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On Wednesday, the Golden State Warriors confirmed the team would comply with an order from San Francisco Mayor London Breed that prohibits gatherings of over 1,000 people. That ban means the NBA team will face the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday with no fans in attendance at the Chase Center. “We’ll have a stats crew, we’ll have a PA announcer to help explain what’s going on during the game, we’ll have statistics on the scoreboards, we’ll have radio and television broadcasts, that will happen, but beyond that, as Bob [Myers, Warriors General Manager] said, when consulting with the players, they kinda think it’s weird not to have at least some music,” Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts said during a press conference....

The trouble was that Tiger was tallying his miracle par at the exact moment when he desperately needed a routine birdie. But instead of rallying down the home stretch, Woods, who had been tied with Els early in the round at 12 under, faltered. He finished with a distinctly un-Tiger-like 11 straight pars–and in third place, a distant six strokes behind the South African star. A $357,000 payday can’t exactly be called a flop....

The UFC held Fight Night 118 early Saturday headlined by Darren Till upsetting Donald Cerrone. Bellator returned on Friday night for Bellator 185 with former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion and perennial UFC middleweight contender Gegard Mousasi beating former Bellator middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko by unanimous decision. A lot happened during the week so we present with the latest installment of The good, bad and dirty in the week of mixed martial arts....

“Why is the Goodyear blimp always flying around?!” Twitter user Maureen asked. The Goodyear Blimp wasted no time to tell Maureen that that’s its job. “It’s literally what we do, Maureen,” the Blimp’s account wrote. The internet, of course, loved the aircraft’s cheeky response and piled on. “That blimp has ONE job,” one Twitter user responded. “Maureen, it’s a blimp. What else would it be doing?” another chimed in. “Classic Maureen,” a third quipped....

Racism and Jim Crow are not the most constructive ways to label a voting crisis in the United States. It’s restrictive, and some of the bills are aligning with states that have automatic ID requirements, such as President Biden’s home state of Delaware. Then there are other Democratic strongholds, such as Connecticut, which have no early voting at all. In New York, there are onerous rules for voters to change their registration in advance, if they want to participate in their party’s primary....

He was mistaken about that, and the controversy over his custody could last for months. Last week congressional Republicans came close to introducing a bill to declare Elian an honorary U.S. citizen–then backed down, perhaps because national polls are running heavily in favor of sending him home. In Miami, legal maneuvering by Elian’s relatives shifted to federal court, where the Clinton administration argued that law and morality require his repatriation to Cuba....

They have won three premier league trophies as well as a champions league. Added to that they have also been very successful in cup competitions. In this period (2008 - 2018) they have seen great managers such as Carlo Ancelotti, Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte, Roberto Di Matteo and so on. Added to that Chelsea fans have watched some great players at Stamford Bridge over the years. We look at the best Chelsea eleven from the last 10 years....

It won’t be long before the new company comes knocking at your door. While the AOL-Netscape wedding was about ““eyeballs’’ (audience), this deal concerned a different Internet buzzword, ““bandwidth’’ (speed). Everyone is looking to alleviate the World Wide Wait, but Internet providers are even more interested in using speed to gussy up online advertising and electronic commerce. AtHome uses cable-TV lines to deliver high-speed connections, while most AOL users still poke along on telephone lines....

We play games, talk about them with peers and write articles about them. Video games are an interest, a hobby, and a passion for many of us. The difference is how we control our desire to play games. Like any addiction, video game addictions can get out of hand, but when? Certainly when it causes harm to yourself or others - affecting life temporarily or even, in extreme cases, fatally....

Movies making their debut around this time are most obviously in debt to 1996’s Independence Day, which with its simplistic storyline and aggressive advertising campaign, helped catalyze cinema’s commercial appeal. To arrive at this list, Newsweek examined Box Office Mojo data detailing worldwide box office sales for movies released over the Fourth of July long weekend. Figures correct as of June 29. 25. The Purge: Election Year ($118,587,880) 2016 ‧ Horror/Action ‧ 1h 49m A man who survived the yearly night of lawlessness becomes a presidential candidate determined to end the blood lust....

One of these such creatures, who appears in a spectacular scene of dramatic tension, and then is never seen again, is the Stone Giants. So what are these unusual creatures, and what happened to them? Frustratingly, Tolkien never gives a 100% straight answer to these questions, but there are several theories. RELATED: There Is A Secret About The White Tree Of Gondor That Is Kept Out Of The Movies...

This is even more impressive in The Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring than it is in the Two Towers and the Return of the King, because in these earlier stories he is still Gandalf the gray. Even at this point, before he has come into the most powerful version of himself, he is capable of great good, but also great evil, and holds the future of the world in his hands....

That mixture of pride, anticipation and quiet anxiety could be felt all around Fort Drum, a 109,000-acre military reservation in far upstate New York. And the mood was much the same around Camp Pendleton, the sprawling Marine base along the Pacific coast north of San Diego. Pendleton is home for the First MEF, which will provide the bulk of the 16,000-person contingent of leathernecks that will soon embark for Somalia....

A lot of sci-fi storytelling is about identity. Can a machine overcome its programming and attain something real? Does replacing one’s body with robot parts change a person’s humanity? This trope asks whether a person crafted to be the perfect killing tool can ever be anything else. RELATED: The Artificial Love Interest Trope in Sci-fi Explained A human weapon is a person who has been somehow modified to serve a military purpose....

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How times have changed. This week when Cronenberg arrives in Cannes, he will check into the Carlton as the esteemed jury president of the 52d annual film festival. He will don a tuxedo to attend cocktail parties and travel to screenings by limo, inching through thousands of screaming fans. Journalists, autograph hounds and Hollywood stars will clamor for his attention. The paparazzi will blind him with flashes. “It’s the closest I’ll ever get to being a rock star,” he says with a laugh....

Indeed, the war in the separatist republic is as brutal as ever–despite Moscow’s proclamations to the contrary. Vladimir Putin’s generals long ago declared the conflict over, yet every week about a dozen Russian soldiers die in Chechnya in ambushes or remote-controlled mine attacks. Moscow’s security forces counter by detaining anyone suspected of cooperating with the guerillas–and the detainees often end up missing for good. According to the Russian human-rights organization Memorial, Russian troops removed four young men from the village of Chechen Aul last week; they haven’t been heard from since....

Per Deadline, The Invitation premiered this past Friday and took home a disappointing $2.6 million to conclude its long-awaited opening night. The film’s performance faired no better on Saturday and Sunday, which saw the brand-new film accumulate $4.35 million across both days. As stated, the Sony film took home $7 million overall to end the weekend, which would barely be good enough to enter the top ten during modest theatrical weekends....

After this brief introduction, you’ll find that Notes is a great app to use anytime, anywhere. Let’s explore the basics of how to use the iPhone’s Notes app. How to Compose a New Note on Your iPhone To start, go to the Notes app. Tap the Compose button (the icon looks like a square of paper with a pen) in the bottom-right corner to create a new note on your iPhone....

So what should the United States do now? Five important steps should be taken immediately. The United States should immediately impose sweeping sanctions on Iranian regime officials and affiliated organizations who have committed or are complicit in the human rights atrocities being unleashed on the Iranian people. Much like the sanctions placed on South Africa to end apartheid, the U.S. must place smart sanctions on strategic targets to help end the Iranian regime’s religious and gender apartheid....