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The History of X-Fighters- World Tour 2012 Glen Helen

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New Releases For April 24, 2012 - Press Pause Daily

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New Releases For April 24, 2012 - Press Pause Daily

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This week we have a new Prototype, a fantasy RPG, and a couple of downloadable games to help you pass the time. SHOW NOTES: GAME 1: Prototype 2 - PS3, Xbox 360, PC First up is Prototype 2 which puts you in the shoes of a new protagonist as you hunt for the man who made you who you are. Play as the all-new infected protagonist, Sgt. James Heller, soldier and husband to a deceased wife and child, in this sequel to the popular open-world game, Prototype Become the ultimate shape-shifting weapon as you cut through the wastelands of post-viral New York Zero and build a vast genetic arsenal of deadly new biological weapons and abilities on your quest to kill Alex Mercer Take down the devil himself, Alex Mercer, against the explosive backdrop of New York Zero and its warring factions fighting for control over the infection Explore New York Zero's three distinct zones, including the heavily militarized Green Zone, the overcrowded refugee camps of the quarantined Yellow Zone and the war-ravaged home of Alex Mercer, the Red Zone Unleash the ultimate form of shape-shifting devastation and take advantage of the unbelievable Tendril power that lets you lift and tear apart cars and military vehicles, ensnare powerful infected beasts and shred large groups of enemies to pieces Mix and match an impressive range of new Mutation perks, including bigger and faster locomotion abilities, sharper claws and enhanced disguise abilities, to create your own ultimate Prototype Disguise yourself as soldiers, scientists and more to absorb their memories and acquire new abilities Emit a powerful sonar pulse from your body to track down enemies Experience the unparalleled technology of the Titanium 2.0 engine The first game was an interesting open world revenge tale, and this one could be just as good. We’ll keep our fingers crossed. GAME 2: Risen 2: Dark Waters - PC Next up we have Risen 2: Dark Waters, the sequel to the 2009 fantasy RPG. Several years after the end of Risen, humanity is pushed to the brink of existence and one of the only safe havens is Caldera, a city located on the peninsula of the Lost Realm. However, even this sanctuary is threatened by the world at chaos, as monstrous sea monsters cause shipments of vital supplies to come to a grinding halt. The hero, upon discovering a rumor that the pirates of the Southern islands know of a way to banish the creatures of the deep, journeys to infiltrate their ranks and attempt to acquire this knowledge in time to save Caldera from imminent peril. A Unique Pirate Fantasy Setting — Risen 2 features an open world complete with copious amounts of rum, firearms, dirty tricks and a brand new voodoo magic style One of the Most Intense, Immersive Game Worlds Ever Created — Risen 2 will fully envelop its players in its world with a full day/night cycle, dynamic weather patterns, NPCs with daily routines who react based on your behavior, and even creature AI with routine behaviors such as scavenging and sleeping that are impacted by the time of day Every Gameplay Decision Made Has a Consequence — Risen 2 allows players to shape their game experience and even the game world itself depending on their actions and choices. Your choices may change the character's skill set, NPC relationships, or even potential quest lines A True Role-Playing-Oriented Experience — A perfect blend of classical RPG gameplay and a fresh, unique underlying game world Several Unique Islands — All lovingly designed by hand with no copy and paste set pieces, encourage exploration and adventure while the player hunts for secret treasures and hidden areas New Visual Technology — High-res texturing, gorgeous weather, water and light/shadow effects, a fully revamped character animation system and an exhaustive NPC character model design which greatly reduces the chance of "clone" NPCs If you dig the fantasy setting, then this might just be the game for you. The PC version is out now, but the Xbox 360 and PS3 version were pushed back until July. GAME 3: Bloodforge - XBLA Our first digital release this week is Bloodforge. With a brutal combat system, stunning art style, and a deeply compelling story, Bloodforge empowers you to slaughter hordes of demonic soldiers, deformed worshippers, and the gods themselves, using ferocious Rage Kills, devastating Rune attacks, and furious Weapon Combos. Help seal Crom’s fate – and the fate of the rest of the world – in this dark, visceral story of revenge, betrayal, and destiny. If you love mindless gory hack and slash gameplay then you can grab this for a price of 1200 Microsoft Points. GAME 4: UEFA Euro 2012 - PS3, Xbox 360, PC And lastly we have a soccer expansion for FIFA 2012 that will cover the Union of European Football Associations 2012 championship. It will feature a new game mode: Expedition Mode where players create a customized team to bid against the European nations. Players can import their Virtual Pro into the mode. The game will include all 53 UEFA-member nations. The user can play a full version of Euro 2012, from qualifying all the way to the final, or start at the Euro 2012 finals. All 8 official stadiums of the tournament will be included in the game. The Story of the Finals scenario mode from 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa will be returning. The user earns points for how well they do which unlock more scenarios. If you’re a soccer fan who has already beat FIFA 2012, then this will give you a whole lot more game to play. You’ll be able to download the expansion to your PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. Be sure to catch past episodes of Press Pause. To do that, you just need to go to presspause.mevio.com , or our YouTube channel youtube.com/presspausemevio .

Desperate agent tries to sell goofiest basketball player ever

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David Beckham for Burger King

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David Beckham for Burger King

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David Beckham is fast becoming the salesman of the century. The footballer who has seemingly endorsed every product under the sun from designer shades to razor blades and who recently stripped to his smalls for an underpants endorsement is now promoting Burger King. You wouldn't normally associate burgers and fries with a trim athlete, but old Goldenballs is putting his face to one of the fast food chain's new healthier options, a 310 calorie strawberry banana smoothie. Meanwhile, a Burger King ad featuring Mary J Blige singing about fried chicken has been pulled after it was reportedly branded racist. Apart from reportedly not wanting any of Katy's cash Russell Brand has signed over the rights to the ¬£4 million LA mansion they bought together to his ex-wife. Russell recently implied that he was no longer upset over the demise of his 14-month marriage saying ‚ÄòYou don't need to brush it off if you don't get it on you in the first place". One Direction are getting so popular that they're now even turning down invitations to the White House. The teenage heart-throbs, who have cracked America with Up All Night ‚Äì the first British debut album ever to top the US charts ‚Äì were invited by Michelle Obama to the White House's annual Easter egg hunt, but the boys had to decline as they were on tour in Australia over Easter. Fans of Rihanna were outraged when the singer decided to collaborate with her violent ex Chris Brown ‚Äì and speaking about the public's views in a new interview with US Elle's May edition, the star says: ‚ÄòI respect what other people have to say. The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.‚Äô While the rumor mill has been in overdrive as to whether the pair have reignited their relationship, Ri-Ri went on to say she was happy when the truth about their 2009 split came out as it gave her more freedom calling it one less skeleton in the closet. Thank you for watching OK! Insider tune in next week for more exclusives in the mean time stay updated via our Facebook and twitter. Bye.

Scott Walker Ramps Up the Extremism

Added 04/07/12
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Scott Walker Ramps Up the Extremism

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In advance of his upcoming recall election and possible legal trouble, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has become even more extreme, ramping up the rhetoric and taking actions that are troubling, to say the least. Most importantly, he signed a repeal of the state's Equal Pay Enforcement Act : > Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is facing a recall election, quietly repealed a state law making it easier for pay discrimination victims to seek justice. Amanda Terkel reports in The Huffington Post that Walker signed into law a bill passed in party-line votes by Republicans in the state legislature that rolls back the 2009 Equal Pay Enforcement Act. The act had allowed workers to challenge pay discrimination in state rather than just federal courts. The act was only one part of Walker's assault on women : > Among them were four highly controversial measures focused on women's health care and sexual education: A repeal of the state's Equal Pay law, which allowed victim's of wage discrimination to collect damages of between $50,000 and $300,000, and a repeal of the Healthy Youth Act, which had provided requirements to schools that comprehensive and scientifically accurate information about everything from abstinence to contraception be taught at an age-appropriate level. Walker also signed into law a ban on abortion coverage through policies as part of a health insurance exchange to be created under the federal health care reform law starting in 2014 (the only exceptions would be in cases of rape, incest or medical necessity); and a bill requiring women seeking abortions to undergo a physical exam and consult with a doctor alone, away from her friends and family, in order to make sure she isn't "being pressured into the decision." Doctors who break the law could be charged with a felony. As usual, working families were a target for Walker as well : > I know that collective bargaining is not a right; it's an expensive entitlement. It's about time somebody stood up for the hardworking taxpayers of our state. The problem is, of course, that collective bargaining is a right. Walker has also been railing about how state workers can't be the "haves" while everyone else is a "have not." The state worker he used in an ad to that effect , it turns out is actually one of the have-nots, making only $25,227 a year, certainly not a massive salary by any standards. In an interview with CBN, Walker made a series of more and more strange claims : * "Any human being, if we're honest about it, you don't want to be hated by anybody, you want everybody to love you," he said. "But I was asked last December, somebody asked me, a supporter, asked me a very interesting question at dinner. He said, 'Did you ever stop and think that maybe if you hadn't gone so far, that you wouldn't be facing a recall?' I said, 'Yeah, sure, but if I hadn't taken the steps I took, we wouldn't have fixed things.' And I said, 'For my kids and their generation I don't want them to inherit a Wisconsin that is not at least as great if not greater than the one I inherited. And you don't get that by not fixing things.' " * "And, to me, that's one of our problems. You can't be afraid to lose," Walker said. "You shouldn't plan on it, but you should make decisions that are ultimately about what's right and what's just and what's best - not just for yourself but for the next wave of young people who are going to inherit our states and our country and not be afraid to lose along the way." * "Why?" he asked. "Because their guys are back to work, they're working again. Unlike my predecessor, who made it very difficult for people building infrastructure, building roads and bridges and rail and things of that nature, we put money back in that had been raided there." * Walker told Brody that he had heard his opponents would spend $70 million to $80 million in the recall race. Probably most frightening was a final quote: > "We realize that all this is just a temporary thing and God's got a plan for us that, who knows where it might be, beyond just serving as governor of this state, but if we stay true to that, there's always comfort," he said. "And God's grace is always abundant no matter what you do." Walker for president in 2016?

Republicans Threaten Judges, Accuse Obama of Judicial Intimida...

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Republicans Threaten Judges, Accuse Obama of Judicial Intimidation

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(Clips of Tom Delay and John Cornyn quoted below start after the 1:00 mark.) On Monday, President Obama unsurprisingly expressed confidence that the Supreme Court would uphold the 2010 Affordable Care Act. Even less remarkable, Obama rightly reminded Americans that "conservative commentators" have for years said "the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint -- that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law." Nevertheless, Republicans quickly accused the President of "unprecedented" effort to "intimidate the Supreme Court." Of course, this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black (to put it mildly). After all, denouncing " judicial activism " has been a GOP talking point for years. Not content to rest there, the party's members of Congress and presidential candidates have pushed to limit the federal judiciary's jurisdiction on a range of issues, abortion not least among them. And as their incendiary rhetoric during the Terri Schiavo saga and other episodes reveals, Republican leaders didn't hesitate to issue none-too-thinly veiled threats of violence against the nation's judges . Following the President's statement, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell led the GOP charge: > "This president's attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court falls well beyond distasteful politics. It demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect for our system of checks and balances." While Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Karl Rove all called the President a "thug," McConnell doubled-down on Thursday, insisting Obama should "back off" because "the independence of the court must be defended." Of course, back in 2005, McConnell played a pivotal role in the GOP effort to disregard the 19 rulings by Florida and federal courts, including the Supreme Court, in the case of Terri Schiavo . As he explained to an incredulous Brit Hume of Fox News: > What we simply did was grant to the courts an opportunity to review the case, something they do in habeas corpus petitions in death penalty cases all the time. It's not unusual for a death decision. And in effect, that's what's happening here. > A decision to let Ms. Schiavo die would be reviewed in the courts. That's all Congress did. The courts took a look at it, decided not to review it. And this tragic matter obviously is soon going to come to an end. Not if Texas Senator John Cornyn had his way. Cornyn, himself a former chief judge of the Texas Supreme Court and author in 2010 of an attack on Obama nominee Elena Kagan titled, " I Sense a Judicial Activist ," took the Republican assault on the judiciary to a new and frightening level. Cornyn was one of the GOP standard bearers in the conservative fight against so-called "judicial activism" in the wake of the Republicans' disastrous intervention in the Terri Schiavo affair. On April 4th, Cornyn took to the Senate floor to issue a dark warning to judges opposing his reactionary agenda. Just days after the murders of judge in Atlanta and another's family members in Chicago, Cornyn offered his endorsement of judicial intimidation: > "I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country...And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence." Facing criticism for his remarks seemingly endorsing right-wing retribution against judges, Cornyn held his ground . "I didn't make the link," he said on Fox News Sunday, adding with a note of sarcasm: > "It was taken out of context. I regret it was taken out of context and misinterpreted." As it turns out, Cornyn was merely echoing the words of the soon-to-be indicted House Majority Leader Tom Delay . On March 31st, Delay issued a statement regarding the consistent rulings in favor of Michael Schiavo by all federal and state court judges involved: > "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today." As the New York Times reported: > Saying that the courts ''thumbed their nose at Congress and the president,'' Mr. DeLay, of Texas, suggested Congress was exploring responses and declined to rule out the possibility of Congressional impeachment of the judges involved. The impact of tacit conservative endorsement of violence against judges cannot be dismissed. After all, it extends to members of the Supreme Court of the United States. In March 2006, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed that she and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor were the targets of death threats . On February 28th, 2005, the marshal of the Court informed O'Connor and Ginsburg of an Internet posting citing their references to international law in Court decisions (a frequent whipping boy of the right) as requiring their assassination: > "This is a huge threat to our Republic and Constitutional freedom...If you are what you say you are, and NOT armchair patriots, then those two justices will not live another week." Neither O'Connor nor Ginsburg were shy about making the connection between Republican rhetoric of judicial intimidation and the upswing in threats and actual violence against judges. While Ginsburg noted that they "fuel the irrational fringe," O'Connor blamed Cornyn and his fellow travelers for "creating a culture" in which violence towards judges is merely another political tactic: > "It gets worse. It doesn't help when a high-profile senator suggests a 'cause-and-effect connection' [between controversial rulings and subsequent acts of violence]." Of course, O'Connor and Ginsburg weren't the only targets of right-wing retribution, serious or otherwise. After sentencing Scooter Libby to 30 months in prison in 2007, Judge Reggie Walton reported receiving death threats. That episode followed a January 2006 joke by best-selling conservative author and media personality Ann Coulter , who mused in January 2006, "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee." (When Justice David Souter announced his resignation from the Court in 2009, Red State editor and CNN regular Erick Erickson responded by tweeting, "The nation loses the only goat f--king child molester to ever serve on the Supreme Court in David Souter's retirement.") Apparently, Coulter's judicial rat poison would have been just fine with Montana Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg . Just weeks after the Tucson slaughter that claimed the life of circuit judge John Roll , Rehberg responded to a recent ruling by declaring he wanted to " put some of these judicial activists on the Endangered Species list ": > "Environmental obstructionists found a federal judge in Missoula that was willing to ignore the scientific evidence as well as the expert opinions of on-the-ground wildlife managers here in Montana. And he ruled last August that the grey wolf had to remain on the Endangered Species List. > When I first heard his decision, like many of you I wanted to take action immediately. I asked: how can we put some of these judicial activists on the Endangered Species List? I am still working on that!" And so it goes. Of course, the Republican criticism of President Obama's own critique of judicial activism started long before this week's comical accusation (shockingly echoed by a GOP appointee on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ) that Obama doesn't believe in the concept of judicial review. This week, Senator McConnell resurrected the GOP's bogus charge that Obama "browbeat the Court during the State of the Union." As you'll recall, Republican leaders feigned outrage over President Obama's criticism of the Court's Citizens United decision during his 2010 State of the Union. Utah Senator Orrin Hatch called it "rude," adding "It's one thing to say that he differed with the court but another thing to demagogue the issue while the court is sitting there out of respect for his position." As usual, Texan John Cornyn took it a step further , calling Obama's strong disagreement with the Court "hysterical" and insisting : > "I don't think the president should have done what he did in trying to call out the Supreme Court for doing its job. They are the final word on the meaning of the United States Constitution, even when we don't like the outcome." Unless, that is, a Republican is in the White House. After all, George W. Bush's Supreme politicking during his State of the Union speeches was a regular fixture of his presidency. For three straight years ( 2004 , 2005 and 2006 ), President Bush denounced "activist judges" and insisted "for the good of families, children and society, I support a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage." On the very day Samuel Alito joined the Roberts Court, Bush used his 2006 SOTU for a victory lap: > "The Supreme Court now has two superb new members -- new members on its bench: Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Sam Alito. I thank the Senate for confirming both of them. I will continue to nominate men and women who understand that judges must be servants of the law and not legislate from the bench." Of course, Bush had his own unique view of the constitutional separation of powers. As he put it in 2000: > "The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." So much for the nine robed people who sit in the Supreme Court. Which is just fine with the GOP, just as long as one of their own is seated in the Oval Office. (This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)