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NEW MAP: Europe 1812: French retreat from Moscow (24 October 1812) https://omniatlas.com/maps/europe/18121024/ Despite the French capture of Moscow, the Russians refused to negotiate and Napoleon eventually realized that he had no option but to withdraw. In late October 1812 the French marched southwest towards Kaluga, in the hope of taking a fresh route back west, but were halted at Maloyaroslavets. Persuaded that the Kaluga road was no longer viable, Napoleon now decided to return along the same route he had come, a path already devastated by his advance. #1810s #1812 #19thcentury #atlas #europe #europeanhistory #france #history #historyclass #historygram #historyinthemaking #historylesson #historylover #historyschool #historyteacher #maps #napoleon #napoleonic #napoleonicwars #october #october24 #frenchhistory #russianempire #peninsularwar #strategy #militaryhistory #welovehistory #worldhistory #newmap (at Maloyaroslavets)
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Games on early B&W Macs traded colors for a higher resolution and they often looked very good. However, this was difficult to do in Warlords, a turn-based strategy game with eight nations, where the color was the only way to differentiate between them. The Mac version has unique graphics for buildings and flags (held by warriors) to overcome the lack of colors and the result is surprisingly nice, but the colors on PC are more practical anyway.
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Improve UX For A Better Business
Improve UX For A Better Business
How to improve the user experience? Here are some practical actions. When reading the pillars of user experiences, surely, some actions and strategies that allow promoting it come to mind. Precisely, here we will delve into those key practices that drive the User Experience and guarantee the achievement of great results. You should consider a usability testing framework.
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Maximizing Your Online Presence
Do you have an online presence? In the modern digital world of today, if your business is not online, it’s not worth looking at.It’s a brutal fact, but most companies are now moving to an online presence because that’s where business is conducted!
Given the changes to the way that business is working, branding has never been more important.
Your online presence is just as much a part of your…
Brand Fresh – Keeping It Real On Facebook (and everywhere)
Keeping your brand fresh, relevant and understood is an area of business that’s misunderstood by many. However, every successful business must have a plan to keep its brand fresh over many years… and decades.One of the best ways to keep your brand fresh, especially if you’re working on a shoestring budget, is to use social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram.
It’s a very cheap option that…
Sexy value
This is what you get when someone is able to launch something that is not only cheaper, but also better. It’s kind of an irresistible proposition. Most new things that are better don’t tend to also be cheaper. Often this is only possible with a whole new technology or approach. It’s like when the first taxi apps started appearing. To me it was like hang on, this is way better — no trying to catch a taxi in the rain, simple, non-awkward, no swinging by the ATM payments — and also cheaper. It’s also similar to Target’s Cheap Chic.
It is of course, not the only way to compete. If you make something better, people will pay what it’s worth to them. But if you can do it cheaper too you’re on to a winner.
Sexy value is a name, I believe, from Ogilvy and Mather.
You might also like another model of theirs: The Big Ideal.
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There is no gainsaying the fact that this suggested program will strike most people as impossibly “radical” and “unrealistic”; any suggestion for changing the status quo, no matter how slight, can always be considered by someone as too radical, so that the only thoroughgoing escape from the charge of impracticality is never to advocate any change whatever in existing conditions. But to take this approach is to abandon human reason, and to drift in animal-or plant-like manner with the tide of events.
As Professor Philbrook pointed out in a brilliant article some years ago, we must frame our policy convictions on what we believe the best course to be and then try to convince others of this goal, and not include within our policy conclusions estimates of what other people may find acceptable.50 For someone must propagate the truth in society, as opposed to what is politically expedient.
If scholars and intellectuals fail to do so if they fail to expound their convictions of what they believe the correct course to be, they are abandoning truth, and therefore abandoning their very raison d’être, All hope of social progress would then be gone, for no new ideas would ever be advanced nor effort expended to convince others of their validity.
…Thus, the libertarian must never, for the sake of alleged expediency, deny or conceal his ultimate objective of complete liberty; and he must never aggress against others in the search for a world of nonaggression. For example, the Bolsheviks, before the revolution, financed themselves partially by armed robbery in the name of “expropriating” capitalists; clearly, any use of aggression against private property in order to finance the libertarian movement, in addition to being immoral by libertarian principles, would cut against those principles themselves and their ultimate attainment.
At this point, any radical movement for social change, including the libertarian movement, has to face an important, realistic problem: in the real world, the goal — for the libertarian, the disappearance of the state and its aggressive coercion — unfortunately cannot be achieved overnight. Since that is the case, what should be the position of the libertarian toward “transition demands”; i.e., toward demands that would move toward liberty without yet reaching the ultimate goal? Wouldn’t such demands undercut the ultimate goal of total liberty itself?
In our view, the proper solution to this problem is a “centrist” or “movement-building” solution: namely, that it is legitimate and proper to advocate transition demands as way stations along the road to victory, provided that the ultimate goal of victory is always kept in mind and held aloft. In this way, the ultimate goal is clear and not lost sight of, and the pressure is kept on so that transitional or partial victories will feed on themselves rather than appease or weaken the ultimate drive of the movement.
Thus, suppose that the libertarian movement adopts, as a transitional demand, an across-the-board 50 percent cut in taxation. This must be done in such a way as not to imply that a 51 percent cut would somehow be immoral or improper. In that way, the 50 percent cut would simply be an initial demand rather than an ultimate goal in itself, which would only undercut the libertarian goal of total abolition of taxation.
Similarly, if libertarians should ever call for reducing or abolishing taxes in some particular area, that call must never be accompanied by advocating the increase of taxation in some other area. Thus, we might well conclude that the most tyrannical and destructive tax in the modern world is the income tax, and therefore that first priority should be given to abolishing that form of tax. But the call for drastic reduction or abolition of the income tax must never be coupled with advocating a higher tax in some other area (e.g., a sales tax), for that indeed would be employing a means contradictory to the ultimate goal of tax abolition. Libertarians must, in short, hack away at the state wherever and whenever they can, rolling back or eliminating state activity in whatever area possible…
— Murray Rothbard, What Libertarians Can Learn From the Abolitionists
❄️ FIRE EMBLEM : Felicia & Flora ❄️
I’m so excited to finally be able to share with you my full piece for the amazing Fire Emblem Siblings zine project @FEsibszine (on Twitter)!
Felicia & Flora are two of my favorite characters from Fire Emblem and they both have such amazing designs! I was so happy to be able to draw them for this project <3
This illustration was done in June!
I hope you’ll like it! ♥
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The French military is putting together a team of sci-fi writers to imagine potential future threats to the country. The group will reportedly act as a “red team” commonly used by military strategists to test their defence capabilities. Using the sci-fi writers, French military planners expect to find more creative threats than those conceived by conventional military strategists to better prepare the country against attacks in a rapidly changing world.
Because they wanted him alive.
Strategic Action
Get Your Business
Strategy is the action plan for execution. The action involves choices that will position the business where it needs to be. Its tactical in what is done to achieve goals. Strategy determines where you want to go and tactics – how you get there.
There are many things moving at the same time in business. Operations are not static, but ever changing, adapting to customer/ market…
BATTLE COMMANDER: HACHiBUSHU SHURA NO HEiHOU
Banpresto
Super Famicom
1991
-facepalms- Strategy Smurf? C'mon!
Some warcry cards for The Great Whale Road, a 2D story-driven rpg with turn-based tactics set in Early Middle Ages.
I worked on collaboration with Sergio Francés Molina and Ana Hurtado Collado on the warcry cards design, I also want to thank Carlos Leituga for his work as game designer on this project.
More info about the game on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/464830
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