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New Plasma brings a cleaner interface on top of a new graphics stack
Plasma 5.0
July 15, 2014. KDE proudly announces the immediate availability of Plasma 5.0, providing a visually updated core desktop experience that is easy to use and familiar to the user. Plasma 5.0 introduces a new major version of KDE's workspace offering. The new Breeze artwork concept introduces cleaner visuals and improved readability. Central work-flows have been streamlined, while well-known overarching interaction patterns are left intact. Plasma 5.0 improves support for high-DPI displays and ships a converged shell, able to switch between user experiences for different target devices. Changes under the hood include the migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. Plasma is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5.
Major changes in this new version include:
An updated and modernized, cleaner visual and interactive user experience
The new Breeze theme is a high-contrast, flat theme for the workspace. It is available in light and dark variants. Simpler and more monochromatic graphics assets and typography-centered layouts offer a clean and visually clear user experience.
Smoother graphics performance thanks to an updated graphics stack
Plasma's user interfaces are rendered on top of an OpenGL or OpenGL ES scenegraph, offloading many of the computational-intensive rendering tasks. This allows for higher framerates and smoother graphics display while freeing up resources of the main system processor.
Other user-visible changes are:
Converged shell
The "converged Plasma shell" that loads up the desktop in Plasma 5.0 can be extended with other user experiences. This lays the base for a converged user experience bringing up a suitable UI for a given target device. User experiences can be switched dynamically at runtime, allowing, based on hardware events such as plugging in a keyboard and a mouse.
Modernized launchers
The application launchers' user interfaces have been reworked. Among the changes are a visually redesigned Kickoff application launcher, a newly included, more menu-like launcher, called Kicker and a new, QtQuick-based interface for KRunner.
Workflow improvements in the notification area
The notification area has been cleaned up, and sports a more integrated look now. Less popup windows and quicker transitions between for example power management and networks settings lead to a more distraction-free interaction pattern and greater visual coherence.
Better support for high-density (high-DPI) displays
Support for high-density displays has been improved. Many parts of the UI now take the physical size of the display into account. This leads to better usability and display on screens with very small pixels, such as Retina displays.
The Plasma 5.0 Visual Feature Guide provides a tour around the updated desktop.
Breeze Artwork Improves Visual clarity
Brightness Settings in Plasma 5
The new Breeze theme, which is still in its infancy, welcomes the user with a cleaner, modernized user interface, which improves contrast and reduces visual clutter throughout the workspace. Stronger reliance on typography eases the recognition of UI elements. These changes go together with flatter default theming and improved contrast to improve visual clarity further. Breeze being a new artwork concept, is only starting to show its face. A theme for the workspace components is already available, theming of traditional widgets is under way, and the work on a new icon theme has commenced. The migration to a fully Breeze-themed workspace will be a gradual one, with its first signs showing up in Plasma 5.0.
Plasma 5 brings a greater level of flexibility and consistency to core components of the desktop. The widget explorer, window and activity switcher now share a common interaction scheme. More reliance on vertical instead of horizontal lists provides better usability. Moving the window switcher to the side of the screen shifts the user's focus towards the applications and documents, clearing the stage for the task at hand.
Converging User Experience
Wallpaper Settings
The new-in-Plasma-5 "Look and Feel" mechanism allows swapping out parts like the task and activity switchers, lock and login screen and the "Add Widgets" dialog. This allows for greater consistency across central workflows, improves clarity within similar interaction patterns and changing related interaction patterns across the workspace at once.
On top of that, the Plasma 5 shell is able to load and switch between user experiences for a given target device, introducing a truly convergent workspace shell. The workspace demonstrated in this release is Plasma Desktop. It represents an evolution of known desktop and laptop paradigms. A tablet-centric and mediacenter user experience are under development as alternatives. While Plasma 5.0 will feel familiar, users will notice a more modern and consistent, cleaner workspace experience.
Fully Hardware-Accelerated Graphics Stack
Search in Plasma
Plasma 5 completes the migration of the Plasma workspace to QtQuick. Qt 5's QtQuick 2 uses a hardware-accelerated OpenGL(ES) scenegraph to compose and render graphics on the screen. This allows offloading computationally expensive graphics rendering tasks onto the GPU which frees up resources on the system's main processing unit, is faster and more power-efficient.
Internal changes in the graphics compositor and underlying Frameworks prepare support for running on Wayland, which is planned for an upcoming release.
Suitability and Updates
New Lock Screen
Plasma 5.0 provides a core desktop with a feature set that will suffice for many users. The development team has concentrated on tools that make up the central workflows. As such, not all features from the Plasma 4.x series are available yet, many of them planned to return with a subsequent release. As with any software release of this size, there will be bugs that make a migration to Plasma 5 hard, if not impossible for some users. The development team would like to hear about such issues, so they can be addressed and fixed. We have compiled a list of known issues. Users can expect monthly bugfix updates, and a release bringing new features and more old ones back in the autumn 2014.
With a substantial new toolkit stack below some exciting new crashes and problems that need time to be shaken out are to be expected in a first stable release. Especially graphics performance is heavily dependent on specific hardware and software configurations and usage patterns. While it has great potential, it takes time to wrangle this out of it. The underlying stack may not be entirely ready for this either. In many scenarios, Plasma 5.0 will display the buttery smooth performance it is capable of - while at other times, it may be hampered by various shortcomings. These can and will be addressed, however, much is dependent on components like Qt, Mesa and hardware drivers lower in the stack.
Installing and providing feedback
Before installation, it is recommended to read the list of known issues.
Ending the Plasma Session
The easiest way to try it out is the Neon 5 ISO, a live OS image updated with the latest builds straight from source.
Some distributions have created, or are in the process of creating, packages; for an overview of 5.0 packages, see our distribution packages wiki page
Source download. You can install Plasma 5.0 directly from source. KDE's community wiki has instructions for compiling it. Note that Plasma 5 does not co-install with Plasma 4.x, you will need to uninstall older versions or install into a separate prefix.
You can provide feedback either via the #Plasma IRC channel, Plasma-devel mailing list or report issues via bugzilla. Plasma 5 is also discussed on the KDE Forums. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. If you like what the team is doing, please let them know!
Supporting KDE
KDE is a Free Software community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Supporting KDE page for further information or become a KDE e.V. supporting member through our Join the Game initiative.
About KDE
KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Windows and macOS.
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5 Times That People Claimed To Be Real-Life Time Travellers
Cheryl Eddy
Published 4 years ago: February 15, 2018 at 12:00 pm -
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Time travel as we see it in movies – using DeLoreans, phone booths, hot tubs and the like – obviously doesn't exist. But throughout history, people have insisted that they somehow managed to do it. Though most of their wild tales were eventually disproven, the stories are still incredible. Here are five of the most memorable.
The regular-guy time traveller in Safety Not Guaranteed. Image: FilmDistrict via YouTube
Image: ToucanWings (Own work) (CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)), via Wikimedia Commons
Image: ToucanWings (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
1) Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain
In 1911, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who met just prior to working together at the all-female St Hugh's College in Oxford and shared an interest in spiritualism, released a book that caused a sensation. An Adventure detailed an experience they'd shared while visiting the Palace of Versailles in 1901. While wandering the extensive gardens around the Petit Trianon, they suddenly began encountering people dressed in 18th-century outfits, including a women who strongly resembled Marie Antoinette. Had they encountered ghosts – or slipped back in time somehow? Though they went with the latter for their book, which purported to "prove" their experience by researching and corroborating what they'd seen with historical records, sceptics tended to believe a third option: That the authors of the book (written under pseudonyms; their true identities were revealed after their deaths) had made the whole thing up. Still, their reputations as respected academics did make other people wonder if maybe they had witnessed something way out of the ordinary.
Image: Sandstein – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16332671
2) John Titor
This story has its origins with oddball late-night radio host Art Bell – which should be an immediate red flag – and expanded to include internet message boards circa the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was never clear if the man who made contact with Bell (via fax) was the same as the man who later took to the internet and built a cult following. Titor first popped up in 1998, claiming he was from a parallel timeline where time travel was invented in 2034 by General Electric. In 2001, he explained his mission was to collect a vintage computer from 1975, needing it to debug computers back in 2036. His "predictions" about the future mostly failed to come true (like the second American Civil War, circa 2013), and sleuthing around the Titor phenomenon turned up at least one person (not a time traveller) who seemed the likely source of the hoax. But no amount of debunking can take away the weird and amazing details of this story; it's one of the earliest instances of internet folklore, and still one of its most fascinating.
3) Andrew J. Basiago
Image: Facebook
The current US president can certainly be filed under "worst-case scenario" for many, many reasons – but at least one of Trump's would-be rivals had his own decidedly unusual beliefs. Andrew J. Basiago's bonkers tale of time travel (as well as teleportation to Mars) caused a stir when it became widely known before the 2016 US election. Here's the gist from his own website, which touts his "Truth Movement" platform:
For more than 10 years, he has shared with the American people the true facts of our great nation's accomplishments in time travel and Mars visitation. He has done so as one who served bravely in the two secret US defence projects in which time travel on Earth and voyages to Mars were first undertaken. As a result of his courageous advocacy as a crusading lawyer, Andy is credited with ending the time travel and Mars cover-ups by the US government on behalf of the American people.
And there's good news for fans of unabashedly public declarations of "facts" that sound an awful lot like sci-fi. True to his promise in 2016, in which he predicted he'd become either President or Vice President before 2028, Basiago is running for POTUS again in 2020.
4) Andrew Carlssin
It's true that "Andrew Carlssin" may not have actually ever existed, but he dwelled in the imaginations of real people for a brief moment after an article from the (reliably amusing) Weekly World News accidentally went mainstream. Snopes.com has a reprint of the original article, which read in part:
Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges – and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveller from the year 2256!
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January 28.
"We don't believe this guy's story – he's either a lunatic or a pathological liar," says an SEC insider. "But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks' time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalised on unexpected business developments, which simply can't be pure luck."
Though actual SEC representatives were quick to point out the entire story was, ah, complete and total balderdash, it caught on because it made a certain kind of freaky sense. See, John Titor had a high-concept reason for travelling back in time to get that vintage computer… but Carlssin? He was just capitalising on what he knew about the future to play the stock market and get filthy rich, just like Back to the Future's Biff Tannen and his sports scores. Snopes notes that the Weekly World News published a follow-up a month later, reporting that Carlssin had jumped bail, never to be seen again, either in the paper or in reality.
5) 'Noah'
Late last year, several British tabloids gleefully reported on "Noah", a man who claimed to be from the future, having arrived in our time using technology that was invented in 2003 but not declassified until 2028. A YouTube video on the Paranoid Elite channel – where you can view a variety of other "time-traveller" videos (though Noah's is the most popular by far) as well as exposés on mermaids, aliens, and other mysteries of the unknown – was Noah's chosen platform. His revelations were mostly pretty boring (the return of a better Google Glass! Self-driving cars are totally a thing! Trump will be re-elected!), but there's something decidedly unsettling about his blurred-out performance.

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International day of yoga celebrated in the schools of winter zone of Pouni of District Reasi viz GMS Bimblia and GMS Sangar as per the guidelines of Nirmal Kumar Choudhary CEO Reasi and Gopal Krishan Komal ZEO Pouni.
Three days yoga camp for winter schools inaugurated by Sanjeev Kumar Sharma Master trainer Art Integrated Learning at MS Bamblia in presence of Anil Kumar Suri HM GMS Bamblia and all staff including VEC members.Students and teachers actively took part in the yoga activities beside memory enhancement yoga postures were also practiced by the students.
At the end of the day students performed pledge to adopt yoga on their lifestyles.
Students of the institutions also took part in poster making competition on the theme "Yoga for Life".
CEO Reasi said such programs of cultural heritage and international recognition are vital for the overall development of personality of students for which Education department is striving hard to spread the message of international yoga awareness in far-flung areas of District Reasi with the help of volunteers like Sanjeev Kumar of Education Department so as to create an Awareness among students regarding various schemes of Government.
Prabh Dyal Bali ZEPO Pouni hailed the volunteerism of the officials of Education Department for initiating such innovations to promote yoga awareness in the far-flung and remotest areas of District Reasi.
The program was organized under the stewardship of Sanjeev Kumar Sharma and Madan Lal Incharge Complex Head MS Fargal on the directions of District Reasi Education Department.


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Watching the earth slowly pass away gives me mixed feelings. I'm eager for change, but I kind of feel like I need to be paying my respects. Fortunately fall is a spectacle so reverence turns to celebration, which I can get behind.
"Mom, now tell the truth: Is the tooth fairy not real? And instead it's YOU who leaves the money?"
I stared at him with thoughts of, hey, he's got to know sometime. Is now the time? Is 8 old enough? too old? Also thinking that belief in the tooth fairy nowhere compares to that of Santa Claus (one that is still mightily held to, I might add) I mean, it's just the tooth fairy, right? I replied, "do you REALLY want to know?"
He responded, "Yes, I do."
Me, still hesitating, "Well then yes. It is."
"Really? Are you for real? Tell the TRUTH."
Me, again, "do you REALLY want to know? For real?"
He said again, the tiiiniest fraction less sure, "Yes, I really do."
And I said again, "Then yes, it's true."
"C'mon, Mom. Is it true? Is it really not real?"
Not sure I had it in me to go it a third time I quietly asked again, "Julian, are you sure you want to know?"
And he quietly replied, "No, I guess I don't."
And my heart broke a little bit and I wanted to take back any notion of thought I'd ever had about growing up and facing reality or speaking plainly or anything of the kind. As I sat surveying the situation, watching him clinging still to childhood I asked myself, but for how long. Finally I decided to say to him, "I've never seen the tooth fairy, have you?" He said he hadn't. I said, "But it doesn't mean the tooth fairy isn't real. Right?" He agreed.
I feel like kids and parents eventually reach this "don't ask don't tell" point in their relationship. That maybe there's this in-between phase where maybe they no longer quite believe in a weird little fairy that collects children's teeth (ew, why is this a thing), but they believe in something. Something not quite equating their hope that their mom or dad will remember to dig up some change for them. I'm remembering how my sister, who's the youngest, would tell my mom she'd lost a tooth and my mom saying, "ok, go find some change in my purse." Something tells me that's not quite the same, so no wonder they cling. They and us.
in the balance, perched precariously at the edge of a cliff but for how long? At this point, who knows what one good gust might do.
I always felt like fall in Utah was a big disappointment. The heat clung for way too long before suddenly turning frigid, and it left a lot of trees in the valley confused, never changing color. But in Idaho fall is the most beautiful season. The trees change early and it's a very gradual transformation of the landscape that lets you savor it.
I've heard this anecdote before. 😄 Why did it bug you??
I think it was just that they felt they had something exclusive, when pretty much every temperate place on the planet has fall.
As for the tooth fairy, I was never going in for that and never had my kids believe it. We'll do a little something occasionally, but the kids know it's us. I was also against lying to my kids about Santa, but I was overruled. Sam figured that out on his own by last year, which made the conversation pretty easy. Not sure how the rest of the kids will take it.


My partner reported seeing "one of the old tube trains" at Newbury Park on Sunday 18/11/18. It was after 1600 as daylight had faded. Was it the Cravens track recorder? De-icer? 38TS on tour?
Probably the Rail Adhesion Train, I keep getting delayed by it, usually when I'm on my last trip.
Have you ever wondered why they run it before the last trip of the day?
So, what is the Central Line RAT formed of these days?
Is there a reason for the different train lengths?
Roy, if your partner had been there earlier in the day then you would probably have heard about two people filming it (one on each platform).
One of those people was me!
I actually went to Newbury Park on both Saturday and Sunday and filmed the 1962 tube stock RAT (rail adhesion train) from both platforms.
On Saturday I also travelled on the first service train after the RAT because it is routed to follow the RAT via the siding which also forms part of a reversing loop. This was the first time that I travelled via this loop line - rather than the main route - so it means that another section of 'rare track' can be ticked off my list. Especially rare is the northern part of the loop as even terminating trains do not normally travel that far.
I ended up at Barkingside, which is one of the grandest Victorian-era stations in all of London. Not the biggest, but especially the inner rail station building is something special.
A few years ago I saw the signal person send a Newbury Park terminating Central line train into the siding ahead of the RAT, which was not at all ideal as the RAT was occupying the platform that the service train needed to use when leaving the siding. On that occasion the RAT ended up being sent to Leytonstone via the tube tunnels. I suppose its fortunate that this was a tube train and not a subsurface train!
I hope to have what I filmed online for people to see later this month; before then however I need to film from one of the bridges above the railway.
it might just be a perception - rather than something that would be proven accurate by people with stops watches - but it does seem that a person can wait minutes on end for trains to come ... yet when the RAT appears so suddenly several service trains appear on the scene, only to become stopped at red signals.
I asked because I have a friend who used to be a central line driver. He wondered why it was that often, when he was doing the last passenger run of the day, he would be held up behind an engineering train of some sort. He eventually found someone to ask and discovered that some regulation changed after the last passenger run and so it made life easier (not for the people on the last passenger train), if any engineering train was slotted in ahead of it.
Unfortunately I can't remember the exact details.
SPS,just to be pedantic, Barkingside isn't Victorian -- it's Edwardian (1903). Though all the Fairlop Loop buildings at track level were quite commodious, the booking offices were nothing really special, and those at eg Hainault and Fairlop were pretty derisory. Quite why Barkingside was so grand is a bit of a mystery. The Barnardo homes nearby were under royal patronage, but did the GE really expect the King to travel via the Loop?
Hainault was closed down 1908-30; my uncle remembered when it was necessary to tip the guard a copper or two to alight.
Left Epping about 9:40pm, breathed a sigh of relief when I wasn't held outside Woodford by the RAT reversing off plat. 2 as I have been numerous times before but then as I approached Leytonstone I saw a red signal ahead. Sure enough it was the RAT reversing off plat. 2.
Do the RATs have a specific slot on the central line? As far as I know both trains 488 and 489 don't appear on any official WTTs or anything similar. I've been trying to photograph the west end one for a while, yet I can never work out where it is going to appear!
Do the RATs have a specific slot on the central line? As far as I know both trains 488 and 489 don't appear on any official WTTs or anything similar.
Both trains 488 489 timings appear in Special Trains Notice STN55/18 valid until 23 December 2018.


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Thomas Barrack, former chairman of Miramax and a major fundraiser for Donald Trump's presidential campaign, is under investigation in Italy for allegedly evading €170M ($190M) in taxes over the sale of a luxury resort in Sardinia.
The paper said that Barrack, who delivered a speech at the 2016 Republican convention, and other execs at Colony Capital had not been formally charged for anything. A spokesman from the firm declined to comment on the allegations. The Guardian also said that legal documents relating to the probe suggested that investigators had used wiretaps into the inquiry.
Colony Capital is a global real estate firm which purchased Miramax from Disney in 2010. Barrack served as chairman from 2013 until Capital Colony and Qatar Investment Authority, another shareholder, sold their shares to beIN Media Group last year. Earlier this month, Miramax laid off nearly the entire movie and television production staffs in an overhaul intended to breathe new life into the company.


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1 The name of the club shall be Church Minshull Bridge Club.
2 The object of the club shall be to provide facilities for its members for the playing of Duplicate Contract Bridge.
3 Membership of the club shall be open to all. There shall be an annual fee for membership that shall be fixed at the club AGM.
4 Each member of the club and each guest and visitor shall pay table money on each occasion when he or she plays at the club. The charge will be set by the committee at a level to cover ongoing costs.
5 The committee may suspend or terminate the membership of any member. The reason must be submitted in writing to the member concerned, who may appeal to a General Meeting of Members.
6 Club meetings shall be held at the discretion of the committee.
7 There shall be an Annual General Meeting of Members held in September each year. Other General Meetings of Members shall be held at the discretion of the committee, or within fourteen days of a receipt by the secretary of a request in writing by ten members of the club, stating the purpose for which the meeting is required.
8 The quorum for a General meeting is six.
9 The Chairperson must receive resolutions for inclusion in the agenda for a general meeting at least one week before the meeting. Such resolutions, which must be proposed and seconded by a member of the club, shall require two-thirds majority of those present and voting at the meeting.
10 Notice of General Meetings shall be given at least 10 days before the date of the meeting.
11 A committee of 7 members, consisting of Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer and four other members shall be elected at the AGM. The committee will manage the affairs of the club. Nominations for officers and committee should be submitted to the Chairperson 48 hrs prior to the AGM. Any vacancies can be filled by nomination at the AGM. The nominated officers shall serve a term of 5 years and committee members 3 years before retiring in rotation but can seek re-election. The committee will appoint the club Director who will advise all bridge matters.
12 The quorum for a committee meeting shall be half the voting committee members plus one, excluding any unfilled posts.
13 In the event of the club voting to dissolve itself, or there failing to be a properly constituted committee, the assets of the club shall be used for local community activity at the discretion of the Parish Council.
14 This constitution may be altered or revoked only by resolution of members, carried by at least a two-thirds majority, at a General Meeting of Members.
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Office Park for River's Edge?
by Independent Staff • September 19, 2009 • 0 Comments
Berkeley Investments, which owns a 40-acre parcel on the long vacant River's Edge property, is apparently hoping to build a $65 million office park on the sprawling parcel.
If the news proves to be true, it will be the biggest single commercial investment in the city's history, contributing enormous funds to the city hall treasury in building permits and taxes.
Berkeley Investments has filed preliminary development plans with environmental regulators.
"Our firm is trying to push the permitting process along and expects to eventually sign a development with the Mystic Valley Development Commission," said Mark Barer, senior project manager at Berkeley.
During a meeting at Everett City Hall earlier this week, news of the proposal and some of its pre-conditions created a number of officials to appear, including Representative Stephen "Stat" Smith and Alderman Sal Sachetta.
The city's interest in the project includes right of way access issues with a major roadway running through the property, and which Berkeley Investments needs before a project can be developed on the property.
The aldermen sent the request for discussion of these issues to committee.
According to Barer, no tenants have signed up but he said he expects many possible clients to consider locating there when more than 500,000 square feet of commercial office space has been constructed.
The marketplace will determine the final configuration of the project, said Barer.
"It could be one building. It could be five buildings," he said.
"We're as flexible as the market is."
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Q: How install grub on a x64 phone? I tried to mount the boot partition to install grub (from chroot) but I could not.
In the directory where you mount the boot partition there did not appear anything.
What do I do?
PS: I have the asus zenfone 2 rooted with a custom rom and TWRP recovery.

A: You will have to make a grub image yourself and either flash it as boot or recovery with fastboot flash (boot|recovery) $path_to_image.
To verify your image is working before flashing, you should use fastboot boot $path_to_image
You will need to read documentation specific to your device to know how to build the grub image.


21-year-old Spanish star Ricky Rubio has agreed on a sponsorship deal with Adidas. Although the duration of the contract and the figures have yet to be released, it is a fact that Adidas gives a dramatic effect to its arch rival in the market, Nike, which counted Ricky Rubio among its players until last year.
Also mentioned in the article -- only Derrick Rose and Dwight Howard are set to make more money from Adidas now than Rubio under the new deal. Not bad for a 21 year old getting over a torn ACL.


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Benjamin Fulford Talks: Helsinki, India and Africa. Interview July 19, 2018 with Prepare For Change
January 31, 2019 July 23, 2018 by Megan Edwards
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Update: The transcript is now posted lower in this article, after "Previous Benjamin Fulford Interviews."
On July 19, 2018, PrepareForChange.net spoke for a sixth time in this series of 2018 interviews with Benjamin Fulford.
Benjamin tells us what Putin and Trump talked about in Helsinki, including security of Europe being provided by Russia and the likely return of Golan Heights to Syria. Benjamin speaks again about the rise of India and the potential of Africa.
Benjamin Fulford continues to work to liberate the planet from the bad guys. He is literally fighting to bring freedom and new life to humanity.
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Previous Benjamin Fulford Interviews In 2018
The Benjamin Fulford and Prepareforchange.net interview dated July 4, 2018:
Benjamin Fulford Talks: The Council of Europe Redux. Interview July 4, 2018 with Prepare for Change
The Benjamin Fulford and Prepareforchange.net interview dated June 21, 2018:
Benjamin Fulford Talks: China, Russia, US Forming an Alliance? Interview June 21, 2018 with Prepare for Change
The Benjamin Fulford and Prepareforchange.net interview dated June 7, 2018:
Benjamin Fulford Talks: The Rise of India and New Global Alliances: Interview June 7, 2018 with Prepare for Change
The Benjamin Fulford and Prepareforchange.net interview dated May 17, 2018:
Benjamin Fulford Says: Lets Rid the Earth of the Psychopaths In Charge, May 17, 2018 with PrepareForChange.net
The Benjamin Fulford and Prepareforchange.net interview dated May 3, 2018:
Benjamin Fulford Says: Asians Build Wonderful Infrastructure But Their Spying is a Bit Much, May 3, 2018, With PrepareforChange.net
Transcript: Benjamin Fulford Talks: Helsinki, India and Africa. Interview July 19, 2018 with Prepareforchange.net
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(Meg) Hello everyone from Prepare for Change.net
I am "Meg" coming to you from the USA and here is my interview partner.
(Richard) Hi there! I'm Richard. I'm talking to you from the UK.
Who is Benjamin Fulford?
(Meg) Today at Prepareforchange.net, we are interviewing Benjamin Fulford.
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Okay, so let's get started.
(Meg) Let's begin today. It's July 19, 2018. Hi Benjamin, we're delighted to have you with us today.
Trump and Putin and the Helsinki Summit
(Benjamin) Thanks for having me on. What would you like to talk about today?
(Meg) Let's start with the very recent Donald Trump-Vladimir Putin summit in Helsinki, Finland. Just on Monday, 16th of July, you wrote a column and you said that the US and Russia had already reached an agreement about Ukraine, Syria and Israel, according to your sources. Were these things discussed at the summit? What do you know?
(Benjamin) Yeah, I'm pretty sure. The thing is that the American intelligence military community realize that at this point, with Asia rising economically and geopolitically, Westerners should not be fighting amongst each other, but instead should have a united, what they call, a Christian alliance. Russia under Putin is very much a Christian country, unlike the atheist communists. So they've been discussing behind the scenes for quite some time. This was a way to start to break this out to the public. People in the corporate propaganda media were freaking out, because it was not part of their paradigm, that they had been fed all these years — that Russia was the bad guy and the Russia hysteria. It just wasn't part of the plot that they had been living with.
(Benjamin) And I want tor remind people that when Vladimir Putin met with George Bush Senior at his boat in Kennebunkport, Maine, that according to British Intelligence, he proposed to Putin that they have a new Cold War. And that during this fake cold war, Russia would pretend to be allied with China. And the plan was to use this fake Cold War as an excuse to boost military budgets in Japan and NATO and the United States and Russia, and then at the end, Russia, Japan and NATO and everybody would turn on China and pounce on them. This was proposed and the Russians rejected it. But nonetheless, they were going along with that plot, with this Ukranian maneuver, overthrowing an elected government and installing an openly Nazi regime and starting this whole propaganda thing to make Russia, which is a democratic country, appear to be this horrendous dictatorship.
China Approves of Putin-Trump Meeting
(Benjamin) But that whole plot is being unplugged. It is not working. You notice that Chinese editorial welcoming that Russia and the United States are getting along well, because the new plot is, "Let's all have a friendly, happy planet. Let's not be cut into big geopolitical blocks trying to kill each other." And because the plot changed and the 'Russia as enemy' thing is no longer the central policy pillar, the people who were part of the old paradigm were freaking out, because it didn't fit with their world view, that they had been brainwashed into. That's my understanding of it. And so the agreement, what I heard, was that the real guardians for the security of Western Europe are going to be Russia, except for England.
(Benjamin) And they have also agreed to split the Middle East along the Euphrates River, with the west of it being the Russia sphere of influence and the east of it would be the American sphere of influence. And that is what the reality is on the ground. You'll see a Debka (debka.com) reporting, this is the Mossad links website, that Russia has been put in charge of security along the Golan border with Syria. That is evidence that this is all happening. I suspect that Israel will be forced to give back the Golan Heights and then have a peace agreement with Syria. That basically ends the isolation of Israel and they'll be welcomed back as a civilized, peace-loving country, which they are supposed to be. And the final thing will be to stop their 'seizing land from Palestinians' business.
Israel Will Become More Civilized
(Benjamin) If you look at it, North Korea is one of the big problems left over. Now the other two big ones — one was created recently, Ukraine, that is being solved. And the final one, the world's main rogue state, Israel, is being forced to join civilization. And the Chinese and the Russians and everyone was sick and tired of their behavior. They are now being forced to perform. They no longer have this secret control of the United States, as their secret weapon. They have lost it.
(Meg) So do you think this whole Israel issue was discussed during the private 2-hour session, then?
(Benjamin) For sure. They said it in public. They were talking about Syria. We know IS [Islamic State] was the creation of the oil companies and the Israelis, to steal land for a pipeline to export gas and oil to And that project is being dismantled. And they're going to find another way to share the oil revenue.
(Meg) Now, it happened that Monday July 17 [correction: Tuesday, July 17] was the 100-year anniversary of the slaughter of the Russian Imperial Romanov family. Do you think that the summit was planned to be around that 100-year anniversary? For any reason?
(Benjamin) I'm not sure but a lot of these things don't happen by coincidence. I did notice that they had a Russian Royal presiding over the opening of a bridge in Crimea. This was reported in the official news agency. There is definitely a big push to restore some kind of monarchy to Russia. I don't know if a decision has been made but certainly the fact that Orthodox Christianity is now the leading ideological force in Russia and they like to have an emperor or king or czar as a stabilizing symbolic figure — that might happen, but I don't know. There is a Russian FSB person coming to Japan in the Fall, and I will have a lot better intelligence then. In this day of fake video and eavesdropping, the final safety net is analog face-to-face communications and that is going to happen in the autumn.
(Meg) Wow. Thank you. That was really interesting.
The Trumps Didn't Bow to the Queen. But This May Be Insignificant.
(Richard) I suppose Trump and Putin weren't the only thing that happened recently because prior to that, Trump came to the UK. And it seemed to be quite a small affair in many regards and he spent more time playing golf, as far as I am concerned. But he did have an interesting reception from the Queen at Windsor and didn't conform to certain royal standards like bowing, or Melania curtsying. Was there any symbolism at that meeting?
(Benjamin) I was told by a Pentagon source that this was, in fact, symbolic of the UK, the Royalty ceding authority to the military industrial complex and the US president. I don't know — that's their interpretation. And they said that the reason why Prince William and Harry avoided Trump was to avoid the humiliation of this. But I don't know if that is true. That is just what an American source told me. That's how they like to look at it.
(Benjamin) At the end of the day, I think that the British royalty and the monarchy is going to remain. But it's always been the case that since the UK is a Constitutional Monarchy, the real power is with the politicians actually running day-to-day affairs. So for her to acknowledge that the President of the United States is in charge of day-to-day affairs is not really that big of an issue.
(Benjamin) But what I don't know and what I would like to know is… I know there is a lot of British involvement in the Fukushima nuclear and tsunami terror attack. There was a British special air service guy by the name of Spencer and the former head of the Hong Kong police was involved. But so were a lot of senior American people. I would like to know more about whether or not the British royalty was involved in that whole decision to murder 20,000 people in Japan in order to intimidate the Japanese into not trying to assert the right to spend their own money as they chose to do so. That is something I don't know. I would like to know. Because if they are involved, that is serious. That is mass murder and terror.
(Richard) We also have pedophilia as well. It's no secret that Charles was very close to Jimmy Savile. We know what Jimmy Savile's reputation was like. And from that same operation that was done four years ago, now. We found out it went right through past prime ministers, like Edward Heath and other major dignitaries.
(Benjamin) We know that Heath was blackmailed into ceding UK independence to the EU because he was blackmailed over a video of him having sex with a 14-year old boy.
(Richard): Was that in Brighton?
Recent Arrests, Blackmailing and Truth and Reconciliation
(Benjamin) Well, it was in a hotel in London, I think. It was a restroom. But the point being, the thing that is tricky about this is that there are 13-year old girls who look like they are 18. Maybe some people were fooled into doing this and then blackmailed. We need to be careful and try to separate the real predators and criminals from people who have been entrapped, so we can get the people who were entrapped some sort of deal so they can testify against the really bad people, in order to clean up this mess.
(Richard) Also, true pedophiles have a very predatory aspect to them and therefore will have a long chain of evidence, which is now on video and they're being blackmailed with it.
(Benjamin) We need to deal with people who are actually murdering–not just raping but murdering children. These are the people we need to take down. That is the network that has to be dismantled. It is going to start in the US. It has started. It's been public now. They have arrested thousands and thousands of pedophiles. This is in the news, it's on the Department of Justice website, in media release pages and stuff. So they have been arresting thousands of pedophiles all over the world, but not so far in the UK to the extent that it is needed. But again, it's a tricky issue.
(Benjamin) The Greeks had a system when an older man would have a younger boy as his lover and student. Socrates had sex with Plato who had sex with Aristotle who had sex with Alexander the Great. Apparently the British private schools have carried on this tradition. I think that whole issue will have to be brought up as a truth and reconciliation thing. There is even a word for it, 'catamite,' the passive young male sexual partner for an older man. This is going on a lot more than people like to think or imagine. Some of that, there are cases where maybe the guy is 14, but he's actually enjoying it, and it is consensual. It's illegal, but something, for that kind of stuff, truth and reconciliation is probably what is needed. But when you are talking about taking a 3-year old and raping them and then strangling them, then what you need is severe punishment. We have to be careful here. It's a tricky issue. We have to get the good people who are blackmailed to come out so we can get the real hard-core criminals.
(Meg) It's actually not that far from the public consciousness, because I have had conversations with friends around this kind of issue explaining why, for example, our US Congress so consistently votes in such weird ways, against things for the people, and against policies that might really help the public. And a lot of it is because they are so blackmailed by this stuff.
(Benjamin) Yes, well let me tell you something that happened to me. I was in the local Starbucks and a young woman approached me. She basically propositioned me. I asked her how old she was. She said she was 17. I said, 'Well, okay, why don't you call me on your 18th birthday.' And she didn't call. I know. (Laughter). All right. I'm just saying…I'm just testing these people. I'm not a pedophile. (Meg: We understand. ) It was clearly an attempt to entrap me. And this sort of thing happens to a lot of people. And a lot of people take the bait and then they are blackmailed. It's the blackmailers we want to get at, most of all. They are the real problem.
(Benjamin) There is the Rockefeller-linked site, VeteransToday [VeteransToday.com] which has military people, has put out stuff about Trump being blackmailed, about a girl on Epstein's Island. And if that's the case, it could explain some of the weird things Trump has done, like the sudden attack on Syria. But that needs to be out there and people need to either forgive him or ask him to… But they can't have something like that affect national security. That's the point. The country is much more important than the genitalia of a single individual and what they do with it.
(Richard) Yes, we need to isolate the case as well and see the difference between blackmail and the predatory instinct that somebody is driven by. Actually, it's a good point. It's something that as a listening audience, we are all going to be asked to come to terms with and consider how we are going to deal with this. It will affect us all in different emotional ways. And it's probably coming sooner than we all think. This is probably a good time to reflect on this. It's not going to be an easy decision.
Clean Up Big Pharma and the AMA
(Benjamin) There is much more important stuff to deal with. What we really want to do is stop the poisoning of the food supply, the spreading of carcinogens, the bigger area that still needs to be tackled is the whole pharmaceutical-medical complex. We know that the American Medical Association was taken over by the Rockefellers way back and their agenda to promote petroleum based medicine and chemical-based medicine, away from natural medicine. There needs to be a big investigation there. They should raid the American Medical Association (AMA) and get to the bottom of that. And clean that whole system up. They haven't done that, but they need to. That's a higher priority to me.
(Benjamin) And the attempt to start World War 3 has been diffused, for sure, but nonetheless, the perpetrators of 9/11 and Fukushima have yet to face either a truthful reconciliation or justice and that has to be done.
(Benjamin) And of course, we still have the people in Zug, Switzerland and the BIS, who control the world financial system even though they're using it based on stolen gold and nobody actually gave them that job. So we have to put pressure on Zurich and Basel and (doorbell rings) the Rothschild family complex in Zug. Why don't we take our little break now? Someone just rang my doorbell.
(Meg) Sure. So we'll take a few minutes and then we'll be back.
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(Benjamin) Okay, I'm back
(Meg) Okay, we're back! We were just thinking about what else we could deal with here. I was also thinking the world-wide human trafficking issue is huge, so that's kind of related to….these underage problems as well.
India, China and Africa: All With Big Demographics
(Benjamin) I think the other issue we can talk about… I want to talk about India and Africa.
(Meg): Good.
(Benjamin) Right now, China has had their day in the sun. They're having their day in the sun. They've had incredible economic growth, they have become in purchasing power, in real basis, the world's largest economy by far. They have been given powerful new international financial institutions like the AIIB and they have their One Belt One Road (OBOR) project, which is 60 times bigger than the Marshall Plan and that's all great.
(Benjamin) But I've noticed that India has been rather sulky about this. They're part of the Shanghai Co-oporation Organization with India and China but they're against the OBOR project, because they feel left out. Here's the thing: according to Wikipedia, China has 1.41 billion people and India has 1.344 billion but the thing is, 50% of India's population is under 25 and only 25% of China's population is that age group. In other words, India is young and it's big and will exceed China in population soon and they finally have got some competent economic management so it's time to give India a big project comparable to OBOR … and I'm thinking that getting them to help with Africa and India would be a good thing in many ways. Both of these countries have a demographic explosion, whereas the rest of the world is starting to get a shrinking, aging population and it needs to be balanced or dealt with and also the world's poorest people are still in India and Africa, and something needs to be done there.
(Benjamin) So I've been lobbying for a big, big India /Africa project, comparable in scale to the Chinese OBOR thing. To bring both of those huge groups—Africa's 1.2 billion and India's almost 1.4 billion—that's almost half the world. They need to be brought up to the same levels we're now seeing in East Asia and that Europe has had for a long time. So I think that's the next big new trend we're going to see and that has to be done right.
(Benjamin) Honestly speaking, I think that for a while, Africa is going to need a lot of foreign managers. You have to bring in Asians, Europeans, other people, to get what I call the social infrastructure in place… to build institutions that can manage railroads, hospitals and universities in a way that allows talent to rise and so that eventually the baton will to pass to African-Africans, But right now, if you look at what's been going on, they need outside help. I think it's time for the world to make a big, big push for Africa.
Return Africa's Vast Resources to the Africans
(Meg) Besides not only the human capital there, but also enormous natural resources in Africa that have been exploited by the First World countries a lot but need to be returned to the people of Africa so they can use it to develop their own nations.
(Benjamin) Absolutely. Absolutely. China's been doing a lot of good in Africa, but it's also time for the West and India to make a contribution. That's a big issue. And then of course, that ties in with protecting the rain forest there and nature there. You can't separate poverty and environmental protection; they have to be linked. You have to give people an alternative way of living to burning down the rain forest so they can grow more yams. This is the sort of thing that we need to do. I'm lobbying for the Ching Dynasty Gold, which was stolen by the Rockefellers and it's sitting in the hill behind Basel Switzerland, to be used as the backing for this project. That's one thing I've been asking for behind the scenes and in public—and I think it's the next big thing we could do for this planet.
(Meg) So who do you think would be the managing groups that would help Africa? I mean, they do have talent within those countries.
(Benjamin) I think we need to set up a new institution like the AIIB, maybe with an Indian gentleman at the top and with talent from around the world. A whole new institution to do this and it needs to have not billions, but trillions of dollars available to do this. And that money, as I have said, can be backed by the stolen gold and the thing is, the Manchu heirs have said that yes, they're willing to let the gold to be used for that purpose. So now, the people who stole the gold—the people in Zug, Switzerland, Basel and the BIS—they need to be taken to account. And if they don't, we're going to have to force them. This is one of the things–I'm about to go on my summer holiday. I'll be three weeks off the grid, I'm going to rest up and then I'm going to make a big push for this to happen in the fall.
(Meg) This is very exciting to talk about because I think we've all watched in the West the people of Africa having decade after decade of struggle and it's so painful.
(Benjamin) They're being paid a fraction of what their resources are worth. I think it was an African who told me that when the Westerners arrive in Africa, they bring weapons and when the Chinese arrive, they bring business. So it's time to do something different from the West's point of view. We have to start cleaning up our act in Africa and paying the people what they deserve for their resources. And help them modernize.
(Richard) And their education.
(Meg) : Right
Include Russia in the Council of Europe
(Benjamin) Otherwise, we'll have to wait on events… But the big thing that happened also in Europe with Trump's visit, was he publicly called the EU a 'foe.' That's quite something when you think about it.
(Richard) And we heard about him telling Theresa May to 'sue the EU.'
(Benjamin) Well, yeah, and if it was a business, they would do that. The whole premise of using blackmail to get the British government to sign over its sovereignty to that organization, to start…but I think that's kind of backward looking. I think more forward looking is that the EU is only 28 countries, and the European democracies are 47 countries. It just needs to be built into something new that includes Russia and all those countries that are now supposed enemies.
(Benjamin) And of course, that means confronting the Agnelli families and the Rothschilds and the other people who own the EU, and saying 'Hey you guys, you're not democratic and this is not a pan-European thing. Step aside! Let the Europeans run their own affairs.' And that's the issue. It's not democratic, it's not run by the people, and it's not really European. So it needs to be expanded so all the democracies of Europe–47 of them–unite in a new system that includes Russia and all those countries.
(Meg) We were talking last time about reinvigorating the Council of Europe, so bringing in the Russian countries.
(Benjamin) Yeah, and then we need to start–and this is the sort of thing that we can put all these bureaucrats to work at–is working out the nitty-gritty details of a new integrated European structure that includes Russia. That will give the bureaucrats plenty of stuff to do, and hopefully with freedom of the press, they will do it in a way that it doesn't just add red tape, you know? (Laughs) I think that's probably something that was also discussed between Putin and Trump, but I wasn't there, I wasn't in the room, but I'm sure this is the sort of thing they talked about.
(Richard) Exactly.
Japan Could Be Unified into a NeoManchuria
(Benjamin) I was told before by the CIA that Russia would make a big move after the World Cup. Well, that press conference with Trump was pretty big. I think there's going to be follow-up. Let's see what happens with the Ukraine and with all the other leftover issues in Europe, are they going to be finally solved? I think yes. Then Israel and that's it. Those are the big problems left on this world. North Korea is more or less settled.
(Benjamin) I've heard too that when the new emperor takes over in Japan next year–I think it's in May–then there'll be a lot of changes in this part of the world. Japan's gonna let in a lot more immigrants, there's going to be a push to unify the Korean Peninsula, and I suspect that over time Japan will also be unified with northern east Asia, so like a "Neo-Manchuria," which would include northern China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan, and some sort of economic integration and cultural integration which would maybe later be followed by political integration. That's what I've heard is being planned. And I've heard this from people in Asian secret societies. And of course, public opinion needs to be managed first because right now what's been happening is an incredible push to make the Koreans and Japanese hate each other and fight each other. And so there's a lot of poison in the atmosphere that needs to be drained before any kind of big political changes. But that's gonna happen, that's what I'm hearing.
(Richard) Mm-hmm.
(Meg) That's good.
Poison in the Air, More Poisonings in the UK
(Richard) And speaking of that happening, poisoning the air, quite literally, we're having that issue here in the UK. If the Skripal case to start with wasn't a joke, they've got folded up with Act 2, and again within eight kilometres of Porton Down chemical warfare factory, we've got another couple of people who have just been poisoned with this supposed Novichok. Why is the UK intelligence services doing this, to demonize Russia? It just seems stupid and incredulous.
(Benjamin) Yeah, I would say follow the money and find out who is financing all of this stuff, but yeah, this is the sort of BS that has to be stopped. It serves no real functional purpose. I think it's just oligarchs fighting each other and trying to create bad PR by financing these incidents. And so we need to go after the puppet masters of incidents like this, and put an end to this sort of nonsense.
(Richard) Absolutely.
(Meg) So you talked last time, Ben, about seeing some antigravity patent information that we talked about.
New York to London in Half an Hour?
(Benjamin) Yeah, I put out the link and I got a couple calls from people who wanted more detail on the patent, and I didn't have it. Hopefully, this is one thing, though, I believe that the Americans–and by Americans I mean the US military-industrial complex–are holding this as a negotiating card with the Asians. I think that releasing some of this technology and developing it is something that might happen on the North Korea/Chinese development. That's one possibility. The Americans don't have gold and they don't have money, but they've got all this super high tech, so there's gonna be some kind of a trade: money for high tech. I think that's another thing that's probably gonna be part of the negotiation this fall.
(Richard) It would align with this sixth branch of the military that Trump's recently put together as well, wouldn't it? Now he's got a platform and a stage to release some of this, and say, 'Oh, look what we've developed.'
(Benjamin) Yeah, and hopefully we'll be able to fly from New York to London in half an hour on a UFO.
(Richard) Yeah.
(Meg) That's good. Well, look, I think that we can wrap it up here, on the idea that we can fly from London to New York on a UFO (Laughs). (Richard: Yes.)
In August, Off The Grid and Gone Fishing
(Benjamin) Okay. I'm gonna be off the grid, and I'm not gonna look at email or the Internet for a few weeks. I'm just gonna be fishing and swimming. I think everybody needs to do that at least once a year to 'detox' from all this digital stuff.
(Benjamin) So I'll talk to you guys again in September.
(Meg) That's great! We hope you have a great vacation!
(Meg) We hope you enjoyed today's interview. So why not check out PrepareforChange.net for our daily releases? Until next time!
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thanks for all the work you put into this! 🙂
I am right now listening to the latest Benjamin Fulford interview, and it struck me that in the intro (spoken intro with music), the music is very loud – so loud in fact that it is hard to understand what is being said.
If you can, please make the voice louder.
The interview itself is quite good technically, more loudness never hurts, so if you can give it some more compression/loudness, feel free to do so.
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news a letter from iceflake studios
A letter from Iceflake studios
A message from Lasse, the Game Director for Surviving the Aftermath:
Hello survivors,
The last six months have been quite the ride since we started on this journey together. Surviving the Aftermath has evolved a lot from its initial Early Access release on the Epic Games Store and Xbox Game Preview, way back in ancient times of PDXCON 2019. Since the Early Access launch, we've released monthly content updates that introduce features or add depth to existing mechanics. This was all made possible by our players who helped us shape the game with their feedback over the last seven months.
While working alongside our players, it became obvious that we are onto something truly special, but we should spend more time going deeper into gameplay mechanics that meet our community's expectations. On top of that, development has been affected with everyone working from home during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Luckily, no one has taken ill thus far, and we'd very much like to keep it that way. Because of this, we made the difficult decision to push back the official launch of Surviving the Aftermath 1.0 to early 2021. The team at Paradox has been a pleasure to work with and they will continue to give us their full support making Surviving the Aftermath the best survival management game possible.
But there is good news! We are excited to share that Surviving the Aftermath will be available on Steam Early Access on October 22, 2020. We promised a Steam release in late 2020, so we are sticking to our word. Expanding Early Access support to Steam allows even more players to get involved during this phase of development where there's still time for us to act on your feedback. We'll also have more details on the PlayStation 4 launch as we get closer to release.
During the last seven months, we've added trading, vehicles, an enhanced tech tree, society leaders, colony combat, colonist behaviors, and hostile wildlife. Among those features were several highly requested by the community, such as underground resource extractors, malnutrition, and prioritizing adding combat sooner rather than later. Some of these features started small, but have grown deeper and more intuitive with each update, and there are a lot of big things to come. But this is all just the beginning, players can look forward to new exploration mechanics, endgame, a quest system and more!
Developing this game alongside our players has been a real treat and we love the passion you are showing towards our game. We look forward to working with all of you as we continue to improve Surviving the Aftermath leading up to launch.
In the meantime, stay safe and healthy!
Lasse Liljedahl
CEO at Iceflake Studios and Game Director for Surviving the Aftermath


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New shots of Anne Hathaway's Catwoman
New pictures of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman (see above and right) in the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises movie are making the rounds on the Internet. In the comic-book, Catwoman is a cat burglar who carries a whip; now it looks as if she's traded in that weapon for an automatic pistol.
Anne Hathaway plays Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises
Hathaway is hardly the first person to play Selina Kyle and her alter ego Catwoman. Past actresses include Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether, and Eartha Kitt (all for the 1960s Batman television series); Michelle Pfeiffer in Batman Returns (1992), and Halle Berry in Catwoman (2004).
Hathaway appears in Catwoman garb on the cover of Entertainment Weekly's Summer Movie Preview issue with Rises co-star Christian Bale.
The Dark Knight Rises opens on July 20; its predecessor, The Dark Knight (2008), grossed $1 billion worldwide in its theatrical run, and is ranked as the fifth high-grossing movie of all time in the United States.
Watch The Dark Knight Rises trailer below: