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Such gerrymandering to create “minority-majority” electoral districts is the quintessential “outcome-based” racial policy and a provocative political entitlement. The purpose of drawing lines to create districts in which minorities constitute a majority of the voters is to assist, virtually to the point of ensuring, the election of minorities to offices to which they presumably are entitled by virtue of their race or ethnicity. The result is “political apartheid,” to use Justice O’Connor’s phrase from the 1998 ruling invalidating North Carolina’s districting scheme that produced the 160-mile-long district that straggled down Interstate 85 and for most of its length was no wider than the highway....

The trailer featured some flashbacks of Clementine’s tough and impossible journey through the Walking Dead Universe, while the encouraging thoughts of Lee Everett rang through her head. Lee was the protagonist of the first season of the game, and left on a pretty emotional note, regardless of what decision you made at the end with him. From that moment on, Clementine attempted to survive through the lessons Lee taught her in that short time....

RELATED: 10 Mistakes Everyone Makes While Playing The Witcher 3 The crafting system specifically was celebrated for being taught to the player organically throughout the game – but there are a few things that the game doesn’t tell the player about crafting before they delve into this renowned RPG. 10 Crafting Components Are Weightless When the game initially launched, crafting components in The Witcher 3 had a slight weight to them....

RELATED: The Witcher 3: Mistakes Players Make That Cost Them The Good Ending In The Main Game The Black Unicorn Relic Sword is counted among the strongest Steel Swords in The Witcher 3. It is encountered mid-game and is geared towards higher leveled players. Updated on October 5, 2021 by Talha Bin Rizwan: The Black Unicorn relic sword is considered among the strongest steel weapons in The Witcher 3. Not only does the sword have substantial damage, but it also boosts the Aard sign and has a chance to cause bleeding....

Over the weekend, the official Telltale Games account posted a tweet teasing news on a future project for San Diego Comic Con, which gets underway later this week. This was retweeted by Adam Harrington, the actor who portrayed protragonist Bigby in The Wolf Among Us. Taken at face value, this would suggest that a second season of The Wolf Among Us might be in the works. Harrington only really tweets his own Instagram photos, music videos, and things that are directly related to his voice acting output, so it seems that he has a direct connection to the Telltale project....

“[China] is the world’s biggest consumer of copper, tin, zinc, platinum, steel and iron ore; second biggest of aluminum and lead; third largest of nickel… It is now the world’s second-largest oil consumer [after the United States], and accounted for 35 percent of the global rise in oil demand in 2003.” China also produces 50 percent of the world’s cameras, 30 percent of air conditioners and TVs and 25 percent of washing machines, reports the ADB....

The human costs of D-Day were not insignificant: 6,603 U.S. casualties in all, 3,646 British and Canadian. But the numbers were lower than Eisenhower and his generals had feared. In the following months 53,714 Allied soldiers and airmen were killed–not heavy losses by 20th-century standards. Lest we forget: on the first day of the Somme, July 1, 1916, the British Army suffered 58,000 casualties–20,000 of them killed, a catastrophe from which neither the Army nor the country ever fully recovered....

There has hardly been a moment in the last few months when xQc has remained out of the spotlight. Ever since the controversy surrounding him cheating in a Fall Guys tournament, whether it’s OfflineTV Rust drama, NoPixel 3.0 GTA RP controversy, gambling on Twitch, hot tub streams, or his recent break-up with Adept, xQc has certainly kept the internet busy. Unfortunately, it seems like his recent behavior seems to have crossed the tolerance limit of a lot of fans who no longer find xQc entertaining....

The Zimbabwean team stunned the cricketing world by making it to the Super Six stage of the 1999 Cricket World Cup. With the likes of Neil Johnson, Heath Streak, the Flower brothers and led by the inimitable Alistair Campbell, that was possibly the best Zimbabwean team to have represented the country in the last couple of decades. In the early 2000s however, much of the good work that was being done by this talented outfit got undone as the country and the Zimbabwean cricket board were plunged into the quagmire of politics and myriad controversies....

The veteran gloveman is set to reach the milestone when he starts for Brisbane away to Perth Glory on Saturday night. Theo is in his seventh season with Roar and has won three championships with the club, and having missed large chunks of games over the past two seasons, the 36-year-old reckons he has a few more years left in him. Despite having yet to re-sign with Brisbane beyond this season, Theo made it clear on Friday that he wants to stay....

“There is no competition, I do not think of it that way nor does he. In fact I think no one thinks of it that way. He is doing well from his place and I am trying to do well at my end. The better I do the more help the team gets. The importance of a player differs from team to team. I will be happy if I get to contribute for my team in the role I am in,” Shakib said in Hyderabad, which is the venue of the one-off Test match....

One regular-season loss in the NFL is enough to make reaching the Super Bowl even more difficult. One game, after all, can be the difference between a first-round bye or having to survive a wild-card game on the road. To that potential end, the Seahawks are now in third place in the tough NFC West. “The NFL’s the one sport where it’s a big deal to be the one- or the two-seed and get that bye week,” SuperBook oddsmaker Ed Salmons told The Linemakers on Sporting News on Tuesday....

For one, LaMelo Ball, whom the shoe is named after, had just turned 16, making ESPN’s No. 7 overall ranked player in the Class of 2019 he youngest athlete ever to have a signature sneaker. Secondly, the release of the low-top basketball shoe priced at $395 through the family-owned brand headed up by his boisterous pops LaVar, caused many to question how it might impact the UCLA commit’s NCAA eligibility....

That didn’t make it any easier for Donna, so Brown called and wrote her almost every day. The only phone available to him was two miles from his barracks. At first he made the trek on foot, then bought a bicycle from a soldier who was rotating out. In their conversations, he reassured his wife that most of the time he was making routine flights over relatively safe territory. He even asked her to send “care” packages filled with sweets so that he could drop “candy bombs” to Iraqi children as the chopper whisked by....

When will season 2 of The Umbrella Academy air? You’ve not got long to wait, because The Hargreeves family will be back on our screens on 31 July 2020. Like season 1, all ten episodes should be released at once so you can binge them in a weekend should you wish. Who will be in season 2? As well as the entire Hargreeves crew, there will be three new additions to the main cast lineup....

WWE has now confirmed that Dolph Ziggler and Corbin will team up to face The Usos in the upcoming edition of SmackDown in what is going to be the first match of the former Tag Team Champions in six months. The Usos Multi-time RAW and SmackDown Tag Team Champions, Jimmy and Jey Uso, have been one of the most successful tag teams of the past decade. However, they were written off on-screen programming following WWE Extreme Rules last year owing to Jimmy getting arrested for DUI....

If we could figure that out, we might also be able to figure out why so many employees roll their eyes in skepticism or cynicism or feel patronized when their bottom line-obsessed CEO waxes poetic about building a caring company culture. Psychology has a term for this. It’s called “transference.” Transference occurs when someone takes their existing feelings about people in their lives who speak about certain topics and transfers them onto others, in this instance, the experts or leaders in question....

But now the focus of Benedict’s anxieties—and Vatican sanctions—has shifted to Asia, Catholicism’s largest untapped market. At issue is the fear—for Rome— that too many Asian Catholics see other religions not only as bearers of truth, but as alternate pathways to salvation or spiritual insight. In Asia, God—or the gods—are everywhere, while Rome wants to stress the exclusivity of Catholicism. To Benedict, Asian theologians and church leaders are attempting to win converts by translating a Western religion—Christianity—into an Eastern idiom, relating Christ to Confucius, the Buddha or the variety of Hindu deities, transforming Jesus, as Benedict put it, into “one religious leader among others....

Unlike most American athletes, I stayed at a hotel in downtown Atlanta–not in the Olympic Village. I’m used to hotel rooms, and I didn’t want to stray from my routine. Money wasn’t really a factor. One of my sponsors covered the cost of four rooms at the Hilton for my two coaches and their wives, my girlfriend, Leilani, and me. It was an exciting place to stay. We came down to the lobby one time and Evander Holyfield was waiting for his car....

And to show you how the Pressure Index works we take a look at arguably the biggest miracle in Premier League history. They’d held on for their lives. The fairy tale was on. They were within touching distance of the promised land. Now they needed a leader. Someone to drag them over the finishing line. Leicester City found one that afternoon in Manchester, as captain Wes Morgan stood tall, lifting the club to the most incredible of heights....