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Though the musical terminology – jungle, acid house, trance – may be new, the idealistic rhetoric we hear in interview after interview in director Jon Reiss’s documentary will ring a bell for any veteran of a ’60s be-in. “The age of Aquarius, it’s here,” says DJ Keoki, but without the optimism of the “Hair” years: he’s seen the deep alienation that drives some kids to seek oblivion in drugs. These idealistic electronic rituals belong to an era of diminished expectations; the political grandiosity of the ’60s (and its accompanying sense of privilege) has been replaced with a more circumscribed notion of bliss – nirvana as a night on the town....

The tensions among people of color are rooted in racial violence woven into U.S. history for the past 500 years and evidenced today in a judicial system that can allow the men who beat Rodney King to escape conviction. The so-called black-Korean problem is a decontextualized manifestation of a much larger problem. The roots lie not in the Korean-immigrant-owned corner store situated in a community ravaged by poverty and police violence, but stretch far back to the corridors of corporate and government offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento and Washington, D....

Thieves used a forklift to impale the ATM through its front screen and rip it from the ground outside a Tulsa Teachers Credit Union (TTCU) in Bixby, Oklahoma, police told local news outlets. Officers are not yet sure how many people were involved but said they had stolen the rented forklift from a worksite across the street. Most of the ATM, along with the money inside, was loaded into a vehicle and driven away....

Said follow-up has been a long time coming, but it is now here. The spiritual successor to Mad Tracks, curiously titled Things On Wheels, is due to hit Xbox Live Arcade this Wednesday, and can be yours for the princely sum of 800 Microsoft Points ($10). It looks to be more of the same miniature-car racing shenanigans that made Mad Tracks so popular, but without the bizarre power-recharge mechanic that dominated the playing style of its predecessor....

RELATED: Best Games Like Borderlands Compared to modern efforts in the franchise, which are a degree flashier and more robust, the original game can tend to look dated and crude. However, when viewed on its own merits, this groundbreaking looter-shooter stands the test of time in many avenues; perhaps more so than most games of its era. 8 The Zany And Memorable Characters As is the case in film and television, strong characters can help set the stage for fun, charming, and emotionally gripping moments....

RELATED: Callisto Protocol: Cargo Walkthrough (Chapter 1) The Callisto Protocol then was like the next best thing. Plus Glen Schofield was involved, who helped co-create Dead Space. That was the only game he directly worked on though. There is a lot of Dead Space DNA in The Callisto Protocol, but it does several things differently as well. These are the biggest changes. 6 Emphasis On Melee The only melee ability that was present throughout the Dead Space games was the stomp....

Real Madrid top the standings with Sevilla a point behind and champions Barcelona two adrift of the leaders. Atletico are fourth, trailing Barca by six points and in danger of missing out on direct qualification for the Champions League. “We are six points behind third spot after an inconsistent first half of the season,” Simeone told reporters on Monday. “Sevilla have a big advantage for getting into the Champions League....

Mcheza village in central Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa, were staring at the world’s first 3D-printed school. “The night before, men were working on the site setting up equipment and, in the morning, a whole new school block was standing on the ground reserved for a school,” Senior Chief Kalonga told Zenger News on the sidelines of an event to hand over the classroom to the community on June 18, 2021....

Designed to create a tweet that sounds as if it could come from the account holder, but didn’t, Tweet Hunter’s AI tweet generator has sparked attention. Google searches for “tweet generator,” “AI tweet generator” and “Fake Elon Musk tweet generator” saw a huge uptick on Google as thousands rushed to try out the tool, inspired by other users. What Is the AI Tweet Generator? The tool uses artificial intelligence (AI) to scrape through a Twitter user’s previous content and build a picture of the phrases and sentences they may be likely to share....

Season one of the series is set off with the murder and devouring of an alpaca named Tem. It’s learned that he lives in a world and attends a school where carnivores and herbivores are integrated and meant to coexist, despite carnivores still having their natural instincts to eat. The main character of the show is a grey wolf named Legoshi, who is a member of the drama club and begins to have feelings for a dwarf rabbit named Haru, who he simultaneously wants to eat....

There aren’t too many details about the sequel just yet and nobody knows when exactly it will take place, or what characters from the first installment will be back to reprise their previous roles. Some fan-favorites are expected to return, such as Shuri and Nakia, but there hasn’t been much talk about whether or not Danai Gurira will be back in the sequel as Okoye. Since Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is meant to pay homage to Chadwick and Black Panther alike, excluding Okoye from this crucial turning point in Wakanda’s story would be a major disappointment....

The ’90s man is, at minimum, in touch with the emotional needs of his partner. So when Houston Oilers tackle David Williams stuck around to be with his wife after their son was born on the eve of a recent game, he may have figured the team would excuse his absence from the lineup. Fat chance. In a move that sent talk-show callers across the nation lunging for their phones, the Oilers said Williams had plenty of time to be with his family and make the football game in Boston....

According to plenty of pundits and fans alike, City’s two most recent results — a draw and a defeat — are a portent of things to come. The thrilling 3-3 draw at Celtic and the comprehensive 2-0 defeat at Tottenham certainly contained too many individual errors by City players and, particularly at White Hart Lane, plenty of times when Guardiola’s system broke down. But it is as if what went before — a marvelous run of 10 consecutive victories — has been scoured from the records books, and that the bruising encounters in Glasgow and London will now be the norm for Guardiola and his men....

To tackle this problem, a group of researchers, data scientists, and advocates launched the Health Equity Tracker last month to help people visualize racial and ethnic disparities in some key health outcomes. “The adage, for far too long, has been, ‘if there’s no data there’s no problem,’” Nelson Dunlap, JD, chief of staff at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, tells Verywell. “Our response was if we can find the data, then you can’t really ignore the problem any longer....

With a PR practice that at times has forced me — and at other times has lured me — into the American way of life, I must confess Thanksgiving is a bit of a head-scratcher. A group of religious fundamentalists goes off the grid, hires barely competent sailors to take them across the Atlantic and plunks down in an area that seemed newly opened to them but — plot twist — had recently been devastated by a horrifying plague....

title: “This Twitch Streamer Is More Than Her Virtual Avatar” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-04” author: “Marjorie Fraise” An Eastern-inspired mix of OSTs (original soundtracks) plays in the background as she takes viewers on a journey through her “family-friendly” streams playing games and chatting with her audience. She’s cultivated a large following due in no small part to her unique marketability and congenial constitution. In a year and a half, girl_dm_ has made an impact on the VTuber Twitch community....

The star batsman is battling a shoulder injury suffered during the drawn third Test in Ranchi. With the series locked at 1-1 ahead of the final match starting in Dharamsala on Saturday, it seemed Kohli would be risked in the decider. But the 28-year-old told a news conference that he must prove his fitness the same as anyone else in the team. “When we put these things in place, the first thing I said was I’m no different from anyone else,” Kohli said....

Mary Poppins was always a cultural oddity. Created by P. L. Travers in a series of books begun during the Depression, she was enchanting to generations of children for her magic powers–she could fly and talk to animals–and a little frightening because she was awfully strict and not the least bit sentimental. But the Mary Poppins kids know today is different. She’s from the beloved Disney classic, and no matter how starchy and no-nonsense Julie Andrews tried to be, she was always sparkly, cheerful and had the most beautiful smile....

The exclusion of the multiplayer mode in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition was announced back in February, with BioWare stating that it was leaving the mode out to be able to focus primarily on remastering the single-player experience. The multiplayer mode saw up to four players completing round-based horde matches with a sizable variety of playable classes, and it even tied into the ending players received in Mass Effect 3’s campaign....