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Market power
Strength of a firm on a particular market. In basic economic terms, market power is the ability of firms to price above marginal cost and for this to be profitable. In competition analysis, market power is determined with the help of a structural analysis of the market, notably the calculation of market shares, which necessitates an examination of the availability of other producers of the same or of substitutable products (substitutability). An assessment of market power also needs to include an assessment of barriers to entry or growth (entry barriers) and of the rate of innovation. Furthermore, it may involve qualitative criteria, such as the financial resources, the vertical integration or the product range of the undertaking concerned. European Commission
The ability of a firm (or group of firms) to raise and maintain price above the level that would prevail under competition is referred to as market or monopoly power. The exercise of market power leads to reduced output and loss of economic welfare. Although a precise economic definition of market power can be put forward, the actual measurement of market power is not straightforward. One approach that has been suggested is the Lerner Index, i.e., the extent to which price exceeds marginal cost. However, since marginal cost is not easy to measure empirically, an alternative is to substitute average variable cost. Another approach is to measure the price elasticity of demand facing an individual firm since it is related to the firm's price-cost (profit) margin and its ability to increase price. However, this measure is also difficult to compute. The actual or potential exercise of market power is used to determine whether or not substantial lessening of competition exists or is likely to occur. An approach adopted in the administration of merger policy in the United States and Canada seeks to predict whether, post-merger, the parties can institute a non- transitory price increase above a certain threshold level (say 5 or 10 per cent) which will vary depending on the case without attracting entry of new firms or production of substitute products. Their ability to maintain or exceed this price threshold is assessed by detailed examination of quantitative and qualitative market structure and firm behaviour factors. © OECD
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French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority clears a merger in the airport management concessions (Toulouse-Blagnac airport / Eiffage)
The Autorité de la concurrence clears the acquisition of Toulouse-Blagnac airport by the Eiffage group* On 8 November 2019, the Eiffage group notified the Autorité of its plan to acquire sole control of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport ("ATB"), which operates the Toulouse airport (31). By a decision (...)
French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority opens an in-depth investigation into a proposed merger in the petroleum product storage services market (Trapil / Pisto)
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French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority clears a merger subject to remedies in the hearing aids sector (Audilab / Demant)
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French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority clears two separate mergers concerning companies belonging to the same group in the transport sector (Capelle / AltéAd Marchal Levage and Mediaco-Capelle / AltéAd)
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European Commission The EU Commission clears a merger, subject to remedies, in the markets for batteries and portable battery chargers (Varta / Energizer)
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German Competition Authority The German Competition Authority and the Federal Network Agency publish their joint annual monitoring report on developments in the German electricity and gas markets
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French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority launches a market inquiry following a game console manufacturer's commitments proposal (Sony)
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French Competition Authority, German Competition Authority The French Competition Authority and the German Competition Authority present their joint study on algorithms and competition
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French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority decides to not renew remedies previously imposed to clear a merger in the telecommunications sector but keeps some injunctions valid (SFR / Altice)
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French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority clears a merger in in the energy efficiency sector (Économie d'Énergie / La Poste)
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Dutch Competition Authority The Dutch Competition Authority launches a market study into major tech firms on Dutch payments market
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Ulrich Schwalbe Market definition in the digital economy: An overview of EU and national case law
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German Competition Authority The German Competition Authority and the Federal Network Agency issue their guidelines for the control of abusive practices in the electricity generation and wholesale trade sector in terms of anti-trust and energy wholesale law
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Tim Kasten The German Federal Cartel Office and Federal Network Agency publish joint guidelines on control of abusive practices in the electricity sector
On 27 September 2019, the Federal Cartel Office ("FCO") and the Federal Network Agency ("FNA") jointly published guidelines for the control of abusive practices in the electricity generation and wholesale sectors, which also address the interpretation of certain aspects of the Regulation on (...)
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Portuguese Competition Authority The Portuguese Competition Authority fines a company for abuse of dominance in the market for secondary reserve services (EDP Produção)
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Dutch Competition Authority The Dutch Competition Authority prohibits a merger in the postal delivery market (Sandd / PostNL)
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Karine Biancone Restriction by the object: Advocate General Bobek proposes to the European Court of Justice a method for the determination of restriction of competition by object (Gazdasági Versenyhivatal / Budapest Bank)
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Kavita Jitani The Indian Supreme Court flips its jurisprudence on abuse of dominance in a case involving radios taxis alleged of predatory pricing (Uber)
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The CCI cleared the proposed merger of health insurer Apollo Munich Health Insurance Company (Apollo Munich) into HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company (HDFC ERGO). HDFC ERGO is a joint venture between HDFC and ERGO International AG. The CCI found that Apollo Munich and the HDFC Group overlapped (...)
UK Competition Authority The UK Competition Authority raises competition concerns regarding a merger in the markets of supply of IT systems used by airlines and travel agents to sell airline tickets (Sabre / Farelogix)
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European Commission The EU Commission opens an in-depth investigation regarding a merger in the supply of fuels market (PKN Orlen / Lotos)
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French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority clears a merger subject to remedies in the magazines market (Mondadori / Reworld Media)
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European Commission The EU Commission fines a chipmaker company €242 million for predatory pricing (Qualcomm)
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European Commission The EU Commission opens investigation into the allegedly anticompetitive conduct of a multinational online platform focused on e-commerce (Amazon)
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German Competition Authority The German Competition Authority obtains amendments of seller rules active on a major online marketplace (Amazon)
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German Competition Authority The German Competition Authority prohibits a merger in the waste management market (Remondis / DSD)
Bundeskartellamt prohibits Remondis/DSD merger* Bonn, 11 July 2019: The Bundeskartellamt has today prohibited the proposed acquisition by REMONDIS SE & Co. KG of all the shares in the dual system DSD - Duales System Holding GmbH & Co. KG. Andreas Mundt, President of the (...)
European Commission The EU Commission clears a merger subject to remedies in the market for air transport of passengers (Flybe / Connect Airways)
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Portuguese Competition Authority The Portuguese Competition Authority opens an in-depth investigation regarding a merger in the real estate investment funds market (Fidelidade-Saudeinveste / Imofid)
AdC started a phase II investigation on Fidelidade / Saudeinveste and Imofid merger* The AdC (Autoridade da Concorrência) decided to open a phase II investigation on the merger involving the acquisition by Fidelidade of two real estate investment funds, previously managed by a managing entity (...)
German Competition Authority The German Competition Authority clears a merger in the paper wholesale market (Papyrus Deutschland / Papier Union)
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Annalie Grogan, Peter Broadhurst, Satyen Dhana The UK Competition Authority announces the start of a formal market study into online platforms and the UK market for digital advertising
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European Commission The EU Commission opens an investigation against a designer of integrated circuits for wired communication devices and sends a Statement of Objections seeking to impose interim measures in TV and modem chipsets markets (Broadcom)
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French Competition Authority The French Competition Authority clears a merger in the cardboard sector following remedies accepted by EU Commission (International Paper Company / DS Smith)
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Thirteen is encouraging local people on the Dodford estate in the Hemlington area of Middlesbrough to get involved in a project to look at how the area could be improved.
Alongside Middlesbrough Council, Thirteen is working to draw up a range of actions to help improve the estate for residents.
An initial consultation event was held in February to give people who live and work on the estate, where Thirteen has 180 properties, the chance to share their opinions and ideas around what they like about the area, the problems it faces and ideas for improvement.
Thirteen is now running a second event to ensure it has correctly understood the views of attendees and to give people the chance to tell representatives about any other solutions they think would benefit the area. Thirteen also wants to gather further opinions from young people and discuss health issues, employment and financial services in the area which may help. Fifty people gave their responses following the first event, with a wide range of ideas that will be discussed at the follow up consultation.
Chris Smith, Executive Director of Service Delivery and Development at Thirteen, said: "The first consultation event was really successful with many residents coming along to share their opinions with us, demonstrating just how much interest there is in improving the area.
Marion Walker, Middlesbrough Council's Head of Stronger Communities, said: "This area of Hemlington has some unique challenges and the Council is working on this initiative with local residents, Thirteen housing and other key partners to bring about positive changes.
"This is a great opportunity to look at things differently, with a co-ordinated approach that reflects what local residents tell us they want to see happen in their neighbourhood, so we'd like as many people as possible from the local area to come along and get involved.
Residents of the Dodford estate are being urged to come along to find out more about the next stages of the project on Thursday 4 April, from 2pm to 6pm at Dodford Community Centre in Hemlington.
As well as the chance to view the proposals, there will also be craft activities, Easter eggs and face painting for children, food for all the family and a prize draw with the chance to win shopping vouchers for getting involved.


In case you've missed it, UserVoice is currently *obsessed* with researching and sharing industry best practices for customer feedback — a subject area that's continually evolving. In keeping with this theme, we decided to talk to product experts and get their perspectives on how to optimize customer feedback. This post is the third of a handful of influencer interviews we'll be sharing in the coming weeks.
As a content person at UserVoice, I'm constantly sniffing out engaging writing that product people will love. Paul Jackson's thoughtfully-curated product management Pivot Product Hits is one blog/newsletter I regularly read — both for great pieces by his peers and for his own provocative product posts. Jackson is also the Product Manager at Newsmart, an "EdTech" SAAS product that uses premium content to teach Business English.
"Over reliance on quantitative data at the expense of qualitative data is a common problem IMHO as is the assumption that customer feedback is easy to come by and easy to interrogate. Neither is correct.
Many PMs, like most executives, are blinded by the pseudo-science of dashboards and 'hard' analytics so regard customer feedback as 'soft' or less weighty. When presenting internally (especially upwards), it's much easier to make an impact with graphs and charts than it is with customer comments and textual anecdotes.
In the past, I've included customer comments in my presentations to the C-suite and been asked to remove them! I guess they were perceived as lacking 'gravitas.' People prefer to think of a business in terms of the numbers rather than trying to understand the people behind them. I wrote about it in this post.
"Develop a detailed profile of your ideal customer and then try to incentivise a small group of them to take part. Achieving this is very much dependent on your size, where your audience is and how many people are on your team.
For a new product like Newsmart, with a small number of subscribers, we can't yet discern who is 'ideal' or how to categorise within the base. Every subscriber is cherished at this stage! The best way to incentivise is to offer the product for free, but you want feedback from paying customers so there's a major downside to going this route. When you reach a certain # of paying customers, segmentation of paid customers becomes more realistic but incentivising engagement remains a challenge.
4. No Customer Success Team = All Hands Need to Be on Deck.
"On Newsmart there's no Customer Success team. There's just me and a Growth Marketer. We do all and any outreach, customer insight and customer support. There's only limited scope for us to understand our customers so we need to make any tactics count.


Journal: Outline Reflection – what questions do you have for your rough draft? How did it go?
Journal: MLA In-Text Citation for: "Look at that house, I said, it looks like Mexico." Page 18 - Copy the quote and add an in text citation.
Journal: What did you learn by completing the HOMS outline?
Journal: •Hyperbole: 1.Write an ORIGINAL example of hyperbole. 2.Why do writers use hyperbole? / What is the purpose or effect of hyperbole?
Journal: Magical Realism Example: Write something that could be part of the plot of a magical realism story.
Journal: Work Day Reflection: How was yesterday? Were you productive? Why or why not? What's your plan for today?
Journal: Describe your favorite character from any form of media.
Journal: Predict: How will Edward die? Explain your prediction.
Journal: Put yourself in William's shoes. If Edward were your father, would you be annoyed with Edward's storytelling? Explain.
Agenda: Civics Paper Outline Work Time; "Big Fish"
Journal: __________ characterizes _________as __________.
[Evidence] characterizes [character from Big Fish--you choose] as [adjective].
Journal: Edward's war story is kept purposefully vague, blending details from different wars. What is the effect of this vagueness?
Homework: Read Chapter 3. Refer to the BMU Unit Calendar for reading assignments and due dates throughout the BMU unit! Extra paper copies in my room.
Journal: Write a getting-to-know-you question for your group mates. Then, record each of their names + their answers.
Journal: Draw a map of Antonio's home, Las Pasturas, El Puerto, and the river.
Homework: Refer to the BMU Unit Calendar for reading assignments and due dates throughout the BMU unit!
Homework: Refer to the BMU Unit Calendar for reading assignments and due dates throughout the BMU unit! Make sure to bring your BMU Jigsaw Article back to class on Monday!!!
Journal: What is the golden carp? Why does Antonio struggle with the story of the carp?
Journal: Based on the examples, I think juxtaposition means____________.
Journal: What does the juxtaposition of the church's power and Ultima's power reveal?
**Don't forget to consider the extra credit--link to the assignment is to right/below!
Journal: Choose a symbol from Bless Me, Ultima. What theme does it represent? (Answer in complete sentences).
Journal: Movie Symbol and Motif: Identify a symbol and motif in a movie you have seen. Analyze how both the symbol and the motif support/develop the theme of the movie.
Homework: Refer to the BMU Unit Calendar!
Journal: Why do so many stories share a similar plot?
Agenda: Symbolic Figure Group Poster due in class; Lesson on Archetypes (see PPT); "Adventure Time Archetypes Worksheet"
Journal: Archetype in your Life: Write about a person or event in your life that fits into an archetype, and explain why.
Agenda: Last in-class work time to catch up on reading + packet pieces!
Homework: Refer to the BMU Unit Calendar! Book should be finished tonight!
Journal: Was there ever a time in your life where you had really high expectations for something and then were let down like Antonio? If yes, explain what happened and how you felt. If no, how do you imagine you would feel?
Homework: Refer to the BMU Unit Calendar! CATCH UP ON READING ASAP IF YOU ARE BEHIND!
Journal: How does Antonio's final run mirror the events earlier in the book?
Homework: Review the prompts and begin brainstorming your thesis!
Journal: What are three parts of a thesis statement?
Journal: Every piece of ______ must include an example of my ______, and must help me prove my ______.
Homework: Follow the BMU Essay Calendar for due dates through the rest of the unit!
Journal: What does it mean to analyze?
Homework: Outline due 10am tomorrow on Turnitin.com!
Agenda: Work time for rough draft; I will update the moved date of the test tomorrow.
Homework: BMU UNIT TEST IS ON MONDAY! Rough Draft due 8am Tuesday! Bring a paper copy to class!
Homework: Rough draft due 8am! Bring paper copy to class!
Journal: Final Draft Help: What do you need the most help with for your final draft?
Journal: Draw a cute picture.


The AN1000X series monitor speakers are intended for use in AV rooms or boardrooms and classrooms, however they can also be mounted on stands for sound projection to audiences in environments such as theme parks or public gatherings.
The AN-1000X+ powered monitor speaker has a rugged 50 watt MOSFET amplifier and matched two-way speaker system capable of reaching levels of 107dB at 1metre. Magnetically shielded for use near video monitors, this monitor can also be used in racks, or as standalone speakers.
The volume, HF and LF response controls are on the front panel, along with a red LED to signify power on. The rear panel has all connections including a balanced microphone input via a 3-pin XLR connector, with switchable 15V phantom power. It can also be switched to a balanced line input on XLR. A separate unbalanced line input is offered on a 2-pole, 6.35mm jack and single RCA (phono) connector. A post-fade line-out signal, on a single, unbalanced, RCA (phono) connector, can be used to feed other powered units; a speaker output is provided via a 6.35mm jack socket (minimum load 8 ohms), which can be used to drive a single AN1001X+ passive, extension speaker .
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Before more of Nassau Street is lost to redevelopment, view this amazing collection of New York architecture on this popular tour with preservation activist, Joe Svehlak, whose first job over 55 years ago was working for an engraver on Nassau Street. The half-mile of Nassau Street from the Brooklyn Bridge to Wall Street contains examples of every style of architecture from the Federal and Greek Revival periods, to International and Post-Modern skyscrapers. The busy Nassau Street corridor to the east of Broadway has several individual landmarks in a variety of Victorian and Neo-Classical styles. Many more of these 19th and 20th century buildings may be considered for landmarking as they are already listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Some early works of noted New York architects are to be found here, along with some gems of cast iron architecture.


One of my pet peeves - and I have many - concerns the manner in which some Christians in the United States often adopt a stance of willful ignorance about the point of church-state separation whenever it suits them. I recognize that ignorance of such matters is widespread, but I suspect that many of these Christians really do know better and would want church-state protections when beneficial to their cause.
Hank Fox (A Citizen of Earth) brings us a recent example of what I'm taking about in his post, Grieving Mother Mistreated by Heartless Atheists. A mother who lost her son erected a memorial including crosses on city property, a humanist group protested the church-state violation, the city council ordered the crosses to be removed, and the humanist group is now being criticized around the Internet (with much of the criticism coming from other atheists/humanists/secularists).
If this sounds familiar to you, it should. We have seen similar scenarios play out countless times. It is fascinating to see how quick many atheists, humanists, and secularists are to join the criticism of those who seek to preserve the separation of church and state. It is almost as if they are more concerned about public relations than church-state separation.
We all understand that every grieving person, mom or not, shares those same rights. But no matter how much you're hurting, your private grief is not acceptable justification for using public land for a private religious display.
He's absolutely correct. Grief, as painful as it is, does not entitle one to break the law. We can feel bad for this mother and attempt to offer support to her and others in grief in many legal ways. We can encourage her to work through her grief in all the ways Hank mentioned that stop short of erecting religious displays on public property.
In this particular case, the city council acknowledged that the crosses violated church-state separation and ordered their removal. So is this a case of "mean atheists" tormenting a grieving mother like many want us to believe? No, not at all.
Bravo to Hank for providing such a thoughtful and humane response. I'll be bookmarking his post for future reference about how to summarize the relevant issues raised by these unfortunately common scenarios. I sincerely hope that the atheists, humanists, and/or secularists who are criticizing those who seek to preserve the separation of church and state in situations like this will take the time to reflect on Hank's words.


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Texas Instruments says it will soon begin volume manufacturing of EPC Generation 2 inlays and straps, with more than 1 million inlays set for July.
Jun 27, 2005—Bringing its significant experience, production capabilities and global reach to Gen 2 tag production, semiconductor giant Texas Instruments (TI) says it will begin volume manufacturing of EPCglobal's EPC Generation 2 inlays and straps next month, with more than 1 million inlays set to be produced in July alone.
The company believes that once it starts shipping Gen 2 inlays and straps, there will be a quick ramp-up in demand that it can match. "That type of volume is just the beginning. We have the capacity to move from a single million, to tens and to hundreds of millions of inlays and straps per month over the next 18 to 24 months," says Enu Waktola, EPC retail supply chain marketing manager for Texas Instruments RFid Systems (TI-RFid).
TI's initial tag production levels are expected to meet immediate demand. "There is certainly demand for these numbers of labels," says Erik Michielsen, director of RFID and Ubiquitous Networks at ABI Research, "as we expect retailers to start deploying Gen 2 technology over the next three months and through to 2006."
TI anticipates that consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies will soon be testing and deploying Gen 2 technology. "We expect to see a number of significant Gen 2 pilots in July, and a move to production starting in August, from a CPG perspective," says Waktola.
Label converters and printer manufacturers will incorporate TI's Gen 2 inlays and straps into finished labels. In April, TI named 12 label converters and printer manufacturers—Avery Dennison, AWID, Datamax, FEIG Electronic, Paxar, Printronix, SATO, Sirit, SAMSys, ThingMagic, WJ Communications and Zebra Technologies—as its partners for developing Gen 2 tags. After receiving its first production run of Gen 2 chips from a third-party chipmaker in June, TI says, it shipped tens of thousands of samples of its RFID Gen 2 inlays and straps to those label converter and printer vendors. The majority of the 12 companies have already received inlays from TI; the rest are set to see their first inlays within the next few weeks, Waktola states.
While TI will manufacture both inlays and straps, it believes the vast majority of the market will be for inlays—at least for a year or so. "Interest in straps today is just with leading adopters. We expect to produce around 100,000 straps in the July-August time frame, with demand [for straps] taking 12 to 18 months to match demand for inlays," says Waktola.
TI is producing the inlays and straps at its Malaysia plant alongside its existing RFID tag-production operations.


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Posted: October 20, 2012 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Game Players, Games and Marketing
Tags: Chris Roberts, game design, game development, games, Space simulator, space simulators, Star Citizen, star wars, Star Wars: Galaxies, Wing Commander
The Origin of it All
It was the fall of `92. We had just arrived in the country and needed to buy a PC for my grad school work. We opted for a mighty 386 computer (and sprang for the 40Mhz rather than the 33) and after considerable soul-searching had a ridiculously excessive 1Mb video card installed (how good was this machine? When I discovered Doom a couple of years later, much of the game played as a blinking, growling, slideshow accompanied by the occasional delayed weapon blast). I don't even remember how we found the particular machine, probably through the newspaper (we were young and stupid). At any rate, it began having some issues pretty quickly. So I took it back to the rent-a-box place where we'd bought it, somewhere in the anonymous light industrial depths of the city of Orange. The sales person wasn't at all happy to see me but quickly established, as I'd suspected, that the motherboard was defective and offered to replace it for me while I waited. Then he sat me down in front of another PC with an attached joystick and started up a game called Wing Commander.
Posted: June 27, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Game Genres, Games and Marketing
Tags: computer games, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MMORPG, Star Wars: Galaxies, Star Wars: The Old Republic
Along with the predictable cavalcade of Viagra ads and missives from prominent Nigerian businessman asking me to help them take care of an unexpected financial windfall, my e-mail today included the following piece of news from Sony Online Entertainment:
Dear Star Wars Galaxies™ Community Member,
We write to you today to inform you that on December 15, 2011, Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) and LucasArts will end all services (MMO and Trading Card Game) for Star Wars Galaxies (SWG). The shutdown of SWG is a very difficult decision, but SOE and LucasArts have mutually agreed that the end of 2011 is the appropriate time to end the game.
We are extremely grateful to all of the SWG fans. We have had the rare opportunity to host one of the most dedicated and passionate online gaming communities and we truly appreciate the support we've received from each and every one of you over the course of the past eight years.
In recognition of your incredible loyalty, we are extending special Fan Appreciation offers to the current SWG community. We also plan to go out with a bang with a galaxy-ending in-game event in December and hope to see you all there. The details relating to these offers and events as well as the timeline and specifics regarding the discontinuation of the service, are provided below.
Again, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to our player community for making SWG one of the best online communities in gaming history.
Sincerely,Sony Online Entertainment & LucasArts
Now in some ways I'm not surprised. I haven't played Star Wars Galaxies (which first launched in June of 2003) since 2006. I've written in some detail about how much I loved the early version of the game, a love only surpassed by my dislike of the so-called "New Game Enhancements and my disappointment at watching the game turn into a shadow of its former glory.
Posted: December 16, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Ancient History, Exemplary Games, game design, Game Genres, Games and Life
Tags: creativity, economics, Eve Online, game design, housing, Lord of the Rings Online, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Pirates of the Burning Sea, society, Star Wars: Galaxies
Since the IA blog space received its first major decorator overhaul recently it seems only appropriate to inaugurate the new look with a post on the role of player housing in MMORPGs.
I just bought my first house in Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO). Since I'm still playing with only a premium account (i.e. I haven't paid for any additional inventory space yet) this was a pretty significant moment because it now gives me a space to offload some of my accumulated crap. However, it started me thinking about how MMORPGs in general handle space.
Putting Away Childish Things
Posted: December 7, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Ancient History, game design, Games and Marketing
Tags: game design, game development, Lucasarts, MMORPG, Sony, Star Wars: Galaxies
Reflections Occasioned by a Five-Year Anniversary
My very first experience with MMORPGs probably ruined me for life when it comes to appreciating other online games. I played around a bit with MOOs and MUDs but wasn't really into the idea of online gaming during the Ultima Online and Everquest period. I did play what was then called World War II Online (now called Battleground Europe, and still going despite being the most punishingly unrewarding (which, according to the masochistic logic of most gamers, doesn't mean it wasn't/isn't fun!) game I have ever played. EVE is a game of checkers by comparison). My first experience of a large scale MMORPG was therefore Star Wars Galaxies.
It was 5 years ago, in November of 2005, that Sony Online Entertainment scrapped the first version of SWG and implemented the New Game Enhancements (NGE). I stuck it out for a few more months, and then joined the horde of rats scurrying down the anchor chain.
When I started playing SWG I was utterly and completely hooked, sold on the idea of virtual worlds from the moment the tutorial (an embarrassingly primitive affair which featured the now infamous "dancing Imperial Officer") dumped me outside the spaceport in Coronet on Corellia. I hadn't even got my bearings when there was a peal of thunder and it began to rain. That is exactly how long it took me to part with my immortal soul.
Naively, I assumed that SWG was like every other MMORPG out there in its basic mechanics. It wasn't. Now is neither the time nor the place to rehearse the reasons for the game's self-mutilation that left it little more than a WoW wannabe. . . Oh hell, who am I kidding, any time is the perfect time to discuss such idiocy. In retrospect, after playing several other MMOs of various kinds, I've come to realize that the reason SWG made such an impression on me is not simply because it popped my MMORPG cherry, but because it was trying to be a kind of game that is still strikingly rare in the MMORPG marketplace: an adult game.
What follows is part reflection, part elegy, part rant, all in memoriam for one of the most promising MMORPGs never to last the distance. But my purpose is a serious one. SWG's failure raises numerous issues, but the central one is an issue that still plagues the MMORPG industry: the unwillingness of developers to stop pandering to those players who want childish games.
Everything We Know About MMORPGs is About To Change. . .Or is it?
Posted: May 19, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in Exemplary Games, game design
Tags: Arenanet, Bioware, EVE, Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2, NCSoft, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Star Wars: Galaxies, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Tabula Rasa, The Old Republic
In a recent developer blog, Colin Johanson, Lead Content Designer for Guild Wars 2 asserts that their new dynamic content system will fundamentally change the MMORPG genre:
MMOs have become extremely popular, but the genre has done little to evolve over the past decade. Generally MMO players explore an unchanging, persistent game world, leveling up by performing quests which do not change the world in any way once completed. It's time for the genre to take the next step, and explore the idea of a truly dynamic, living, breathing persistent world where the player's actions really make a difference, and everything that occurs in the game world has cause and effect.
I've really been enjoying the Guild Wars 2 developer blogs. I like the use of the cartoon strips to poke fun at some of the hoary practices of traditional MMOs (in the blog providing an overview of the combat system, for example, players are all set to pitch into a bar fight but then are reduced to standing around trying to calculate their relative damage and attack stats; I wept bitter tears of recognition). The GW2 developers' analysis of the problems with current MMOs is considered and, for the most part, accurate. The design they are proposing in response sounds great; everything about it (with the unfortunate exception of it being set in a fantasy realm, but I could possibly suck it up and deal with that) sounds like exactly the kind of game that I would love to play.
However, I don't have a lot of faith that this kind of game will prove sufficiently popular to last very long.


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Leeco announced the super-slim LeTV U4 TV box at a very good price of $80 only. Leeco just announced its own TV box called LeTV U4 TV Box. It is a flat slim and lightweight Android TV box with a dimension of only 100 x 100 x 10.8 mm with a weight of only 157 grams. So for all the Android TV boxes available in the market, it is one of the thinnest best Android TV box we have seen.
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CLAMMS (Copy number estimation using Lattice-Aligned Mixture Models) is an algorithm for calling copy number variants (CNVs) from exome sequencing read depths.
CLAMMS: a scalable algorithm for calling common and rare copy number variants from exome sequencing data.
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thanks to a lot of tourism innovation. The industry staged a turnaround in 2017 encouraged by the good economic climate.
Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO)
On 15 January 2015, the Swiss National Bank discontinued its minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 to the euro. This dealt a heavy blow to the Swiss tourism industry, which was already in a state of crisis. Taken together with structural problems, terrorist attacks, the refugee situation and the economic crisis that were shaking Europe, the persistent downward trend in overnight hotel stays since the 2008 financial crisis intensified. The decline in guests from the 16 eurozone countries alone was around 28% between 2009 and 2017.
Innovative hoteliers (from left): Diego Glaus, Albergo Losone, Losone / Philippe Attia, Chalet RoyAlp Hôtel & Spa, Villars-sur-Ollon
Price increases of overnight stays in Swiss hotels of up to 20% at times in the wake of the discontinuation of the exchange-rate floor also had an impact on the booking behaviour of Swiss guests, however, as demonstrated by the example of Hotel Albergo Losone in Losone: "We generate part of our revenue with the weddings and large-scale events of our Swiss guests. The strength of the franc prompted a lot of them to switch their venue to Italy during this period. In 2015, we posted a 4% fall in revenue compared to the previous year", explains Diego Glaus, who has been managing the hotel in Ticino since 1995.
Decline in the mountain regions
The Alpine regions, which are traditionally the destination of European guests, were even worse hit by this development: for 2009, the Federal Statistical Office recorded just under 17.4 million overnight hotel stays. Between 2009 and 2015, the decline in the mountain regions was 11.7%. Difficult conditions for hotels such as Chalet RoyAlp Hotel & Spa in Villars-sur Ollons, which opened in 2008 and is a popular destination for French and Belgian guests: "2015 and 2016 were a challenge for us. Russian and European guests, from France in particular, simply didn't come", recalls hotel manager Philippe Attia. "The discontinuation of the minimum exchange rate had a drastic impact on the hospitality and tourism industry. It led to several room cancellations in our hotel."
Cities, in contrast, had good news to report. They reported rises of 14.5% from 2009 to 2015. One key reason for this was business tourism, which is less affected by exchange-rate fluctuations.
Crisis drives innovation
Tourist service suppliers have become increasingly aware that the only way to reduce their dependence on the economy, weather and currency is by coming up with innovative offers and products: for example, Chalet RoyAlp Hotel & Spa decided to remain open all year round. Its strategy was to focus on new markets and on the development of attractive packages to drive up reservations during the shoulder season. "Social media played a major role in our marketing campaign aimed at tapping into new markets", comments Philippe Attia. Hotel Albergo Losone enjoyed success by offering creative discounts such as nice weather insurance, a points offer and a three-generation discount. "On top of this is our clear positioning as a family hotel operating as part of a group of seven other hotels under the Premium Swiss Family Hotels brand, meaning we can benefit from cross-marketing effects. Our gross revenue registered a year-on-year increase of 6% in 2016, up to 7% in 2017", explains Diego Glaus.
The innovation drive was evident across the industry – at cable cars and mountain railways (e.g. the Inside Laax app, Zermatt Skiguide app or Magic Pass) and in the regions (e.g.Ticino Ticket). Switzerland Tourism ST supported tourist service suppliers in developing products that reflect current travel trends (Grand Tour of Switzerland) or innovations in the digital arena: this includes the My Swiss Experience and Alpine hut finder platforms rolled out in 2017 and the new mobile version of MySwitzerland.com. And the First Ski Experience, which was offered for the first time in winter 2016/2017.
Turnaround achieved in Europe
This raft of innovative measures and projects had a positive impact on 2017 overnight hotel stay statistics: compared to the previous year, the number of overnight hotel stays from all markets was up by 5.2% to 37.4 million. The eight tough years faced by Swiss tourism have come to an end.
Growth from the 16 eurozone countries was up by 2.5% year-on-year. Although Swiss tourism has experienced a 40% decline in hotel guests on a cumulative basis in its most important foreign market, Germany, since 2008 until 2017, this important visitor group is also undergoing a turnaround. This is shown by moderate growth in Germany of 1.1% (compared to 2016).
This contribution comes under the subject of In focus. Find out more:
The highest growth in overnights
came from the markets Switzerland, USA and China. Switzerland is represented in 26 countries by 239 employees.
Hoteliers between technology and feeling
was the theme of the hotel marketing day titled "High Tech vs. High Touch".
CEO Martin Nydegger
talked about the turnaround in overnight stays with his Engelberg counterpart Frédéric Füssenich.
"Nature wants you back."
was the name of the 2017 summer campaign. The message was supported by the launch of new online platforms.
100 years of success
was the theme of the exhibitions and campaigns celebrating "100 years of Swiss tourist marketing".
New image thanks to Bollywood star
Ranveer Singh. He shares his exciting holidays in Switzerland with young Indians on Instagram and other social media.
This is the Annual Report 2017. You will find the Annual Report 2019 here.


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