Tuesday, March 22, 2011 0 A.D. is a historical, open source, strategy game, published by Wildfire Games. It focuses on the period between 500BC and 500AD. The game will be released in two parts: the first covering the pre-AD period, and the second running to 500AD. With development well underway, Wikinews interviewed the development team. Aviv Sharon, a 24-year-old Israeli student responsible for the project’s PR, compiled the below Q&A, which the full team approved prior to publication. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews_interviews_0_A.D._game_development_team&oldid=4678732”
Edmund White on writing, incest, life and Larry Kramer
Thursday, November 8, 2007 What you are about to read is an American life as lived by renowned author Edmund White. His life has been a crossroads, the fulcrum of high-brow Classicism and low-brow Brett Easton Ellisism. It is not for the faint. He has been the toast of the literary elite in New York, London and Paris, befriending artistic luminaries such as Salman Rushdie and Sir Ian McKellen while writing about a family where he was jealous his sister was having sex with his father as he fought off…
Japanese Olympic judoka Hitoshi Saito dies aged 54
Thursday, January 22, 2015 Japanese judoka Hitoshi Saito, winner of two Olympic gold medals, has died at the age of 54. The cause of death was announced as intrahepatic bile duct cancer. He died in Osaka on Tuesday. As well as a former Olympic and World champion, Saito was the All Japan Judo Federation training committee chairman at the time of his death. He had been hospitalized since late 2014. In 2013 it was discovered he had a tumour on his gallbladder. Saito won consecutive Olympic gold medals at the…
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Click Here For More Specific Information On: Working Hands Submitted by: Annya Kumar Purva The Waves is single among such unparalleled beginning by Purva Developers founded on beach theme which mimics landscapes, sounds, sights and tropical backwaters of the sea and is preferably positioned in the highly affluent area of Bangalore that is Narayanapura off Hennur Road. This charming project is created crossways an extensive region of 19.5 acres in which an innermost patio entitled The Lagoon is furnished in a stretch of greater than 4 acres. The residences at…
Tropical cyclone Meena strikes Cook Islands
Sunday, February 6, 2005 COOK ISLANDS — Emergency centre officials expressed relief on 6 February 2005 (local time) that damage from Tropical Cylone Meena, a category 5 storm, was less severe than anticipated after the eye of the storm bypassed the main island of Rarotonga. Over the previous 2 days, as the storm made its way through the island group, flights to and from both Rarotonga and the outlying islands had been suspended, planes put under cover or flown out of the area and tourist resorts evacuated in the face…
CyanogenMod: Open-source smartphone OS goes commercial
Thursday, September 19, 2013 File:CyanogenMod Cid.svg The developers of CyanogenMod, an open source free Android-based operating system for smartphones, announced yesterday their incorporation following a successful venture capital campaign which netted the open-source project a US$7 million nest egg, and plan to roll out a simple installation app on Google Play for their Android firmware. Android runs nearly 80% of new mobile devices; CyanogenMod operates on at least 7 or 8 million of those. CyanogenMod replaces the read-only-memory image in android devices which have been ‘rooted’ —control acquired of the…
44 worshippers shot dead at Nigerian mosque
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 News emerged yesterday that Boko Haram Islamists are suspected to have killed 44 worshippers during dawn prayers early Sunday morning in the small town of Konduga in Nigeria. The attacks were believed to be a revenge on citizen vigilante groups forming to help the government battle Islamist extremists and occurred 35km from the state capital Maiduguri. A further 26 people are being treated for severe injuries. Boko Haram’s insurgency has killed at least 3,600 people since 2009, including killings by security forces. In recent weeks the…
Imaging Conference: Advanced Innovation In Healthcare And Technology
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Supply Chain Management Australia Imaging Conference: Advanced Innovation In Healthcare And Technology by Zenolite1 If you are an academic or work in the medical or technology field where image and signal processing is a vital component of your work, you will want to know the details of the forthcoming IASTED conference, Imaging and Signal Processing in Healthcare and Technology, in Washington, D.C. on May 16 – 18, 2011. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dy7AF7AS_g[/youtube] Chairing the Imaging Conference will be Dr. Ronald Merrell, Professor of Surgery at Virginia…
2008 Google Developer Day starts from Yokohama, Japan
Thursday, June 12, 2008 2008 The 2nd-annual Google Developer Day started its tournament in Pasifico Yokohama, Japan as its first stage. According to Google, this programmer-based event is similar to Google I/O, the largest programming event which is only available in USA and held earlier on May 28 & 29 in San Francisco, California. Takuya Oikawa, Software Engineer of Google Japan, analyzed the future trend on programming and redefined the “3C”. “There are three key features to drive on the next generation programming, that is, ‘Client’ [user-oriented], ‘Connectivity’, and ‘Cloud…
Academy Award-winning film director Paul Haggis leaves Scientology
Monday, October 26, 2009 Academy Award-winning film director Paul Haggis declared to Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis that he had decided to leave the Church of Scientology after being a member for 35 years. His letter to Davis was posted Saturday on the blog of former high-ranking Scientology official Marty Rathbun. Haggis received Academy Awards for writing and producing the 2004 film Crash, which he also directed. Rathbun confirmed the authenticity of the letter by Haggis, and The Hollywood Reporter also confirmed it with a friend of the director. At his…