In two weeks the first-night audience will feel the force of two ennobling obsessions: the shady parvenu Jay Gatsby’s fixation on Daisy Buchanan, which drives him to amass a fortune he cares nothing about, and Harbison’s fascination with a great American novel. He began planning an opera based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1924 masterpiece 18 years ago, couldn’t get dramatic rights and ended up with a “Fox-Trot for Orchestra” called “Remembering Gatsby....
Total War Saga: Troy is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Creative Assembly Sofia for the Microsoft Windows platform. The game was met with incredible initial success with millions of free downloads of Total War Saga: Troy on the Epic Games Store. RELATED: A Total War Saga: Troy - How to Recruit Mythical Units After acknowledging the Total War’s privacy policy agreement, players should then receive a confirmation email to activate the account and follow the instructions provided within the email....
There have been millions of words written and said about Emiliano Sala since the plane carrying him across the English channel to take him to Cardiff, crashed, costing him and the pilot flying the plane, their lives. The tragic circumstances of his untimely passing and the investigation that continues to surround it have meant that Sala, the man and everything he achieved, might be in danger of being forgotten....
I walked out as soon as the evaluation was over, and I never went back. If I needed help, I wasn’t going to get it there. This was in 2004, six months before James Nicholson inherited a Department of Veterans Affairs already strained by the nearly two-year-old war. As a Marine among the first wave of veterans to return from Iraq, I simply figured it was going to take a little while longer for the VA to get its wartime footing....
This week the ground fighting begins in earnest in Campaign 2000. So far most of the media attention has focused on New Hampshire, which votes on Feb. 1. It has an open primary; irascible, quotable citizensand easy air connections to Washington and New York. The unofficial cross-party ticket of challengersBill Bradley and Sen. John McCainis wooing independent-minded voters there, and now leads the unofficial cross-party ticket of insiders and establishment scions, Gore and Texas Gov....
Porthcawl, on Wales’ southern coast, plans to replace its current toilets with models that deter “inappropriate sexual activity and vandalism,” reports said. The toilets will cost Porthcawl Town Council £170,000 (about $200,000), and users will pay an undetermined access fee, according to WalesOnline. Motion sensors inside the toilets will respond to sudden movement, while weight sensors will detect the entrance of more than one person and will trigger the deterrent measures....
Aaron Rodgers still has plenty of gas left in the tank when it comes to throwing footballs for the Packers. I mean, you saw his Hail Mary, right? When his playing days are eventually over, however, he may just have a future in Hollywood as a blockbuster actor. MORE: Was it a facemask? | Munn reacts to Rodgers’ Hail Mary | Packers work out Montee Ball Or not. Whatever....
“I will keep on playing IPL for a few years, and I would like to play for the Titans, and help some of the youngsters. But there are no set plans. I haven’t been able to say that for a long time". “There are some offers on the table from around the world, but it will be nice to wake up and wonder what to do; to be normal,” he was quoted as saying to iol....
Why Does Stroke Affect Smell? The sense of smell is not usually the stereotypical handicap we think of as being associated with a stroke. Overall, people tend to notice the more dramatic consequences of brain damage after a stroke, such as arm weakness, facial drooping, or vision loss. People do not normally panic when they notice that they can’t smell as well as they used to. But the areas of the brain that work together to allow us to sense and interpret smells can be damaged by a stroke....
What’s Rumored for the New Surface Pro X? This news came to us via Windows Central, who received information via an unknown source. The source claims that Microsoft wants to give the Surface Pro X a “refresh” later this year. The specific choice of words behind “refresh” means that a Surface Pro X 2 is unlikely. In fact, the contact says that the changes will be “a relatively minor one.”...
As the bomb went off in Manchester, Martin McGuinness, a key leader of Sinn Fein, was in Northern Ireland giving an interview to NEWSWEEK’s London bureau chief, Daniel Pedersen. Predictably, McGuinness blamed British Prime Minister John Major for the IRA’s decision to end its previous ceasefire with a string of bombings that began in London last February. He claimed that Major had ganged up with Irish Prime Minister John Bruton to prevent the nationalists from “taking our place at the [negotiating] table” by demanding that the IRA surrender some of its weapons....
Roman caught flak on social media after she was quoted in an interview accusing both Tiegen and Kondo of selling out by partnering with major home goods brands after having success with their best-selling books. Roman’s remarks were considered offensive by some fans and followers, including Teigen—a model, TV personality and author of the 2018 cookbook Cravings who also helms a line of cooking utensils. Kondo, author of 2011’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and star of the Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, has released collections of household items and goods....
Chromebooks, Surface laptops, Windows laptops—it’s hard to find a laptop these days that doesn’t have a touchscreen, unless it’s a Mac. Apple’s line on this has been that if you want a touchscreen computer, you should buy an iPad, and that the Mac just isn’t suited for touch. But Apple also said nobody wanted to watch movies on an iPod, and that stylus input was suboptimal. Then we got the iPod Video and the Apple Pencil....
Arsenal.com published an interesting article on our new signing Olivier Giroud. The part that caught my eye was the debate around whether Giroud will be a starter with Robin or not (leaving aside all contract chat for now). In it, Philippe Auclair said “I can imagine a 4-4-1-1 with Robin van Persie playing in a Bergkamp role; I can imagine a new version of a 4-4-2; and I can imagine Robin playing on the right as an inverted winger too....
Meanwhile, Clinton’s political team was dismayed to learn that preppy designer Ralph Lauren had been brought in, at Hillary Rodham Clinton’s behest, to decorate the White House for Christmas. ““That’s like having your hair cut by [Beverly Hills stylist] Cristophe or vacationing at Martha’s Vineyard,’’ groaned a Clinton adviser. Mrs. Clinton’s spokesman Neel Lattimore defended the ““outreach’’ to Lauren: ““We want to bring in America’s best and brightest and show them off and the White House....
So some people may find it ironic that I grew up to be a mechanical engineer. In fact, I am the only female engineer at my company. In order to get my college degree, I had to take a lot of math and science classes. I also had to work with a team of students as part of a national competition to convert a gas-guzzling SUV into a hybrid electric vehicle–that’s where I learned how to fix cars....
Nintendo may not have tapped into this potential yet, but the time is now right. There’s a major void in Nintendo RPGs right now due to the apparent end of the Mario & Luigi series of RPGs, which were developed by AlphaDream until the studio’s closure in 2019. For years, Mario & Luigi showed that RPG adaptations of Nintendo IPs could be great fun, but Nintendo has yet to fill the void....
According to NFL Media, the veteran receiver said he’s hopeful he’ll make his return in Week 10 against the Ravens, noting he just has to make sure his ankle can do everything he wants and that the injury won’t linger. Green is recovering from an ankle injury he suffered in training camp that required surgery in late July. He returned to practice earlier this month on a limited basis, but remains sidelined....
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on December 31 used an interview of current India captain Virat Kohli to prove the spoilt state of affairs in the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) at the time when it had been headed by current Union Finance Minister of India Arun Jaitley. AAP claims that in an interview on December 18, Kohli said that his father was asked for a favour to get him into the state side while Arun Jaitley was the DDCA chief, an offer which his father refused....
Roughly four minutes into the second half, he clutched his hand, wrinkled his nose in pain and rushed off the court. MORE: Kentucky so good they’re dunking on each other | Must-see photos from Thursday The ring finger on the sophomore forward’s left (read: non-shooting) hand was bent at an unnatural angle at his middle knuckle. Harrison was quickly ushered back into the tunnel where team trainers attended to the finger....
