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Here's what Mike Esposito had to say about Skywald recently:
Skywald was Sol Brodsky and I, with his friend Israel Waldman. Sol wanted to put out comic books so he called me up and said, "Mike, do me a favour, would you and Ross work for us?" I said, "Well we can't", and he said, "We'll make you a deal and give you a contract to make you exclusive". I said to Ross, "What do you think?" and he said, "Ah what the hell, let's give it a shot. We'd rather not be freelance all the time". They didn't give contracts in those days with regular comics, so we did it.Mike is being slightly disengenous with his memories there. Skywald folded for a variety of reasons, the least being that the comics were garbage. It's true that Skywald did put out a fair degree of crap, but which company hasn't? There's two distinct part of Skywald, the first era of Waldman and Brodsky, and the second era where the company was run by Al Hewetson. During Hewetson's reign the focus was more on original material and he utilised talent such as the Spanish International Studios along with emerging talent such as Pablo Marcos, Bernie Wrightson and Gene Day. Memory is a tenuous thing indeed. I'm not sure of the involvement of Andru & Esposito as writers of Hell Rider (the issues are credited to Friedrich alone barring at least exception) but the duo did write some horror stories for the company.
He did the comics in black and white. Sol bought warehouses filled with original art from Fawcett, Fox Periodicals, Fiction House, all these independent companies that had long since been bankrupt. He bought carloads of that stuff and figured he'd print them again. All the copyrights were gone, titles like Blue Beetle, Sheena, all that stuff. He figured the smart way to do it was to put it out as a black and white magazine for twenty-five cents instead of a ten-cent comic book. It'd be cheaper to print, in black and white, and he'd put one new story with all the reprints. Ross and I would do the new story, the lead story.
After a while Skywald went under. The reason why nothing sold was because he had garbage. He was reprinting stuff that was so bad with beautiful covers painted by Boris. The covers were beautiful, but when you opened them up it was dreck. A couple of things weren't bad. The ones that Ross and I did were The Heap and Hell Rider, a guy on his motorcycle. We wrote that and did that together and that wasn't bad because it had a character that was today, not from forty years ago. He'd just pick things at random without thinking and say, "Print this and print this". That was the problem. Like the jungle stuff that he had. We did a couple of jungle stories as the lead story for Sheena. Sheena was a lot of fun, but he never gave it a chance to develop beyond doing a reprint. We did Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid for him too. Ross and I had fun with that one because we had photos of the characters from the movie. It didn't last and we got a call saying everything was dead and we had to go back to freelance.
Now, where was I? Hell Rider. While writing the Andru & Esposito book I wanted to source these issues. That was my first problem. The stuff has never been reprinted since it originally appeared, with one exception (which I'll get to). In the meantime the original issues have skyrocketed in price as there's a run on anything bearing the Skywald imprint. Skywald collectors are as fanatical as any I've ever seen anywhere. And good on 'em. So they should be. It's like myself and the Newton line - there's a finite amount of product out there so, unlike Marvel or DC, you can own the entire company's output. As I'd not seen the books anywhere else, let alone the stories, I thought, well I'm gonna have to shell out a fair chunk of change. Then it happened.
We were in Melbourne for the Camberwell fair when a guy next to us pulled out a large box full of Australian reprint comics from the early to mid '70s. All the comics were virtually mint and knowing that these comics often have reprints from companies such as ACG, Media and Charlton Golden Age, and Charlton for Silver Age and often Atlas/Seaboard and Skywald I bought the lot, sight unseen. Sorting through them I came across several comics that are 'grails'* to me at least, and at the top of that pile were reprints of the two Hell Rider comics. BLISS! Pure black and white, as the originals were. They feature some of Andru & Esposito's more adventurous artwork, with Esposito using some inking methods that he'd not used before and wouldn't use since. Aided by Bill Everett (credited as providing 'Special Effects") the art was bold and showed Andru cutting loose on several pages with an abandon not unlike that he'd show on their own self-published magazine Up Your Nose, published at around the same time. In short these comics are damn good reads - the storyline might be a bit ropey, but the art is well worth the price of admission alone. Now sit back and feast your eyes upon two rarely seen comic books.
Published 1976, Gredown Pty Ltd.
Introducing The Hell Rider by Gary Friedrich, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito (Hell-Rider #1)
The Butterfly by Gary Friedrich, John Celardo & Mike Esposito (Hell-Rider #1)
Introducing The Wild Bunch by Gary Friedrich, Dick Ayers & Mike Esposito (Hell-Rider #1)
The Hell Rider: The Final Chapter by Gary Friedrich, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito (Hell-Rider #1)
The first thing that leaps out is the altered cover art. The art was changed, different colours added and the background largely removed, all the blurb on the USA cover was removed, leaving just the images. The comic doesn't feature any of the text pieces that the original did, making this, as well as the second image, totally unique.
Published 1976, Greydown Pty, Ltd.
Hell Rider: Night Of The Vampire Ripper by Gary Friedrich, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito (Hell-Rider #2)
The Wild Bunch: Blood On Their Spokes by Gary Friedrich, Syd Shores & Mike Esposito (Hell-Rider #2)
Tough Cop by John Albano & Russ Heath (Thrilling Adventure Stories #2)
The Butterfly: Against The Brothers Of The Crimson Cross by Gary Friedrich & Rich Buckler (Hell-Rider #2)
Hell Rider: Shanghai… 70's Style by Gary Friedrich, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito (Hell-Rider #2)
Now this issue is a stunner for many reasons. First the cover image is totally different to the USA original which you can also see here. Similar poses, but different images and different art. I have no idea where Gredown got the cover image for their second issues of Hell Rider as the image doesn't appear inside the book at all. Personally I think the cover works far better than the original, but it's all down to personal preference. But that's not all that makes this book unique.
If the more eagle eyed amongst you are looking at the contents and thinking, "Thrilling Adventure Stories, that wasn't published by Skywald," then you're right. That book was published by Atlas/Seaboard. Gredown, along with other companies that specialised in odd job comics used to throw anything into an issue to make up the page count. That often meant that you'd find an issue with all Skywald and one Atlas story, or an issue with all Atlas, or issues with a mix of material from publishers as diverse as Skywald, Charlton and ACG. It makes discovering these comics all the more exciting really, especially when you find one that has art from Ditko, Toth, Whitney and Wrightson. I've yet to see if there was a third issue of Hell Rider published in Australia, I doubt very highly there was. The material that was reprinted was almost always previously published. I'm loathe to give too much away right at this moment because I know that my pal Kevin Patrick is attempting to unravel the mysteries that surround these comics for a future issue of Collectormania and I have no desire to steal his thunder. Once that's appeared I'll see if Kevin will allow me to reprint what he's written so watch this space.
Until then I might post some more of these guilty gems!
*Grail. In comic book circles this word is usually applied to finding a piece of original art that is a personaly 'holy grail', the ultimate find. As I keep looking for comics, sometimes the comics are grails to me.


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Actor Anton Yelchin of 'Star Trek' films dies in freak accident
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(Reuters) - Actor Anton Yelchin, best known for playing the young Russian starship navigator Chekov in the rebooted series of "Star Trek" movies, was killed on Sunday when accidentally crushed by his own car against a driveway wall, police said.
The Russian-born Yelchin, 27, died shortly after 1 a.m. after he apparently stepped out of his car in the steep driveway of his Los Angeles home and it rolled backwards, said Jenny Houser, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department.
"The car pinned him against a brick wall and a security fence, and that trauma led to his death," Houser said.
Yelchin was due at a rehearsal, and when he did not show up friends went to his house and found him dead, Houser said. No foul play was suspected, but the accident was under investigation, she said.
A number of actors and others who worked with Yelchin took to social media with tributes and expressions of dismay.
"Still in shock. Rest in peace, Anton," Justin Lin, who directed Yelchin in his third "Star Trek" movie, wrote on Twitter. "Your passion and enthusiasm will live on with everyone that had the pleasure of knowing you."
Yelchin was best known for assuming the role of Pavel Chekov, the young navigator on the bridge of the starship Enterprise, for the 2009 re-launch of the "Star Trek" film franchise and two sequels - 2013's "Star Trek Into Darkness" and the upcoming "Star Trek Beyond," set to open on July 22.
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1) The most well-known group is a Swedish indie rock band. The band began in 1997 composed of six members, since 2001 it has consisted of Ola Klüft (vocals, guitar), Martin Gustafson (keyboards, backing vocals), Pehr Åström (bass), and Thomas Hedlund (drums).
Although they have not had a major commercial breakthrough yet, they do have a fanbase that stretches across Europe and North America. They've had several songs appear in episodes of some popular American television programs: Grey's Anatomy, The OC, Veronica Mars, One Tree Hill, 16 and Pregnant, and Greek. Their song Sway also plays on the "College rock" station in the Sims 2. Also of note is the fact that Sarah Isaksson (Klüft's former vocal teacher) is a featured artist on their song Pills.
Since 2011, Ola Klüft has been performing solo under the name A Lanky Swede. Thomas Hedlund has been seen playing drums for Phoenix during their North American Tour.
2) The other group is British and has released two albums (as of 2007). The band is a four-piece originally from Basingstoke but now based in London. The Perishers are: Paul Osbourne (vocals, bass), Torquil Pagdin (guitar), Spencer Chisholm (guitar) and Diff (drums). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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If you've heard of David and Charles Koch, the billionaires famous for bankrolling conservative causes in the US, including the Tea Party movement, you may not know about the other brother, Willliam.
The less prominent Koch (they say "coke") is poor (he's worth £2.5bn) compared to his brothers. The men behind Koch Industries and, like Bill, the sons of oil industrialist Fred C. Koch are jointly worth £30bn. But Bill has found a rather more peculiar way to invest in his vision of old America.
The Denver Post reports this week that Bill Koch has almost finished building his own Wild West town in the middle of his remote Colorado ranch. Its 50 buildings include a saloon, a church, a firehouse, a train station, and even a prison.
Don't expect ever to see it, however – Bill has no intention of opening his theme park to the public. He plans to survey it alone from from a giant hilltop mansion.
When he's not on site, presumably in his finest chaps and spurs, Koch – like his brothers – throws money into politics, including a million dollars to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. He's a sailing nut, having won the America's Cup in 1992 on a yacht called America, and has had three wives.
But Bill is happiest when collecting stuff, particularly relics of the Wild West. His personal museum includes Jesse James' gun, Wyatt Earp's vest, Sitting Bull's rifle, General Custer's flag and a photograph of Billy the Kid that cost him £1.5m. Where can he possibly keep it all?Reuse content


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The invasiveness of an introduced species does not predict its impact
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Inconsistent use of terminology plagues the study and management of biological invasions. The term "invasive" has been used to describe inter alia (1) any introduced non-indigenous species; (2) introduced species that spread rapidly in a new region; and (3) introduced species that have harmful environmental impacts, particularly on native species. The second definition in various forms is more commonly used by ecologists, while the third definition is pervasive in policy papers and legislation. We tested the relationship between the invasiveness of an introduced species and its impact on native biodiversity. We quantified a species' invasiveness by both its rate of establishment and its rate of spread, while its impact was assigned a categorical ranking based on the documented effects of the invader on native species populations. We found no correlations between these variables for introduced plants, mammals, fishes, invertebrates, amphibians and reptiles, suggesting that the mechanisms of invasion and impact are not strongly linked. Our results support the view that the term "invasive" should not be used to connote negative environmental impact.


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During meditation, prayer the same things happen to me. It could be angels or "aliens", one thing they are not is intergalactic travelers. Another thing that cant do anything beyond your sovereignty. If you are frightened you usually have a good reason to be. My sound is usually a metallic screech, like a bird or a car peeling out.
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Well wait, why is there a negative reaction/sound? Is it a good thing or a bad thing to experience this? lol wait I'm sorry I'm not trying to say GIVE ME THIS ANSWER but yeah if you know anything else / have any personal theories
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My whole meditation and prayer is God centered, I have extremely blissful experiences, and downright frightening ones, where I am being pulled out of my body, buzzed with a electrical force, seeing wisps flying around the room.. Once you are on the map, you are on the map. They know you. You have reached a level in your meditation where you have breached their frequency range and they notice you. It's good to have a positive spiritual force to call on, easterners would use their deceased babas, Jesus works just as well, Sufis call on Mohammed, etc. Secular, and vulnerable people mistake the unseen for extraterrestrials. One thing, unless you have a high level master, no one can give any solid answers.
I think the actual metallic sound is digital compression, the reverberation, I have woken up from trance states while hearing what sounds like a scrambled digital signal... but if you are frightened you are either being tested, or the negatives have picked up on your frequency. The reason no one else heard or felt what you were, is because their antennas aren't tuned like yours.
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This was a wonderful post. I just have two questions:
By having this experience, would that be someone who is 'on the map' to the higher powers, whatever they may be, just as I live every day -- or am I only 'on the map' when I am meditating and having this really wild/transcendent experience?
secondly, from what i've said, do you think that i may have 'messed up my chances/failed the test' because i ran away? im 20, honestly im still figuring out everything, so i'm not going to lie there is definitely some insecurity still present in me but im working desperately to eliminate it.
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We are all on the map. Whether we realize it or not is a different story.
Do your best, it's all you can do.
Truth is, at 20 ... it's hard to know your elbow from your asshole (no offence, and much respect for asking!!!!) So, in my book, even trying at that age scores a lot of points!
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I notice that when I've scanned a device I get certain Disk Alerts. If I haven't cleared these they appear again at the Next Scan.
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text: Forming the Preterit The preterit is one of two past tenses in Spanish. It is used with great frequency but is, unfortunately, the most complicated tense to form. There are two sets of regular endings: one for –ar and one for –er/-ir verbs. hablar -é -aste -ó -amos -asteis -aron comer/vivir -í -iste -ió -imos -isteis -ieron Drop the –ar/-er/-ir and then add the endings. hablé hablamos hablaste hablasteis habló hablaron comí comimos comiste comisteis comió comieron viví vivimos viviste vivisteis vivió vivieron ACCENT MARKS ARE ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!!! Look what happens if you leave off an accent mark: hablé hablamos hablaste hablasteis habló hablaron Without the accent mark, you have "I speak" (hablo) instead of "he spoke" (habló). You don't know it yet, but if you leave off the accent mark in "hablé," that means something different too. Note that, while the "vosotros" form looks intimidating, it's simply the "tú" form with "-is" added to it. -é -aste -ó -amos -asteis -aron -í -iste -ió -imos -isteis -ieron Note also that the "nosotros" form of –ar verbs and of –ir verbs is the same as the present but that the "nosotros" form of –er verbs is NOT. hablamos present comemos vivimos hablamos preterit comimos vivimos Note that –ar verbs and –er verbs don't stem change. -ir verbs do, but that will be discussed in a later section. volver salir pensar vuelve volvió salgo salí piensas pensaste he returns he returned I leave I left you think you thought All the practice exercises will be done as above. You're given, for example, "vuelve" and must change it to "volvió." Click here to go to a practice exercise. Verbs with Spelling Changes Verbs that end with –gar, -car, or –zar are going to undergo a spelling change. Consider the verb "tocar." You would expect the "yo" form to be "tocé," right? But think about how a "c" sounds when it comes before an "e" or an "i." It sounds like an "s." "Tocé" would sound like "tosé." But we want the "c" to sound like a "k," just like it does in "tocar." To get that "k" sound, you have to change the "c" to a "qu": toqué tocaste tocó tocamos tocasteis tocaron Note that you change it only in the "yo" form; that's the only place you have an "e," so you don't need to change it anywhere else. The same is true of verbs that end in –gar, like "pagar." When a "g" comes before an "e" or "i," it sounds like an "h." That's why you can't have "pagé"; the "g" sounds like an "h" there but like a hard "g" in "pagar." To keep the hard "g" sound, you have to change the "g" to a "gu": pagué pagamos pagaste pagasteis pagó pagaron Again, note that only the "yo" form is affected; no other form has an "e," so no other form gets "gu." Unfortunately, there's no logical explanation for the change in –car verbs. There just happens to be a rule in Spanish that says "z" can't come before "e" or "i." If that happens, you have to change the "z" to a "c": almorcé almorzaste almorzó almorzamos almorzasteis almorzaron You may be familiar with the plural of "feliz": "felices." Summary Verbs that end in –car, -gar, and –car are going to have a spelling change in the "yo" form: toqué tocamos tocaste tocasteis tocó tocaron pagué pagamos pagaste pagasteis pagó pagaron almorcé almorzamos almorzaste almorzasteis almorzó almorzaron There's one other type of word that undergoes a spelling change. When an "i" without an accent mark over it gets stuck between two other vowels, it becomes a "y." You may remember this change from the present participle (sometimes called a gerund): leer le- + -iendo leiendo leyendo That's what happens with the third person preterit: leer le- + -ió leió leyó leer le- + -ieron leieron leyeron Click here to go to a practice exercise. -ir stem-changing verbs As was mentioned before, -ar and –er verbs don't stem change. Present pienso piensas piensa vuelvo vuelves vuelve Preterit pensamos pensáis piensan pensar pensé pensaste pensó pensamos pensasteis pensaron volvemos volvéis vuelven volver volví volviste volvió volvimos volvisteis volvieron However, -ir verbs DO stem change. Unfortunately, the way they change in the preterit is a little different from the way they stem change in the present. Present pido pides pide pedimos pedís piden pedir Preterit pedí pediste pidió pedimos pedisteis pidieron In the preterit, -ir verbs stem change in the third person singular and plural ONLY. And that's not the end of the story. Not only do –ir verbs stem change in the preterit where –er and –ar verbs don't; they change to just an "i" (never "ie") or just a "u" never "ue." Present siento sientes siente duermo duermes duerme Preterit sentir sentimos sentí sentís sentiste sienten sintió dormir dormimos dormí dormís dormiste duermen durmió sentimos sentisteis sintieron dormimos dormisteis durmieron Click here to go to a practice exercise. Irregular Verbs So far you've seen regular verbs, stem-changing verbs, and verbs that undergo spelling changes. The last item on the agenda is irregular verbs. And there are quite a few. Most irregular verbs follow a type of pattern. Two, however, do not, and you have to memorize them all by themselves: ser/ir fui fuiste fue fuimos fuisteis fueron dar di diste dio dimos disteis dieron Since "ser" and "ir" are conjugated the same way in the preterit, "fui," for example, can mean "I went" or "I was," depending on context. 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Boris Johnson signs Back British Farming Charter
NewsMonday 24 February 2014
Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, and his food advisor, Rosie Boycott, are the latest two people to pledge support for British farming. The pair recently signed the Back British Farming Charter, which has been backed by other high profile names including celebrity chef James Martin, M&S, Morrisons, Waitrose and the Co-Op.
With London's population set to grow by one million over the next decade, the Mayor said that "it is crucial that our growing capital city can be sustained with Great British produce provided by the nation's farmers".
"This is not only economically sensible in terms of creating jobs and sustaining this vital industry but also for a myriad of health and environmental reasons" He continued.
"I am pleased to back the NFU's Charter as part of my ongoing commitment, alongside the excellent work of Rosie Boycott and the London Food Board, to promote and celebrate British food now and in the future."
British farming and food is being promoted in London through the Mayor's food strategy and by the London Food Board, which was chaired by Rosie Boycott.
One of the highlights of this work was a commitment at London's Olympic and Paralympics to use food produced in the UK and to higher welfare standards.
This blueprint has created an on-going legacy by encouraging public and private sector organisations to buy more assured, safe , traceable, and sustainable British food.
NFU Head of Food Chain Debbie Cawood said "It's monumental that our capital city and the Mayor Boris Johnson not only recognises the value of UK food and drink, but has taken measures to support more local, regional and British sourcing. We hope that the Mayor's endorsement and support, along with the current work being carried out in London, will demonstrate to other local authorities how they can source more British food across the public and private sector.
"Sourcing British foods brings with it many wider benefits to society beyond great quality and variety of foods. British farming contributes to our economy, delivers benefits to the environment, provides rewarding careers as well as offers a variety of renewable energy solutions supporting our future energy security."
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Apparently spotted by Jamie Jones on one of his frequent trips to Los Angeles, De Signer are an outfit whose MySpace reveals a passion for pop lyrics and quirky, synth heavy dance music. Their debut track on Hot Creations has a whole host of retro influences going on: Chicago house drums, disco congas, orchestral stabs and even a jaunty bit of hip-house rapping. It's all pleasant enough but perhaps a little too jumbled for some people's tastes.
British disco mavens Crazy P turn in a solid remix which sees them leave their usual home ground of electro funk in favour of the uncharted waters of broken house, the results of which are highly pleasing. Their remix could just have easily have been produced by Seji or Bugz In The Attic and, with some pitching up of speed garage proportions, may well find a home in the sets of UK Funky DJs.
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Netflix is about to completely change the way users rate movies. Instead of the standard 5-star rating system, users will be adopting a simple thumbs up and thumbs down system. While the rating system in the past had been the sole way Netflix used to suggest titles to their users, that system is now obsolete, and the rating system is updating accordingly.
"We made ratings less important because the implicit signal of your behavior is more important," Netflix VP of Product Todd Yellin said during a press briefing. One such behavior is that when users watch documentaries, they're more willing to give those 5-star ratings instead of silly movies, which they would give only 3 stars. Inversely, users were watching silly movies at a higher rate than docs, which contradicts the star rating.
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Netflix has already been testing this new methodology since 2016 with hundreds of thousands of users. The result is clear — users prefer the new thumbs up and thumbs down method significantly more, with a 200% increase in ratings than with the star rating system.
The end result of the study means that users are going to see a significantly more customized set of suggestions, with a new percent-match stat with each title. Much like a dating app, Netflix is going to tell you how compatible you are with a movie. Don't get mad at Netflix when they say you're a 98% match with the newest Adam Sandler movie, because that's on you!
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The Cocos2d-x engine is an open source, cross-platform game engine that is widely adopted by developers all over the world and gives developers the technology platform from which they can build games that work seamlessly across multiple platforms quickly and effectively.
Using a single C++ codebase you can deploy games to just about any mobile platform and since Cocos2d-x is open-source, you can tweak the game engine if needed.
The Cocos2d API is simple and powerful. With a couple of lines of code you can bring a few images and sounds to life using actions and create your own vibrant game. Cocos2d-x takes that powerful API and makes it portable using C++. It empowers you, the developer, and enables you to choose which platforms on which you want to develop and how to deploy them. In this article, I will explain how to build an NDK app for Android* on Intel® architecture.
Hello World and Cocos2d-x for Android*
Let's build a "Hello, World" Cocos2d-x project for an Android device. I prefer to do this via a command line since there are no Cocos2d-x project templates available via the Eclipse* IDE at the moment.
The home directory of Cocos2d-x contains a shell script named create-android-projects.sh that you can use to generate the Android project.
Before launching this shell script, you will need to make a tiny customization at the top of the above file:
# set environment parameters NDK_ROOT_LOCAL="/home/test/soft/android-ndk-r9" ANDROID_SDK_ROOT_LOCAL="/home/test/soft/android-sdk-linux_86"
Modify the lines above so that the NDK_ROOT_LOCAL variable points to the directory where you installed the Android NDK and ANDROID_SDK_ROOT_LOCAL points to the place where you installed the Android SDK.
Run the create-android-project.sh script from the command line. There are several prompts to input various values. Input the package path and get a list of available Android API's and their ids. You will need to use the id for the last item. Additionally, assign the project name (I called it: doto).
The created project directory is the line towards the end of the script output. That's where your Android project has been created by the script. The project location (/home/test/Desktop/doto) will be referred to as $PROJECT_HOME for now.
Building the Project
There are two steps to building the project: compiling the C++ code with a command line script, and compiling the Java code with Eclipse.
Before compiling however, you will need to define the NDK_ROOT parameter so it points to $NDKROOT directory. Open the $PROJECT_HOME/proj.android/build_native.sh shell script and add the following line at the top of the file:
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Modify the above line so that the NDK_ROOT variable points to the directory where you installed the Android NDK ( $NDKROOT ).
To compile the C++ code, switch to the $PROJECT_HOME/proj.android folder via the command line and issue the following command:
This builds the C++ Cocos2d-x libraries, and the C++ code for your project.
To build the Java* code, it is necessary to create an Eclipse project.
Start Eclipse and go to File\New\Other . Choose Android\Android Project from Existing Code , and click Next . Click Browse and select the $PROJECT_HOME/proj.android folder.
At this point the project might have some errors.
One of the errors arises because Eclipse can't find the resource "@drawable/icon" , so, expand the project tree on the left, open AndroidManifest.xml and change to the AndroidManifest.xml view so you can see the plain text. Look for the following line of code:
<application android:label="@string/app_name" android:icon="@drawable/icon">
Change it by the correct icon name:
<application android:label="@string/app_name" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"> mMdify android:minSDKVersion: <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="24"/>
Save the file.
The second error arises because Eclipse can't find some Cocos2d-x Java classes. Select Project\Properties from the main menu and choose Java Build Path from the list on the left. In the Source tab click on Link Source and Browse to the following directory:
where $COCOS2DX_HOME is the directory where you installed the Cocos2d-x resources. In Folder name write cocos2dx-src , click Finish and OK .
Now the project has no errors.
Run the project. Results are presented below.
Congratulations, you have now successfully built an NDK project with Cocos2d-x on an Android device.
Related Articles and Resources
- Official site and documentation of Cocos2d-x
- Development and Optimization for NDK-based Android* Game Application on Platforms based on Intel® Architecture
- Game Engines for Android*
About the Author
Vitaliy Kalinin works in the Software & Services Group at Intel Corporation. He is a PhD student at Lobachevsky State University in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. His Bachelor's degree is in economics and mathematics. His Master's degree is applied economics and informatics. His main interest is mobile technologies and game development.


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Tom Verenna asked in a post on Facebook why angels wear clothing. I confess that I don't recall ever hearing this asked, much less addressed. Surely conservative Christians ought to have answer to this question, since they believe that the Genesis 3 account is to be taken literally, and that the wearing of clothing is depicted there as a result of humanity's fall into sin. And so were the angels who announced the resurrection to the women at the tomb fallen angels?!
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- Richard Goode
What a BRILLIANT question!! Yes, were they fallen angels… or, perhaps… shock horror… were they not angels after all?!!
- Tom Verenna
Quite an interesting take James. I really have been wondering about this. I feel like it is never addressed, almost like it is presumed they would wear clothes. But like you said, clothes are a function of hiding ones shame after falling with sin. very interesting. I wonder how this relates to that little boy that runs away from Jesus in Mark. Do you suppose there is some contrasting in Luke against Mark's secret tradition here? Probably not related at all, but it does raise some interesting questions.
- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/religionprof/ James F. McGrath
It may just have been a concern that they not freak out the way the woman in the movie Dogma did.
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In "Errand of Mercy," Star Trek episode 26, the inhabitants of the planet Organia, assumed humanoid form so as not to shock, visiting aliens with their true, pure energy bodies. Mr. Spock referred to it as a display of 'conventionalities' to make everyone feel right at home. I'm sure in God's infinite wisdom, his angels take humanoid form as well, complete with conventional attire and perhaps even cell phones; so when visiting the living on Earth, the visited don't run in terror screaming, "Holy Moses or beam me up, Scottie!"
- Tom Verenna
Seems like an anachronistic, post-modern interpretation.
- Just Sayin'
Makes perfect sense to me.
- Tom Verenna
Although gotta love a reference to Star Trek.
- David Evans
C. S. Lewis has the same idea in "Perelandra" aka "Voyage to Venus" (1943 so not post-modern). Two angels explain to the protagonist that his mind is not capable of perceiving their true form, and ask his help in choosing a suitable appearance.
- Jack Collins
In Isaiah 6:2, the seraphim are said to cover their faces and their feet with their wings. Now, given that "feet" is often a euphemism for the genitals in Biblical Hebrew, angels may have just been a modest bunch.
(Come to think of it, "covering the feet" is also a euphemism for defecation…that would certainly change Isaiah's vision. But dangit! It's not the same verb!)
- Paul D.
Seraphim aren't really humanoid, though, are they? They're winged serpents from Egyptian mythology.
- edwardtbabinski
Where did the resurrected Jesus get his clothes from after exiting the tomb?
- the_Siliconopolitan
For the same reason that noöne can look on the face of God and live Angelic bods are just too bootylicious for mere mortals to behold.