Although the Pawns are chatter-boxes‚ they are beloved by all Dragon’s Dogma 2 players due to their unwavering loyalty and utility. An asset in exploration and combat‚ purposefully harming them wouldn’t cross the minds of many. But‚ I must say‚ it can be hilarious. Picking up anyone you want is funny enough One thing I couldn’t believe I had the power to do when starting Dragon’s Dogma 2 was pick up anyone I seemingly wanted. Most NPCs never appreciated the gesture‚ not that they’d resist me just slinging them over my shoulder. When I found out this extended to enemies‚ I was blown away. Sure‚ you can’t just pick up an enemy as they’ll have to be weakened or prone first‚ but it’s possible. I quickly moved on from my great powerful Thief antics to simply picking enemies up and lobbing them off cliffs or into rivers. Screenshot: PC Invasion The moment I properly acknowledged that the bodies of deep water will eliminate any...

The Regentkin’s Resolve is an endgame quest in Dragon’s Dogma 2 that requires you to convince the rich merchant and Disa to evacuate Vernworth as a prerequisite to getting Sven to evacuate the city and its people. How to complete The Regentkin’s Resolve in Dragon’s Dogma 2 After talking with Sven‚ he says he won’t evacuate all of Vernworth until he gets oxcarts which a rich merchant is hoarding and talks to his mother. I talked with both of them‚ hit a dead end‚ and wondered how to continue. Luckily‚ I finished the quest to help you through it. You need to use a light amount of violence‚ just like when you need to throw your Pawn. Screenshot: PC InvasionScreenshot: PC Invasion Disa‚ Sven’s mother‚ is in a few rooms over. Talking to her doesn’t do anything — what you need to do is carry her to Sven’s room. Luckily‚ none of the guards mind you doing this. Halfway through carrying her to Sven’s room‚ you may need to se...

The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch have asked a Delaware court to reopen their case seeking the release of President Joe Biden’s Senate records held at the University of Delaware. Special counsel Robert Hur’s February report on his investigation into Biden’s retention of classified documents contained findings that contradicted the university’s claims that no tax dollars were used in processing the records sought by the DCNF and Judicial Watch. The Delaware Supreme Court previously sided with the university in July‚ shielding the documents from release. “The stunning revelations from the Hur report extend beyond the president’s memory lapses and mental state‚” DCNF Editor-in-Chief Michael Bastasch said. “The court needs to reopen this case to determine whether the University of Delaware lied.” Judicial Watch initially sued the university on behalf of itself and the DCNF in July 2020 after it denied the request‚ claiming the records were not related to the expenditure of public funds. Documents requested by the DCNF included agreements relating to the storage of 1‚850 boxes and 415 gigabytes of records from Biden’s 1973 to 2009 Senate career‚ as well as communications between university staff and Biden’s staff‚ log sheets of individuals who have visited the collection‚ and the actual collection records. “In sum‚ the report shows that President Biden directed his former staffers’ work in reviewing and cataloging the Senate papers‚ received the benefit thereof—and the university paid for it‚” the DCNF and Judicial Watch motion filed with the Superior Court of the state of Delaware states. “Such payments constitute consideration paid on President Biden’s behalf in connection with the donation of senatorial papers to the university—contrary to the representations in the supplemented affidavit.” Biden gave his records to the university on the condition that they would not be publicly released until “they have been properly processed and archived‚” according to the university’s website. They have been housed at the university since 2012. “The search for Senate documents took place at Mr. Biden’s direction‚ required the participation of many‚ and was paid for by the university‚” the motion continues. “Even the university general counsel was involved in coordinating with Mr. Biden’s chief of staff.” Hur’s report noted that Biden “asked two of his former longtime Senate staffers to review his boxes in courtesy storage” in the spring of 2011 in preparation to donate the papers. The staffers “were paid by the University of Delaware to perform the pre-gift review‚” according to the report. “The Hur report provides disturbing evidence the University of Delaware misled the courts in order to hide Biden’s Senate papers‚” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation Have an opinion about this article? To sound off‚ please email letters@DailySignal.com and we’ll consider publishing your edited remarks in our regular “We Hear You” feature. Remember to include the URL or headline of the article plus your name and town and/or state. The post DCNF‚ Judicial Watch Ask Court to Reopen Case Seeking Biden’s Senate Records at University of Delaware appeared first on The Daily Signal.

An appeals court agreed Monday to reduce former President Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case bond while he appeals the ruling. If Trump is able to put up the $175 million bond within 10 days‚ the court agreed to block collection of the judgment‚ according to The Associated Press. NEW YORK (AP) — New York appeals court agrees to block collection of Trump's civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175M within 10 days.— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) March 25‚ 2024 Trump initially faced a Monday deadline to pay a $454 million bond to cover the judgment issued by Judge Arthur Engoron. Trump’s lawyers indicated in a court filing last week that he would not be able to post that bond‚ writing that “very few bonding companies will consider a bond of anything approaching that magnitude.” His attorneys sought to stay the execution of the judgment. In response‚ New York state Attorney General Letitia James argued Trump had not supplied evidence that he would be unable to pay. “If defendants were truly unable to provide an undertaking‚ they at a minimum should have consented to have their real estate interests held by Supreme Court to satisfy the judgment‚” the filing stated. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Appeals Court Sides With Trump‚ Reduces Bond in Civil Fraud Case appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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A display of corpses was a highlight for flâneurs passing the Paris Morgue in the 1860s. Captured by the “culture of looking”‚ the word “flânerie” was invented to describe aimless wandering as a way of taking in the city‚ and in the 19th century‚ that included ogling the dead.The Paris Morgue had a salle d'exposition where its deceased residents would go on display so that the unnamed and unclaimed could be identified. The advent of the Industrial Revolution meant that many were traveling to the city for novel and sometimes dangerous avenues of employment. Those who perished in mechanical or locomotive accidents were often far from home‚ and they too would join the cold bodies waiting for personhood behind the glass.It wasn’t long before the lost and found became a popular exhibit for the morbidly curious‚ even being listed as Le Musée de la Mort in British travel guides. Sitting behind the Notre-Dame Cathedral‚ the Paris morgue framed the corpses behind theatrically curtained windows‚ and depending on who was on display‚ it could draw in tens to hundreds of thousands of visitors‚ reports How Stuff Works.The clothes of the dead were hung above their slabs.Image credit: G.Garitan - Own work‚ CC BY-SA 4.0‚ via WikimediaIt might seem crass‚ but as Taryn Cain points out for the Wellcome Collection‚ we have our own Paris Morgue in the modern era‚ and it’s gone global. The controversial Body Worlds exhibition displays plastinated cadavers that have been visited over 40 million times and even made it into a Bond movie. We might not be as far from La Morgue as we might like to think we are.Back then‚ the corpses were fresh and dressed in nothing but strips of cloth to cover up key features‚ but their clothes were hung above them‚ providing a snapshot into the life of the deceased. As the French playwright Léon Gozlan said‚ “You go there to see the drowned as elsewhere you go to see the latest fashion.”While the Musée Grevin was capitalizing on the appeal of the macabre by creating a “living newspaper” that staged waxen recreations of recent murders‚ it seemed the Paris morgue had gone one step further to satisfy people’s curiosity by providing them the horror in the flesh‚ as it were. The press was hot on the gruesome details of recent deaths‚ and the morgue provided readers the opportunity to connect with the story further by seeing the victims up close.Despite its grim content‚ the exhibit hall got a reputation as a free theater.Image credit: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra via Flickr‚ CC BY 2.0One particularly popular exhibit included “woman cut into two pieces‚” who was retrieved in halves from the river Seine in 1876. Bodies eventually decomposed too much to remain on display‚ and after two weeks‚ she was replaced with a wax bust‚ drawing in hundreds of thousands of visitors.According to JSTOR‚ the allure of la morgue may have had less to do with morbid curiosity and more to do with a sense of community‚ with visitors empathizing with the dead‚ rather than delighting in the horror of it all. As author of Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Paris‚ Professor Vanessa Schwartz of the University of Southern California wrote that the morgue exhibition hall and the waxwork living newspapers may have been 19th-century Paris’s answer to true crime documentaries. But don’t get any ideas‚ Netflix.

Palaeontology and archaeology have aligned in northeast Brazil‚ as a “remarkable” site featuring dinosaur footprints alongside ancient rock carvings has been uncovered.  The Serrote do Letreiro Site‚ in the Sousa municipality‚ Paraíba State‚ is home to three main rock outcrops‚ where the fossilized footprints of theropod‚ sauropod‚ and iguanodontian dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous (145 to 100.5 million years ago) have been discovered. Not only that‚ but the area is also home to petroglyphs – a type of rock art made by directly pecking at the rock’s surface – created by humans in the pre-colonial period.In a new study‚ researchers describe this “invaluable” intercept of palaeontological and archaeological elements‚ the likes of which have never been seen in such close proximity.Dinosaur tracks and rock art have been found in association before – in Australia‚ Poland‚ and Utah‚ for example – but “in none of these instances do the petroglyphs display such a close-knit relationship with the footprints as in Serrote do Letreiro‚” the researchers write in their study.“It is unquestionable that the engravers acknowledged the footprints and intentionally executed the petroglyphs around them‚ establishing a symbolic connection between human graphic expression and the fossil record.”Petroglyphs and dinosaur tracks at Outcrop 1. Theropod footprints are in white and engravings are in orange.Image credit: Troiano et al.‚ Scientific Reports‚ 2024 (CC BY 4.0)The first mentions of dinosaur footprints from the region date back to the early 20th century and palaeontological aspects of the site have been studied several times in the years since. The petroglyphs‚ however‚ have received much less attention‚ having never been comprehensively analyzed or considered in combination with the footprints.To rectify this‚ the team surveyed the site‚ identifying three large outcrops where both dinosaur footprints and petroglyphs were observed. At the first outcrop‚ an additional 22 symbols were discovered‚ along with the highest concentration of theropod – the clade to which T. rex belongs – tracks.Theropod footprints (A-F) in close association with petroglyphs (D and F).Image credit: Troiano et al.‚ Scientific Reports‚ 2024 (CC BY 4.0)The second contained just two petroglyphs‚ although there appears to have once been a much higher number that have since become illegible. At the third and final outcrop‚ 30 carvings were identified‚ as well as extensive pecking marks and tracks left largely by sauropod dinosaurs.The petroglyphs‚ the researchers discovered‚ are mostly circular featuring radial lines and other motifs. While their meaning is not obvious‚ they can be interpreted as geometric forms‚ and bear a striking resemblance to rock carvings found elsewhere in Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte. Some notable designs stand out‚ including rectangular grid engravings and others resembling stars and serpents.Petroglyphs from Outcrop 3.Image credit: Troiano et al.‚ Scientific Reports‚ 2024 (CC BY 4.0)The variation in style suggests multiple individuals were behind the rock art. We may not know who they were‚ but we do know that they took great care when carving alongside the dinosaur footprints.“In none of the cases was it found that the creation of a petroglyph resulted in damage to the existing footprints‚ suggesting thoughtfulness by the makers‚” the team explain. Serrote do Letreiro’s “outstanding juxtaposition” of palaeontology and archaeology‚ according to the researchers‚ indicates that humans in pre-colonial Brazil engaged with the fossil record‚ actively incorporating it into their graphical expression and using it help to establish their cultural identity.As such‚ the study authors argue for its conservation‚ demanding “immediate mitigation measures to prevent further damage”‚ so that we can continue to appreciate this unique site for years to come.The study is published in Scientific Reports.