Fueling the fires of the countless fan theories is the recent revelation that author and artist Eiichiro Oda will be taking a month-long hiatus in order to prepare for the final saga of One Piece. This decades-long epic is soon to reach its closing act, and while the stage isn’t quite set for the grand finale just yet, the climax of the story is soon to be on the horizon....
So far, one of the most intriguing additions that Luffy has made to his powers is the usage of “Gears,” which simply refers to different modes of power that he accesses by making use of his Devil Fruit. In One Piece’s Enies Lobby, Luffy came up with Gear Second, which increases his power by pumping blood through his body faster, and Gear Third, which sees him inflate his bones to generate more power....
To put it into perspective, the spoiler thread for the One Piece subreddit had over 22,000 comments and 10,000 upvotes. Everybody is talking about what happened in the latest chapter, as it truly is a major game-changer in how the story moves forward, thanks to recent events. One Piece Chapter 1037 takes readers everywhere from Onigashima all the way to Mary Geoise. It features everything from awesome battle sequences to mysterious plot developments....
Currently, their ranks are made up of Kaido, Big Mom, Shanks, and the latest addition to the lot, Marshall D. Teach. Strong as the Yonko are, they aren’t unbeatable. In fact, the power system of the Yonko looks very much to be in jeopardy and several One Piececharacters could replace them if they fell. Updated April 4, 2022, by Rei Penber: One Piece’s Yonko are known to be the strongest people on the seas with incredible powers up their sleeve....
After birdieing five of his first nine holes, including four in succession from the 15th to the 18th, Olesen posted just one further gain and two bogeys on the way home to sit in a share of seventh on six under for the tournament. The Dane is the highest-ranked player in the field and this competition is a chance to boost his chances of clinching an automatic place on Europe’s Ryder Cup team....
Whereas most skateboarding titles focus on realism (or some semblance of it), OlliOlli World brings in more fantastical elements and really lets them shine. From the get-go, OlliOlli World is very expressive in terms of its own identity, throwing players into a prologue filled with over-the-top skateboarding puns and language that befits the setting’s name: Radlandia. The overall graphics have a hand-drawn feel and look like something straight out of Adventure Time, welcoming players into this experience whether they are newcomers or veterans....
Pearson, the women’s 100-meter hurdles Olympic champion in 2012, took a tumble just past the halfway point of Thursday’s race and was left clutching her wrist in pain. MORE: Running Our Mouths podcast, Episode 16 | Petition to have IOC take back Caitlyn Jenner’s gold medal Pearson will have surgery Friday in Rome and will return to Australia once recovered. It is not yet known if she will be able to compete again in 2015....
The stir was over a last-minute change Bush made in his opening remarks at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. If he had stuck with the script that’s been a tradition at these ceremonies for decades, Bush would have said: “I declare open the Games of Salt Lake City, celebrating the Winter Olympic Games.” That sounded flat to the president. The subject-verb construction was weird (and this is a guy who knows weird subject-verb construction)....
NBC and its affiliates are set to cover the event in the United States. The gargantuan task of broadcasting live and tape-delayed content will fall primarily to six stations — NBC USA, NBCSN, CNBC, Olympic Channel and Golf Channel — and NBC’s streaming platform Peacock. The good news for cord-cutters is that these networks are prominently featured on some of the most popular streaming options out there. As such, there will be plenty of ways to stream the Games after their year-long postponement....
In the first study conducted to assess the risk of fatalities presented by Omicron researchers assessed the progress of COVID patients admitted to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital and the Tshwane District Hospital, the latter of which has been converted into a COVID specialist facility. The hospitals are located in the City of Tshwane, the region of South Africa that was the first global epicenter of Omicron. “There are clear signs that case and admission rates in South Africa may decline further over the next few weeks,” the authors wrote....
Melbourne, Dec 27 (PTI) Cheteshwar Pujara is not known to score at a fast clip but but the slowness of the MCG track was something that bogged down even India’s dogged No 3 during the first innings of the third Test against Australia. “We have to bat like the way the wicket is behaving and what the situation is. On this pitch, every batsman has to play a lot of balls to score runs....
In this fall’s glut of literary biographies sex or substance abuse spices up most of the lives: even poor old Henry James’s homosexual yearnings again come under scrutiny. But the appeal of these books isn’t just the hot skinny on Denis Diderot’s mistresses and marital rows, Evelyn Waugh’s nth alcoholic embarrassment or what Allen Ginsberg did in bed with Neal Cassady 45 years ago. Nor is it just the weird little factlets: that Waugh aspired to be a cabinetmaker, that Stephen Crane’s funeral was covered by cub reporter Wallace Stevens, that art critic Harold Rosenberg (Mary McCarthy’s Partisan Review colleague) created Smokey the Bear and that Ginsberg spent a month as a NEWSWEEK book reviewer....
They certainly have a sense of alarm. In 1989, crime rose 31.8 percent nationwide, with big cities like Leningrad and Moscow hit even harder. Theater directors report a falloff in ticket sales because audiences are afraid to be on the streets at night. Iron doors and bars for windows are in hot demand. Polls show that law and order tops the list of public concerns, with many urging a tougher crackdown on “hooligans” and racketeers....
The editor’s note, published as a prologue to a series of stories building up to the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s founding in July, did not explicitly identify the 1989 protests. The protests were crushed when tanks fought their way into Tiananmen Square in Beijing, killing thousands of people. Instead, the editors of Global Times made a veiled reference to “the impact of Western ideology in the late 1980s” in a long list of challenges the Communist Party has faced....
“Words can’t really define it. No words, really. We came up short,” Parker said following Duke’s upset loss to Mercer in the 2014 NCAA Tournament round of 64. “We can say a lot of stuff that we didn’t have, but we just didn’t take advantage of what we did.” PHOTOS: Best images from the round of 32 games This likely was the end of his Duke basketball career, his college basketball career, after one season and first-team All-America status ....
The six Infernal Arms are Hades’ weapon options, based on those used by the Olympians during the in-universe version of the Titanomachy: Stygius, the sword wielded by Poseidon; Varantha, the spear wielded by Hades; Aegis, the shield wielded by Zeus; Coronacht, the bow wielded by Hera; Malphon, the fists wielded by Demeter; and Exagryph, the gun wielded by Hestia. RELATED: The Case for Zagreus in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate...
Around a quarter of U.S. hospitals are expecting ‘critical’ imminent staff shortages, according to government data seen by Newsweek. Of reporting hospitals, 1,180 anticipate a critical staffing shortage with the week, out of 4,940 - a figure of 24 percent. Another 1,184 in the data didn’t respond to the question. The data from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was updated on January 2 and shows 98 percent of hospitals reporting across all 50 states....
But for Fuchs, the meeting turned out to be a case of strangulation. After waxing on about strategy, Levin handed his longtime close colleague a press release that was already on its way to the wires. Page One: Fuchs’s bitter rivals, Warner Bros. studio heads Robert Daly and Terry Semel, would take over the entire entertainment side of the triangle–including Fuchs’s music group. Page Two: Fuchs was fired. According to insiders, there is good (and not so paltry) news for Fuchs: he’ll get at least $50 million to walk....
Overwatch Tank hero Winston has never received a nerf in any of the updates that have been released for him since the game launched in 2016. On the contrary, Blizzard has only ever really buffed Winston or made neutral changes to the character. This makes sense as Winston is generally considered to be one of the weaker and more difficult characters to play as in the hero-shooter, so it really comes as no surprise that he’s never received any nerfs....
RELATED: Most Epic Last Stands In Anime Kaido’s defeat meant that he joined Big Mom in the magma pit. At the beginning of the raid, no one expected that Kaido and Big Mom would both be defeated, but the members of the Worst Generation did what they do best and caused major upsets. The two Yonko used to be comrades many years ago, and they fought against each other before the raid began, but they ended up forming an alliance....
