Author: Gavin Blackburn
Published on: 03/07/2025 | 00:00:00

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More than 5,000 tourists, hotel workers and residents evacuated from the Ierapetra area. A small number of people fled into the sea and were rescued by local fishermen and divers. The fire has receded a little, but the wind hits the flames again, the mayor says. Volunteers found dead farm animals, some burned alive while chained inside sheds. Authorities ordered precautionary evacuations due to a wildfire near the port of Rafina. Officials said the man died from smoke inhalation near the town of demiş.

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I want to create apk files for the games I've purchased on Google Play. If I use the Google Files apps, it won't compress the whole game into apk (for example, APK file size for ‘Bendy and the Ink Machine’ is only ~2mB.) For now, only local backup seems to be the functional method.

Author: Yashica Dutt
Published on: 03/07/2025 | 00:00:00

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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is the best candidate to fight for the city's marginalised and working classes. In both of those areas, more than 60 percent of residents are Black. On June 24 he scored an upset, winning New York’s Democratic mayoral primary. In precincts with a majority of Black residents, the pro-Cuomo number rose to 51 percent. Mamdani was a distant second among the nine possible candidates, with 11 percent support. Meanwhile, he came in third place in the poll among Black voters. Mamdani has served in the New York State Assembly since 2020. A New York Times analysis suggested that voters in their 20s and 30s turned out in significantly higher numbers than for the 2021 mayoral primary. That contributed to the highest overall Democratic primary turnout since 1989. John Gershman, a professor of public service at New York University, indicated that uncertainty can affect voter choices. He pointed out that low-income voters leaned rightwards towards Republican Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election despite Democrats having a stronger “anti-poverty element” in their agenda. Some conservative commentators seized upon The New York Times’ analysis to arrive at a different interpretation about why certain voters might perceive risk in Mamdani’s campaign. Republican strategist Karl Rove cited the statistics to argue that low-income voters may fear the tax burden that might accompany greater anti-poverty spending. No monoliths in election season Mandami is set to face Adams himself in November’s general elections. Mamdani has become the frontrunner in the race — and his campaign is likely to continue building its coalition, including through appeals to the demographics it may have lost in the primary. But in order to succeed, Color of Change executive director Portia Allen-Kyle believes that Mammdani needs to understand the spectrum of viewpoints in the Black community. Reverend Al Sharpton reflected on The New York Times' findings about Mamdani and the Black vote. Sharpton said Mamden's “courage” had won his support. “Any other kind of politician would have played against the Black community,” she said.

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If you are looking for cute and simple co-op game check out Squirreled Away. It is cute open world adventure game. Fun and chill game to play as co-op. The game is pretty simple and short, but is perfect for the gameplay experience it tries to achieve. It was fun alternative for competitive games that I usually play.

Pitch: Live your best squirrel life. Explore, gather, craft, and build incredible treehouses in acres of beautiful parkland. Scurry across lawns, up trees, and leap limb to limb solo, or up to four friends can play together in co-op. Endless summer days of adventure await.

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Some FromSoft boss battles make you tear your hair out, but every so often, you’ll get a big enemy who goes down on your first try, no sweat. In Elden Ring Nightreign, Sentient Pest is a cool idea for a boss fight — it’s a parasitic moth that controls a bulky scorpion — but it’s definitely one of the easiest encounters. That is, until Nightreign’s latest weekly update, which introduces a tougher “Everdark Sovereign” version of the Nightlord. Now, what was easily one of Nightreign’s least intimidating baddies has been hulked up and turned into the game’s most memorable encounter.

In some ways, the base game did Gnoster dirty. When the snowy insect shows up as a random encounter during an expedition, you’ll be wailing away at him, and he will just … stand there. Sure, you have to find him first — and the swarm that he sends out, which can eat multiple levels off your character, is probably Nightreign’s most annoying mechanic. But since the so-called Wisdom of the Night drops a power that grants your character an astounding number of runes, knowledgeable players will straight up cheer when the pest shows up.

The full Sentient Pest boss fight isn’t all that much better. For one, he’s weak to fire — the most common elemental affinity — and if you focus entirely on the flying mastermind, the whole thing is over quickly. However, things are much different on the Everdark version.

[Warning: The rest of this article contains spoilers for the Everdark Sentient Pest boss fight in Elden Ring Nightreign]

The first portion of the Everdark Sovereign Sentient Pest fight goes down the same way. When I initially tried it, my team quickly deleted the boss’s health. In total hubris and ignorance, I thought I was done, and I started celebrating, only to notice the boss’s body wasn’t evaporating into dust. Uh, what?

That’s when the game threw in a third guy, an aurora-like spirit that will burst from the body of the moth. Another health bar then shows up, introducing the real puppet master behind it all: Animus, Ascendant Light. Animus will then go ahead and revive both the insect and the scorpion, and all three will proceed to hunt your team down.

If that weren’t enough, once you get to this part of the fight, you can’t just kill the boss normally. If you defeat either animated husk, Animus can revive them again. Their health bars will only be a fourth of the full gauge, but it’s moot when they can be brought to life at will. Though I haven’t beaten it yet, you’re supposed to use the brief period where the bodies are dead to attack Animus, as the spectral assailant pauses to power them up again. You can try and hit Animus before then, but it quickly possesses the scorpion. Both the scorpion and the moth also come back with a souped-up moveset. All three are still weak to fire, though!

Based on conversations I’ve seen online, players still consider this fight easy; some are even arguing that the new version of the fight is simpler than its initial iteration. For my money, though, it’s really just that over a month after the game’s release, players have gotten much better at the game. The current Evergaol meta, which is only possible with a Relic from the Everdark update, allows your Nightfarers to become more powerful with every jail you beat — and it has a compounding effect. Where before I often struggled to go above level 11, with an Evergaol build I regularly hit 15 by the time I get to the Nightlord of the expedition.

Despite this designation, though, many have walked away impressed with the new version of the Sentient Pest. There’s the surprise factor, but also a bit of a spectacle as Animus flies around, hitting you with orbital lasers as a grandiose soundtrack booms in the background. “Fucking awesome,” reads one post on Reddit about the Everdark skirmish. “Incredible fight,” declares another.

Should you defeat the new Nightlord, you’ll unlock a Relic that may be of particular interest to Revenant and Recluse mains: it increases your maximum FP, restores FP on successive attacks, and raises FP permanently for every Sorcerer’s Rise you release.

As a small bonus, another thing the new update brings to the table is that the game will now tell you what type of weapon something is when you look at it, so you can stop picking up the wrong thing all the time. Not bad!

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