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This is not a situation that Jermain Defoe can empathize with. Within half an hour of his MLS debut for Toronto FC, the England striker had scored twice, bringing the highly-regarded Sounders to their knees. Neither strike lacked quality: two powerful, composed finishes followed an excellent read of Seattle's offside trap and a pounced-upon back pass. After the match, Defoe repeatedly asserted that getting the team off to a good start was more important than his individual exploits....

RELATED: 10 Games That Punish Players For Using Cheats Death Stranding is a game that demands the audience’s patience. That won’t be for everyone, but there’s wrong with this approach to game design– if anything, it’s all the more welcome in a generation churning out AAA, flavor of the month shovelware like a printing press. All the same, Death Stranding has its flaws and a game can only ask its audience to be so patient....

For the uninitiated, P.T. stands for “Playable Teaser,” and it was essentially a demo that Kojima created for his Silent Hills project. Unfortunately, Konami canceled Silent Hills and P.T. was pulled from the PlayStation Store. Despite this, the demo remains popular with horror fans, with many hailing it as one of the best horror gaming experiences ever despite its short length. RELATED: Death Stranding: Director’s Cut Removes Monster Energy Product Placement...

As was expected, the Death Stranding pre-order bonuses that leaked on the PlayStation Store prior to the game’s release date announcement have proven to be accurate. Anyone that pre-orders Death Stranding will get a dynamic theme, a Chibi Ludens PSN avatar, and four in-game items: Gold “Sam” Sunglasses, Gold Armor Plate, Gold Hat, and Gold Speed Skeleton. These items will have to be earned in-game, and seem to be just gold versions of items all players will get, with no special in-game advantages as far as we can tell....

What Death Vigil Volunteers Do Death vigil volunteers provide the support and physical presence that patients and families need. The needs and desires of dying patients and their loved ones differ so volunteers will try to tailor their approach to fit each individual family’s unique wants and needs. The vigil process may include any or all of the following: Being a calm presence Sitting with the dying person and their family Talking Listening Shared silence Healing touch Reading of inspirational text or scripture Requested rituals Inspirational music Lighting candles...

To note, the delivery booth code varies across playthroughs, which means that it is not possible to provide a set of digits that will work for absolutely everyone. Indeed, Deathloop players must find the code for themselves if they hope to gain access to the booths. Fortunately, that is not an extremely difficult thing to do, and it begins with a trip to Fristad Rock at noon. RELATED: Deathloop Review Roundup...

The latter, because it is a Legend of Zelda game first and foremost, really helped popularize the time loop, and its impact within the franchise and this subgenre of sorts cannot be understated. However, games have moved away from its defining features from 2000, and while it’s a bit on the nose and a tad obvious, the time loop is less restrictive in Deathloop than it is in Majora’s Mask....

While it wasn’t the first to allow players to invade someone else’s game world in hopes of killing them for sport and resources, the Dark Souls series has certainly popularized the idea in recent generations. All Dark Souls fans can remember the first time they got the alert that a hostile player had invaded their game to battle it out for some high-tier loot. Deathloop includes invasions in a nearly identical way, but manages to improve on the system set up by FromSoftware to make for one of the most interesting elements of an already interesting game....

Wallace, president of North Central Texas College, spoke about the deaths of four women, softball players on their way home Friday night in Oklahoma. A dozen other people were injured when a tractor-trailer rig veered across the median of Interstate 35 and crashed into their team bus. On its website, the school identified the victims. They are Brooke Deckard, 20, Blue Ridge, Texas; Jaiden Pelton, 20, Telephone, Texas; Meagan Richardson, 19, Wylie, Texas; and Katelynn Woodlee, 18, Windom, Texas....

The new method is called the Economic Impact Payment Card, according to a press release from the Treasury Department, and is a new way to give Americans the stimulus payments allocated by the CARES Act. “Treasury and the [Internal Revenue Service] have been working with unprecedented speed to issue Economic Impact Payments to American families. Prepaid debit cards are secure, easy to use, and allow us to deliver Americans their money quickly....

Both were criterium races at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Rounding off the elite men’s podium were Manjeet Singh and Krishna Nakaodi while Sonali Chanu and Swasti Singh finished with silver and bronze respectively in the women’s elite race. To mark the occasion, Cycling Federation of India’s secretary general Onkar Singh said, “The 2018 edition had a strong field of the best 160 elite cyclists in the country and continues to showcase the quality of competitive cycling in India....

“I would never do it (go shirtless) now. Every time they would show that footage (on any sports channel), I called the producer and told him that I have 20,000 international runs and several hundreds. But he said that is what he wants to show. (The shirtless celebration) was done a lot more out of satisfaction. Do not forget the name on the (Lord’s) honour’s board (as a result of his century on Test debut)....

A team of researchers have investigated ten crocodile mummies found at the site of Qubbat al-Hawā—located on the western bank of the River Nile—revealing new insights into ancient Egyptian burial practices. The findings of their research have been outlined in a paper published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. The ancient Egyptians mummified a huge variety of animals, and numerous specimens have been found at archaeological sites across the country....

Now scientists are beginning a fresh investigation into what is believed to be the biggest mass grave of Napoleonic soldiers ever found in Europe. Their findings are expected to provide fascinating answers into life on the Continent almost 200 years ago. Who joined the Imperial Army and why were there women’s skeletons in the pit as well? How were prisoners of war treated? And, for the historians: was Napoleon correct in blaming the cold for killing thousands during his Army’s disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow, or was that just a cover-up for his military miscalculations?...

In such a setting, Anderson maintains, violence serves a useful purpose. It’s a way of demanding the respect that mainstream society withholds. It’s the response of isolated, angry people fending for themselves. “Where you’ve got large numbers of alienated people, and the police are dealing with them in disrespectful ways, street justice is the norm,” he observes. In other words, the police are largely to blame, along with a society that provides few jobs and little hope....

Health insurance deductibles and copayments are both types of cost-sharing, which refers to the way health insurance companies split the cost of your health care with you. So, what’s the difference between deductible and copayment? They differ in when you have to pay, how much you have to pay, and what’s left over for your health plan to pay. This article will explain how deductibles and copayments work and what you need to know about them in order to use your health coverage....

The Metals Company, a deep sea mining company, has now been permitted to test its mining machinery in the Pacific by the International Seabed Authority for the first time since the 1970s. However, some Pacific Island nations are not fans of this move. Deep sea mining involves harvesting minerals from the seabed of the deep ocean, below 650 feet, as opposed to underground on land. The most sought after minerals on the seafloor include polymetallic nodules, polymetallic sulfides and cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, all of which can be used for manufacturing rechargeable batteries and smartphones....

Anyone can get DVT at any time, but there are risk factors that can increase your chances of developing this condition. For example, women who are pregnant or taking birth control are at risk of developing blood clots. If you live with a chronic condition like heart disease or cancer, you’re also at risk of DVT. Common Causes Anything that interferes with your blood circulating like it should can cause DVT....