Originally released in 2002, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City was one of the formative entries of the series. Releasing between Grand Theft Auto 3 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it’s a relic of a different period for the open-world action game genre, a place where the dedication to detail was made nearly impossible due to technical limitations. Despite those limitations, though, Vice City still carries a lot of weight....
Types of Stand-Alone Software Stand-alone software has certain defining characteristics, such as: Software that runs on its own without an internet connection: This includes anti-virus software or financial software that can be installed on your computer via CD, thumb drive, or internet download. Stand-alone anti-virus software is important because you can scan for viruses without the chance of an online virus re-infecting your computer. Software that isn’t part of a bundle: When you buy computer accessories, such as a printer, it may come with stand-alone software that helps the accessory communicate with your computer....
For that reason, patients and surgeons go to great lengths to take whatever necessary steps possible to avoid complications. One step that you can take is to identify the right surgeon and the right hospital to perform your procedure. These are some criteria you can use to evaluate when choosing. Choosing a Surgeon There are many factors that people will use to identify a surgeon that they trust and have confidence in....
Brian Cashman had only watched video of Masahiro Tanaka before the pitcher signed with the Yankees prior to the 2014 season. Instead of flying across the Pacific Ocean himself, the general manager relied on the eyes of his scouts, notably Trey Hillman, to get a feel for the Japanese superstar. Once the manager of the Nippon Ham Fighters, Hillman was working as a special assistant to the Yankees at the time....
What Microsoft Has Planned for Edge The big bumper update was caught by Windows Latest. The three features are scheduled to come in one big update, so it’s worth keeping your eyes on Edge in the near future. First up, Microsoft Edge is getting web widget support. These widgets are a handy way to get a quick glimpse of vital information throughout your day. The software giant wants to experiment with widgets of all shapes and sizes, but it has decided to start with a news widget to kick things off....
NEWSWEEK: How did you get the idea for the Cyberport? LI: It started with a casual chat. We have a couple of joint ventures, one with Intel, and we almost always lose our English and American engineers to our office in the States. They say on the [U.S.] West Coast they could find a reality check on any concept much quicker, much faster. If Hong Kong wants to develop anything of that sort, it’s got three problems....
By then the net was already closing. On Sunday, Feb. 14, Kenyan security forces quietly surrounded the compound–along with a scattering of grim-faced white men in plain clothes. The standoff continued until the next day, when a small convoy of passenger vehicles left the compound. One car carried the Greek ambassador. Another vehicle carried Ocalan’s comrades. A team of Kenyan police rode with Ocalan himself in a third vehicle. The rebel leader and his friends balked at being separated, but the Greeks and the Kenyans ignored their complaints....
Luis Eduardo Garzon, now 52, has lots more friends today, and one major political opponent. On Jan. 1, the former communist, whom everyone calls “Lucho,” hugged his white-haired mother in front of TV cameras and took power as Bogota’s mayor, the country’s second most important political post after the presidency. His win, over an opponent supported by President Alvaro Uribe, is the biggest political prize ever claimed by an openly left-wing politician in Colombia....
But in some ways, I certainly think that this break will be good for Liverpool. For one, Brendan Rodgers can go back to the drawing board and lay out his plan for the season – how we’re going to work with his philosophy, what is Gerrard’s role, and who plays as the ‘false 9? up front (if we’re going to go with that). In that respect, it will be good for the team....
JUSTIN ROSE Age: 37. Country: England. World ranking: 3. Worldwide victories: 20. Majors: US Open (2013). 2018 Majors: Masters-T12, US Open-T10. British Open memory: Holing out a wedge for par on the 18th hole at Royal Birkdale in 1998 when he tied for fourth as an 18-year-old amateur. Backspin: Twenty years after he made his memorable Open debut, Rose will have a chance to reach No. 1 in the world....
Kincaid has never asked for sympathy-not since 1988 when she wrote her wonderful furnace-blast about the miserable state of her native Antigua, “A Small Place.” By then, her rage about colonialism had come to a head, and she’d left behind the relative quaintness of her first novel, “Annie John.” But Kineaid is too enamored of her characters’ hard hearts. Xuela’s so unlikable and remote you feel as if you’re looking at her through the wrong end of a telescope....
Rome hasn’t seen such a spectacle since the pope’s own inaugural. Although Escriva, who died in 1975, is still one step away from canonization– official sainthood–Opus Dei has enlisted the Vatican’s leading cardinals to preside at 23 masses, thanking God in 12 languages for the life and example of Escriva. Altogether, the five-day extravaganza will confirm what most people at the Vatican have long suspected: Opus Dei, under John Paul, has become the most influential-and feared-organization in the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church....
Twenty-four teams will vie for a spot in the finals, with only one taking home the championship. Seven countries (Brazil, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden and the USA) have participated in every Women’s World Cup, while four nations will make their debut in 2019 — Chile, Jamaica, Scotland and South Africa. From the basics of when and where the tournament will be to the group stage format and schedule, we take an in-depth look at everything you need to know heading into the Women’s World Cup this summer....
That spring only about 20 percent of the usual number of monarchs made their way north. Last summer, monarch sightings in the United States and Canada were below the norm. When the scientists went back in December to see how many of the butterflies had returned, they were afraid of what they would find. They climbed to the mountaintops, ran their tape measures around the half-dozen or so monarch colonies and calculated how many insects were nesting in the trees....
This is embarrassing. But add to this comedy of false certainties the fact that 44 percent of Americans are confident that Jesus will return to Earth sometime in the next 50 years, and you will glimpse the terrible liability of this sort of thinking. Given the most common interpretation of Biblical prophecy, it is not an exaggeration to say that nearly half the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world....
Actually, there were two meets underway, one to decide who would represent the defending champion San Diego Yacht Club, the other to choose the foreign competitor. The U.S. match pitted a syndicate led by Dennis Conner, who, over the past decade, has twice won and once lost the cup itself, against a group led by Bill Koch, an amateur helmsman of enormous wealth who showed up with four different boats to test....
Until last week. Following a campaign singularly devoid of the usual violence and lavish electioneering, India’s have-nots shattered the country’s political order – and the dream that a sole party could bridge the country’s bitter divides. The Congress Party was an also-ran, with fewer than half the seats that gave it a slim majority in the last Parliament, when the ballots of 300 million voters were counted. ““The masses of the people have gone away from us,’’ conceded Congress party leader Sharad Pawar....
Consider the Depression Generation. So scarred was it by insecurity that, forever after, its members borrowed no money and took no risks. They mistrusted the prosperity that swelled around them because they “knew” it wouldn’t last. Now consider the Inflation Generation who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. They saw in a flash that a dollar saved was a dollar lost because inflation ate it up. A dollar borrowed was a dollar saved....
The Ahyi Seamount—a large submarine volcano—lies 449 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean below the Northern Mariana Islands, which are more than 3,700 miles west of Honolulu, Hawaii. Satellite images show there to be discoloration at the surface of the ocean above Ahyi, the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement. The remote area of the seamount makes its activity difficult to confirm. But hydroacoustic sensors at Wake Island have detected signals “consistent with activity from an undersea volcanic source,” strongly suggesting that Ahyi is rumbling to life....
