience. I think we’ve all matured as musicians and as peo... |
Julija: And you were traveling a lot last year promoting the album too. What did you like about touring and what not? What places did you find to be the most fascinating? |
Christian: I think the only time we don’t enjoy touring is when we have a bunch of super long drives to do. That mainly happens in the U.S. I found SE Asia to be the most fascinating place we’ve been. The shows we played there have been some of the most fun as well. |
Julija: Which track on Woven Material do you enjoy the most playing live? |
Christian: I think “There There” is my current favorite. |
Julija: You are currently working on a new record. How it will be different from the previous one? |
Christian: We are still at the very beginning stages of it, so it’s hard to say right now. Our goal is to maintain a lot of creativity, yet keep things a little more simple with the structure. |
Julija: What are your dreams and goals as a band. |
Christian: Just to be able to do this thing as long as we can and hopefully have a solid fan base around the world to play our music for. |
Julija: How does music affect you? |
Christian: It excites me. Listening to music and playing music are some of the very few things that can get me truly excited these days. |
Julija: Where would you like to perform in the future? |
Christian: Anywhere and everywhere possible. I would like to see as much of this world as I can while I’m here. |
Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner says he will address speculation regarding his future at the club in the summer. |
Lerner's words come after reports of a potential takeover by two American billionaires. |
In a statement, the American said: "As regards my personal role at the club and the steady rumours of a sale, I will address these after the season." |
Lerner added he was committed to "limiting distraction and confusion'' as Villa struggle on the pitch. |
On Saturday, Villa ended a four-match run of successive defeats with a 0-0 draw at home to Southampton. |
Paul Lambert's side are five points clear of the relegation zone with four matches left to play - against Swansea City, Hull City, Manchester City and Tottenham. |
Lerner, 57, assumed control of Villa in 2006 after a £62.6m takeover was agreed with the club's board. |
WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - After capturing the U.S. House of Representatives with a campaign that spoke of holding President Donald Trump accountable, some powerful House Democrats are now urging restraint and a focus on policy, at least at the outset. |
An aggressive examination of the president is still needed, senior lawmakers and aides told Reuters. But Democratic leaders are trying to chart a measured path forward from early January when they will take over the House from Trump’s Republicans. |
That path will seek to avoid igniting political battles, for now, over matters such as Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as possible collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign and obstruction of justice. |
Many Democrats want to probe these volatile topics, using subpoenas to get at documents and testimony they say Republicans have ignored for two years, lawmakers and aides said. |
They also said they want to dig into Trump’s property holdings, son-in-law Jared Kushner’s businesses and daughter Ivanka Trump’s use of private emails for official business. |
But the investigative hard-chargers do not appear to be prevailing in shaping the Democrats’ early 2019 agenda. |
That is because other Democrats - including key committee leaders - want to focus on immigration, rising student loan debt, high-cost prescription drugs and the federal response to hurricane disasters, especially in Puerto Rico. |
The Democrats’ agenda will solidify in six to eight weeks. When it does, it will greatly shape the relationship for the next two years between Capitol Hill and Trump, who has not yet dealt with a chamber of Congress under opposition control. |
Voters handed a House majority to Democrats in the Nov. 6 elections. With that comes more resources for investigations, but some members of key committees said they are concerned that rushing to wield that power could turn off voters. |
Representative Jerrold Nadler, likely chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is discouraging talk of an immediate push to impeach Trump. Other Democrats are doing the same. |
At the House Intelligence Committee, members are debating whether to reopen the panel’s 2016 Russian election-meddling probe, said sources who requested anonymity. |
Representative Adam Schiff, on track to become the panel’s chairman, is leading a faction that wants to hold off on reopening the Russian inquiry, said sources. |
At the same time, Schiff is talking publicly about investigating Trump’s ties to Russia, which has denied interfering in the 2016 election to favor Trump. |
Republicans have already begun criticizing Democrats, even before their first investigation is launched, embracing the term “presidential harassment” that Trump likes to use. |
At the same time, Republicans reopened 2016’s wounds on Friday when the House Judiciary Committee said Republican Bob Goodlatte, with only weeks to go as committee chairman, issued subpoenas for former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to give depositions in a probe of their handling of... |
A committee statement said Comey would be deposed on Dec. 3 and Lynch on Dec. 4 about the long-festering email issue involving Clinton, the Democrat defeated by Trump in 2016. |
Before the current lame-duck Congress ends in mid-December, House Democrats will choose a party leader for 2019-2020, with their current leader Nancy Pelosi the front-runner. |
The leader and committee chairs have a “vision” for the investigative agenda, but details are still being discussed, a senior aide said. |
The wide-ranging House Oversight Committee is likely to be chaired by Representative Elijah Cummings. He has called an examination of high prescription drug costs a top priority. |
Still, Cummings told Reuters the panel has asked for information on the reported use by Ivanka Trump, who serves as a senior aide to her father, of personal email to contact other administration officials, a possible records preservation law violation. |
The White House has ignored the request, Cummings said. “We need those documents to ensure that Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and other officials are complying with federal records laws,” he said. |
Democratic committee member Carolyn Maloney said she was pushing Cummings to probe the administration’s decision to add a question about citizenship to the U.S. Census. |
Archives|Berlin Journal; The War Memorial: To Embrace the Guilty, Too? |
Berlin Journal; The War Memorial: To Embrace the Guilty, Too? |
German officials dedicated a national monument today that is intended to honor victims of past conflicts, but the angry protests and boycotts that marred the ceremony suggested that Germans have not yet reached a consensus about how to confront their recent history. |
The monument stands in a Neoclassical 175-year-old former Prussian guardhouse on Unter den Linden, Berlin's most elegant boulevard. It contains a single large room centered on a statue of a grieving mother holding the body of her son. On the floor is the inscription, "To the Victims of War and Tyranny." |
Chancellor Helmut Kohl chose the site, the inscription and the statue, which is an enlargement of a small original modeled by the German graphic artist and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz. Mr. Kohl laid a wreath at the ceremony today. |
As the Chancellor and dignitaries sat through the brief ceremony, protesters could be heard chanting. |
The protesters disapprove of the site, which has been a prison and was a monument during the Nazi era, and the statue, which they say fails to portray the horror Germans inflicted on their own citizens and on citizens of foreign lands. But they are most strongly opposed to the inscription, which they say fails to diffe... |
Last week, several dozen demonstrators chained themselves to the monument in protest. "German murderers are not victims!" they shouted as police arrested them. |
Hundreds of protesters turned out in the rain today to chant similar slogans. Several prominent figures showed disapproval by staying away. |
The police also detained about 200 rightists in several German states on this, the National Day of Mourning. One group tried to hold a rally at a World War II cemetery in Halbe, a small town southeast of Berlin. |
The Culture Minister of Berlin, Ulrich Roloff-Momin, also stayed away and joined more than 50 writers and public figures in signing a statement asserting that the monument "can never be a place for remembering the victims of German fascism." |
"Should it now be considered in Germany that those who voluntarily wore swastikas were the same as those who were forced to wear yellow stars with the word 'Jew'?" the statement asked. |
The essayist Reinhart Koselleck suggested that the inscription be changed to read, "To the Dead: Fallen, Murdered, Gassed, Died, Missing." "The inscription disguises what happened and ignores the brutal and absurd truth of our history," Mr. Koselleck wrote. |
Despite such protests, Chancellor Kohl refused to alter his plans for the memorial but agreed to allow a brass tablet to be affixed outside the main entrance. It carries a quotation from a 1985 speech by President Richard von Weizsacker naming some groups that fell victim to Nazi terror. |
Officials said that Mr. Kohl made the concession to assure the presence today of Ignatz Bubis, Germany's principal Jewish spokesman. The Chancellor also agreed to support Mr. Bubis's proposal for a separate Jewish memorial. |
Mr. Bubis said the Chancellor's decisions did not leave him "jumping for joy," but he called them "a compromise we can live with." Is Pieta the Right Image? |
The striking building in which the memorial stands, known as the Neue Wache (New Guard House), was designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel to celebrate Prussia's victory over Napoleon. It was used as a garrison and a holding cell for prisoners. For most of its history, it was used for military ceremonies. Dur... |
Allied bombing seriously damaged the building, and it remained shut until 1960, when the East German Government opened it as a monument "to the victims of fascism and militarism." The remains of an unknown soldier and an unknown concentration camp victim are still buried under the stone floor. |
Although the building's history and the inscription aroused most of the protests, some also complained about the statue, which is a modern version of the classic Pieta design, showing the dead Jesus in Mary's lap. Mr. Kohl said he favored it because Kollwitz was one of Germany's greatest artists, and because her person... |
"The pain and doubt of countless women who, over the centuries, have sought and perhaps found solace in the image of the mother of God is here misused to suggest the inescapable necessity of suffering and sacrifice," said the art historian Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius, who urged that a different statue be used. "The purpos... |
Re: “Voting Alternatives”, letter, April 1. Goodness gracious, here we go again. When are Albertans like Kelsey Thomson going to understand that the battleground is the UCP vs the NDP? Let’s not get distracted with all these rinky-dink outer domain parties. NDP loyalists are not going to vote for anything else but the ... |
It amazes me that our prime minister has lost three members from the Liberal Party, two from cabinet and one an MP. He has lost his best friend Mr. Butts and threw the clerk of the privy council under the bus. When is he going to blame Stephan Harper? He blames him for everything else! |
Alberta should own its oil, not Americans. Many times I have explained this to the MLA of the day. Many times I have seen “experts” explain how stupid an Albertan is to think like this. The Chinese really like owning it as well. Apparently building refineries and well-paying jobs ain’t for us, we’re only good for payin... |
Re: Election date. Can someone move the election date to May or June. I’m an Arizona snowbird, as well as tens of thousands of other Albertans, that don’t return to until the middle of May, thanks. |
After reading Saturday’s paper containing columns by three highly respected journalists, I’m left seriously perplexed by the fact that criminal charges haven’t been filed or at the very least an investigation by the RCMP hasn’t been launched! How much more evidence do they need? (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau and his ... |
JOERN Utzon has died in Copenhagen, aged 90. |
He was internationally acknowledged as one of the most creative and courageous architects of the 20th century, although not one who produced great numbers of large projects. |
Joern Utzon with a model of the Sydney Opera House in 1966. |
His Sydney Opera House was opened by Queen Elizabeth in 1973 without making mention of its architect. |
The building remains the mysterious work of an astonishing imagination. |
Utzon was not at the opening, he wasn't invited, after he resigned the commission and left Australia, never to return, in 1966. The project was dogged by problems between the architect, his engineers and especially the NSW state government minister for public works, the ignominious Davis Hughes. It was completed by a t... |
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