Kass Media Group (KMG) is the parent company for several record labels in the recording industry as well as publishing and advertising. With a .7% market share for record groups, it is one of the smaller record labels that
have world wide distribution. The company has purchased several entities including Delphi Communications and Ceratus Digital that also conduct market research and produce poll data on emerging market trends.
KMG headquarters are in Laguna Hills, California. For the publishing group in United States, KPG is located in Santa Monica, California, and New York City, in the UK the group has a number of offices in London and Romford.
History
Kass Media Group is the parent company of Kass Record Group, Kass Advertising Group, Kass Publishing Group, and several other companies that do research and development for the audio and film industry.
On September 15 2004 it was announced that KMG will purchase TVL Publishing, for €2.40 million in France subject to regulatory approval. Kass Media Group corporate strategy has focused on the following: (1) emerging market technologies such as digital publishing (2) so called 'negelected markets', such as CD sales among college
students and (3) creating new software for the emerging industry. The company has an elaborate system of college promotion teams that market CD items, which are currently in decline in that demographic, to that market.
Labels
Kass Media Grouop owns, or has a joint share in, a large number of record labels, including Kass Record Group
Company Holdings
The company has extensive holdings in other media corporations including Time Warner.
Software and Hardware Development
In September 2005, KMG purchased Oceanic Technologies in the UK for €1.4 million.
KMG Music Feed
On January 15 2008 KMG had announced that in 2009 it would promote its own online service for digital downloads.
have world wide distribution. The company has purchased several entities including Delphi Communications and Ceratus Digital that also conduct market research and produce poll data on emerging market trends.
KMG headquarters are in Laguna Hills, California. For the publishing group in United States, KPG is located in Santa Monica, California, and New York City, in the UK the group has a number of offices in London and Romford.
History
Kass Media Group is the parent company of Kass Record Group, Kass Advertising Group, Kass Publishing Group, and several other companies that do research and development for the audio and film industry.
On September 15 2004 it was announced that KMG will purchase TVL Publishing, for €2.40 million in France subject to regulatory approval. Kass Media Group corporate strategy has focused on the following: (1) emerging market technologies such as digital publishing (2) so called 'negelected markets', such as CD sales among college
students and (3) creating new software for the emerging industry. The company has an elaborate system of college promotion teams that market CD items, which are currently in decline in that demographic, to that market.
Labels
Kass Media Grouop owns, or has a joint share in, a large number of record labels, including Kass Record Group
Company Holdings
The company has extensive holdings in other media corporations including Time Warner.
Software and Hardware Development
In September 2005, KMG purchased Oceanic Technologies in the UK for €1.4 million.
KMG Music Feed
On January 15 2008 KMG had announced that in 2009 it would promote its own online service for digital downloads.
WWE: Know Your Role is a role-playing game published by Comic Images, using the d20 system. It is meant to serve as a way to simulate professional wrestling matches, especially World Wrestling Entertainment-style action.
Gameplay
The focus of the play is on matches themselves between two (or more) characters. The mechanics allow play to go on with or without a game master serving as a referee. An attack roll is made, with modifiers for attributes (unlike in most d20 games, all six attributes can add to an attack roll--Intelligence for a tricky hold, Charisma for a devious move, and so on), damage inflicted (more damage lowers chance to perform), and special attributes (the better the results, the harder it is to do). The winner of the roll performs the manoeuvre he or she wished, describing the result in a godmoding fashion.
As the game is not based on Dungeons and Dragons, it does not refer to that or the System Reference Document; it instead contains its own character generation rules and descriptions. It still contains many concepts, including character classes (six, one matching each attribute), feats (applicable ones, as well as genre-specific), and skills (applicable ones as well--the Swim skill, for example, is not included).
One other deviation comes to player characters. As the game focuses on a wrestling show with a number of matches, and wrestlers rarely appear in more than one in a given show, players are encouraged to create multiple characters so that some are available for action in whatever scenarios or angles are available.
Presentation
Unlike most other RPGs, the book covers a real-world subject; thus, rather than commissioning artwork to be drawn, photographs from WWE events are used as illustrations throughout.
A few layout or other errors are in the book; the aforementioned Swimming skill is listed as an example of what skills Strength modifies, but is not included in the game at all.
Wrestlers
As most WWE-based games, this one features a roster that has quickly become outdated, including Eddie Guerrero, who was alive when the game was made, but died later. It also featured other wrestlers who had left the company, both in example text and in sample characters.
Gameplay
The focus of the play is on matches themselves between two (or more) characters. The mechanics allow play to go on with or without a game master serving as a referee. An attack roll is made, with modifiers for attributes (unlike in most d20 games, all six attributes can add to an attack roll--Intelligence for a tricky hold, Charisma for a devious move, and so on), damage inflicted (more damage lowers chance to perform), and special attributes (the better the results, the harder it is to do). The winner of the roll performs the manoeuvre he or she wished, describing the result in a godmoding fashion.
As the game is not based on Dungeons and Dragons, it does not refer to that or the System Reference Document; it instead contains its own character generation rules and descriptions. It still contains many concepts, including character classes (six, one matching each attribute), feats (applicable ones, as well as genre-specific), and skills (applicable ones as well--the Swim skill, for example, is not included).
One other deviation comes to player characters. As the game focuses on a wrestling show with a number of matches, and wrestlers rarely appear in more than one in a given show, players are encouraged to create multiple characters so that some are available for action in whatever scenarios or angles are available.
Presentation
Unlike most other RPGs, the book covers a real-world subject; thus, rather than commissioning artwork to be drawn, photographs from WWE events are used as illustrations throughout.
A few layout or other errors are in the book; the aforementioned Swimming skill is listed as an example of what skills Strength modifies, but is not included in the game at all.
Wrestlers
As most WWE-based games, this one features a roster that has quickly become outdated, including Eddie Guerrero, who was alive when the game was made, but died later. It also featured other wrestlers who had left the company, both in example text and in sample characters.
Dr. John A. Kilpatrick (born on January 7, 1954, Portsmouth, Virginia) is a business executive and author in the real estate field. He is President and CEO of Greenfield Advisors, the author of four books on real estate development, and a frequent public speaker and contributor to scholarly journals. He is also one of the few nationally certified Appraisal Standards instructors in the United States and serves as a Visiting Scholar in real estate at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York.
Dr. Kilpatrick holds a Ph.D. in Real Estate Finance from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Prior to graduate school, Kilpatrick was an executive on Wall Street (Dean Witter Reynolds) and in the real estate development field (The Shumaker Companies). While a graduate student, he produced Financing Development and Construction in the 90's, the first of four books on real estate finance, published by the National Association of Homebuilders and based on his experiences during and after the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s. The book lead to a series of three more books, numerous journal articles, and a lecture series in the Moore School's Daniel Management Center.
The South Carolina Supercomputer Network
While a graduate student, Kilpatrick also served as Assistant to the University's Senior Vice President for Research, coordinating multi-disciplinary and multi-instituional research projects. This led to Kilpatrick's participation in a number of initiatives, including the formation of the South Carolina Supercomputer Network in 1994. The six-university consortium formed to fund the network invited Kilpatrick to stay on and serve as its first adminisrator (1994-96). As a result of this, he also helped form the Academic Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems in Washington, DC, and served as its first secretary/treasurer (1995-96).
Real Estate Valuation
After leaving the supercomputer network in 1996, Kilpatrick returned to the Moore School of Business as a full-time researcher and Lecturer in Real Estate Finance. He contributed significant improvements to school's undergraduate program in real estate, adding courses in appraisal and market analysis. During this period, he was approached by the S. C. Department of Archives and History to explore the real estate valuation aspects of historic district designation. Kilpatrick authored a series of studies funded by various historic preservation groups concerning the real estate impacts in nine communities in South Carolina, demonstrating the application of various real estate appraisal and other valution tools for exploring the topic. His research led to a 1998 address before the annual meeting of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a 2000 monograph, published in his honor, by the National Park Service and the S.C. Department of Archives and History. Kilpatrick's research in this field has been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles throughout the U.S., including the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times.
During this period, Kilpatrick produced his fourth book on real estate finance, Subdivision Development, published by the Realtors Land Institute of the National Association of Realtors. This brought him to the attention of Greenfield Advisors, a Seattle-based real estate advisory firm specializing in complex valuation models, litigation support, and wealth management services. Kilpatrick accepted a position as Senior Analyst with Greenfield in 1998, and assumed the helm as President and CEO in 2001.
Brownfield Valuation
Greenfield had emerged as one of the nation's leading resources for valution of Brownfields, which are industrial or other contaminated properties with complicated redevelopment, regulatory, or litigation problems. Dr. Bill Mundy, Greenfield's founder, had previously authored a widely-cited series of articles on the valuation of contaminated real estate, including three 1992 studies summarizing his experiences with the Exxon Valdez oil spill case. One of those three studies was honored by the Appraisal Institute in 2007 as one of the nine leading thought pieces in the history of the appraisal profession. In 2003, Drs. Kilpatrick and Mundy were invited to develop the standards for valution of contaminated property for the Japan Real Estate Institute.
This led to their writing the chapter, "Valuation of Contaminated Property" in When Bad Things Happen to Good property. As a result of this, Dr. Kilpatrick was asked to write Chapter 29, "Valuation of Brownfield Properties", for the four-volume guide, Brownfield Law and Practice, .
In addition, in 2003 Dr. Kilpatrick became one of the first real estate appraisers in the U.S. to be designated as a Nationally Certified Appraisal Standards Instructor by The Appraisal Foundation in recognition of his scholarship in real estate appraisal methods and techniques. He also serves on the Publications Review Board of the Appraisal Institute and has been designated as a Member of the Faculty of Valuation of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Dr. Kilpatrick also serves as an officer of the Real Estate Counseling Group of America and is a Fellow of the American Real Estate Society.
Personal Notes
Dr. Kilpatrick is married to the former Lynnda Peterson, and lives with his four children in the suburbs of Seattle, Washington. He is active in the Seattle Rotary Club, the Rainier Club, the Washington Athletic Club, and numerous other civic and charitable organizations. An Episcopalian, he serves as a delegate to the General Convention of the Diocese of Olympia. He is also a private pilot and active in the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). He served from 2005 - 2007 on the International Bridge of the International Yachting Fellowship of Rotarians. In 2008-2009, he will serve as the Commodore of the Seattle Rotary Mariners.
Dr. Kilpatrick holds a Ph.D. in Real Estate Finance from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Prior to graduate school, Kilpatrick was an executive on Wall Street (Dean Witter Reynolds) and in the real estate development field (The Shumaker Companies). While a graduate student, he produced Financing Development and Construction in the 90's, the first of four books on real estate finance, published by the National Association of Homebuilders and based on his experiences during and after the Savings and Loan crisis of the late 1980s. The book lead to a series of three more books, numerous journal articles, and a lecture series in the Moore School's Daniel Management Center.
The South Carolina Supercomputer Network
While a graduate student, Kilpatrick also served as Assistant to the University's Senior Vice President for Research, coordinating multi-disciplinary and multi-instituional research projects. This led to Kilpatrick's participation in a number of initiatives, including the formation of the South Carolina Supercomputer Network in 1994. The six-university consortium formed to fund the network invited Kilpatrick to stay on and serve as its first adminisrator (1994-96). As a result of this, he also helped form the Academic Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems in Washington, DC, and served as its first secretary/treasurer (1995-96).
Real Estate Valuation
After leaving the supercomputer network in 1996, Kilpatrick returned to the Moore School of Business as a full-time researcher and Lecturer in Real Estate Finance. He contributed significant improvements to school's undergraduate program in real estate, adding courses in appraisal and market analysis. During this period, he was approached by the S. C. Department of Archives and History to explore the real estate valuation aspects of historic district designation. Kilpatrick authored a series of studies funded by various historic preservation groups concerning the real estate impacts in nine communities in South Carolina, demonstrating the application of various real estate appraisal and other valution tools for exploring the topic. His research led to a 1998 address before the annual meeting of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a 2000 monograph, published in his honor, by the National Park Service and the S.C. Department of Archives and History. Kilpatrick's research in this field has been featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles throughout the U.S., including the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times.
During this period, Kilpatrick produced his fourth book on real estate finance, Subdivision Development, published by the Realtors Land Institute of the National Association of Realtors. This brought him to the attention of Greenfield Advisors, a Seattle-based real estate advisory firm specializing in complex valuation models, litigation support, and wealth management services. Kilpatrick accepted a position as Senior Analyst with Greenfield in 1998, and assumed the helm as President and CEO in 2001.
Brownfield Valuation
Greenfield had emerged as one of the nation's leading resources for valution of Brownfields, which are industrial or other contaminated properties with complicated redevelopment, regulatory, or litigation problems. Dr. Bill Mundy, Greenfield's founder, had previously authored a widely-cited series of articles on the valuation of contaminated real estate, including three 1992 studies summarizing his experiences with the Exxon Valdez oil spill case. One of those three studies was honored by the Appraisal Institute in 2007 as one of the nine leading thought pieces in the history of the appraisal profession. In 2003, Drs. Kilpatrick and Mundy were invited to develop the standards for valution of contaminated property for the Japan Real Estate Institute.
This led to their writing the chapter, "Valuation of Contaminated Property" in When Bad Things Happen to Good property. As a result of this, Dr. Kilpatrick was asked to write Chapter 29, "Valuation of Brownfield Properties", for the four-volume guide, Brownfield Law and Practice, .
In addition, in 2003 Dr. Kilpatrick became one of the first real estate appraisers in the U.S. to be designated as a Nationally Certified Appraisal Standards Instructor by The Appraisal Foundation in recognition of his scholarship in real estate appraisal methods and techniques. He also serves on the Publications Review Board of the Appraisal Institute and has been designated as a Member of the Faculty of Valuation of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Dr. Kilpatrick also serves as an officer of the Real Estate Counseling Group of America and is a Fellow of the American Real Estate Society.
Personal Notes
Dr. Kilpatrick is married to the former Lynnda Peterson, and lives with his four children in the suburbs of Seattle, Washington. He is active in the Seattle Rotary Club, the Rainier Club, the Washington Athletic Club, and numerous other civic and charitable organizations. An Episcopalian, he serves as a delegate to the General Convention of the Diocese of Olympia. He is also a private pilot and active in the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA). He served from 2005 - 2007 on the International Bridge of the International Yachting Fellowship of Rotarians. In 2008-2009, he will serve as the Commodore of the Seattle Rotary Mariners.
Arabic script was historically a “dot lass” script. . This means that a single shape may have different sounds depending on the word. Dots were added with the purpose of the dot was to sit on a shape (some may say it basic or ghost shape or kashti) and to depict its phonetic status. After the placement of dots, non-native reader can easily understand the text without any hit and trial because dots are sufficiently depicting the exact sound of the character.
Later on, when new languages adopted Arabic script as their script of choice a new problem arose and that was un-available sounds (phonemes) For example, the Urdu has a sound exactly equal to sound of “p” in English but Arabic language has no such sound and there is no means to depict this sound. Again Nuqta comes to rescue, taking the basic shape of bay and placing three dots beneath it solved this problem.
Dr. Attash Durrani’s Ghost Characters Theory were included in the international standard of fonts/characters UNICODE but partially i.e. the dot less character set was completed by including dot less Bay, Fey and Quaff in the UNICODE Version 3.1. But there was no room for dots and no Unicode number were allotted to the dots and other atoms.
Nuqtas are also present in Quran as separate characters like 1, 2, and 3 nuqtas above & below used separately.
Ghost Characters Theory got accepted and all the proposed characters were given 08 place on UNICODE.
According to the proposal 22 additions were requested. They have taken the name and tried to align them with the notion of being spacing characters. The names are also updated to the usual style for such Characters, beginning with Arabic for the script, and then annotated where appropriate for the particular language. Unicode Consortium has allotted alphabet status to various shapes of dots on the proposal of Dr. Attash Durrani, National Language Authority of Pakistan where R&D on Urdu language is underway at the Centre of Excellence for Urdu Informatics.
This is a turning point in the history of Arabic fonts. Any character/letter for any language based on the Arabic script. There are only 44 atomized or Ghost Characters can be normalized or formed by these 43 characters, hence no need of different font for different languages. Any Pakistani language or Right to left written script's font developer or linguist can derive any character having any atom-combination.
Later on, when new languages adopted Arabic script as their script of choice a new problem arose and that was un-available sounds (phonemes) For example, the Urdu has a sound exactly equal to sound of “p” in English but Arabic language has no such sound and there is no means to depict this sound. Again Nuqta comes to rescue, taking the basic shape of bay and placing three dots beneath it solved this problem.
Dr. Attash Durrani’s Ghost Characters Theory were included in the international standard of fonts/characters UNICODE but partially i.e. the dot less character set was completed by including dot less Bay, Fey and Quaff in the UNICODE Version 3.1. But there was no room for dots and no Unicode number were allotted to the dots and other atoms.
Nuqtas are also present in Quran as separate characters like 1, 2, and 3 nuqtas above & below used separately.
Ghost Characters Theory got accepted and all the proposed characters were given 08 place on UNICODE.
According to the proposal 22 additions were requested. They have taken the name and tried to align them with the notion of being spacing characters. The names are also updated to the usual style for such Characters, beginning with Arabic for the script, and then annotated where appropriate for the particular language. Unicode Consortium has allotted alphabet status to various shapes of dots on the proposal of Dr. Attash Durrani, National Language Authority of Pakistan where R&D on Urdu language is underway at the Centre of Excellence for Urdu Informatics.
This is a turning point in the history of Arabic fonts. Any character/letter for any language based on the Arabic script. There are only 44 atomized or Ghost Characters can be normalized or formed by these 43 characters, hence no need of different font for different languages. Any Pakistani language or Right to left written script's font developer or linguist can derive any character having any atom-combination.