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What's Beginner Mode?
It's Normal Mode plus all of the newbie-friendly aspects of EM, and none of the newbie-unfriendly aspects of EM.
There is no mode specifically designed for beginners. Some people might say that Easy Mode is a beginner's mode, but in fact there are aspects of Easy Mode which in many cases actually make it harder for beginners than Normal Mode (read on for an explanation of this.)
Design Constraints
Beginner Mode must be very similar to Normal Mode and Easy Mode. If it differs too much from either, it will become a "different game" that doesn't teach the skills necessary to graduate to Normal Mode/Easy Mode. Thus, a design constraint of Beginner Mode is that it not hide any aspects of the Real Game from the player. Beginner Mode should be based entirely on Normal Mode and Easy Mode aspects.
Easy Mode - The Newbie Friendly Aspects
- Deaths are less painful financially
(driven by boosted trickle income)- Deaths are less painful XP-wise
(driven by boosted creep XP value)- Creep denial is less important money-wise
(your enemy is receiving boosted trickle income, and so denying them a kill has a smaller impact on their gold income)- Skillful last-hitting is less important money-wise
(you are receiving boosted trickle income, and so you will be able to purchase basic items even if you aren't very good at last hitting)- Jungling is easier sooner for more heroes
(driven by boosted trickle income [better items sooner] and boosted XP rates [stats and skills level up sooner])
Easy Mode - The Newbie Un-Friendly Aspects
- Due to boosted trickle income and boosted XP rewards, item- and level-dependent heroes (often "carries") seem frustratingly "unbeatable" very early in the game, especially when played by experienced players
- Towers have reduced HP and reduced damage in Easy Mode. This makes towers less self reliant, which means that the experienced-player skills of frequent minimap watching, heightened situational awareness, frequent use of homecoming stones, and anticipating the need to defend, are more important sooner in EM. (Remember, you lose if all your buildings get killed :)
- Due to boosted XP rates, you are able to train all 4 of your skills earlier in the game, giving you less time to learn each individual skill before you have to use all 4 to keep up
- Due to the weakness of towers, boosted XP rates, and increased trickle income, the laning phase in EM can be very short. Yet the laning phase is actually a good time for beginners to learn how to control their hero, read item and skill descriptions, get a few tips from their teammates, glance around the map a few times, and generally familiarize themselves with the game. Once early-game laning finishes, roaming, ganking and pushing start, the pace of the game increases, giving beginners less time to focus on learning.
- Increased income makes experienced knowledge about "how to conserve item slots" and "what items are both useful to me now, and go into a powerful recipe later on" more important in Easy Mode than Normal Mode
- Heroes gain gank skills and gank items earlier, making ganks tend to occur earlier and faster. While we can't (and shouldn't) protect beginners from ganks, giving them a slightly more extended early-game gives them time to mentally map out their surroundings and practice controlling their hero.
Easy Mode - The Core Mechanics
If we want to separate out what makes Easy Mode newbie-friendly from what makes it newbie-unfriendly, we first have examine the core game mechanic changes that drive Easy Mode. They are:
- Increased trickle gold income
- Increased XP for creep/hero kills
- Towers deal reduced damage and have reduced HP
If we take a close look at each individual mechanic, we'll see that most of them are actually causing both newbie-friendly and newbie-unfriendly metagame aspects to surface. We're going to have to ditch the EM mechanics that cause newbie-unfriendly aspects. However, those same mechanics may also have been responsible for creating the newbie-friendly aspects. We're going to have to come up with new mechanics to restore just the newbie-friendliness.
For example, EM's increased trickle gold gain makes deaths less painful financially. Newbies like the increased gold because they can die a few times and still not have to run around without Marchers for the entire game. They can afford to buy a homecoming stone and get back into their lane sooner. But other heroes are also receiving the same increased gold gain -- and experienced players really milk the increased gold gain for all it's worth (often picking item dependent heroes, and knowing what items to buy) and so end up unstoppable sooner, which is newb-unfriendly. So increased trickle gold is both newb-friendly and newb-unfriendly. We're going to have to find some other mechanic to make deaths less painful financially.
Another example: EM's increased XP gain makes being behind on XP more forgiving in Easy Mode than Normal Mode. The XP you miss out on while dead can more easily be made up for by jungling for a few minutes or killing a few creep waves. Yet increased XP gain also tends to favors AGI and other late-game heroes. Beginners don't know this, so they suffer at the hands of experienced players who pick heroes that benefit significantly from extra levels. Easy Mode has a tendency to favor players who already know how to use all their skills, because heroes get all their skills sooner. So increased XP-gain results in both newbie-friendly aspects and newbie-unfriendly aspects. We're going to have to find some other mechanic to make deaths less painful XP-wise.
Beginner Mode - Goals and Mechanics
Remember that "Beginner Mode" is based on Normal Mode. It then adds back in newbie-friendly metagame aspects from Easy Mode (but driven by different mechanics when necessary, to avoid newbie-unfriendly consequences):
Goal: Deaths shall be easier to recover from financially
Constraints: the implementation shall not increase gold-gain past experienced-player normal-mode rates
- Gold loss on death is reduced by 50%
- When a hero receives gold for a hero kill, if the receiving hero is higher level than the killed hero, the gold reward will be reduced. (Something like 5% reduction per 1 level of difference would probably work OK.) This slightly reduces the negative impact of falling behind and becoming the "favored target" of enemy heroes.
Goal: Deaths shall be less significant XP-wise
Constraints: the implementation shall not increase XP-gain past experienced-player normal-mode rates
- While dead, heroes gain a small percentage of the XP that their (live) teammates generate.
- When a hero receives XP for a hero kill, if the receiving hero is higher level than the killed hero, the XP reward will be reduced. (Something like 5% reduction per 1 level of difference would probably work OK.) This slightly reduces the negative impact of falling behind and becoming the "favored target" of enemy heroes.
Goal: Jungling shall be viable for more heroes and viable earlier
[This goal/mechanic is under debate and may be excluded.]
Constraints: the implementation shall not make creeping significantly easier for jungle-strong heroes, nor make jungling easier than it is in Easy Mode
[Need some ideas here. In Easy Mode, increased creep XP value and boosted trickle income give heroes the baseline levels, skills, and items to jungle effectively earlier. However, these both of these mechanics have negative consequences, and so cannot be used.]
Goal: Failing to last-hit shouldn't impair income too greatly
Constraints: Income shall not exceed Easy Mode levels
Mechanics: [Note: Numbers are not final, they are open to balancing.]
If a hero "almost" last-hits a creep, a short-duration (1 second?) "Bounty Buff" is placed on the target creep. ("Almost" last-hitting a creep is defined as executing a hit which leaves the creep's HP at say, 25 HP or less.) If the creep dies while under the effects of the Bounty Buff, the following rules apply:
- If the creep is killed by the Owner, nothing additional happens
- If the creep is killed one of the Owner's allied heroes, nothing additional happens
- If the creep is killed (denied) by an enemy hero, the Owner receives 2/3rds normal gold if the Owner is a melee hero, 1/3rd normal gold if the Owner is a ranged hero.
- If the creep is killed by any other unit not listed above, the Owner receives full gold for the kill
["Owner" refers to the hero who "almost" last-hit the creep, i.e. the hero activated the Bounty Buff.]
A creep can only have one Bounty Buff active on it at a time. If multiple heroes manage to place a "Bounty Buff" on a creep, the most recently placed buff instantly overwrites any existing Bounty Buff. AOE and DOT damage will not place Bounty Buff on creeps.
Additional concerns: This mechanic may reinforce mindless auto-attack behavior. This is because mindless auto-attacking with this mechanic in place will naturally result in more kills being awarded to a hero than mindless auto-attacking without the mechanic in place. Mindless auto-attacking is not a behavior we want to reinforce. To resolve this issue, the game could simply track the last time a creep was hit by the player. If the creep has been hit by the player in the last X seconds, the Bounty Buff will not be placed, and the player will have to perform a real last hit on the creep to receive the bounty.
Goal: Players will learn that it is important not to die
Motivation: Beginner Mode has reduced penalties for dying, and this makes it especially important to go the extra mile in educating new players about the impact of dying. They will move on to Normal Mode or Easy Mode, and they need to be prepared for, and know about the negative consequences of dying too much.
Mechanics: In Beginner Mode, when players die, they receive a popup window which explains the costs of dying and the significant impact it has on their team's chances of winning. It will encourage them with the benefits of paying attention, situational awareness, and staying alive as much as possible. It will include tips on a few of the simplest and most powerful techniques for staying alive.
Goal: Players will be encouraged to graduate to Normal Mode and/or Easy Mode
Motivation: Beginner Mode isn't the real game, and we don't want players to get stuck playing Beginner Mode and never join the main community.
Mechanics: There are a whole number of things that could be done here, and I'm not really sure what's best, and I'd like to hear some ideas. Here are some things I thought of: Beginner Mode could be restricted to accounts with under a certain amount of games played. After winning a certain number of Normal Mode and Easy Mode games, Beginner Mode might become unavailable. Beginner mode could have lots of hint popups and tips that are helpful to new players but become annoying to experienced players. Beginner Mode might not record fun stats like PSR and KDR.
In Closing
I'm interested in hearing your feedback. This is a work in progress. The impact of even small changes are hard to predict, and so the more ideas get kicked around, the more balance problems can be resolved ahead of time. One of the aspects of this suggestion that I'm unsure about is the jungle changes.
I hope that by basing Beginner Mode on Normal Mode and some key aspects of Easy Mode, we can create a game mode that is truly beginner-friendly, but also does not mask any of many important aspects of the real game.
Last edited by partyvan; 01-19-2010 at 09:49 PM.
yeah you got my vote! could be really nice, because after the beta there will be a lot of new players who havent played dota etc... nice idea. i really like it.
Amazingly well written. Easy Mode needs to be replaced with a mode like this: a mode that is actually designed to be easy for new players. Beginner Mode should keep the increased trickle income, as well. Towers should be perhaps even strengthened past normal mode levels, and IMHO should give longer range of true sight (i.e. Nightstalker with Aghanims type thing).
I would vote yes 100 times to this. Get rid of the useless pile of unbalanced crap that basically just wastes dev's time with "omg scout so OP" posts also known as "easy mode" and put in a mode that is ACTUALLY for new players. The current incarnation of a newbie mode is not working: instead of helping new players, experienced players find it an easy stomping ground where they can quickly become fed and imagine themselves as pros. Kill Easy Mode, replace with Beginner Mode. You have my vote.
hi crayze,
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that trickle income is very newbie friendly because it helps beginners get a basic amount of gold even if they are having trouble last-hitting (or haven't even learned about last-hitting yet.) This basic amount of gold is important so that they can actually purchase items, which is important if they are going to learn about what items are available to them. And it's also no fun to struggle for even wimpy items. Keeping things fun is important.
This first draft of Beginner Mode doesn't include boosted trickle income because I was concerned it would contribute to item-dependent hero dominance. However, I'm starting to understand that the newbie-friendly benefits of boosted trickle income probably outweigh this concern. So I will work this in to my suggestion.
Another great suggestion partyvan, I admire how you're able to think out of the box to consider changing the big things.
It's going to be too much having 3 modes affecting gameplay so much Imo.. They should rename EM Beginners mode and take a look at some of the changes suggested here though.
I support your original idea to keep the gold income per sec the same as normal mode though, please don't change that. It teaches newbies bad habits like not last hitting( and for going stats/regen items for last hitting and laning in favour of boots..) and rushing expensive items instead of building up small ones first.
I agree the gold on death should be reduced so it doesn't penalaize them for making mistakes more often.
I think there should be extra gold & exp per hero kill like in EM, but the gold & exp for creeps should be the same as normal mode. This will stop encouraging newbs to farm creeps, and to gank and push more.
This does reduce the viabailty of jungling, but I think this could be GOOD thing. Newbs need to learn to stop attacking creeps and to gank/push with teamwork. Jungling should be left for normal mode since it's a tactic that requires good time management then, which newbs havn't learnt from jungling in EM.
I think the towers should have the same HP and damage as normal mode, so newbs learn not to tower dive. And so that if the lanes are unbalnced(which is going to happen when they don't know about picks/lanes), they have safe spot. But extra gold for killing them would be good to encourage pushing.
Yes, sadly that is probably one of the major reasons a mode like this may not ever get implemented. Realistically, I don't see EM getting removed or changed drastically. It's just way too popular; removing it would cause a backlash.
OK. What I'll do is put a note in the main post saying boosted trickle income is under debate and may not make the final cut. There are decent arguments on both sides of the table. I'd like to hear them out.
I think hero kills are worth the same XP in both Normal Mode and Easy Mode. In terms of encouraging more ganking and teamfighting, we could consider in Beginner Mode leaving bounties at regular levels, or maybe even boosting them. Something like this ("encouraging players to xyz") is very hard to predict, and it might be something that would have to be tuned after the mode had been released for a while. Fighting other players is fun, and people may do it for this reason, even if the gold/XP reward isn't huge.
That's fair, and I've kind of left jungling alone for the time being. Jungling is a skill that's fairly easy to pick up in any of the current modes, so Beginner Mode may not need to focus too much on it.
I agree, encouraging pushing is good. This isn't a MMO afterall, we're here to win, not to grind eternally killing creeps. I will think about putting that in.
Last edited by partyvan; 12-13-2009 at 03:34 PM.
This would be nice for all modes even.Mechanics: In Beginner Mode, when players die, they receive a popup window which explains the costs of dying and the impact it has on their team.
Considering the fact that Open Beta should start soon, such mode for the beginners would be a great feature. Current EM mode doesn't teach new players how to properly play the game, if one expirienced player gets into EM game just to pawn newby players and become more self-conceited, the game can be ruined, players dying constantly will rage out instead of having fun and learning new things about the gameplay. Idea of a mode dedicated to newcomers is great, I would even replace the EM with such "BM".
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A well thoughtout idea. Nice work. As you mentioned there would have to be something to eventually "wean" beginners of the game mode though. Annoying pop-up windows is a good start. With the idea of restricting the number of Beginner Mode games an account could play in one day, the problem lies in selecting the number, as people learn at different speeds. There is also the problem of stronger players joining simpy to inflate their egos by killing less skilled opponents. As many currently do in "Noob Only" games. Though impossible to stop completely, the system should attempt to stop people like this from being able to join and utterly destroy a team of beginners.
Maybe an option when a new account is created to start out by only being able to join Beginner Mode games and when a certain number of games have been played in total or "decent" (hard to define) stats have been attained progress to playing proper games later or to skip Beginner Mode altogether?
Here's an article on the differences between nromal and easy mode, and the implications of them. It's by Nome and Wingflier.
It was EXP gain that was increased for all kills(hero and creeps) not gold, my bad.
So I think the exp gain from creeps should be made so it matches NM, and only the exp gain from killing heroes raised.
This is very good! I would just suggest that you make it abundantly clear to the trainee that their death's negative impact is really how much stronger it makes their enemies, not how much gold or xp they miss by sitting out.
I definitely had this in mind. To be clearer, I should include some examples of some things we think the tooltip might say. This issue is at the top of the list. Something like:
"You are dead, killed by an enemy hero. The enemy hero received gold and XP for killing you, while you lost gold. If you die too often, the enemy will become too powerful to defeat. Here are some tips on how to stay alive (and even gain the upper hand) against enemy heroes:"
Last edited by partyvan; 12-13-2009 at 04:00 PM.
I'm thinking that a hints & tips overlay might be a more practical solution than a Beginner Mode. While I do think a Beginner Mode would be useful to beginners, the costs of balancing the mode, supporting it, making sure games are easy to find for beginners, making sure experienced players aren't abusing it, etc, are all too high. In other words, Beginner Mode is good for beginners, but too the costs are too high for the benefit received.
I think I'm going to instead focus on ideas for an (optional, obviously) overlay which guides the player during Normal Mode and/or Easy Mode games. (Something similar to this idea: http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...ad.php?t=53906) While it sounds harder to implement, I think it will be better in the long run.
Last edited by partyvan; 12-13-2009 at 06:01 PM.
Really good suggestion, probably even more useful than a tutorial.
I was going to create a topic similar to this, but after finding this, I see no point.
Very well thought out.
A suggestion you haven't considered:
No gold loss from selling back items. Newbies often end up buying the wrong items, and don't even know they did until several minutes later, when somebody else says "Why did you buy 2 Marchers? They don't stack, you know."
Also, I kind of disagree on this point: "Players will be encouraged to graduate to Normal Mode and/or Easy Mode."
First: why would we keep Easy Mode around at all if this was implemented? It should be renamed to Alternative Mode, made permanent No Stats, and made an advanced option.
Second: "Beginner Mode could be restricted to accounts with under a certain amount of games played." What if somebody wants to teach their friend how to play? What if somebody hasn't played HoN in a while, and needs a refresher? I disagree on this, there shouldn't be any artificial limitations imposed on who gets to play Beginner Mode. Just make Beginner Mode give No Stats, if you really need "encouragement" to stop playing it eventually.
Anyways, I voted yes.
This is an excellent idea, nice to see some one trying to fix the issues with easy mode instead of just complaining about it.
Brilliant, it's nice that someone put the time in to propose an idea to help the new community.
I added an idea to make last-hitting a little more forgiving. I'm pretty happy with it actually, I think it might work pretty well, subject to a little tweaking. Details in the OP.
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I'm guessing by now that my regular visitors have grown tired of watching my new blog change WordPress themes from day-to-day and occasionally go berserk as I fiddle with all the blog settings and break the PHP code. With that said, I've decided to set things right by writing a series of tutorials on the Lua scripting which is loosely based on the course that I teach at the Guildhall at SMU.
Lua is a rather popular scripting language for game design. If you don't believe me just check out this list of games that use Lua. Clearly, anyone serious about game programming and especially learning scripting for level design, which is where Lua shines brightest, should take a moment out of their busy schedule and get too know Lua.
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Kevin Harris is a Senior App Developer at Blockdot where he develops games and apps for iOS and Android.
He also works as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Guildhall at SMU where he teaches Programming for Game Level Design using Lua.


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About the brand Renault Samsung Motors is a Busan-based automaker established involving French motor company Renault, Japan's Nissan and Korea's Samsung Motors in 2000. The company has recorded robust growth over the past decade to maintain a solid position in the domestic automotive market with its flagship model, the SM5. The firm has generated a unique corporate culture by efficiently incorporating the three distinct flavors of Renault, Samsung and Nissan ― the key to its success. CEO Name: Jean-Marie Hurtiger Career: Hurtiger started his career at Coyne and Bellier in 1973 as a project leader in civil engineering and gained various experience at a few different companies before becoming part of the Renault Group in 1988. He took the reins of Renault Samsung Motors in 2006. Education: Master's from Paritech, ENPC College, MBA from INSEAD Extracurricular: Tennis, mountain hiking Competitive position Korean automakers mostly focus on quantitative expansion to take as much market share as possible but Renault Samsung has followed a different growth path of putting quality first. Such an approach enabled the outfit to rank top in Overall Customer Satisfaction surveys for nine years, which are conducted by consultancy firm, Marketing Insight. The strategy has worked in a handsome manner ― Renault Samsung is one of the top contenders in the Korean market and has remained profitable for eight years in a row since 2002. It currently rolls out about 200,000 cars a year, 40 percent of which are exported. Long-term goals As far as the quality is concerned, Renault Samsung vows to remain ahead of the curve through continuing to stick to its time-honored management principle of ``never compromise on quality'' as well as tackling new issues such as environment protection. Thanks to the mindset, the company has successfully earned customer confidence and firmly positioned itself in the market in a short period of time with such models as the SM3, SM5, SM7 and QM5. ``Renault Samsung Motors will continue to pursue both qualitative and quantitative growth based on the strong confidence of customers, and intends to take the lead in the automotive market by rapidly coping with environmental issues, which are recently emerging in the market,'' CEO Jean-Marie Hurtiger said. JTI Korea About the brand JT International (JTI) is one of the world's top three tobacco makers, which continues to expand its market share with such flagship brands as Mild Seven, Salem and Glamour. JTI tapped into Korea in 1992 to duplicate its global success in Asia's fourth-largest economy on the back of the aforementioned brands and indeed posted notable growth in the saturated domestic markets. As far as the annual growth rate is concerned, JTI Korea has topped the podium for four straight years since 2007. CEO Name: Park Byung-kee Career: Park got aboard JTI Korea in 2005 to take charge of the firm's overall sales businesses. He got the helm of the company this month. Before joining JTI Korea, he served as CEO of Bic Korea and has worked for SC Johnson Korea and P&G Korea. Education: Studied English literature at Sejong University Extracurricular: Reading Competitive position JTI has been able to carve out a substantial part of the hard-fought Korean tobacco market via putting its top priority on making quality products tailored to local tastes as well as caring about reducing environmental tobacco smoke. ``One of the most important JTI core values is quality. JTI considers producing good products through improving their quality as very important and thus is much effort into maximizing satisfaction for all its stakeholders by enhancing its products and services continuously,'' company CEO Park Byung-kee said. ``In Korea, as well as globally, smokers are becoming increasingly sensitive and respectful of others who may be affected by lingering smoke smell in enclosed areas. JTI is working hard to resolve such needs of smokers.'' Long-term goal JTI Korea has set a long-term target of offering innovative products, which can provide value to customers. To achieve this, it strives to differentiate itself from competitors with the eventual goal of meeting clients' demands. In addition, JTI Korea looks to carry out its responsibilities as a corporate citizen and improve the transparency of its management. Up until now, the Seoul-based entity has carried out corporate social responsibility programs involving senior citizens. It has vowed to keep taking care of senior citizens down the road. MetLife Korea About the brand MetLife Insurance Company of Korea is a subsidiary of MetLife, a global first-string provider of variable life insurance with a variety of products such as individual and group life, accident and health insurance as well as retirement savings. Through its affiliates, MetLife has a total of 90 million customers in 60 countries across the world. The No. 1 life insurer in the United States in terms of life insurance in-place has a long history that stretches back 142 years ago. Since its foundation in 1989, MetLife Korea has racked up a fast growth in the highly competitive domestic market to become one of the top five foreign life insurers. CEO Name: Kim Jong-woon Career: Kim was appointed as chief executive officer of MetLife Korea last year after serving in many top positions in the industry including chief operating officer of MetLife, senior vice president of Korea Life. Currently at the helm of MetLife Korea, he leads a strong expansion drive for the firm. Education: Business administration from Korea University and MBA from University of California, Berkeley. Extracurricular: traveling, reading Competitive position During the fiscal year 2009, which finished this March, MetLife Korea netted up to 78.3 billion won in income to record profits for 11 years in a row. Its total assets also amounted to 9.5 trillion won. The corporation continues to build up its value by effectively leveraging its sound financial structure, stable asset management practices and the advanced risk management capabilities. For example, its risk-based capital ratio is 721.5 percent and non-performing asset ratio is 0 percent. Plus, it garnered an insurer financial strength rating of ``AAA'' from the Korea Information Service as of this May. Long-term goal As summarized in its ``Vision 114,'' MetLife Korea has created a long-term goal of attaining the No. 1 status in pride of the firm's employees, No. 1 in client satisfaction and one of the top four life insurers in Korea by 2015. Toward that end, MetLife Korea strives to build up staff capabilities and pride in their work and, thereby, offer their clients the most satisfactory services based on the industry's most refined minds. ``We will stick to the industry's highest ethical standards supporting our reputation as the exemplary life insurer that is most ethical, law-abiding life insurer in the industry,'' CEO Kim Jong-woon said. ``We will also make our best effects to do our due part as a corporate citizen by returning part of our profits to society through social contribution activities led by our MetLife Korea Foundation.'' PCA Life Korea About the brand PCA Life Korea is a unit of U.K.-based PCA Group, an international financial service provider with 160 years of history famous for tailor-made products in accordance to the clients' life state needs. PCA Group has 25 million customers worldwide and the funds under management amounts to 309 billion pounds as of this June. It was ranked 66th among the top 100 most admired multinationals in the Wall Street Journal's annual Asia 200 survey. PCA Life Korea began operations here in late 2001 and has gained a reputation in the industry as a leader in retirement marketing and services during the first decade of the new millennium. CEO Name: Kim Young-jin Career: Kim started his professional career in Kyobo Life in 1984 and served as vice president and senior vice president of AIA Korea from 2000 through 2006. He joined PCA Life Korea in 2008 as a president & CEO. Education: Bachelor's degree at Busan National University, MBA at Aju University Extracurricular: Reading, climbing Competitive position As far as the retirement insurance market is concerned, PCA Life Korea is second to none here and it strives to be ahead of the curve with the vision ``to be the most trusted retirement planning expert.'' In particular, the corporation forged a partnership with Seoul National University in order to build its retirement planning expertise. Its corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs are also in line with its competitive advantage of post-retirement products _ it has recently expanded its CSR to seniors support to align with its business focus. Long-term goal PCA Life Korea is looking to achieve its four core values over the long haul ― ``demonstrate care and understanding,'' ``collaborate,'' ``innovate and create opportunities'' and ``deliver excellence.'' Furthermore, it hopes to keep its leadership in retirement products as company CEO Kim Young-jin points out. ``Many think about just money when they talk about the post-retirement life. But they had better mull over what they really want to do after retiring.'' Kim said. Regarding the 4-part series on Best Global Brands in Korea The Korea Times has picked a total of 19 best global brands thus far. They are Deloitte Anjin, Philip Morris International Korea, Boehringer Ingelheim Korea, British American Tobacco Korea, Microsoft Korea, Merck Korea, Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jaguar Landrover Korea, ING Korea, Allianz Life Korea, Pernod Ricard Korea (Ballantine's), BMW Korea, AIG Korea, Alcatel-Lucent Korea and Mercedes Benz Korea on top of the four companies covered today ― JTI Korea, Renault Samsung Motors, PCA Life Korea and MetLife Korea. The Korea Times tried to cover all the industries but the banking industries have been excluded from this research for technical reasons. Many insurers, drug makers, automakers, tobacco companies, accounting firms and high-tech companies made it onto the list. However, food & beverage firms failed to make the cut. All of the 19 companies have clocked fast growth in Korea as well as carried out brisk corporate social responsibility programs to become representative players in their respective industries not only in their bottom lines but also with their social reputations. We hope that all the brands will continue to flourish on the domestic markets and keep contributing to society as responsible corporate citizens to become more prosperous companies down the road. The logos of the 19 outstanding global brands with a few more ones will be displayed together later this week in The Korea Times. ― ED. |


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A Walk Through Taxila
The ancient remains in Pakistan represent a glimpse into the history of two of India's major religions
- By Ria Misra and Alexis Matsui
- Smithsonian.com, December 22, 2010
(Ria Misra)
In 1980, the ancient city of Taxila was named a UNESCO World Heritage site for its architecture and statues, and for the many different cultures that influenced its development. The ruins of numerous Buddhist complexes, showing Persian, Greek and Central Asian influences, can be seen at the site.
Note: Reporting for this piece was funded by a grant from the South Asian Journalists Association
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I think the previous comment reflects a bias, a self-conscious bias amongst certain Indians of a recent vintage
(Sanjay Subramanhyam might approve). A perceived slight where none is present or intended.
I think the Smithsonian and Stuart Cary Welch have been at the forefront of examining, researching, exhibiting and disseminating art from the sub-continent. India's influence all over S East Asia, China, Japan through Buddhism is well known as is the extension of this toward the North West, viz the Bamiyan Buddhas (sadly disfigured recently).
Greek influence, such as it was, between the 6 century BC and 2nd century BC, is what it is. The text mentions this clearly between 2nd C BC and 2 C AD.
Posted by sumeet sood on August 18,2011 | 03:44 PM
Posted by shaii ford on February 7,2011 | 02:25 PM
I can't believe how ingrained are the biases in the institutions like Smithsonian. Taxhashila was an Bharatiya Institution, that had predominantly builders and teachers from Hindu and Buddhist background. And yet the mention of Persia and Greek is expressed dominantly over here and Hindu is not even mentioned. That Greek has to be present every where, since European Euro centrism thinks world world would be a dark place without the light of the Greeks. Clearly the subjects taught in this institutions were also those developed within Indian domains. A predominantly Hindu Nation (including Buddha himself). But that won't do. I am highly disappointed with Smithsonian. Whose subscription I stopped because of this reason some time ago. Ravindra
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Ya know, when I play pool, I frequently put top right English while simultaneously putting low left juice, drawing with force follow on the cue ball.
Gaack.Thermodynamics is still the same branch of physics it has always been, and so far as may be determined, no serious challenges to the theories and axiomatic beliefs have been rised in recent years.Water, in all its forms (this includes snow as well), is a most peculiar substance, which has a point at which it can exist as a gas (water vapor), liquid, and solid (ice). It takes a specific amount of heat energy to change ice into a liquid, and from a liquid into water vapor. To increase the temperature from the point of melting, to the point of evaporation, takes a VAST amount of heat energy, which is all given up on the reversal of this progression.When the face of the earth is turned away from the sun, the solar energy is radiated away into space. During the winter, a sizable part of the earth´s surface does not receive ANY solar radiation, thus it grows colder and colder.Our seasons are pretty much geared to however much solar radiation we get, and all the carbon dioxide in the world cannot change that to any measurable degree. Water vapor is the driving factor here, and there is, at any given time, from 30 to 100 times as much water vapor in the air than carbon dioxide.
If it is hot outside, it is because of Global Warming. If it is cold outside, it is because of Global Warming?Wet? Dry? Windy? Less windy? It doesn´t matter! No matter what the weather may be, it is because of Global Warming.It´s Bush´s fault. Bush and those damned SUVs. Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
The people trying to get from Munising to Marquette on M-28, would beg to differ.
Even by the predictions of the Global Warming´s most strident enthusiasts, Global Warming is something that will happen in the future. Even if we believe that there has been some global warming thus far, it is still within the bounds of the normal variability of the weather. (And now it looks like there hasn´t been any GW in the last 10 years and there has even been a cooling.)Today´s weather just cannot be explained by the notion that there will be global warming in the future. In order for global warming to change the weather, the globe has to actually warm first.In other words - if everything they predict about global warming is true, none of it has any bearing on the weather today.
The author is Seth Borenstein.They don´t get any loonier or mouth-frothing than that.Don´t even waste a moment of your precious time on this.
Where is Algore when you need him?
Geez #2, how do you remember all that stuff? /s
And a partridge in a pair tree.
In the 70´s the big scare was global *cooling*. Now, a scant 40 years later, it´s global *warming*. These folks don´t believe in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny but they totally buy this contradiction.To be this stupid you´d have to be doing it on purpose.


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The Premonition
It wasn't long ago when I thought guitar player Gus G. was working his way to become one of the biggest band whores of the decade. It seemed as though multiple times a year I'd find yet another album that would fall prey to being sold with a sticker on the front stating, "Featuring Gus G.". Nobody had heard of the guy before yet all of a sudden in 2002/2003 the man was on more than a few albums that received more than their own fair share of hype: Dream Evil's debut and follow-up, Mystic Prophecy's second album Regressus, Nightrage's Sweet Vengeance, not to mention Firewind's debut. It wasn't long before Gus G. left all but Firewind, which is purportedly the only band he had more than a helping hand in.
Of course while in the middle of Gus G. mania a few years ago I made sure to check out everything the guy did, since Dream Evil seemed like a winner, the first Nightrage was good fun, and Mystic Prophecy was (and is) a band that struck a chord with me. The problem is that when I checked out Firewind, I was left with a rather stale taste in my mouth. I listened to the band's debut and follow-up, Between Heaven and Hell and Burning Earth, and felt incredibly disinterested in Gus' writing style. It was nice and heavy power metal, with tinges of thrash here and there, and vocalist Stephen Fredrick added a reasonable amount of grit, but the songwriting just wasn't memorable. Sure, you had a few standout songs like "I Am the Anger" and "The Fire and the Fury," but overall, this stuff was incredibly bland. I came to realize quite quickly why Gus was in all those other bands, he simply couldn't do it on his own and needed to stir up a buzz about himself by attaching his name to as many higher profile releases as possible.
So here I am on the third Firewind album I've heard and the third album since the release of Burning Earth (the last album I had listened to). Original vocalist Stephen Fredrick is out and has been replaced by a much cleaner and more typical power metal vocalist in Apollo Papathanasio. Where has the band gone in the last 5 years musically? Still not too far from where they started. This is heavier edged power metal, the vocals are cleaner, the chorus' are a bit more fit for singing along too, but at the same time I can't help but think Stephen Fredrick's rougher sound was a better fit than Apollo in Firewind, though when Apollo busts out a more Dio-like sound in "Head Up High," I can't say I'm hating it. The songs still typically go nowhere, the feeling and emotion is lost somewhere, assuming it was there at some point from the initial idea to the final product.
One notable thing about this album is that there is a more prominent use of keyboards and melodic guitar runs in this band than I remember, making some songs sound rather Europe-y. A song like "Mercenary Man" reminds me of some kind 80's pop metal song, especially that opening verse and simple chorus. The guitars may have some more bite to cut that a bit, but it's hard to ignore and is definitely not a move for the better. This more melodic sound pops up here and there and it generally does not work, simply because it doesn't feel natural. While the heavy sections feel lifeless, the more melodic pieces don't feel like they flow. Vocalist Apollo does a good job of making them sound a bit more convincing but these sections never seem to have the flow they could, or should. I then sit down and think about the extremely corny cover of the 80's pop track, "Maniac" (yes, THAT one) and I can't help but feel the band are quietly pushing for a more melodic sound that will appeal to a wider audience.
Firewind truly have nothing on their peers, hell, they have nothing on the other bands Gus G. has been in. The problem is that while everything that should be in a heavy power band is there, it's just not executed with the same fire and energy that everyone else has been using for years. For that reason Firewind aren't a band that will offend you in the slightest, but if someone puts The Premonition on for you, it'll quickly fade into the background without the slightest notice.