![]() ![]() The White House plan, unveiled earlier Thursday, comes after at least two cases of the highly mutated omicron variant were detected in California and Minnesota this week. "It doesn't include shutdowns or lockdowns, but widespread vaccinations and boosters and testing a lot more," Biden told reporters during an update on Thursday. President Joe Biden on Thursday said his plan to fight Covid during the winter months will not include new lockdowns or an expansion of the administration's current vaccination requirements. President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plan to fight the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) with the emergence of the Omicron variant, during his visit to the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., December 2, 2021. Major recent space-gamed competitors to "Starfield" including the remastered version of the "Mass Effect" trilogy from BioWare, released in May, along with Microsoft's "Halo: Infinite", which is releasing this fall after a pandemic-induced delay and was also discussed during E3.įollow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter Follow us on Twitter and on Facebook.Biden says he doesn't want lockdowns and won't expand vaccine mandates to fight Covid this winter It promised more updates on its website and Discord channel (opens in new tab). ![]() "Starfield" was first announced in 2018 with an even vaguer trailer that gaming news website Polygon (opens in new tab) interpreted as "a first-person shooter/RPG hybrid." Project rumors, however, started in 2013 when Bethesda trademarked the name "Starfield" along with "Fallout 4", GameSpot reported (opens in new tab).īethesda offered a few more details about "Starfield" on its website (opens in new tab), saying it would allow open character creation (which "Elder Scrolls" players have enjoyed for a long time), and an open-world, role-playing game (RPG) format. "It's still dangerous to go and explore, even though lots of people do it," Howard added. "Traveling in space in our game, I want to say it's like flight in the '40s, like it's dangerous," Howard said during an E3 Coliseum chat, according to PC Gamer (opens in new tab), whose parent company Future also owns. "That's why we're here – to discuss what's out there."īack in 2019, Howard hinted that traveling through space in "Starfield" will be a harrowing experience. "We've come to the beginning of humanity's final journey," the trailer says in part. Intriguingly, a robot appears to be wandering nearby the spaceship during startup – perhaps an allusion to some kind of mission helper. The two-minute teaser trailer (opens in new tab) only shows a few glimpses of what "Starfield" has to offer us, but you can see an astronaut wandering around their home base and then a crew member getting their futuristic spaceship ready for flight, on what appears to be a moon-like surface. "Yes, it's exclusive," Bond said of the game. "We are committed to forging the next era of gaming, conjuring worlds never before possible, unlocking play across all devices and delivering the power of games to everyone," Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator experience, said at E3.ĭespite Bond's assurances that Microsoft gameplay is possible "across all devices", it appears "Starfield" will not be offered for Sony PlayStation or Nintendo Switch platforms, at least for a while. While Howard didn't allude to the "team" in detail, it's possible he is referring to the deep pockets of Microsoft, which purchased Bethesda for an eye-watering $7.5 billion last year (opens in new tab). "It's an epic about hope, or shared humanity … It's a game we've dreamt of playing, and it wasn't until now that we had the hardware, the technology and the team." Howard offered another glimpse into the Starfield universe in a making-of video unveiled by the Washington Post (opens in new tab). "We're creating a new universe with 'Starfield', set hundreds of years in our future," Howard continued.
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The word was used in many texts including the funerary Pyramid Texts, early religious writings dating from approximately 2375 BC but likely to have been composed far earlier, carved on the internal walls of some pyramids. The word “bi-A” was eventually translated as “iron”, but could easily have referred a range of hard, dense, iron-like materials. The earliest hieroglyphic word for iron was greatly debated by translators, who frequently confused the words for copper and iron. The ancient language also offers clues as to how how iron was perceived by Egyptians – and that they knew meteorites were a source of the metal. Diane Johnson/The Manchester Museum, Author provided The earliest known ancient Egypt iron object: a meteorite iron bead from a prehistoric cemetery. The word “benben” is derived from the verb “weben”, meaning “ to shine”. For example, the “Benben” stone worshipped in the sun temple of the god Ra at Heliopolis is thought to have possibly been a meteorite. Meteorites may have even played a more direct role in state religion. As a result, they could have seen all iron as a divine material that wasn’t appropriate to work into a practical, everyday form and that should be reserved only for high-status people. If ancient Egyptians knew that iron could be found in meteorites that came from the sky – the place of the gods – it may have been symbolically important to them. This precious gift from nature still required shaping into a useful form, often resulting in very basic iron objects, such as small thin metal pieces that could be used as blades or bent into shapes. We have evidence that numerous prehistoric societies worldwide which did not have access to ores or knowledge of smelting made use of metallic iron found in occasional meteorites. ![]() One explanation for this may be that the readily accessible iron ores were of poor quality so couldn’t be worked into more useful metal.īut iron doesn’t just come from iron ore. But the ore was mostly used to create pigments for art and make up. There were abundant supplies of iron ore in both Egypt and the Sinai peninsula and textual sources indicate that Egyptians were aware of the metal from early in their history. This requires considerable know-how, effort and tools that we have no evidence for in ancient Egypt. These need to be processed by heating them with other materials (smelting) to extract a low-quality form of iron, which is then beaten with hammers to remove impurities. The most common natural source of metal iron on Earth is iron ores – rocks that contain iron chemically bonded to other elements. When Tutankhamun died – 800 years earlier – iron was a rarer material than gold. Even the large amounts of iron-rich smelting waste products found in the Delta region could actually have been produced by attempts to make copper. ![]() There’s no archaeological evidence for significant iron working anywhere in the Nile Valley. Until recently, we didn’t think that the ancient Egyptians were particularly good at producing iron objects until late in their history, around 500 BC. But why did they use such an unusual source for the metal when there’s plenty of iron here on Earth? Now an analysis of a dagger found in Tutankhamun’s tomb has given us strong evidence that this was the case – and that the Egyptians knew the iron had come from the sky. Master Swords.Scientists have long speculated that the ancient Egyptians used metal from meteorites to make iron objects. ![]() Like any rare materials purchased in the Black Market, making a profit is not going to happen.Ĭraft Meteorite to complete quests, collection pages, and to create the new swords, i.e. Meteorite can be obtained for free from the various ways listed below. It costs 3 Smith Tokens normally, or ~10,000 coins to buy in the Black Market. Meteorite is the 17th material available in the shop. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() I really don’t want to delete and reinstall - which always seems to be the solution- and have to start all over again! What’s up w/ 8-4?! Then I started a new game w/ a new name and it’s fine. I’ve figured out it’s level 8-4 that’s the problem. So I’m complaining to them here! Do you read this stuff MumboJumbo?! - Ok, Update. I tried to contact MumboJumbo, but get a screen wanting my ID/password and wants me say I’m an “agent”. Ive been playing along fine and all of a sudden this morning it won’t open! Well, it opens, but after I clicks all the buttons to get to my place, it shuts down! I’ve closed and reopened it several times w/ the same experience. What’s with this? I sent it - I thought - days ago but it’s still sitting here?! -I loved this game on my computer and was excited to find it for my iPad. Visit us on the App Store at to find more great casual games for the iPad like Midnight Mysteries: Salem Witch Trials, Samantha Swift and the Fountains of Fate, 7 Wonders, and Unlikely Suspects!! Power-ups like Stop, Slow, Reverse and Wild help you along the way To help you in your quest, power-ups like Fireballs, Lightning Bolts and Multi-Colored Spheres will fall from the sky-use them to create thrilling special effects as they aid you along your journey!Ĥ Game modes: Practice, Adventure, Survival, & Challenge of HorusĬustomizable controls: Mix-and-match aim assist modes & control systemsĮnhanced special effects designed for the iPad Face off with the approaching spheres in four different game modes: Practice, Adventure, Survival, and Challenge of Horus. Clear out the entire chain, and you’ll work your way up to the next level.Ĭustomize your shooter to play LUXOR just how you like it with two different types of aim assist and three control system choices to mix-and-match. Wielding your mystical winged-shooter, you must fire colored orbs into the chain to make matches of three or more, and eliminate the spheres from the chain. Chains of colored spheres are working their way through ancient Egypt, and it’s up to you to stop them before they reach the pyramids. The #1 marble shooter game, now for the iPad and iPhone/iPod TouchĮxperience LUXOR designed specifically for the iPad, and now available as a universal App with HD graphics on retina display devices! Answer the call of the goddess, Isis, in this addictive marble-shooter game. ![]() This volume grew out of the project Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures, led by Mead and Ruth Benedict. With the anthropologist Margaret Mead, she edited Childhood in Contemporary Cultures (1955). Wolfenstein books include Movies (1950), Children's Humor (1954), and Disaster (1957), a seminal analysis of the impact of catastrophic events on individuals. She linked themes of grief, rage, and sexual guilt to the horrifying images that characterize the paintings that Goya painted after his illness in 1792. In her paper, "Goya's Dining Room" (1966a), she explicated the psychological fantasies portrayed in Goya's paintings and argued that for Goya the loss of his hearing was linked to his earlier losses, in their infancy, of all but one of his five children. She also wrote important studies of two artists: Ren é Magritte and Francisco de Goya. Wolfenstein wrote three classic papers on childhood bereavement: "How Is Mourning Possible?" (1966b), "Loss, Rage, and Repetition" (1969), and "The Image of the Lost Parent" (1973). Ellen Handler Spitz has written insightfully about this history and its role in Wolfenstein's work. Wolfenstein's mother died when she was a child, and there is a history of parental (especially maternal) loss extending back several generations in her family. A lay psychoanalyst, she was not a member of a society belonging to the American Psychoanalytic Association, but nonetheless was a widely admired teacher and supervisor in New York City. She was analyzed by the art historian and lay analyst Ernst Kris and attended classes at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute between 19. She graduated from Radcliffe College, and then earned an MA in psychology and a PhD in aesthetics from Columbia University. ![]() ![]() Martha Wolfenstein, a psychoanalyst and writer, was born on November 10, 1911, in Cleveland, Ohio, and died on November 30, 1976, in New York. ![]() Joining him is the creepy serial killer Victor Zsasz played by Chris Messina. He brings a very creepy and childlike villain to the big screen that is truly haunting. They all want a piece of her and what she has.įacing off against them is the creepy and sinister Ewan Mcgregor as Roman Sionis/Black Mask. All she wants is to be free and do the right thing.Įlla Jay Basco plays a young, pickpocketing Cassandra Cain who picks the wrong pocket and ends up being the target of the antagonists. Jurnee Smollett-Bell plays the opera singer Dinah Lance/Black Canary who is forced to work for Roman Sionis. She is stern, scary and won’t put up with anyone’s crap as she swings around her crossbows. Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays the revenge filled assassin Huntress whose sole goal is to get revenge on those who did her wrong. She drinks, kicks a lot of ass and stands up for herself in glorious fashion. Rosie Perez plays detective Renee Montoya who is building a case against Roman Sionis/Black Mask without the help of the department. She truly is the perfect casting for Harley Quinn.Īlongside Margot Robbie is a stellar cast that each adds something special to the film. She was easily one of the only good parts of “Suicide Squad” and she carries that same energy to this film. Margot Robbie knocks it out of the park once again with her portrayal of Harley Quinn. To survive, she must find a diamond for Black Mask and work with a team to save her own skin. Yet, that she is now no longer with the Joker, an entire city of people want to kill her since he won’t be there to protect her. She eats cheese whiz, plays with a hyena and blows up the chemical factory we saw her jump into in “Suicide Squad” that made her who she is. Harley Quinn has just broken up with the infamous clown prince of crime himself, Joker, and wants to break free from his influence. Well, it mostly focuses on Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey are more side characters in this adventure. “Birds of Prey” focuses on the titular team from the comics as well as Harley Quinn. ![]() It isĮasily one of the best in the DCEU and well worth a watch. Quinn” has arrived and it blows away the expectations.ĭon’t let the long title scare you away from this one. “Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley The newest film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) has hit Margot Robbie delivers another stellar performance as Harley Quinn in ‘Birds of Prey’. Margot Robbie knocks it out of the park once more WIKIMEDIA COMMONS | Photo Courtesy ![]() So I scoured the feminist literature for any statement to the effect that my fears were as silly as I hoped they were. Of course, I was smart enough to realize that maybe this was silly, maybe I was overanalyzing things. Anything, really, other than the curse of having been born a heterosexual male, which for me, meant being consumed by desires that one couldn’t act on or even admit without running the risk of becoming an objectifier or a stalker or a harasser or some other creature of the darkness. My recurring fantasy, through this period, was to have been born a woman, or a gay man, or best of all, completely asexual, so that I could simply devote my life to math, like my hero Paul Erdös did. I left each of those workshops with enough fresh paranoia and self-hatred to last me through another year. You can call that my personal psychological problem if you want, but it was strongly reinforced by everything I picked up from my environment: to take one example, the sexual-assault prevention workshops we had to attend regularly as undergrads, with their endless lists of all the forms of human interaction that “might be” sexual harassment or assault, and their refusal, ever, to specify anything that definitely wouldn’t be sexual harassment or assault. I was terrified that one of my female classmates would somehow find out that I sexually desired her, and that the instant she did, I would be scorned, laughed at, called a creep and a weirdo, maybe even expelled from school or sent to prison. (sigh) Here’s the thing: I spent my formative years-basically, from the age of 12 until my mid-20s-feeling not “entitled,” not “privileged,” but terrified. To have any hope of bridging the gargantuan chasm between us, I’m going to have to reveal something about my life, and it’s going to be embarrassing. Alas, as much as I try to understand other people’s perspectives, the first reference to my “male privilege”-my privilege!-is approximately where I get off the train, because it’s so alien to my actual lived experience.īut I suspect the thought that being a nerdy male might not make me “privileged”-that it might even have put me into one of society’s least privileged classes-is completely alien to your way of seeing things. I check Feministing, and even radfem blogs like “I Blame the Patriarchy.” And yes, I’ve read many studies and task force reports about gender bias, and about the “privilege” and “entitlement” of the nerdy males that’s keeping women away from science. A few days ago, in response to a discussion of sexual harassment at MIT, Aaronson reluctantly opened up about his experience as a young man: In my heart, there is a little counter that reads “XXX days without a ten-thousand word rant about feministm.” And I had just broken three digits when they had to go after Scott Aaronson.įor those of you who don’t know, Scott Aaronson is one of the nicest, smartest, and most decent people there are. Not meant as a criticism of feminism, so much as of a certain way of operationalizing feminism. Note that although our names are very similar, I am NOT the same person as Scott Aaronson and he did NOT write this article. Trigger warning: social justice, condemnation of some feminism, tangential reference to eating disorder. There’s a whole list of Top Posts on the Top Posts bar above. I stand by a lot of it, but if somebody links you here saying “HERE’S THE SORT OF GUY THIS SCOTT ALEXANDER PERSON IS, READ THIS SO YOU KNOW WHAT HIS BLOG IS REALLY ABOUT”, please read any other post instead. I wrote it because I was very angry at a specific incident. EDIT: This is the most controversial post I have ever written in ten years of blogging. ![]() Project 007 will be powered by IO Interactive’s proprietary Glacier technology and will be made for modern systems and platforms. It seems that IO Interactive announced the game's development shortly after the rights, which means it's still likely in the early stages of development. Project 007 (working title) features a wholly original Bond story and will see players earn their 00 status in the very first James Bond origin story. Hopefully, we'll get an update on Project 007 sooner rather than later, as we haven't heard a peep about it since its initial reveal. However, given James Bond's latest big screen outing, No Time to Die, made $774 million at the box office, it would be shocking if the game released and didn't rake in huge profits that IO could see coming from a mile away. Project 007 scheduled after March 2025? /JlnZ5J4kyJ- DarkDetective August 31, 2022 Revenue came in at DKK 538m (~$72.4m), +7% YoY, more than 2x management expectations. ![]() IO Interactive has published its Annual Report 2021/22 (year ending 31st March 2022). IO Interactive ( Hitman ), in collaboration with MGM, EON Productions and Delphi announced today that they are developing the very first James Bond origin story with the working title Project 007. Of course, it's worth stressing that this is purely speculative and the developer didn't offer release windows or name future titles in regards to this projection. IO Interactive is currently developing Project 007 (Working Title) James Bond will once again be coming to a console and computer screen near you. As it stands, it seems like IO Interactive doesn't expect Project 007 to release until after March 2025. The developer cited "long production phases ahead" before its next games release, suggesting IO Interactive will be rather quiet for the imminent future. After noting its last couple of years have been solid due to the launch of Hitman 3, IO Interactive stated it expects profits to drop over the next few years, particularly fiscal years 20. As spotted by Twitter user DarkDetectiveNL (via Reddit), IO Interactive released its earnings report and although it seems pretty normal, the developer had some interesting projections for the next few years. 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