Mission 6 - Transportation

Doctor Jerry Rytloc's Journal Entry #10: Mission 6 - Transportation (commence)



LEARN:
City transportation has been reduced due to budget cuts. There has been a decrease in bus routes and bus driver hours are being cut. What can I do to help this? Our way of life is being affected by our economic crisis, teachers being laid off and education under danger is one issue among the thousands that we are experiencing. Transportation routes for locals has cease as more people are being laid off from their jobs.

ACT:
I think the best way to get around when transportation is limited is to share or carpool, or even just take a walk or a bike. It helps limit air pollution which benefits your health and getting up and walking to a close store will do loads of good for you. I understand that people who do use buses probably wants to travel to the other side of the city but if they can settle for a store nearer then and just walk it will solve their problem. We got to think about the elderly who doesn't actually drive or have a car, our government should be working for us not lobbyists. The situation is beyond my help, but if we all can just do our part.

IMAGINE:
If I had all the resource in the world I'll build a subway or train station in every city. Not only are these fast speed trains but they are energy efficient and burns clean. We got to invest in such technology because in the long run it will do us and the world a whole lot of good.

Mission 5: Housing

Doctor Jerry Rytloc's Journal Entry #9: Mission 5 - Housing (commence)

LEARN: 
People are being scammed?! What's this, I got to do something about it! I understand that the banks are not loaning home buyers the money they need to purchase a house because of the state in which our economy is in. The housing market has plummet and prices of houses are dropping by the thousands! Everyone thought that the housing market will keep going up so buying a home is an investment but now that everything has crashed it is all just a big mess.

ACT:
I will inform people or first time home buyers on how to manage their assets and money BEFORE diving into buying a home. We got to educate first time home buyers and walk them through step by step so they don't get a loan scam or end up buying a house they can't afford and later abandoning it! Free information should be made available for people who are looking to buying a home. I understand that it is harder to get a loan if your credit score isn't so good but we'll just have to find a way to work with that. Banks are reluctant to hand out loans at this time but it's not entirely impossible to get a loan!

IMAGINE:
If I Healzor have all the resources in the world I would make sure that the process of buying a home will be less stressful. The loan process can take a long time and not even that, looking for a house that suits you takes a while as well. I'll make sure the buyer is dedicated to making the payments and keeping up with the home and property taxes. People need to just understand that loans are serious business and if they want to keep their house they have to understand and make sure that they can afford it with their income and continue making payments over the years so it doesn't go into foreclosure.

Doctor Jerry Rytloc's Journal Entry #8: Mission 5 - Housing (Preview)

First time home buyers are being scam! The housing market is a mess! Banks! Loans! I must let the people know and find ways to better manage themselves and their money before diving into such a rewarding yet perilous process!

This is just an onioned skin of a moving walk... However the project is a static walk with panning background. It's still interesting to experiment though!

Mission 3 - Crime (swf file)

http://www.pigeonfeet.com/project4.swf

NOTE: In order to stop my newest SWF file from lagging I decided to link this one instead.

Interactive Bone Tool: ENABLED!
Watch until the very end, you will see the police officer holding some paper from the Reaper Gang folder. You can move his right hand in any way you want! It looks like he's really taking the files out and showing it to you!

Need the HTML for your .swf to show up? Follow this link: http://www.pigeonfeet.com/swf.txt
Copy the whole thing and paste it in your post. Just paste your .swf URL into the designated parentheses. You can change the background color, width, and height of it by modifying those HTML code specifically. Hope this helps.

Mission 3 - Crime

Doctor Jerry Rytloc's Journal Entry #7: Mission 3 - Crime (commence)


LEARN:
Police as well as firefighters are funded by tax payers, just like teachers. So these jobs are affected by how well the county or state is doing budget wise. So it's just not teachers and education that are being affected. Law enforcement officers as well as crime is also being affected by the recession. The more people we have to fight crime the higher the chances of crime being stopped. There are ideas such as increasing neighborhood watch areas and using surveillance cameras in different areas of town to prevent crime from happening or to capture the culprit. With more people being laid off in the police department, we should find different ways to help prevent crime.


ACT:
I suggests that we create a highly collaborative database with information on gang members and people who had and or will violate the law. If everyone contributes we will be able to keep a tag on gang members and help prevent crime before it happens. The thing with reported crime is that it already happened or it has to happen before the authority know of it. So I will obtain as much information as possible and contribute information I collected to a database where people can use the information to better prepare themselves against wrong doers. Information is vital when it comes to crime, without any information there's no lead and with no lead the case usually die. So I suggest that everyone who knows the activity of gang members or has been assaulted by a particular law breaker let the authority know the facts. If everyone contributes and compile a database like, preventing crime will be more affective.


IMAGINE:
If I, Healzor can obtain as much resource as possible I would fund or create a organization to prevent crime. It can be anywhere from neighborhood volunteers to people who would like to make a little bit of money while fighting crime. I can't as everyone to participate and give up there time, that's just not possible because people have bills to pay. If I can somehow fund such organization and make it grow from Modesto and throughout the country I'd imagine crime would be lowered. As well as have information at people's fingertips so that will allow a more collaborative communication between people of different counties.

Note: The final scene with the police officer and the folder is my interactive bone tool. I will upload the .swf file ASAP so you can move his arm around like he's pulling the files out of the folder!

Mission 3 - Crime (Preview)

Doctor Jerry Rytloc's Journal Entry #6: Mission 3 - Crime (Preview)

It's time to get serious! With people getting laid off from their jobs as well as law enforcements we need to be tougher on criminals in Modesto! It's time for me to obtain some information on these villainies. I am going to head to the local police department...

First Scene

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Mission 2 - Employment

Doctor Jerry Rytloc's Journal Entry #5: Mission 2 - Employment (commence)

LEARN:

So I've noticed that a lot of people are being laid off. Xia's uncle has been laid off from his job at NCI Buildings. His uncle has been working for the company for over 10 years and now they can't keep everyone, so they laid off a lot of people. The thing is we are recovering from a recession and we can't do much about it. When people are earning less they spend less so companies and businesses don't have enough money to keep up with paying the employees so then they're laid off. At a time like this people are willing to save rather than spend so hence this cycle.

ACT:

Hmm... what can I do to help. It's very open ended at this point. The thing is people just got to realize that the less they spend the less companies get money. I am not blaming the people for not spending money though because we are recovering form a recession and it's all just a mess. It's hard to create new jobs when companies are struggling to stay alive. I guess I will move my free walk-in clinic to Modesto and ease the pain of the people. It's all free! If they don't have to worry about paying for their healthcare they can then spend it at local stores to help sales thus making the wheel turn again!

IMAGINE:

If I, Doctor Jerry Rytloc, Healzor the Healer could obtain as much power and resource possible I would make a handout not to big businesses but to the locals in Modesto. Chances are they will save, but then again chances are they will spend more if they have more. We have to continue this cycle so that it insures the remaining companies, businesses, and stores will stay open and hiring people. Bailing out big companies is not necessarily a good thing because the head of the company will just take the money and run! It's been done before, we got to help the people first.

Mission 2 - Employment (Preview)

Doctor Jerry Rytloc's Journal Entry #4: Mission 2 - Employment (Preview)

I have arrived in Modesto because I heard that employment is also declining in the area. Teachers are being laid off and businesses are not doing so well. My plan is to move my free clinic here and provide free healthcare to those who need within the area. By doing this I hope I will attract people to come to Modesto, not only will their health be taken care of they can come together and collaborate on how to fix this problem. I hope by doing so I will attract more local businesses to open up within the area so that people could get jobs. Keep in mind not everyone will be able to because we're our economy is in such a state, I'll do what I can to help though.