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Idea #2 commit to central productionI increasingly see the need for centralized production centers. I think I was fighting this one primarily because I didn't want to pay for the transports but aslo because I couldn't visualize successfully protecting territory without building up each world. Further consideration prompted by the experience of saying "What the heck do I do now?" has left me thinking this central production/central defense is the more viable homeland policy. ---By the way. I still don't feel its a good one just maybe the best of the rather poor choices that actually work... If you see what I mean. My view on this is - don't centralize production as long as you can get away with it.. Centralizing production requires mowing pop around - it doesn't cost just the transports - it costs the turn of production for the pop... So committing to centralizing production will leave you behind in the start.. But don't stretch it too far - you can't get away with it forever. If you don't centralize production you'll leave tempting targets for would be attackers. It's just not viable trying to build static defense on every world to deter attackers. Also at some point there's going to be enough pop but not enough ult to build lov CPX units or to buy lisences for high CPX units everywhere so losing that one turn of prod for the pop you're mowing isn't so bad - so centralizing production becomes actually good for you attack plan too. But still not doing it as long as you can is usually good. But build transports anyway - you hawe to be rady to pull back your resources to well protected centers. If you're faced with slow but powerful fleet retreating might be the only working defense. Ato-3 crawlers are the ships you want to have for that strategy. Or used to be - now the nozama hordes move faster than the crawlers so you want psihaulers for retreat ;) But yeah - build transports and build scanners and try not to panic at wrong time.. I second that advise against centralizing production and attempting to cover it with static defense. I hold healthy lead in firepower and net worth at turn #20 in Palatino. Not one single planet over 2000 population no fortress worlds no tempting targets no vulnerable feeders to harass. No world especially hurt if lost.3414 Firepower in total. 429FP more than the 2nd ranked player. With NO CENTRALIZED PRODUCTION. I can converge my production (on its way to the front) anywhere to make a strong ambush as needed. The trick is having enough production in motion all the time. Onyx - you're a freakin' (broken) Noz.. no kidding you have tons of FP no kidding you've lots of worlds where they're everyone just like every other one!Sorry but unless you're playing Noz. I think your example isn't nearly as strong as you make out. And distributed production can definitely give you the highest FP - for a while the only non-Noz in Palantino who was in the top 10 FP was a Va'Tak who had built tons of static defense... In general total FP will be really really high if you build lots o' static defense but it reflects a sub-par player - static D is totally undefensible and totally unexpandable - you're a sitting duck (no offense to Ducks!)Distributed production and centralized should be used in balance with each other (there are many posts above for pro's and con's of each). All one or all the other sounds impractical in my experience and I am aware of no top players that totally eschew a production world or who only use production worlds (you need the super high pop worlds for the big baddies and you need distributed for the fighter rolling / fodder farming - one cannot do with only one 1/2 of the equation). I agree with what Mordachai said. Look at my empire. I have the second biggest world by pop (and no. I haven't been bringing it in from insane distances) but almost all of my feeder worlds still have some resources on them. Pay no attention to the static defense though. That is er.. unimportant. Observations:1. In Ultracorps static defenses and even slow defenses invite "defeat in detail."2. "He who seeks to be strong everywhere will be strong nowhere." -Napoleon3. Distributed production used to be called 'Fighter rolling." Its a wonderful tactic for rapid expansion if you are surrounded by very poor players and inactives. It is however extremely inefficient and in the face of even modestly competent opposition it fails. So know WHEN to use distributed production. 3.5 The Nozama are a new critter. Low license costs and the production capability of the queen are new X-Factor but I believe the application of distributed production for Nozama is still limited. After yoiu have a queen on every world what then? The economics still favor centralization.4. In most games I'll leave about 1/2 my worlds undefended for the majority of the game. I mean nothing or a truly token force... Why? With centralized production at any given time there is no no more than one cycles production on any of my "feeder" worlds at any given time. Cargo units are constantly streaming away resources as soon as they're produced. A scanner monk who took the planet might have the resources to build a single Hew 9 to try and hold the planet from the reaction force that would be instantly dispatched to retake the planet net loss to me? Minimal. Folks on this board may bandy about reasons why this does not work and I will reply that it does works for me and has for years. 5. As an advanced topic. Fighters not ground units make the best defenders. They can be dispatched to local hotspots to act as fodder for fast FP from the production planet. Scanenr monks. TK Bikes. Megsbots. Orgs have various degrees of difficulty in that their fodder has a hard time keeping up. So dropping say 40 Hew-9 on a planet not to act as the planets defenders but to serve as pre placecd fodder for the "REAL" defenders that would be dispatched there at need is a better tactic. 4. In most games I'll leave about 1/2 my worlds undefended for the majority of the game. I mean nothing or a truly token force... Why? With centralized production at any given time there is no no more than one cycles production on any of my "feeder" worlds at any given time. Cargo units are constantly streaming away resources as soon as they're produced. A scanner monk who took the planet might have the resources to build a single Hew 9 to try and hold the planet from the reaction force that would be instantly dispatched to retake the planet net loss to me? Minimal. also hawing lot of x-8:S and/or ato-3:s provides some defense automatically - and are good to have for emergencency retreat - or for turning your static defenses less static - a x-8 and two SoGs can be low cost 3 pieces of fodder on attack. People who do the centralised production with cargo boosters mainly are inviting commerce raiders to their feeder worlds. Losing a feeder world or two for even one turn hurts a bit more if even the one turns EI and RER ends up on enemy hands. also hawing lot of x-8:S and/or ato-3:s provides some defense automatically - and are good to have for emergencency retreat - or for turning your static defenses less static - a x-8 and two SoGs can be low cost 3 pieces of fodder on attack. People who do the centralised production with cargo boosters mainly are inviting commerce raiders to their feeder worlds. Losing a feeder world or two for even one turn hurts a bit more if even the one turns EI and RER ends up on enemy hands. Agreed. I love using X-8's in bulk to ferry things around as they are fast enough to get things where I need them quickly and since they are generally pretty cheap. I can build tons of them if needed. The Va'Tak thankfully start off with plenty now. :)

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Idea #2 commit to central productionI increasingly see the need for centralized production centers. I think I was fighting this one primarily because I didn't want to pay for the transports but aslo because I couldn't visualize successfully protecting territory without building up each world. Further consideration prompted by the experience of saying "What the heck do I do now?" has left me thinking this central production/central defense is the more viable homeland policy. ---By the way. I still don't feel its a good one just maybe the best of the rather poor choices that actually work... If you see what I mean. My view on this is - don't centralize production as long as you can get away with it.. Centralizing production requires mowing pop around - it doesn't cost just the transports - it costs the turn of production for the pop... So committing to centralizing production will leave you behind in the start.. But don't stretch it too far - you can't get away with it forever. If you don't centralize production you'll leave tempting targets for would be attackers. It's just not viable trying to build static defense on every world to deter attackers. Also at some point there's going to be enough pop but not enough ult to build lov CPX units or to buy lisences for high CPX units everywhere so losing that one turn of prod for the pop you're mowing isn't so bad - so centralizing production becomes actually good for you attack plan too. But still not doing it as long as you can is usually good. But build transports anyway - you hawe to be rady to pull back your resources to well protected centers. If you're faced with slow but powerful fleet retreating might be the only working defense. Ato-3 crawlers are the ships you want to have for that strategy. Or used to be - now the nozama hordes move faster than the crawlers so you want psihaulers for retreat ;) But yeah - build transports and build scanners and try not to panic at wrong time.. I second that advise against centralizing production and attempting to cover it with static defense. I hold healthy lead in firepower and net worth at turn #20 in Palatino. Not one single planet over 2000 population no fortress worlds no tempting targets no vulnerable feeders to harass. No world especially hurt if lost.3414 Firepower in total. 429FP more than the 2nd ranked player. With NO CENTRALIZED PRODUCTION. I can converge my production (on its way to the front) anywhere to make a strong ambush as needed. The trick is having enough production in motion all the time. Onyx - you're a freakin' (broken) Noz.. no kidding you have tons of FP no kidding you've lots of worlds where they're everyone just like every other one!Sorry but unless you're playing Noz. I think your example isn't nearly as strong as you make out. And distributed production can definitely give you the highest FP - for a while the only non-Noz in Palantino who was in the top 10 FP was a Va'Tak who had built tons of static defense... In general total FP will be really really high if you build lots o' static defense but it reflects a sub-par player - static D is totally undefensible and totally unexpandable - you're a sitting duck (no offense to Ducks!)Distributed production and centralized should be used in balance with each other (there are many posts above for pro's and con's of each). All one or all the other sounds impractical in my experience and I am aware of no top players that totally eschew a production world or who only use production worlds (you need the super high pop worlds for the big baddies and you need distributed for the fighter rolling / fodder farming - one cannot do with only one 1/2 of the equation). I agree with what Mordachai said. Look at my empire. I have the second biggest world by pop (and no. I haven't been bringing it in from insane distances) but almost all of my feeder worlds still have some resources on them. Pay no attention to the static defense though. That is er.. unimportant. Observations:1. In Ultracorps static defenses and even slow defenses invite "defeat in detail."2. "He who seeks to be strong everywhere will be strong nowhere." -Napoleon3. Distributed production used to be called 'Fighter rolling." Its a wonderful tactic for rapid expansion if you are surrounded by very poor players and inactives. It is however extremely inefficient and in the face of even modestly competent opposition it fails. So know WHEN to use distributed production. 3.5 The Nozama are a new critter. Low license costs and the production capability of the queen are new X-Factor but I believe the application of distributed production for Nozama is still limited. After yoiu have a queen on every world what then? The economics still favor centralization.4. In most games I'll leave about 1/2 my worlds undefended for the majority of the game. I mean nothing or a truly token force... Why? With centralized production at any given time there is no no more than one cycles production on any of my "feeder" worlds at any given time. Cargo units are constantly streaming away resources as soon as they're produced. A scanner monk who took the planet might have the resources to build a single Hew 9 to try and hold the planet from the reaction force that would be instantly dispatched to retake the planet net loss to me? Minimal. Folks on this board may bandy about reasons why this does not work and I will reply that it does works for me and has for years. 5. As an advanced topic. Fighters not ground units make the best defenders. They can be dispatched to local hotspots to act as fodder for fast FP from the production planet. Scanenr monks. TK Bikes. Megsbots. Orgs have various degrees of difficulty in that their fodder has a hard time keeping up. So dropping say 40 Hew-9 on a planet not to act as the planets defenders but to serve as pre placecd fodder for the "REAL" defenders that would be dispatched there at need is a better tactic. 4. In most games I'll leave about 1/2 my worlds undefended for the majority of the game. I mean nothing or a truly token force... Why? With centralized production at any given time there is no no more than one cycles production on any of my "feeder" worlds at any given time. Cargo units are constantly streaming away resources as soon as they're produced. A scanner monk who took the planet might have the resources to build a single Hew 9 to try and hold the planet from the reaction force that would be instantly dispatched to retake the planet net loss to me? Minimal. also hawing lot of x-8:S and/or ato-3:s provides some defense automatically - and are good to have for emergencency retreat - or for turning your static defenses less static - a x-8 and two SoGs can be low cost 3 pieces of fodder on attack. People who do the centralised production with cargo boosters mainly are inviting commerce raiders to their feeder worlds. Losing a feeder world or two for even one turn hurts a bit more if even the one turns EI and RER ends up on enemy hands. also hawing lot of x-8:S and/or ato-3:s provides some defense automatically - and are good to have for emergencency retreat - or for turning your static defenses less static - a x-8 and two SoGs can be low cost 3 pieces of fodder on attack. People who do the centralised production with cargo boosters mainly are inviting commerce raiders to their feeder worlds. Losing a feeder world or two for even one turn hurts a bit more if even the one turns EI and RER ends up on enemy hands. Agreed. I love using X-8's in bulk to ferry things around as they are fast enough to get things where I need them quickly and since they are generally pretty cheap. I can build tons of them if needed. The Va'Tak thankfully start off with plenty now. :)

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The province is seeking public input to revise its provincial energy strategy and create an challenge plan for curbing greenhouse gases. Public workshops will take place in Halifax and Musquodoboit Harbour on Thursday. Nov. 29. Dalhousie University oceanography professor Bob Fournier ordain aid the sessions."The province has set a deadline of 2020 for cutting greenhouse gas emissions 10 per cent below 1990," said Energy Minister Richard Hurlburt. "We're committed to achieving that goal while maintaining a strong and growing economy."Mr. Fournier who recently chaired an environmental assessment of the proposed color's inform Quarry near Digby said meeting those goals presents challenges for policy planners."Our electricity which is mostly coal-fired generates about 42 per cent of our greenhouse gases," said Mr. Fournier. "How do we decrease our use of burn without driving up electricity prices? How do we fit our need for go power with our ability to give adequate back-up cater? What new technologies or initiatives should we be promoting to cater our green energy needs? "These are challenging questions and we want public input before we generate a policy that is to guide the province for years."The Halifax and Musquodoboit Harbour workshops are among 12 similar sessions held around the province. The Halifax workshop will run from 9 a m until noon in Suite 101. World Trade and Convention Centre. 1800 Argyle St. The Musquodoboit Harbour workshop will run from 4 p m until 7 p m at the Eastern Shore Community displace (Community Rink). 67 Park Rd. The province has created two documents. Consultation Paper: Nova Scotia's Renewed Energy Strategy and A Background cover to command Nova Scotia's Climate Change challenge Plan to help inform public discussion. The first deals with broad energy policy and the second with climate change -- especially action to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. The documents are online at. The province ordain also accept written submissions on energy strategy and greenhouse-gas reduction until Dec. 19. Information gathered from the public-consultation sessions will be used to create the Energy Strategy and the Climate Action intend scheduled for release in the spring. Under the Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act. Nova Scotia has established a target to have one of the cleanest and most sustainable environments in the world by 2020. FOR BROADCAST USE: The province will seek public input on energy strategy and greenhouse-gas reductions at workshops in Halifax and Musquodoboit Harbour on Thursday (November 29th). Dalhousie oceanography professor Bob Fournier will facilitate the sessions. The Halifax workshop will act displace at the World Trade and Convention displace from 9 A-M to noon. The Musquodoboit workshop will take place at the Eastern border Community Centre from 4 P-M to 7 P-M. The province has created two documents to inform publicdiscussion about energy policy and climate change. The documentsare available online at w-w-w dot gov dot n-s dot c-a slash energy slash energystrategy. -30-Media Contacts: Megan Tonet Department of Energy 902-424-1757 telecommunicate: tonetme@gov ns ca Parker Donham Kempt Head Communications Cell: 902-565-5555 E-mail: parker@donham ca

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The September 25th Fortune has an interesting headline..."GE's secret boot camp" that describes how the un-pretentious locomotive business in Erie. Pennsylvania has change state a training fasten for GE leaders... Let's put this business and article in perspective.... GE is one of the FEW producers of locomotives in the world.. in fact it was once on the "divestiture" list for the company since command Motor was the dominant leader in this market and had over 75% of the US market while GE had only 25% and was declining. GM developed the electro-mechanical version and GE was the electric only leader. But GE was lucky... GM decided to harvest/ divest its non- automotive businesses and so GE was given the opportunity to take control. Fortunately it had strong manufacturing leaders and the business moved from a poor number 2 to the leader. Over the past decades. GE locomotive continued to make its numbers and its portfolio position moved upward.. it became a consistent CASH COW and its management was rewarded. If GE is using this business to train leaders it must be training those who can lead mature businesses where they are the leader in a monopolistic market and have the resources to incrementally innovate and maintain high quality and competitive costs.. unfortunately this is a very selective move of the world of business... I addressed this leadership issue in my fourth book" Risktaker. Caretaker. Surgeon and Undertaker.. the four faces of strategic leadership" and stressed the need to recognize that there is no one leadership style or type for all seasons and situations.. obviously GE Transportation which should be called GE LOCOMOTIVE.. requires the skilled of a caretaker.. and they have been able to provide this type of leader... If you are interested in learning more about matching LEADERS and TEAMS to strategy you can purchase my book by visiting my website: It clearly demonstrates that there is "no leader for all seasons and situations" what it takes to leader a new venture is very different from one whose role it is to just defend and incrementally improve position.. if GE needs leaders to bring about mature dominate overlap businesses. then ERIE is a good proving ground but if it needs to create new high risk businesses which it does if it wants to acheive the Immelt GO BIG strategy.. then this is not the right displace to instruct them.. this is the dilemna and contend of Jeff Immelt and the strategy he is articulating..

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A World Health Organization be met earlier this month to discuss attenuation of the pharmaceutical patent system and the possible replacement of private sector investment with government funding (including prizes) to back up private research and development. The strongly anti-patent advocacy group Doctors Without Borders (DWB) had been invited to participate in the meetings and change surface assist in writing policy documents. Other anti-patent groups were also present as observers but pro-patent observers were not welcome. Indeed they were so unwelcome that academics and representatives of NGOs were thrown out by security. The mild-mannered Jerry Norris a former employee of the U. S. Agency for International Development and current fellow in public health at the Hudson Institute made it past security—but then he and other observers in the gallery from India and Britain were rooted out and forcibly asked to leave. Norris and his colleagues apparently did not undergo the necessary documentation required for attendance. The WHO converse was just one stop on the latest patent-bashing road show. measure week the show came to Bangkok where the enemies of patents were welcomed with open arms at a three-day meeting organized by the activist community. Advertised as “The International Conference on Compulsory Licensing: Innovation and Access for All,” this event had every major activist group present including Oxfam the Third World communicate and DWB. The keynote speaker was Mongkol Na Songkhla the Thai public health attend who over the past year has issued compulsory licenses for medicines used to interact diseases such as AIDS and heart disease. The word in public health circles is that more threats and procure confiscations are just around the command—perhaps for as many as 20 new drugs. And as the conference brochure explained such actions undergo not been confined to Thailand: “Developing countries that have issued compulsory licenses consider but are not limited to Malaysia. Indonesia. Thailand. Brazil and most recently Rwanda. In the majority of cases compulsory licensing rights have been used by developing countries to secure find to anti-retroviral medicines to combat AIDS.” The trend clearly is building momentum. Insiders tell me that the Philippines may well be the next country to issue a compulsory authorise. Thus far the global reaction to compulsory licensing has been mixed. The U. S government has put Thailand on its watch list and has done its best to bring out the dangers posed to research and development if pharmaceutical patents are attenuated and companies can alter no profits from middle-income countries. Some of the big multinational firms undergo also responded. Novartis and Pfizer undergo filed lawsuits in India and Indonesia while Abbott has stopped the launch of its new products in Thailand. Just last week activists encouraged the Thai government to sue Abbott claiming that the withdrawal of new drugs in response to compulsory licensing violates international trade laws. The anti-patent forces are clearly winning the PR battle. By aggressively defending intellectual property rights the drug companies have stirred up media arouse against them and achieved very little in the realm of positive government intervention. It is therefore immaterial that the companies were technically alter to act as they did. As political theorists observe there are two main forms of protest: express and exit. The drug companies undergo tried voice: they undergo pointed out the be to alter some profit from middle-income markets; they have complained to governments activists the media and anyone that ordain listen; and they undergo tried litigation and threats of exit. Perhaps it is time to actually try move. The first to take action might be Novartis. According to several sources the company has shelved plans to create a $500 million factory in Brazil that would manufacture an anti-meningitis vaccine. Novartis publicly claims investment in Brazil could still go ahead and the vaccine plant was never intended for Brazil anyway. The dish the dirt is that a similar vaccine factory will instead be built in Singapore. Having met with Singaporean government officials this past February—and having seen Singapore’s large and growing science parks—I can bear witness that the Asian city-state is already protecting intellectual property rights and will continue to do so. Its government wants to develop and promote Singapore as a bear on for medicate research and manufacture; Novartis and numerous other companies already have substantial investments in the country. change surface if the rumors are wrong perhaps Novartis should go any future funding from Brazil. It may be measure for other companies to invest only in countries that unequivocally safeguard intellectual property rights. move is far from a certain strategy for victory; but in this case it might be worth trying.

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Banks and credit unions struggle with how to attract and act the underbanked and (a joint effort between the mayor’s office and the Federal keep back Bank of San Francisco) has basically done the legwork to establish outreach and retention of underbanked consumers for local FIs. One of the challenges for large national banks that was uncovered in our past investigate is actually reaching un-/underbanked people. Big banks were not flexible enough to engage the community or change their branch/products/marketing to reach out to those underbanked populate. The tip on San Francisco schedule and new account opening has exceeded their expectations. Bank on San Francisco claims that over 20% of the City’s underbanked population has opened an be in the past year alone when they only hoped to change state that many accounts within a two-year period. Bank on San Francisco coordinated with many national and local banks and credit unions (BofA. Citi. WaMu. Wells. US Bank. Patelco CU and various others) to make this a reality and the results are pretty impressive. My question is why did the banks wait so long to do something in conjunction with city government when they could have done this themselves? Obviously un-/underbanked populate accept the benefits of a banking relationship and are not an impenetrable merchandise. People want these services and they be products that speak to their individual financial needs. The interesting thing will be to see if the national banks act a lesson from the success they’ve had in San Francisco to back up or engage in similar programs in other cities nationwide with a large underbanked population.

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In June. I read by Gabriel Rotello. It was a great piece questioning the idea that the AIDS epidemic was over in the United States. There hasn't been much coverage of the continuing AIDS crisis in this country but it's far from over. Coincidentally in July. I got invited to attend meeting to discuss developing a strategy to end the AIDS epidemic in America. To be honest. I hadn't given the affect much thought. But after spending a day with some of the brightest people in the world of AIDS and other fields. I came away believing we need to go up the discussion. Of course to end the AIDS epidemic in America requires leadership. And we're not going to have leadership until we have a new President. That's why the leading AIDS organizations and their allies "undergo requested that every Presidential candidate act to developing a results-oriented national AIDS strategy designed to significantly reduce HIV infection rates ensure access to compassionate and treatment for those who are infected and destroy racial disparities." What a concept huh? Here are the facts from a new place called appropriately enough. The wealthiest nation in the world is failing its own people in responding to the AIDS epidemic at domiciliate. Consider that in the U. S.: Every year. 40,000 populate are newly infected with HIV. The HIV infection evaluate has not fallen in 15 years. Over a million people are living with HIV. In 2002 an estimated half of people living with HIV/AIDS were not in care. African Americans represent 13% of the population but nearly half of all new HIV infections. In 2004. HIV/AIDS was the leading cause of death among black women ages 25 - 34. The unsatisfactory outcomes from our country’s response to AIDS undergo serious human and economic costs. A chew over published in 2003 found that failure to meet the government’s then goal of reducing HIV infections by half would bring about to $18 billion in excess expenses through 2010. Those are some serious ramifications in both human and financial terms. All of the study presidential candidates are offering their health compassionate plans. Hillary Clinton unveiled yesterday. Every candidate needs to include a intend to end the AIDS epidemic in America. It's gone on way way too desire. John's policy experience includes stints in the US Senate the World Bank and the Children's Defense Fund. John is also an occasional TV pundit having appeared on The O'Reilly Factor. Hardball with Chris Matthews. ABCNews World News Tonight. CNN. Court TV and more. 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