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From 2008: "WALL-E" trailer features the stars from "Toy Story."
The results are in, and the latest laureates in the Robot Hall of Fame range from the absolutely lovable WALL-E cartoon character to the positively scary BigDog robo-runner. This year's class, announced during a Tuesday night ceremony at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, also includes the pint-sized, soccer-playing NAO humanoid robot and the PackBot bomb-disposal robot.
The Robot Hall of Fame was created in 2003 by Carnegie Mellon University to recognize excellence in robotics technology. More than two dozen machines, real and fictional, have been inducted over the past nine years, but the Class of 2012 is the first to be selected by popular vote instead of a panel of judges.
"More than any previous class of inductees, this group of robots selected by popular vote represents contemporary robotics — robots at the cutting edge of technology — rather than older robots of strictly historical importance," Shirley Saldamarco, the Robot Hall of Fame's director and a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, said in a news release. "Two of our inductees, NAO and Packbot, are commercially available, and BigDog is still the focus of active research. Even our fictional honoree, WALL-E, is from a movie that's just four years old."
More than 17,000 people from around the world participated in the online vote during August and September, the Hall of fame said. The four laureates were chosen from 12 nominees in the categories of education/consumer, entertainment, industrial/service and research.
Unfortunately, for every winner there are two robots that would probably be saying "it's an honor merely to be nominated." If they could talk, that is. The also-rans include the fictional Johnny 5 from the movie "Short Circuit"; NASA's Robonaut 2 android, which is currently being tested on the International Space Station; and the deep-sea-diving Jason remotely operated vehicle.
Johnny 5, at least, can take solace in the fact that he was the runner-up robot in our People's Choice poll, which brought in more than 3,300 votes. Write-in votes were cast for other fictional fan favorites, such as B9 from "Lost in Space" (DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!); Bender, the alcohol-swigging, politically incorrect robot from the "Futurama" TV series; and the robo-crew from "Mystery Science Theater 3000."
To learn more about the new inductees, check out the videos below — and then click on the Web links for bios on the other machines honored by the Robot Hall of Fame.
"WALL-E" was the lovable star of the 2008 Disney/Pixar animated movie of the same name. The robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that ends up deciding the fate of humanity. Other Robot Hall of Fame nominees in the entertainment category included Rosie from "The Jetsons" and Johnny 5 from "Short Circuit."
Created by iRobot, PackBot performs bomb disposal and other dangerous missions for troops and first responders. More than 4,500 units are currently on station in Iraq and Afghanistan. PackBot also saw service in Japan in the aftermath of last year's Fukushima nuclear disaster. Other nominees in the industrial/service category include Kiva Systems' warehouse robots and the Jason submersible from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Aldebaran Robotics' NAO robot is used as an education platform and in the RoboCup robot soccer Standard Platform League. Other nominees in the education/consumer category included iRobot's CREATE and the VEX Robotics Design System.
Boston Dynamics' BigDog is a dynamically stable quadruped robot that can traveres difficult terrain and run at 4 mph while carrying 340 pounds and climbing a 35-degree incline. The Pentagon is supporting its development as a robotic pack mule for soldiers in terrain that is too rough for conventional vehicles. Other nominees in the research category were Willow Garage's two-armed PR2 mobile robot and NASA's Robonaut.
2010 honor roll: NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers; Roomba floor-cleaning machine; da Vinci Surgical System; Huey, Dewey and Louie from "Silent Running"; T-800 Terminator from the "Terminator" film series.
2008 honor roll: Lt. Commander Data from "Star Trek: The Next Generation"; the Raibert Hopper, a pioneer in robotic locomotion; NavLab 5, an autonomous minivan; Lego Mindstorms educational robotics kits.
2006 honor roll: Aibo robotic dog; SCARA robotic arm; Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still"; David from the movie "A.I."; Maria from the movie "Metropolis."
2004 honor roll: Honda's ASIMO android; the animated Japanese "Astroboy" character; C3PO from the "Star Wars" saga; Robby the Robot from "Forbidden Planet"; and Shakey the Robot, a mobile robot that could figure out how to get around a room.
2003 honor roll: Mars Pathfinder's Sojourner rover; GM's Unimate assembly-line robotic arm; R2-D2 from "Star Wars"; HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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|As promised, an in-depth article talking about the Bird of Prey has gone up. The comments pages of the relevant ships now have links to the articles.
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|A number of ships have been replaced with better scans - the Peregrine, the K'T'Inga, the Vor'Cha, the B'Rel and the D'Deridex. Also, the cytherian probe, Talaxian fighter, and Hirogen ship pictures have been cleaned up somewhat. Finally, the Enterprise-B subtype of the Excelsior class has been added.
|A bunch of ship masses have been re-worked. Initially I based the masses of many classes on the 200,000 ton figure for the Constitution class given in the Star Fleet Technical Manual, but when I changed the mass of the Connie to be more in line with Scotty's "nearly a million gross tons" statement I forgot to re-work the other figures. Thanks to Dan Surfus for both pointing out the problem and greatly helping in devising the new system for determining a ship's mass.
Much more far reaching, the Bird of Prey entry has finally been re-written completely. After much reviewing of tapes, I've abandoned the 'official' small B'Rel and big K'vort in favour of a whole set of subtypes of different sizes. This also spills over into an altered fleets section. There is discussion of each ship on its comments page, but at some point I'm probably going to write a whole big article on the Bird of Prey variants for the new articles section. Speaking of which...
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|Voyager season seven episode five, "Critical Care" goes up today.
|As mentioned a couple of weeks back, we're greatly expanding selected comments pages into articles on various topics. We've decided to group these together in an articles section which has replaced the "Power" section. The previous power articles are still there and unchanged for now, but they'll probably be re-written into an article or articles similar to the others eventually (I've been promising to do this for ages now, but still haven't gotten around to it). Anyway, to go with the idea of various Bird of Prey sizes above, we kick off with an article on the issues involved in scaling objects up and down. We've also moved the transwarp article to this section, along with the discussion of the maps. The comments pages which previously contained this stuff now have only a brief mention and a redirect to the new section.
|Warp Scales
|A better version of the graph of warp speed and power consumption has gone up.
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|We've changed the size of the DY-100 to a figure based on direct comparison in the episode. We've also added some images : the Saturn V launcher as used in the Apollo moon landings, since this launcher featured in the episode "Assignment : Earth", the Caretaker's Array from Voyager's "Caretaker", the Starfleet Executive shuttle. We've also put an image of the DY-100 with its launch boosters attached on. Finally, there are improved images of the Travel pod, Orbital shuttle and Dreadnought.
|Series Guides
|"Repression" Voyager season seven episode four, has gone up.
|A new list, containing descriptions of some of the items of science and technology we've seen in Trek. This one doesn't try to be a complete list, nor does it try to list the episodes each item was first seen in. At the moment the A-F section is the most complete, but we're planning to update the remainder as time and interest allow.
|Starting this weekend we're starting to re-write some of our comments pages. Up to now these have been fairly short, limited pretty much to outlining why we've made some of the guesses we have in the main body of the site. Now we're expanding selected comments pages into large-scale detailed articles discussing the pros and cons of our ideas. To start with, we've expanded the transwarp comments page into a discussion of both my personal transwarp theory and of transwarp and warp 10 related scenes in general.
|The "Other Species" entry for the Delta Quadrant has had no less than sixteen new species put onto it. All are from Voyager season three.
|Breen Frigate
|After a few emails, the Breen Frigate entry has been mostly rewritten. There are new specs, an almost completely new comments page and an excellent image onto the images page. Many thanks to those who mailed me, especially Alexander Marteby.
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For the Navajo and Hopi, running is much more than a sport, it is woven into the cultural fabric of their lives. Encouraged by their elders, many Navajos and Hopis begin running at an early age - to greet the morning sun, to prepare for a ceremony or simply to challenge themselves in the vast, southwestern landscape. In the rugged canyon lands of Northern Arizona, Navajo and Hopi cross-country runners from two rival high schools vie for the state championship while striving to find their place among their native people and the larger American culture. D
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Alisa Shakor -Vocals
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The band was originally formed in 2005 by vocalist Alisa Shakor as an all-female band under the name Alice in Wonderland. Brothers Pavel (guitar) and Sergey Lihotvor (bass) joined the band shortly afterwards, and through numerous line up changes over the next few years the trio of Alisa, Pavel and Sergey remained the core of the band. The current…


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WASHINGTON -- The American Century is dead. Long live the next American Century.
The subtext of political debate these days is that the United States is in decline -- a proposition often portrayed as self-evident. The economy lacks dynamism; unemployment near 8 percent remains at recession levels. The president and his Republican critics barely talk to each other; stalemate seems unending. But what if America isn't in decline? A powerful rebuttal comes from an unlikely place: Wall Street.
In a report to clients, analysts at Goldman Sachs argue that the United States still has the world's strongest economy -- and will for years. There is a growing "awareness of the key economic, institutional, human capital and geopolitical advantages the U.S. enjoys over other economies," contend Goldman's analysts.
As proof, they deploy voluminous facts. For starters, the U.S. economy is still the world's largest by a long shot. Gross domestic product (GDP) is almost $16 trillion, "nearly double the second largest (China), 2.5 times the third largest (Japan)." Per capita GDP is about $50,000; although 10 other countries are higher, most are small -- say, Luxembourg. The size of the U.S. market makes it an attractive investment location.
Next, natural resources. In a world ravenous for food and energy, the United States has plenty of both. Its arable land is five times China's and nearly twice Brazil's. The advances in "fracking" and horizontal drilling have opened vast natural gas and oil reserves that, until recently, seemed too expensive to develop. The International Energy Agency predicts that the United States will become the world's largest oil producer -- albeit temporarily -- by 2020.
In turn, the oil and gas boom bolsters employment. A study by IHS, a consulting firm, estimates that it has already created 1.7 million direct and indirect jobs. By 2020, there should be 1.3 million more, reckons IHS. Secure and inexpensive natural gas also encourages an expansion of U.S. manufacturing, Goldman argues. That's another plus.
Poorly skilled workers are often counted as a U.S. economic liability. Goldman's perspective is different. American workers will remain younger and more energetic than their rapidly aging rivals. By 2050, workers' median age in China and Japan will be about 50, a decade higher than in America. Moreover, the United States attracts motivated immigrants, including "highly educated talent." A Gallup survey of 151 countries found the United States was the top choice for those wanting to move, at 23 percent. At 7 percent, the United Kingdom was second.
Finally, Goldman expects the United States to remain the leader in innovation. America performs the largest amount of research and development (31 percent of the global total in 2012) and has more of the best universities (29 out of the top 50, according to one British ranking).
Up to a point, this is convincing. America's strengths have been underestimated. Compared with Europe and Japan -- the world's other enclaves of affluence -- our prospects are brighter. But the Goldman report, which advises investors where to put their money, is an incomplete guide to the future. It may explain why U.S. stocks have recovered to near pre-crisis records. But it's not how most people view national "decline."
If your neighbor's house burns down and only half of yours does, you are relatively better off than your neighbor -- but you're worse off than you used to be. It's in that sense that America's prospects exceed Europe's and Japan's. But this advantage doesn't erase the huge economic losses suffered by millions of Americans. Most will reasonably conclude that their country is in decline. Demoralized, they will be less supportive of U.S. economic, political and military leadership abroad. This is how domestic disappointment translates into global retreat.
But "Is America in decline?" may be the wrong question. The truth is that most of the affluent world -- again, the United States, Europe and Japan -- faces similar threats.
First: Their welfare states are overwhelmed. Aging societies face a collision between promised benefits and acceptable taxes. Either the first must be cut or the second must be raised. The politics are poisonous. As the Goldman report notes, how the United States handles its debt creates enormous uncertainty. The same is true elsewhere.
Second: Economic management is breaking down. Before the 2007-09 financial crisis, most economists thought they could avoid deep slumps and engineer acceptable recoveries. Confidence has given way to contentious disagreements. Policies are improvised.
Third: Global markets have run ahead of global politics. Countries depend increasingly on international trade and money flows. But globalized commerce is menaced by nationalistic, ethnic, religious and political differences among nations.
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NEW YORK — Think the moon has many craters? New photos from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury show that the tiny inner planet has far more impressive battle scars from regular high-speed peltings by space rocks.
NASA's Messenger spacecraft, which began orbiting the planet less than two weeks ago, reveals a pock-marked planet full of craters from pieces of asteroids and comets.
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"Mercury has had an exposed surface for at least 3.5 to 4 billion years, and some of those surfaces are extremely cratered to the point where there are so many craters they start to obscure one another," said mission chief scientist Sean Solomon.
He said it was surprising how many secondary craters there are. Those are craters created by the falling soil kicked up from space rock collisions.
Those initial space rock crashes "throw out a lot of material in the explosive process," Solomon said.
One area of the far north of Mercury had never been seen by previous spacecraft on mere fly-bys. The new images show scatterings of secondary craters, almost like a loaded pizza, but not the primary crater that was first carved out. The region is also so far north that the sun barely gets above the horizon and casts long shadows.
"It's heavily cratered," Solomon said Wednesday. "It may have happened on a particularly bad day."
The secondary craters usually are six miles (10 kilometers) wide but can be as much as 15 miles (25 kilometers) wide, much larger than secondary craters on the moon, Solomon said.
He said that could be because the chunks of asteroids and comets are moving faster as they get closer to the gravitational pull of the sun so they smack Mercury harder, causing the soil to bounce higher and make bigger secondary craters. The fact that Mercury, unlike the moon, is shrinking and has a magnetic field could be another factor.
Mercury is also darker and appears more weather-beaten than the moon, because of "the constant bombardment of the surface by dust particles and small meteoroids," Solomon said.
Messenger has been circling Mercury only since March 17. In its first day of photo transmission, the space probe sent back 224 pictures, Solomon said. By the end of this week, NASA will have received more than 15,000 pictures from the $446 million spacecraft.
The first imaged offered a glimpse of the planet's dark, frigid south pole, where scientists think there may be ice. But the photo isn't close enough to tell if radar images from Earth that hint at ice are correct, Solomon said. Photos of the poles are scheduled for later in the mission.
Messenger will spend at least a year circling Mercury and start mapping the planet on Monday, eventually crashing into the planet when the mission is over.
Mercury and Messenger are about 66 million miles (106 million kilometers) from Earth.
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I have e1405 and have tried various distributions. Now it uses Mandriva 2009.0 . The native resolution is 1440×900 and I've never met problems using the 915resolution package. Card reader is working fine too.
Other distributions I've tried are Gentoo, (K)ubuntu (from 6.06 to 8.10), Fedora 10. (Note: there is comprehensive wiki-howto specially for Gentoo).
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Project GODUS
- UPDATE: You can watch us LIVE on http://www.twitch.tv/22cans We will be broadcasting on Friday 21st December the last day of our Kickstarter. You can see an archive from Wednesday's broadcast here.
- UPDATE 23: 19/12/12 Audio and music
- UPDATE 22: 19/12/12 Stretching our goals a little further.
- UPDATE 21: 18/12/12 Multiplayer Prototype video, annotated volcano god power and more details about the add-ons.
- UPDATE 20: 18/12/12 Production Update.
- UPDATE 19: 17/12/12 Prototype video, DRM information, Exclusive homeworld totems and your face on Curiosity for all backers .
- UPDATE 18: 16/12/12 Art Update, Discover the art behind Godus with, 22cans Art Director, Paul McLaughlin
- UPDATE 17: 14/12/12: Technology Update, new pitch video (the original pitch video is posted below)
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- UPDATE 15: 13/12/12: An endorsement, a video, meet Paul and a wallpaper.
- UPDATE 13: 11/12/12: Avatars for everyone, a new milestone and meet Tim and Gary.
- UPDATE 12: 10/12/12: New platform announcement, new tier and god power
- UPDATE 11: 09/12/12: Team Video, add-ons and coverage report
- UPDATE 9: 06/12/12: Prototype Update, Curiosity and meet the team.
- UPDATE 8: 05/12/12: Prototype video, meet the team and new tiers.
- UPDATE 7: 04/12/12: Meet the team, updated game information and add-ons
- UPDATE 6: 02/12/12: Designing GODUS with Peter & Jack #6 Weekend fire side chat about GODUS
- UPDATE 5: 30/11/12: Designing GODUS with Peter & Jack #5 In-game pet or familiar and a summary, explaining the tornado, a document about the design summary so far and press coverage
- UPDATE 4: 29/11/12: Designing GODUS with Peter & Jack #4 Followers, Prototype information plus a Currency Conversion Chart for our European and American friends
- UPDATE 3: 28/11/12: Designing GODUS with Peter & Jack #3 God Powers, New tiers update
- UPDATE 2: 27/11/12: Designing GODUS with Peter & Jack #2 Singleplayer and Multiplayer video, new artwork
- UPDATE 1: 26/11/12: Designing GODUS with Peter & Jack #1 Inspirations video, First teeshirt design, Titanium jewellery with diamond
GODUS is an innovative reinvention of Populous, the original god game and delivers exciting global co-operation, competition, creation and destruction to a whole new generation..
The dream at 22cans is to make gaming meaningful. We want to engage people in fresh new ways with accessible, delightful games and experiences. We're calling them experiments. Curiosity – what's inside the cube was the first of these and we're taking what we've learnt from it and applying it to future projects such as our next step - GODUS.
Populous was created over 22 years ago, and we believe that to date, nothing has come close to emulating its powerfully godlike experience. It's this experience we aim to reimagine. GODUS blends the power, growth and scope of Populous with the detailed construction and multiplayer excitement of Dungeon Keeper and the intuitive interface and technical innovation of Black & White. The original Populous hailed from the 8-bit era but GODUS will use the most modern technology the world has to offer.
And you can help us make it!
As a god your destiny is to spread your influence throughout the world. But you are only as powerful as your following. Using your ability to sculpt the land, you can create a habitable environment that will allow a population of believers to flourish. In your crafted utopia you can grow as a god in the face of various challenges that affect the population. You can watch hundreds of individual followers live out their lives with dynamic and captivating behavior. If you choose to spread out and conquer more lands however, you will confront other gods with their own civilizations of followers. There is only room for one god, so prepare to guide your worshippers into battle by altering the world around them with your god powers, then watch your followers reign victorious across the world.
Half a living sandbox world, and half a strategy game, players can choose to explore the power of the almighty however they wish. Whether it's granting the power of life and blossoming the world around your believers, or using godly powers to wreak havoc via natural disasters to defeat the armies of other gods, prepare for the Ultimate God Game: Single Player, Multiplayer, Cross-Platform gameplay, sandbox worlds, strategic battles, living populations, and the power to create, change, and destroy the very structure of the world.
- An essential part of GODUS is single player. We all love to take the time to hone our godly powers before venturing into the exciting multiplayer wars with other gods.
- It's a living world, unique and detailed. And it's a world you influence, whether you're good or evil.
- GODUS is instantly accessible, easy to learn but immensely deep.
- As you flourish and build your own cult, you'll engage in pitched battles with other gods and their cults. It's a multiplayer power-struggle the way it should be.
- GODUS draws on the cunning battle-psychology of Dungeon Keeper, the living, changing world of Black & White and the instinctive, satisfying gameplay of Populous.
- Plus you get to be a god. In fact, play well and you get to be the ultimate god!
- GODUS will be developed for the Mac, PC and Mobile devices, we hope to be able to add more platforms as our Kickstarter campaign progresses.
We are a proudly independent company founded in March 2012, and we're passionate about creating the next generation of innovative digital entertainment. We believe that a great team with great ideas can lead to great success, and, driven by true innovation and creativity, we're determined to make some truly unique products.
22cans has been set up with our own personal savings and the talented team we've assembled has already built and released the bizarrely popular Curiosity – what's inside the cube. But we need funding to continue, and rather than partner with a publisher, we're keen to explore the exciting new Kickstarter platform. It means we can stay independent and it gives you the opportunity to have a voice in the development of GODUS.
Our backgrounds include Bullfrog Productions, Lionhead Studios, Electronic Arts, Microsoft and many others. Most of us have been developing computer games for a long time, and we've worked on titles such as Populous, Syndicate, Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, Fable, The Movies, Risen, Moshi Monsters, Sniper Elite V2, and Curiosity – what's inside the cube of course.
One member of our team is Tim Rance, who in 1989 as Technical Director for Electronic Arts worked on the two-player multiplayer feature for the original Populous as it was released for DOS (those of you unfamiliar, it's the version before Windows). We also have people from Rockstar London, Mind Candy and several other places we really can't mention. Paul McLaughlin has worked with Peter on every Bullfrog game since Populous.
We're a talented team, highly experienced at playing and creating games and it's fair to say we're extremely passionate about them. Plus we love the idea of using Kickstarter to fund GODUS. Why? We'll tell you…
With GODUS we want to make a game in a culture of openness, co-operation and honesty. Creating a game involves imagination and passion, and we're keen to share the experience. So we want to make GODUS with you watching and, we hope, participating. Funding it via Kickstarter allows us to stay a small independent team with unlimited freedom in our creativity. It'll just be you, us and our unbridled dedication (no publishers).
You see, although GODUS is a new idea, we're keen to return to the spirit which started it all. In 1989, in a small, cramped office in Guildford, England, a hard-working and enthusiastic duo experimented, collaborated, took risks and came up with Populous, a game which would become a legend and which would launch the god game genre.
We're going to make GODUS in that same spirit. And your support will enable you to be involved at every stage as we share everything we do and learn with you. We'll produce video diaries, blogs, live streams, developer chats and a great deal more. We aim to end up with a truly delightful game and as you play it, you'll be able to say that you also played your part in its very creation.
We'll fund an experienced team of 22 people to make GODUS. That's not a big team – we're doing this efficiently. But we're committed to quality, so we'll create outstanding gameplay, characters, artwork, animations, sound and music, and the very world itself. With your help we'll turn our great idea into successful reality.
We need £450,000 to do this. Yes, games typically cost more than that to make, but we're sticking to a small, highly effective team and we'll be employing careful management to keep the project on track and get the most out of our funding.
GODUS will take seven to nine months to complete, but if we exceed the amount of funding we're asking for, we'll use the extra to enhance the game further and support additional platforms which will add a little more time to the development schedule. Should we find ourselves in that happy situation, as a thank you, we'll collaborate with you to implement the ideas and features you love the most.
What do you get for pledging? The full details are just over there, on the right. As you'd expect, the greater your support, the more you'll get in return. But everyone who pledges will be able not only to watch as the game takes shape and get cool stuff, they'll also be able to influence its design. During GODUS's development there will be many instances where specific decisions need to be taken and choices made. As a valued supporter we see you as part of the Project, so you'll be able to suggest, comment and vote to determine many elements of the game. As you'll discover, designing games is intriguing.
Depending where you are are in the world, you might start thinking about Thanksgiving and even Christmas soon. We've got you covered...any gamers you know, people who maybe even played the original Populous or Dungeon Keeper, you can now get them a very special gift.
Here's a visual indication of the exciting items you will receive in return for your generosity:
We would love to hear from you. We have a website, can also be found and liked on Facebook and we also send out little updates of 140 characters or less on Twitter.
Our Peter Molyneux can also be found on Twitter @pmolyneux.
Of course we'll continuously update this page until we've finished and released GODUS, we will also listen to what you have to say and refine our Kickstarter page accordingly.
Thank you so much for helping us make GODUS. If you are unable to back and pledge (but we really hope you can help us make GODUS a reality with however small an amount) then sharing this page with your friends and family would be wonderful too.
With your help we will make GODUS a reality and reinvent the entire god game genre.
Digital Add-Ons:
- Digital Download Gift Pack. Receive an acorn that you can plant in your home-world, and over time a tree will grow. You will also get to reserve a name for your own clan and you'll get your own world flag for your Homeworld! +£7 (approximately $11)
- Digital Soundtrack +£10 (approximately $16)
- Extra GODUS beta access +£10 (approximately $16)
Physical Add-Ons:
(Requires the base pledge to be at the £5 tier or above. Any pledge that ends up including a physical reward will require £10 for international shipping, unless it has already been included in the base pledge (e.g £60+). You will only have to pay shipping once.
- 22cans tee-shirt +£16 (approximately $26)
- GODUS tee-shirt +£16 (approximately $26)
- Printed, Exclusive GODUS artwork +£20 (approximately $32)
To add an add-on to your pledge, follow these steps:
Please click on the 'Manage Your Pledge' button on this page. If you have not pledged yet it will say 'Back this Project'.
Increase your pledge in the 'Pledge Amount' by the total of the add-ons you want.
You do not need to change the tier you are currently pledging for. If you want to do so, you will then need to add the total of your add-ons onto the amount of the new tier you have choosen.
We will send all our backers a survey at the end of our Kickstarter campaign that will ask you which add-ons you want.
Risks and challenges
The challenge is to reinvent a genre and make a great game in a short space of time. We'll only release GODUS once it's the fantastic game we know it can be. And we want to get it into the hands of players in less than a year from now. GODUS is going to be powerful, unique and rather wonderful, and luckily we're going to be able to draw on our Kickstarter backers to beta test it with us. Yes, if you back it, you can help us finish GODUS and we'll have taken another huge step towards the big game which will be the culmination of 22cans' 22 experiments.
22cans has a lot of game industry veterans so we know the risks – GODUS will be using new technology and that has to be tested and perfected. Balancing and bug-testing the game will also take time. And there are many other factors; for example, Curiosity – what's inside the cube showed us what happens when everyone wants to engage with your product online at the same time. We learnt a lot from that in a very short space of time.
Finally, trying Kickstarter is itself a risk. Our backers deserve a great game they've funded, seen in through its development and helped create. We can make it if we achieve the amount we're asking for.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Funding period
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Konica Minolta's NC-1 Non-Contact In-Line Color Measurement System Provides Real-Time Color Analysis
Konica Minolta Sensing Americas, Inc. (KMSA) has announced the launch of its latest color measurement solution; the NC-1 non-contact in-line system. Engineered to monitor and control color, the new system provides real-time analysis of color for quality and process control.
The NC-1 system is designed for indispensable color critical applications that require a high consistency of color quality. Designed to withstand harsh plant conditions and production settings, NC-1 is geared towards closed loop applications in food, plastic, textile, building materials, and medical industries.


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This abstract pour painting pendant is a one of a kind, handmade piece by artist Susan Holt. It was created in 2018. It is created by taking a piece of the dried overflow paint from an acrylic pour painting that is cut and laid into a bezel. Casting resin in carefully poured into the bezel and allowed to cure for three days.
These pendants do not come with a chain so that the wearer can customize it to their taste, be it a chain, ribbon, or leather necklace.
The resin will yellow over time, giving each piece an antique hue.
It measures 1.25x1 inches.
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BMW i represents a sustainable mobility concept even more than it stands for innovative electric and hybrid cars. Cars and mobility services are intelligently linked to promote urban mobility with and without cars. The BMW-owned venture capital firm BMW i Ventures supports many such services. Following a local trial phase, the services are usually offered at national level. We will present the most important here.
DriveNow is the car sharing service of BMW i, MINI and SIXT. Users can rent cars very flexibly, when and where they need them: The mobility concept is based on the motto "pick up anywhere, drop off anywhere". Billing is per-minute, fuel costs and parking charges in public car parks are included. Uses can locate available cars using the app, website or just on the street. A chip in the driving license acts as an electronic key.
DriveNow is currently available in Munich, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Cologne and San Francisco. Further cities are being planned. The car portfolio is continually being expanded. Electric cars are an important element of the vehicle fleet.
ParkNow is an app- and web-based service that will change parking forever. Firstly, by providing a clear overview of the parking situation in a city. Its partner car parks can be filtered by price, distance or even availability of services, such as charging stations or car wash. Secondly, you can use ParkNow to make a confirmed booking for your parking spot in advance and are then guided directly to your destination. You access the parking garage using an electronic ticket. Payment is made automatically by credit card on exiting the car park. This puts an end to the stress of searching for a parking space, confusion about charges and the tedious searching for change and the ticket. And incidentally, it is also good for the environment, as it eliminates the need to drive around in search of parking.
ParkNow is currently available in the greater San Francisco area and will soon be expanded to other cities.
ChargeNow is a mobility service from BMW i which makes it very easy to quickly locate and use public charging stations of different providers. The ChargeNow card is used for cashless charging and payment and can be used at all ChargeNow partners. All available charging stations are displayed in BMW i Navigation thanks to BMW i ConnectedDrive.
Once per month you receive a detailed statement of the individual charges billed and the corresponding costs.
You'll go far with the BMW i3 with eDrive.
To create ideal prerequisites for the use and promotion of innovative mobility services, the BMW Group founded BMW i Ventures - a venture capital firm based in New York City. At an early or advanced stage, BMW i Ventures invests in companies from the mobility sector that have significant potential. The company benefits from access to the extensive resources of the BMW Group, and also from the speed and flexibility of a start-up. The goal is to enter into long-term strategic partnerships. As a result, BMW i customers benefit from the greatest possible flexibility in relation to personal mobility.
Know everything that's going on in your city: MyCityWay is a free smartphone app for everyday use designed to inspire you as a kind of electronic travel guide. The app provides a wealth of information: from current traffic reports and pharmacy opening hours to the location of an ATM or even restaurant tips. MyCityWay determines your location and gives you customised information - in real time. Depending on your level of familiarity with the city, you can switch between two options: Local and Newcomer, each with tailor-made information.
MyCityWay is currently available for over 70 cities and is continually being expanded.
ParkatmyHouse.com is an innovative online marketplace that brings together owners of private parking spaces and people in search of parking. The platform creates an additional supply of parking by making privately owned spaces available.
People who need parking benefit conveniently from parking prices which are usually low, while building and property owners can also earn a little extra: a win-win situation for all involved.
ParkatmyHouse was founded in London in 2006. This is the second strategic investment by BMW i Ventures. The company is expanding globally.
ChargePoint has the world's largest network of charging stations for electric cars. BMW i customers can use this network very easily via ChargeNow: with one central access card. BMW i customers also benefit from more advanced technology: ChargePoint, which operates in numerous countries, uses cloud-based solutions that optimise all customer services, including billing.
This is made possible through strategic investment by BMW i Ventures in Coulomb Technologies, the parent company of ChargePoint. BMW's stake helps ChargePoint to continually expand and improve its charging station infrastructure. This means that you'll be able to access an even more extensive network of charging stations with your BMW i in the future.
Local traffic made easy Embark provides commuters with accurate, reliable and interactive help with reaching their destinations. Regionally specific, step-by-step instructions and real-time information about delays or train cancellations, for example, help users plan their journey optimally. The app is fully functional even without an internet or mobile connection.
Embark in currently available in 12 important transport networks in the U.S. and Great Britain, others are to follow.
Life360 is an innovative smartphone app that connects families in urban areas. Using location-based technology and the check-in functionality, the current location of the different family members is displayed on a map. Other available functions include direct chat and navigation guidance to a location; there is also a panic button which can be used to summon help in the event of an emergency.
The partnership between Life360 and BMW opens up new possibilities for innovative, location-specific and integrated mobility services. It supports and enriches the way in which families live in and experience cities.


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(frowny face me 2009)
Lubin Nuit de Longchamps - headache inducing powdery yuck. Scrubber.
Hermes 24, Fauborg - Ouch. It kinda makes sense I don't like this because I also don't like Maurice Roucel's creation Le Temps d'Une Fete (Parfums de Nicolai) either. (Sorry Mals - I know that is one of your favs)
Guerlain L'Heure Bleue - I blame it on the aldehydes.
Chanel #5 - don't mind the Premiere version. Okay okay..it's probably the aldehydes again!
That's it for now - I don't want to be all gloomy today - time to spritz on something happy, like Lubin Inedite!


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Anybody catch the recent Mashable.com or CNN articles on the feedback Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has received because she makes it a point to leave work at 5:30 pm every day? (You can read them here and here.) In a nutshell, Sandberg has always left the office around that time – a practice she started when she first had kids, but has only felt comfortable talking about it now that she is in upper management and (presumably) somewhat immune to corporate push back. ( Don't confuse leaving work with not working, by the way. Sandberg, like many others, checks email at all hours.)
Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore, who authored the CNN.com story, summarizes the mini-controversy that has evolved in the tech world as a result of Sandberg's coming clean: "In a competitive industry where your work is never truly complete, has it become socially awkward to leave work at a time that used to be the standard? And are those working eight-hour days that end at 5 p.m. being quietly judged by their co-workers? Whatever happened to "work-life balance"?
Good questions, to be sure. So good, in fact, that I felt compelled to pose a similar query to a panel of current and former healthcare CIOs – all guys, by the way – at the recent Women in Technology International (WITI) / GAHIMSS event, "Women in Healthcare IT Talk."
Piedmont Healthcare CIO Mark Pasquale was refreshingly candid in his response: "I don't have a work-life balance." His point being that, as a CIO overseeing a near-future EPIC ERP system go-live, his work day never really ends, especially given how connected he is via multiple mobile devices. He also pointed out that, as 85% of Piedmont's install team is internal, Piedmont spent copious amounts of time preparing that staff for the time commitment required to travel to Epic headquarters in Madison, Wisc., for training. Pasquale kept an open door, and said many staff members came by multiple times to hash out whether committing to such an intense project was the right move for them.
Fellow panelist Christopher Kunney, HIT Strategist at the BAE Company and former CIO of Piedmont, made the point that you have to be aware of what you're signing up for when you enter healthcare's executive ranks. Long days aren't unusual; they are the norm. Children's Healthcare of Atlanta CIO Praveen Chopra concurred, adding that his wife makes him limit use of his Blackberry on vacation to just one hour a day. Sonny Munter, CIO of Georgia's Dept. of Community Health, joked that he leaves his job everyday at 4pm – but gets going around 6 in the morning. Munter added that he makes it a point to surround himself with good staff members, which also helps in balancing his work and family obligations.
A second panel of healthcare executives – all female – pretty much agreed with their male counterparts. Patty Lavely, founder of CIO Consulting LLC and former CIO of three different health systems, did echo Facebook's Sandberg just a bit in her comment on the subject: "There comes a time when you have to say, 'This [work] will be here for me tomorrow. I need to go home and have dinner with my family tonight."
All of the panelists mentioned the need to prioritize workplace projects and challenges in a way that is suitable to the particular balance they need in their lives. They have triaged, so to speak, their commitments, priorities, deadlines, etc. to fit their schedules.
So, can healthcare IT folks – providers or vendors, executives or otherwise – ever be off the clock, never mind leave the office between 5 and 6? Share your stories and advice in the comments below.


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Can You Afford to Run Free Antivirus Software?
Until Microsoft announced their free Microsoft Security Essentials I would have said that the most obvious reason that David Hall, Symantec's Product Manager Asia-Pacific Consumer Products and Solutions, is right is that all of the notable vendors offering free antivirus, at least for Windows, use it as an upsell potential for their pay products, all of which are more capable programs. If they offer something better for money, surely the free product is deficient in some way, no?
Hall also emphasizes that the free products are bare-bones anti-malware, not full-blown Internet Security suites, and this is also true. Some users don't need all the protection in suites, but most do. Of course, the fact that Symantec still sells Norton Antivirus, also without the added protections against identity theft and the like also undercuts Hall's argument, but it doesn't change the fact that those simpler products are not appropriate for all users.
The difference with Microsoft is that they tried to make it in the commercial AV market and struck out. But free AV is not an upsell proposition for Microsoft. Their motives have to do with making the Windows "ecosystem" more secure. If everyone who otherwise would have no protection were using AVG's or Avira's free antivirus, Microsoft would have no reason to create their own. If Microsoft's product is as good as those, they will have done a good job. But so many users have no antivirus at all, that Microsoft figures they will get better penetration by putting their own name on it.
The free products also don't generally update themselves with the same frequency as the pay programs. One exception to this may be Panda's upcoming Cloud Antivirus, but it's a little early to say. The cloud approach does change the rules on updates.
I could cite competing authorities on whether the protection quality of the free products is good enough as compared to the pay products, but in a sense none of them are good enough. I see examples all the time of threats that absolutely no scanners detect (this one for example), so none of them are a substitute for common sense and skepticism when it comes to the Internet.
My common sense tells me that protection provided by the elite pay products is better than that provided by the free products. The reason there are free products, and why there will continue to be free products, is not that they're as good as the pay products, but that they're way better than nothing. The more people use them, instead of leaving themselves with big virtual "Kick Me" sign, the better off we all are.
Originally posted on the PCMag.com security blog, Security Watch.


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Giveaway: The Family Storybook Treasury
By Bianca Schulze, The Children's Book Review
Published: November 14, 2011
Two extremely lucky winners will receive a copy of The Family Storybook Treasury: Tales of Laughter, Curiosity, and Fun.
This collection of picture books contains many recent-time classics that the whole family can enjoy together. From Curious George to Mike Mulligan, there is a character and a story for everyone. Enter now!
Giveaway begins November 14, 2011, at 12:01 A.M. PST and ends December 12, 2011, at 11:59 P.M. PST.
Reading level: Ages 3-7
Hardcover: 304 pages


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mvscanw, mvwscanw, scanw, wscanw - convert formatted input from a window
cc [ flag... ] file... –I /usr/xpg4/include –L /usr/xpg4/lib \ –R /usr/xpg4/lib –lcurses [ library... ] c89 [ flag... ] file... –lcurses [ library... ] #include <curses.h> int mvscanw(int y, int x, char *fmt, …);
int mvwscanw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, char *fmt, …);
int scanw(char *fmt, …);
int wscanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, …);
Is the y (row) coordinate of the position of the character to be read.
Is the x (column) coordinate of the position of the character to be read.
Is a scanf() format string.
Is a pointer to the window in which the character is to be read.
These functions are similar to scanf(3C). Their effect is as though mvwgetstr(3XCURSES) were called to get a multi-byte character string from the current or specified window at the current or specified cursor position, and then sscanf() were used to interpret and convert that string.
Upon successful completion, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.
No errors are defined.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
scanf(3C), wcstombs(3C), getnstr(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), printw(3XCURSES), attributes(7), standards(7)


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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
As the wine turns
Seamus wasn't looking quite himself this morning. I'd made a Halloween pumpkin, carved out a carefully plotted set of eyes, one nose, one mouth. It glowed prettily with its fangs and squint, set on a windowsill. But that was a week ago. So long, Seamus, I glibly proffered as I clacked the door shut.
A week later, I'm back. Back in the night from a trip to the country, feeling around in the dim for just the right place to set the keys down, finding the way to bed in a trail of shoes and socks and pants and slipping into the covers.
This morning, I walked out in short clothes to make coffee. Oh, goodness. Seamus, no. He'd gone from ten to eighty in a few days. Time-lapse without the flow; a jerky leap into the derelict future. Wrinkled and cowed, he looked a pity. I should have kept him in the fridge like some Michael Jackson during my absence.
Farewell, fall friend.
–End flashback–
Wine is, of course, like that. Yes, I have it on good recommendation that such fare as Ca' de Noci's Notte di Luna can hold up when one leaves a part-empty bottle be for a bit. Ditto Radikon (but, sorry, when has a 500ml bottle of Radikon ever survived an evening?). Wine, though, doesn't hold once open to the air and all things that modify and corrupt it. It's an almost Dante-ish view of the world (everyone now reread the Purgatorio and hold hands).
Yet once again I'm curious about these different side- and after-effects of our passion for wine. I am, too, about how little is known regarding the chemical specifics. Why do some wines (I've heard) require a full-day decant? Others start to fall to pieces minutes (minutes!!! (she said, striking fear into hearts everywhere)) after uncorking?
Ah, it might be just that uncertainty and those flashes of unstable and unpredictable beauty that make wine such a wily and willful partner.
But it also might be that œnology should be considered a worthy science. Some money should be put into this stuff, smart people put on the case, and then we won't have to wonder and ask and do imprecise and costly experiments with aging and storage and all of the bugbears that thwart, challenge, and enflame wine lovers.
Despite my desire for a flippant conclusion, I'll remain staunch. Our fruitlihood is at stake.
8 comments:
- TWG said...
What where the pale bubbles in the previous post? Your two readers would like to know.
- October 21, 2010 at 3:55 AM
- Sharon said...
Ohhhh, right. Sorry to leave the issue hanging.
Though first I may have to be persuaded that there are actually two of you out there reading this.
I mean, it could be a total troll....
- October 21, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- TWG said...
I'm a gemini so that counts, right?
- October 21, 2010 at 2:09 PM
I'm reading and curious about the pink bubbles.
Many thanks,
- October 21, 2010 at 3:37 PM
Why surely it was the Pascal Doquet, no? Well, that settled, thank you for your eloquent and deliberate prose. It's good to know that remnants of the Algonquin reverberate twixt and tween the oceans. Oh, but perhaps I've spoken out of turn, only coming now to your musings does not confer insight. I half-heartedly recant my quick praise. More please.
- November 10, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Wine said...
We would like permission to syndicate your RSS feed at WineMiles.com in exchange for free promotion and exposure for your site to our users. I have a full email describing the nature and details of my request, however, I could not find any way to contact you on your web site? Please contact me regarding this request at: http://winemiles.com/contact-us/
- November 19, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Jacy said...
Indeed. It takes a knowing mind and careful hands to retain the quality of wine before and after opening the bottle. There are numerous factors that must be considered in order for the wine to remain at its perfect condition.
- November 23, 2010 at 11:50 PM
- Brenda said...
LoL, nice dramatic take on this. i always try to finish each glass within 5 minutes of it's pouring. good stuff
- March 28, 2011 at 9:13 PM


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Guest: Carla Kaplan, Professor of American Literature, Northeastern University
During the explosion of African American cultural and political activity that came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance, a number of white women played significant roles. Their involvement with blacks as authors, patrons, supporters and participants challenged ideas about race and gender and proper behavior for both blacks and whites at the time.
Guest Carla Kaplan, author of Miss Anne in Harlem: White Women of the Harlem Renaissance, joins us to talk about the ways white women crossed both racial and gender lines during this period of black affirmation and political and cultural assertion.
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As I blogged earlier this week, Mali's supposed "anti-jihad" efforts are looking remarkably like previous attempts at ethnic cleansing against "white" desert tribes by the black Malian majority. I am friends with a Malian Tuareg, M, who now has fled to Europe, but has family in Timbuktu.
Yesterday, the media reported that Malian forces had taken Timbuktu. Some reported of "reprisals against Islamist supporters". The reality appears to be that racial minority businesses have been robbed and individuals lynched. A Facebook update from M received yesterday:
Yesterday the black population of Timbuktu blessing and encouraged by Malian army break Tuareg and Moorish houses, stores and take their contained.
Why the French army did not say anything?
Ago the arrival of the Malian Army in Timbuktu all the Tuaregs and Moors have left the city leaving behind their property.
At the same time the black population that does not participate in the hunt against the Tuaregs and Moors are therefore considered Islamist [and lynched]!! This is terrible!!
killed by population and malian army in public
what are happing now is the some as in 1991, 1992, 1994
It is sad and not human
As ever, the moron media has swallowed the "war on terror" justification for this military action. And as they did in Rwanda, France turns away as one African tribe slaughters another.
Oh, and did you notice that, having diversified from Middle Eastern sources, the US now gets 25% of its oil from West Africa?


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Comey agrees to testify in public as Trump-Russia probe heats up
Investigators into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential elections are now authorized to probe whether White House officials have engaged in a cover-up, according to members of Congress who were briefed Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
A Justice Department official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the topic, confirmed that Rosenstein told members of the House of Representatives that the special counsel in charge of the probe, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, "has been given the authority to investigate the possibility of a cover-up."
But he denied that Rosenstein had told Congress such a probe was underway, noting that Rosenstein had declined to provide details of what is being explored. Where the investigation goes would be up to Mueller, the Justice Department official said.
Even as members of Congress were mulling the possible expansion of the case into a cover-up probe, and its reclassification from counterintelligence to criminal, the scandal appeared to grow.
The Washington Post reported Friday afternoon that federal investigators were looking at a senior White House official as a "significant person of interest." The article did not identify the official, though it noted that the person was "someone close to the president."
A person of interest is someone law enforcement identifies as relevant to an investigation but who has not been charged or arrested.
And The New York Times reported that Trump had told visiting Russian officials in the Oval Office that firing Comey had taken pressure off the Russia probe.
Meanwhile, Comey has agreed to testify publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the committee's senior members announced late Friday.
The announcement, issued jointly by the committee's Republican chair, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, and its senior Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, said Comey's appearance would take place after Memorial Day.
Burr said that he hoped Comey "will clarify for the American people recent events that have been broadly reported in the media" – a reference to news reports that he wrote private memos detailing meetings in which, the reports say, Trump asked him to drop the FBI's investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Cover-ups have traditionally been a major part of investigations that have threatened previous administrations. Articles of impeachment levied against Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton included allegations of obstruction of justice, as they were suspected of trying to hide other wrongdoing. Special counsels are authorized to investigate any interference with their investigations.
"This is a thorough investigation of what happened in the 2016 election, and it can go anywhere," said Rep. Mark Walker, R-N.C.
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the senior Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, described the possibility of a cover-up as the third branch of an investigation that began as a look at Russian meddling in the election and broadened into whether members of the Trump campaign had cooperated in that effort.
The election interference aspect, which was first alleged in October in a report by the U.S. intelligence community, appears to be an accepted fact, Cummings said.
What's left to be determined, Cummings said, is whether there was "collusion with the Russians, and the possibility of an attempt to cover up."
Questions about a possible cover-up have ballooned in the days since the existence of Comey's memos detailing his conversations with Trump was revealed.
Cummings called those memos particularly important after the Times' report of Trump's conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States. The Times said its report was based on a transcript of the Oval Office meeting, which Trump had the day after he fired Comey.
"This new report that President Trump openly admitted to the Russians that he 'faced great pressure' from the FBI's criminal investigation that was 'taken off' when he fired Director Comey is astonishing – and extremely troubling," Cummings said.
In a statement, the White House did not rebut the substance of the Times report. But it disputed that firing Comey would have altered the investigation. It added that the leak of the conversation, not its content, was the real story.
"The investigation would have always continued, and obviously the termination of Comey would not have ended it," the statement said. "Once again, the real story is that our national security has been undermined by the leaking of private and highly classified conversations."
As for the Post report, the White House said "a thorough investigation will confirm that there was no collusion between the campaign and any foreign entity."
On Friday, members of Congress said, Rosenstein clearly defined his role in Comey's dismissal, telling the assembly that while he had written a memo criticizing Comey's flouting of Justice Department rules for his public revelation of aspects of the Hillary Clinton email probe, it was not intended as a justification for firing Comey. The members said he said he'd been told of the decision to fire Comey before he was asked to write the memo.
Rosenstein declined to discuss the timing of the memo and who had asked him to write it, saying the memo and its role in Comey's firing were likely to be part of the investigation, which will now be led by Mueller, whom Rosenstein appointed special counsel on Wednesday.
"He refused to answer questions and he just kept pushing off everything onto Mueller," said Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., who pronounced the briefing "useless."
Despite such frustrations, members agreed that Rosenstein had received a warm reception from both Republicans and Democrats at the meeting, a development that they said showed not only praise for his selection of Mueller to oversee the probe but also a recognition that Republican resistance to an independent probe was futile.
"Everybody applauded," said Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo. "Well, almost everybody. Let's say 95 percent applauded. Still, two weeks ago, that would not have happened."
Cleaver said Rosenstein's opening statement was "clear, concise" and had let those in the room know "this is a real investigation, looking into very real issues."
"I came out of there knowing that I trust this deputy attorney general, that I trust this special counsel and while he didn't answer many questions, he had a clear reason for not answering," Cleaver said.
Republicans were more reluctant to share details of the briefing, citing its classified nature, but they said they expected Congress to continue its own investigations.
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said clearly there might come a time when the special counsel thought the congressional investigation might interfere with his own probe. "But so far, there's been no suggestion that we can't move forward," he said.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said one of his biggest takeaways was that Rosenstein had said he had no evidence that Comey had asked for more resources for the investigation before he was fired.
Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., sounded a note of caution, fearing the public won't be told the investigation's results if it falls short of criminal charges.
"If the investigation determines that (cooperation between Trump's campaign and the Russians) happened but it doesn't rise to the level not only of criminality but a case that can be made, how will the public ever know about that? A decision to not charge doesn't necessarily give us any of that information," he said.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article gave the wrong party for Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich.
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Use your body language and facial expression to convey that you mean what you're saying.
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Distract your child if they're having a tantrum. Pretend you find something really fascinating and get your toddler to come and have a look.
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LONDON — Abortion has driven a wedge between the Catholic Church and an organization that began as an ally.
Amnesty International (AI) was founded in 1961 by Peter Benenson, a British convert to Catholicism. But today, as a result of Amnesty International's recent decision to promote abortion rights, Church leaders say that Catholics should withdraw all financial support from the London-based human-rights organization.
"I believe that, if in fact Amnesty International persists in this course of action, individuals and Catholic organizations must withdraw their support, because, in deciding to promote abortion rights, AI has betrayed its mission," Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said in an e-mail interview.
The abortion policy has already cost Amnesty International the support of one long-time Catholic backer: Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan.
Said Father Berrigan, "One cannot support an organization financially or even individually that is contravening something very serious in our ethic."
Such a reaction from a human rights activist doesn't surprise Cardinal Martino. Amnesty International "has betrayed all of its faithful supporters throughout the years," he said, "both individuals and organizations, who have trusted AI for its integral mission of promoting and protecting human rights."
Until this year, Amnesty International was officially neutral on the issue of abortion. In April, the group's executive board decided to drop that neutrality. Now, the group will promote access to abortion for women who are victims of rape and for women whose life or health is endangered by pregnancy.
Widney Brown, Amnesty International's senior director of international law, policy and campaigns, said that discussion about the new abortion policy began more than two years ago, after Amnesty International became involved in a global campaign to stop violence against women.
According to Brown, in the context of that initiative Amnesty International officials talked to a lot of women who had been raped and wanted access to abortions as a consequence.
Brown also cited a World Health Organization estimate that 68,000 women die annually as a result of unsafe abortions.
"Once we looked at that figure, neutrality would have meant essentially saying it's okay that 68,000 women a year die because of criminalization of abortion," Brown said.
But Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), said Brown's argument that rape justifies access to abortion has been used routinely by pro-abortion lobbyists since the 1990s.
"During negotiations for the International Criminal Court, they used the phrase 'forced pregnancy,'" Ruse recalled. "They said that if a woman did not have access to abortion after a rape in wartime, she was said to have experienced 'forced pregnancy.' So they've been using this as a pretext for a very long time."
In fact, Amnesty International's Brown was directly involved in the effort to incorporate a pro-abortion definition of "forced pregnancy" into the International Criminal Court's statute. In 1998, while she was working for Human Rights Watch as an advocacy director for women's rights programs, she participated as a lobbyist for the pro-abortion Women's Caucus for Gender Justice in the negotiations in Rome that drafted the statute.
At the insistence of the Holy See delegation and other pro-life delegations at those negotiations, however, the statute includes a footnote stating the International Criminal Court's definition of forced pregnancy "shall not in any way be interpreted as affecting national laws relating to pregnancy."
Ruse said international abortion lobbyists use subterfuges like the rape issue to try to promote abortion as a "human right" because "they cannot come right out and win an up-or-down vote on abortion, even using extreme circumstances, at the United Nations."
Ruse also rejected Brown's claim that Amnesty International only recently began considering whether to promote abortion rights.
Ruse said that Amnesty International representatives at the United Nations have supported pro-abortion initiatives for a number of years.
According to Amnesty International's website, "AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards."
However, abortion is not mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or in any other internationally recognized human rights document. And the preamble of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, one of the United Nations' foremost human rights documents, states, "The child … needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth."
Brown conceded that the right to abortion is not "expressly" enshrined in international human rights.
But she argued that the "right to health" of the pregnant woman trumps the unborn child's right to life.
"Her right to health and the right to the quality of life that she needs and the healing that she needs, this is what we would say should be the priority," Brown said.
To such a viewpoint, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta once said, "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
Cardinal Martino said that Amnesty International's effort to justify abortion in the case of rape and threats to the mother's health is morally indefensible.
"The Church teaches that it is never justifiable to kill an innocent human life. Abortion is murder," he said. "To selectively justify abortion, even in the cases of rape, is to define the innocent child within the womb as an enemy, a 'thing' that must be destroyed. How can we say that killing a child in some cases is good and in other cases it is evil?"
Cardinal Martino is not the only person to condemn Amnesty International's promotion of abortion, and to warn that Catholics will withdraw support if the decision isn't reversed.
Last September, after media reports disclosed that the group was considering the change in abortion policy, Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, wrote a letter to Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan.
"If Amnesty International were to advocate for abortion as a human right, it would risk diminishing its own well-deserved moral credibility," Bishop Skylstad said. "It certainly would most likely divide its own members, many of whom are Catholic, and others who defend the rights of unborn children. It could jeopardize Amnesty's support by people in many nations, cultures and religions."
Father Berrigan said he first became acquainted with Amnesty's work in the 1960s, when the newly formed group launched a campaign on behalf of Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague, who was imprisoned by Czechoslovakia's Communist government after he spoke out against government abuses.
"I was very moved with the international activity on behalf of powerless people," Father Berrigan said. And, he added, no one is more powerless than unborn children in the womb who are at risk of being killed by abortion.
Father Berrigan emphatically agreed with Cardinal Martino's statement that individual Catholics and Catholic organizations should withdraw all support for Amnesty International if it doesn't reverse its decision to advocate for abortion rights.
"I've supported over the years Amnesty's take on prisoners of conscience around the world, and have been a member of Amnesty," he said. "And I was quite shaken by this change."
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Google and a smaller Internet provider are being forced by the federal government to turn over information from email accounts associated with a WikiLeaks volunteer.
A secret court order will require the Mountain View-based search company and Santa Rosa-based Sonic.net to provide data from the email accounts of Jacob Appelbaum, who was a volunteer for the controversial site WikiLeaks.
The government is reportedly after information about who Appelbaum associated with. Applebaum is one of the few people who is being investigated by the U.S. government for leaking classified documents.
Google declined comment when asked but Sonic.net said it tried to fight the order but could not afford to keep up the legal battle.


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Months before the planning, the fundraising and the physical training began, a simple question got their gears turning:
"Do you want to bike across America?"
When Brock Schauer posed the question to his cousin, Joe Berger, a high jumper at the University of Mary, and friend Devin Coyle, a defensive back on the University of North Dakota football team, the three became determined to make the idea a reality. Why? They yearned to do something to assist people with cancer, including Schauer's mother, who battles stage IV Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. It didn't matter that the three men from Mandan, North Dakota, had little cycling experience, or that the journey from their home state to Florida would stretch for 2,500 miles.
"Everybody's affected by cancer in some shape or form," Berger said. "It really hits home."
Berger, Coyle and Schauer formed Bike2Believe and set the goal of raising $400,000 for the Bismarck Cancer Center Foundation and an additional $100,000 for the American Cancer Society. They planned a bike route that would take them from Bismarck to St. Petersburg, Florida, and incorporate a dozen stops at hospitals to visit cancer patients. They created a website, amassed thousands of followers on social media and shared their story on the radio. They distributed t-shirts, garnered sponsorships and were recognized by politicians including North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.
"Right when we said we were doing this, we said it's got to be huge," Berger, a business administration and marketing major, noted. "When we put our mind to something, we do it, and we do it as hard as we can."
On May 31, community members gathered in Bismarck to see the Bike2Believe trio off on their cross-country trek. Averaging 70-75 miles a day, the men – followed by a support vehicle and camper – traveled through Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville, Nashville and Atlanta on their way to the Sunshine State.
Georgia, with its heat, humidity and hills, was the hardest portion of the ride, Coyle said; all six of the group's tires popped while riding through the state. At other points in the journey, heavy rain, swarming mosquitoes and minor falls tested the fledgling riders. Still, Coyle said the trek was easier than they expected, due in large part to the personal connections they made along the way.
"It was easy for us to stay inspired and ride each day when you met people who were fighting for their lives, literally, every day," he said.
Again and again, the men were struck by the welcoming and uplifting nature of those they encountered. They were greeted on the street with banners when they arrived at the Franciscan St. Francis Health Cancer Center in Indianapolis. At their next stop, in Louisville, the cyclists visited Camp Gilda, where they sang, danced and ate lunch with kids whose lives have been altered by cancer.
"It was so eye-opening for us, how positive these people are constantly, even if they have to wake up and get chemotherapy or radiation," Coyle said. "When we set out on this journey, we wanted to inspire people. We ended up being the ones inspired by them."
Berger, Coyle and Schauer reached their final destination in 34 days. They rode straight to the white sand of Florida's Clearwater Beach, stepped off their bikes and ran into the Gulf of Mexico, both waves and emotions washing over them.
In total, Bike2Believe raised $226,000. Of that, 80 percent will be donated to the Bismarck Cancer Center Foundation and the rest will be given to the American Cancer Society. The men will continue to accept donations until Christmas.
Soon, Berger and Coyle will return to their respective schools and teams, the all-day bike rides fading to summer memories. Coyle might ride to class on occasion, he said. But riding across the country again? That might have been a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.
"But," Coyle added, "you never know."


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Flag: Croatian
Nationality of Officers: Croatian
Nationality of Crew: Croatian
Official Language: English
Passenger Capacity: 39
Ship Speed: 9,5 knots
Sun deck: 100 m2
Length: 32 m
Beam: 7,60 m
Adriatic Cruise from Split on Afrodita
Split (Croatia) - Split (Croatia)
8 days / 7 nights - Sep 14, 2019
aboard Afrodita
Reward yourself with the experience of quaint coastal villages and medieval cities, picture-perfect islands, unspoiled scenery and cultural diversity of the Croatian Coast.
The yacht-like Afrodita is a 39 – passenger vessel perfectly designed for those who wish to see the authentic sites close up while calling tiny, romantic ports of the South and Middle Dalmatia.
Saturday: SPLIT
Embarkation in Split. Welcome dinner and overnight on board. For early arrivals there is a possibility to join an optional guided tour of Split and Trogir
Meals: Dinner
Sunday: SPLIT - BRAC - MAKARSKA
Morning departure to Brac Island - Enjoy the pleasant sea front promenade walk and swimming.
Lunch on board.
From Brac Island sail to Makarska on the mainland.
Meals: Breakfast and lunch, dinner only on the full board option
Monday: MAKARSKA - KORCULA
After breakfast departure to Korcula Island,with a stop en route for swimming and relaxing.
Lunch on board, late afternoon arrival to Korcula, the acclaimed birthplace of the famous explorer Marco Polo.
Meals: Breakfast and lunch, dinner only on the full board option
Tuesday: KORCULA - DUBROVNIK
Morning departure from Korcula to Dubrovnik. With a stop en route for swimming. Lunch on board. In the afternoon arrival to Dubrovnik, the pearl of Adriatic, famous city enlisted as UNESCO's World Heritage.
Dubrovnik, the city of glorious past, once the seat of the small but powerful Dubrovnik Republic.
Take a stroll around its city walls and fortresses, visit the Rector's Palace, Franciscan Monastery with one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe, or the Church of St.Blaise, the patron of the city. Explore the maze of its charming medieval back streets or relax in one of the street's outdoor cafés.
Dinner at one of numerous local restaurants of your choice or on board the ship if on full board option.
Meals: Breakfast and lunch, dinner only on the full board option
Wednesday: DUBROVNIK - MLJET NATIONAL PARK
Morning departure from Dubrovnik to Mljet Island with a stop for swimming on the way. Lunch on board.
Arrival to the heart of Mljet National Park, where you will enjoy a beautiful walk all around the Great and the Small Lake.
Meals: Breakfast and lunch, dinner only on the full board option
Thursday: MLJET - HVAR
Morning departure from Mljet to Hvar. Stop for swimming and relaxing in one of the secluded coves on Peljesac peninsula (weather permitting). Lunch on board.
Afternoon arrival to the town of Hvar with unique cultural and historical heritage and an important tourist destination with a centuries-old tradition in tourism.
The main attractions are its pleasant climate with a lot of sunshine, natural beauties, high- standard of accommodation, excellent gastronomic offer, sports and recreational opportunities etc.
Dinner at one of the local restaurants or on board the ship if on full board option.
Meals: Breakfast and lunch, dinner only on the full board option
Friday: HVAR - SPLIT
Morning departure from Hvar to Split, with a swimming and relaxing stop in Milna on Brac; Island. Lunch on board.
Meals: Breakfast and lunch, dinner only on the full board option
Saturday: SPLIT
Disembarkation after breakfast. For late departures there is a possibility to join an optional guided tour of Split and Trogir
Meals: Breakfast
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|Korcula (Croatia)
|Day 4
|Dubrovnik (Croatia)
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|Mljet (Croatia)
|Day 6
|Hvar (Croatia)
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|Split (Croatia)
Cruise Rates per person based on double-occupancy.
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|Bonus fares
|Lower Deck
|Main Deck
|Upper Deck
Additional charges
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Rates include:
- 7 overnights on board in cabin with private shower/toilet
- Breakfast daily, welcome dinner and 6 lunches (3 course menu)
- Captain`s dinner
- Luggage handling
- Professional Cruise Manager throughout
- Free Wi-Fi on board
Rates do not include:
- Tourist tax, € 35,00 per person to be paid
- Entrance fee to Mljet National park, € 15,00 EUR per person
- Drinks on board
This cruise provides plenty of time for sunbathing, swimming and exploring the charming Dalmatian towns. In case of unfavorable weather conditions, the cruise itinerary can be changed for the safety of passengers.
* Cruising route is subject to change depending upon weather conditions
* DELECTA reserves the right to change the vessel provider in case of the contracted services are not supplied according to the previously agreed standards.
Bookings are on request and need to be confirmed.
Deposit of 300,- Euro per person should be paid within 7 days from our written confirmation.
Deposit is non refundable.
Final payment is due 50 days prior to departure.
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