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Moody's Clashes With R&I as Panasonic Bonds Rally: Japan Credit
Panasonic Corp. (6752)'s success in persuading investors it can switch focus to intelligent appliances from loss-making televisions may help its bonds withstand a rating cut from Moody's Investors Service.
Notes in the company, which sells fridges that send recipes and energy-use readings to smartphones, returned 5.03 percent since Nov. 8, the most among the top 50 issuers in the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Japan Corporate Index. The debt had dropped 9.21 percent after the electronics maker on Oct. 31 forecast a loss 30 times bigger than analyst estimates as TV sales slumped. Global corporate bonds declined 0.41 percent since Nov. 8, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch data.
Moody's cut Panasonic's rating by two levels to Baa3 with a negative outlook after the Tokyo stock market close yesterday, saying the company will "face challenges" in improving its profitability. That followed the Nov. 15 decision by Japan's Rating & Investment Information Inc. to change the outlook on the company's A- rating to stable from negative because of the strength of its appliances business, leaving it at a grade that allows the debt to stay in the nation's largest bond index.
"R&I was all that mattered ratings-wise, and that's over," Toshiyasu Ohashi, chief credit analyst at Daiwa Securities Co. in Tokyo, said in a telephone interview yesterday. While Moody's rating at "one level above junk isn't exactly reassuring, it's probably not enough to change the market trend."
Nomura Index
After R&I's action, Panasonic's notes will be able to stay in the Nomura Bond Performance index, which is tracked by some of the country's largest investors. The index requires its members to have ratings higher than A- by at least one of four assessors including R&I. The R&I grade for Panasonic is the fourth-lowest investment score.
"Those investors who can only own bonds rated A- or higher no longer have to sell the notes immediately, and aggressive sellers are gone," Tomone Kawachi, executive partner in Tokyo at WERU Asset Management Co., said in a telephone interview Nov. 19. "Panasonic bonds were in panic-selling mode at one point, but the market gradually regained stability."
While Sharp Corp. and Sony Corp. battle South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. in the TV market, Panasonic is shifting its focus to products such as solar panels, and navigation systems and batteries for electric cars.
Sharp's notes were ousted from the Nomura gauge in August after R&I cut its bond rating to BBB. The grade was reduced to BB by the rating company this month.
French Samurai
Elsewhere in Japan's credit markets, Societe Generale SA narrowed the extra yield it proposed on five tranches of fixed- rate and floating-rate Samurai bonds that will price on Nov. 22, according to a person familiar with the matter. It is considering a spread of 75 to 77 basis points for five-year fixed-rate notes, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the terms aren't final.
Teijin Ltd., an Osaka, Japan-based polyester manufacturer, hired banks for an offering of seven-year debt, according to a statement yesterday from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., which is managing the deal together with Daiwa Securities Group Inc. and Nomura Holdings Inc.
Japan's corporate bonds have handed investors a 0.14 percent loss this month, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch data. Samurai notes, which are yen-denominated debt issued in Japan by overseas borrowers, returned 0.17 percent, while company debt worldwide lost 0.04 percent, the data show.
Default Risk
The Markit iTraxx Japan index of credit-default swaps for 50 companies fell one basis points yesterday to 184.5 basis points, the lowest since Sept. 14, according to data provider CMA, which is owned by McGraw-Hill Cos. and compiles prices quoted by dealers in the privately negotiated market. A decrease in the contracts signals improving perceptions of creditworthiness, while an increase suggests the opposite.
Yields on Japan's benchmark 10-year government bonds rose half a basis point to 0.735 percent as of 11:06 a.m. in Tokyo, after matching a four-month low yesterday. The securities yielded 94 basis points less than similar maturity U.S. Treasuries, compared with 100 basis points a year earlier. One basis point is 0.01 percentage point.
The yen touched a seven-month low of 81.96 per dollar today in Tokyo after data showed Japan's exports fell for a fifth- straight month in October. While the Japanese currency has weakened 6.5 percent this year, it's 8.4 percent stronger than the five-year average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Above Junk
Moody's said the strong yen, competition from South Korean and Chinese companies and weak presence in emerging markets are hurting Panasonic's key products. Its rating of Baa3 is one level above junk, or non-investment grade.
R&I cut Panasonic's rating by two levels to A- on Nov. 15, saying in a statement the company is making "little progress" in improving its earnings. At the same time, it said the company's production of household appliances will allow it to maintain a competitive advantage and generate profit. The Osaka-based manufacturer's rating was cut by a total three levels by R&I this year, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
The extra yield investors demand to own 200 billion yen ($2.4 billion) of 0.752 percent bond due March 2016 rather than government debt fell to 149.7 yesterday from the record 329.8 basis points Nov. 8, JS Price data show. The note was priced at a spread of 19 basis points March 3 last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Panasonic's Losses
Atsushi Hinoki, a Tokyo-based spokesman for Panasonic, declined to comment yesterday, citing the company's policy not to comment on market movements.
Panasonic projected a net loss of 765 billion yen in the year ending March 31, it said in an Oct. 31 statement, scrapping its May forecast of 50 billion yen in income. That would be the second-highest loss in its history. Panasonic is planning to cut 8,000 jobs by the end of March.
The company's home-appliance business contributed 81.5 billion yen to its 43.7 billion yen operating income last fiscal year, while the audio and visual products segment, which includes Viera TVs and digital cameras, lost 67.9 billion yen, according to its earnings statement.
Outstanding Debt
Panasonic has 930 billion yen of bonds outstanding, including 150 billion yen due March, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That's compared with Sony's 492 billion yen and Sharp's 395 billion yen, the data show.
The cost to insure Panasonic's debt for five years against nonpayment rose 8.6 basis points yesterday to 315 basis points, compared with a record 506 basis points Nov. 6, according to CMA prices. The company's stock fell 0.3 percent in morning trading today. It has dropped 38 percent this year.
"Panasonic's bond spreads had widened even more than you'd expect if there was a three-level rating cut," Takayuki Tezuka, a credit analyst at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc., said in a telephone interview on Nov. 19. "Realizing it was oversold, investors started buying, which brought the prices back to normal."
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Robert Sarmast is an author and explorer specializing in ancient history, world religions, and comparative mythology. He gave up a promising career in architecture in order to pursue his lifelong passion and the search for lost civilizations. Leaving behind more conventional pursuits, the author read widely and traveled extensively for over a decade in search of facts, sources, and knowledge on a variety of ancient mysteries. After these years of open-ended research, Sarmast narrowed his focus to solving one of the world's greatest riddles: the perennial mystery of Atlantis. His research led him to a small section of the sea floor of the eastern Mediterranean region–a sunken land mass stretching between Cyprus and Syria, and his work with the leading experts in the field resulted in the world's first detailed 3D maps and models of the eastern Mediterranean basin.
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Google's Singhal On Why Google Had Spam Issues
Google's much-discussed search engine change stemmed from a 2009 overhaul of the way Google indexed the web, said Amit Singhal, one of the company's top search engineers, in an interview Friday.
The technology change, called Caffeine, allowed Google's system to index a greater portion of the Web, and faster, so that fresher content could appear in its search results.
As a result, "when you grow your index at that rate, some not-so-good content comes in and we were keenly aware of that," he said. Determining the "quality" of sites and how to lower the rankings of less-useful ones has been "a very hard problem to solve," he said. "We don't do knee-jerk changes."
After focusing on the issue, the company had a "breakthrough" several months ago that led to the latest changes announced Thursday night. Singhal said he couldn't discuss such details and how the search algorithm determines quality of site, because spammers could use the answers to game the system.
Singhal did say that the company added numerous "signals," or factors it would incorporate into its algorithm for ranking sites. Among those signals are "how users interact with" a site. Google has said previously that, among other things, it often measures whether users click the "back" button quickly after visiting a search result, which might indicate a lack of satisfaction with the site.
In addition, Google got feedback from the hundreds of people outside the company that it hires to regularly evaluate changes. These "human raters" are asked to look at results for certain search queries and questions such as, "Would you give your credit card number to this site?" and "Would you take medical advice for your children from those sites," Singhal said.
Every year Google makes about four to six major search-algorithm changes, which impact a wide variety of sites and help improve the overall quality of search results, Singhal said. Google also makes hundreds of minor tweaks a year, executives have said.
But this week's change is the "biggest in years that targeted site quality" in particular, Singhal noted.
While some sites will rise and some will fall due to this week's changes, Singhal said, "we would like the Web ecosystem to be healthier and for original content creators to be ranked higher. This change does exactly that."
Decisions about what constitutes shallow and relevant search results are largely subjective, said Danny Sullivan, editor of the blog Search Engine Land.
Even after this week's changes, it will be difficult to figure out whether results are more or less relevant than before, he said, because "we don't have a third-party accepted measurement for the relevancy of results."
One measure is public opinion, and there Google has stayed strong. The company has essentially maintained its 66% share of search volume in the U.S. for the past couple of years, according to comScore Inc., despite progress lately by Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine.
In terms of search-advertising revenue, Google's share has actually increased over the past few years to more than 70% of the $12 billion U.S. market, according to eMarketer. Google generated nearly $30 billion in revenue last year, largely from search advertising. More than half of revenue came from outside the U.S.
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Full Moon of Paravan
by Jeffrey Brooks
If we would like to use the Buddha's instruction to rescue people who are in danger we need to train consistently.
In martial arts we may train each day for an hour or two. To truly save people from harm we will need to devote at least that much time.
But that time is not deducted from the rest of our lives. In every moment is a moment of training. If we train well under controlled conditions, such as in the meditation room and the class room, then we can train well under more difficult conditions, such as in the flow of daily life, or during a special moment at the boundary between life and death.
Our minds crave objects. The technical term for this in Pali is "dhammatanha." When our senses are not stimulated, such as in periods of meditation or waiting for a bus, our minds will prowl around for something to grab onto – fantasies, mental imagery, abstract ideas, intellectual systems, feelings or emotional states of mind such as anger or desire.
If we are unable to put down mental objects at will we will be unable to practice well. We will lack the presence of mind to deal with reality as it unfolds. And we will be unable to place our minds where we want them, at will. We will become off balance and preoccupied. In martial arts this can cause a lapse in attention or timing which will get us hurt. In our work as bodhisattvas it is a dead end.
We can practice a technique which will end the craving for mental objects. A calm, clear, luminous mind will arise as a result. Developing this gives us real poise and balance. We can respond to conditions without hesitation or hurry. We never need to substitute rudeness for strength, or impulsiveness for spontaneity.
The technique is to place the mind on our breath as it enters our nostrils and moves over our upper lip. As we experience some distraction, through our senses or through our craving for mental objects, we can return our attention to the motion of our breath. It is hard to do at first. If you persist it becomes easy.
Then we can easily practice it for a moment or an hour. When you get good at it, you can place your attention where you want it, wherever you need it. Training in this way frees you to act skillfully, with no hindrance in the mind.
This provides a basis for your practice of the path to enlightenment. It is a first step. It is a practice we can do anytime and anywhere, along our path through life.
The Anapanasati Sutta, called "Mindfulness of Breathing," includes the classical presentation of this idea.


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Ralph Lauren, official apparel sponsor of the US Open, will once again outfit on-court officials and ball-persons in sporty upper crust fashion. Above are just two of the new designs and colorways you'll see this year at the BJK Tennis Center.
The full RL 2013 US Open tennis collection features official outfits in beautifully saturated colors, as
well as quintessentially groomed tennis dresses, skirts, shorts, polo shirts, sweaters, and caps that will have you looking oh so well heeled.
A few of the special edition shirts ($69 – $125) are below:
If ordering online check both sides of the polos. Your polo pony size tolerance level will likely determine your choices.
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Invoke the lint program and its options from the command line. To invoke lint in the basic mode, use the following command:
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Enhanced lint is invoked with the -Nlevel or -Ncheck option. For example, you can invoke enhanced lint as follows:
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lint examines code in two passes. In the first pass, lint checks for error conditions within C source files; in the second pass, it checks for inconsistencies across C source files. This process is invisible to the user unless lint is invoked with -c:
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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. --An interfaith memorial service is planned at Marist College for three people killed when a fire tore through an off-campus home being rented by students at the Hudson Valley college.
Funeral services for 21-year-old Eva Block of Woodbridge, Conn., were held Monday afternoon in Fairfield, Conn. She was a senior at Marist in the town of Poughkeepsie.
Poughkeepsie police identify the other victims of the Saturday morning fire as 21-year-old Marist student Kerry Fitzsimmons of Commack, and 21-year-old Kevin Johnson of New Canaan, Conn. He was a Dutchess Community College student.
Four people escaped by jumping out windows. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Marist spokesman Greg Cannon says a memorial service is planned for 11:15 a.m. Wednesday at the college chapel.
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In Roman times, the Danube acted as the border (limes) between the Roman Empire and barbaric lands almost in its full length. The Croatian part of the Danubian limes stretches from Batina Skela to Ilok and is 188 km long. This section of border was secured by forts and watchtowers. These were connected by military roads and Danube itself forms the border marking. It goes through two areas that do not have just different names (Baranja and Slavonija) but also different geomorphologic structure. The north-western Baranja is a flat area dominated by the Baranja Hill (243 m), while the area between the rivers Danube and Drava is covered by marshland of Kopacki Rit. In Slavonian region the limes is marked by steep and high banks of the Danube. The Croatian part of the Danubian limes can be separated in two areas: the "belt" immediately by the river (one has to bear in mind that the Danube has changed its flow in this area to some extent) and the hinterland. In the hinterland of this part of limes there was a number of local roads, but also three very important land corridors that went along important rivers such as the river Sava (Emona – Siscia – Sirmium) and Drava (Poetovia – Mursa - Cibale – Sirmium), as well as the road that linked Klosterneuburg/Cannabiaca and Zemun/Taurunum, constructed by Romans to increase the flow of army and goods. That road went along the right bank of the Danube. It is an ancient route, known already in prehistory and partly still in use today. The research has shown that this Roman, so-called military road, moved away from the Danube in two places. South of Batina Skela (Ad militare) it turns towards the southern slopes of the Ban Hill and Zmajevac (Ad Novas). From Zmajevac one road went to Pecs (Sopianae), while the limes road went further towards the south, and passed through the present-day settlements of Dragojlov Brijeg, Grabovac, Lug, Vardarac and Kopacevo. In this section the modern road follows the Roman route. After Kopacevo the road could have turned more to the west towards Bilje from where it went to Osijek (Mursa) or it could have continued straight to the south towards the river Drava crossing near Nemetin (Ad Labores). From there the road went through Sarvaš – Bijelo Brdo to Dalj (Teutoborgium). However, both field surveys and archeological finds suggest yet another possibility. The road could have connected Nemetin – Aljmaš – Erdut – Dalj. From Dalj (Teutoburgium), the road went back to the Danube, along the route Gradac – Borovo – Vukovar – Sotin (Cornacum) – Ilok (Cuccium).


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An interesting, albeit failed, attempt to find a workable format for racing within the cramped confines of the Game Boy hardware. This top-down offroad-ish game doesn't quite pull off its ambitions thanks for fussy controls and annoying track design.
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Here's what you need to know about Fist of the North Star, if you're unfamiliar with the concept: It's based heavily on the Road Warrior/Mad Max movies. And it's written by a guy who adopted the nom de plume Buronson. Yes, that's how you write "Bronson" in Japanese. As in, Charles Bronson. In other words, […]


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So, no new instances/raids any time soon which probably means all of 2014.... Maybe time to move on for the old guard of dedicated raiders?
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So, no new instances/raids any time soon which probably means all of 2014.... Maybe time to move on for the old guard of dedicated raiders?
Yeah, its in the producers letter too.
With out appropiate end game content its the end of the game. period.
3+ years playing the game and since RoR this is on a abysm going deeper in it, were every time they say they will do something its completly mis directed to what they should do.
Festivals are more important it looks... who cares about those non sense things, its annoying to be closing the auto quest everytime it pops up. If dressing up and cosmetics its what Turbine focused on for 2014, then they dont understand this is LOTRO and not Barby Online.
I wonder what this year will bring then...
I get the feeling that the Big Battles are only run because that's where the jewellery is atm. Seems like most of Brandy is burnt out on them already. If they don't tweak or add new drops, not many people will continue to run them once they are satisfied with their set drops. I still need a gold item and after getting over 200 platinum medals between sidequest and overall.. I still don't. My buddy got one on his 3rd plat reward cash in.
There's something missing with the Big Battles. I applaud the effort that the devs put into it, taking the game in a different direction. But they don't give me the same overwhelming urgency to perform to the best of my class's ability in a group to survive like a good ol T2cm did before or even during RoR.
The Big Battles feel disconnected to me, that I'm just an observer doing quick-time events in a cut-scene.
So the first quarter of 2014 is=
Update 12.2 = bug fixes and balance changes - Late jan? early Feb? So then another 2 month or so pause before the next update (historically)
April before any chance of 95 FA's, new drop gear, Moors fixes (and there's a bunch needed) or other content.
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r11 - Champ , r8 - Mini,
* Community Update videos will return once the team returns from their holidays. The aim is for a video every two weeks.
* He is hoping to stream more often this year. Perhaps once a week on Fridays, and maybe with some Devs pulled in too.
Well at least they are concentrating on important stuff, like making videos of each other...
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Freeps: Vulcwen (R8 LM), Vulciel (lvl 100 RK), and some lower level alts.. Creep: Shadowweb (R6 spider)
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So reading between the lines of Sapience's responses and the Producers Letter, we are a long long time away from ANY kind of content, instance or region or otherwise.
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While I'm happy the Rift will never be scaled what they're saying is what we have is all we're getting for about the next year plus. I am sad beyond words.
I never watched a Community Update video in the past and I don't find it likely I will watch one in the future. I want to play lotro with some content included.
Sapience, I appreciate the fact you're playing the game on a low level character and streaming live, but honestly I never watched it when you did it before and I don't think watching the Community Manager play is game content. Perhaps for some of the kids who have a lot of hero worship it might be neat to see you in the moors where they all run out and try to find you to say they saw Sapience, or try to find you on a low level character so they can run around and again find you, but selfish as it sounds I play this game for me. I want to play. I'm not sure how anybody streaming the game live is helping either the game or me or any of my raiding buddies who have moved on. Add that to the fact you seem to do it during the day on work days (understandable since you're paid to do this, it is your job) and kids are the most likely to see it because the rest of us have jobs too.
I remember a post in beta where a Turbine blue name said they expected when the expansion went live they'd have a couple of weeks of just absolute doom and gloom hatred and bashing and then it would settle down, like always. Do you consider the forums now settled? I'd be very curious to see if this continued reaction is what you all expected.
I'd explain it to you, but I'm all out of Puppets and Crayons.
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What if instead of making a new one, they fix/tweak older ones. Imagine a 95 BG T2C being just as hard, or maybe harder than the 65 raid at cap. Would you sign onto that? I believe stuff like that is what they'll be up to.
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I'd explain it to you, but I'm all out of Puppets and Crayons.
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GLADDEN: Moochy, 105 Minstrel R10 + alts CRICKHOLLOW: Moochy, 21 Minstrel
PLEASE tell me they fixed Hunters and their ability to use Heightened Senses in the Ettenmoors?Patch 12.2 will likely arrive late this month. It will contain largely bug fixes and balance changes.
Sad, really. This probably means that none of the other older content will be scaled either.The Rift of Nurz Gashu will not be scaled, period. Players get misty eyed about this particular instance, far more than they ever liked it at the time. Scaling it would cause even more complaints no matter how they do it.
A...power...outage...broke...t he...lotteries??? I REALLY find this one hard to believe, and i work in IT. And so do my friends that work in IT. And so do their friends that work in IT.The power outage that delayed the release of HD also messed up the hardware that runs the Lotteries. As a result they are down with no ETA.
What is there to update? There's no new instances coming, it's going to be some time before we see new content, if at all. This isn't GW2 where they actually have new content coming out every two weeks and have something to talk about.Community Update videos will return once the team returns from their holidays. The aim is for a video every two weeks.
"Big Battles" are here to stay.There will be no new instance cluster release in the near future.
Uhh...why? There will be no new systems to show, so why bother streaming or dragging the Devs away from their jobs?He is hoping to stream more often this year. Perhaps once a week on Fridays, and maybe with some Devs pulled in too.
I really hate to say this, but welcome to the end of LOTRO, people.
P.S. Does anyone want about 800 gold and my stuffs?
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Note: My posts are my OPINION, and are NOT intended to "troll", "provoke", "bait" or "harass".
If my posts are taken as such, then I humbly apologize in advance.
By the way, the latter could have easily been Turbine's issue. There were reports of 2 office buildings getting hit by lightning in the Boston area during the time they had their power outage.
And yes Beanie, it was a typo. If they retool it right, I'd be in. It won't be any longer than 8mo-1yr interruption in the cycle. There will still be a VIP quest pack this spring/summer (as said by Katz), and I see another small quest pack around the late fall. Then the next major release will be the Gondor expansion.
There has to be some content in the game that sustains interest in people when questing is done. Right now big battles have fallen flat, even among people who enjoy them. They're not enough to keep us going.
For Turbine who envisioned people of all levels playing together in big battles giving it more legs, nobody I've seen takes lower levels into big battles and no lower levels I've seen have shown interest in going. It fell flat in this aspect too. I'm sure there's a small niche of folks that run with smaller toons but I'd bet it's less than the percentage of raiders Turbine admits to having as a playerbase.
If Turbine goes a year without some new playable content there will be few people left and no reason for new players to join.
And I'm not an IT person, never claimed to be, but if equipment was damaged by a storm wouldn't you just replace it? Insurance should cover it if the company can't afford to. And wouldn't the programming be backed up somewhere? I guess I'm confused as to why this would break an entire system of lotteries.
I'd explain it to you, but I'm all out of Puppets and Crayons.
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It was pretty clear no new instances were planned in 2014 letter. Silence of people in PC every time it was brought up on forum just further confirmed it - they knew, they just couldn't tell us cause the ship has already sailed.
I expect 2014 "content" will be something like this:
1st quarter = Fangorn region, wildermore-like solo heaven that ppl will finish in few days and forget
2nd quarter = probably session play Paths of the Dead/Dead Marshes OR another solo heaven minimap that ppl will finish in few days and forget
3rd quarter = housing revamp, probably another solo heaven minimap that ppl will finish in few days and forget
4th quarter = probably another solo heaven minimap that ppl will finish in few days and forget
OD raid took over 8 months of work per jwbarry. So if they started now, it would still be minimum 6months to release. But we know it won't happen, they apparently think old festivals with few new quests, inventory revamp and 1 minimap per quarter that can be finished within a day or two will keep ppl engaged for the whole year. Priorities upside down.
Not planning to renew my VIP when it ends in 2 months for 2 reasons:
1) insane lag in pvp
2) lack of new group content in pve
I know, i'm in "single digit minority" so maybe see u in 2015 for checkup?
Seriously, though, I've never heard, in my life, of a power outage affecting software unless whomever was handling it was so incompetent that they didn't have any of the things that I mentioned above running.
(Note: I am not saying that anyone at Turbine is incompetent, just stating that saying that a power outage caused software to stop working seems a little far fetched).
EDIT: Although this whole ordeal could be why they are looking for an Executive Director of Engineering.
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If my posts are taken as such, then I humbly apologize in advance.
They keep saying it, eventually people will believe them, I guess.
It does leave the question: why in the world was it considered necessary to invest vast development resources and antagonize a significant fraction of the player base to redo all the classes, when there is ZERO content, now or planned for the foreseeable future, in which class roles matter?
That to me, remains a real head-scratcher. The only thing I can think is that the class revamp was sort of a "senior project" for the new crop of inexperienced class dev interns to get their feet wet before being moved to higher priority projects.
I've finally accepted the fact that I need to find a new MMO. It's really too bad that there are no other Middle-earth MMOs, but other than that 1 fact, the ones I've tried out today do EVERYTHING else better.
I'll do the quests in LOTRO because they are still good quality. Other than that, I don't particularly want to spend time in game anymore. No crafting, no deeding, no reputations grinds, certainly no Big Battles, no Legendary Item grinds (I'll keep my 85s), I'll wear quest reward gear.
I can't believe how much this game has changed in the last couple of years.
MINSTREL and member of the vocal minority
In my eyes, all Add-Ons with increased max-level were too fast to complete. From HD-Add-On i saw the first 95ers 4 hours after the HD has started. It took a long time to reach level 50 with SoA. So why it is so easy to reach the new max-level in such a short time?
Why players rush to new content the reach the new max-level in the shortest time? No developers can follow this speed to create new and new content.
A lot of players, who are doing instances, raids, skirmishes, i think are under pressure of time. I have no clue, why to run the same instance over and over again, hours and hours a day just to get marks, medaillons and gear and blingblings? Is this a kind of fun, i don't understand? Doesn't this destroy the fun of playing a game if the only thing i do ist farm the hell out of poor Sambrog?
And why should the festival responsible for the lack of other new content? I hope, there will be festivals in the future, too. Do we need more of them? I don't think so, There are pretty much of them and mostly they put new horses and other wardrobe in for the next event. Doesn't sound that this will be cost a lot of developing time. (btw: i like the festivals :-) )
But on the other hand:
Of course, new endgame content is needed.
The epic battles bring some fun. But i don't think, that they can motivate playing them for more than a year (or two?). The same thing with new skirmishes: They are to small in comparison
with a full lenght-raid. I hope they are working on an new instance and raid cluster.
Edit: Big Battles have one adavantage for me: The upscaling. Now i can play some kind of group play with the few friends, who have stayed in the game, on the same level. (my character stopped at 78).
Never the less we are also in need of a lot bugs to be fixed. And i hope, they will release a bunch of patches to get rid of most of them.
I don't need a big Addon every year, but if there will be one, i want a "really" Add-On with all components inside, so that it is worth called an Add-On. New huge landscape, masses of quests, a good epic story and as the highlight instances and a fantastic raid.
But how complicated is it to satisfy all groups of players?......
I will look forward into this year and i am curious about what will be there in the following months.
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Well guess its time to pack up and await the coming of Elder Scrolls Online, to be honest I should have seen it coming the last expansion was left wanting but it least it had a reason to log in from day to day with daily quests to rebuild Hytbold and the Erebor cluster this expansion gives no real reason to log in as the content is that easy there is no real reason to bother hunting for golds items in big battles.
- To make it simpler to "advance" classes by just attaching skill points to levels (no need to invent new skills and such in the future)
- To keep people busy for a bit while they're relearning their classes
- Marketing. They're trying to get new people into the game, as new people who don't already have quest packs and other "convenience" features unlocked are likely to spend money for TP to get those. And "restored old loot system", "new endgame raids" or "second PvMP map" just doesn't attract new (casual) players with no reference to the existing game, while "Epic Battles starting at level 10" or "Completely redesigned skill trees" might. From a marketing perspective. Getting new players is more important than retaining existing ones.
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The only sense I can make of Turbine's current policy is if they have hard statistical numbers from sales and game-play analysis that prove to them that it is only a vocal minority of their existing customers that desire a challenging game and group content. If perhaps folks are spending their money on the Isengard and East Rohan quests packs and not purchasing the full expansions then that is giving Turbine a different picture of their base than the posts on the forum would indicate. If they had disappointing sales on Helm's Deep then their fall back strategy could well be easy sales of 795 TP zones with just quests and war bands.
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General government debt stood at an estimated 107% of GDP and is set to peak at 119% in 2013.
The NTMA said so-called burden-sharing with subordinated bondholders has delivered €15.5bn for the Exchequer since 2009.
Chief executive John Corrigan said: "The NTMA remained at the forefront of the state's response to the financial crisis during 2011 through its ongoing investor relations programme, provision of advice to the Minister for Finance on borrowing and debt-related issues, its work on burden-sharing with subordinated bank bondholders, and the work carried out by the National Pensions Reserve Fund [NPRF]."
The NPRF saw its discretionary portfolio earn a 1.6% preliminary return — about €250 million — compared to a 3.5% fall for average Irish-managed pension funds.
"The positive performance of the discretionary portfolio was largely due to the fund, in mid-year, adopting a significant tactical 'underweight' position in equities and purchasing two-year equity index 'put' options, which have shielded much of the fund's quoted equities holdings from adverse price movements," the agency explained.
In July, the NPRF reduced its exposure to equity markets by 10%, or €500m amid mounting concerns about the global debt crisis.
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A growing body of evidence suggests that deportations of foreign partners who are married to a same-sex partner and would otherwise be eligible for a green card are on hold, at least in some parts of the country, until immigration officials in the departments of Justice and Homeland Security assess the impact of ongoing challenges to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act or perhaps until the courts can resolve those challenges.
Although no officials in either agency or at the White House responded to requests for comment today, The Daily Beast/Newsweek reported on the evening of March 25 that the heads of two of the 26 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service districts — those located in the District and Baltimore — have said publicly in the past week that the cases of such married same-sex couples within their districts have been put on hold. Moreover, attorney Lavi Soloway tells Metro Weekly that he is aware of at least one other case in another district in which a same-sex married couple is scheduled to have the interview that the USCIS conducts for all married couples seeking marriage-based green cards.
Soloway tells Metro Weekly in an extensive interview today that he agrees with these district heads and is cautiously optimistic that this is a new national policy — although he cautions that it is not yet clear that the policy is a national one and notes the circumstances could change if DOMA is upheld and that any couple should consult an attorney before acting on these developments.
"The most just approach [for the government] during this period is to maintain the status quo," he says, pointing to the 10-year bar on returning to the country faced by an individual who is deported. Moreover, he sees this issue as distinct from the broader marriage debate, saying, "This isn't about whether anybody thinks gay or lesbian couples should be able to marry. This is about whether the federal government should be discriminating between different groups of married couples."
Over the course of the month since DOJ announced that it — and President Barack Obama — viewed sexual orientation classifications as subject to heightened scrutiny and that, accordingly, it would no longer be enforcing Section 3 of the DOMA, several developments in immigration cases appear to show that married same-sex bi-national couples could be positively impacted by the decision, whether directly or indirectly.
Soloway started raising the issue in pending cases the day after the Justice Department's Feb. 23 decision. Were it not for Section 3 of DOMA, he argues, a U.S. citizen who is half of a same-sex bi-national married couple would be able to sponsor his or her non-citizen spouse for the purpose of obtaining a green card. DOMA, however, has regularly led to the denial of such requests, as happened with two of his clients, Josh Vandiver and Henry Velandia.
"Josh and Henry received their denial only four months after filing," Soloway, a co-founder of Immigration Equality, says. Following that denial, Soloway took the case before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), where it is now pending. Because of the Justice Department's decision, Soloway attached the DOJ announcement, which came in the form of a letter from Attorney General Eric Holder, to the Feb. 24 BIA filing, claiming that the BIA should not be upholding denials of such applications in light of the decision by Obama and Holder that Section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional.
And, in the case of two bi-national couples who have brought such a claim in the month since the DOJ decision, officials within DOJ and the Department of Homeland Security — both of whom have jurisdiction over different aspect of immigration law — appear to be listening to Soloway's argument.
As Metro Weekly reported on March 9, Edwin Echegoyen and Rodrigo Martinez, who married in D.C., avoided separation because Martinez, who was due to be deported, was released under an Order of Supervision by officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement pending the outcome of marriage-related requests to avoid deportation. Meanwhile, Monica Alcota, who is from Argentina, and Cristina Ojeda were successful in getting Alcota's depotation proceeding adjourned by an immigration judge in New York until their marriage-based immigration case could be decided.
Following up on this anecdotal evidence, The Daily Beast/Newsweek's Mike Giglio reported on March 25 that "the heads of two USCIS districts—Washington, D.C. and Baltimore—informed attorneys from the advocacy group American Immigration Lawyers Association that cases in their districts involving married gay and lesbian couples would be put on hold." Although it is not yet clear whether the policy is one reached at the district level or if it has come from higher up, the cases are being handled differently since Feb. 23 in multiple districts and Soloway is already calling the development a "game-changer" for bi-national couples seeking to avoid deportation.
"There is no other reason in the world for these changes [to be happening so quickly]," he says, other than the DOJ decision.
The importance of this development, he says, is that "[a]nybody with a pending green card application should also be eligible for employment authorization." In this sense, he notes, "Abeyance [the legal term for putting the cases on hold] is important for people to be able to survive."
The other significant point of this change in at least some districts' policies is very practical in that a pending green card application will keep deportation proceedings from beginning. "When you're not in deportation proceedings, there can be no deportation order," he notes, which effectively means that putting the cases on hold stops the deportations. This, Soloway notes, was his aim when he started the Stop the Deportations project in 2010.
"Since the change of position by the administration on DOMA, we've had the opportunity to interact with immigration enforcement officials — whether that be deportation officers or immigration judges — and to bring to their attention the changing legal landscape for DOMA, and to advocate that the policy be put into place that essentially freezes cases in their status quo. Understanding, of course, that the Defense of Marriage Act remains the law of the land and we cannot achieve full equality for the bi-national couples we're representing [until Section 3 of DOMA is repealed or struck down]," he says.
"We have been trying, with significant success, to persuade those with discretionary authority to do so, to protect couples and keep them together for an indefinite interim period while the Defense of Marriage Act makes its way to what will be its final fate, either by the Supreme Court or by the hands of Congress."
Day by day, Soloway says, it is beginning to look like that is what is happening.
[Photo: Edwin Echegoyen, left, and Rodrigo Martinez are married in the District on March 1 (Photo provided by the DOMA Project).]


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Topic: Allow Competition! [Monday January 23, 2017]
…I run that I man win… – 1 Corinthians 9:26
Healthy competition is good.
It allows room for variety of events.
Healthy competition makes room for diversities.
It is also the breeding environment for improvement and excellence.
After all, competition is not devilish if it is engaged healthily.
Without it the system remains dull and creativity becomes nonexistent. Without it life will loose its excitement.
Creativity allows room for options instead of regimentation of approach to issues.
The moment you're aware that options and alternatives exist over what you're doing, you are been compelled to put in your best and to become your best.
Above all, life is a race. Paul said, I run that I may win. (1 Corinthians. 9:26.)
And it is clear that you can't run to win except you carry a competitive mentality.
In essence, all human beings are born to compete.
What makes it healthy is the fact that you are not grieved or offended at your neighbour's advancement. Rather you focus on how to improve yourself in your God-ordained endeavours.
So, if you must win then you must compete!
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Financial stocks grabbed the lead among S&P 500 sectors early Tuesday, while Bank of America was the No. 1 advancer among the Dow industrials.
The Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund XLF, -3.69% which tracks financial stocks in the S&P 500 SPX, -2.52% was up 0.9%. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS, -3.53% was up 2.3%.
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In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) announced that its 193 members had unanimously adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—also called Global Goals—to take the place of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the push for which will end with the close of 2015.
We at Deloitte partnered with the Social Progress Imperative, a non-profit that has been measuring the social progress of countries around the world since 2013, on an analysis of how the UN's 17 Global Goals can be achieved based on the world's current Social Progress Index (SPI), and what we found is that 'business as usual' isn't going to cut it.
Much of the success in realizing the MDGs has been credited to economic growth, which helped raise income levels in high population countries such as China and India. But the new Global Goals require a different, more ambitious treatment.
What we've seen with the Global Goals is we can actually relate all 17 of them to the dimensions that comprise the SPI. The goals primarily relate to the Basic Human Needs and Foundations of Wellbeing dimensions, but we also noted that these new goals, compared to the MDGs, focus more on the Opportunity dimension, which can't be easily addressed by economic growth.
As defined by the Social Progress Imperative, the SPI is an aggregate index of social and environmental indicators that capture three dimensions of social progress: Basic Human Needs, Foundations of Well-being and Opportunity, which are further broken down into 12 components and 52 indicators. The components of the Opportunity dimension – such as tolerance and inclusion, and personal freedom and choice – may be embedded in cultural or societal beliefs that are harder to alter.
Global social progress in 2030
Based on data from the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, economic growth is forecast to be relatively steady over the next 15 years. For the 133 countries ranked by the SPI, real GDP per capita is predicted to increase 58.8% from $14k to $23k over the period under consideration. This is equivalent to the world's average annual income changing from one that is similar to Thailand ($14k) today, to one that is similar to Hungary ($23k) today.
If the same relationship between GDP per capita and SPI scores continues to hold into 2030, this GDP increase will not lead to notable social progress increases: The 2015 world average SPI of 61.0 would improve to 62.4.
That's merely a 2.3% increase. It would be like moving from a similar social progress level as Cuba at 60.8 to that of Nicaragua at 62.2, and it would mean that 15 years from now, the world SPI score would remain lower than today's average for those countries classified as having Upper Middle Social Progress, which is 69.9.
The Philippines in 2030
For 2015, the Philippines' SPI stands at 65.5, which classifies us as a country with Lower Middle Social Progress. In 2030, if the current relationship between GDP per capita and SPI holds, we will have an SPI of 67.59, elevating us to the Upper Middle category, comparable to Mexico today (67.50).
Under this condition, however, the country's score for Personal Rights will decline – from 62.00 in 2015 to 59.49 in 2030, and it will decline further even if the country performed 5% above the trend level of social progress given its GDP per capita.
Meanwhile, improvements in the components of Tolerance and Inclusion, and Ecosystem Sustainability will be negligible – 0.5 and 0.6, respectively. The component of Health and Wellness will show no improvement.
These negligible to negative relationship between GDP per capita and these SPI component scores indicate that higher income may have conflicting negative or positive effects on the underlying indicators. For instance, within the Shelter component, while high income may improve the quality of housing available to Filipinos, it may have a negative impact on environmental sustainability.
Considering the unique challenges faced by each country measured by the Index, interventions will vary across economies for the world to collectively achieve an aspirational level of social progress: a global SPI of 75 is needed in order to achieve the UN's Global Goals.
Based on the 2015 SPI, the Philippines performed poorly in the component of Personal Safety, and could also improve its score in the component of Tolerance and Inclusion, particularly in the following indicators: tolerance for immigrants, and discrimination and violence against minorities.
The role of government and business
The limits of relying on economic growth to attain development in the different dimensions of social progress makes the case for governments, business, and international institutions to collaborate and act. Social progress components in the Well-being and Opportunity dimension, especially in countries where institutional or cultural barriers may impede progress, need to be further studied.
We could learn from successful social progress countries – particularly those that score high in Personal Safety and Tolerance and Inclusion – in developing and applying targeted policies that address these weaknesses in our country.
With increased stakeholder, regulatory and consumer pressures, more companies are also seeking to integrate social impact into their business. Contributing through quality employment or the provision of services typically provided by the state may enable businesses to generate synergies that have valuable impact on the social development of the country.
The author is Managing Partner & CEO of Navarro Amper & Co., the local member practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd, a UK private company limited by guarantee ("DTTL"). Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax and related services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. Deloitte has more than 220,000 professionals worldwide, including those in Deloitte Southeast Asia Ltd., which covers Brunei, Cambodia, Guam, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.


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Graham Rowntree: England to draw on spirit of 2003 against New Zealand
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England will draw on memories of one of their finest hours when they bid to defy the odds and beat New Zealand in Auckland on Saturday.
Eleven years ago Martin Johnson's side completed only the nation's second victory on Kiwi soil by humbling the All Blacks 15-13 in Wellington.
Forwards coach Graham Rowntree was involved that night as England emerged triumphant despite playing nearly nine minutes of the second half with Lawrence Dallaglio and Neil Back in the sin-bin.
The 2014 tourists have been given little hope of denying New Zealand a 15th successive victory as they enter the series opener without players from Aviva Premiership finalists Northampton and Saracens and with a lengthy injury list.
But Rowntree insists the 2003 success was founded on the same brand of indomitable spirit that will be necessary at Eden this weekend.
"It's been referenced a lot that victory in Wellington. It was a special night and it's a case of having self-belief," he said.
"That's what it took that night - an incredible amount of self-belief.
"We all know how good this team we're playing are, but we've come here full of enthusiasm and self-belief.
"My over-riding reflection of that game 11 years ago was our self-belief and hanging in there. We just stuck in there.
"We were down to six men in a scrum on our own goalline in one period because we had Lawrence and Neil in the sin-bin - cheers for that.
"It's hard enough with a full deck of cards against the All Blacks, never mind being down to six.
"We were hanging on for dear life, but that's rugby. Digging in when you're facing adversity.
"That was a significant win for that group of players, who went on to win the World Cup.
"It was a stepping stone and that's what this is for this group of young players.
"Pitching yourself against the best at Eden Park - it doesn't get any better or harder than that."
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Feb 7-8, & 10, viewed about half way down the Reeds Road Trail. Reeds
Road is the first trail on the right about a quarter mile after the park
entrance. A NORTHERN SHRIKE was seen again on the right hand side of the
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recently feeding on the lawns at MacClearie Park on Rt. 35. Also at
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OWL at dusk.
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intersection with Rt. 15.
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PINE SISKINS and BARRED OWL were still present this week at Weis Ecology
Center in Ringwood; the feeders at Scherman-Hoffman Sanctuary has FOX
SPARROWS and TREE SPARROWS.
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feeders in small numbers at feeders in northern parts of the state this
The March 7 Cape May pelagic has just 10 spaces left. Reservations are
also being taken for a trip on April 17 out of Belmar, NJ. This trip
hopes to see if this is a good time of year to try for Great Skua, and
will seek out the large mackerel and herring schools migrating north.
For more information, contact See Life Paulagics at 215-234-6805 or see
their web site at http://www.paulagics.com
The Voice of New Jersey Audubon is a weekly report on birding in New
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Species goes to the New Jersey Bird Records Committee at 91 Sycamore
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The big music labels have won their first court case against an individual accused of stealing music online: A federal jury in Duluth, Minn has found that 30-year-old Jammie Thomas shared 1,702 songs illegally, and has levied a $200,000 fine against her.
Of course, this isn't a win for the music business at all. Because suing your customers -- and actually taking them to court -- is never a good idea. Nevermind that the legal case against Thomas was always straightforward -- the courts have been quite clear about the illegality of filesharing for years. The spectacle that the case created -- music execs, for instance, trudging over to a Duluth courthouse to explain why copying music you own is technically illegal -- didn't do anything to help the music industry's case.
And neither will this ruling. Even if the fate of Jammie Thomas has a real deterrent effect (and we don't think it will), it's not going to solve the music industry's real problem: It is dependent on a product - the CD - that customers no longer want to buy. For argument's sake, say the industry is able to forcibly restrain people from illegal file-sharing. That still wouldn't turn song-stealers into CD buyers -- at best they'd be singles buyers. That is, instead of spending $10 or $15 for discs, they'd spend a couple bucks on individual songs. And even after years of cuts, the industry still isn't lean enough to support itself on a diet of $1 purchases.
Again, the good news is that no music executive geniuinely believes that they can put the file-sharing genie back in the bottle. But the bad news is that they haven't been able to figure out how to replace the CD. And unless they can, they're going to have to endure a lot more pain.
See Also:Retailers Pulling Back On DVDs -- Bad News For Hollywood, Terrible News For Big Music, Music Decline to Accelerate in 2008 With Retailer Cutbacks