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Google+ is never far away from controversy or a heated discussion, be it what affect it has on organic search rankings or whether or not the 359m members (May 2013) actually use the platform or not.
Whatever your thoughts on Google+ as a platform the one area you can't deny is the improvement from brand participation and content generation.
A few months ago the post on do the top 20 US retailers care about Google+ implied that the big retail brands out there don't create enough content or receive enough engagement to warrant sufficient investment, which inevitably leads to a poor user experience.
While in theory the top 20 US retailers 'should' understand how to use Google+ and reap the benefits, looking at the summary it's clear that some of them don't.
That's not to say they don't care about the platform, more likely the potential value has not been demonstrated properly or what future benefits in organic search considered.
1. H&M (3m followers)
Generally high-street retailers seemed to have grasped the concept of Google+ with full force and H&M is no exception.
The secret to its success lies in producing regular unique high quality images, albums and videos around styles and product sets. New content is posted up to four time times a day and engagement levels such as comments, plus ones and shares rival similar numbers you'd see on the Facebook profile.
Key win: the images are custom built for Google+ and its clear the brand has found a style that works for users to generate the most interaction.
One area H&M has missed out on is linking up the YouTube profile to Google+ which is another added benefit of being active on the platform.
If you connect both together then activity is shared between the two sites i.e. if your friends like a video by a brand on Google+ then you'll see that in YouTube social recommendations feed.
2. ASOS (1.8m followers)
ASOS was certainly one of the first retail brands to really start populating Google+ with bespoke fashion content and their follower count and post engagement is reflective of this.
Unlike H&M, ASOS has linked their YouTube account and Google+ together so will be taking advantage of that and seeing higher engagement on their videos.
Key win: the use of animated GIFs has worked well. It's a format that really encourages sharing and stands out from both Twitter and Facebook who do not support that kind of format.
3. Topman (850,000 followers)
Topman updates its profile with three posts a day including a good mix of product sets, high quality images and links to editorial content from Topman Magazine offering N opportunity to reach a wider audience by increasing their topics and use of hashtags.
Key win: Topman runs a monthly incentive strategy called "Google+ VIP" which rewards followers with prizes for participating on the platform and sharing their content.
It has to be noted that it's against the Google+ guidelines to offer gifts in direct return for shares and +1's – I would guess the concept is ok, judging on the number of months it's been running.
Topshop has a similar strategy to Topman but with a higher number of followers (1.4m) along with a similar content strategy.
Firstly, it cross promotes other social profiles regularly such as updates as to what's happening on twitter and Pinterest helping increase cross following users.
Secondly every morning the 'Daily Fix' is posted showing a simple outfit look with a commercial link to the products each receiving a good number of plus ones, comments and shares.
4. Uniqlo (654,000 Followers)
Uniqlo posts content on a regular basis and publish most of the formats available to brands. The content is far less product-focused than some of the others, less of the hard sell and more targeted around its customers lifestyles which again receives great levels of engagement from all over the world.
Key win: Uniqlo posts great photo albums based on sporting and cultural events which are time sensitive and relevant to users search behaviours – like Wimbledon, supported by Novak Djokovic who is their global brand ambassador.
5. Farfetch (56,000 followers)
Being fully transparent, I work for Farfetch as Head of SEO and am also responsible for the Google+ strategy too.
I've included our brand in here as there are certain content types we are promoting which deliver genuine engagement and conversions, and I wanted to share what we've learned.
Like many of the other brands listed in the post before us we post regularly on Google+, between two and four posts per day over the business week and two per day over the weekend.
We find that animated GIFs do particularly well when showcasing products and trigger more shares than any other format at our disposal.
Unlike any of the other brands mentioned we also setup and run a community page on the theme of 'Fashion Inspiration'. This provides an additional layer of communication and engagement to users we might not normally have access to which helps build up follower numbers.
Key win: To celebrate Farfetch's 5th Birthday we carried out 5 Google Hangouts on air over five days on a number of different topics such as How to Make a Pinata and How to Make a Play-doh Watermelon Punch – as a result of running these Hangouts our site received a 45% increase in visits from Google+ with conversions.
As a company we're still building up our following on Google+ but we're now in a position where the activity generates around 400 visits per month with a conversion rate of about 1%.
An interesting statistic from our analytics data is that users from Google+ spend much longer viewing content on Farfetch than other social platforms.
Noting that Google+ only delivers a very small percentage of visits versus the others, either way it shows that users are engaged with the brand and have a genuine interest in retail and purchasing when browsing on Google+.
While these are only a selection of brands that are regularly producing good unique content there are many more out there and while not all brands may be giving Google+ the attention it deserves, the ones that do have a definite advantage.


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Without any pre-training or restrictions in partner choice among chimpanzees, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, found for the first time that chimpanzees housed in a socially complex, contained setting spontaneously cooperate with multiple partners of their choosing. This finding, which addresses long-standing doubt about the level of cooperation chimpanzees are able to spontaneously achieve or understand, is published in the June 12 issue of PeerJ.
"Cooperation among primates has attracted considerable research because of the evolutionary implications that such research has for human behavior and the ubiquity of cooperation among wild primates," says lead author Malini Suchak, PhD.
"Cooperation is often regarded as less puzzling than altruistic behavior, but only in an evolutionary sense. In the moment, cooperation often consists of a series of potentially complex decisions involving a choice of partners. When multiple partners are available, an individual must consider with whom to cooperate, if that individual has been a good partner previously, how much to invest in the partner, what to expect in return and if the cooperation will yield more benefits than solitary effort," Suchak continues.
In the study, which included Yerkes researchers Frans de Waal, PhD, Matt Campbell, PhD, and Tim Eppley, Suchak found the chimpanzees spontaneously cooperated 3,565 times over the course of 94 one-hour sessions. The chimpanzees' success rate and efficiency increased over time, whereas the amount of pulling in the absence of a partner decreased, demonstrating the animals had learned they needed a partner to succeed.
Suchak's study participants were all 11 members of a chimpanzee social group housed at the Yerkes Research Center Field Station in a large outdoor enclosure, which is a more complex environment than typical testing situations. In addition to allowing the chimpanzees to freely choose with which of their group mates they wanted to cooperate, Suchak's study is unique because it included dyadic and triadic cooperation, and it explored the dynamics of female cooperation, all of which can help provide information on the evolution of cooperative tendencies.
The study apparatus required that one chimpanzee (in the dyadic condition) or two chimpanzees (in the triadic condition) remove a barrier in order for another chimpanzee to simultaneously pull in a tray baited with food. The apparatus was mounted to the outdoor enclosure, allowing the chimpanzees to come and go as they wanted within each one-hour session.
"That the chimpanzees preferentially approached the apparatus when kin or non-kin of similar rank were present shows a preference for socially tolerant partners, and this demonstrates that in the midst of a complex social environment, chimpanzees spontaneously initiate and maintain a high level of cooperative behavior," Suchak says.
"Because previous research could only elicit cooperation in a much more controlled setting, we thought more complex, cooperative behavior might have uniquely evolved in humans. This study demonstrates chimpanzees are more cooperative than we realized, and we've yet to fully explore the extent of the similarities between chimpanzee and human behavior in this regard," Suchak concludes.
Established in 1930, the Yerkes National Primate Research Center paved the way for what has become the National Institutes of Health-funded National Primate Research Center (NPRC) program. For more than eight decades, the Yerkes Research Center has been dedicated to conducting essential basic science and translational research to advance scientific understanding and to improve human health and well-being. Today, the Yerkes Research Center is one of only eight NPRCs. The center provides leadership, training and resources to foster scientific creativity, collaboration and discoveries, and research at the center is grounded in scientific integrity, expert knowledge, respect for colleagues, an open exchange of ideas and compassionate, quality animal care.
Yerkes-based research programs are seeking ways to: develop vaccines for infectious and noninfectious diseases; increase understanding of progressive illnesses, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, and develop methods for the earliest possible diagnosis; unlock the secrets of memory; treat and even prevent autism spectrum disorders, fear and anxiety-related disorders, and drug addiction; advance knowledge about the evolutionary links between biology and behavior; and interpret brain activity through imaging.

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce published on Monday a white paper, "Private Retirement Benefits in the 21st Century: A Path Forward," that provides guidelines for creating and maintaining retirement plans and increasing workers' savings.
The paper notes that "it is more important than ever to ensure that there are no statutory, practical or political barriers to innovation that would discourage participation in the private retirement system.
Some legislators have been discussing changes to the tax treatment of retirement savings as part of a broader effort to overhaul the tax code.
"The success of private retirement plans is at risk of being undone by short-term political wrangling," the Chamber's paper states. "Eliminating or diminishing the current tax treatment of employer-provided retirement plans would jeopardize the retirement security of tens of millions of American workers, impact the role of retirement assets in the capital markets, and create challenges in maintaining the quality of life for future generations of retirees."
Among the Chamber's recommendations are to:
- Encourage employers to create and maintain retirement plans by growing plan sponsorship among small businesses; streamlining notice requirements and allowing for greater use of electronic disclosures; reforming multi-employer defined-benefit funding rules to prevent bankruptcy among small employers; reforming single-employer defined-benefit funding rules to allow for greater predictability; and clarifying hybrid plan rules and regulations.
- Encourage greater individual savings by pushing for the use of automatic plan features, promoting financial education for retirement, and helping preserve retirement assets.
- Implement strategies to make retirement assets last by encouraging additional distribution options; addressing required minimum distribution rules; encouraging employers to offer voluntary products; and eliminating barriers to phased retirement.
"The Chamber is determined to protect the retirement security of America's workforce and preserve the ability of employers to provide flexible and comprehensive compensation to employees," Randel Johnson, senior vice president of the labor, immigration and employee benefits division of the Chamber, wrote in the paper.
In 1975, 19% of retiree income was from defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans. In 2009, that increased to 26%, according to a July 2011 paper from the Investment Company Institute (ICI). Furthermore, the share of retirees who receive retirement income from employment-based plans has grown from 20% in 1975 to 31% in 2009.
One of the great successes of the private retirement plan system, the paper claims, is employers' ability to implement new plan features as the needs of their participants change. For example, as workplace demographics changed and defined-benefit plans lost favor among employers, hybrid plans that combined the benefits of DC and DB plans became more popular.
"No single plan design is perfect for every company or every worker," the paper says. "Therefore, the private retirement system has encouraged innovation in plan design, and many employers have more than one type of plan as part of their retirement program." Flexibility and choice are key to plan success, and the Chamber predicts that in the future a mix of benefit plans will be available to choose from, including defined-benefit, defined-contribution, multiemployer and hybrid plans.
The paper refers to data from the Department of Labor that show the number of participants in defined-contribution plans has increased from 47 million in 1995 to 87 million in 2009.
ICI found that 60% of workers who will retire following a full career of 401(k) saving and investing will be able to replace half their salaries, according to the paper. Furthermore, even though the market decline reduced the average 401(k) account balance by more than 27% between 2007 and 2008, the accounts gained almost 32% between 2008 and 2009.
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I have never been on a pub crawl while living in London and now that "Irish" pubs are a big deal here on the Riviera ...I ain't about to start now!
So when my friends suggested we meet for after work drinks I thought: " Chilled Rose, a cheese platter and assortment of charcuterie..." not mushy peas and a lager....
But I was willing to try the "Riviera novelty" of pubbing at Ma Nolan's.
The outside terrace was packed by the time we got there after 7pm...naturally, so we went indoors and found a wee table for four. The TVs were blaring, Tsonga was thwacking.... and amidst the hustle and pub bustle we settled down for ice cold beers and something to accompany that:
Spicy potato wedges with chili dipping sauce and a plate of nachos topped with the works!
The food is very good, I must say and we ordered 2 more...
Round one led to round two...we were having a laugh while around us the Friday night lads and ladettes were raucous and rowdy.
We asked for the bill : €73 and put down €90.....the change returned €7.00 (minus the bill) ..... €10 were obviously missing as my astute friend immediately noticed.
My partner went to reclaim the rest of our change:
"Excuse me..could you please show me the bill?"
The waitress brought a bill for €85....
"No...... this isn't it".
"Yes, " she said," this is it...€85..."
"No...we didn't have burgers...keep looking!"...and she did,rummaging through the bin amongst the crumpled bill's...pulling out one after another.
Then she pulled out the winning ticket:ours....€73
"That's it" said my now fed up partner.
"Oh yes! But you paid €80" replied the cocky waitress still insisting that the €10 she was hoping to pocket would remain there....
"No...it was a €50 bill and two 20's....90!"
To confuse two bills of €20 for a €10 is a little hard to swallow ...especially after such a lengthy debate and pulling out of stray,crumbled till tickets from the bin.
She fished out € 10...gave him a reluctant apology and we walked out.
I am disheartened to see this kind of behaviour here and even more so because I am British.
Yes.... obviously misunderstandings occur and mistakes can be made but this lengthy debacle of he said/she said and bin rummaging is out of order.
The bill needs to return with the change!...under no circumstances is it acceptable to throw it away and place the change on the table without it...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) John Isner has withdrawn from the Australian Open because of a knee injury, leaving No. 22 Sam Querrey as the highest-ranked U.S. man at the season's first Grand Slam tournament.
Isner, who spent 18 weeks in the top 10 before finishing last year at No. 14, injured his right knee at the Hopman Cup last week and had to withdraw from the international mixed team competition. He lost to fellow American Ryan Harrison in straight sets at the Sydney International on Wednesday.
Australian Open organizers on Thursday said Isner had bone bruising of the knee. Isner says: ``Doctors have told me that continuing to play on the knee could result in a more serious injury.''


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At least 91 casualties, including children, were reported after a record-breaking tornado swept through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, destroying hundreds of buildings and two schools. Meteorologists reported winds of up to 200mph.
A large tornado touched down on Monday in Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, causing catastrophic damage to several housing developments and at least two schools in the area. A local television news helicopter tracked the tornado as it moved through the area, and then began to survey the extensive destruction to the region.
The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office has confirmed a total of 91 fatalities so far as a result of today's tornadoes, 40 of whom are reportedly children. Over 233 injured, including around 70 children, have been reported, with many of the victims being treated at two local hospitals.
Monday's storm appeared to be the deadliest tornado since 2011, and one of the worst in the last 20 years according to the Atlantic. The town lies in the center of 'Tornado Alley,' an area west of the Mississippi River stretching from north Texas to South Dakota, known for its frequent and powerful tornado systems.
"The whole city looks like a debris field," Moore Mayor Glenn Lewis said.
Rescuers said their efforts had been hampered; even officers familiar with the area were unable to locate landmarks to navigate, especially after sundown.
Officials reported that 75 children and teachers took shelter at Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore, which had its roof torn off and was flattened by the passing tornado. The school was the site of a rescue effort for several hours after the storm had passed.
Fourth, fifth and sixth graders were evacuated to a church, but younger students sheltered in place, KFOR reported. Seven students at Plaza Towers Elementary School were found drowned at the bottom of the wreckage Monday evening. Several other students and school staffers were pulled out alive from the debris during the day, with officials reporting that teachers had shielded students with their own bodies.
A first-year teacher at the school told a group of children to shelter in a restroom as the building was rocked by the force of the tornado, KFOR reported. All of them survived the ordeal, and were guided away from the devastated school by rescuers.
Rescue teams continued to sift through the destroyed structure on Monday evening, but no additional survivors were expected, according to local media at the scene.
Students at another local school, Briarwood Elementary, had been accounted for and moved to a safe location.
A man, a woman and a child were found dead under the debris of a collapsed 7-Eleven convenience store and liquor shop where several people were sheltering.
On television, both wrecked vehicles and survivors were seen sprayed with mud, while residents emerged after the tornado had passed to assess the damage and locate family and loved ones.
There was confirmation of at least one structure on fire, possibly caused by a gas leak after the tornado ripped through the area. KOCO reported that cell phone service was down in the Moore region, and aerial footage showed wide swathes of destruction.
Moore was last hit hard by a tornado in 1999, which killed 36 people. That storm had the highest winds ever recorded near the earth's surface, measured at 302mph.
The National Weather Service initially classified Monday's storm as an EF4, the second-strongest type of tornado, with winds of up to 200 mph. Local reporters who were present for the 1999 storm, however, believe that the damage caused by this tornado is considerably worse.
A major utility company, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, has begun to assess damage to its electric grid following Monday's tornado, according to a spokesperson.
Below is video purportedly of a Moore family emerging from their storm cellar, witnessing the devastation wrought by the powerful tornado.
A severe storm system over the weekend generated baseball-sized hail, high winds and at least 28 tornadoes in the Midwest, including Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa. Residents remain in hiding as meteorologists forecast that the severe weather conditions will continue to generate destructive twisters.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin declared 16 counties to be disaster areas. Power companies reported that more than 57,000 outages left people in the dark. In Shawnee, Oklahoma, the body of a 79-year-old man was found lying in an open area of a mobile home community.
"You could be killed if not underground or in a tornado shelter," read a National Weather Service alert posted Sunday. "Complete destruction of neighborhoods, businesses and vehicles will occur. Flying debris will be deadly to people and animals."
In some regions, homes were destroyed, cars and trucks were flipped from highways, downed power lines were sprawled across neighborhoods, and trees were uprooted. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol shut down Interstate 40 after semi-tractor trailer trucks and several other vehicles were flipped by wind gusts, Newsok.com reported.
"It's tearing up everything. Just ripping everything up in its sight," a helicopter pilot told CNN affiliate KFOR, referencing a tornado near Wellston, Oklahoma. "Everything was just gone. Like you took the house, you put it in a gigantic blender, you turned it on pulse for a couple minutes and then you just dumped it out."
The state was littered with debris from damaged houses, trailers, and vehicles. About 300 homes were in ruins and at least 23 people were injured, according to Fallin and Red Cross spokesperson Ken Garcia.
Ethan Mignard, a staffer at a local newspaper, told CNN's iReport that the damage looked like something he had only ever seen on TV. In some areas, patches of dirt remained where mobile homes once stood, and children's toys were littered across the ground and hanging from trees. Mignard even came across a plot of land with nothing remaining but the front steps to a house that is now gone.
"It looks so out of place… To think that you would have taken these stairs to enter a home, but instead, you look around from up there and you see total destruction everywhere," he said.
Counties across Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri were all placed under tornado watch late Sunday, and are expected to witness more damage.
"After over 300 reports of severe weather on Sunday, another round of dangerous severe weather is expected Monday with the greatest threat once again in the southern Plains targeting Oklahoma and parts of Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas," the National Weather Service reported. "However, severe weather is possible much further north towards Chicago and Madison as well."
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Droits de l'Homme vs. Indefatigable and Amazon, 13th January 1797
Historical Background
The Expédition d'Irlande, was a failed attempt by a French expeditionary force to invade Ireland in early 1797. On the 13th of January, the 74-gun Droits de l'Homme, commanded by Commodore Jean-Baptiste Raymond de Lacrosse was returning to France after recognising that the weather was too violent for a landing to be made, and acknowledging the failure of the operation.
The 44-gun frigate Indefatigable under Sir Edward Pellew and the 36-gun frigate Amazon under Captain Robert Carthew Reynolds were on their way back to Brest after being refitted and resupplied in Falmouth. At 1.00pm on the 13th of January, the British ships were approaching the island of Ushant and sighted a larger ship through the fog. This ship was the Droits de l'Homme.
Although his ship was much larger than the British frigates, Lacrosse had earlier spotted sails to the West which he believed to be British and was concerned that he was outnumbered. Also the weather was worsening and Lacrosse was concerned by the rocky lee shoreline. The Droits de l'Homme was over-laden carrying over 1,300 men, 700–800 of them soldiers who should have landed in Ireland. Also the ship was already damaged from its winter voyage and Lacrosse did not want to place his ship or the soldiers at risk in an inconsequential naval action..
To avoid action, Lacrosse turned southeast, hoping to outrun his opponents in the strong winds. However, Pellew managed to manoeuvre the Indefatigable to cut the Droits de l'Homme off. The weather continued to worsen making steering and aiming extremely difficult. At 4.15pm, two of Droits de l'Homme's topmasts broke in the strong winds which allowed Pellew to close with the French ship.
The Indefatigable was heavily outclassed by her much larger opponent, and the Amazon was still at distance closing as fast as she could. However, Pellew recognised the Droits de l'Homme would not be able to open her lower gunports because of the heavy sea. Due to an unusual design, the Droits de l'Homme lower gunports were actually 14 inches lower than was normal which prevented any gunnery at all from the lower deck during the battle, effectively halving the ship's firepower. The earlier loss of the topmasts also reduced the stability of the French ship causing her to roll severely making aiming even more difficult.
At 5.30pm, Pellew closed with the stern of the Droits de l'Homme and raked her. The Droits de l'Homme turned to meet the Indefatigable, opening fire from the upper gun deck. Pellew then attempted overtake the Droits de l'Homme and rake her bow. In response, Lacrosse attempting to ram the Indefatigable. Neither ship was successful in their attempt. TheDroits de l'Homme fired at the British ship but caused minimal damage as most of her shot scattered into the ocean.
At 6.45pm the Amazon arrived and joined the action. She approached the French ship and closed to within pistol shot before raking the Droits de l'Homme. Lacrosse manoeuvred to avoid avoiding becoming trapped in a crossfire with both British ships to his westward side. At 7.30pm both the Amazon and the Indefatigable pulled away to make hasty repairs. By 8.30pm both frigates returned, repeatedly crossing in front of the Droits de l'Homme's bow, raking her. All attempts made by the Droits de l'Homme to ram the British ships were unsuccessful and as the ship was rolling severely she only managed to inflict minimal damage as reliable aiming was almost impossible.
By 10.30pm, the Droits de l'Homme was in severe trouble, she had lost her mizzenmast and had heavy casualties among her crew and passengers. Pellew and Reynolds closed on the stern quarters of the French ship, keeping up a high rate of fire. The Droits de l'Homme exhausted her available 4,000 cannon balls and had to resort to using shells against the British ships. Due to the high winds, these were even less effective. The battle continued through the night, with the British ships remaining outside the almost immobilised Droits de l'Homme's fire arc and able to manoeurve to make repairs as required. At 4:20am, land was sighted 2 nautical miles to leeward by Lieutenant George Bell of the Indefatigable.
Pellew immediately ordered the Indefatigable to turn seawards to escape the shore and signaled Reynolds to do the same. Both ships were damaged but they were able to make the turn, the Amazon to the north and the Indefatigable to the south. Pellew managed to work his ship out of danger against the wind. However, due to her northwards turn, the Amazon had less room to manoeuvre and she ran aground at 5am on the 14th of January. Unable to bring her off land, Reynolds ordered his men to abandon ship at 8am.
During the attempt to turn the Droits de l'Homme southwards, her foremast and bowsprit collapsed making the ship virtually unmanageable. Lacrosse ordered anchors to be lowered but the effort was unsuccessful, as earlier attempts to hold position in Bantry Bay had caused the loss of all but two anchors, and one of the remaining anchor's cables had snapped. At 7am, the Droits de l'Homme struck a sandbank which broke off the remaining mast and caused the ship to heel over onto her side.
by Robert Phillips, Canvey Island, September 2013
About the scenario
Exciting, scenario with easy rules for up to four player.
Board Setup
One board:
Lowestoffe, 30-20
Dido, 27-20
Minerve, 19-12
Artémise, 16-12
Number of players: two - three
Number of turns: 8-10
Estimated play time: 2-3 hours.
Wind condition: normal
Board limitations: None. Move the board whenever a ship touches the edge.
Rule limitations:
- No Close Action. See Rule Book,
chapter 7.1 Simple rule to pass through an occupied hex
- No Anchor. Ships cannot anchor.
Victory conditions: Count Victory Points.
Number of players: two - three
Number of turns: 8-10
Estimated play time: 2-3 hours.
Wind condition: normal
Board limitations: None. Move the board whenever a ship touches the edge.
Rule limitations:
- No Anchor. Ships cannot anchor.
Victory conditions: Count Victory Points.
Number of players: two - three
Number of turns: 8-10
Estimated play time: 4-5 hours.
Wind condition: S T R O N G
Board limitations: It is not allowed leaving the board in any direction. A ship that can't avoid leaving the board counts as sunken. (The bottom represents the French coast.)
Rule extension: To anchor is possible but requires a roll (1D6) after each game Turn, right before test for Drifting. Result 1-2 causes 1-2 Ship Damage, Result 5-6 causes to loose the anchor.
Rule extension: Due to the stormy weather, Droits de l'Homme is not able to open her lower gun decks. If determine the Fire Power (FP) use a max value of 12 as Ship Condition (SC).
Optional extension: To simulate the dangerous situation close to the French coast, test each ship for drifting at the end of the game turn. When drifting, each drawn Leeway causes the ship to drift 2 hex.
Victory Conditions: The French player automatically wins if the Droits de l'Homme can reach one of the fields in the upper left corner (44-00 to 44-10), representing her escape to Brest. If the game ends without escape, for the French count the Command Value (CV) of the Droits de l'Homme and determine the Command Points (CP) using table a). Each CP counts one additional Victory Point for the French.
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Samurai Champloo: a samurai-style anime with 2 insanely powerful swordsmen, a cute girl (and her cute pet squirrel), filled with (sometimes not-so-subtle) modern-day references, set to rap and hip-hop music.
This is a show that is made of awesome and win.
Samurai Champloo alternates between hilarious and fun and deadly serious and action-packed, sometimes in the very same scene! It is quite literally one of the most enjoyable anime series I have ever watched.
Surprisingly for such an action-packed show, Samurai Champloo also has its moments of depth – the characters all have complicated lives that brought them into the situation of the show, and throughout the series these back-stories are explored bit by bit… but never too much at once. You only really learn all about the characters at the very end of the series, when all the pieces fall into place.
But don't let the exploration of the characters back-story distract you from the fun, often odd-ball quirkiness that this series is just chock-full of. From the goofy Dutch guy to the bunch of teens doing graffiti to the game of NINJA BASEBALL – this series loves to let loose with some truly entertaining insanity.
That said, the plot does move a bit slowly in this series, so casual viewers might feel a little lost by the end. So while I wouldn't recommend this series to absolutely everyone, it is a superb show that I think anyone can (and probably should) enjoy.
p.s. If you enjoy Samurai Champloo, you'll probably also enjoy its spiritual sibling, Cowboy Bebop.


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DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. -- Six U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry and two U.S. Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft arrived here from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. during the weekend of May 17 due to severe weather in Oklahoma. The inclement weather that caused the aircraft to divert included a tornado that touched down, destroying Moore, Okla., a small town located about three miles south of Tinker AFB. The E-6Bs and one E-3 arrived May 17 while the other five E-3s arrived May 20th with less than eight hours notice. The 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron deputy officer made the decision for the aircraft to divert to D-M due to inclement weather, said Airman 1st Class Barbie Kramer, 355th Operations Support Squadron airfield operations coordinator. D-M was chosen over other bases due to its location and 24/7 operations with a ramp space to support the heavy aircraft.
"Tinker didn't have anywhere closer that they could go to quickly," said Kramer. "With a tornado warning or any other evacuation, they can come to us, and they know we have the space or will coordinate for the space to be made."
Flying crew for all the aircraft along with eight members from the 552nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and security forces members from the 72nd Security Forces Squadron arrived with the E-3 aircraft. The aircraft departed D-M May 21 back to Tinker AFB.
The E-3 is an airborne warning and control systems aircraft, better known as AWACS. Tinker AFB and D-M security forces worked together to maintain security around the clock of the high valued assets. Tinker AFB Airman are helping the community to find survivors and to helping restore the local community.


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Our buddy Jon writes in regarding his experience renting a Shelby GT-H from Hertz. Sounds like there's some kind of approval process that may keep the hoi polloi — at least those who pose a flight risk — from hopping aboard the train to Shelbyville. Check it.
Just got back from a business trip to Boston. My business partner Geoff and I were able to rent the Shelby GT-H at the Logan Airport Hertz.
WOW! So much fun. They really put you through your paces to rent it. We had to show our boarding passes. A manager had to check us in.
A few notes:
- We had Shelby number 55
- The engine has a wire on it so that you can't swap it out.
- They do a thorough engine check when you return it to make sure you haven't done anything to it
- I have never gotten so much attention in a rental car before. Constantly people driving up next to you requesting you to "light it up".
- A valet parking guy at a restaurant ran into the street and stopped us to check it out.
- It sounds awesome. The bottom note on it is fierce
- We got it up to about 115 MPH on the Mass Pike
Total cost for 24 hours - $196
Would do it again.
Nice suit, check. Fake boarding passes, check.
Hurt Me, Hertz: The 2006 Shelby Hertz Mustang [internal]


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Sunday the 12th of February 2012 saw Stoke Nitro hold the penultimate round of the CML winter series. 79 drivers braved the freezing temperatures and the remains of left over snow to take part in what most consider, the midlands premier winter series. It seems that even the cold, fog, ice and snow can not put off some of the top drivers from attending this ever popular series.
Once again Andy Tobutt reports: The format for the day would be 5 minutes of practice bolted on, 3 rounds of qualifying and 15 min finals for F & E final, 18 min for the D, C & 19 min for the B and the A Final would be 22 minutes. As with every round of the CML Winter Series the controlled tyre was in use, with one of two legal tyres allowed. Track conditions were tough and very slippery so angle spikes were the choice of the day to try and find what little grip was available. Rd 1 got underway and it was HB's Graham Alsop taking the round over Jon Howells, and with Ashlee Owen made up the top three with only 6 seconds between them. They were also the only drivers to manage 8 laps in the round. Rd 2 and track conditions were tricky to say the least but Jon Howells found the grip he needed to take the round hitting 8 laps again. Graham Alsop was 2nd and once again Ashlee Owen was 3rd with just under two seconds separating the three. Rd 3 saw Team HB's Richard Greenough set his fastest time of the day to take the round in very slippery conditions. Second place was taking by Jon Howells who was the only other driver to manage 8 laps in every qualifying round despite having recent foot surgery. Graham Alsop completed the top three but he only managed 7 laps. The overall qualifying results after the third round and the positions on the grid were as follows: 1) Jon Howells 2) Graham Alsop - HB D8 / Optifuel 3) Richard Greenough - HB D8 4) Ashlee Owen 5) Richard Taylor 6) John Holmes - HB D8 / HPI F3.5 Pro / Optifuel 7) David Bailey 8) Lloyd Pitt 9) Ryan Donovan 10) Michell Booth 11) Stuart Mahon 12) Graham Howard As the A final got underway, pole man Graham Alsop was caught up in the usual first corner mayhem, allowing Jon Howells to get away clean. Richard Taylor had moved in to 2nd and John Holmes had jumped from 6th up to 3rd. Ashlee Owen held position and at the end of the first lap was running 4th. Fuel stops complete and by the end of Lap 15 Graham Alsop had worked his way back up to 1st despite the worsening conditions. Jon Howells was still running well in 2nd and Richard Taylor had dropped to 3rd with John Holmes and Ashlee Owen completing the top 5. By the end of the 22 minutes with light fading and the nitro smoke creating a fog over the track HB's Graham Alsop took the chequered flag managing to cross the line 1 lap ahead of the field. Second place went to Jon Howells 16 seconds ahead of 3rd place man John Holmes who qualified 6th. Richard Taylor and Ashlee Owen completed the top 5. 1) Graham Alsop - HB D8 / Optifuel 2) Jon Howells 3) John Holmes - HB D8 / HPI F3.5 Pro / Optifuel 4) Richard Taylor 5) Ashlee Owen 6) Stuart Mahon 7) Richard Greenough - HB D8 8) Collin Brennan 9) Ryam Donovan 10) Lloyd Pitt Thanks to Neobuggy.net for the use of the picture and race information!


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1919 - 2013
Historical Period:
The 20th Century and Beyond
In 1986 James M. Buchanan (1919-) was awarded the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Universally respected as one of the founders of the "public choice" school of economics, he is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles in the areas of public finance, public choice, constitutional economics and economic philosophy. He is best known for such works as The Calculus of Consent, The Limits of Liberty, The Power to Tax, and The Reason of Rules. Buchanan has devoted himself to the study of the contractural and constitutional basis for the theory of economic and political decision making.
See the Liberty Matters online discussion of James Buchanan: An Assessment.
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Uncommon Descent reports on a new paper in the most prestigious peer-reviewed science journal.
A new paper has just been published in Nature by Gregory J. Retallack of the University of Oregon. The paper argues that the Ediacaran fauna are not ancestral to the animals which arose in the Cambrian explosion and that life existed on land 65 million years before previously thought. Retallack further argues that the iconic fossils of Dickinsonia and Springgina, which appear in the Precambrian Ediacaran assemblages, were not in fact animals at all. Rather they were, according to Retallack, lichens, soil structures and traces of slime moulds.
And they link to this post about the paper from Science Daily, which makes the significance of the discovery even clearer:
Ancient multicellular fossils long thought to be ancestors of early marine life are remnants of land-dwelling lichen or other microbial colonies, says University of Oregon scientist Gregory J. Retallack, who has been studying fossil soils of South Australia.
[…]"This discovery has implications for the tree of life, because it removes Ediacaran fossils from the ancestry of animals," said Retallack, professor of geological sciences and co-director of paleontological collections at the UO's Museum of Natural and Cultural History. His evidence, mostly gathered from a site in the Flinders Ranges, is presented in a paper placed online ahead of print by the journal Nature.
"These fossils have been a first-class scientific mystery," he said. "They are the oldest large multicellular fossils. They lived immediately before the Cambrian evolutionary explosion that gave rise to familiar modern groups of animals."
Retallack studied numerous Ediacaran fossils and determined that the diversity reflects a preference by the ancient organisms for "unfrozen, low salinity soils, rich in nutrients, like most terrestrial organisms." Thus the fossils in Australia's iconic red-rock ranges, he concludes, were landlubbers. In his closing paragraph, Retallack outlines implications for a variety of other Edicaran fossils, that could have been lichens, other microbial consortia, fungal fruiting bodies, slime molds, flanged pedestals of biological soil crusts, and even casts of needle ice.
Ediacaran fossils, he said, represent "an independent evolutionary radiation of life on land that preceded by at least 20 million years the Cambrian evolutionary explosion of animals in the sea." Increased chemical weathering by large organisms on land may have been needed to fuel the demand of nutrient elements by Cambrian animals. Independent discoveries of Cambrian fossils comparable with Ediacaran ones is evidence, he said, that even in the Cambrian, more than 500 million years ago, life on land may have been larger and more complex than life in the sea.
Here's a quick re-cap of the Cambrian explosion:
Part 1: (7:50)
Part 2: (3:25)
This explosion in biological complexity fits nicely with an intelligent designer . Intelligent agents make information by sequencing symbols into functional instructions. That's what new body plans are. It's like new software, and new software requires a software engineer.
The standard naturalist response to this problem of sudden origins of anaimal body plans used to be that the Cambrian explosion did have precursors. The precursors were thought to be the Ediacaran fossils. But that's all been shot to Hell now, with this new paper in Nature. Ooops!


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The White House has released statistics indicating that more than six million Texans received free services through the health-reform law known as the Affordable Care Act in 2011.
About 3,836,000 Texans with private health insurance plans and about 2,208,690 Texans on Medicare were provided with at least one new free preventative service or benefit, according to the data released by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
Those receiving service in Texas make up a small percentage of the 86 million Americans who received a free service of benefit under the Act.
The information was released as the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on the legality of several key provisions of the controversial law, which will be two years old in March.
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation also released a map Wednesday showing the percentage of nonelderly people who would be eligible for help through the act. In various parts of the Houston area, between 12 percent and 35 percent of the population is eligible.
Rep. Al Green, a Houston Democrat, said the Affordable Care Act is a good first step in the right direction.
If one person does better, then I then it's a positive thing. If we have millions do better then it's very positive," Green said.
But Rep. Kevin Brady, a Republican from The Woodlands, said the numbers are misleading.
"Nothing in life is free," Brady said in a statement. "The Obama Administration should not claim that over 3 million Texans on private health insurance are receiving 'free' services when their own rules that demand such services force higher insurance premiums."


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IMAX Enters Into Expanded $200 Million Credit Facility
Feb 08, 2013, 07:31 ET
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2013 /CNW/ - IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX;TSX:IMX) today announced it has entered into an amended senior secured credit facility for up to $200 million with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (NYSE: WFC), with the participation of Export Development Canada (EDC), the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), HSBC Canada, and the National Bank of Canada. Wells Fargo serves as administrative agent, sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner on the transaction. The new facility replaces IMAX's previous $110 million facility with Wells Fargo and EDC and will permit IMAX to undertake up to $150 million in stock buybacks and dividends provided certain covenants are maintained. IMAX intends to use proceeds from the new facility to refinance the existing revolver and for general corporate purposes, such as funding its strategic initiatives, including its continued global expansion, ongoing working capital requirements, investments and capital expenditures. The maturity date of the new credit facility is Feb. 7, 2018, compared with a maturity date of Oct. 31, 2015, for the prior credit facility.
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Borrowings under the new credit facility will bear interest at the reduced spread of 1.50% to 2.00% above LIBOR, depending on maximum total leverage outstanding.
"This new facility, coupled with the recurring cash generated by our business, will provide us with enhanced flexibility as we pursue our strategic initiatives and continue the global expansion of our business," said Richard L. Gelfond, CEO of IMAX.
About IMAX Corporation
IMAX, an innovator in entertainment technology, combines proprietary software, architecture and equipment to create experiences that take you beyond the edge of your seat to a world you've never imagined. Top filmmakers and studios are utilizing IMAX theatres to connect with audiences in extraordinary ways, and, as such, IMAX's network is among the most important and successful theatrical distribution platforms for major event films around the globe.
IMAX is headquartered in New York, Toronto and Los Angeles, with offices in London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing. As of Sept. 30, 2012, there were 689 IMAX theatres (556 commercial multiplex, 20 commercial destination and 113 institutional) in 52 countries.
IMAX®, IMAX® 3D, IMAX DMR®, Experience It In IMAX®, An IMAX 3D Experience®, The IMAX Experience® and IMAX Is Believing® are trademarks of IMAX Corporation. More information about the Company can be found at www.imax.com. You may also connect with IMAX on Facebook (www.facebook.com/imax), Twitter (www.twitter.com/imax) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/imaxmovies).
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In an effort to patch a bug in one of last month's security updates, Microsoft has issued a Hotfix(MS06-049) which should repair the problem with only one minor caveat: it can ruin data on drives formatted with the NTFS file system.
The catch is not as bad as it initially sounds, though. In order for the "fix" to corrupt data, the PC must be running Windows 2000 SP4 with NTFS compression enabled on individual folders that contain files larger than 4 kilobytes. The files must also have been either created or updated in that specific folder. The MS06-049 Knowledge Base article has been updated with a description of the problem.
Microsoft has said that it is working on a revision to MS06-049 and will release it as soon as possible. In the interim, the company recommends that users disable NTFS compression, and it secretly wishes that you'd just upgrade to Vista. If you have encountered any data corruption problems due to the Hotfix, you can call Microsoft's Product Support Services in North America (1-866-PCSAFETY) or browse to http://support.microsoft.com/security outside North America.
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Stanley Cup finals: Kings keep rolling, beat Devils 2-1 in overtime
(CBS/AP) NEWARK, N.J. - It doesn't matter whom Los Angeles Kings face or where they play.
East. West. High seed. Low seed. The results haven't changed this postseason.
W after W after W.
In becoming their latest victim, the New Jersey Devils quickly learned they are not facing the likes of the Panthers, Flyers or Rangers. Los Angeles is a super team right now and New Jersey needs to pick up its game if it wants any hope of lifting the Stanley Cup.
Anze Kopitar scored a spectacular goal on a breakaway with 11:47 left in overtime Wednesday night and the Kings beat the Devils 2-1 in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals.
"It was more of a grinding game tonight," said Kings forward Justin Williams, who set up Kopitar's goal with a chip pass from along the boards in center ice. "We realized that early. It's a team that doesn't give you much and we're not expecting to give an inch either. It's supposed to be hard. Tonight it was."
And as usual Los Angeles won. It has steamrolled to a 13-2 record in the postseason and it is now three wins from hoisting its first Cup since joining the NHL in 1967-68. The Kings have won all nine of their road games in the playoffs, an NHL record. They are now one win shy of tying the NHL record for postseason road victories in a season.
They have won 11 consecutive road playoff games dating to last season.
"I think we've outworked teams," said Kings goaltender Jonathan Quick, who made 17 saves. "I think whoever wins this series is going to be the team that outworks the other."
The winning goal was a perfect example. Williams fought Devils defenseman Bryce Salvador and forward Dainius Zubrus along the boards in center ice and managed to chip a pass down the middle toward the Devils' zone.
It was somewhat of a prayer.
"I just threw an area pass," Williams said. "I hoped that he was alone and he was. I've played with him a long time. You just kind of feel it. If it wasn't there, it would have went to nobody. It was a no-lose situation."
Kopitar did everything perfectly on his breakaway. He faked a backhand then put the puck on his forehand and beat a prone Martin Brodeur.
"All losses this time of year are really hard to take because your dream is slowly shutting down," said Brodeur, who faced 25 shots. "We lost one game, there's six games left in this series. They need to win three. We need to win four."
CBSSports.com's Adam Gretz says the Kings didn't play their best hockey and were lucky that the Devils squandered some golden opportunities.
"[The Kings] didn't play their game to perfection, and it was far from their best performance of the playoffs, but they were able to do just enough to get the win. They know they have to be better on Saturday," Gretz writes.
As soon as he rifled the puck into the net, Kopitar raised his hands and banged himself into the boards, facing the crowd off to Brodeur's right.
"To put it past a goaltender like Marty," Kopitar said, "is a good feeling."
The veteran goaltender dejectedly skated off to the locker room as the Kings piled on Kopitar.
This is the third straight series in which the Devils have lost the first game.
"I think it was probably the worst game in the playoffs for us," said Devils leading scorer Ilya Kovalchuk, who was limited to one shot. "Maybe we were a little too nervous before the game started, but it's all excuses. We've got to make sure we know what we didn't do right, and be a different team next game."
Game 2 will be played Saturday in New Jersey.
"We'll be better on Saturday night. ... I don't believe we deserved to win tonight, that's the bottom line and that's what happened," Devils coach Peter DeBoer said. "If we had have won, we would have been sneaking one out."
Fourth-line center Colin Fraser scored in the first period for the Kings, the No. 8 seed in the West who beat the top three teams to get to their first Stanley Cup finals since 1993.
Anton Volchenkov tied it late in the second period for New Jersey, the East's sixth seed. The Devils are now 4-2 in overtime his postseason. Los Angeles is 3-0 after regulation this spring.
The Devils had two great chances to take the lead early in the third, and for a split second it appeared they went ahead with 16:02 to play in regulation when Zach Parise scored off a wild goal-mouth scramble.
While the horns went off and the fans celebrated, referee Dan O'Halloran quickly waved off the goal.
It was reviewed in Toronto and replay clearly showed Parise swept the puck into the net with his hand.
Defenseman Mark Fayne was probably kicking himself six minutes later when he missed a wide-open net from the edge of the crease in what was the Devils' best period of the night.
"We didn't deserve to win tonight, and we didn't," said Devils veteran Patrik Elias, a member of their Cup-winning teams in 2000 and 2003.
The Kings had their chances, too, with Brodeur making two outstanding saves about 10 seconds apart. He made a stacked-pad save on a one-timer by defenseman Drew Doughty from 30 feet after a drop pass from Mike Richards. A turnover seconds later set up forward Dustin Penner for a shot from the left circle.
The Kings came into the finals after steamrolling Vancouver, St. Louis and Phoenix in just 14 games, and they made the Devils look ordinary in the first 40 minutes, holding them to nine shots.
But a fluke goal by Volchenkov tied the game with 1:12 left in the second.
Volchenkov took a shot from the left point that Quick kicked away in front. The puck went airborne, avoided Elias in front and hit off the shoulder of Kings defenseman Slava Voynov before going into the net.
Until then, Fraser's first career playoff goal was looking like the winner.
It was a typical Kings' goal, created off the forecheck by the fourth line, no less.
Jordan Nolan checked New Jersey's Andy Greene behind the Devils' net, dug out the puck and found Fraser between the circles for a shot that beat Brodeur 9:56 into the game.
The Kings had chances to extend the lead, but Brodeur, who was the difference in the Devils' victory over the rival Rangers in the conference finals, made three good saves. The best stop by the 40-year-old, three-time Cup winner came on the opening shift of the second, when he blocked Kopitar pointblank on the edge of the crease.
Brodeur also stopped forward Jeff Carter from in close and made a big pad stop on Penner in the second.
The Devils were held without a shot for more than 14 minutes of the period before Parise was credited with one on a short-handed attempt in which the puck rolled off his stick into the crease.
Quick, who wasn't very busy in the first two periods, made his best save with a glove stop on Zubrus from the left circle after a turnover.
However, New Jersey managed to tie it on Volchenkov's strange goal.
The tally came just after Quick got into a tussle with Parise in the crease, and refused to let the Devils' captain get up after he fell as Parise lost his helmet.
"I think we're going to have to find another level," DeBoer said. "We were a little tentative, as was expected for a Stanley Cup final. I think we got better as the game went along, but you have to play 60 minutes against that team.
"We have to be better than we were tonight."
NOTES: Less than a minute into the game, the chant of "BEAT L-A" echoed through the arena. ... Doug O'Neill, the trainer of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner I'll Have Another, was on hand, as was New York Giants offensive lineman Chris Snee and New York Jets coach Rex Ryan. ... Volchenkov's goal was his first in the playoffs since Game 3 of the 2007 Stanley Cup finals when he played for Ottawa against Anaheim. ... Kopitar's goal was his second OT winner in the postseason. The other was in 2010 at Vancouver. He has 12 points in the last nine games, including six goals. ...The was the first Game 1 of the finals that went to overtime since 2002, when the Carolina Hurricanes defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 at Joe Louis Arena on a goal by Ron Francis, just 58 seconds past regulation.


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Posted: Sun 03 Sep 2017, 21:08
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Some people would rather have communism than live in a free country. Others would like to shut down free speech if something hurts their fee-fees.
Pretty sure that's not why our forefathers died in those wars.
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Posted: Mon 04 Sep 2017, 17:15
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I really don't care about your wievs on the world situation or global politics, please spare that for the part of this forum which deals with totally unrelated issues.
This section is for puppy derivatives, only!
1) Is Studio related to Puppylinux in any way at all?
2) You provide a download path, but no info or release notes or home page.
3) Studio runs in RAM, how much RAM?
4) Is Studio designed for 32 or 64 bit CPUs?
5) Does it run on top of an OS, or is it a standalone?
6) Do you boot from a HDD, CD/DVD, flash stick or what?
If Studio is not a Puppy derivative, don't bother, just get out of this forum section.
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
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Posted: Mon 04 Sep 2017, 17:36
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tallboy wrote:
I really don't care about your wievs on the world situation or global politics, please spare that for the part of this forum which deals with totally unrelated issues.
This section is for puppy derivatives, only!
1) Is Studio related to Puppylinux in any way at all?
2) You provide a download path, but no info or release notes or home page.
3) Studio runs in RAM, how much RAM?
4) Is Studio designed for 32 or 64 bit CPUs?
5) Does it run on top of an OS, or is it a standalone?
6) Do you boot from a HDD, CD/DVD, flash stick or what?
If Studio is not a Puppy derivative, don't bother, just get out of this forum section.
From the first post....
Studio 13.37 is now based on Xenialpup,
Previous version was based on Slacko.
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James C
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Posted: Mon 04 Sep 2017, 17:45
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3) Since it's over a 1 gb download probably quite a bit of ram is needed.
4) 64 bit.
5) standalone os.
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Posted: Mon 04 Sep 2017, 18:43
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Thank you, James C.
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
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Posted: Tue 05 Sep 2017, 11:45
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Ooh, that was spot on! Sounds just like me. I'll better fire up my trusty 20-odd year old Mac SE30 again, and find some new forums.
Edit: I see that member 'ciento' has deleted the not-so-extremely-polite post which this post was a reply to. It makes the sentences above just hang in the air, seemingly without relevance. Oh, well, they probably are...
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.
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I made such a system based on UPUP 220.127.116.11 then updated to tahr 6.0.6. I added the synths and sequencers recording editing stripped out very little and remastered. Awesome stuff and eventually a compiled for audio kernel replacing the stock ones. I think I had offered the ISO for free as I just spent the time doing it using software written by others and I just put it together. No big deal. Now I do the same thing using Puppy's and DDogs for CCTV systems based on ZoneMinder. I let anyone have it. It is fun to see when anyone actually uses it and finds it useful.
Computer English is a language of it's own. Stop crying...Get used to it.
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rockedge wrote:
Computer English is a language of it's own. Stop crying...Get used to it.
What you mean
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Posted: Wed 06 Sep 2017, 13:40
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i wonder if someone from elsewhere really thought of buying.
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Posted: Wed 06 Sep 2017, 14:44
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As Studio 13.37 is based primarily on GPL projects, the usual caveat applies:
Where can I get the source code for Studio 13.37?
What GNU GPL license is this released under?
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected
(any iso installer)
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Posted: Thu 07 Sep 2017, 13:34
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@ moderator: this isn't linuxmusicians.com where
posts vanish whenever a sacred cow is poked.
Restore my post, and/or at least have the cajones to PM me
if you feel I've poked a favored troll too hard...
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Posted: Fri 08 Sep 2017, 08:42
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No need for a PM. Consider this the only warning you'll get. Show some self control or you're banned from this forum too.
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Posted: Fri 08 Sep 2017, 15:04
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One of my favorite uses for Studio 1337 is to record
some arpeggios or sequences at high speed on the high octaves
of the midi keyboard, with multiple instances of rakarrack providing
multiple 'multi-effects', and importing the results
into audacity sound editor. By playing it back at several
slower speeds, using audacity's alternate speed playback control,
you'll hear nicely expanded and nuanced versions of the effects,
in addition to the speed-modified timbres,
and re-record it using the Timemachine audio recorder.
You can then import the slow version into audacity,
create a second track, and paste it there, but between the 'beats' heard in the
first track, or syncopated using multiple pastes, to taste.
You can cut or copy/paste any empty audio, to aid alignment of the tracks.
Lesson each tracks volume to taste, using the audacity Amplify effect,
so they enhance, rather then dominate, the original.
If you paste several tracks, you'll want to lower
the amplitude of all of them accordingly, to achieve proper 'gain staging',
without overloading (clipping) the audacity output.
You can also apply other effects from within audacity itself,
to whole tracks, or selected audio, so your imagination can get a real workout,
using the undo/redo feature. Using the zoom in/out features, you can paste
or cut out errors with great accuracy. If there is unwanted audio
on just one side of a stereo track, audacity lets you split the track,
so you can select the bad part, and amplify it to zero volume,
without effecting the related track timings and placements.
When happy with the results, you can use the Timemachine audio recorder
to record a 24bit .w64 file, import it back into audacity for
final level/EQ adjustments, or even more editing/creating.
When all of your work/play is within audacity, you can then (render) export it
as .wav, .flac, .mp3 .ogg etc
A good vst instrument that will work great for arpeggio sounds
in Studio 1337 via Reaper daw, is the Tone2 Firebird synth.
It is now free, sounds great, and has an interface
that won't induce a comatose state while learning
some synthesizer basics.
Rakarrack effects presets can be loud, so I first lower the input level slider,
and then adjust both input and output sliders during playback. The individual
Rakarrack modules often have several presets of their own, in addition
to the gui controls.
For using jackd connections between audacity, rakarrack, and Reaper,
here is an excellent tutorial:
There are also plenty of youtube videos regarding the qjackctl
jackd connections gui, and they are often part of videos about hydrogen drum machine,
zynaddsubfx synth, guitarix amp-sim, ardour or qtractor daws, and other linux audio apps.
jackd lets the whole linux OS become your own Digital Audio Workstation,
and Studio 1337 lets you get started without a huge budget,
and provides a collected software base, the identifying of which,
would normally be quite a learning curve in itself.
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Posted: Fri 08 Sep 2017, 15:41
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Does Studio 1337 have something similar to Fruitloops/FLStudios? I like using it's piano roll. And it was cool how I could change the reverb/echo on instruments and my own imported sounds. Also, does it have something similar to Anvil Studios or Cakewalk? I like using it's piano roll too for making midis. Also, does Studio 1337 have something similar to the Matrix and Redrum in Reason? I thought those were pretty fun to make random synth and drum patterns. I guess I could just install Wine and try all those Windows programs myself to see if they work. I have Studio 2.4 now but haven't really explored it's programs much yet, might explore it more later and post in that thread.
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Posted: Fri 08 Sep 2017, 17:06
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It's important to differentiate between
1. an operating system
2. a purpose-dedicated operating system
3. a digital-audio-workstion or stand-alone application installed in
an operating system
4. plugins hosted by digital-audio-workstations or standalone apps
Studio 1337 takes an operating system, dedicates it
by modifications intended for high performance audio/video functions,
populates it with a range of useful and popular software,
and makes it easier to extend that collection of software,
with others which may not not be included due to licensing
or distribution restrictions.
Since Studio V2.4 was first released, great improvements to linux audio in general have arrived in the form of a linux ports of Reaper, and
Harrison Mixbus, deep improvements in wine-staging,
the uptake of windows vst wrappers Airwave and LinVst,
and the use of over-rides in wine-staging (the use of actual
windows .dll files, replacing the wine versions, and listed in winecfg
library panel as over-rides)
Your specific questions will apply to one of the four groupings above,
the capabilities of the installed linux software in 1337 V3.0,
and how the wine version in 1337 V 3.0 , or updated versions
one might install, can deal with such software.
To that end, this forum/topic might be useful
for questions relating running windows audio software in wine.
Windows Reaper in wine, and the linux port of Reaper using
vst wrappers are excellent solutions for pro quality
audio in linux, with Mixbus and Bitwig linux ports also available
for testing. I don't have 1337 V3.0 set up yet, so my comments
are still quite generic, but I think you'll be quite pleased
with the advances since V2.4
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The 1980s were the good old days for mutual funds, when their world was fresh and profitable and star managers celebrated their success with company parties in Disney World.
That was then. Now, in stark contrast, worried executives gather in business conference rooms to talk about how tough it is these days to run a mutual fund company.
Such was the case Tuesday, when the Mutual Fund Education Alliance (MFEA) hosted its annual Strategic and eCommerce Summit in New York, bringing industry leaders together to talk about the economic pressures they face and how to overcome the challenges that hound them on all sides.
'Are We in Year 5 of a 20-Year Decline?'
"Are we in year five of a 20-year decline in the mutual fund industry? Are we the General Motors of finance?," asked Boston Consulting Group partner Gary Shub (left) during his presentation on structural versus cyclical changes in asset management.
To survive, mutual fund companies may want to view themselves as "parts providers" to advisors and wealth managers, who are the gatekeepers to client assets, Shub said. Mutual fund companies are now "in denial" about this new role, he added, but said they would do well to figure out ways to package solutions with proprietary input.
"The relationship with the advisor as opposed to the product provider has become much more important to investors," Shub said. "Clients look to their advisors in a more meaningful way to help them sort through their investment decisions."
John Hancock Funds President and Chief Executive Keith Hartstein, treasurer of the MFEA Executive Committee, spent a few moments reminiscing with audience members about where they were during the good times of 1986, when the John Hancock Strategic Income Fund (JHFIX) was launched.
Then Hartstein turned to the more dire landscape of today, when commission spreads have narrowed, front-loaded Class A shares have shrunk to 20% of industry sales, funds are held only three or four years on average and revenue sharing has changed to asset based from sales based.
"The industry is evolving and demands have changed. Certainly, our revenues have gotten compressed along the way," Hartstein (left) said, noting that Morningstar's high rating on the popular JHFIX fund comes at a cost —because that rating is due partly to how cheap the fund's shares are (Expenses are 0.91%, which Morningstar says is a low fee level.) "We're losing money on the A shares, B shares and C shares."
To be sure, the headlines are filled with news that points to the mutual fund industry's troubles. In April alone, a Cogent Research report found that affluent investors have reduced the average number of fund families they work with from 1.90 to 1.56, and wirehouses such as UBS raised fees on mutual fund companies in the wake of new fee disclosure rules.
Hard Times for Traditional Actively Managed, Long-Only Asset Classes
Further, actively managed mutual funds are seeing increased competition from alternative products and passively managed exchange traded funds (ETFs). Cerulli reported Tuesday that flows of ETFs totaled $53.1 billion for the first quarter of 2012, the highest quarterly inflows since Q4 2009.
Shub identified a number of key trends in the asset management industry, noting that most of them are a challenge to traditional actively managed, long-only asset classes.
"The 'winner take all' phenomenon has intensified, with the bulk of net inflows concentrated in a few funds with strong performance and a story that addresses current concerns such as corrections in the equity markets and inflation," he said.
Currently, Shub said, the top five managers enjoying this concentration of flows in the U.S. are:
- Vanguard, with 2010 net flows of $88.8 billion and a 36% cumulative E-share of net sales
- PIMCO, with $73.2 billion of net flows and a 66% E-share
- Fidelity, with $33.3 billion of net flows and an 80% E-share
- JPMorgan, with $22.9 billion of net flows and an 89% E-share
- Franklin Templeton, with $20.1 billion of net flows and a 98% E-share


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