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If your earlier installation of LiveCycle and your new installation of ADEP, Document Services are not on the same computer, you might want to import Java SDK, installation files, watched folder contents, temporary directory and LiveCycle MySQL data into your new installation of ADEP, Document Services.
Execute the scripts given below to Migrate LiveCycle MySQL Data to ADEP, Document Services. Perform these steps before you run the Configuration Manager. These steps are applicable only for the Turnkey installations of LiveCycle and ADEP, Document Services.
- To export LiveCycle MySQL database, use the mysqldump program located in the [LiveCycle Installation Directory]\MySQL folder. For example:
C:\Adobe\Adobe LiveCycle ES2\mysql\bin>mysqldump -q -e --single-transaction -ppassword -u adobe -r "C:\mysqlbackup\adobe.sql" -B adobe --port=3306 --host=localhostNote: Before you run above command, Ensure that directory mysqlbackup is already available on the LiveCycle machine.
- To import the LiveCycle MySQL database to ADEP, Document services, copy the adobe.sql created above to the ADEP, Document Services system. Then use the mysql program located in the [ADEP, Document Services Installation Directory]\MySQL folder. For example:
C:\Adobe\ADEP\Document Services 10.0\mysql\bin>mysql -padobe -u adobe --port=1138 -e "source C:\mysqlbackup\adobe.sql"Note: Before you run above command, Ensure that directory mysqlbackup is already available on the ADEP, Document Services machine.
- Backup all the files and directories associated with the previous deployment of LiveCycle, including the Java SDK, installation files, watched folder contents, temporary directory, and so on. The following LiveCycle data must be included in your back up:
- Content Storage Root directory: If you have Adobe LiveCycle Content Services (deprecated) deployed on your current system, back up the content storage root directory. This directory can reside either locally or on a shared network drive. Default location of the Content Storage Root directory is [LiveCycle Root]/lccs_data
- GDS directory: This directory can reside either locally or on a shared network drive. Default location of the GDS directory is [JBoss root]/server/<profile_name>/svcnative/DocumentStorage.
- Customer installed fonts: If you installed additional fonts on your LiveCycle ES Update 1 or LiveCycle ES2 environment, back them up separately.
- LiveCycle EAR files: The EAR files are required to restore your system if you encounter upgrade issues.
- Database: Use the database backup utility to backup your data. (For turnkey installations, follow Step 1 and 2 in this article)
- LiveCycle fonts: Back up all Adobe font directories that are specified in Configuration Manager (in Administration Console, go to Settings > Core System > Configurations). Ensure that you back up the entire directory.
- Watched folders: Backup the watched folders.
- To restore, replace the files and folders in the [ADEP, Document Services Installation Directory] with the files and folders from the backup created in the above step.


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Facilitated, free peer support group for new mothers suffering from pregnancy or postpartum adjustment challenges.
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One of the most ambitious works of art ever created, Wagner's Ring is a monumental cycle comprising four interconnected operas. Siegfried is the third instalment of the saga, in which the title character undertakes a psychological journey towards self-understanding, attempting to piece together the story of his origins and grasp his place in the world. In the process, he forges the broken magical sword called Nothung, slays the dragon Fafner, and braves a ring of fire to reawaken Brünnhilde with a kiss, pushing the allegorical story of the Ring toward its inexorable conclusion in Götterdämmerung.
At five hours (including two intermissions), Wagner's Siegfried develops themes over long arcs of time, as opposed to short bursts of melodic activity. Conventional operas in the late 1700s and early 1800s were structured around the alternating use of two distinct forms of musical writing: (a) lushly orchestrated individual arias, i.e. "set pieces," and (b) recitative sections, which served to communicate plot information through dialogue to the audience and to link together the big arias of an opera. By the mid- to- late-19th century, however, composers like Wagner began to react against what they perceived as the artificiality of this approach, in which a pyrotechnic aria might suddenly burst out of the action without a dramatically coherent buildup to warrant its emergence. By being slotted in for its beauty rather than musico-dramatic function, the conventional aria runs the risk of being less-than-credible in advancing the story's emotional stakes. By contrast, Wagner's vision synthesizes drama and music into one continuously moving, momentum-gathering, emotionally textured whole. Because the score eschews the traditional separation of aria/recitative, the opera builds its tensions, conflicts, and revelations through much more organic, immersive means, fusing orchestra and voice into an indivisible musical experience.
That being said, each of the three acts in Siegfried contains a standout section that could be categorized as a "set piece": the Forging Song in Act I, in which Siegfried hammers away at the magic sword to restore the broken blade; the evocative sequence in Act II known as Forest Murmurs, in which Siegfried, surrounded by the sounds of the forest, contemplates the parents he never knew and fixes on the song of a Forest Bird, who will eventually guide him to Brünnhilde; and the extended love duet of Siegfried and Brünnhilde that constitutes the opera's finale.
"For an opera like Siegfried, I try to understand the 'structure' of the piece—the architecture of each act—trying to somehow connect the very beginning with the very end and, by doing that, build this arc over the whole evening." With this production, Maestro Debus leads the 106-piece COC Orchestra through an electrifying score of unparalleled musical storytelling.
Our production of Siegfried is directed by critically acclaimed Canadian film and stage director François Girard. His production has been hailed as "intellectually incisive" and "dazzling" (Opera News); "psychologically rich and mysterious" (NOW Magazine), as well as "awe-inspiring" (Toronto Star).
The set designs by celebrated Toronto-born designer Michael Levine represent the fragmented state of Siegfried's psyche and memory. There are several elaborate constructions that hold a whirling mass of "memory debris"—including people from Siegfried's past, remnants of Valhalla, weapons, etc.—suspended above the stage. The use of this "memoryscape" (which changes its configuration in significant ways from act to act) opens the door to a multiplicity of interpretations about the reality of what is happening to Siegfried: is it his imagination, his desire, an actual journey, or the unravelling of a mind that we are witnessing?
Girard is aware of the challenges inherent in staging Wagner's long spans of time. In response, he has opted to use very clear and precise on-stage movement, eliminating any unnecessary action to heighten the emotional impact of simple gestures and allow the audience to embrace a new impression of time. Assisting in the formidable task is the award-winning Canadian choreographer Donna Feore.
"Huge of voice, unflagging of stamina, imaginative and energetic on the stage." Seattle Times
"she possess[es] everything a great Brünnhilde must have: dignity, stature, and a voice of molten gold." Toronto Star
"A commanding performer." NOW Magazine
See our production live onstage from January 23 - February 14, 2016. To learn more about the production, visit here.
Photo credits (top - bottom): A scene from Siegfried (COC 2006), photo: Michael Cooper. Susan Bullock as Brünnhilde lying on ground with Christian Franz as Siegfried in Siegfried (COC 2006), photo: Gary Beechey. Laura Whalen as the Forest Bird in Siegfried (COC 2006), photo: Michael Cooper. Christian Franz as Siegfried and Robert Künzli as Mime in Siegfried (COC 2006), photo: Michael Cooper.
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Canadian Opera Company patrons will notice two additions to the Four Seasons Centre when they come to the opera this winter. This week, the COC welcomed two new sculptures to the opera house, on loan from the Art Gallery of Ontario: a Henry Moore sculpture, placed at the top of the Grand Staircase, and a Jacques Lipchitz bronze, on display in the Henry N.R. Jackman Lounge. While the AGO has loaned the COC several pieces from its collection over the years for display at the Four Seasons Centre, this particular occasion marks the first time the AGO has loaned the opera company two pieces concurrently.
An English sculptor and artist, Henry Moore is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures, which are located around the world as public works of art. Titled Upright Motive No. 5, the Moore bronze sculpture is from 1955-1956 and is part of a series of maquettes developed out of Moore's visit to the Olivetti building in Milan. He made the trip in consideration of a request for a commissioned sculpture for the building and in visiting the site was inspired by a lone Lombardy poplar. Although the commissioning project was never realized, the maquettes became the impetus for the upright motive series.
Jacques Lipchitz was a Russian-born French sculptor whose style was based on the principles of cubism. He was widely considered to be an important and innovative figure in the formulation of nonrepresentational, abstract sculpture during the early 20th century. On display at the Four Seasons Centre is Lipchitz's 1917 bronze sculpture Bather III. His method was working towards a recognizable subject from imagined, abstract forms. In Bather III, he built a figure from geometric shapes that are recognizable anatomical parts that help the viewer identify the subject as a bathing female: the head is round, an arc near the centre of the figure indicates a navel, three short, diagonal lines on the notched area that protrudes from the centre of the figure indicate fingers, and figure's legs are crossed. The overall composition seems to be governed by unstable, jostling diagonals that imply dynamism and movement.
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The Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Academy welcomes five student musicians to its annual three-week intensive training program.
Led by COC Music Director Johannes Debus, and developed in collaboration with The Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, the COC Orchestra Academy offers its student musicians professional insight and experience in their pursuit of a career in an opera orchestra.
The five student players who join the Academy this year were selected from a pool of 12 musicians who auditioned in October 2015 for Debus, COC Orchestra Academy Director Nina Draganic and members of the COC Orchestra: GGS cellist Drew Comstock, GGS violinist Hua-Chu Huang, GGS violinist Yada Lee, GGS bassist Doug Ohashi and UofT violist Meagan Turner.
As part of the Academy experience, students are featured in multiple public performances. This year those appearances include playing with the COC Orchestra at the company's 2016/2017 season launch event on January 13 and a recital in the COC's Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre on January 21, performing Fauré's La bonne chanson with COC Ensemble Studio tenor Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure and Mendelssohn's Octet with their COC Orchestra mentors. Academy students also join the COC Orchestra in the pit of the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on January 23 for opening night of the COC's winter production of Wagner's Siegfried, playing one of the most complex and stirring scores in the operatic canon.
New to the 2016 Orchestra Academy program are additional public performances with the COC Orchestra and opera singers from the COC, and masterclasses and private sessions with opera singers, production personnel and visiting music staff.
"It's wonderful to see how we've grown the COC Orchestra Academy since it began in 2014. Every year we build it up just a little more, moving from strength to strength," says COC Music Director Johannes Debus. "This year we've added the season launch event to the program and we've been fortunate enough to have interest from great artists like Christine Goerke and Russell Braun on how they can get involved with the Orchestra Academy. These experiences, at such an early point in these musicians' careers, are the opportunities of a lifetime."
Watch Johannes talk about the Orchestra Academy in the video below!
The COC Orchestra Academy is an extra-curricular program that launched in January 2014 as a pilot program with the intention of growing the initiative to include more students and members of the COC Orchestra. There is no official credit attached to the students' participation. Members of the COC Orchestra participate in the COC Orchestra Academy voluntarily.
2016 COC Orchestra Academy Members
Cellist Drew Comstock began cello lessons at the age of four. He completed his undergraduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Yeesun Kim, and recently finished his Master of Music at McGill University where he worked with Brian Manker. He has performed in masterclasses for Ralph Kirshbaum, Phillipe Muller, Laurence Lesser, and Raphael Pidoux. As a chamber musician, he has worked with members of the Takács, Alban Berg, and Miró string quartets. He has also performed with Boston's critically acclaimed Discovery Ensemble, the North Carolina Symphony, and the McGill Chamber Orchestra. Comstock is currently pursuing an artist diploma at The Glenn Gould School under Desmond Hoebig and Andrés Díaz.
Violinist Hua-Chu Huang was born in Taiwan and moved to Canada in 2007. Since starting the violin at age nine, he has won numerous prizes from national competitions in Taiwan, the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra Concerto competition, and recently placed silver in the 2015 Canadian Music Competition. Huang has performed as a featured soloist in the Dalhousie Concerto Night as well as with the Chebucto Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia. He studied with Philippe Djokic at Dalhousie University, where he received his bachelor's degree in violin performance. Huang is currently pursuing an artist diploma under Paul Kantor and Barry Shiffman at The Glenn Gould School.
Violinist Yada Lee has won numerous competitions and awards. She has performed concerti with Mannes Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall, New York, as well as with orchestras in Thailand and around the world. She has been a member of Verbier Festival Orchestra and Bangkok Symphony Orchestra and has served as concertmaster and principal for both Oberlin and Mannes orchestras. Lee holds a master's degree from Mannes School of Music and a bachelor's degree in violin performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She is currently at The Glenn Gould School, studying with Paul Kantor, Barry Shiffman, Laurie Smukler and David Bowlin.
Bassist Doug Ohashi is currently completing the final year of his artist diploma at The Glenn Gould School, studying with Jeffrey Beecher, principal bassist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Ohashi aspires to perform in a professional orchestra and has participated in several training programs to serve that goal, including the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and Orford Academy. He is a recipient of the James Craig Opera Orchestra Award.
Praised for her imagination and musical instinct, Toronto-based violist Meagan Turner recently completed her undergraduate studies as a scholarship student at the University of Toronto. Turner has held principal positions with numerous orchestras and performed in masterclasses for renowned artists including Henning Kraggerud, Atar Arad, and the Brentano and Belcea quartets. In addition to her studies at U of T, Turner has studied chamber music with the St. Lawrence, Cecilia, and New Orford quartets and will continue her orchestral training at the New York String Orchestra Seminar this December. Turner is currently pursuing an advanced certificate in performance at UofT, in the studio of Eric Nowlin.
The COC Orchestra Academy is an initiative of the COC Orchestra with the agreement of the Toronto Musicians' Association.
Photo credit: (l-r) cellist Drew Comstock, violinist Hua-Chu Huang, violinist Yada Lee, bassist Doug Ohashi and violist Meagan Turner
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Sara Fulgoni in the COC production of Bluebeard's Castle. Photo: Michael Cooper © 2001


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Motor speech disorders are a class of speech disorder that disturb the body's natural ability to speak. These disturbances vary in their etiology based on the integrity and integration of cognitive, neuromuscular, and musculoskeletal activities. Speaking is an act dependent on thought and timed execution of airflow and oral motor / oral placement of the lips, tongue, and jaw that can be disrupted by weakness in oral musculature (dysarthria) or an inability to execute the motor movements needed for specific speech sound production (apraxia). Such deficits can be related to pathology of the nervous system (central and /or peripheral systems involved in motor planning) that affect the timing of respiration, phonation, prosody, and articulation in isolation or in conjunction.
- Main article: Dysarthria
Dysarthria is the reduced ability to motor plan volitional movements needed for speech production as the result of weakness/paresis and/or paralysis of the musculature of the oral mechanism needed for respiration, phonation, resonance, articulation, and or prosody.
- Main article: Apraxia of speech
Apraxia is the inability to motor plan volitional movement for speech production in the absence of muscular weakness.
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Mumble - VOIP for playing with other readers - Updated 22/02/2015 - See OP!
Mod Edit: The Mumble server (listed below) is being terminated on 23rd March 2015. We have a new Mumble server and this (along with all of the other relevant details) can be found here. Please use that server from 23rd March onwards. Thanks!
Mumble is a VOIP client like Ventrillo, Teamspeak, Roger Wilco and Mohawk. Unlike the rest, it has something resembling a stable overlay so if you're chatting to strangers you can actually tell them apart. It's also open source and free, which is nice.
We have a 512 slot mumble server running with generous bandwidth limits.
Address: server.herosquad.org
Port: 64738 (default - you can leave it blank when connecting)
We use Mumble for many different games. It provides excellent audio quality, without having to fight with whatever game you're playing. I'm looking at you, release-day Battlefield 3!
It's also useful for coordinating large numbers of people. In games with their own VOIP solution, a two-tier approach of using ingame for banter and Mumble for information or e.g. inter-squad communications works very well.
Smaller groups use it too. In addition to the big fish (currently planetside 2), there are also dozens of people using the server for everything from Dota 2 to Neverwinter. Some folks even use it for playing pen-and-paper RPGs or just idly chatting when not playing anything.
The server has dozens of channels by default, but by right clicking on one you'll be able to make your own temporary one. This works well for those Hot Releases that there aren't enough permanent channels for. You can even put a password your temporary channel. If you're playing something regularly enough to warrant a permanent channel, or find that you need admin rights over a channel for some reason, post here or send me a PM.
- Q: Do I have to use push to talk?
- A: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE USE PUSH TO TALK. Yes, it can be annoying having to press a button, but its better than having to listen to constant heavy breathing! Be considerate of other users!
- Q: Someone is being annoying!
- A: Right click on them, select local mute. If theyre being truly offensive/abusive, find an admin or name and shame them here.
- Q: How do I find an Admin?
- A: If its urgent, you can right click on the root channel (Rock Paper Shotgun Mumble Server), go to groups, and select either admin for global admins (just me for now) or a relevant acronym (e.g. ps2 - vanu - eu - full is channel admins for the EU Planetside 2 Vanu outfit) and see a list of people you could bug. Alternatively, post here or send me a PM.
- Q: I want to hear one person but not the rest of this rabble!
- A: Select said person, right click, pick priority speaker. Useful for group leaders, but note that this is a local setting. You can't currently prioritise speakers for others, even when you're an admin!
- Q: There are no empty slots to connect to!
- A: Unlikely. If this happens, report it here and Ill increase the number of slots.
- Q: Theres no room / too few subchannels for the game I want to play!
- A: All users should be able to make temporary channels by right clicking an existing channel (e.g. games) and then going to Add. If you're playing a lot of a game, or need local admin powers for some reason, post here or send me a PM.
- Q: How do I create/use a passworded room?
- A: When creating a room there will be an option to specify a password. If a room is created with a password specified, you need to go to Server->Access Tokens, then add the password. Youll then be able to access the room.
If you already have Mumble installed, you can click here. If not:
- Download Mumble.
- You do NOT need Murmur, as that is the server executable.
- Run the Mumble installer executable.
- Follow the prompts.
- Create a certificate when asked (painless, works instead of passwords).
- A pinging sound whenever you try to click something is a sign that you're supposed to click on another menu. If you have multiple displays, perhaps the box you seek is on another screen?
- Please SET UP PUSH TO TALK.
- You'll reach a prompt that looks vaguely like Fig. 1:
Fig. 1: Welcome screen and RPS server details (animated gif)
- Click "add new" and fill in the following details per Fig. 1. The label and your name do not matter, but try to keep it clean.
- You can leave the port blank if it isn't filled in automatically!
- Click OK.
- Attempt to connect to the server by double clicking on your new Rock Paper Shotgun! entry. You'll always be able to find the server easily through your favourites (Server->Connect or Ctrl+o).
Last edited by Krathor; 22-02-2015 at 10:53 PM. Reason: Request From Cooper
Using the Overlay
Overlays show you who is speaking, by overlaying a bit of text on your screen. Ever used the Steam browser whilst playing a game? Similar idea.
Mumble has a very good and customisable overlay built into it. I find it extremely stable and less crash-prone than all of the ones available for Teamspeak 3 and other competing VOIP clients, but your mileage may vary.
Go to configure, settings and check the box in the bottom left labeled Advanced. Then select the Overlay tab on the left. At the top of the screen, make sure Enable Overlay is checked. First, go to the Overlay Exceptions tab. Id recommend putting it on whitelist mode and adding the .exes you wish to use it with manually. Fig. 2A illustrates this process. Whilst it is very stable, the overlay can still cause conflicts with some systems/games. The number one bug-fixing tip is to turn off the overlay!
Fig. 2: Various useful overlay settings
Next you will want to fine-tune the positioning and contents of the overlay. Return to the layout tab and use the red pin to drag the target position of the user list to somewhere convenient. Itll probably take several attempts to get it just right. If youre playing with a large group, you may wish to only show people who are currently speaking. To do this, click on the list of names (not the pin) and go to Filter, then click on Only talking, per Fig. 2B. Right click the user list again, then go to edit. I like to use the settings shown in Fig. 2C, which removes the black boxes and user icons but leaves the text and mute status intact. Make sure you apply appropriate settings to all of the States!
As well as dis/enabling certain display elements, you can click on the ones shown on the screen and drag them around to rearrange things. Finally, before closing the Overlay Editor window, left then right click on the text (e.g. Talking) and go to font. I find that size 20 verdana is nice and clear at 1900 x 1200.
Whisper Lists
You find yourself in a subchannel and wish to transmit to people in other subchannels. It is dark. You may annoy another user.
Rock Paper Shotgun (Unofficial) VOIP Server +General Chatter +Games }----+ Arma 2 | }---+ Blufor | | }---+ Alpha | | | } Nullkigan | | }---+ Bravo | | | } Bodge | | }---+ Charlie | | } President Weasel | }---+ Opfor | }---+ Alpha | } Joseph }----+ Alien Swarm | } Washington +AFKFig. 3: Example user layout
Lets say that Nullkigan (in Blufor Alpha) wishes to send a message to Bodge (in Blufor Bravo) perhaps because his squad needs some fire support. Hes happy for President Weasel (in Blufor Charlie) to hear the request, so Charlie can stay clear of the danger zone, but dont wish to alert Joseph (in Opfor Alpha) because hes the target of the fire mission. Nullkigan also doesnt wish to annoy Washington, who is playing an entirely different game (in the Alien Swarm channel).
To do this, go to Configure -> Settings -> Shortcuts. Per Fig. 4A, click the Add button, then click unassigned and use the drop-down list to select Whisper/Shout. Select data. Click the box with the ellipsis ( ) inside. Select Shout to channel, then scroll to the bottom and find the Parent entry. Additionally select whisper to subchannels. Click OK. Select shortcut and press the button you wish to use as a shortcut for whispering. Then check the box marked suppress if you wish to prevent other applications from receiving those key presses whilst mumble is running (warning: if you suppress o and leave mumble open, your important emails will come out funny!).
Fig. 4: Setting up whisper lists
Now to return to our example. If Nullkigan hit his whisper key he would transmit to: BluFor (Alphas parent), Alpha (which he is in), Bravo (a subchannel of BluFor), Charlie, but not Opfor, Opfors Alpha subchannel, or the Alien Swarm channel.
If he had selected root instead of parent, all channels would receive the whisper. If he was in Blufor when he tried this, Alpha/Bravo/Charlie would get the whisper, but so would Arma2 (Blufors parent), Opfor (including Opfor Alpha/Bravo/Etc), and so Joseph would hear him. If he was in Arma2 and tried this, people in Alienswarm and other games would hear him, as the parent would be the games channel, and all game channels are subchannels of it. So only use this type of whisper when in an appropriate subchannel!
Advanced Whisper Lists
Consider the previous example of calling a firemission from another squad, and all other squads on my team being able to hear and react to this. Sometimes this is not desirable; what happens when we have 20+ players who are all shouting at people in other squads? Do I have to listen to that fool in Alpha when Im just a grunt? The solution is Group Restricted Whispers.
In Fig. 4A there is an option called Restrict to group. If we enter #mytoken here, only people who satisfy the conditions of the whisper list (i.e. in an appropriate nearby channel) and also have the mytoken access token can hear the whisper. Note that when restricting to group, you need to at a # in front of the token, but you do not need to do this when adding the token to your client to allow you to hear these whispers.
To add an access token, go to Server->Access Tokens->Add at the main screen.
I recommend the use of an access token of cc for Command Circuit chatter. This lets squad leaders and mission commanders communicate without drowning out or annoying fireteam members. Anyone can listen to these messages by adding the cc access token to their client, and removing it prevents you from hearing it. It does need a seperate key for transmissions, but this is easily set up by following the above guide.
Last edited by Nullkigan; 11-05-2013 at 12:48 AM. Reason: Spring Cleaning?
The helpful Fig. 1, Fig. 2 and Fig. 4 aren't showing up, I'm afraid.
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Another thing do note is that Mumble and Windows 7 like to turn down Arma 2 VON volume and thus you might not hear people speaking on VON. However, there's a fix for it:
For mumble:
1) Open Configure - Settings - Audio Output.
2) Tick of "while other users talk" and "while you talk"
For Windows 7:
1) Start - Control Panel
1.1) If a new window opens, click Hardware and Sound - Sound - Communications and click on "Do nothing"
1.2) If a menu appears, click on Sound - Communications and click on "Do nothing"
There we go. You should be able to hear people on VON much better.
I wanted to quiz how the #cc token works for if I were an FTL. Would it be needed? or is this something just for the Squad leaders?
After my first Tactical Tuesday last night I feel confident enough to step into the shoes of an FTL next time round but was curious as to how FTL comms is handled normally.
04-07-2012, 04:58 PM #6I wanted to quiz how the #cc token works for if I were an FTL. Would it be needed? or is this something just for the Squad leaders?
After my first Tactical Tuesday last night I feel confident enough to step into the shoes of an FTL next time round but was curious as to how FTL comms is handled normally.
In Praxis Squad Leaders tend to die, so it's up to the highest fire team leader to take over leading the squad (FTL1>FTL2>FTL3). If all FTLs are dead it's up to the highest AR, then AAR, then RAT (though by then it's usually better to merge the squad with another one).
So the ideal scenario would be that all FTLs either have CC enabled or can enable it on short notice in case SL bites the dust - but as long as SL is dead they don't talk on CC.
Last edited by Wolfenswan; 04-07-2012 at 05:01 PM.Play ArmA with us. (Competence not required.)
It's okay to not like things.
I got annoyed at not being able to get into the server last night due to the sheer number of Planetside 2 fans, so:
- Slots bumped up to 256
- Audio Quality bumped up to 90kb/s
Please post any issues, such as mass desynch, in here so I can try to investigate them. The available resources on the server are far, far, far in excess of mumble's requirements but sometimes the software gets wonky.
(For those interested, it's currently hosted on the arma 2 box which has 15 gb/month bandwidth on a 100 mb/s port with a sandy bridge i5 processor)
Also please refrain from making temporary channels permanent or creating channels with offensive, misogynistic or otherwise 'ironic' names. I will rename any i see and potentially ban repeat offenders.
Last edited by Nullkigan; 24-11-2012 at 01:10 PM.
So I'm moving the server to a different box which will let me bump up audio quality even further, increase the number of slots and do a few other things I've been meaning to follow up on for a while. This includes a full purge of all accounts and channels as what we had was largely unplanned and grew from 10 users to 100+.
If over the next few days people could briefly pop onto server2.herosquad.org and register themselves, test things out, etc, I'd be grateful. The old server will be around for a little while longer and the transition will largely be painless.
Admins: send me PMs about what channels you need powers over. I'm also considering adding a couple of other account levels with stuff like mute and kick abilities.
Yay, good news! I think we in the Rock, Planet, Shotgun Planetside 2 outfit probably are responsible for much of the recent influx of users, as we regularly have 40+ people at a time on Mumble. We would certainly appreciate having a couple more people with admin rights in the Planetside 2 channel. We have also had uninvited "guests" in our channels, mucking about being generally annoying, so a few people with mute/kick abilities would be most welcome.
Thanks for taking care of this, it is an indispensible tool for us!
I've long since lost track of all the different threads in the Planetside 2 subforum, and I know this one is dead, but I do feel compelled to ask how well last night worked out, Performance and Logistics wise.
I've not seen any complaints about the server dropping out or going robovoice yet, so hopefully that didn't happen.
There are currently only three admins for the PS2 - EU - VANU tag, which isn't many for drag / mute / kicking 200+ people. Who else needs these abilities? I can restrict different people to different tasks, but I'd rather have no more than two groups. Full control of the local channels and drag / mute, perhaps.
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I played and it sounded fine for me, thanks so much for it.
Edit: Oh, and as far as I know, the server has been working perfectly well, so I'll echo Surlywombat: many thanks for keeping things running so smoothly!
It seems that the way to track down admins posted in the first post is no longer working : /
So I'll just try over here; is it possible to get a permanent channel setup for our new RPS Neverwinter guild?
Done. Give me some registered usernames and I'll hand out some channel admin rights.
Thanks a lot Nullkigan, and nice channel name you thought up :P
I was getting distracted when you messaged me on mumble, but we got one more wannabe channel admin, Styxie.
If you could give him channel admin rights as well we'd be all set.
I registered on the server as Boosh, but I use a different name ingame (ps2), which isn't ideal. I've had a good google but doesn't seem to be anyway for me to de-register myself or enforce a name change. I've even tried re-installing mumble.
Could an admin remove my registration when possible please? Or provide further advice if there is something I can do myself.
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Any chance at putting a sticky about the mumble server in the main 'root' forum for fun and games? It seems quite universal now.
I can throw the thread down there, but I can't sticky it. I haven't so far because I keep forgetting to update the first post and fix the missing images.
EDIT: Speaking of which, done. I think?
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- Welcome to old and new players alike. ATITD is free to play during the management transition.
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- A Tale in the Desert VI is one month away!
- Welcome Back Weekend & ATITD Halloween Event
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Get together with your Egypt family for the 2010 ATITD Player Meet held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania this September 17 - 19. In short:
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- Attendance fee is 75$, it includes all activities, meals and events on Saturday
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1. xperiaDROID (banned) (Posts: 5629; Member since: 08 Mar 2013)
Oh no, what have they done to you, S2? You're supposed to be a squarish elegant phone, not a rounded egg shaped phone with a spaghetti sticking out.
21. tiara6918 (Posts: 2111; Member since: 26 Apr 2012)
The 2011 galaxy s2 for me is the best handset Samsung has released. I can't believe they made an ugly s2 variant like this, what an ugly soap
28. PunyPoop (Posts: 752; Member since: 18 Jan 2013)
Hey PA why did you remove my comment?? I'm proud to have a China Phone and I'm telling you once again it's more PREMIUM than the Samsung phones! What is wrong with that??
2. MartianMe (unregistered)
Oh..............My,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,GOD...........Samsung ..........really? HAHAHAHHAHAHAA.....
30. solomonsteve (Posts: 76; Member since: 19 Dec 2012)
i mean seriously ????????????? OMG OMG OMG
3. nobelset (Posts: 270; Member since: 17 Oct 2012)
You guys laugh at it now, but you have no idea how it's useful for some people.
6. PunyPoop (Posts: 752; Member since: 18 Jan 2013)
Yeah now Samsung is copying CHINA PHONES!
11. PunyPoop (Posts: 752; Member since: 18 Jan 2013)
Phones with TV are out years ago!
39. garz_pa (Posts: 154; Member since: 03 Nov 2011)
Not in the country where I live. People who can't afford even the low-range Android phones opts for China-made phones with tv receivers. In here, a large percent of households still use analog TVs watching free channels. And it's pretty useful for them watching TV while stuck in traffic.
36. HansGoneInsane (unregistered)
Its alright if enough people want such a phone. However, Samsung could have put more effort into designing the phone. The phone is not really a beauty.
4. msa1988 (Posts: 418; Member since: 30 Mar 2010)
Ha - this thing is hideous.
5. _Bone_ (Posts: 2155; Member since: 29 Oct 2012)
Aren't most Korean or Japanese flagships pack a TV antenna?
25. tiara6918 (Posts: 2111; Member since: 26 Apr 2012)
Dmb is only available in korea
38. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)
The technology used is called 1seg or OneSeg. Japan had the ability to watch TV on their phones since 2006.
8. Tcool (unregistered)
What a desperate move....
9. PunyPoop (Posts: 752; Member since: 18 Jan 2013)
Nope, they call it INNOVATION! ....from CHINA! :D
14. Tcool (unregistered)
I have seen lots of China phone with TV receiver and dual SIM slots long time ago. Even in other Asian countries, they make mobile phones for local market with TV receiver and dual SIM slots. Nothing new about that.
I call it copying. :D
37. willard12 (unregistered)
Phones that made calls and sent texts were out years ago too. Maybe you think all the phones that come today with these features are copying also. Either way, remember this when you see a phone with a fingerprint scanner as the Atrix did it 3 years ago.
33. a_merryman (Posts: 749; Member since: 14 Dec 2011)
You know that Korean phones in Korea have had tv receivers for years, right?
12. mariosuneo4 (banned) (Posts: 75; Member since: 07 Aug 2013)
nice to see that some brands not only focus on CAMERA department.....
13. darkskoliro (Posts: 1090; Member since: 07 May 2012)
Had this on my sanzhai phone! :D Was the best feature ever.
15. uchihakurtz (Posts: 404; Member since: 12 Nov 2012)
If Samsung keeps tarnishing the S Series it'll lose that special feeling of owning one. They should make another Galaxy name meant for things like this. Or even better, a new U Series meant for flagship. Remember how cool and beautiful the U900 sliding phone was?
16. dexter_jdr (Posts: 1163; Member since: 28 Jun 2012)
since samsung is fvcking rich, they can produce anything that they could think off.
,galaxy ace , galaxy mini, galaxy ace mini, galaxy y, y duos, galaxy s4 ,s4 mini, s4 zoom , s4 active , s4 inactive, s4 boob, mega 6.8 , supermega 7.2, superhyperdeltamega 8.0 , this flip phone, a slider, a candybar, an actual candy, a dildo running jellybean 4.2.2 , a watch, a bracelet, a billboard etc
18. Tcool (unregistered)
What does LMAO mean?
24. androidfanboy (Posts: 162; Member since: 24 Jun 2013)
it means laugh my ass off
35. Tcool (unregistered)
Oh could be lick my ass off. LOL!
19. sergiobr (Posts: 713; Member since: 25 Feb 2013)
I live in Brasil and WE DON´T NEED IT !!! Why do you thing we´re in the jungle ??? I´m using Tivizen for digital TV, and for the rest ... web. No use, ugly design, poor camera...put it in other countries ! I´d loved a S4 Snapdragon with this plus.
20. TwentyWendy (banned) (Posts: 65; Member since: 12 Aug 2013)
I should wait the gs4 tv instead :)
26. XperiaFanZone (Posts: 2226; Member since: 21 Sep 2012)
You should wait until you're mature enough to use a phone


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Adnan Oktar: NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO TURKEY. NOTHING WILL HAPPEN TO TURKISH ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. ON THE CONTRARY, THERE WILL BE PROSPERITY AND ABUNDANCE IN THOSE PLACES. Here comes the age of abundance and prosperity Insha'Allah. By the leave of Allah we enter the Golden Age. Turkish countries will be happy, joyful and live in comfort. These crises are temporary indeed. They do not actually affect us but we of course do not want America be affected because of the crisis. We do not want the Christians to be in dire straits. We do our utmost regarding that Insha'Allah.
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Adnan Oktar: Of course the crisis has hit Turkey in away. That is true and it will continue to do so. But our people have a good aspect. Morality of Islam and the spirit of mutual cooperation are so pleasant. That brings an economic mobility in goods and money and it definitely will continue to bring them. Therefore THE REFLECTION OF THE CRISIS IS NOT AS SEVERE AS IN EUROPE. IT WILL DEFINITELY NOT BE SO. However, our actual salvation is by the Turkish–Islamic Union. In that case, forget the crisis, people will almost be uncomfortable due to prosperity.
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Michigan Technological University senior Eli Vlaisavljevich was named the WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year, the league announced on March 18. Vlaisavljevich joins Geoff Sarjeant (1992) as the only Huskies ever to earn the award.
Vlaisavljevich, a senior defenseman from Shoreview, Minn., has been named a WCHA Scholar-Athlete three times and to the All-WCHA Academic Team three times during his collegiate career at Michigan Tech. He currently carries a 4.0 cumulative grade-point average in biomedical engineering.
Vlaisavljevich is also among 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award for 2009-10. He has been awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship and the Michigan Tech's Provost Award for Scholarship, and he was named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District First Team. He helps in severalelementary classrooms, is a mentor with the Michigan Tech Athletics Koaches Kids Program and volunteers with the Copper Country Junior Hockey Association.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Christmas may be over, but the gift exchanging and returning is just getting started.
UPS projected that on Thursday, more than 520,000 packages would be shipped back to retailers around the country. That means long lines and busy workers at UPS.
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In the nineteenth century, photography did not kill watercolor painting and cars did not drive horses to extinction. In the nineteen eighties digital watches did not kill mechanical watches, and vinyl records are making a comeback 20 years after CDs were launched.
People paint, ride horses, wear mechanical watches and play vinyl records for a multitude of reasons, some of them unsuspected 150 or 20 years ago. And they will still be shooting film 10 years from now.
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The Fallout 3 Game of the Year edition, which includes all five add-ons will be coming to stores in the United States today for all three platforms. It might take some time until it comes out in other countries, from probably a few days in the UK to possibly months in Poland. In the US, the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions costs $59.99, while the PC version costs $49.99.
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Leeds City Council proposals would also have made changes to the amount of money available to manage sites - and campaigners say they could have priced plot holders out of the hobby they love.
Leeds and District Allotment Gardeners Federation members spoke of their delight after the landmark ruling in the High Court in Leeds this week which has quashed the proposed new rents from 2014 onwards.
The LDAGF issued an application in the High Court at the end of last year to launch a judicial review into council plans to put up rents while reducing the amount of money associations could keep to maintain sites.
Alex Peebles from the law firm Irwin Mitchell's said: "We are delighted to have helped the LDAGF gain justice and have their voices heard regarding the planned changes to allotment tenancy in Leeds – proposals that the courts have now ruled are unlawful.
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Coun Gomersall, who is also the national allotment society mentor for Yorkshire, said: "A lot of people are looking at this case for a precedent."
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What would you do about a table like this if you were the International Olympic Committee?
The table shows the complete domination of track cycling by one nation — Great Britain. The results are from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Britain's 12 medals in this one sport were a touch over a quarter of the nation's total medal count for the entire Games that year.
Also, what stands out in this list of track cycling events? Again from the Beijing Olympics:
• Individual Pursuit Men
• Sprint Individual Men
• Keirin Men
• Team Pursuit Men
• Madison Men
• Points Race Men
• Olympic Sprint Men
• Individual Pursuit Women
• Points Race Women
• Sprint Women
Notice how there are fewer events for women? Pourquoi?
Thanks to a number of changes, neither the domination by British cyclists nor the lack of parity in men's versus women's events will feature in these games. Rue Britannia. Read more >>


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"Zigzags and double yellow lines outside schools are there for a reason" -- that is the road safety message from Torbay Council as it advises parents of the importance of safe and legal parking.
The council has written to parents of 8,500 pupils at 30 primary schools across the Bay to remind them of their responsibility to find a safe place to park at school times.
The letter from the council's Road Safety Team also warns that enforcement of parking restrictions around schools will be undertaken some time after the half term holiday.
Anyone who is issued with a penalty charge notice will have to pay £70, reduced to £35 if paid within 14 days.
Road safety officer Bev Hannah said: "The safety of our children and their parents is paramount.
"We are aware of several near misses involving children and cars in the vicinity of schools during the school run. Thankfully no-one has been hurt, and we are determined to do everything we can to maintain this safety record.
"We have also had serious concerns expressed to us by several schools and parents. They are unhappy about the actions of people who fail to observe the parking restrictions, and have asked us to take action.
"We share those concerns and decided to take this opportunity to raise public awareness, backed by enforcement of the restrictions."


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VETERAN Hawthorn midfielder Sam Mitchell says he does not take supplements.
''We use very reputable brands for any supplements that we use and we use one of the biggest supplement brands. We say that minimises all the risk,'' he said.
''But I will be honest with you … I don't take a single tablet for anything.
''If I have got some injury and I have to take an anti-inflammatory tablet, then I will take that . But I don't take any multi-vitamins, I don't take anything.
''I know there are other clubs that are much more out there in that area than we are … Take our cutting-edge science in areas that are not about supplements. Hawthorn are not a very cutting-edge club in this area.''


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Cyclists' Church Service
Held every year since 27th May 1945, the Castle Combe church service is a celebration of cycling, and a service of thanksgiving for the men in cycling battalions who fell in the Great War and for the many cyclist soldiers, commandos and paras who did not return from World War II.
The Castle Combe church service, like the services held in May on the village green at Meriden, the centre of England, and at Coxwold, a few miles north of York, is now a memorial service and an informal, ecumenical gathering – especially for today's cyclists in the West Country.
This year's service will be held at St Andrews Church, Castle Combe on Sunday 13th April at 2.30pm, and will be followed by tea and cake served in the church.
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Computer Virus
Philomath sits down at his computer at twelve o'clock and starts his English assignment. He types the first four sentences and then discovers to his amazement that a strange virus seems to have affected his computer. For even though he types in English and according to the correct letters as denoted by his keyboard, a baffling array of letters appear. Below is a transcript of what he typed:
Sicop n ivuykce ujhi yu h adwxes'u ged?
Zowd kct nqui qucmug lne orvj zluyocaug:
Uszmo erxos ep vlfql bqo oasnlrl hblb yq Mcb,
Esj zcvwpr't nhexk oicr llm vr wmuyb j nltf.
He has forgotten what he has written so he tries to decipher the code to avoid having to start again. After one hour, he still hasn't figured it out. He then looks at the clock on the wall and decodes his assignment.
What is the virus doing and what does the above say?
AnswerThe clue lies in the fact that he looks at the clock. He starts at 12 o'clock. When you look at an analogue clock the hour hand and the minute hand point to the same number. One hour later there is a difference of 1, namely the minute hand is pointing to the 12 and the hour hand to the 1.
So the code starts at 12 o'clock, thus the first letter is the same as the real text. The second letter is 1 letter after the real text, the third 2, etc., until the 12th, and then you're back to 12 o'clock and it starts again.
So what did Philomath type?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all to short a date.
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nickname for an exuberant young man, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of bullocks.
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Roxburghshire where one of the earliest records of the name was Adam Bulloc who witnessed an agreement the abbot and the monks of Newbattle c. 1250. A few years later, Richard Bullock was slain at the Battle of Cambok in 1278. [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: Edward Bullock who settled in New England in 1635; George Bullock settled in Virginia in 1635; John Bullock settled in Virginia in 1663; Thomas Bullock who settled in Virginia in 1624.
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For most of the night, it was too close to call. But for the Conservative government, a close result, even if it was a close win, was still a bad result indeed.
Concerns about pre-vote polls notwithstanding, the remarkably strong showing by the Liberals in Brandon-Souris Monday night seems to have all the characteristics of a clear and somewhat alarming message for the federal Conservative government.
If there was an election that deserved to be called a horse race, this was it.
Tory candidate Larry Maguire, who appeared destined to maintain his lead over Grit challenger Rolf Dinsdale, will be a good MP for Brandon-Souris and for Manitoba. However, the near-death experience having been avoided, it won't take long for Maguire's political masters to go from celebrating the victory to trying to figure out why it was so slim. Rocked by scandal and losing a publicity war with Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, the Tories needed a convincing win. This wasn't it.
In a seat that has only voted Liberal once in more than 50 years, this should have been a cakewalk
In a seat that has only voted Liberal once in more than 50 years, this should have been a cakewalk. The neck-and-neck race suggests that worms may be turning across Canada for the Conservative government less than two years before a 2015 fixed-date election.
What was the issue that inspired Brandon-Souris voters to come out and support the Liberals in numbers not seen for more than a decade?
Was this a protest against the Senate expenses crisis, which has now drawn Harper into its sticky tentacles? Or perhaps voters in this Manitoba riding were expressing an infatuation for Trudeau, what with his youthful good looks and affinity for controlled substances.
There were also many local wild cards in play. Remember that Tory MP Merv Tweed, whose resignation triggered this byelection, was repeatedly overlooked for cabinet promotions. Westman voters could very well have been disillusioned at being left out of the government's inner circle.
Then there was the rather unfortunate controversy that saw Tweed's longtime executive assistant, Chris Kennedy, excluded from running for the nomination. It later turned out Kennedy has simply missed the deadline for submitting his papers.
Then there is Dinsdale himself. After a successful career as a media executive in Toronto, he returned to his home province and the riding his father, Walter, represented in the House of Commons for more than 30 years.
Although his critics tried to portray Dinsdale as a carpetbagger, his family continued to have deep roots in the riding. And many of those roots extended into Conservative households.
Thankfully for hardcore politicos, Brandon-Souris lived up to its billing as a hotly contested seat. The others did not.
Montreal's Bourassa riding, a Liberal hold, was done early, as was Manitoba's Provencher riding, where Tory Ted Falk won handily.
No one really expected an upset in Provencher, where the aquifer runs deep Tory blue. That is not to say Falk didn't do his best to screw up one of the safest Tory seats in Western Canada. Apparently, not even a personal attack against a gay high school student who lobbied to create a gay-straight alliance at a Steinbach high school could create an upset.
However, even in Provencher, the Liberals showed well, running a respectable second. Along with the Brandon-Souris result, there is much to celebrate for Liberals. After all, this is a party that did not receive enough votes in 2011 in either riding to qualify for federal election-expenses subsidies.
The Liberals will be, for the foreseeable future, crowing about their two holds in Toronto and Montreal, the moral victory in Provencher and the near-upset in Brandon-Souris. When they do that, it is important to remember that, all factors considered, it is so very hard to find a clear message in a byelection because voter turnout is low.
One would think that with some of the strong narratives running through federal politics -- the Senate expenses scandal, the rocky and sometimes controversial start to Justin Trudeau's leadership of the Liberal party, the volatile national poll results -- voters might have felt compelled to get involved.
Not a chance. Voter turnout in Bourassa was just over 25 per cent. In Toronto Centre it was less than 30 per cent. Provencher was only slightly higher at about 33 per cent.
Tories will take some comfort from that fact alone as they try to make sense of the messy events of Monday night.
Deep in their hearts, they know a win is a win is a win. But in the case of Brandon-Souris, the lack of a convincing win is a problem in and of itself.


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Denver -- Study results released Monday by The Integer Group showed that, although online shopping has increased over the last three years, overall it has leveled out.
According to The Checkout, an ongoing shopper behavior study conducted by Integer and M/A/R/C Research, online shopping is level and steady, but boomers continue to increase their online purchases – up 4.5% since 2011.
Millennials, on the other hand, are backing off, as the study revealed that Millennials who said they are purchasing more online is down 7% from 2011.
"Millennials may be feeling the pinch of a still-slow economy and making the decision to watch spending more closely," said Craig Elston, SVP, insight & strategy, Integer Group. "It could also be that we are starting to reach a plateau in online-shopping adoption."
Even though many shoppers in the survey noted that they are shopping about the same amount online as they were three months ago, there are some interesting shifts in purchase categories, according to the survey.
Since January 2012, online purchase of health and beauty has increased significantly among shoppers aged 50 to 64, growing nearly 12%. The percentage of 18- to 24-year-olds who say they've purchased any products online, even once, has dropped in all categories except books, music, and tickets. Overall, none of these categories saw major growth from 2011 to 2012.


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This is a guest post by FT Media Editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
Not much has been heard of Beyond Oblivion since the FT pulled back the veil on its ambitious vision of tackling piracy by asking devices manufacturers and broadband providers to pay for music consumed over their products and services.
At the time, we reported that Adam Kidron, a serial entrepreneur, had been backed by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and Allen & Co. According to the Beyond Oblivion site the start-up is still aiming for an October 10 launch (sorry, "insurrection"), but we wait to hear which music rights holders, smartphone and laptop manufacturers or internet service providers are on board.
Today's proxy filing by News Corp pulls the veil back a little further on Beyond Oblivion's financing, however. Read more


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There are analysts and pundits who, when they place themselves in the role of the Pittsburgh Penguins for the upcoming second round of the NHL's Eastern Conference playoffs, see much of the same coming.
That is, the Ottawa Senators, the Pens' second-round opponent, look a lot like the New York Islanders and that should be cause for much worry in Pittsburgh, given the Pens needed an unexpected six games, including two overtime wins, to dispatch the speedy Islanders.
We can give you that, and further agree the Senators will no doubt be every bit as pesky, probably more so, as the outmatched Islanders.
But here's the rub if you're going to debate Round 2 on that basis.
Place yourself in the skates of the Senators.
What you are about to face in the Penguins is nothing at all like the smurfy Montreal Canadiens, who were ill-equipped for either the size or style of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The Pens are those things in spades, so while Ottawa's style is certainly playoff friendly, it goes up another level from here, as most coaches like to say.
Which is why Pittsburgh has earned the position as favourites.
On the line as we progress to Round 2 are berths in the Eastern Conference final.
The war of attrition is bound to be a factor, and if the Penguins or Senators can prevail in something less than seven games, then a leg up -- a.k.a. rest -- could well be available, given the Bruins and Rangers each went the distance in a taxing Round 1 just to get to another gruelling-looking grind that will start shortly, but after the Pens and Sens.
Pittsburgh Penguins (1) vs. Ottawa Senators (7)
GAME 1: Tonight, 6:30, Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh
HEAD TO HEAD: Penguins prevailed 3-0, with one game decided in a shootout.
WHY THE PENGUINS WILL WIN: Allow us to borrow a paragraph from the first-round preview, which remains relevant.
"The Pens were as dominant at home (18 wins) as on the road. They had the most regulation and overtime wins in the NHL. They did not limp into the playoffs, winning eight of the last 10, even with a rash of big-name injuries."
The regular-season difference in this series is 11 wins. That's a lot.
And there is one telling game late in the 2013 season -- April 22 in Ottawa. Pittsburgh took it 3-1. The stakes were higher for the Sens then, but Pittsburgh won, and with backup goalie Tomas Vokoun doing the job.
This internal matter is probably Pittsburgh's only area of real worry. Will it be Vokoun, who won Games 5 and 6 vs. the Islanders, or Marc Andre Fleury, who again was unstable in a first-round series.
With any goaltending, the Penguins hold a considerable depth margin at forward. They scored 25 times in six first-round games and won the power-play game handily, 7-2, using goals at key times to school the Islanders.
Ottawa may turn out to be tougher to score against, but the Penguins' depth dictates that defensive matchups will be more than challenging for the Sens.
WHY THE SENATORS WILL WIN: Well, simply put, Erik Karlsson and Craig Anderson are both back from serious injuries and were important contributors in Round 1.
And while nobody's expecting a run-and-gun series -- maybe pigs will indeed soon fly or Brendan Shanahan will actually hand out his next serious suspension -- Ottawa seemed capable of it in the first round against the Habs, scoring 20 goals in five games.
There's some wow factor in that, given the Sens had a more characteristic nine goals in their final five regular-season games.
Ottawa is the playoff team with the weakest offence this spring, but has made up for that in many respects by being a stingy defensive outfit, an element that carried the team into the playoffs despite injuries.
The Sens' cause would be bolstered immensely if somehow, centre Jason Spezza could return after back surgery. Opinion varies on how close he may be.
Spezza's contributions would be valuable, but they would also give the Sens another big body with speed to combat Pittsburgh's weapons. Otherwise, that will fall to Anderson and he may need the series of his life, given the puny Habs outshot Ottawa in all but one first-round game and the Sens faced an average of 36 shots.
Ed Tait picks: Penguins in six.
Gary Lawless picks: Penguins in six
Tim Campbell picks: Penguins in six.
Boston Bruins (4) vs. New York Rangers (6)
Game 1: Thursday, 6:30 p.m., TD Gardens, Boston
HEAD TO HEAD: Boston owned the only regulation victory in the season, while the Rangers prevailed in two later games, one in OT and one in a shootout, all played before Valentine's Day.
WHY THE BRUINS WILL WIN: Momentum will be their animal.
The Bruins can spring from a monster comeback in Game 7 vs. Toronto on Monday night, finding their way out of the maze the Leafs presented between Game 2 and late in Game 7.
Boston has experience, talent and size, but in the first round, its teamwork, its defence and at times its goaltending were far too average for the post-season.
The team's leaders recovered in time, however, and with the likes of Zdeno Chara, Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic and David Krejci firing on all cylinders, there's good reason to believe that -- as often is the case -- a team's most marginal performance on the way to a title is in a shaky first round.
Boston's question marks in health going forward could matter. If Andrew Ference is a regular player in Round 2, as well as Dennis Seidenberg and Wade Redden, it will be better equipped for the hard-nosed games ahead.
And if Tuukka Rask can at least match Henrik Lundqvist in the Rangers net, then you'd have to feel a lot better about the Bruins' chances.
WHY THE RANGERS WILL WIN: The case is easy for momentum on the Rangers' side, too.
Winning both Games 6 and 7 in Round 1, with the seventh in convincing fashion on the road, it was clear Monday night that New York was the better team.
So a team that righted itself at the trade deadline and turned into something of a scoring machine over the final month of the regular season, a team that is playing with confidence in front of an all-star goalie in Lundqvist, a team that was hard to beat as it literally pushed its way into the playoffs, must surely have the edge in confidence now in mid-May.
Health issues could also assist New York in the next round, in particular if Ryane Clowe or Marc Staal can be players vs. Boston.
It's also a bit peculiar that at this juncture, the Rangers actually appear well-poised to take a run at the Cup, possibly better than as the top-seeded favourites last spring, a time when they appeared nervous and creaky before eventually bowing out against New Jersey.
Ed Tait picks: Bruins in seven.
Gary Lawless picks: Bruins in seven.
Tim Campbell picks: Rangers in six.


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Ever since Power & Motoryacht's famous lists the Power & Motoryacht 100 (a.k.a. "The World's 100 Largest Yachts") and "America's 100 Largest Yachts" first published more than 20 years ago, I have been intrigued. Being a naval architect, it was a natural attraction, but I was also fascinated by what I determined to be distinct trends in LOAs, hull materials, and countries of build. So for the past several years, I've been taking it to the next level by comparing the results in these categories, with some interesting results. And when it comes to "America's 100 Largest Yachts," as you're about to see, a lot's been going on.
All involved in the profession or pastime of yachting are aware that yachts in general have been getting bigger and bigger, and where megayachts are concerned, there's been an explosion in size. Funny enough, a few years ago when asked my opinion regarding this, in my infinite wisdom, I replied that the trend could not be sustained much longer. So much for my "crystal ball," confirming I should stick to naval architecture and leave marketing to the better informed.
Take a look at the following graph, which represents the past 17 years' worth of yachts included on the list:
The graph shows that the average LOA has increased 3'9" per year. It's also interesting to note how the size of the 100th yacht has increased over this same period. In 1990 Stoneface, a 106-foot aluminum yacht built in the States, made the cut. And in 2007 Princess K, a 155'8" steel yacht built in Holland, just made the cut (2'11" per year). So if you're starting a new build, typically a three-year design/construction process, and you want to see your yacht's name published in PMY in 2010, you better make sure she's at least 165 feet overall.
When it comes to hull materials, with the exception of one wood yacht in two of the years I've been tracking, aluminum, fiberglass, and steel round out the list. The following graph clearly shows that as the yachts increased in size, steel became the preferred material over aluminum, while the number of fiberglass hulls remained essentially flat.
This shift from steel to aluminum is not surprising for two reasons, at least in my opinion:
1) as a vessel increases in size, the weight penalty associated with steel diminishes as compared to aluminum
2) as the yachts get bigger, larger yard facilities are required, for which commercial and military yards have the infrastructure, systems expertise, and manpower.
And finally, I thought it would be interesting to show how certain countries have garnered a larger (or, in some cases, smaller) market share of build contracts over the years:
Put a different way, the most significant players in 2007 are:
|Country of Origin
|Number Built
|Average LOA
|Total Length (Feet)
|United States
Look again at the 3D graph. For the past three years Germany has seen the greatest increase in the number of megayachts built, while the States, Holland, and Italy have remained essentially flat. In addition the States has experienced the largest reduction in the number of yachts built since 1995. Possible reasons? While the Euro was weaker than the dollar at one point, perhaps that influenced American owners willing to take the extra time to travel overseas for design/inspection meetings. But then again, in recent years the dollar has declined against the Euro. Clearly, either the infrastructure does not exist in the States, or there's the perception that we can't deliver the quality. On the other hand, perhaps I should stick to naval architecture and leave the marketing to others.
America's 100 Largest Yachts 2007: By Rank
America's 100 Largest Yachts 2007: Alphabetically
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This article originally appeared in the November 2007 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.