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Sony, on the other hand, counteracted all of Microsoft’s negative publicity by announcing more gamer-friendly approaches to said issues in their E3 press conference. And what seemed to make the biggest impact was the lower retail price of the PlayStation 4. Sony was met with a roaring applause when they announced that the PS4 would retail at $399 dollars. While Sony’s entire approach to PS4 marketing has put them in the good graces everywhere, Gamespot is reporting that the price difference alone may have preemptively won the early console war between Sony and Microsoft....

Jovic is currently on a two-year loan spell from S.L Benfica, the club he joined from his boyhood club Red Star Belgrade. The Serb’s 22 goals and 7 assists in 34 matches so far have put him in the same bracket as Bayern’s Robert Lewandowski in terms of goal involvements and this has come as no shock to those who were monitoring the progress of the young striker. His scintillating form this season has drawn him interests from a variety of clubs all over Europe with Barcelona, Bayern Munich, and Liverpool among the clubs which maintain a close interest on the youngster according to Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo....

It’s been 3 years and he has pretty much had the same set of defenders to play with and choose between. I am no manager, but how hard can it be? There are two ways to look at this. You either go by statistics or you go by you managerial instincts, which after so many years in the game, would be pretty sound. So who are the guys in question?...

However, if reports are to be believed, one of the greatest technical wrestlers of all time wanted to see if he could return to the biggest sports entertainment organization in the world, but his wish was turned down by the head of talent relations, Paul Levesque aka Triple H, and when Kurt Angle tried to go over Triple H by contacting Vince McMahon himself, he was told that the decisions were now taken by Paul when it comes to the talent....

The more he studied World War I, George F. Kennan wrote, the more he came to see it as “the great seminal catastrophe of this century.” Now as Europe seethes with long-suppressed ethnic and national hatreds, it is valuable to get a fresh look at the roots of that catastrophe, for in some ways the hatreds are the same. In “Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War,” Robert K....

Los Blancos were expected to brush aside the Bundesliga club after receiving what seemed like a favourable draw. But a poor display at the Volkswagen Arena saw Wolfsburg score two goals in the first half courtesy of a penalty from Ricardo Rodriguez and a goal from Maximilian Arnold. History is against Real Madrid with the percentage of teams coming back from 2-0 down in the first leg being very low....

“There are many differences. Back then the squad was still being constructed. Whereas now the project has reached the final phase — winning the Champions League. PSG is now among the best squads in Europe,” Ancelotti said Monday, a day before Napoli hosts PSG. Ancelotti led PSG to the French league title in 2013, the first of five championships in six years. With a squad featuring two of the world’s top players in Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, the only cup missing for the big-spending Qatari owners remains the Champions League....

It is no coincidence that Real Madrid’s excellent recent form coincided with Alonso’s return to the side after a long lay-off with a groin problem. However, the 32-year-old is out of contract at the end of season and has yet to sign a new deal to keep him at the club for longer, reports Xinhua. “We have played really well in our last two games and we have not just played well, but also defended well,” said Ancelotti....

During his talk, Mr. O’Brien did not mince his words. He told the audience that Amnesty “takes no political views on any question, including the right of the State of Israel to survive” and that Israel “shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state.” (Mr. O’Brien claims that his words were “misreported,” but you can hear them in an audio recording published by Jewish Insider.) His talk implied that Israel as a Jewish-majority sovereign nation was in direct conflict with Palestinian rights, precluding the possibility that one might insist upon the humanity and inalienable right to self-determination of both peoples....

To start, Innersloth is adding two new Cosmicubes to Among Us, each with their own new food-inspired cosmetics. As is becoming routine, one Cosmicube will be available for Beans and one for Stars. The first is named the Snack Cosmicube and costs 2,500 Beans. It includes ice cream, eggs, cheese, lollipops, and even a chef’s suit. The Feast Cosmicube costs 110 Stars and includes similar snacks, as well as a loaf of bread dog, a jelly mini-companion, and a hot dog suit, among other cosmetics....

Brandon Bostian, 38, was acquitted of causing a catastrophe, involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment by a Philadelphia jury. Bostian was the sole engineer on the Amtrak train when it was going double the speed limit on a curve before it derailed, the Associated Press reported. Amtrak 188 was heading to New York City on May 12, 2015, when it passed through North Philadelphia Station towards Frankford Junction. The train was coming up on a curve traveling at 106 miles per hour, while the speed limit was only 50 mph....

Barrett, whose confirmation to the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sealed conservative control of the court during the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, made the comments during a lecture hosted by the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center on Sunday. She was introduced by Mitch McConnell, the center’s founder and Senate GOP leader who played an important role in confirming Barrett to the court....

Cornyn, a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Barrett that senators had multiple notebooks, notes and books to reference during the hearing. Then, he asked if she could hold up the preparatory materials she was using to answer the committee’s questions, at which point she showed them a blank notepad save the Senate’s letterhead “That’s impressive,” Cornyn said before continuing on with his other line of questioning....

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office announced Monday that misdemeanor charges will be filed against Cooper, who was recorded threatening to call the police on Christian Cooper, who is of no relation. The June incident in Central Park, which quickly went viral, began when the bird-watching Cooper asked Amy to put her dog on a leash. She immediately reacted by screaming for him to stay away from her and was seen on video telling police dispatchers she was being threatened by “an African-American man....

MORE: PGA Tour winners, 2014-15 | Leaderboard | Tour schedule The feisty Texan has chosen Option B. First, however, he had to realize that he was, inadvertently, embracing Option A. Julie Elion, a sports psychologist based in Washington, D.C., who works with a number of golfers, including Phil Mickelson and Gary Woodland, delivered that virtual uppercut to the chin. Leonard started having conversations with Elion in September, after being eliminated from the opening FedExCup playoff event, The Barclays....

Web workers allow you to separate long-running code and run it independently of other code running on the page. This keeps your UI responsive, even during complex operations. What Are Web Workers? Traditionally, JavaScript is a single-threaded language. That means nothing else can run while one piece of code is running. For example, if you have code trying to animate a DOM element, code trying to change a variable has to wait for the animation to end before it can run....

It is no exaggeration to describe the Analogue Pocket as one of the most ambitious handheld consoles of recent years. With the ability to play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges, players will be able to take a walk through gaming history on the Analogue Pocket. The device was originally revealed in 2019, but thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was delayed from a shipping date of May 2021 to October 2021....

Tottenham manager Andre-Villas Boas is interested in signing 20-year old Porto winger Christian Atsu, to whom he gave a debut during his time in charge of the Portuguese club. Everton and Sunderland are also keen on the winger, who will have just a year left on his contract by the summer and has an £8m buy-out clause. Full story: Daily Mirror What’s the story? Three Premier League clubs, two of which are looking towards Champions League qualification, want to pay a truly ludicrous amount of money for someone who has made 7 starts, 6 of which he has been substituted off in…?...

In deciding on an advance in Iraq, Army commanders justify throwing centuries of military doctrine into the trash heap by citing a couple of fairly new and relatively untested theories–the “Rolling Start” deployment and the “Bypass Criteria.” Both are departures from Colin Powell’s doctrine of massive, overwhelming force. Rolling Start, in which attacks are launched while additional forces continue to arrive, is based on the assumption that the Iraqi Army was so inferior that the United States could begin the ground campaign even though the Iraqis had a 10-to-1 numerical advantage in ground forces (it may even be more than that, though actual figures on how many combat troops are now inside the country are a bit murky)....

Only a day after we learned that The Old Republic’s subscribers have dropped by a quarter since its launch, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said that he believes the response from EA and BioWare will cause Dragon Age 3’s development to be delayed. The title was originally believed to have a release date of winter 2013, but may now be pushed back to 2014 because of this. Pachter said that this was due to BioWare drawing talent from the Dragon Age team to help fix any bugs that had arisen in The Old Republic, as well as create new content to either draw in new players or bring back the ones that had left....