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Discussion in 'Assets and Asset Store' started by gamingislove, Nov 7, 2010.
Asked the iOS expert said
nope, they don't batch either.
the best available solution is EZGUI
Gosh, why must everything be SOOOOO expensive
Nice work though I had fun with the demo
well he did have a 25% off sale through Xmas, but it is finished now.
reallllllly wish ORK was compatible with EZgui, WAY too many draw calls for my iOS tests :-(
soon hopefully
what platform are you testing on? 3g? 3gs? 4?
3gs, iPhone4, ipad
when every draw call matters, even a basic spritemanager1(in the unity wiki) would be most helpful(or seem to be based on my experience)
So how does it perform on the 3gs/4 with the current gui? frame rate wise? I find it crazy that UI draw calls can cause so much lag, esp on the newer models.
For EZGUI check here for iOS
However this might be cool, it cost $199 USD
It might be a good idea to just use sprites/mesh for UI if you want to stay away from using another third party toolset
I have a question about the battle system and a question about the event/dialogue system.
Battle System:
I played the demo and, as you have stated, there is a turn based / active time battle system in place. This battle system is similar to turn based battle systems as seen in games like Final Fantasy.
My question is this: Is it possible to mimick other syles of turnbased battle as seen in games like Never Winter Nights 2 and KOTOR? The battle is more active time (like what is in place) but does not make use of the menus so much and does not have the fancy camera system for every move. Check out the videos below to see what I would hope to achieve with ORK.
PS I can code some basic c# so if I need to modify some things I can, I just want to know how hard it would be to achieve.
Dialogue System:
By utilizing the event system would it be possible to make more of a KOTOR or NWN2 style, cinematic dialogue system. What Im looking for is instead of a text based system I would like to utilize cameras and NPC animations and sound. When I walk up to an NPC and interact with it I would like the camera to point at the NPC and I would like the NPC to play a specified animation and a specified sound (witch will contain voice acted dialogue). When the animation and sound has finished playing I would then like the choice menu to appear for the player to choose a responce. Once the choise has been made the NPC will again play a set of animations and sound and the camera would move arround. Take a look at this video to see what I mean.
PS. Great work. Sor far this looks like one of the most useful tools that I have seen for unity. Tho that is becasue it most closely suits my goals.
Grid-based combat isn't yet in the kit, but planned for a future extension (maybe end 2011).
Skill bar is already possible (simply a variation of a menu), but displaying only skills would currently require some small code changes (I'll put that on my to-do list ).
Battle system currently is as seen in the demo with menu driven combat. Since you create your own battle animations you don't need to use fancy camera moves...
The event (dialogue) system allows all you need - playing animations, sounds, etc, changing camera, looking at NPC's, etc. - that's all possible
@iOS draw calls
I'll look into it once the menu system is done.
Hows that coming along? Any screenshots to showoff? or maybe a expected release date?
Has anyone purchased this within this community? Also is there some type of student version or trial? It looks great!
Have many people purchased this kit so far?
The menu system is doing quite fine ... now that I'm back on the development
I can't really tell a release date yet, I'm currently working on displaying the base stuff (skills, equips, etc.) and will implement drag+drop functionality after that ...
It will also be possible to start a game event through item drop
I'll post some screenshots next week!
Looking forward to it!
You're doing an awesome job with this, gamingislove. I keep watching this posting for news and updates.
I head that realtime combat isnt implemented yet. is that correct? I thought that was supposed to be a key feature? I bought it, and have only tested it with turn-based, but was wondering. Thanks for any clarification.
i got the kit, for it's ok, but still some things i was expecting to see, like weapons/items to get used and at 0% not work, or for enemy to give it a special type of attack, like electric damage or fire damage, and for me is perfect. For any questions, feel free to PM
What you are trying to do with the weapons and items is already supported there is just no user interface for it yet. The developer is working on adding a menu system that will do this or you could just add your own menu system that uses the already in place code for the inventory system. If you purchased the kit you should get an upgrade with these new features for free.
I have a functionality question. Lets say I use this kit to run most of what I need it to do but lets say I also want to use another addon like Playmaker. http://hutonggames.com/playmaker.html . Can the two framworks play nice together out of the box. Can I choose to use ORK for most things like battle, dialogue and events but also use Playmaker for some events as well?
I'm not sure where I can get support for your product or what not so I just am going to post here. If there's another avenue you would prefer please let me know. For some reason, I noticed that when I try to move my character south, the terrain around him constantly spins and he only moves in a circle. Also, I don't know how to make a differentiation between a walk cycle and a run cycle. Like, I want to know how I can make the character walk or how to make them run. Another issue that I'm having is that I want to be able to have a yield implementation between my idle animations. Because basically he looks around for a bit and then should go back to resting. But instead, he keeps looking around making it look kind of abnormal. Another issue I'm having is that the player starts off fine but after I move, the player gets stuck with his foot half up in the air. I understand this might actually be an animation issue with the source model. But, I would appreciate it if you could look into that.
One issue I noticed is if you delete the second language ORK gets rather pissed and throws a number of script errors and sometimes loses all RPG Kit data (even crashed Unity a couple times). So to anyone toying around with it like I am, leave both languages in place! You can always delete the second language from the main menu to keep it hidden from players. Other than that bug it seems really good so far.
Its awesome!
My first feature request is to allow ORK to integrate with EZ-GUI. EZ-GUI is already an awesome GUI tool which works well on mobile (keeps draw calls low). No need to reinvent the wheel though I understand integration may not be trivial and, of course, EZ-GUI can't be distributed with ORK. Perhaps someone will just have to figure this out and post a tutorial. Eventually that someone may end up being me.
Would love to see maybe a patch script that will allow the integration possible.
However re-inventing the wheel in some cases is needed to keep everything as only kit.
Any update on the Menu??
Trying to purchase, but purchase site won't accept my email... Argh... Anyone out there that has this kit - how do you like it? Has anyone done any customization with it yet? Would love to hear what kind of progress is being made with it. From the site, reading through the docs, checking out the demo... OMG, I really want it! Would save TONS of time on a project I'm currently working on, it does everything I've been trying to kludge together from scratch - and then some!
gamingislove: AWESOME kit! Looking forward to eventually figuring out how to purchase it without having to get a new email account somewhere that's not a free one... Argh! :/
I'm not using the battle system but find the event system very well done and I got NPC's talking to my player character in a very short time. I'm planning on creating an "opinion system" where the NPC's dialog varies based on their opinion of the player character (altered by dialog choices and other actions/choices made in the game). We'll see how easily I can integrate custom "opinion system" code with ORK but from what I can tell this won't be too hard. At some point I would like to integrate with EZ-GUI but that may become moot if enough people require draw call optimization for mobile (which could force the developer to implement something similar to EZ-GUI for ORK).
Overall I'm very happy with this system and think it will be a huge time saver for what I have planned.
Regarding the email, domain names are pretty cheap (less than $15 per year) cheap hosting not too bad ($10ish per month) and it helps to have a web site for your project.
+1(again) for EZGui(sprite manager2) integration, there are just far too many draw calls happening here for our mobile tests of ORK in our iOS titles. gonna have to neglect ORK for our next title due to this reason, and cant refer the rest of the team to purchase it for this reason, hope there are some hooks added to ORK for EZGui/SpriteManager2 soon. Other than the draw call issue, all works very well so far, thank you.
EDIT: wha??? the active fight system isn't in there yet?
I'm willing to pay extra for a EZGUI integration or similar setup for the mobile development.
+1 for EZ GUI and SM2
+1 for an active fight system
Since there has not been any updates, has any one been able to create a small inventory menu using the unity GUI system that can interface with ORK? Or possibly use one of the many inventory systems on the forms to create an equipment screen for ORK?
There is one major flaw to ORK's armor system. Yes I can spawn a player. Yes I can use the armor system to attach a armor pice (say pants). But the problem is the pants do not animate with the player. I can seen to figure out the best way to have my attached armor animate with the player. Any ideas?
^ That's not a bug...
The armor model has to be skinned to your character's skeleton for it to animate together.
Well I did not say it was a "bug" I said it was a flaw as I did not think the functionality had been properly added yet to the code. If you however know how this should be done with in this Kit then will you please describe the process a bit more? My Char model and his armor (pants in my case) were created on the same skeleton and they hold the exact same bone structure in Unity.
Also another thing that is not added completely yet would be the fact that a character can equip any armor from the game when ever he wants. IT does not matter if he has the armor in his inventory. Now I know all that would need to be done is do some menu based checks when creating an inventory menu so Im sure this will be added....its just not there yet....thats all.
Through all of my testing these are the only two issues I ahve found so far. I have set up my own char and cam controler, DAO style dialogue system, custom characters, custom battle system, and custom party system. This kit made getting started very easy and I can expand off of it very well. I recomend the kit to anyone wanting to create an RPG with unity.
Sorry for my late reply in the thread ... I was down due to influenza for some time and I'm currently busy with university exams
Bad news first: menu system addon wont be out before End of February ...
Good news: it will most likely come with an item crafting system ... combine items, weapons and armors to create new items, weapons or armors
I see what the problem is - I'll improve the EquipmentViewer in one of the future updates to allow bone linking (e.g. link the bones of your pants to the leg-bones of your character). But it can take some time before I'll be able to implement this.
@real time battle system
Nope, not in the kit and never was - only turn based and active time battles (Final Fantasy style with timebars). A real time battle system will come as an addon in (probably late) 2011.
@lower draw calls for mobile
I'll be on this once the menu system is out!
There's no reason why this shouldn't work (although I haven't really tried playmaker). But using functionality from one in the other wont be possible without scripting ... (unless you can call playmaker stuff with send/broadcast message functionality - that's possible via ORKs event system).
I guess I've overlooked some questions now, I'll try to answer everything within the next weeks
There's some nasty bugs going around. January 1 - That was the nastiest flu I had ever had my entire life...worse than the walking pneumonia I had. I do hope you're feeling better tho.
Wonderful. I really need this for my adventure game!
I was going to try and script in something, but wasn't sure how ORK would save the custom scripting? You mention using Playmaker, but how would ORK save any in-game settings that any custom scripts would have if it's not part of the whole ORK package?
When is this going to be implemented.
Can you eplain how armor will work with the inventory menu? As of now I can use the same event as the demo to add any armor to the players body that I want but that should be restricted to only equip the armor if it is actually in the players inventory.
Yeah, I'm fine again, thanks
Saving of custom script data depends on how they are impemented. ORK saves your party (position, inventory, etc.) and the game variables. If you create a custom script that uses ORKs game variables to do something than ORK saves this stuff.
Drag+Drop and event start via item drop will come when the menu system is out.
The menu system will restrict the equipment to the stuff you got in your party inventory. You'll also have the possibility to view how a selected equipment will change the characters status values - I'll post some screens soon.
There'll also be another new way to start game events - periodically, i.e. the event will be executed everey e.g. 2 minutes. With this you can for example create a daytime cycle or a calendar system etc. by using game variables.
I'm trying to implement real-time system, and I'm loving this kit so far =)
My idea is to have players running around freely, and once they press "space", battle pauses, player can choice command, and it gets executed in real time then, based on "battle animation script".
gamingislove, currently I'm stock on showing command list window. I thought, this.StartTurn() calls window, where player can choice commands. So I did it this:
Like, I thought, this way I should get action command selection for my main player displayed. But nothing shows up.
I'm using custom Enum REALTIME, so neither active or turn-based is active.
Is there something else I need to call action selection window for the player I want?
Also, for the future - will whole system work, if few or more action will get executed at once? Like, course, I'll need to modify lots of stuff, but maybe there are some advices you can give to avoid potential minetraps?
So how it goes on?
Any news?
@Gamingislove, just bought the ORK kit yesterday, great work
but i was wondering if it would be possible to spawn random enemies in a battle arena instead of previously selected ones ?
Also, currently you have to set the enemy level manually, that results in allot o entries in the enemy panel. would it be possible to automaticly change the level of the enemy to fit the player's level ? (sometimes give the enemy a lower/higher level then the player)
Sorry for my late reply here, I'm working hard on the next update and menu system addon
I'll put the random enemies on my todo list for future updates, but don't know if it'll already be in the next one.
The enemy level doesn't really do anything since enemies don't have status value development like characters - it's just an information that could be used for e.g. an enemy compendium in the menu, etc.
Maybe there'll be something like that in the future, but for now that's not in ORK.
Also, ORK is now sold in quantity discounts - see our >shop< for details. The studio licences are gone, there's only indie and commercial licence with quantity discounts now
If someone needs support, please send it to email@example.com.
@gamingislove, thanks for the reply
i forgot this one request; the possibility to switch party members.
so lets say you have more then 3 party members, it would be very nice to be able to switch a current party member with one from a list.
thanks again.
Do you have a ETA on when the next release will be. We wont hold you to it if you cant get it done by a specific time I am just curious how long you think it will be.
next update will be ready within a week, it brings some cool new features for the event system (number variables, repeating autostart events > can be used to e.g. create a calendar or day-cycle system) and item recipes
menu system addon is still in development ...
the inventory system is it accessible outside the battle system?
because in the webplayer it isn't(right?).
ORK yet has no inventory system, a menu/inventory system is currently in development as addon. But ORK provides you with all needed functions to implement one of the existing inventory systems, if needed.
The menu system addon will bring not only list based (aka Final Fantasy type menus), but also drag+drop style menus, including dropping items back into the world (and saving positions in the savegame) - naturally there is everything you'll need in an RPG in there, items, equipment, party management, status, etc.
This is what I'm waiting for...this addon and will definitely purchase it when available.
There are two other RPG kits out now that I'm looking at. I will probably purchase those, too and see which one of these 3 best fits the gameplay I want to use.
Can you provide the links to the other two RPG kits? I am not aware of them.


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Nowadays, the repo robot rides in your car
Back in the old days, if you couldn't make your car payment, you had to watch out for the repo man.
Now, the repo man is a robot that rides around in a little device under your dashboard.
Miss a payment, and the car becomes a hunk of useless metal – immobilized by a starter-blocking device triggered from cyberspace.
The owner then has a choice – pay up and get use of the car again, or wait until the human repo man eventually rolls up. He'll be guided right to the spot by a GPS tattletale in the device.
"Automated Collection Technology," as it's known in the business, is becoming a common part of the "deep subprime" auto lending market. That's the market that finances old used cars for people with little income and poor credit. The industry charges high interest – often more than 20 percent.
The devices, which prevent cars from starting, are sparking a challenge from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri. The legal aid nonprofit agency, which serves the poor, contends they're dangerous – stranding motorists far from home, sometimes at night and in crime-ridden neighborhoods.
"I call it stranding technology," said Rob Swearingen, the legal services attorney who recently filed a lawsuit against the practice. The devices don't stop a car while moving. But once the engine is off, they stop it from restarting.
"I had a client who was in an intersection with a child," Swearingen said. The car stalled, and when she tried to restart it, the starter was blocked. "She had to roll the car to the side of the road, get the child out and beg somebody for money to get on a bus."
The industry says the devices are a public service. By encouraging prompt payment, the devices help consumers rebuild their battered credit scores, the industry contends. By reducing losses for lenders, it allows them to make bigger loans to borrowers so they can buy better cars.
The devices can also foil car thieves by guiding police to the stolen car.
Hosea Robinson said the device did him no favors.
He was working as a security guard at a housing project in Wellston, Mo.
"I was a little behind in my payments. They kept calling and I told them I was going to make a payment when I got paid," Robinson said.
Leaving work at night, he found his 1997 Sunfire wouldn't start. "I called them, and they said that unless I made a payment, they wouldn't turn it on."
Robinson got his brother out of bed to give him a ride home. When he returned the next day, the car's windows had been smashed and the car was dented. "There was $400 or $500 damage to the car. It pretty much wound up being junked," he said.
Auto dealers think the devices ease their biggest headache – people who pay late, or don't pay at all.
About a third of subprime customers default on their loans, said Ken Shilson, founder and president of the National Alliance of Buy-Here-Pay-Here Dealers. As a result, the industry spends a lot on collectors, who call customers when payments are late.
The devices reverse that process. Fearing that their cars won't start, people who are going to be late call the collectors to beg for extra time to pay.
Some of the devices beep at customers just before payments are due, and whistle when they're a day away from being shut off.
In a survey by the National Alliance, 91 percent of dealers said the devices cut their collection expenses, and 81 percent think the devices reduce the risk of default.
"There are two types of operators – those that are using the devices and those that should be using the devices," Shilson said.
His surveys show that 40 percent to 60 percent of subprime lenders and dealers are using some type of device. Some simply track the car by GPS, but most can both track and disable it.
"It's the No. 1 business model in use in deep subprime," Shilson said.
Some customers aren't happy about riding with a repo robot.
Rachael Ward, a dental assistant from Fenton, Mo., bought her 2003 Mitsubishi Galant in October 2010 at Auto Credit Mart in St. Louis. She put $700 down and borrowed $5,382 from Western Funding.
Western Funding is a major subprime lender, financing cars through 3,000 car lots. It charges an average interest rate of 23 percent, according to the company website.
The dealer explained the device and that the lender could freeze the starter if she fell behind.
"They said, 'It's a benefit to you. If it's ever stolen, we can track it down and shut it off,' " she recalled. Customers usually sign a paper acknowledging the device.
Ward, a married mother of two, didn't think much about it until one day that winter.
"I got into my car to leave for the doctor, and the car wouldn't start. When I tried, the key it would make this beeping noise," she said. "I'm freaking out because I have to get the kids from school."
She wasn't behind on her payment, she said. She called Western Funding, and they gave her control of the car again after a 30-minute wait. It happened again in March 2011, she said. This time it took more than an hour to restore.
By August 2011, however, she says she was two weeks behind on her car payment. She left work in Des Peres, Mo., and found her starter frozen.
"Your payment was due on the 1st," said the representative at Western Funding, according to Ward. "You're late."
At the time, she lived about 25 miles away. After some begging, they let her drive home before shutting it off again.
She fell behind again and was shut off again in November, while out shopping with her family. This time they wouldn't unfreeze the starter until she paid. In December, her car was disabled again while she was at work.
"They laughed at me," she said. "They said the policy had changed. Now instead of 10 days to pay, you have five days. My husband came with the kids and picked me up." She later wired in the money to the lender.
After all that, she's frightened by the device. "It's a hassle, and I'm constantly nervous," she said. "What will happen if I have the kids with me and it's the middle of winter?"
But it does concentrate her mind on making on-time payments. "I'm a day late and I'm paranoid. It's a constant worry," she said.
That's the value of a cutoff device from the dealer's perspective – it keeps customers paying on time. Swearingen, the legal services lawyer, says dealers don't really want to repossess the cars, which tend to be old and high-mileage with little value. They'd rather have the money.
"Of course you cut delinquencies. People are scared out of their wits," Swearingen said.
The lending industry takes pains to prevent such events, Shilson said. "They try to shut them off in the middle of the night so to be minimally disruptive."


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September 10, 2008 at 15:38:37 Sep 10, 2008 @ 15:38
No thanks
and the cover looks made is ms paint
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Dude, Anyone Can Fucking Make This Dumbass
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So, miserably, he resorted to the autocue, and even this he turned into a disaster.
An article in the state-run Global Times newspaper portrays Chen as a criminal who "resorted to extreme and violent ways."
White Supremacists in Virginia have resorted to advertising to children.
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Force and violence had failed, and Tom had resorted to cunning and stratagem.
At that time, and long before, Islington was resorted to on account of some alleged mineral waters existing here.
Within five days after Aremberg arrived, Cobham resorted unto him.
Dobbs's seton failed to produce the desired effect, and he, therefore, resorted to blistering and calomel.
late 14c., "that to which one has recourse for aid or assistance," from Old French resort "resource, a help, an aid, a remedy," back-formation from resortir "to resort," literally "to go out again," from re- "again" (see re-) + sortir "go out" (see sortie). Meaning "place people go for recreation" is first recorded 1754. Phrase in the last resort (1670s) translates French en dernier ressort, originally of legal appeals.
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According to an AP article (you can read it at the Save Tibet website), Tibetans burned rare animal skins after the Dalai Lama asked them to give up products made from endangered animals. The Chinese, who've moved into Tibet in large numbers since invading the country fifty years ago, banned the burnings—no doubt because there's a lot of money in those pelts. According to the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, tiger skins can be worth as much as $10,000 on the streets.
One of the most endangered creatures to be made into a fur coat (for $1000 a skin) is the snow leopard. Just a beautiful animal, and one rarely seen, because it's nocturnal and lives in the fastnesses of the Himalayas and central Asia. So rare are these animals (as rare as sightings of Osama bin Laden, who lives in the region), that the BBC's new series Planet Earth is trumpeting footage of leopards doing things that have never been captured on film before. No news when the series will be coming to the U.S.
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In Spring 2017, I taught Math 4575 and Math 6502.
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In Fall 2016, I helped organize a special semester at ICERM.
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Governing Body : The Governing Body meets twice a year and has following composition:-
The last meeting of this newly structured Governing Body was held on 12.06.2008.
Coordination Committee :
For coordination and providing guidance at State level, a High level co-ordination Committee was set up in May 1978. The committee is headed by the Secretary, Irrigation and includes Secretaries of Agriculture, Co-operative Development, Forest, Finance and Planning Department, Managing Director, HSMITC and Engineer-in-Chief, Irrigation and B&R. The Administrator of Command Area Development Authority is the Secretary of the Committee. The State level committee has been vested with all the powers except the matter in which the approval of the Chief Minister or Council of Ministers is required.
Standing Committee : The members of the Committee are as under: -
The standing committee sanctions all
expenditure, which are within the powers of the heads of the departments.
The financial powers to facilitate the execution of the schemes have been
given to the Administrator, CADA.
Engineering Wing :
work of lining of field channels/watercourses was earlier undertaken by
HSMITC and Irrigation Department. In order to have better control, it was
decided in 1988 that this activity be also looked after by CADA
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component was entrusted to the Engineering Wing of CADA, headed by the Chief
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programme is looked after by the Engineering Wing. The executing staff
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Department and Agriculture Department. In addition the Irrigation
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department effects the land consolidation and the Cooperative department
supplies the necessary credit
requirement. The Agriculture
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Forest department undertakes Forestry Programme. District Administration &
Development and Panchayats Department ensures participation of the people
and the Panchayats in the Programme.
The 'On Farm
Development' work adaptive trials, demonstration plots and farmer's training
etc. are executed by the CAD agencies at District level by Executive
Engineers, CADA. Based on
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(CNSNews.com) – John Bryson, President Barack Obama's nominee to be secretary of commerce, said it was "incredibly important" that the United States pass cap and trade legislation and that America needed to be a global leader in combating man-made global warming.
"I regard it as incredibly important that the United States comes forth in this year with federal climate change legislation as a foundation for moving ahead," Bryson told the U.N. International Energy Conference in late August 2009. "I think we in the U.S. have an obligation to assist in significant ways in providing leadership in this community of nations that you represent and addressing energy and climate change."
Bryson, in stating "in this year," was speaking about the U.N. Climate Change Conference scheduled for December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Formerly the CEO of Edison International, Bryson has long been an advocate of some sort of federal plan for regulating greenhouse gasses. While still at Edison, he called for a national cap and trade system.
Under cap and trade, in general, the amount of carbon an industry could emit into the air would be capped. For companies that expect to exceed that cap, they could buy ("trade") carbon credits to supposedly offset their emissions; the money spent for the credit would be redirected to supposedly greener, less polluting companies.
"A deliberate and coordinated effort is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the entire energy sector," Bryson said in a July 2004 Edison press release.
"Long term, a reasonable and balanced 'cap-and-trade' system for reducing carbon dioxide emissions could be adopted once new carbon- dioxide removal technology has been developed and becomes commercially available."
Bryson, a co-founder of the liberal environmentalist group Natural Resources Defense Council, was most recently a member of the United Nations' Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, a panel of scientific and industry experts tasked with providing advice on combating global warming.
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Green Branch is a social justice library for the children and youth of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a dynamic space that takes the traditional model of a public library, open to all, and injects it with new life for a new generation of readers.
We will provide three key resources:
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Green Branch is a simple idea with a potentially major impact: strengthening and reigniting in children an interest in books by providing culturally relevant reading materials, strengthening existing activism, and inspiring a new generation of social justice activists to engage in their communities from an early age.
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This review will therefore focus on the four other pore-forming haemolysins produced by
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Is it just me or can anybody else see an actress "shooting herself" in his den sometime in the not so distant future ?
With the right outfit, Axl could be one of the Three Musketeers.
Heh. Great one!
His rings need to be larger. Those are much too understated.
He looks as surprised as we are that there are women in his limo.
Must have missed this one. Ha!
He looks like Oz from the original W.O.O
I missed this one. Awesome.
That Phillip Seymour Hoffman can really pick up chicks.
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Orangina Advert 2008 France
31 May 2008
Going to the cinema in Paris these days comes in with the chance to see once again the great Orangina advert, a truly post-modern gem which seems to have been released only in France.
The advert is on TV as well, on vending machines and in magazines, and on moving poster displays around town. It looks dazzling on the big screen, however, so the cinema is the place to see it.
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IEEE Broadcast Technology Society / AFCCE Jules Cohen Memorial Scholarships
Jules Cohen Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award
Matti S. Siukola Memorial Award
IEEE Broadband Multimedia Symposium - Best Paper Award
The Broadcast Technology Society Special Service Award
IEEE Broadcast Technology Society / AFCCE Jules Cohen Memorial Scholarships
Established in 2016, The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers will award scholarships of up to $10,000 to promising undergraduate and graduate students attending accredited U.S. Universities interested in a career in broadcast engineering. Applications for the Fall 2017 semester will be accepted beginning November1st until April 30, 2017. Information and applications are available at http://afcce.org/scholarships/.
Jules Cohen Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award
Established in 2015, The IEEE Jules Cohen Award for Outstanding Broadcast Engineering is created to recognize outstanding broadcast engineering work that is exceptional in:
- Integrity and professionalism;
- Quality and thoroughness of the candidate's work;
- Extent and reach of the work; and
- Commitment to client success.
Prize: Plaque, $500 award, complimentary registration at Broadcast Symposium
Funding: Funded by the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society
Eligibility: Membership in IEEE BTS during the period of achievement and has accomplished achievement in broadcast engineering that exemplifies the following key criteria: integrity and professionalism, quality and thoroughness of work, extent and reach of the work, commitment to client success. Eligibility and selection process shall comply with procedures and regulation established in IEEE and Society governing documents, particularly with IEEE Policy 4.4 on Awards Limitations.
Presentation: At Annual Broadcast Symposium
To nominate a candidate, complete form here
Clyde M. Hunt Memorial Award
Established in 1993 to recognize a student paper of exceptional interest and applicability to the field of Broadcast Engineering.
First prize: $250, Certificate and an all expense paid trip to the Annual Broadcast Symposium to present
the winning paper;
Second and Third prize: $250.00, Certificate, and complimentary registration to the Annual
Broadcast Symposium. [For coauthored papers, only principal author receives prizes (first, second, or third)]
Funding: Honoraria funded by the Clyde M. Hunt Memorial fund; administered by the IEEE Foundation. Travel and Symposium registration funded by the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society.
Eligibility: Any student, undergraduate or graduate, pursuing a course of study in a field related to broadcast
engineering is eligible. The student need not be a member of IEEE or BTS.
Basis for Judging: General quality, extent of original work, timeliness, and significance of the contribution to
the broadcast engineering profession. The paper must be of sufficient quality to warrant publication in the
Presentation: Given aperiodically, however presentation to be made at Annual Broadcast Symposium.
Scott Helt Memorial Award
Established in 1957 to recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting.
Prize: Plaque
Funding: Funded by the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society
Eligibility: Authors of papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting during the calendar year
(1 January – 31 December) immediately prior to the fall Broadcast Symposium
Basis for Judging: General quality of paper, subject matter, originality, timeliness, contribution to the broadcasting field
Presentation: At Annual Broadcast Symposium
Matti S. Siukola Memorial Award
Established in 1982 the Matti S. Siukola Memorial Award recognizes the best paper presented at the Annual Broadcast Symposium. The award honors Dr. Siukola, an eminent broadcast antenna engineer for more than thirty years, who was stricken with a fatal heart attack as he completed his presentation at the 1980 Symposium.
Prize: Plaque
Funding: Funded by the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society.
Eligibility: Presenters of papers at the Annual Broadcast Symposium.Basis for Judging: Overall technical quality, extent of original work, effectiveness of presentation, quality of visual aids.
Presentation: At the following year's Annual Broadcast Symposium.
Matti S. Siukola Memorial Award Recipients
2015: David Layer for "All Digital Radio AM Field Test Project"
2014: Benjamin F. Dawson, P.E. for "The Effects of Nearby Structures on MF Antennas and the FCC's Newly Enacted Rules for Protecting AM Stations from those Effects"
2013: S. Merrill Weiss for "Interference from Passive Intermodulation (PIM)-Keeping the Red Flag Flying"
2012: Greg Best and S. Merrill Weiss for "Taming DTV Interference to Co-Sited Adjacent-Spectrum Users"
2011: Geoff Mendenhall for "Transmission System Solutions to Increase IBOC Power and Coverage"
2010: Pascal Marcoux for "Revisiting the Field Strength Requirements for DTV in the Canadian Context"
IEEE Broadband Multimedia Symposium - Best Paper Award
Presented Annually for the Best Paper presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)
The Broadcast Technology Society Special Service Award
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A week before the election, our democracy was tested by a very democratic storm named, "Sandy." Sandy roared onto the East Coast like an angry bear. She didn't care if her victims were rich or poor, white or black, gay or straight, Republican or Democrat. Sandy's attack wasn't political and neither should the response have been.
For two leaders, the response wasn't political. President Obama and New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie worked together to help assess the damage and to help allocate resources. The sight of these two men, both from very different sides of the political fence, working together and each heaping praise upon the other, should be a common occurance. In years not too far gone, it was common, even expected, for governors and presidents to work together regardless of party. However, since Rush Limbaugh, the Koch Brothers and Fox News gave birth to the Tea Party, it's been all party all the time. While that might sound like fun, the rules are strict — you must not be seen with or agree with any member of the Democratic party or you will be called a RINO (Republican in Name Only) or worse. It doesn't matter if people's lives and livelihoods are at stake because the party is more important than the people, it's more important then country, it's more important than anything
What Is The Enemy Of Republicanism? A Government That Works — Just Ask Chris Christie
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Geithner: GSE Overhaul Needed Within 2 Years
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the Obama administration wants Congress to overhaul Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac within two years to help stabilize the housing financial markets.
But Geithner warned that acting too hastily could destabilize the already fragile housing finance market and bring more harm to economic recovery.
Closing the doors on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac without consideration for the pace of economic recovery could shock an already fragile housing market, severely constrain mortgage credit for American families, and expose taxpayers to unnecessary losses," Geithner said in a statement he was to deliver to the Financial Services Committee on Tuesday. Housing is a critical part of our economy and we will proceed with our plan for reform with great care.
Congress continues to debate how to reshape the government's role in the housing market, with differing opinions from Republicans and Democrats on what should be done and how quickly.
Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee securities backed by about half of all U.S. mortgages.
The Obama administration released a report a few weeks ago that proposed options for gradually reducing government's role in the conventional mortgage system.
We are committed to a system in which the private market--not American taxpayers--bears the burden for losses, Geithner said.
Source: "Geithner Telling Congress he Wants Bill Overhauling Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in 2 Years," Associated Press (Feb. 28, 2011)


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Google Wave has been all the talk this week, with the instant-messaging on steroids collaboration tool – yes, we know that's a gross oversimplification – expanding its reach to 100,000 beta testers.
FT techtalk, a much more modest beta launched on Friday using CoveritLive's service, is instant messaging with just a few bells and whistles.
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Having been a huge fan of Grishko's Slimz Tights, I decided to give these a try. The pink is nice. The slimming effect is decent. But the waist goes up way too high. And I have never been a fan of invisible waistbands. While these tights are reasonably nice on their own, comparing to the Slimz Tights, I obviously wouldn't purchase them again.
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Hey, it's Carp. Here is the explanation I got from NHL exec Mike Murphy regarding the review of the disallowed Brandon Dubinsky goal last night.
Murphy said that the call was correct, but the process was not:
"In regards to your questions relating to last nights Ranger – Panther game, here is what happened.
As the on-ice officials were coming together and concluding that Brandon Dubinsky' stick had made contact with the puck above the height of the cross-bar and that their call on the ice was "no goal", the play was being looked at both by the Toronto Video Room and by the in arena Video Goal Judge at Madison Square Garden. It was the opinion of both that the call made by the on-ice officials would stand, as there was inconclusive video evidence to overturn this call.
There were, however, a number of errors made in the video review process as it applied to this play. Essentially, there was a communication break down between the on-ice and off-ice officials. The Video Goal Judge failed to sound his horn, signalling the on-ice officials of the need for further video review, and the on-ice officials failed to recognize that the play required official video review and assumed that no further review was necessary. This should never have happened and this play should have been placed under formal video review.
Over the course of the season, the NHL Video Room has overturned very few plays involving pucks that may or may not be high sticked into the net. For the most part, the on-ice officials have the best view of these plays and it is extremely difficult to get a true and accurate perspective of the puck, the crossbar and where the puck makes contact with the stick threw replays. With very few exceptions, the call made by the on-ice officials stands. This is particularly true when more than one on-ice official has a view of the play.
In the end, while there were mistakes made in the process, mistakes that we have taken steps to resolve for the future, we are confident that the correct result was reached."
WITT-LESS: No Brendan Witt for Thursday's Rangers game against the Islanders. The NHL just suspended him for five games for an elbow to the head of Toronto's Niklas Hagman.
The Rangers still have limited tickets available for Casino Night. Here's the info from the team:
New York, February 27, 2009 – The New York Rangers players and coaches will be decked out in their tuxedos and dealing out a great night of fun at Casino Night on Monday, March 2 at Gotham Hall in Manhattan benefitting the Garden of Dreams Foundation. This exciting night will bring new head coach John Tortorella and the entire Rangers team together with Blueshirt fans for a festive evening in a casino setting to support the Garden of Dreams Foundation, which makes "dreams come true for kids in crisis".
This full team event, including Rangers Henrik Lundqvist, Chris Drury, and Scott Gomez, will also feature a live and silent auction. For further details, please visit newyorkrangers.com.
WHO: The entire 2008-2009 New York Rangers team
WHAT: New York Rangers Casino Night
WHEN: Monday, March 2, 2009 beginning at 7:00 PM
WHERE: Gotham Hall, 1356 Broadway (and 36th Street)
Here is TSN's story that Sean Avery will go on re-entry waivers Sunday or Monday, which means he could be a Ranger (if no other team claims him) by Tuesday.


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Hunter Hayes Will Not Be Hard To Find This Year
After performing his new single "Invisible" on the Grammy show Sunday night...Hunter Hayes has announced his "We're Not Invisible Tour" which will feature the new duo Dan and Shay and "The Voice" winner Danielle Bradberry. Tickets for the upcoming tour will go on sale the first of February.
The tour will be presented in part by "Child Hunger Ends Here" which will donate money to help feed those in need.
On the red carpet at the Grammy's Hunter revealed that the show producers had discovered the song "Invisible" off his new project and asked him to sing it during the telecast which he was thrilled to do. He was astonished to know that the show organizers had actually taken the time to listen to his album and find the song and said he was honored that they did.


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Three out of four children have seen images on the internet that disturbed them, an NSPCC poll suggests.
The charity is renewing its call for computer manufacturers and retailers to install security to stop children finding violent or sexual content. The NSPCC, which polled visitors to its children's website There4me.com, said it was "alarmed" by the accessibility of potentially disturbing material. Some 377 of 497 votes cast claimed to have been disturbed by internet images.
One child posted a comment on a There4me message board saying: "I've seen violent images I didn't search for. I was freaked out." Another said his eight-year-old sister's search for "pictures of animals" generated pornography adverts. The NSPCC wants social networking and video hosting sites to remove offensive material within hours of finding it.
Policy adviser Zoe Hilton said the NSPCC was "alarmed" by how easy it was for children to access "disturbing internet material". She said: "Children are just a few clicks away from innocently stumbling across upsetting or even dangerous pictures and films such as adult sex scenes, violent dog fights, people self-harming and children being assaulted."
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GamePro confirms Killzone 3 – with 3D gaming
For all you gaming fans there's good news today as next month's issue of GamePro is running an article about Killzone 3. More information is coming out as we speak which does suggest the game certainly seems to be some way through its developmental stages.
According to an article today by Michael DaSilva on Examiner.com, the newest of the Killzone series will have more features, one of them being that it will be compatible with 3DTV's. We know this is going to excite a lot of you, and us too. Apparently a tester in Amsterdam said, "It just looks fantastic how the snow lays down on the weapon and melts when shooting – and all that in 3D."
Furthermore there will be the use of jetpacks in the new Killzone and there will also be an overall feel of greater scale and size. It appears that Guerilla is really making headway to follow up on the success with Killzone 2, with its amazing graphics. If you pick up a copy of Game Pro come June 1 this may tide you over until the release.
For much more on this plus a look at some leaked screenshots go to examiner.com. Hopefully we may not have too much longer to wait before we can see some Killzone 3 footage. What do you think of the news of Killzone 3? We'd be happy to hear your comments.
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