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America's top court has ruled that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender are breaking the country's civil rights laws. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court said federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, should be understood to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The ruling is a major win for LGBT workers and their allies. And it comes even though the court has grown more conservative. Lawyers for the employers had argued that the authors of the 1964 Civil Rights Act had not intended it to apply to cases involving sexual orientation and gender identity. The Trump administration sided with that argument. But Judge Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump, said acting against an employee on those grounds necessarily takes sex into account. "An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex," he wrote. "The limits of the drafters' imagination supply no reason to ignore the law's demands." What does this mean? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex as well as gender, race, colour, national origin and religion. Under the Obama administration, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces the anti-discrimination law, said it included gender identity and sexual orientation. But the Trump administration has moved to roll back some protections in health care and other areas. While some states in the US had already explicitly extended such protections to LGBT workers, many have not. It's difficult to overstate the significance of the decision. While the court is establishing a long history of decisions expanding gay rights, this is the first time it spoke directly about the legal protections for transgender individuals. That the ruling comes out just days after the Trump administration announced it was removing transgender health-insurance protections only puts the issue in stark relief. Transgender rights is becoming a political battlefield, and a majority of the Supreme Court just announced which side it's on. What is the reaction? LGBT advocates hailed the decision. "Especially at a time when the Trump administration is rolling back the rights of transgender people and anti-transgender violence continues to plague our nation, this decision is a step towards affirming the dignity of transgender people and all LGBTQ people," said Sarah Kate Ellis, president of GLAAD. "We cannot and should not go back to a time when people felt that had to hide who they are in order to feel safe at work," Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group, wrote on Twitter. The American Civil Liberties Union shared a prepared statement from transgender plaintiff Aimee Stephens, who died last month. Her case was the first major transgender civil rights case heard by America's top court. "I am glad the court recognised that what happened to me is wrong and illegal," Ms Stephens said. "I am thankful that the court said my transgender siblings and I have a place in our laws - it made me feel safer and more included in our society." But the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian non-profit that asked the court to hear Ms Stephens' case, said it was disappointed in the ruling. It warned it would "create chaos and enormous unfairness for women and girls in athletics, women's shelters and many other contexts". What are the cases? The ruling resolves three cases brought by people who said they had been fired after their employers learned they were gay or transgender. Ms Stephens had previously presented as a man at work for six years before writing a letter to colleagues saying she would return to work "as my true self, Aimee Australia Stephens, in appropriate business attire". Two weeks later, Ms Stephens was fired for insisting in working in women's clothes. In a court filing last year, the funeral home owner argued it wanted Ms Stephens to comply with a dress code "applicable to Stephens' biological sex". A lower court sided with Ms Stephens. Donald Zarda, a skydiving instructor from New York who died in a skydiving accident in 2014 , had filed one of the other cases. He was dismissed after joking with a female client with whom he was tandem-diving not to worry about the close physical contact because he was "100% gay". The company maintained he was fired because he shared personal information with a client, not because he was gay, but a court in New York ruled in Mr Zarda's favour. Gerald Bostock, a former child welfare services co-ordinator from Georgia, lost his job after joining a gay recreational softball league, thereby publicly revealing his sexual orientation. His employer, Clayton County, said his dismissal was the result of "conduct unbecoming of a county employee". Mr Bostock lost his discrimination case in a federal court in Atlanta. Some key moments in US LGBT history January 1958 - The US Supreme Court rules for the first time in favour of LGBT rights, saying an LGBT magazine, deemed obscene by the FBI and postal service, had first amendment rights July 1961 - Illinois becomes the first state to decriminalise homosexuality June 1969 - Protests begin after police raid the Stonewall Inn in New York City, now seen as the start of the LGBT civil rights movement September 1996 - President Clinton defines marriage as a union between "one man and one woman" June 2003 - The US Supreme Court determines sodomy laws to be unconstitutional October 2009 - Democratic President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Law, expanding hate crime laws to include sexual orientation June 2015 - In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court rules 5-4 that same-sex marriage is legal across the country June 2016 - The Pentagon lifts its ban on having transgender Americans serve in the military March 2018 - Republican President Donald Trump issues a policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military

Initial release date: April 18, 2019 Developer: Sand Sailor Studio Publisher: Sand Sailor Studio Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows Bossgard is the second game made by the small indie group based in Romania, Sand Sailor Studio. I haven’t played their first game, Black The Fall, but it has mostly positive reviews on Steam. Bossgard is currently in Early Access and may be tweaked a bit before fully releasing. In its current state, the (player-controlled) bosses are way over-powered in my opinion. If you ever wanted to play as an intimidating boss in a video game, then Bossgard is for you! Not only can the boss regenerate health, summon shields, go berserk, and activate traps, they also have a second stage! How cool is that? Each of the abilities have a cooldown phase, so you can’t spam them. With that said, the bosses are super powerful and hard to take down... even with five Vikings hacking away at them. The bosses have different looks, attacks, and movement patterns. The plunger boss can only hop around while the cube one flops in a player-specified direction. The Vikings are clued in on which direction the boss will move or attack next, but they may not have enough time to dodge it. Some Vikings are more agile than others. The stronger Vikings can also take more hits than the dainty ones that attack from a distance. The levels are colorful and unique. Each of them has a different theme with traps that the Vikings will have to try and avoid. A furnace-themed level has flames that shoot out of the vents, while an island level has sharks swimming around it. If there are no traps, the boss may have the ability to summon allies to assist them. Each of the characters--bosses included-- have some decent voice acting. The electronic background music adds to the battle intensity. The weapons and sound effects are fitting too. Bossgard is best enjoyed with friends and can be played locally or online. Unfortunately, there isn’t much of an online presence at the moment, so I’d recommend holding off if you’re looking for online matches. Single-player battles are possible, but I’ve only had luck beating the boss with the Vikings set to the highest AI level. The bosses are much too powerful, especially with their health regeneration abilities. Hopefully, during Early Access Bossgard gets more balanced and cultivates an online community. The price is reasonable and is worth considering if you don’t mind playing solo or locally until more online matches become available. There are several Viking characters to choose from and they each have a pre-determined weapon equipped. The special attack/ability can be customized before battle. Some of the abilities include resurrection, powerful attacks, summoning shields/creatures/turrets, and slowing down or poisoning the boss. It’s good to have a well-rounded team with melee fighters and archers chipping away at the boss from a distance. As the Vikings attack the boss, they will charge their power enabling them to activate their abilities. The boss gets two full health bars if you factor in both of their stages while the Vikings share a pool of ten lives. Once all of the boss’ health or Viking lives are depleted, the battle ends. The players are then rated on their performance and given nods for who took and dealt the most damage, who dodged the most, who did the least damage, and who died the most. The players will then be given some favor by various Norse gods. By accumulating enough favor you can unlock some customizations for your character. Currently, the equipment is only for looks, but ability changing options may come at a later date. Bossgard is fairly clean, but does have some violence which is to be expected for a game revolving around boss battles. The references to Norse gods is not a surprise either given that there are Vikings in this game. These are the BOSSGARD system requirements (minimum) Memory:3 GB Graphics Card:AMD Radeon R7 250 CPU:Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 BOSSGARD File Size:1 GB OS:Windows 7/8/10

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Original release date: March 11, 2005 Mode: Solo Developer: Future Games Genre: Adventure game Publishers: The Adventure Company, dtp entertainment, PLUS Platform: Microsoft Windows According to the writings of apocalypse theorist and wannabe archaeologist Zecharia Sitchin, Nibiru is the name that the ancient Sumerians gave to our solar system's 12th planet. It is presently unknown to science because an elliptical orbit typically keeps it well beyond Pluto, although every 3,600 years it swings into our neck of the woods to wreak havoc on Earth. This deadly Planet X once smashed our planet in two, possibly killed off the dinosaurs, and caused Noah's flood. And don't look now, but according to the mystic Mayan calendar, it's set to return in 2012. What old-fashioned adventure-game mystery would be complete without a professor and an immaculately furnished drawing room?. Crackpot science? Probably. But it's the really nifty type of crackpot science that lends itself to great pulp fiction like that presented in Nibiru: Age of Secrets, an adventure from Future Games in which you plumb the mysteries of this doomsday world. The game is certainly a lot more credible than Sitchin's ancient astronauts speculations, with a decided Da Vinci Code-styled plot that makes riddle-solving feel more like a high adventure than a dreary afternoon spent with a book of logic puzzles. You play Martin Holan, an Eastern European student/archivist desperate to escape an office buried under "loads of old papers" as the game begins. He gets his wish--and maybe a bit more than he bargained for--when his professor uncle calls with the news that he wants him to investigate a recently discovered Nazi mine for evidence of the existence of Nibiru. According to the prof, Adolf and pals were desperately trying to find the 12th planet (and the presumably advanced technology of its alien citizens) at the close of the war as a way to save the Third Reich from destruction. Research seems to indicate that the Nazis were close to making a huge discovery when the war ended in 1945, and that the gathered evidence may have been secreted away in this mine. With that, you're off to discover if Nibiru is myth or reality. And the search isn't the usual archaeological expedition. Mysterious foes without any qualms about murdering people for information are aware of the mine and its connection with the Nazi search for the missing planet, so there's a definite Indiana Jones vibe to the entire adventure. Although Holan is voiced terribly (and, oddly, without any sort of European accent, despite him apparently hailing from the Czech Republic) there is a lot of character to his exploits. He doesn't whip out a bullwhip or leap across any chasms, but he does pull off stunts like climbing down an apartment building in the dead of night; and he does run across more than one corpse in his travels. Puzzles are all over the map. Virtually every type of brainteaser ever included in an adventure game is on display here. Most of them are fairly traditional in that you do a lot of talking and a lot of gathering objects that need to be combined to open a door, start up a generator, short out the lights in a building with a vase full of water, or feed a guard bad mushrooms so that his resulting diarrhea lets you sneak past him--that sort of thing. The only annoyance is that you can never skip steps. Picking up those mushrooms, for example, isn't even an option until the guard tells you that he's hungry. You often have to sit through two or three lengthy conversations (all the conversations in Nibiru are extremely long) before puzzle-solving items become available, which becomes tiresome in spots because many solutions can be figured out well before the game chooses to reveal them. Still, all you need to solve most of the problems is some common sense and the patience to explore your surroundings. There are a couple of occasions, however, in which developer Future Games pushes the envelope of the absurdities for which adventure games have long gotten a lot of bad press. The more bizarre solutions aren't overly obscure, but it's still awfully hard to imagine any real-world situation where you would throw firecrackers at nearby birds to attract the attention of an apparently deaf old man, affix a stick of dynamite to a rat to blow open a sealed passageway, or access a fire escape by bribing an old woman with a hot dog (don't ask). Most of the challenge in Nibiru comes from situations that arise from dealing with unhelpful people and sealed rooms, not from set-piece logic puzzles. There are a few of these in the later stages of the game, however, which all share an interesting Rubik's Cube theme. You need to arrange triangular shapes into a pattern, sort colored beads into a cross, and slide panels into various positions in order to open doors. None of these puzzles are particularly arduous aside from the final one, which is to be expected, because it serves as a climax to the entire game. All can be solved with a reasonable amount of trial and error, so the frustration factor is low even if you're not a fan of these sorts of riddles. Judging by the number of corpses that you encounter, it seems like somebody is taking the Nibiru myth pretty darn seriously.. Adding to the adventurous ambience is some impressive production values. Nibiru was first released all the way back in 1998 as the Czech-only Posel Bohu, but it has been so completely overhauled that you would never know it. Most scenes look great, with a tremendous amount of detail. Some of the scenes in Prague and Paris feature such incredible detail that they wouldn't look out of place on picture postcards. The 3D animations aren't as stunning. Models are somewhat blurry, especially in the facial features department, and they move awkwardly. Holan lumbers through his quest so ramrod-straight that he might as well be auditioning for a role as a lamppost. Audio quality is also here and there. The musical score is so understated that it's barely there, and the voice acting is absolutely horrible, with some characters speaking with laughably fake European accents (including a Jewish one that sounds like Mel Brooks doing his familiar riff on an elderly rabbi) and others speaking with no inflections at all. Only a few people provided the voice samples for the entire game, so characters seem to be having conversations with themselves at times. Atmospheric sound effects are rich and lively, though. Sound conveys a feeling of place, whether you're listening to the crickets on a nighttime street in Prague or hearing the rush of water flowing under the bridge beneath your feet in the German countryside. Essentially, Nibiru is a stereotypical classic adventure. Future Games has done this one up in the traditional style po[CENSORED]rized way back when by the likes of Sierra and LucasArts, so if you're a fan of this sort of old-school adventuring and don't demand that game designers reinvent the wheel, you can't go wrong here. These are the Nibiru system requirements (recommended) Memory: 12 GB Graphics Card:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Nibiru CPU: Intel Core i3-8100 File Size: 9 GB OS: Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions)

Cupra has spruced up its Ateca performance SUV with a new Limited Edition variant, bringing new exterior styling elements and the option of an Akrapovic exhaust. Available to order now, the new model is priced from £42,120 in Rhodium Grey without the exhaust upgrade, or £45,160 with it installed along with a new Graphene Grey paint scheme. One hundred units are coming to the UK, with only 20 fitted with the Akrapovic system. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That exhaust upgrade is claimed to offer a “more visceral aural experience”, while it saves 7kg over the standard item. Although no power upgrade is quoted, this variant is claimed to be capable of 0-62mph in 4.9sec and a top speed of 153mph - a noticeable improvement over the standard car's 5.2sec figure. For those not satisfied by those figures, long-established VW Group tuner ABT Sportsline offers a power upgrade for the Ateca, boosting it from 296bhp and 295lb ft to 345bhp and 324lb ft. That raises the top speed to 158mph, though it doesn’t increase the 0-62mph time. Styling upgrades for the Limited Edition include 20in copper alloy wheels, a new, aero-boosting copper thread carbon fibre roof spoiler, copper mirror covers and copper badging. New 18in Brembro brakes are also fitted, while the interior benefits from blue Alcantara heated sports seats and copper cabin detailing.