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“Minimalism or minimalist art can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of some other thing. We usually think of art as representing an aspect of the real world (a landscape, a person, or even a tin of soup!); or reflecting an experience such as an emotion or feeling. With minimalism, no attempt is made to represent an outside reality, the artist wants the viewer to respond only to what is in front of them. The medium, (or material) from which it is made, and the form of the work is the reality. Minimalist painter Frank Stella famously said about his paintings ‘What you see is what you see’.”
Key idea’s of Minimalism; (http://www.theartstory.org/movement-minimalism.htm)
- Minimalists distanced themselves from the Abstract Expressionists by removing suggestions of biography from their art or, indeed, metaphors of any kind. This denial of expression coupled with an interest in making objects that avoided the appearance of fine art led to the creation of sleek, geometric works that purposefully and radically eschew conventional aesthetic appeal.
- The post-Sputnik era revived active interest in Russian Constructivism. The Constructivist approach led to the use of modular fabrication and industrial materials in preference to the craft techniques of traditional sculpture. The readymades of Marcel Duchamp were also inspirational examples of the employment of prefabricated materials. Based on these sources, Minimalists created works that resembled factory-built commodities and upended traditional definitions of art whose meaning was tied to a narrative or to the artist.
- The use of prefabricated industrial materials and simple, often repeated geometric forms together with the emphasis placed on the physical space occupied by the artwork led to some works that forced the viewer to confront the arrangement and scale of the forms. Viewers also were led to experience qualities of weight, height, gravity, agility or even the appearance of light as a material presence. They were often faced with artworks that demanded a physical as well as a visual response.
- Minimalists sought to breakdown traditional notions of sculpture and to erase distinctions between painting and sculpture. In particular, they rejected the formalist dogma espoused by the critic Clement Greenberg that placed limitations on the art of painting and privileged artists who seemed to paint under his direction. The Minimalists’ more democratic point of view was set out in writings as well as exhibitions by their leaders Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Robert Morris.


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I'm actually really happy with how this turned out. I used Ripe Avocado ink to stamp the polka dots on the kraft cardstock base. Then I used Spring Rain ink and a flower stamp from the Garden of Life set to create the pattern on the Spring Rain cardstock and then matted it using Dark Chocolate cardstock. Then I stamped the center of the flowers using Ripe Avocado ink and then applied Glossy Accents overtop. I used the fillable frame #11 stamp & die, a mini button & scrappers floss to create the focal image. The "Happy Birthday" sentiment is from the Butterfly Dreams set.
This color combo was a bit of a challenge for me considering 99.99% of the time I use white cardstock somewhere on my cards. I'm definitely going to challenge myself to use colored cardstock more often!
Thanks for looking!

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- 2019-10-15 03:14:03Z
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President Donald Trump on Monday said he would authorize sanctions against Turkish officials, stop negotiating with Turkey on a $100 billion trade deal, and boost tariffs on the country's steel to 50 percent over Ankara's incursion into northeast Syria. Turkey launched the cross-border assault on Kurdish YPG militia on Wednesday after Trump withdrew some U.S. troops from the region, drawing sharp criticism from fellow Republicans who accused him abandoning allies who fought against Islamic State. Trump's statement promising an executive order "soon" did not specify individuals but said it would enable Washington to impose "powerful additional sanctions" on those who may be involved in...
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Magento 2 Vs. Shopify
Both Magento 2 and Shopify are an eCommerce platform used to build online shopping stores. But still, the two are quite different from each other. Shopify is a hosted shopping cart, whereas Magento 2 is a non-hosted shopping cart. Magento 2 is an open-source eCommerce website that is free to use, much like a WordPress. It’s a strong platform, but without learning how to code, the average person would find it hard to achieve their dream. Shopify is an “easy to use” way to build a store for anyone. You pay a monthly fee to use it, and it will help both beginner stores as well as high-volume ones.
Magento 2 and Shopify are both better options for building a store. But what is appropriate for you here depends on your skill and vision. In this section, we will compare between the two, which eCommerce platform is better for building your store and which will benefit you more.
Pros and Cons of Magento 2
|Good Community Support For Users On the massive user-generated content database, you can check for your question. Generally, you’ll be able to find a guide to everything you’re searching for, very comprehensive but easy to understand.||Difficult to get to grip in Magento 2 and it needs programming knowledge. Magento can be a very challenging platform, with a steep learning curve, if you’re a non-technical user. This is especially important when comparing it to Shopify, a platform that makes the process of creating websites far more straightforward.|
|Flexible platform. There’s no restriction with Magento 2 on how you build your store. You should also make it interesting and unique, so you’ll stand out from the crowd. The customers will remember you and will visit your store frequently.||It takes a considerable investment in time to get your store up and to run. It’s just an intense time to get to know the Magento app. It looks a little intimidating to the first time user, so it’s best to set aside some time to get to know your way around the platform before you get lost in the construction of your site! You need to be prepared to spend a few hours changing lines of code with Magento to get your site to appear exactly as you want it to.|
|Cost Open-source site. Meaning it is available in the public domain and is free to use. One thing you’ll have to consider about Magento is that you have to pay for your own hosting.||Cost Despite being free to use, including hosting and app costs, it becomes costly. As your store expands, you will have to pay for hosting more. If you want an eCommerce platform that will allow your store to expand without having to worry about that hosting costs, Shopify is the way forward. Some of the applications from Magento are free, while some come with an installation and annual charge. This is frequently about the $100 mark per device, meaning that if you want to add loads of advanced features into your shop, it can run up pretty fast.|
Pros and Cons of Shopify
|About 100 beautiful, mobile-ready storefront themes. All the Shopify themes will customize automatically for various devices and screen sizes. That’s awesome because of more smartphone shoppers now than ever before! In reality, before they purchase, 69 percent of consumers aged 18-39 are using mobile to study goods. And if they then use a laptop to complete their order, this means that the products on the mobile really need to shine to get the customers to convert.||Just 10 of its themes are free of charge. If you have a free theme in your heart, this will limit your choice a little bit. But to give your store a look you really want, and to give your customer the shopping experience they are looking for to entice them to purchase, and the investment is worth their top themes.|
|Large App Store. Shopify is perfect for taking your store up to the next stage and for improving your end performance. The App Store for Shopify is much like that except for websites!||The integration of many apps makes it complex. When you’re concerned about additional complexity, then you just need to really select what features your store will take advantage of. At first, because of the wide variety of apps available, you can get the trigger happy but choose wisely, and you’ll be perfect! To show off your goods, you might start by integrating your Instagram feed – this is very fast and simple to do. When your store expands, we suggest that you add an email marketing app to help you increase your sales and optimize the purchasing power of your customers.|
|24/7 support. When you get stuck, Shopify is still there, so you can fix issues easily and concentrate on making sales!||Chargeable This decreases when each month you pay more i.e., when you invest in a more inclusive package. Make more money.|
Apps and add ons: Which has Better Features.
Shopify and Magento 2 both offer you the basics of creating a profitable online shop. But what if you want to extend your shop with more specialized tools?
They are one-click add-ons that will help expand your store’s functionality. We help to free up your time by automating boring business activities so you can concentrate on boosting sales and revenue.
Think of the features you’re adding to your mobile, including those. You expand their functionality, and even though you don’t always need them all, it’s nice to know that you need them once!
Magento Marketplace has a wide selection of more than 5,000 free and paid extensions. You can add an extension with just one click of the mouse.
What you can do with the extensions to Magento is close to what you can do on Shopify. Magento gives us an advantage here as we can add so many things to make our website more advance.
It gives you a variety of over 2,400 free apps and also has paid apps. It will make the website better, giving it the opportunity to make more money for you. Meaningful, though, the Shopify-specific apps need some snippets of coding.
- Display consumer trust icons to reduce cart dropout and increase transactions e.g., Through Booster Apps Trust Hero. 58 percent of incomplete transactions are for security reasons, and the program should help you fix the!
- Integrate email marketing strategies for invitations and promotions to receive, e.g., Fill in your Mail Chimp account to free Shop to build targeted ads to improve your sales.
- Integrate 10 feeds on social media e.g., to advertise your products and meet a broader audience, add Twitter, Instagram, eBay, and more to your homepage.
It can be a hard job to start a new company or to take your physical store into the online world by selling its product online. So why make things even more difficult when you use an eCommerce site that you find hard to use?
In addition, you might not be giving your customers the best shopping experience possible, which will mean fewer profits for you. So choosing a site that you’re 100 percent satisfied with using is always in your best interest!
To unlock the full potential of the platform, you need to learn some coding and some technical keywords so that the learning curve as compared to the shop becomes high when you start Magento.
The Magento CMS (Content Management System-their counterpart to the editor of Shopify) is less user-friendly than the gui of Shopify.
There are many technical words everywhere which are very hard for the less computer-confident among us (e.g., cache – a place to temporarily store something in the computing world)!
This means there are more possible stumbling blocks for first-time users to tackle. It is a versatile platform that offers you flexibility, but that comes with tremendous added difficulty.
Since Magento is open-source (i.e., free for all but without a dedicated, centralized framework such as Shopify), you’ll need to learn at least some code to take advantage of its full functionality.
Shopify is the creator of a one-stop-shop, drag, and drop website. Which means you can customize your store as you want.
No one ranked it in our research for ‘ease of use’ less than 4 out of 5, and 88 percent of them would recommend it to others.
- Easily insert unique photos in your theme to design your store and make it unforgettable for your customers.
- Easily attach items to start selling in no time. Set up payments simply so that you can start making money.
- Redesign your store’s look and feel to represent your company and catch the attention of online shoppers.
Shopify also has great service for consumers, just in case you get into trouble. Support is available 24/7 via phone, live chat, and email functionality.


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Thousands of people come to the Cathedral City Hot Air Balloon Festival and Food Truck Fiesta to enjoy the majestic beauty of the hot air balloons and delicious food, but they also come for the LIVE music on the main stage in Downtown Cathedral City. Entitled, “BalloonaPalooza”, guests will enjoy a packed day of great music for free!
The following musical acts are scheduled to appear on the Main Stage on Saturday, November 23, 2019 in Downtown Cathedral City from 11 am to 8 pm:
11:00 AM Daytime Moon
12:30 PM Avenida Band
2:00 PM Lisa Lynn and the Country Gents
3:30 PM Jahm Star Michael Jackson and Prince Tribute
5:30 PM Woodstock Revisited
6:00 PM (Music Respite for Balloon Glow to Music)
7:00 PM 50th Anniversary Woodstock Show
For the latest information, schedules, and balloon ride tickets, go to www.HotAirBalloonFest.com.


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Heather Nedohin had never beaten her Quebec rival Marie-France Larouche.
They played one another at the 1996 Canadian junior nationals. Larouche won. They played in the round-robin portion of the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Larouche won.
They met again Saturday, in the 3 vs. 4 playoff game at the Enmax Centrium. And this time it was Nedohin, the Alberta champion from Edmonton’s Saville Sports Centre, finally taking a 7-4 decision to move one win closer to Sunday’s final.
Competing in her first Scotties playoff game as a skip, Nedohin, 36, made a double takeout with her first rock in the ninth end then, with the hammer, scored two to take control.
The Nedohin rink also survived a late scare when Jessica Mair fell while sweeping. Teammate Laine Peters used her broom to push Mair away from the stone to keep it in play.
“There was a little bit of drama in that game,” said Nedohin. “We’ve been working on this new sweeping technique and we’ve had a lot of falls. Honestly, head’s up for Laine to giving [Mair]the boot.”
Larouche had led 1-0 after the first end; Nedohin scored two in the third. The skips and their teammates went back and forth until it was tied 4-4 after eight.
“It’s really disappointing,” Larouche admitted. “We knew we were able to beat these teams but we didn’t play our best today,”
Alberta will now play Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones later Saturday (6 p.m. ET) in the semi-final. The winner of that game will face B.C.’s Kelly Scott in the championship final.
Quebec will play in Sunday morning’s bronze-medal game.
Larouche, from the Etchewin Curling Club in St-Romuald, lost in the final of the 2004 Scotties, which was also played in Red Deer.
Nedohin has been a fan favourite here for her antics and emotions. She’s celebrated good shots, cussed at bad ones and was dancing with a group of young girls during a break in play Saturday.
The last Alberta rink to win a Scotties was Cathy King’s foursome in 1998. Nedohin was a third on that rink.


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With about one-fifth of the world’s freshwater within our borders, it’s only natural that Canada take a leadership role in responding to global water crises. The federal election underway provides the perfect opportunity to seek commitments for meaningful environmental policies from all federal leaders.
One simple idea that should find support across the political spectrum would be to ensure that plastic bottles are included when the proposed Canadian ban on single-use plastics comes into effect, as early as 2021. The announcement of such a ban by the federal Liberal government last June was an important first step, but it did not spell out exactly which plastic items would be covered.
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Sometimes, we Canadians forget that we are a water nation. Not only do we have the world’s longest coastline, but we are a country rich in fresh water wherein, on an average annual basis, our rivers discharge close to 7 per cent of the world’s renewable water supply while our country has less than 1 per cent of the world population. Canadians have a powerful responsibility to ensure sustainable stewardship of the water that is our legacy, just as Brazilians have a similar responsibility in the Amazon forest.

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Central Freshwater Biogeographic Province
Central Freshwater Biogeographic Province – Climate
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Annual mean precipitation is largely moderate across the FBP. Areas receiving high rainfall are located along the coast. There is a north to south gradient of values for the driest quarter mean precipitation ranging from dry to wet, the lowest value being 0 mm. Rainfall erosivity, the potential for rainfall-induced soil loss, is low to high throughout the FBP, though it decreases with distance from the coast. Areas of the FBP that receive the highest annual mean precipitation have the highest rainfall erosivity values.
The minor occurrence of valley bottom flat areas suggests floodplains and the processes associated with floodplain inundation are not as important to the ecology in this FBP as they are in the Murray-Darling. Heavy rainfall events in this FBP are unlikely to result in increased periods of productivity due to the decreased occurrence of floodplain inundation. The dominance and broad distribution of erosional areas suggests most rainfall will run off the landscape and into the instream channel.
On average the mean temperature for the FBP ranges from cold to moderate; there is a rough north-south gradient with hotter temperatures to the north. There also appears to be an east-west gradient related to the maximum and minimum weekly temperatures. Coastal areas consistently have lower maximum and minimum temperatures than inland areas. The ratio of the weekly maximum and minimum temperatures is greatest in the south-east corner, though it is variable throughout the FBP. Seasonality in temperature is pronounced in the south of the FBP but not in coastal areas.
Mean annual run-off in most of the FBP, particularly the inland areas, is low to negligible (0.01 mm), meaning that most rainfall is lost as evaporation. Mean annual run-off along the coast ranges from low to high.
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Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (2013) Central Freshwater Biogeographic Province – Climate, WetlandInfo website, accessed 18 March 2024. Available at: https://wetlandinfo.des.qld.gov.au/wetlands/ecology/aquatic-ecosystems-natural/riverine/freshwater-biogeo/central/climate.html


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Rock Party 2017 to land in Tropicana Atlantic City13 March 2017
(PRESS RELEASE) -- George Thorogood and The Destroyers' "Rock Party Tour 2017" makes its way to Tropicana Atlantic City on Saturday, 10 June. Experience the bad-to-the-bone icon at his very best, in the Tropicana Atlantic City Casino & Resort Showroom at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 p.m.
George Thorogood And The Destroyers – whose lineup includes Jeff Simon (drums, percussion), Bill Blough (bass guitar), Buddy Leach (saxophone), and Jim Suhler (rhythm guitar), perform a unique style of music with a mix of rock 'n' roll, country and blues. Over the course of 16 studio albums during the last four decades, George and The Destroyers have been rewarded with six Gold and two Platinum selling albums. They have performed more than 8,000 live shows, and have sold more than 15 million albums. With legendary appearances on SNL and Live Aid, the opening slot on the Rolling Stones historic '81 tour, their own record-breaking 50/50 tour, or any of their current 100+ shows per year, George and his longtime band remain among the most relentless and relevant classic rock acts on tour today.
From a birthday party in Wilmington to concert stages around the world, it's been one of the wildest rides in music. Today, one legendary guitar-slinger and his band are coming to Atlantic City, NJ, to play like they still have something to prove. For George Thorogood And The Destroyers – as well as for millions of fans old and new – the Rock Party starts now.
Tickets prices to see George Thorogood and The Destroyers are $59, $69, $79 and $89. Tickets are available now at the Tropicana Box Office and online through Ticketmaster or by calling 1.800.745.3000. Tickets are subject to tax and fees.


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by Caroline CampbellCaroline Campbell was born and educated in Belfast. She read Modern History at University College, Oxford, and subsequently received an MA and a PhD from the Courtauld Institute, on the iconography of 15th century Florentine cassoni. She was Print Room Supervisor in the Department of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1998-2000); Curatorial Assistant (2000-01) and Assistant Curator of Renaissance Paintings (2001-05) at the National Gallery, London. Caroline joined the Courtauld as Schroder Foundation Curator of Paintings in 2005.
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Source: Deep Learning on Medium
This is my take on what it means to understand for us, humans — how we do it, and why it is optional.
We actually have two separate facilities at our disposal, the brain’s neural net hardware and our rational mind that runs on top of the neural net. The latter has a different way of storing what we learned about the real world and using that information to make predict real-world outcomes.
Incidentally, that makes understanding (a. k. a. being rational) actually optional for us. So most of us don’t bother with (and are often discouraged from) gaining the understanding of things in the real world. Instead, we tend to rely on the neural net, as it is pretty amazing at guessing the right choices. It does it by treating and memorizing everything we sense (and any development in time) as pictures (mental images?). Then it can look for similarities with what it saw in the past to find the closest match and, by association, its next move. Beyond that, it has no clue what is on the picture. That is why it is always a guess, and it is inherently superficial. It will guess wrong if two pictures depicting very different objects or circumstances happen to look similar enough for the neural net.
And that’s why it is unexplainable — it doesn’t know! In fact, a human relying on his neural net is acting exactly like a deep learning AI. Talking to such a person is no different than talking to a chatbot.
Being clueless is what makes neural net 100% irrational even when it is guessing 100% on the point. And again, that’s what many (most?) of us are.
The actual understanding (a. k. a. knowledge) is always the product of a person’s rational mind. Instead of guessing superficially, it relies on mental models to effectively create and run a simulation of the real world. That’s how we “know” things — by developing or learning a proper mental model and running it to predict the real-world outcomes. As a fundamental capability, we all have it. The difference between people is in the quantity and quality of their mental models.
Ideally, you want your simulation to provide complete coverage of the real world. It doesn’t have to be very deep/detailed (cause won’t fit ;). But it’d be nice that it has no major holes, so we can see the whole picture.
Unfortunately, few ppl have that. Most simply have too few models. A Ph.D. would have tons, but they all represent some specialized knowledge. In other words, they have a very detailed simulation of some aspect of the world but might be very much missing the rest.
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How big of an uproar would there be if a governor was “praised … as a leader annointed by God” by 1,400 people during a three-hour worship service lead by more than 75 clergy? What if they said it was “the providence of God” that brought the governor to the office? What if they compared the governor to Esther or even called her a “modern-day Mary, who will give birth to a fresh vision, a fresh hope, a fresh renewall.” What if this was only one of the three inaugural prayer services marking the governor’s re-election?
Turns out, there’s not much controversy because Gov. Jennifer Granholm happens to be a Democrat.
Gov. Granholm, a Catholic, has a history of using mixing religion in her politics.
During Granholm’s first year in office, she made a significant number of budget cuts. She was upset by proposals to cut state funding to social welfare programs, such as homeless shelters and mental health agencies. During an interview, she reflected on the proper perspective of budget cuts:
“Often those who cloak themselves in a cape of religiosity happen to be some who are the biggest cutters. Now, some of that can balance out. But when you get to cutting the services for the least of these — in the 25th chapter of Matthew in the 37th verse the Lord says, ‘Whatsoever you do to the least of these, so also you do unto me’ — that’s when I question whether somebody is really living out the faith that they profess.”
The interviewer noted that Granholm would be criticized, but she hoped that everyone would “keep those values in mind . . .through the budget process.” Betsy DeVos, the chair of the Michigan Republican Party, was upset that Granhom had decided “to cloak her views on balancing the budget in religious terms in order to demonize her political opponents.” Granholm responded that she did not think her response was controversial, and she said that many people of faith are serving in state government.

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When workers in OBI building supplies store in Krakow formed a (mainstream) union, the bosses answered with a union busting campaign, firing one of the main activists and (unsuccessfully) trying to fire another. The woman who was fired wound up working at a competitor chain, Leroy Merlin. We found out now that this woman was also fired from this job.... because the bosses at OBI sent a letter to the bosses at Leroy Merlin describing her union activity.
On Wednesday the dismissed unionist begins her court case against OBI. Workers in OBI, who are fighting against mobbing, anti-union and anti-worker tactics of the firm, ask for solidarity for their repressed colleague. On that day, ZSP will be holding informational actions at OBI shops in relation to this case and the working conditions throughout the chain. More workers, convinced that the bosses have no intent to address their concerns and demands are now interested in a direct action campaign at the stores.


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If you’re part of an apartment lease and you’re not willing to honor it any more then there are certain steps that you can take for legally breaking your agreement with your landlord. These steps are specified by most of the states, and the things will be more in your favor if you are facing certain issues with your current apartment in which you may be living. You can just inform your landlord about your safety or health issues with your apartment and give them sufficient time for correcting the issue, some legal ramifications may be there with which you can be able to break your lease.
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If you are a Souls-Like fan, chances are that you might have heard about the upcoming Action RPG with souls-like combat, Mortal Rite. The game is aiming to breath a fresh air into Rogue-lite and dungeon crawler genre. Developer Round Toast Studios has also started a Kickstarter campaign for the game and if it’s something that piques your interest then you should definitely go and check it out on Kickstarter and may be, become a backer as well.
The game is quite far into development and is hoping to go into early access as soon as winter 2022. However, if Kickstarter goals are met, the developer might delay the early access to add more content. We talked about the game’s different elements and prospects with the devs in an interview and the developers were able to share some interesting details about their project. The full interview is as following:
Q: Mortal Rite has been in development for three years, right? How many people are currently working on the game?
The Round Toast team working on Mortal Rite is currently 5 people: Alex, Anthony, Jensen, Rodrigo, Other Alex.
Q: Did you guys pitch your game to any publisher for funds before using Kickstarter? Do you think Kickstarter is a better option than having a publisher backing?
Both prior to Kickstarter and after the Kickstarter launched, we have been approached by multiple publishers. So far publishers have not worked out for one reason or another.
It’s possible for us to do both a Kickstarter and end up with a publisher. Kickstarter makes a lot of sense because Kickstarter doesn’t guide development of the game at all. It’s still completely in the hands of our team how we develop the game. While there are publishers that have the same level of hands-off approach, publishers usually have more conditions that need to be met.
Downside to Kickstarter is that it’s not a guaranteed amount like it would be with a publisher. So, it’s a tradeoff between creative freedom and guaranteed funds.
Q: How far the game is into development? Yes, there are Kickstarter goals as well but for core systems, how much game has been completed?
Our estimation for core system completion is 70%.
- Core Systems/Elements for Mortal Rite:
- Melee Combat (core pillar of player interaction) is finished
- Networked Movement (second core pillar because we care about everything feeling responsive) is finished
- Enemies/Bosses (main interactive element) still being refactored, but pretty much figured out
- Hit Reaction system is finished
- Interactable system is finished
- Destructible system is finished
- Networking (super important feature) implemented, but untested in the new build
- Progression (currency / leveling / player stats / and save game data) are almost finished
- Level Switching (important part of the roguelike experience) almost finished
- Items (important roguelike element) prototyped in old project, but due for a re-write
Q: Do you guys have a release window in mind for Mortal Rite?
Early Access on Steam in Winter 2022. The release window will change if the Kickstarter is successful.
Q: The game has a co-op of up to 5 players, right? A local/split screen co-op might have been great for the game, don’t you think? Any plans for that?
Correct. While local co-op via split screen would be a good fit for Mortal Rite, there are no plans for split screen. Mortal Rite’s resource requirements will probably prevent that on most systems where local co-op makes sense. If split screen is possible in the future via optimizations, players want it, and we can make it happen, we would do that after console support.
Q: How co-op progressions will work in the game? Will players share loot, or each player will have his/her own loot?
Mortal Rite offers loot in the following forms: Currency (to be named later), Items, and Materials for crafting items. Currency that allows players to purchase upgrades and levels comes from kills and will be shared between players. How a player chooses to spend their currency is up to them. Players may choose to spend their currency on specific items, upgrading their character’s stats, new abilities, or on upgrades to their current abilities.
Loot will be unique per player, but all players will get something from a chest or a boss kill. Players can trade items that they have not yet equipped in the hub area.
Q: How will the difficulty scaling work in co-op?
Difficulty in Mortal Rite will scale based on the number of players in the game and how many times a level has been beat.
As the number of players in Mortal Rite changes, we can load in different numbers of enemies, different enemy compositions, and/or different level configurations so that there is still a challenge for there being more than 1 player. The goal is to present a challenge to any group configuration regardless of characters chosen and number of players.
Enemy difficulty will scale each time a level has been beat. Kind of an enemy difficulty +1 mechanic that is cross-level. This means that a single level can be played more than once, but the players will face a different configuration of enemies that are higher level, a different level layout, and a different item layout. This also means that as players get stronger so do the enemies. We hope that players use strategy in the form of choosing different characters, using different abilities, choosing different items, and player teamwork to rise to the challenge presented.
Q: Currently, you have a max goal of 500K USD for Mortal Rite on Kickstarter. Any plans go beyond that if the target is reached?
Yes. We have plans for so much more. More funding means that we would be able to pack more into the game for the players to have fun with. More characters. More enemies. More bosses. More levels.
Q: Are you guys satisfied with the current rate of backing?
Although we did a lot of research to understand what the recipe is for a successful Kickstarter, we didn’t know what to expect out of the Kickstarter. This is the first Kickstarter than anyone on the team has been involved with as a creator. There is always the hope that everyone that sees your project will be just as passionate about it as you are and if that happens then the Kickstarter would be funded quickly. There is also the fear that no one will like anything that you are doing, and the Kickstarter will fail. Overall, we are happy to see that hundreds of people have pledged to help make Mortal Rite’s future brighter than it would be without their support.
Q: Have you guys finalized the early access release date for the game yet?
The best estimate we have for Early Access is currently Winter of 2022. If the Kickstarter campaign is successful, then that would be pushed back into 2023 since we would be able to add more to the game using the Kickstarter funds.
Q: Any price range you can give us for the early access version?
At least $20 USD and at most $30 USD.
Q: Mortal Rite is expected to breath “new life into the Rogue-Lite and dungeon crawler genres”. How are you planning to achieve that? Any unique features that will be a breath of fresh air?
Breathing new life into a genre is a lofty goal. Ultimately, we are trying to merge the parts of these different genres that we like into a single game and then add parts of games that we like and look for in game.
1. Most roguelikes are not multiplayer. We think that adding multiplayer will make a roguelike experience more fun.
2. The goal for items is to change the way that you approach the game significantly and not to be just a stat boost.
3. Most roguelikes don’t have specific characters with specific abilities.
4. Strategic melee combat without the reliance on items. A skilled player that has mastered their chosen character won’t need to rely on items. Items should significantly augment the combat but not be the combat.
Q: How generous the game is going to be for the loot?
The plan is to have multiple tiers of items where higher tiered items are more impactful. Because we have multiple tiers of items, we can afford to be more generous with the lower tiered items.
Tier 1 items that only give stat boosts would be easy to obtain. Tier 2 items that can be activated (example being a healing flask) would be harder to obtain. Tier 3 items, which are much more powerful, are reserved for chests, as boss rewards, or by finding a recipe.
Since we have tiers of items, we are also able to provide recipes that make use of lower tiered items to craft higher tiered items. Recipes can be purchased using currency, acquired by killing a boss, or found in the world. This means that if a player wants to build out a character in a specific way, they will be more able to do that via crafting. We like players being able to work towards a goal that they choose instead of just being at the mercy of what drops.
Q: And since it’s a rogue-lite experience, which of the items will be retained upon death?
Retained on Death:
1. Character level
3. Equipped items
4. Item recipes
5. Blueprints, which are player-made recipes for high-tier items and are not purchasable in the game
Dropped on Death:
6. Currency will be dropped on death and can be retrieved from killing an enemy near where you died.
7. There is a chance that unequipped items will be lost on death.
Q: How will character progressions work in game? Players will level up after clearing levels/stages or there is more to it?
Players can spend currency that they gain from killing enemies in levels on increasing their character’s level or on specific items that they want for specific builds. As a character’s level increases, the character will unlock new abilities or higher-level versions of current abilities.
Q: Do you guys have plans to bring the game to consoles as well after the release on PC?
Console support is something that the team would like to have, but with such a small team we need to focus on PC first and then port to consoles in the future. One of the Kickstarter goals is to achieve console support faster than if we didn’t have those extra funds.
Q: Will Mortal Rite have multiple maps, or the same map will be procedurally generated over and over again?
Mortal Rite will have multiple maps and each of those maps will have their own theme and reason for existing based on Mortal Rite’s lore. Each map will have different level layouts and different enemy configurations that seek to check the roguelike experience box.
Q: With procedural generation, what elements will change on the map for each run?
Mortal Rite doesn’t have traditional procedural generation at runtime. Instead, we have chosen to have several different, hand-crafted scenarios that each level can present to the player. The number of scenarios is up to us as developers and there is no minimum or maximum number of scenarios that we can present to the player for each map.
Using hand-crafted scenarios prevents us from having issues that crop up from having procedurally generated levels at runtime. While it’s possible to make procedurally generated levels at runtime that have no issues, procedurally generated levels also lose the feeling of quality that a hand-crafted level presents.
Scenarios for us is a combination of level changes and enemy layout changes. The easiest example we have found to explain this in our office is having a level that has a ravine that players must get across. In example scenario one, the ravine has a bridge that players can cross, but the bridge is heavily guarded by archers on the other side of the bridge.
Scenario two, would have no bridge and the players must find another route across the ravine. The two scenarios would both strive to present the same challenge to the players but requiring different solutions.
Q: Do you guys have any plans to bring Mortal Rite to Microsoft’s Game Pass service? As an indie dev, what is your take on Microsoft’s service, especially for indie developers.
We have not been able to find any information about how to get on the Microsoft Game Pass service. Hey, Microsoft, give us a call.
Q: Roguelike/Roguelite games are notorious for in-game purchases. Do you have plans to introduce in-game purchases for Mortal Rite. If so, what sort of microtransactions can we expect in the game?
There are no plans to bring in-game purchases to Mortal Rite currently. If we were to add in-game purchases, they would all be cosmetic in nature (such as skins or themes for characters) and nothing that would give anyone an advantage in the game itself.
From what we have seen so far, Mortal Rite seems impressive enough. And with the co-op in the mix, it could very well be the next indie hit. We will see how the game fares during its early access phase.

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By Christopher D. Coursen Amid the current leaderless and immature madness in Congress, a novel sense of maturity appears to be advancing an important policy initiative: wireless spectrum auctions. Unlike the large number of issues that divide both parties in both chambers, this initiative is particularly unifying. The cherry on top? Auctions would bring revenue to the government, and not cost the taxpayers any money.
The House of Representatives recently introduced the “Spectrum Pipeline Act,” designed to free up more wireless airwaves for commercial use by releasing inefficiently, often non-deployed, government-owned spectrum, and then selling it through auctions. Both the Senate and the House held productive hearings on the subject and all signs indicate that the overwhelmingly bipartisan effort is moving towards action this year.
Now, as Congress attempts to deal with several pressing budgetary and monetary issues in the very short amount of time before year-end, the Members must not lose sight of the great urgency of dealing with spectrum issues. They must also work with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to put to bed unnecessary roadblocks.
The more than 300 million U.S. wireless subscribers are likely unaware that much of what they enjoy today on their connected devices is under threat from a “data crunch” occurring right now. Wireless products operate on spectrum – a finite resource. These are the pathways or airwaves that transmit data and ever-increasing amounts of video. But these airwaves are spread too thin – wireless networks are at or near capacity due to 150 million new in wireless users since 2009. We cannot create more spectrum, we can only reallocate it or allow shared use of it. According to recent data from CTIA – the wireless trade association – reallocation or sharing is an arduous process that takes an average of thirteen years to complete.
Congress, which oversees the sale of spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Commerce’s NTIA, is desperate to find revenue for the Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the government. So they are looking to advance policy and legislation that would bring the unused and underused spectrum to market. Recent precedent – $45 billion to the Treasury from the recent 2015 auction – has experts and policymakers alike, eager to pursue a legislative solution.
A recent Politico report indicated that “inflexible budget rules” from Congress, plus several past underestimated projections of the value of spectrum made by the CBO, could hinder progress. “Under the rule set in place after the sequester negotiations of 2011, Congress won’t approve any new spending without an equal amount of increased revenue,” the report reads.
In the past, however, when evaluating (scoring) any telecommunications legislation, the CBO has repeatedly undervalued all telecommunications legislation, including a decision that the 2012 spectrum auctions would yield only $15 billion in revenue to the government over a 10 year period. It has also required that it reduce spending – not that spending increases are offset by reductions.
For example, during the 1980’s, when Congress advanced legislation increasing radio and television renewal periods, the CBO had to be convinced that this would somehow reduce spending. By demonstrating the reductions in FCC administrative costs of conducting renewal hearings, Congress passed the legislation.
Similarly, in crafting legislation to deregulate the cable industry, Congress convinced the CBO that Federal preemption of State and local laws would reduce fraud and streamline the franchise renewal process, which would reduce spending by franchise authorities and cable companies alike, and result in lower costs to consumers.
To their credit, leaders from both sides of the aisle maintain that the CBO projections have traditionally been woefully wrong, and that spectrum auctions would generate revenue for the federal government, fuel the wireless economy, and assist under-connected communities. “We have an opportunity to develop meaningful legislation to further promote economic development and the many benefits fueled by increased mobile connectivity,” Senate Commerce Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., said in his remarks. Sen. Brian Schatz, D- Hawaii, has also made clear through repeated remarks, that the spectrum sale would not only create revenue, but that both the government and private sector will benefit.
Congress should do its part to advance a legislative solution that brings spectrum to the marketplace. Perhaps then the CBO will realize the harm that its projections have brought in the past, and continue to bring, before it mis-scores the pivotal spectrum auction set for 2016. There is simply too much at stake for Congressional dysfunction to stand in the way.
Christopher D. Coursen is founder of The Status Group. He formerly served as Majority Communications Counsel for the Senate Commerce Committee and Advisor to the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush Administrations.


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Frank Sinatra was an American singer and motion picture actor and one of the most sought-after performers in the entertainment industry. American singer and actor Frank Sinatra recorded numerous songs over the course of his career, many of which were beloved by his fans. Upon hearing the recordings of Bing Crosby , Sinatra was inspired as a teenager to choose popular singing as a vocation. The group toured the country that year, but Sinatra was the only member with serious musical ambitions, and they soon disbanded. For the next few years, Sinatra sang with local dance bands and for remote radio broadcasts. In , while singing and waiting tables at the Rustic Cabin in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, he was discovered and hired by trumpeter Harry James , who had recently quit the Benny Goodman Orchestra to start his own band. The 83 commercial recordings as well as several surviving air checks that Sinatra went on to make with the Dorsey band from to represent his first major body of work. Look at Me Now. Dorsey enjoyed having such a popular performer in his band and became irate when Sinatra expressed his desire to leave, even though Sinatra offered to stay with the band for another year.
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Singer and actor Frank Sinatra rose to fame singing big band numbers. The only child of Sicilian immigrants, a teenaged Sinatra decided to become a singer after watching Bing Crosby perform in the mids. He'd already been a member of the glee club in his high school and began to sing at local nightclubs. Radio exposure brought him to the attention of bandleader Harry James, with whom Sinatra made his first recordings, including "All or Nothing at All. After two years of chart-topping success with Dorsey, Sinatra decided to strike out on his own. Between and , Sinatra's solo career blossomed as the singer charted a slew of hit singles. The mobs of bobby-soxer fans Sinatra attracted with his dreamy baritone earned him such nicknames as "The Voice" and "The Sultan of Swoon. That was all. In , he won a special Academy Award for The House I Live In , a minute short made to promote racial and religious tolerance on the home front. Sinatra's popularity began to slide in the postwar years, however, leading to a loss of his recording and film contracts in the early s.

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Iowa knocked off Ohio State on Saturday. Justin Johnson was a big reason for that. JJ hit eight three pointers for the second time this year, just one off the Iowa single game record held by Chris Kingsbury.
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Browse the Encyclopedia by genre and tags. Each game has one main genre: Action, Fighting, Puzzle, Adventure, RPG, Sports, Strategy, Simulation, Party, Racing, Arcade. You can search multiple tags and filter games by platforms, scores, or release dates.
Little Devil Inside
Action July 2021
Little Devil Inside is an action adventure RPG and the first game developed by Neostream. The game takes place in a world where steampunk, fantasy, and modern times collide. There are humans living there, along with other intelligent races and various monsters. The game features an open world which we explore by using numerous vehicles and ships. They require to be regularly checked and upgraded, but they make our journey much more safer and faster.
Arcade 06 May 2021
Skate City is an arcade game designed for Apple Arcade users. During the game, players travel through the cities, performing tricks on a skateboard.
The Surge 2
RPG 24 September 2019
Expanded, focused primarily on fighting and characterized by high difficulty RPG action, maintained in a dystopic climate of science fiction. The player controls a man equipped with a heavy exoskeleton, the modification of which is one of the most important elements of the game.
Action 12 May 2021
Action RPG kept in a retrofuturistic style. In Retro Machina, we play the role of a broken robot, who travels the world in search of a way to repair himself. The hero solves puzzles and fights against hostile machines.
Strategy 26 September 2019
A real-time strategy taking place in a fantasy universe inspired by Nordic mythology and the Viking way of life. Northgard allows the players to lead a group of Vikings, who after years of tedious exploration have found a mysterious, resource-rich land. To attain their goal of fame and fortune, they will have to face numerous dangers scattered across the new land. Northgard’s gameplay is based on classic real-time strategy games such as Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, or The Settlers.
Pure Farming 2018
Simulation 13 March 2018
An advanced farming simulator developed by Techland in cooperation with the independent studio Ice Flames. Similarly as in other games in the genre, in Pure Farming 18 the player assumes the role of a farmer who must maintain his farm. The task requires him to perform various field activities like planting and watering seeds, gathering crops and selling them. Funds obtained in that way can be used for improving the farm and buying new vehicles and farming machines.
Adventure 28 November 2017
A reboot of the popular gothic horror adventure game series, developed by KING Art Games. The action takes the player to Scotland of the year 1926, where the hero – David Gordon – conducts an investigation into the circumstances of his father’s suicide.
Adventure 09 February 2016
An indie FPP adventure game and the debut production of the American Campo Santo studio. The team comprises of veteran developers, previously working on such titles as The Walking Dead, Mark of the Ninja, BioShock 2, and Brutal Legend. The story of Firewatch takes place in an enormous forest in the American state of Wyoming, where our hero is trying to escape his day-to-day problems by becoming a ranger.
RPG 13 December 2016
The debut production from the independent studio Concerned Ape. It is a sandbox RPG that focuses on the life of a farmer. Stardew Valley takes place in a fantasy realm filled with magic, where the player becomes a young farmer whose ambition is to transform his small field into a giant farm generating great profits. The main task of the player is to plant plants, gather the crops and expand the farm with new infrastructure and agricultural products.
Life is Strange: True Colors
Adventure 10 September 2021
The third main part of the popular episodic adventure games series. Life is Strange: True Colors was developed by Deck Nine, authors of Life is Strange: Before the Storm, and published by Square Enix.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Strategy 04 December 2018
A 3D tactical adventure game with stealth elements and turn-based combat. During the game, we control a group of mutants searching for the mythical Eden in a post-apocalyptic world.
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A production based on the license of the most famous video game in history. Tetris Effect draws not only from Alexey Pajitnov's work, but also from projects by Tetsuya Mizuguchi.
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A first-person adventure game from ORM Entertainment, which was initially supposed to be nothing more than modification to the popular shooter Crysis 2. Its story revolves around the disaster of the famous ocean liner, which sunk in 1912 with hundreds of people on board. We play as a man named Robert Morgan, who, due to false accusations, has to hide aboard the liner from the police.
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Torchlight Frontiers is a hack’n’slash action RPG. The main attraction of the game is an action-based combat system. The majority of missions are completed in teams of several people, but the game’s world is constant and inhabited by a large group of players like in MMO games.
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Another part of the popular series of racing games about motorbikes, based on the license of the Motorcycle World Championship. In MotoGP 21 players can take part in the virtual version of the 2021 season, while the game introduces a number of new features and improvements.
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An episodic adventure game created by the developers of Remember Me, a French studio DONTNOD. The game bears a resemblance to Telltale Games titles. Its protagonist is a 12th grade student named Max Caulfield, who returns to her home town in Oregon after years of absence. Together with her old friend she tries to solve the mysterious disappearance of her schoolmate, which prompts a series of strange events.
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An unusual production, combining a truck driving simulator with a survival game. Alaskan Truck Simulator has the official Discovery Channel license. The game was developed by the Polish studio Movie Games, and PlayWay is responsible for its release.
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A dynamic third-person perspective shooter developed by Tamsoft studio from Japan. The action of School Girl/Zombie Hunter takes place in the university known from the Onechanbara series. Once Musaku High School gets invaded by hordes of bloodthirsty zombies, five schoolgirls trapped inside rise up to the challenge and face them. Cooperation is the key to success – each heroine has unique abilities, weaknesses, and strengths, so only together they can battle the enemies.


Veteran Bollywood actor, Vinod Khanna is dead, funeral holds later today
By Rita Chioma
Veteran Bollywood actor, Vinod Khanna has died today, 27th April, 2017. He was 70 years of age.
Khanna, who was suffering from advanced bladder carcinoma, breathed his last at 11.20 am.
Khanna made his debut in films in 1968, after which he went on to become one of the Hindi film industry’s biggest stars over two decades.
He is remembered for his performances in “Mere Apne” (My Own), “Mera Gaon Mera Desh” (My Village, My Country) in which he played the role of a villain, “Kucche Dhage” (Fragile Thread)” and “Achanak” (Suddenly). –
Khanna, who was also a film producer and a politician, died at the HN Reliance Foundation hospital, a hospital spokesman confirmed.
He is expected to be buried later today.


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Electric car maker Tesla Reaches Record Quarterly Profit, Revenues Soar 74%April 27, 2021
Recently, Elon Musk’s company has been facing tough competition in its industry: manufacturers of traditional cars have begun to actively electrify their model lines. As a result, Tesla began to lose ground in some regional markets. However, this did not affect her financial well-being so much.
Tesla has announced the results of its work for the first three months of this year. According to the automaker’s report, key figures rose markedly during this period. The company’s revenue in the first quarter reached an impressive $ 10.39 billion. Despite the crisis, Tesla earned 74% more than from January to March last year.
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In just the reporting three months, the company produced 180,338 electric cars of two models Model 3 and Model Y. Model S and Model X were no longer produced during this period, but the brand nevertheless handed over 2,030 such electric cars to customers – all of them left the assembly line earlier.
182,847 Model 3 and Model Y electric cars fell into the hands of buyers. So Tesla ultimately shipped 184,877 zero-emission vehicles.
There is an increase of 109%. In May, the company has scheduled the first deliveries of the updated Model S sedan. The Model X crossover, which has also been updated, will begin shipping in Q3 2021.
Earlier, AutoTimesNews said that the Volkswagen ID.4 GTX electric car was shown on a new teaser on the eve of its debut on April 28. The novelty revealed the details of the exterior and interior and showed the work of “smart” headlights.
- Renault shares details on new 1.2 TCe engine for Clio to Kadjar cars
- Renault aims to be Europe’s greenest brand by 2030
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In making the presents for Chris and Jo, I have been sidetracked from creating my layouts for Learn Something New Every Day. However, I have been keeping notes of lessons learnt so that when I come to create them I'll have a reminder
For day three and four of LSNED
Yesterday I learnt
Why paint my own toenails, when I have a wonderful husband who will paint them for me!!
That our new neighbours have moved in - haven't met them yet though
Ameretto biscuits and nougat are a good combination
I now have a back up plan if the buyer of AJ's flat decides NOT to purchase the furniture
My friend Mandy has a new job and is excited to go clothes shopping even though they are for work clothes - Mandy and Ceal are currently in Adelaide, Australia
That Grace (Jo's little girl) stumbled whilst having a paddy and has bruised her nose and face. Luckily she didn't break her nose. Saw her today as doesn't look as bad as I imagined though!!
Today I learnt
That I am very content just pottering around all afternoon making presents for my friends
I am more creative than I give myself credit for
How to use the new microwave on my own - this one is digital, my old red one you turned a dial
My friends Jo and Chris liked the anniversary card I made them - they have been married 11 years today
That I had forgotten how nice sweet potatoes tasted
Good evening from Pickle Land. Hope to speak to you soon


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Members of Uganda's opposition and civil society representatives have handed a petition to the United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron to urge him to denounce what they consider to be 'fraudulent' presidential elections.
On 18 February, Ugandans headed to the polls for the East African nation's presidential elections – which the Ugandan Electoral Commission said were won by autocratic President Yoweri Museveni, who was running for a fifth term in office.
The United Nations, European Union and African Union observers, the head of the Commonwealth observer's team, President Obasanjo, Ugandan Church leaders, the United States and Botswana governments, local election observers and NGOs, as well as by Ugandan opposition candidates, however, claimed there was strong evidence these elections were neither free nor fair, and that numbers announced were not a true reflection of the votes.
Three weeks after the presidential elections, the authorities have not ceased what is becoming an almost daily pattern of arrests for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) candidate Kizza Besigye, who has been arrested nine times in 11 days and has been placed under house arrest despite no charges being brought against him. (Read how Besigye described his house arrests: 'Take me to a proper detention place or let me go free)
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In London, meanwhile, dozens of Ugandans met outside their embassy, Uganda House, at 1pm on 9 March, and the noisy group converged, to the sound of drums and a sound system, towards 10 Downing Street a couple of hours later to hand a petition that garnered around 500 signatures.
The march comes just over a week after another Go Forward presidential candidate Amama Mbabazi filed a petition against Museveni and the Uganda Electoral Commission in the Supreme Court of Uganda.
Stella Ikanik Opolot, UK chapter coordinator for the opposition FDC party, told IBTimes UK she marched down Whitehall to urge the UK Prime Minister and the international community to not recognise Museveni as the legitimate President of Uganda. The UK, one of the African leader's closest allies, is reported to have spent £841.7m ($1,204m, €1,086m) in Uganda since 2006, through its Department for International Development (DFiD).
Opolot said: "One reason for the petition is because in the past, the UK used to come out quite clearly and quickly when they felt something not quite rights was happening in Uganda, and this time we are surprised that they haven't spoken up. The US has, but the UK is quiet and we don't understand why.
"We are aware that the government supports that of Uganda through funding in a number of projects, and we want to bring to the attention that, when you are supporting Museveni's government, these things are going on. UK being a democratic country which promotes democracy should not be happy to continue to support a country that is ruled by a dictatorship and that human rights abuses are taking place."
The FDC and other opposition parties represented during the march urged the UK to "reconsider its position and maybe issue a statement or a strong warning of action to get the Ugandan government to listen".
'Release supporters of political opposition'
Besides the demand for the deployment of an independent audit of the election results by international experts, the petition also calls for Cameron to demand the release of Besigye, alongside that of 300 polling agents, volunteers, supporters and leaders, who the FDC claims were rounded up by agents of the current regime and thrown into detention centres and torture chambers for their political affiliation.
Ikanik alleged some of the detained have "disappeared", explaining: "Some of them, we have not been able to trace them, they are still missing. We believe the number could be much higher than 300 imprisoned."
The coordinator explained these infringements are anti-constitutional. "The rule of law is also at stake here, because Uganda is now lawless", she added.
Another demonstrator, Bosco Nyeko, told IBTimes UK how he believed "The elections were probably the worst slap on the face of democracy in recent history – that was a military coup in its full format", adding that his goal was to mobilise all Ugandans around the globe over the issue of democracy.
What the petition is calling for:
"We call upon the UK Prime Minister and the international community to not recognise Museveni as the legitimate President of Uganda and to expedite a forensic independent audit of the election results by international experts – including an investigation into the conduct of the head of the Uganda electoral commission, Badru Kiggundu."
"We urge the immediate and unconditional release of the opposition leader, Dr Kizza Besigye of the Forum for Democratic Change, and other political prisoners – plus the freezing of assets and the instigation of travel bans of key regime officials who are implicated in the fraudulent poll, including Yoweri Museveni, Kasule Lumumba, General Kale Kayihura, General Katumba Wamala and Felix Kaweesa among others."
Excerpts from the UK Prime Minister Denounce Uganda 2016 Fraudulent Presidential Elections petition.