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November 27, 2008
Maritime spatial planning
A Roadmap for Maritime Spatial Planning was adopted by the European Commission on 25 November to address the increasing challenges and complications emerging from the growth in competing uses of both marine and coastal spaces. This new tool is intended to facilitate the development of what is a relatively new concept of more systematically managing these resources in a sustainable manner.
The Communication provides information on current practices and instruments as well as defining a series of joint principles to encourage a debate on how an added value common approach to the challenges of shared maritime resources and issues, which are often interlinked and transcend national borders, can be achieved at EU level. Earlier this year the Irish Sea Regions Platform was launched on foot of a 2007 submission by the Dublin Regional Authority in response to the Commission's Green Paper, Towards a Future Maritime Policy for the Union. Partners representing regions and sectoral stakeholders along the seaboard in Ireland and Britain are now working together to establish a basis to provide opportunities to develop integrated projects. Similar strategies for the Baltic and Black Seas are at more advanced stages and have contributed to the Roadmap's content.
The spatial planning approach forms one element of the EU's wider Integrated Maritime Policy which aims to coordinate all EU policies with a maritime dimension in order to safeguard environmental sustainability and quality of life in coastal regions while promoting the growth potential of maritime industries. In 2009, the Commission will organise a number of workshops to discuss the key principles of the roadmap, launch pilot projects aimed at developing cross-border cooperation aspects and produce a progress report. An accompanying study on the legal aspects of this topic has also been issued.
Posted by iroronan at November 27, 2008 03:14 PM
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November 17, 2008
National Reform Programme for Growth and Jobs
National Reform Programmes (NRPs) as drawn up by national governments are a framework for articulating Member State strategies for generating economic growth and job creation as part of the redesigned Lisbon Strategy. They offer a succinct overview of planned national level macro and micro-economic, and employment
reforms and successful and innovative policies in a bid to give new impetus to the drive to increase prosperity and to allow more people to share in it.
Ireland's NRP for 2008-2010 has now been submitted to the European Commission. It summarises progress
since 2007 while setting out a renewed approach for the economically uncertain period ahead based, in particular, on a broad range of policies and initiatives within the framework of the recently reviewed Towards 2016 social partnership agreement and Budget 2009.
The Government has indicated that it will bring forward revised and new strategies over the period ahead in response to the fast-changing situation in order to ensure a return to strong economic growth and employment performance while also stressing the interdependence of social, environmental and economic goals.
Ireland's NRP: http://ec.europa.eu/growthandjobs/pdf/member-states-2008-2010-reports/Ireland%20NRP%202008-10%20FINAL.pdf
Posted by iroronan at November 17, 2008 10:33 AM
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November 17, 2008
Energy now 'top priority' of EU Budget Reform
On 12 November a conference on the findings of the broad consultation on reform of the EU budget, which took place between September 2007 and April this year, revealed that widespread backing exists among public, private and NGO stakeholders for energy policy to rank among the top priorities for EU spending. The ascendancy of energy issues alongside climate change and competitiveness concerns is the most eyecatching finding arising from what is effectively the first indication towards the make-up of the post-2013 period budget.
The findings represent a massive change in grassroots thinking and, if acted upon by the Commission and Member States, in the long-term, may have huge implications for well established policies such as the CAP. Budget and Financial Programming Commissioner Dalia Grybauskaite stated that this evidence sent out a very serious signal to politicians about the need to develop new policies to face the energy challenges that Europe is facing. She added that this indicated that extensive financial resources should be allocated to improved interconnections to improve
energy supply security, research on energy efficiency, investments in new technologies and renewable energy
Conference papers: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/reform/conference/documents_en.htm
Posted by iroronan at November 17, 2008 09:39 AM
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November 14, 2008
European Commission adopts 2009 Work Programme
The 2009 Legislative and Work Programme of the European Commission was adopted on 5 November. For this final
year of the present Commission's mandate the programme envisages following up on recent initiatives to address the financial crisis as well as consolidating and completing work already underway, with the emphasis on implementing the visions set out in areas like energy, climate change, migration and social policy. The priorities set out amid its 12 strategic initiatives, 37 priority initiatives, 33 simplification proposals are:
- reform and specific measures in the areas of financial markets and financial supervision aimed at rebuilding economic confidence through the 'framework for action' towards economic recovery presented late last month;
- working towards achieving global agreement on the energy and climate change package at the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting (Copenhagen, December) in order to move towards implementation;
- specific citizen-centred measures and policies in consumer affairs and freedom, security and justice;
- building ever improved relations with the wider world through enlargement policy, neighbourhood policy, world
trade, and transatlantic relations.
Promoting a simpler and better regulatory environment without unnecessary administrative burdens remains a key
legislative aim and specific measures are set out on simplification as well as the withdrawal of pending proposals.
Additionally, the presentation of the Budget Review, an important contribution to the debate on the shape of the future priorities of the Union and their financing, will form a key part of the legacy of this Commission post 2013.
Posted by iroronan at November 14, 2008 06:41 PM
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November 14, 2008
Sustainable Energy Week: 9-13 February 2009, Brussels
Registration has opened for the 2009 European Sustainable Energy Week - the key annual event of the Sustainable
Energy Europe Campaign and the focal point for sustainable energy issues in Europe. Organised by the European
Commission's Directorate-General for Energy and Transport along with the other European Institutions, major energy actors and private companies, EUSEW 2009 is set to include over 135 events for stakeholders and general public both in Brussels and throughout Europe. This will include weekend 'open days for sustainable energy' where Cork County Energy Agency and Tipperary Energy Agency will introduce the general public to energy efficient lifestyles through organised visits to local examples of 'ecovillages' and sustainable housing estates
where renewable energy technologies have been already installed. Informative and practical talks from alternative energy experts will also take place.
This popular week of events requires prompt registration on: http://www.eusew.eu/
Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign: http://www.sustenergy.org/
Posted by iroronan at November 14, 2008 11:07 AM
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November 14, 2008
Mid-West e-Inclusion project wins Commission award
Citizens First, an Interreg 3b North West Europe project led by the Mid-West Regional Authority, has won a medal as part of the eInclusion. Awards. This European Commission initiative recognises public, business and civil society sector organisations whose activities have made the best and most imaginative uses of Information and Communications Technology to positively impact on the lives of marginalised people
and communities - thereby reducing digital and social exclusion. Beyond its social necessity, overcoming this barrier is estimated to be worth up to EUR85 billion to European companies and governments over the next five years and the awards aim to inspire progress and greater all-round ICT efforts towards this goal.
Citizens First's recognition is under the category of 'Inclusive Public Services' for its efforts in engaging with isolated and socially disadvantaged communities to plan and deliver internet based public services underpinning an inclusive Information Society. It focused in particular on empowering such groups by providing technical skills training to address the socio-economic and cultural barriers that exclude them from e-government services.
Winners will be announced on 1 December.
Contact: Marie Collins, email@example.com
Project: http://www.citizen-first.net/
Awards: www.e-inclusionawards.eu/
Posted by iroronan at November 14, 2008 10:30 AM
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November 13, 2008
Court of Auditors' Report
The implementation of the EU budget - a responsibility of the European Commission along with Member State governments in some policy areas - is audited externally each year by the European Court of Auditors. Its report on the EUR114 billion set aside for 2007 was published on 10 November and will provide a basis for the budgetary agreement procedure to be carried out between the European Parliament and the Council over the
coming months.
Posted by iroronan at November 13, 2008 11:31 AM
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November 11, 2008
Financing Renewable and Efficient Energy:10 December, Brussels
The European Association of Public Banks (EAPB) in co-operation with the Committee of the Regions is holding a
conference: 'Financing of Renewable and Efficient Energy in Europe'. Officials from the European Commission, experts from the banking sector, local authorities and regions will make available their expertise and discuss current developments in this field.
Posted by iroronan at November 11, 2008 11:03 AM
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November 11, 2008
New websites reveal EU funding
Details of the 28,000 beneficiaries during 2007 of approximately EUR10 billion in funding, grants, contracts and other forms of EU support are now publicly available for the first time after the European Commission unveiled the 'Financial Transparency System' search engine in October. A separate portal giving details of payments to Member States from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development went live on 30 September. The websites form part of the wider transparency initiative introduced in 2005.
Financial Transparency System
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Posted by iroronan at November 11, 2008 10:01 AM
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November 10, 2008
LEADER funding announced
The Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs announced the funding allocations under Axes 3 and 4 of the new Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 on 4 November. In what is by far the largest ever support package for this type of action, funding of EUR425.4 million (55% from the EU) will be provided towards activities to stimulate economic vitality and social well-being across all areas of Ireland not designated as gateways or hubs under the National Spatial Strategy.
The focus of Axis 3 is on quality of life and diversification into non-agricultural activities. Though complementary to on-farm measures under the programme, its actions are centred on the wider rural community including the need to provide alternative and suitable employment opportunities and the range of services that people living in rural areas need and expect. These challenges are to be addressed through support for the development of rural enterprises based on local natural resources, service provision, tourism and recreational activities, village enhancement, environmental initiatives, conservation and upgrading of rural heritage, and training.
The funding will be delivered to community groups and individuals using the well-established LEADER methodology through 36 integrated Local Action Groups (LAGS) established under Axis 4. While many of these retain their identities from previous rounds of the LEADER programmes, a certain amount of rationalisation has taken place to create more structures to operate at a 'county-level' where appropriate.
The list of LAGs and their allocations is available at:
Posted by iroronan at November 10, 2008 01:49 PM
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November 10, 2008
First Life+ approvals
Two Irish projects on related themes are among the first projects approved under LIFE+ the European fund for the
environment. Both are Nature & Biodiversity activities under the component of the programme supporting the
implementation of the Birds and Habitats Directives and the Natura 2000 network and tackling wider biodiversity
conservation issues.
Shannon Regional Fisheries Board's ShannonSACLAEO initiative aims to restore the lower Shannon Special Area of
Conservation (SAC) for sea lamprey, Atlantic salmon and European otter by targeting, in particular, the control and
reversal of the damage caused by two invasive alien species (IAS): the giant hogweed and the Japanese knotweed. Meanwhile the CAISIE project of the Central Fisheries Board's will target the control of aquatic IAS and restoration of natural communities in Lough Corrib including exchange and information dissemination with other European IAS control teams and policy makers.
EU co-financing totaling EUR186 million was approved for 143 projects from over 700 applications to this first call. The
programme awards approvals annually.
Posted by iroronan at November 10, 2008 09:57 AM
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November 09, 2008
Impact Assessment training: 3-5 December, Brussels
This three-day course offers participants an intensive introduction to the practical understanding of integrated (social, environmental and economic) Impact Assessment. This key tool for better regulation is becoming increasingly central to the policy-making and legislative processes of the EU. Among the themes to be addressed are identification of relevant Commission proposals for impact assessment, the timetable for their preparation, the key analytical steps followed by the Commission, and opportunities for stakeholder and Member State input.
Posted by iroronan at November 9, 2008 10:59 AM
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November 07, 2008
FP7 Workshop (ERRIN): 10 December, Brussels
This free seminar organised by the European Regions Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN) will be dedicated to demonstrating the necessary steps towards understanding and getting involved in FP7. It will include information
on how to select the most appropriate FP7 call, promoting your profile among the European RTD community, and using the online CORDIS search services and project submission tools.
Contact: email@example.com
Posted by iroronan at November 7, 2008 11:01 AM
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November 07, 2008
Comenius Regio - Schools Partnerships
The European Commission has launched Comenius Regio, a new action under the Lifelong Learning Programme to support transnational cooperation and exchange of experience and good practice between educational authorities and regional or local authorities to improve educational opportunities for children of school-age.
Comenius Regio Partnerships will fund bilateral cooperation projects on any educational topic of common relevance to both participating regions such as school management issues, better integration of pupils from migrant backgrounds, entrepreneurship education or reducing early school leaving. Schools and other relevant partners (e.g. libraries, youth organisations) within the regions/municipalities involved must be integrated into project activities. The Commission expects to fund around 500 projects until 2013 with grants covering 2-year periods of mobility exchanges of school education staff, joint teacher training activities, peer learning or study visits as well as other activities such as trials of new educational approaches, surveys, and awareness-raising campaigns. The deadline for applications is 20 February.
Posted by iroronan at November 7, 2008 10:22 AM
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November 06, 2008
Secure energy on the EU periphery: 5 December, Brussels
'Secure Energy Futures for Europe's Peripheral Communities: Delivering Europe's Climate Change and Energy
Policies at the Local Level' is the final international event of the ASPIRE project under the Intelligent Energy Europe
programme. The event will demonstrate best practice being achieved towards developing a model for creating
Sustainable Energy Communities in peripheral areas of EU by identifying and maximising their potential for promoting,
using and benefiting economically from such renewable energy resources. Delegates may provide input into the
project's final conclusions and a future cooperation network for Sustainable Energy Communities.
Posted by iroronan at November 6, 2008 10:56 AM
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November 06, 2008
eProcurement Consultation
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services has launched a survey to evaluate the uptake of electronic public procurement across the EU. In particular, the evaluation will assess how well the objectives of the Action Plan for the implementation of the legal framework for electronic public
procurement, adopted in 2004, have been achieved.
The questionnaire is aimed at four different categories of users:
- Suppliers who may have conducted business with public purchasers in a traditional and/or an eProcurement
- Contracting entities including local authorities which may have awarded works, supplies or services contracts
via traditional and/or eProcurement procedures;
- Central Purchasing Bodies, i.e. specialised procurement coordinating entities; and
- National procurement policy institutions or agencies responsible for related technical or legal aspects.
The results of this survey will be collected in a report, which will be made available during the second half of 2009.
Email email@example.com to receive a logon identity.
Action Plan for eProcurement: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/publicprocurement/e-procurement_en.htm#actionplan
Posted by iroronan at November 6, 2008 09:43 AM
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November 04, 2008
National-Regional partnerships for governance & projects
A European Parliament report on governance and partnership in Regional Policy, adopted on 21 October, has stressed that regional and local partners should be more extensively involved, in planning and implementing regional development projects.
To provide the practical solutions that citizens expect, (e.g. social housing, clean water) the 'Beaupuy report' urges national authorities to step up their use of the "integrated approach" to policy making and to involve local partners from planning to completion, so as to make better use of their experience and know-how and to enhance effectiveness, efficiency, legitimacy and transparency. It also urges member states to establish public-private partnerships to implement funding and to provide all actors with the means to implement good governance.
The report advises that to succeed, multi-level governance needs to take a ''bottom-up'' approach whereby local and regional authorities must step up their co-operation with national governments and the commission. Equally, member states are urged to decentralise both the legislative and budgetary implementation of cohesion policy in keeping with the subsidiarity principle.
The report calls on the Commission, Member States and regional and local authorities to help integrate the management of all community funding for regional and urban development (Structural Funds, R&D support, and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development) in order to better exploit and co-ordinate these instruments. As part of Commission efforts to spearhead the introduction of modern governance practices a practical guide and an 'Erasmus' style training and exchange programme for local and regional representatives are also proposed.
Posted by iroronan at November 4, 2008 10:48 AM
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November 03, 2008
Energy Research Alliance to foster the "green" energy technologies
The EU Commissioners for Research and Energy, Janez Potocnik and Andris Piebalgs respectively, have welcomed, on 28 October, the initiative of leading research institutes in the European Union (EU) to found the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA).The triple challenge of energy security, climate change and competitiveness that the EU currently faces is such that it will require scaling up and better coordination of all available resources to develop the energy technologies that will allow Europe's citizens to enjoy a good quality of life in a carbon constrained future where going it alone at national level is likely to lead to failure and waste of resources.
Commissioner Potocnik said that the development of cutting-edge energy technologies requires cooperation in resources beyond national borders and the creation of the European Energy Research Alliance to coordinate national and European energy research programmes was a crucial step forwards. In addition, Commissioner, Piebalgs highlighted that the Commission's Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan, November 2007) is offering a roadmap of action for Europe to develop a world-class portfolio of affordable, clean, efficient and low emission energy technologies by combining the potential of energy research capacities of the major European institutes and universities with the engagement of European industry and the commitment of the Member States. The SET Plan also includes a series of new priority European Industrial Initiatives focusing on the development of technologies for which working at Community level will add most value. Initiatives in preparation focus on carbon capture and storage, bio-energy, wind and solar energy, the European smart grid and sustainable fission. Actions will be supported by reliable information provided by the Commission's European Energy Technology Information System (SETIS).
EERA now becomes is the SET Plan's research community pillar. The cooperation of major national research institutes and universities will move help to move from today's model of collaborating on individual projects towards a new way of jointly implementing whole programmes which go from research and development through deployment. There are many scientific fields which have an impact on the development of energy technologies, from engineering to the social sciences. The Alliance is able to cover many different disciplines, bringing a much-needed multidisciplinary approach to energy research.
Posted by iroronan at November 3, 2008 01:58 PM
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November 03, 2008
Intercultural Dialogue: 25-26 November, Brussels
The Committee of the Regions along with the European Commission Directorate-General for Education and Culture is
organising a forum entitled Intercultural dialogue at the heart of Europe's cities and regions. The event provides an opportunity to discuss the situation on the ground, illustrating the current and potential roles of local and regional authorities in relation to policies which impact on the integration of immigrant communities. Cases of best practice will be highlighted. The European perspective will be addressed according to the challenges posed by mobility in an
enlarged Europe; migration and integration; and how interfaith dialogue and cooperation with local and regional
authorities can contribute to social and cultural cohesion.
Posted by iroronan at November 3, 2008 10:54 AM
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November 03, 2008
Access to Higher Education
European higher education providers have committed themselves to a coordinated respond to growing demands to raise employment prospects by broadening access to their services. Although education is a Member State competence, lifelong learning (LLL) with its roles in developing people's employability, adaptability and personal fulfilment while also promoting social inclusion is considered a core element of the EU's renewed Lisbon Strategy for growth and jobs. When allied with flexible working arrangements ('flexicurity') it is thought that continuous education to support and realise learner potential can contribute much towards modernising European labour markets and ensuring that people have greater access to employment throughout their working lives.
The European University Association (EUA), which represents institutions and organisations involved in higher education teaching and research, published a Charter on Lifelong Learning (25 October) to emphasise the role of its members in driving this agenda. The document pledges members to work in conjunction with partners (including development agencies, employers bodies and trade unions) at local, regional, national and international level to undertake targeted out-reach measures for diversified groups of potential students and to create tailored,
attractive and relevant programmes which promote flexible and creative learning and reflect fast-changing labour markets. The charter also calls for concerted governmental action to improve recognition of prior learning as well
as establishing the appropriate financial frameworks to effectively and equitably fund LLL.
Posted by iroronan at November 3, 2008 10:26 AM
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November 03, 2008
Cities step forward on Climate Change
Thinking global while acting local received another boost on 27 October as over 50 major European cities committed to adopt and implement ambitious policies to change public perceptions of climate change and mitigate its impact -provided central governments give them the power to act. While not binding, the Eurocities Climate Change Declaration provides guidelines for implementing local policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by involving all
local actors in improving standards and performances in areas including urban planning, transport and energy.
Examples of actions proposed include:
- Adopting ambitious sustainable public procurement policies;
- Developing innovative partnerships in the fields of research and higher education;
- Limiting urban sprawl and developing compact cities;
- Creating new 'eco-quarters';
- Constructing energy-efficient buildings;
- Developing new forms of mobility; and
- Developing the production of renewable energy.
Eurocities President and Mayor of Lyon Gerard Collomb stated that EU Member States "must delegate to the cities the authority to act on a local level to reduce emissions, and undertake with the European Union to provide funding for initiatives supporting public transportation, housing, and energy".This initiative follows upon last January's Covenant of Mayors where almost 100 cities signed up to a commitment to exceed the EU's stated aim of slashing CO2 emissions by 20% by 2020.
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In fulfilling the mission, the Holloran Center seeks to address the most compelling ethical issue facing education in the professions and business: How can higher education most effectively foster the ethical professional formation of each student and practicing professional?
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, based on multi-year empirical studies of higher education for clergy, lawyers, engineers, nurses, physicians, and business majors finds that "In every field we studied, we concluded that the most overlooked aspect of professional preparation was the formation of a professional identity with a moral core of responsibility around which the habits of mind and practice could be organized." (Carnegie 2010). Ethical leadership in the professions rests on a foundation of an ethical professional identity.
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Lincoln home to be featured in April "House Crashers"
If a Lincoln house could have a Cinderella story, then Tami Teel would be its fairy godmother.
Chosen by cable-television channel HGTV to transform a room in a Lincoln tract house, the
Roseville-based interior designer said Monday that she "felt honored" to be chosen for the project. The project tapes March 1.
HGTV "is quite secretive about the identity of the Lincoln homeowner and the redesign until it airs," said Teel's publicist, Krista Bernasconi of KFB Public Affairs in Roseville.
The show will be "House Crashers" 100th episode and the 22nd remodel on which Teel collaborates with the network.
As a longtime fan of HGTV's design shows, Teel, 41, said that she's "incredibly grateful" to be on the flipside of the design work.
"On the first show I did with HGTV, I felt such a sense of satisfaction with the project—my 'before and after' were really dramatic," Teel said.
Known for "ambush renovation," HGTV's "House Crashers" sends its host and contractor, Josh Temple, to big-box home improvement stores looking for unsuspecting shoppers. He then follows them home with a large crew of experts who transform a room in the couple's home.
The Lincoln homeowners were randomly selected at a local Lowe's Home Improvement store, Teel said.
Teel's connection with HGTV began in 2010 when contractor/owner Monte Burtz, of Elemental Builders, Inc., asked her to be part of a design project for DIY Network. She "got to know the show's producers" and was recently asked to work on the episode taping in Lincoln.
After raising two boys, Teel studied interior design at American River College in Sacramento. In 2005, she opened Tami Teel Designs, a residential and commercial design business, located in a vintage office building in downtown Roseville.
Teel's customers include "hundreds of clients" and about half of her work involves commercial projects for doctors, dentists and chiropractors. She recently completed a $20 million design project for a San Jose-based Christian school.
Teel describes her design philosophy as "organic-modern," a style which includes elements of architecture and nature, and merges the indoors with the outdoors.
"Bridges and the shape of trees inspire me," she said.
Her designs include natural materials such as slate, granite, wood and grasses. The "modern" design aspect uses 'clean, straight lines' and trend-based color palettes. Teel works with clients to discover "not only how to make their space functional and attractive but also to express the client's personality."
Although the redesign for the Lincoln house "is top secret," Teel said the plan will involve the renovation of an infrequently used room in the house that currently ends up as a catch-all for the family's projects.
After Teel's remodel, the room will be transformed into a highly functional, multi-use space where the family can play together and entertain friends and relatives, she said.
For example, Teel said, a dining room that in many houses is only used a few times a year for holiday dinners could be redesigned to become a multi-use space that could be used year round.
According to Teel, the "House Crashers" budget for the Lincoln house redesign could run up to $40,000.
The "tract house in Lincoln" episode will air in early April 2013. For examples of Teel's work, go to YouTube or the designer's website: email@example.com.
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According to researchers at Princeton University, marmosets will engage one another for up to 30 minutes in cooperative vocalizations -- similar to the polite conversations that humans engage in on a daily basis.
In an interview with Phys.org, Asif Ghazanfar of Princeton says that researchers were "surprised by how reliably the marmoset monkeys exchanged their vocalizations in a cooperative manner, particularly since in most cases they were doing so with individuals that they were not pair-bonded with. This makes what we found much more similar to human conversations and very different from the coordinated calling of animals such as birds, frogs, or crickets, which is linked to mating or territorial defense."
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Serious suggestion for the HMs- why not just make them viable when you get them?
I would be totally fine with this idea too. As for rock smash, why not make it a force palm clone or something? Assuming we don't just implement all moves through gen 5, that is.
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Now, I'd like to address something else- why is nearly everyone here so afraid of changing the pokemon themselves? While I've seen plenty of train-wreck hacks to know how this can go wrong, I don't think swearing by canon when making a fangame is a good way to make anything interesting. The standard system is hardly balanced- behemoths like Graveler, Staraptor, and Excadrill tend to trivialize most of the main games and many hacks in which they're present (and not given borked movepools), while other mons such as Beedrill and Chimecho are given garbage stats and narrow movepools. What is there to be gained by leaving the system as is? Are you really so offended by the notion that players might not be punished for wanting to use Furret?
^this. Personally, I would love to play a hack that I can use my favorite pokemon in and still feel they are viable at end-game.
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text: Interview: Rayman Legends 'richer and bigger' thanks to delayed release Gaming 02 September 13 by Philippa Warr Rayman Legends A troubled development cycle saw Rayman Legends delayed from November 2012 to August 2013 as Ubisoft's platformer was shunted from a Wii U launch exclusive to being a multiplatform release. Now released (unless you're hoping for the PS Vita version which lands in September), Wired.co.uk took the opportunity to ask Emile Morel, lead game designer, about delays, innovations and the UbiArt Framework -- an art tool developed specifically for the Rayman series and which has received a technology boost. Rayman Legends Wired.co.uk: How did the Ubisoft Montpellier team deal with all the delays and changes to the platform options and what positives came out of the experience?Morel: Deciding to develop the game on the Wii U at the beginning was an obvious choice for us, because it was for us a great opportunity to make this Rayman game accessible to everyone thanks to the touch gameplay offered by the Wii U GamePad. But it was also a huge challenge because we had to find a good touch gameplay that would really match with all the other gameplays we wanted to put in this game. The day we decided that you would really control a character (Murfy) with your finger on the Wii U GamePad, we realised we had something great that would create a truly new gameplay experience and not be just a gimmick.Later, when we decided to port the game on Xbox 360 and PS3, the big question was: are we going to keep Murfy as one of the main characters on these versions? We decided to keep him because he's bringing a lot of diversity to the game, but then we had to find a specific gameplay for this character on these consoles. Here again, I'm really happy with was we came up with. Murfy moves by himself in the levels and that you can give orders to him to interact with various elements. This really gives you a new gameplay experience in a platform game, since you can play with your main character and control the elements around you at the same time. As for the delay, even if it was painful for everyone when it was announced, it also ended up being something positive because it allowed us to put more content inside the game: for instance during the delay we added epic 3D boss fights at the end of each world, and we also added all the Invasion levels -- timed levels where you have to go as fast as possible to save Teensies. Thanks to the delay we now have a richer and bigger game, with a huge scope. For the first time at the end of a game development I can say we put everything we wanted inside this game.Rayman is a hugely long-running franchise. How do you approach each new game and decide how to innovate?I think one of the key elements behind all the Rayman games is that they're really gameplay driven. The crazy universe of Rayman basically allows us to create whatever we want in these games to provide great gameplay experiences. They're really no boundaries in this universe; whatever you have in mind you can put it in the game. The biggest challenge becomes to select only the best ideas to create the most amazing experience possible.When starting work on Rayman Legends, the first key idea was the fact that we wanted all the worlds to be inspired by famous myths or legends. That allowed us to all think in the same direction and to come up with many crazy ideas. Then other ideas came onboard, like the musical levels for instance. This idea almost came by accident: for an internal meeting we wanted to show a video of one of our level designers playing a very difficult level of the game, we put some heavy metal music on the video to make it more effective. In the video the music was synced with the actions of the player and everybody who watched it loved it. That's how the idea of a crossover between a platform game and a rhythm game came to life. Rayman Legends Can you tell us more about the Ubi Art Framework and its relationship with Rayman?Yes, the Ubi Art Framework was specifically developed to create Rayman Origins. The idea behind was to a have a very simple tool to allow developers to easily work with 2D assets and to quickly iterate on their work. [It] was entirely developed in Ubisoft Montpellier by the team who developed Rayman Origins. Creating this new tool was really Michel Ancel's idea [Creative Director of Rayman Origins and Legends]."How has that technology been developed since Rayman Origins? Has it advanced?We added many things inside the Ubi Art Framework to make sure that Rayman Legends would be visually more impressive than Rayman Origins. For instance, we now have a dynamic lighting system inside the engine. When a character goes in a dark area you can really see his silhouette becoming darker, or when he's under a light you will see his silhouette becoming brighter and probably coloured by the tint of the light. That gives you the feeling that the characters are perfectly integrated in the different levels.We also improved the Ubi Art Framework to be able to put 3D elements inside our 2D game. Thanks to this new development, in Rayman Legends you can see huge dragons moving all around you in the foreground and in the background. This adds a real depth to the different settings and it gives you the feeling that this world is more alive. Of course, most of the game is still in 2D but these few 3D elements just help to improve the experience. Rayman Legends What does the Ubi Art Framework allow you to do that you wouldn't be able to if you were using more traditional methods?The Ubi Art Framework is really perfect to work with 2D elements. It allows artists to quickly integrate their 2D artworks directly inside the game. It also includes a unique animation tool allowing to quickly animate a character with a few 2D drawings. The Ubi Art Framework is also an amazing tool to quickly iterate on your work, and that makes it an amazing tool for level designers. Without pausing the engine, they can very simply move any element (platform, enemy, etc.) inside their levels and immediately test the result. During many level design reviews, we were directly tuning and modifying the levels inside the engine as we were playing them. It was a great way to directly improve the quality of these levels.Did you use the Framework because it lends itself well to 2D game worlds or did the benefits of using the Framework mean 2D was the sensible option?Since the Framework was developed specifically for Rayman Origins it's clearly a great tool to create 2D games. Right from the beginning we wanted Rayman Legends to be a 2D title like Rayman Origins, so it was obvious for us that we would use the Framework to develop this game. But now that we integrated 3D elements inside the Framework, I think in the future it could also become a very interesting engine to create 3D games.How intrinsic is 2D to Rayman games at this point? "The very first Rayman game back in the nineties was in 2D, and Michel Ancel's idea for Rayman Origins was to come back to the simplicity you can find in 2D games. 2D titles are always very accessible and easy to pick up -- only in a 2D game you can play up to five players on the same screen and still understand what's going on. Gamers responded in a great way to Rayman Origins and I think this game proved that 2D could be modern and innovative; and that in the end 2D is just another language than 3D.I think the simplicity of 2D matches perfectly with the direct fun that Rayman games are supposed to provide. But since the Rayman brand is also always reinventing itself it could be interesting one day to see another 3D Rayman game.Child of Light is also using the Ubi Art Framework and looks like a really interesting little project -- are there any small-scale projects you would like to work on at Ubisoft? The Ubi Art Framework can be an awesome tool to develop original projects with smaller teams, that said I also love the fact that Ubisoft is allowing us to create 2D games with big scopes like Rayman Legends. So if I had to work on the Ubi Art Framework for my next projects, I would still like to create 2D games with rather large scopes, because I think it's important to show that 2D can be used for big games and not only for small-scale projects. Latest on wired.co.uk


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