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The cathedral said replacing the windows was part of a need to correct what it called a “false narrative of what America once was.” The old windows “were a barrier to our mission and impediment to worship in this place, and they had no place being in sacred space,” the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, dean of the cathedral, said Thursday. “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the cathedral to not only create beautiful art but to stake a claim about what and who we value....

Ronnie Dalton, 68, from Carroll County had been out hunting on Saturday in Hillsville and was about to pack up for the day when the incident occurred, The Carroll News reported. Dalton was in his hunting tree stand when he noticed a black bear cub nearby. After scanning the area for the mother and failing to find her, he decided it was safe to climb down. But when he reached the floor, he spotted her and the animal rushed towards him in an aggressive manner....

Astle was the only change in the squad that defeated Sri Lanka 1-0 in December to claim an unprecedented fourth Test series in a row for New Zealand. Selector Gavin Larsen admitted it was “a tough call” to drop Patel, who was outstanding against Pakistan in the UAE. “It’s great though to have Todd fit again and we’re keen to see what his wrist-spin can offer in New Zealand conditions, and he’ll also bolster the batting,” he said....

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This year is no exception, as there are plenty of products discounted online at major U.S. retailers already. Of course, Black Friday is a notoriously hectic and busy time, with deals appearing on websites one minute and then vanishing the next. As such, it can be tough to keep track of everything that’s going on and, even online, you can find yourself in fierce competition against other shoppers for finite supplies....

It means that black holes, which are formed when stars three times the size of our Sun run out of fuel and undergo a complete collapse, could be more complex than scientists had previously grasped. The results could also mean black holes are the ideal laboratory for finding a solution that has troubled some of physics’ greatest minds. Professor Xavier Calmet of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sussex, U....

It isn’t often that Sony gives out triple-a titles for free beyond the standard two PlayStation Plus games subscribers receive every month, and it’s even less common for Activision to give away a Call of Duty game, so this is a pretty generous offering for the two companies. Why exactly they’re handing the game out doesn’t really need to be decoded- they want players to get excited for the upcoming release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, the next game to be released into the Call of Duty franchise....

Since early development and prototyping, Black Ops 4 has been a game with the grandiose ambition of solely focusing on social gameplay. Treyarch believes that this social gameplay is where its passion lies, whether it’s zombies, multiplayer, or its new battle royale mode Blackout (which has serious post-launch plans). Vonderhaar even weighed in to say that the question of “what happened to the campaign?” doesn’t make sense because there never was a traditional campaign in BO4....

Unfortunately, the Black Swan director soon found that he disagreed with the studio over its vision for the movie. Warner Bros. wanted Freddie Prinze Jr. for the role of Batman, while Aronofsky made it clear that he wanted to cast Phoenix. These creative differences prevented Aronofsky from taking the project, particularly as he’d planned on distancing it as much as possible from Joel Schumacher’s poorly-received Batman & Robin. RELATED: DC Reveals When New Comic Book Deliveries Will Start Again...

The Avengers (2012) was the first look into the relationship between partners-in-crime and SHIELD agents, Clint and Natasha. After “God of Mischief” Loki brainwashes Clint, the Avengers Initiative is put into place and Natasha is recruited to help rescue the Tesseract and save her friend. This was only the beginning of the pair’s special relationship, which would ultimately come to a tragic end by the conclusion of the Infinity Saga....

The accumulating ice could weigh down power lines, snapping them or causing tree limbs to fall and damage the lines. The forecast has some meteorologists concerned about the impact to the Texas power grid, which failed in 2021 as a frigid storm left more than 4 million without power or access to food and water. The storm killed hundreds. The grid has faced numerous threats since the deadly storm and has been scrutinized for its ability to handle winter weather....

At least seven people charged with being part of a mob that breached Capitol security as Congress met to certify President Joe Biden’s Electoral College win have justified their actions as just following orders from the president. However, it’s a flawed legal strategy because the president can’t instruct someone to break the law. “The fact that Trump, or anyone, incited them to commit a crime isn’t a defense,” Jens David Ohlin, interim dean and law professor at Cornell Law School, told Newsweek....

Blizzard Entertainment employees recently gave Kotaku some details about this detail of the Activision Blizzard lawsuit. Included among the allegations made in the lawsuit were mentions of a BlizzCon 2013 hotel room known as the Bill Cosby Suite. Although pictures that have emerged include a framed portrait of the convicted actor in this hotel room, it was more than just a distasteful name. RELATED: Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick Releases Letter Addressing Lawsuit Controversy, Outlines Changes...

You immersed yourself in the study of plagues during a pandemic. What was that like? Actually, I didn’t set out to write this book. I had written a chapter on whether COVID-19 would increase the likelihood of future political violence for an academic book in Europe. In the process, I became fascinated by the legacies of pandemics. Since COVID-19 was keeping me off airplanes, I traveled back and forth in time through books and research reports, exploring post-pandemic landscapes, comparing them to what was happening here and now....

Many scratch their heads at the mention of a Guild Summit, but what is basically amounts to is a chance for guild leaders from around the world to discuss the current state of the game and what they anticipate for the future. It’s an opportunity for fans to voice their opinions and the developers, more specifically BioWare Austin, to receive some immensely beneficial feedback. Guild leaders, or their representatives, will be able to participate in Q&A’s with developers, roundtable discussions and, of course, previews of new features coming to The Old Republic....

This news comes courtesy of an old interview with Anthem game director Jonathan Warner, who appeared on the Functional Nerds podcast back in 2015. At that point, Anthem was merely known as BioWare’s new IP, but the subject of the game’s development came up in discussions. There, the topic moved onto alpha and beta testing, where Warner explained that EA was looking put the game through its paces via a public beta....

Michel Gondry for Motorola: A slicker, busier version of the cardboard-cutout surrealism of “The Science of Sleep,” this French ad for the Razr2 cell phone is terribly hip, but what exactly it’s selling (aside from Gondry’s style) is unclear. Michael Mann for Nike : Wow. A tactile paean to all-out effort, Mann’s mini-action flick is one continuous movement of bone-crushing contact, set to the stirring score of his “Last of the Mohicans....

I knew I’d catch some flak on this decision," said George Bush, every inch the embattled leader. “The arrows have been flying–front, back, sideways. But that’s what I get paid for . . . I’ve got to do what I think is right.” He sounded fine, and won some plaudits for courage. But the bold stance was at least partly an exercise in damage control: the White House–and especially chief of staff John H....

The mummy, which is possibly around 300 years old or older, appears to have the upper body of a monkey—with an eerily human-like face—and the lower body of a fish. The nightmarish creature has long been kept at the Enjuin Temple in the city of Asakuchi—located in Okayama Prefecture—and has even served as an object of worship. But now researchers from the Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, as well as other institutions, are scientifically analyzing the mummy for the first time in the hopes of casting light on its origins, Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun reported....

What’s the source of Bjork’s newfound fury? “Part of it was just being bored with the self-importance of religion and the conflicts that are happening in the world because of it,” Bjork said in a recent interview with NEWSWEEK. “I’m trying to remind people that before organized religion there was a certainty that we were part of nature, not separate from it.” To help craft her wake-up call, Bjork recruited a multicultural army of collaborators, including Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté, American hip-hop producer Timbaland and a female 10-piece brass ensemble from Iceland....