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Thursday, October 27, 2011
SPEED Suddenly Pawn In TV Face-Off
DirecTV released a new statement in relation to the most recent strong-arm tactics being employed by FOX in the ongoing rate dispute involving FOX cable and regional sports networks. SPEED is included as a key piece of the puzzle in this issue.
DIRECTV has always been able to fight on our customers' behalf and settle its business behind the scenes – where it belongs. But unfortunately that's not the case with News Corp and FOX.
FOX has had very public and nasty rate disputes with Cablevision, DISH, and Time Warner Cable - and that's only in the past year. No TV provider is immune to their bullying tactics.
By comparison, DIRECTV has quietly closed deals with hundreds of different programmers in the last few years, representing thousands of channels, and we are prepared to do the same with FOX. We wish you weren't put in the middle. But we're listening and talking to Fox daily.
We're hopeful that FOX will soon become more reasonable with their demands and we can put all this behind us.
Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter, who is not a FOX employee, took to the airwaves before his most recent series episode on FX. In his recorded message, he took DirecTV to task for possibly forcing subscribers to miss the final five episodes of his hit show. He also posted a profane message on his personal blog accusing DirecTV of using their own subscribers as leverage in the dispute.
It's a tad ironic that Sons of Anarchy actor Ron Perlman, shown above in PIR's Victory Lane, is doing the introductions for ESPN on all of the NASCAR Chase for the Championship races this season.
"All of these shenanigans are interesting to read about, but DirecTV is putting its focus towards getting a deal done that will keep our customers' monthly TV bill at an acceptable level," said DirecTV spokesman Robert Mercer to the FierceCable.com website. "We've been in discussions every day with News Corp and Fox and are perfectly fine paying a reasonable amount for the channels, but asking our customers to absorb a 40 percent increase in tough economic times is just not fair."
So, there you have the most recent update. DirecTV clearly stating once again that the individual FOX regional and cable networks being "bundled" together and offered at one price are not worth a significant increase that will ultimately be passed along to DirecTV subscribers. The 40% number was again used publicly.
Meanwhile, FOX denies that it ever asked for anything approaching that kind of increase and says it offered to continue to let DirecTV broadcast all the various networks while a deal is being hammered out. The FOX contention is that DirecTV drew the line in the sand of November 1 for a blackout of the networks in question.
This weekend is a good example of the impact losing SPEED would have on NASCAR and the fans. SPEED is handling the Friday and Saturday programming from the track in Martinsville with over 12 hours of live coverage on those two days alone.
Expect more finger pointing and posturing on Thursday as these two parties battle over a huge contract renegotiation. What we do know is that SPEED will be on the 20 million DirecTV homes this weekend. What we don't know is just how long the network will be in the dark if DirecTV removes it from service next Tuesday as planned.
Updates on this story will be posted here, on the TDP Facebook page and Twitter account. In the meantime, please feel free to offer your comment on this situation.
26 comments:
- RPM said...
Maybe NASCAR should speak up and remind News Corp/SPEED who is actually providing the majority of their programming and viewers.
This is nothing but corporate greed from News Corp.
- October 26, 2011 at 11:59 PM
- Anonymous said...
I remember when t.v was free! Now you pay and still can watch what you want. Very greedy Corp.
- October 27, 2011 at 12:04 AM
- Doug said...
I'm a diehard fan of NASCAR and Directv but not a fan of the speed channel. The channel is driven by "Jaws",Darrell Waltrip, and he is horrible. Than Speed decides to add his brother, Michael Waltrip, to the programming, making it a huge bust. Lets not forget that Speed is the "Tape Delay Authority" when it comes to NASCAR programming. Speed's cast of analyst's include Kenny Wallace, who hasn't won a race in 12 years and has never won a CUP race, but hosts a show called "Victory Lane". Patti Wheeler is a huge failure for Speed and losing Speed as a Directv customer is a blessing!.
- October 27, 2011 at 12:14 AM
- Anonymous said...
It's NOT News Corp ... It's DirecTV ... They do this every single time one of their contracts comes up for renewal with the tv providers ...
DirecTV has battled NBC-Universal, Scripps, Discovery, etc ...
TPTB at DirecTV want more / better programming from the tv providers, but are NOT willing to pay more for it ...
You just cannot stay at the same rate for eternity ...
It's corporate greed on DirecTV's part ... Blame them!
- October 27, 2011 at 12:26 AM
- Mike in Pittsburgh said...
I'm just sick of seeing the constant commercials and scrolls for "its going to get turned off threats" when they aren't even from my provider. The last time DISH had this pissing match they would cut in and replace the commercials from the provider with their own only the couldn't do it fast enough so you could see them doing it.
- October 27, 2011 at 12:54 AM
- 52 yr. fan said...
Maybe Direct could let us unbundle
their programming also and cut
some costs. I would start with
dropping the infommercial channels
that I don't watch.
- October 27, 2011 at 7:38 AM
- AncientRacer said...
Please, folks, give Rupert ("Arrrr!") a break. The old pirate has had a rough year. He was pretty much obliged to close "News of the World" and the events leading to that essentially quashed his then all-but-completed take over of the European BSkyB satellite. That took two significant revenue streams offline for News Corp. Worse,Rupert ("Arrrr!") knows there is probably even more fallout yet to come from that mess.
Poor old fella just needs a little help...
- October 27, 2011 at 8:21 AM
- Vicky D said...
It's always something to concern us Speed fans and the folks who like the other programming!
- October 27, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- OSBORNK said...
If they dropped all Waltrips and all Wallaces from their payroll, they might be able to hold the increase down a little and greatly improve their product.
- October 27, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Sue said...
I know this is a page about Nascar TV and etc., don't forget that this will also include all of the Fox channels. This includes College Football, NFL and whatever. I have Cox cable and we went through this same thing a couple of years ago. I wonder what all the football fans are saying about this.
- October 27, 2011 at 11:11 AM
- Anonymous said...
West Coast Diane said:
With only 4 races to go I can live without watching (or actually fast forwarding through) practice & qualifying. Other than Race Hub don't watch anything else on Speed. And don't watch any of the other mentioned channels.
We probably watch 5 to 10 channels max out of hundreds we get. I would love an ala carte option. However, the cable/sat providers would lose a ton of revenue, so hell will freeze over before that happens.
- October 27, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- glenc1 said...
AR...yer killing me...lol.
I'm sure there's enough greed to go around for both sides. No shortage of that these days. Greed is good, remember?
It is not just Direct--Dish had the same issue with NewsCorp, and so have some of the companies that own multiple stations. And the cable companies have had the same issues with the TV stations...it's all of them. Meanwhile the networks keep ordering cheap, useless reality programming. Just makes you want to throw open the window and yell, 'I'm mad as he!! and I'm not gonna take it anymore!'.
- October 27, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- Anonymous said...
DirecTV isn't driving the bundling of channels, it is the networks themselves. Disney forces DirecTV and others to pick up their whole family of networks even if they just want the most popular ones.
- October 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Vince said...
I dropped my cable TV about a year and a half ago and frankly haven't missed it. I watch the OTA networks with my antenna and the rest online on my computer. If you know where to look you can find most programming online nowdays. In these economic times it just didn't make sense for me, I need groceries worse than I needed ESPN/SPEED.
I feel bad for the people caught in this crunch, but this is an issue that's not going to go away until cable, Dish, DirecTV stop bundling their services and provide alacarte programming. Which won't happen unless Congress/Government makes them.
- October 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
Who cares about Speed/Fox anyway. As others are saying, way, too, many Waltrips for most of us. I always remember when Mikey was on the show, in 2007 called "Inside Nextel Cup", when he wasn't even making the races. He probably had to watch them, on TV, just like the rest of us; but, he still was the moving-mouth every week on this show. Should have been called......"Outside Nextel Cup"
Hopefully, this will all get settled.
- October 27, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- Dannyboy said...
I am sick and tired of people accusing corporations of "corporate greed". What is the purpose of a corporation? To secure profit for its shareholders! Not to be nice.
Any of those out there complaining to these companies for padding their 401k and ROTH IRAs? Because if you have a retirement plan you can be pretty dang sure you own some of their stock.
Face it: contract negotiations are not pretty when you are talking the kinds of numbers these folks deal in. It's hardball played with hand grenades.
I am NOT HAPPY with the prospect of losing SPEED, or the other FOX nets. I only got Directv because they offered them. And I was fed up at the strongarm tactics of COX, who had an exclusive on the Padres and wouldn't let you see their games unless you bought their service.
This COX/Padres exclusive ran out this year, and guess who is the #1 contender? Yup, ole Rupert. And the "game" is on. Who will blink first?
SPEED provides me more than just NASCAR: I watch F-1 and the other racing series they carry, plus almost anything they show that isn't lifestyle or reality programming. I will be deluging both FX and DTV with complaints if they cut service, and if the loss of FOX programming gives me an out to terminate my contract that will be part of my tactics. Two can play that game.
Somehow, I think that just like the NFL lockout, which had many of the same ingredients as this DTV-FOX spat, at the very last minute something will get done.
At least I hope so...
- October 27, 2011 at 12:29 PM
- sbaker17 said...
OSBORNK said...
If they dropped all Waltrips and all Wallaces from their payroll, they might be able to hold the increase down a little and greatly improve their product.
October 27, 2011 9:49 AM
If they dropped all the last names beginning with "WAL" I'd pay more.....
- October 27, 2011 at 1:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
If I were a DIRECTV customer I wouldn't be too happy hearing about this FX dispute. I love FX and I am a huge fan of Sons of Anarchy. Thank goodness I get to watch all the drama still since I am a DISH customer. As a DISH employee I can tell you that I wouldn't take the chance losing some of my favorites remaining a DIRECTV customer.
- October 27, 2011 at 1:46 PM
- Anonymous said...
Somebody has to pay for the millions of dollars Fox is losing with their NASCAR contract. Since the ratings have plummeted, there is no way they can make a profit on just ad revenue.
- October 27, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- AveryNH said...
you know if you switched to cable you wouldn't have all these worries... when I switched two years ago from DirecTV to Comcast i thought it was going to be the end of my TV world. Losing HotPass was inexcusable and i wanted to keep it but DirecTV simply charged way to much all around. Xfinity has been way better, from reliability to multimedia access. NewsCorp may suck but those pigs at the over at the big blue dish are far worse.
- October 27, 2011 at 4:23 PM
- TexasRaceLady said...
AveryNH said--- "you know if you switched to cable you wouldn't have all these worries..."
I would switch to cable if I had that option, but I live outside the city limits in rural East Texas. I can't even get OTA television because of my location.
It's satellite --- or nothing.
- October 27, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- Buschseries61 said...
What comes first: DirecTV dropping SPEED or ESPN finally releasing the Talladega tv ratings?
- October 27, 2011 at 6:26 PM
- Fed UP said...
The world will not end for the majority of people if some cable company chooses not to pay the ransom that some company wants to charge for the Speed Channel.
Two years ago, we use to have Speed on expanded basic, but it got moved to the upper tier that requried a digital convertor. I chose not to pay for another digital converter just to watch 1 channel.
Fast forward two years later, yes I have access to the Speed Channel, but I don't watch it nearly as much as I once did. Adn why is that? its the product that is shown on air. I can't stand DW or his overly loud younger brother and their endless shilling of things, toyota or DW's mancrush on Kyle Busch.
I haven't watch probably more than five hours in total of Race Day when I use to watch it every week. I no longer tape the races, if I would miss them...I scroll and wait. Talledega use to be a must see...the past year, If something comes up..I miss it and don't wonder what I missed.
I feel sorry for the ones that will lose out, but really, there are so many other things to do..liek go outside and ride a bike.
- October 27, 2011 at 8:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
Dannyboy - Don't worry. The spirit of Jay Gould is alive and well in today's corporate boardrooms.
- October 28, 2011 at 3:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
News Corp/Fox are just trying delay tactics to drag the cable nets' contracts out to a timeline where, suddenly, the expiration of FOX broadcast and Fox News coincide.
Fox thinks (correctly) that they can then leverage the Fox News renewal into the overall cable nets deal and extract higher fees for all from DirecTV.......meaning all of us who buy DTV service.
Its pure, unveiled greed on the part of FOX, nothing more.
They can play the "victim" and portray themselves as defenders of the viewer, but its a bald faced LIE!!!!
Today, DirecTV filed a complaint with the FCC against FOX for its false and maligning campaign about this issue. I say its about time.
News Corp is a media bully. Nothing more. Look at their egregious behavior in the UK and the unabashed lies told to Parliament by Rupert and his son.
I hope Direct drops them.....and that nobody notices.
- October 28, 2011 at 8:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
Adios, Speedvision. You will be missed only for your live sports events. Everything else you have become since I have been a DirecTV subscriber is not welcome here.
- October 29, 2011 at 10:20 AM


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On the front post within easy reach your find a water bottle which is included free of charge, talking of free your be pleased to know that delivery is free too and the cross trainer comes with a two year warranty where if you have any problems an engineer will visit you in your home and make a repair or provide a free replacement, having trouble finding a cross trainer that has the room you need then large cross trainers have a 19 inch stride length, what that means is that there's plenty of room to have your legs spread out and your legs apart as much as you want, you won't be cramped up trying to keep your legs close together because if you don't your feet fall of the footplates or bang on the back of the cross trainer, with a 19 inch stride length you can have a maximum of 19 inches between the heal of one foot and the tip of the other foot, generally if your tall your have a large stride length and be needing a bigger cross trainer.
If you're buying an elliptical trainer for home use and wanting the whole family to use it for exercise then it's a good choice as those that are tall will have all the room they need and for those that a shorter the length of the cross trainer paddle will make no difference, with a 10kg flywheel at the back of the cross trainer and double ball joints your experience a very smooth and natural cross trainer action with no hard to start moments or jerky unresponsive pedals like you get on older cross trainers that don't use a flywheel for increased momentum and stability, the frame of the cross trainer is made from steel for strength and indeed the frame can support an exercise user that weights up to 21 stone in weight, on top of the steel frame are aluminium panels which are matt black in colour and look very cool, every bit the modern home use cross trainer.
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Federal officials have placed two former and two current Transportation Security Administration screeners under arrest for allegedly taking part in a scheme to let large amounts of marijuana and narcotics pass through X-ray machines in security checkpoints at Los Angeles International Airport.
The federal indictment describes five instances in which the screeners took bribes of up to $2,400 to let drug-filled luggage pass through the checkpoints while the screeners ignored them. An alleged drug courier is also in custody and another is expected to surrender on Friday. One more is being sought by authorities in the 22-count indictment opened on Thursday.
U.S Justice Department officials say John Whitfield, 23, and Capeline McKinney, 25 both of Los Angeles, worked as TSA screeners at LAX and allegedly allowed as much as 24 kilograms of methamphetamine and cocaine pass through X-rays while they turned away. Naral Richardson, 30, of Los Angeles, and Joy White, 27, of Compton, Calif., were both terminated by the TSA in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The DOJ says Richardson set up five separate incidents in which TSA screeners would wave the drugs through security. White, they say, was stationed at checkpoints where she allowed more than 20 kilograms to pass through.
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Consider a map of spheres $f:S^n\to S^m$ covered by a map of trivial $\mathbb R^k$-bundles. In other words, we take the trivial rank $k$ vector bundle over $S^m$ and pull it to $S^n$ via $f$. Consider the corresponding map of the Thom spaces, and its Spanier-Whitehead dual. How is the dual related to $f$?
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RIM taps Microsoft Bing for phone and tablet search
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Microsoft's Bing has been crowned the default search and maps provider for Research in Motion's smartphones as well as the Playbook, RIM's answer to the Jobsian iPad.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer took the stage at RIM's BlackBerry World conference on Tuesday morning in Orlando, Florida to announce the partnership.
"We're going to invest uniquely into the BlackBerry platform," Ballmer said according to bloggers covering the event. "Bing will become the default search provider in the browser and maps" on BlackBerry devices.
Details were scarce, and neither Microsoft nor RIM's spokespeople provided details on how the technologies or the companies might work together.
"Central to this collaboration, BlackBerry devices will use Bing as the preferred search provider in the browser, and Bing will be the default search and map application for new devices presented to mobile operators, both in the United States and internationally," Bing director Matt Dahlin wrote. "Also, effective today Bing will be the preferred search and maps applications with regular, featured placement and promotion in the BlackBerry App World carousel."
Dhalin said Bing is also now shipping as the default search engine and map app for the newly released BlackBerry Playbook.
According to a RIM blog, Bing will be "deeply integrated" into the BlackBerry experience starting this holiday season.
The presence of Ballmer on stage at RIM's event left bloggers and observers covering the conference stunned. But the deal he announced is typical stuff for Microsoft. In the past, it has forged similar relationships with PC makers, smartphone makers, and service providers over Internet-Explorer, pre-Bing search, and MSN.
Bing is currently the default search engine on Samsung's Fascinate from Verizon Wireless, while earlier in 2002, Microsoft signed Verizon Online to deliver email, IM, and news from MSN. It has also struck deals putting MSN and IE on PCs from Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and others.
Such deals mean Microsoft can slide its software under the fingers of millions of ordinary users who won't care or know how to change their settings. These users will just click away, providing those all important search ad dollars.
Recently, Microsoft has offered Bing as an option that smartphone and tablet users can download, having released versions of Bing for Android and Apple's iOS. But this arrangement requires the user to make the choice themselves.
Google is Microsoft's major concern when it comes to the RIM deal, not just on search and advertising but also on operating systems. Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 competes against BlackBerry phones while the planned Windows-8-based tablet will butt heads against RIM's PlayBook, running the QNX Neutrino kernel acquired through its QNX Software Systems buy in 2010. But in the context of Google, it makes sense for Microsoft to partner with the competition.
It's easy to dismiss Microsoft and RIM in the smartphones and tablet markets. Microsoft's love-in with Nokia, putting Windows Phone 7 on Nokia handsets by 2012, has been derided about as much as the PlayBook. Nokia is losing market share, and RIM is too. Both are trailing the iPhone, and are projected to lose out even more to Android by 2015.
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Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama has died of natural causes in Berkeley, Calif., at age 93. The lifelong champion of civil rights causes in the black, Latino, Native American and Asian-American communities died peacefully in her sleep Sunday morning, according to her family.
Born in 1921 as Mary Yuriko Nakahara, Kochiyama spent the early years of her life in San Pedro, Calif., a small town south of Los Angeles. Months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, she and her family were forced to relocate to internment camps along with tens of thousands of other Japanese-Americans. She met her late husband, Bill Kochiyama, who served with other Japanese-American soldiers in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas, where she spent two years.
The couple married after World War II and moved to start their family in New York City. Living in housing projects among black and Puerto Rican neighbors inspired her interest in the civil rights movement. Kochiyama held weekly open houses for activists in the family's apartment, where she taped newspaper clippings to the walls and kept piles of leaflets on the kitchen table. "Our house felt like it was the movement 24/7," said her eldest daughter, Audee Kochiyama-Holman.
Her brief but formative friendship with Malcolm X, whom she first met in 1963, helped radicalize her activism. Kochiyama began focusing her work on black nationalism and was with Malcolm X during his final moments. Minutes after gunmen fired at Malcolm X in 1965 during his last speech in New York City, she rushed toward him and cradled his head on her lap. A black-and-white photo in Life magazine shows Kochiyama peering worriedly through horn-rimmed glasses at Malcolm X's bullet-riddled body.
In the 1980s, she and her husband pushed for reparations and a formal government apology for Japanese-American internees through the Civil Liberties Act, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law in 1988. Her continued dedication to social causes inspired younger generations of activists, especially within the Asian-American community.
"She was not your typical Japanese-American person, especially a nisei," or a second-generation Japanese-American, said Tim Toyama, Kochiyama's second cousin, who wrote a one-act play about her relationship with Malcolm X.
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A prominent Japanese-American activist has died in Berkeley, California, at age 93. Yuri Kochiyama died on Sunday. She led a life of relentless political activism. Among her allies was the black nationalist, Malcolm X. NPR's Han Si Lo Wang has this remembrance.
HAN SI LO WANG, BYLINE: The U.S. government rounded up more than 100,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II, they were forced to live behind barbed wire. Among them was San Pedro, California, native Yuri Kochiyama, who spoke with NPR in 2004.
YURI KOCHIYAMA: Well, the government calls them interment centers, I guess. We called them concentration camps. But it changed the life of every person of Japanese ancestry.
WANG: Yuri Kochiyama met her late husband, Bill, at the Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas. He fought in Europe with the all Japanese 442nd Regimental Combat Team. After the war ended, the couple moved to New York City, where together, they started a new life and Yuri found a new calling.
AUDEE KOCHIYAMA-HOLMAN: Our house felt like it was the movement 24/7.
WANG: Yuri's eldest daughter, Audee Kochiyama-Holman.
KOCHIYAMA-HOLMAN: There was always meetings going on, there were people coming in from out of town.
WANG: Audee remembers newspaper articles about the civil rights movement taped to the walls of their Harlem apartment. On their kitchen table, political leaflets often shared space with dinner plates.
In 1963, Yuri Kochiyama met Malcolm X. The 42-year-old mother of six was radicalized by her brief friendship with the black nationalist leader. Just 16 months after their first handshake, tragedy struck.
KOCHIYAMA: It began with two guys rising up from their seat, and one saying get your hands out of my pocket.
WANG: Minutes after gunfire interrupted Malcolm X's last speech in 1965, Yuri Kochiyama rushed towards his bullet-riddled body amidst a bloody scene she described in a 2008 interview with "Democracy Now."
KOCHIYAMA: Malcolm had fallen straight back and he was on his back lying on the floor. And so I just picked up his head and just put it on my lap. I said, please, Malcolm, please, Malcolm, stay alive.
TIM TOYAMA: Malcolm X's movement was probably the last thing you would imagine a Japanese-American person, especially a woman, to be involved with.
WANG: Kochiyama's second cousin, Tim Toyama, wrote a play about her relationship with Malcolm X. The FBI considered her a ring leader any black nationalists and a, quote, "Red Chinese agent."
In the 1980s, she and her husband lobbied for reparations for Japanese-American internees and demanded a formal government apology through the Civil Liberties Act. President Ronald Reagan signed it into law in 1988.
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: No payment can make up for those lost years. So what is most important in this bill has less to do with property than with honor. For here, we admit a wrong.
REPORTER: A wrong that Yuri Kochiyama helped make right. Han Si Lo Wang, NPR News.
BLUE SCHOLARS: (Singing) And if she ever heard this it's an honor 'cause when I grow up I wanna be just like Yuri Kochiyama. I'm gonna, serve the people proper, when I grow up I wanna be just like Yuri Kochiyama.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
The 10-man to 25-man Transition
I think I was wrong.
The data that has forced me to change my mind comes from WowJutsu. WowJutsu is an automated ranking site that crawls through the Armory. It notes when new loot from raids appears on characters and uses that to determine which guilds have killed which bosses. It's not perfect, but it is fairly accurate for the most part.
On the side, they have an automated list showing what percentage of raiding guilds have killed each boss. For example, only 3.37% of raid guilds have killed a boss in Black Temple. By comparing the number of guilds on two bosses that come right after each other in progression, we can see which bosses guilds are "stuck" on.
When examining the 10 to 25-man transition, we look at the end bosses of Karazhan and the first boss of Gruul's Lair, High King Maulgar. First, we make an assumption:
Assumption 1: If your guild has killed Maulgar, your guild has killed Nightbane.
This is a pretty reasonable assumption to make, in my opinion. From WowJutsu, we see that 74.51% of all raid guilds have beaten Nightbane, and 72.68% of all raid guilds have beaten High King Maulgar. This means that the vast majority of guilds who beat Nightbane go on to beat High King Maulgar. That they are able to overcome organizational challenge of getting 25 raiders. The conversion rate is a whopping 97.5%.
But maybe the assumption is wrong. Maybe there's a number of guilds who have killed HKM, but not Nightbane, and that's skewing our results. So let's soften it to:
Assumption 2: If your guild has killed Maulgar, your guild has killed Prince Malchezzar.
Honestly, if your guild has killed HKM, there is zero excuse for Prince Malchezzar to still be alive. Now we see that 88.88% of guilds have killed Prince Malchezzar. Again, the majority of guilds who beat Malchezzar go on to beat HKM. The conversion rate here is 81.8%. That's lower, but it's still very reasonable. 80% of all raiding guilds are able to navigate the transition from 10-man to 25-man.
I think that this is a reasonable result. It's not perfect, but between the Nightbane and Prince Malchezzar numbers, it's evidence that going from a 10-man to 25-mans was not a mistake, and the transition is within the capabilities of most guilds.
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- Anonymous9:25 PM, October 03, 2007
Actually our group 2 didnt kill Prince till a month after we killed Gruul but it was mainly a tanking issue as our tank was only available 3 nights a week 2 of which where 25 man.ReplyDelete
10 man guilds can step up to 25 man and fron evidence the majority do. The difficulty lies in that a great deal of those guilds then find themselves understaffed. Even a guild that runs 2 Karas probably wants another 10 people when they transition and the only source is other guilds in the exact same predicament.
As you yourself mentioned on EJ forums the next step to T5 and Mags is a very big one and one a lot of guilds are having trouble making.
What these stats are missing, by necessity:ReplyDelete
- Time factor. How long have the surviving guilds been stuck in Kara before getting there? The fact that just two months ago Kalgan could utter the incredibly short-sighted and idiotic statement that Khara was their most popular raid instance clearly tells a story here
- Guild fallout. Wowjutsu only lists the survivors, it doesn't give any indications (for obvious reasons) on the total amount of guilds which got started on raiding TBC content since February, it only lists those who have managed to survive the transition - and if my own realm is any indication, by leeching off people from many now defunct guilds.
If your guild managed to get Gruul ready without even the slightest hint of drama and all the other kind of BS which stems from running 3 Kara teams with different progression speeds (and many key members of team A running off to Gruul-ready guilds with the loot your own guild would need to make it after they get fed up with waiting for instance), you are either truly blessed or your guild is one of the survivors, formed from the ashes of several now defunct guilds which never got past Kara themselves.
- Anonymous8:08 AM, October 04, 2007
Another thing to consider is how many guilds that can't make it to Gruul are listed on there? Most of the guilds on that site WANT to be on that site to show off where they are at. If I was in a guild that just could not get HKM down, I don't think I would post my progress.ReplyDelete
WoWJutsu doesn't work on submissions, it crawls the armory by itself instead.
- Anonymous6:49 AM, October 05, 2007
Ohh, thank you, I didn't know that.ReplyDelete
I guess my comment is no longer really valid. :)
Kalgan's comment has always seemed confused to me. It's supposedly on par in progression with Gruul's Lair (given that the quality of the loot is fairly close between Prince and Gruul (iirc, Gorehowl and the axe Gruul drops (I can't recall the name atm) have the same dps?)), but because of the lower player requirement you'd think it'd be a bit more forgiving. I think the Devs' confusion with thinking it's the most popular instance stems from people thinking they have to run it a lot, which may or may not have been Blizzard's philosophy.ReplyDelete
(As I finish this however, I remember that the key quest for SSC required a drop from Nightbane, right? So nevermind. :P )
I all chalk it down to devs not having actually logged onto the live realms since way before TBC and just played their own damn game as a completely normal player would. It's pretty obvious that many design decisions are being made based on statistics rather than direct experience.ReplyDelete
Going from 10-mans to 25-mans still hurt most guilds when they started raiding in TBC. Mostly because by breaking guilds into 10 man teams they reduced the chance of players getting upgrades. Usually only the first team in a guild can down all the bosses in Karazhan and thus gets a good chance of getting an upgrade.ReplyDelete
Team A: All the bosses
Team B: Up to Chess Even
Team C: Lucky to down Maiden
Now if the first raid was a 25 man raid everyone in all three teams would have had an equal chance of getting an upgrade. Instead from what I've seen Karazhan has become a shardfest with all the Team A's disenchanting most of the loot and driving the price of void crystals way down.
It should be easy to switch members around from all the teams but that almost never happens in most guilds either because of organization or cronyism issues.
You do need to submit your guild to WOWJutsu for it to show up. You also need to submit it for updates after that. If it does this automatically at any time I haven't seen it. I've personally updated my guild many times and added some other ones that weren't new to it. So I'm pretty sure the site doesn't list all guilds with some Kara experience. I held of adding my own too before we were reasonably deep into it.ReplyDelete


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Cameron University's Upsilon Xi Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education, will welcome 38 new members. An induction ceremony for 22 students took place on the Cameron campus earlier this week. An additional 16 students who are pursuing degrees through Cameron's elementary education program at Rogers State University in Claremore will take place on May 5.
Selection as a member of Kappa Delta Pi requires high academic achievement, a commitment to education as a career, and a professional attitude that assures steady growth in the profession. Only those who have exhibited the ideals of scholarship, integrity in service, and commitment to excellence in teaching and its allied professions are granted membership.
CU students inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, listed by hometown, are:
Altus: Mona R. Bevington, Brittany N. Nottnagel
Big Cabin: Rejeana D. Riley
Chattanooga: Katy A. Simpson
Claremore: Tracy D. Arthurs, Chelsea Frieze, Teresa M. Goswick, Kaitlynn A. Hink, Anjanette Jackson, Jessica McMurtry, Courtney Murrell, Kylie R. Price
Collinsville: Sarah M. Noble
Duncan: Candice L. Raines
Elgin: Tiffany Biles, Summer N. Roberts
Fletcher: Sherry E. Houck
Krum, Texas: Jordan S. Sizemore
Lawton/Fort Sill: Kasey L. Dawson, Ashley L. Havron, Lorren S. Jackson, Lindsey D. McDowell, Andrea J. Melontree, Ami Moore, Veronica M. Saiz, Tiffany Terry, Sarah E. Wadusky, Tearza C. Wayman
Lindsay: Jessica L. Shaffer
Miami: Halie R. Barger
Oologah: Jessica Lemmons
Porter: Kirstein K. Stephenson
Pryor: Jessica A. Williams
Salina: Shayla McCann
Sterling: Ashlyn D. Kovacs
Temple: Wendy Brown, Sunny Sturdivant
Wann: Telithia A. Russ
For more information about education programs at Cameron University, contact the Department of Education at 580-581-2320.
About Kappa Delta Pi
Founded in 1911, Kappa Delta Pi is the largest honor society in education, representing 572 undergraduate and professional chapters and more than 45,000 active members. Its most distinguished members over the last century have included Margaret Mead, Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver, and current leaders in education Howard Gardner, Maxine Greene and Carol Gilligan.
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blacksun needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 84 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
split brand: michael black | BLACK SUN, see: http://michaelblack.com coming: http://blacksunstudio.com
michael black is leading advertising and commercial photographer with
20 years experience in leading visual campaigns. he has worked and currently works with the largest agencies to small business. He and his crew provide studio and location work pretty much anywhere up to any scope.
BLACK SUN is michael's home base and is a very hip and cool industrial chic creative arts building. the studio is 10,000 sq feet and can accommodate simple to very elaborate shoots. we like to say from peanuts to elephants, but this is not part of our visual brand.
important to know is that bold, simple. clean and elegant is most our preferred style
current website: http://michaelblack.com
art buyers
art director
agencies [any size]
business with inside marketing/design teams
magazine/editorial producers
we are looking for a fresh look of our brand [see attached], but not so different that is totally unfamiliar.
part of this requires a strong independent word mark
part of this requires a strong independent stand alone graphic
our current graphic is available, but does not have strong integration with our word mark. however, have used part of the graphic in many ways successfully.
if you can make it work we like both michael black and BLACK SUN to be able to be connected and separated to stand alone
final artwork must be vector graphics with clearly defined groups
usage: web, print, screen, multi-media
preferred colors (rgb reference):
black (250/250/250)
red (105/10/10)
grey (flexible, but neutral i.e. 100/100/100)
white (0/0/0)
feel free to ask any questions
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Despite this, Madrid stock exchange boosted the turbine manufacturer's share value by more than 7% to over EUR 2,14 by midday today, against Tuesday's closing price.
Analysts put investor enthusiasm down to the efficacy of Gamesa's restructuring and cost-cutting measures.
The company said that most of the estimated profit loss was due to extraordinary expenditure of EUR 584 million last year on restructuring its work force and market activities globally 2013-2015.
Those measures include the layoff — together with indemnities — of 1,800 people globally.
Consolidated results will be presented on 28 February. Meanwhile, Gamesa said the provisional result is in line with the outlook for 2012, as presented together with its restructuring business plan on 28 October.
Gamesa sold 2,119MW of turbine capacity last year. Although this is more than the company's 2GW October forecast, it is still 30% below sales in 2011.
However, the company claims an end-year order backlog of 1,657MW — just surpassing the 1,600MW figure for end-2011 — with 571MW signed up in the final quarter of the year.


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