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In 2001 Steve Melei established the first Gulf Coast Renaissance Faire, now enjoy this tradition which celebrates our heritage. The fun, fresh air and exercise of the event is great for every age. Patrons are encouraged to come in costume, as the event seeks to forge new bonds between the past and present. Come watch jousting, exotic birds, dancers and more!
The Gulf Coast Renaissance Faire celebrates the history and heritage of Medieval Europe, as well as the 16th-century Gulf Coast, with performances from fully costumed jousting knights, falconers, pirates, and royalty. Guests step back in time to enjoy the Medieval Village's arts and crafts from local craftsfolk and curious costumed performers.
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At The Gulf Coast Renaissance Faire there are stages and performance areas set up for scheduled shows, such as plays in Shakespearean or commedia dell'arte tradition, as well as anachronistic audience participation comedy routines. Other performances include dancers, magicians, musicians, jugglers, and singers. Between the stages the streets ("lanes") are lined with stores ("shoppes") and stalls where independent vendors sell medieval and Renaissance themed handcrafts, clothing, books, and artworks. There are food and beverage vendors, as well as game and ride areas. Games include basic skills events such as archery or axe-throwing as well as other games of skill. Rides are typically not machine powered; various animal rides and human-powered swings are common. Live animal displays and falconry exhibitions are also commonplace. The Gulf Coast Renaissance Faire includes a joust as a main attraction.
In addition to the staged performances, a major attraction of The Gulf Coast Renaissance Faire is the crowds of actors - both professional and amateur - who play historical figures and roam the fair, interacting with visitors. Visitors are encouraged (but not required) to wear costumes, contributing to the illusion of an actual Renaissance environment. Many of the fair vendors sell costumes for all ages and types. The Renaissance fair subculture's word for these costumed guests is "playtrons", a portmanteau of the words "patron" and "player", and they add a second level of enjoyment to their experience by "getting into the act" as Renaissance Lords and Ladies, peasants, pirates, belly dancers, or fantasy characters.
Get Medieval!
New Location: Santa Rosa Fairgrounds, 8604 Bobby Brown Rd., Milton, FL


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Submitted by Mei-Chen Lu – May 6, 2014 (updated on November 21, 2016)
Peter Bezjak, a Slovenian folk dance teacher and a computer programmer, develops LabaNotator that operates in PC. This is a great news for people do not have a Mac computer to run LabanWriter. The LabaNotator can be found:
From now on the trial version is fully functional, it's free and offers every feature of the full version, except following limitations:
- Export files include watermark text.
- Printing is not available.
- Built-in languages editor is not available.
- Hide Grid function is not available.
- Symbols can be added only on one layer.
- Own libraries of symbols can not created.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
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ICANN had been widely lambasted for its lack of transparency. There were some transparency issues in this decision; many felt that ICANN didnt properly address the points raised by its members and members of the Internet community who participated in the debate over the proposed .XXX gTLD. But there have been other cases in which ICANN has been less than open.
The most recent one I know of may seem small, but it is significant. Earlier this year, Edward Hasbrouck pointed out that the registry agreements for the .AERO, .COOP, and .MUSEUM domains had expired in December. Craig Schwartz, ICANNs chief gTLD registry liaison, responded that all three sTLD agreements are current through extensions that have been granted to afford time necessary to conclude negotiations.
No big deal, right? Wrong. As Hasbrouck pointed out in a reply to Schwartzs message, ICANNs procedural bylaws call for transparency; they cant just grant an extension without holding a public forum for discussion of the proposed amendments to the registries agreements. And the discussion is supposed to be available through ICANNs web site. Hasbrouck naturally requested that ICANN reveal the URL of the minutes and the reference number of the resolution of the Board of Directors approving the amendments; the URL at which the amendments were posted for public comment prior to the Boards consideration of each proposal; and all records of ICANNs consideration of these proposals. Given ICANNs record up to now, Hasbrouck may have a long wait.
ICANN seemed to be willing to take some steps toward improving its accountability and transparency at its latest public meeting in Puerto Rico. Still, it is ICANNs habit of hiding its actions that we have to go on now, and that habit argues very strongly against allowing ICANN to consider censoring domains according to legal norms relating to morality and public order, as one ICANN working groups recent report suggested. How would we know who or what was influencing ICANNs censorship decisions?
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THE KARINYA SPECIAL - 2 Winfield Road Balwyn North
Designed and developed by Englehart Homes as a larger, luxury four-bedroom home for a 500-square-metre site, The Karinya showcases stunning modern living and design.
The 35-square home offers a wealth of cleverly conceived advantages that maximise living while minimising land requirements. Its layout includes four bedrooms, two ensuites, family bathroom, powder room, two living areas, dining, kitchen, butler's pantry, a laundry, two outdoor living areas and a double garage with a storage room.
The Karinya's exceptional Australian contemporary design gives it impressive street appeal as well as protection from Melbourne's climate, using facade projections, screens, double glazing, site orientation and high quality materials to create highly stylish, comfortable and sustainable living.
Within the façade, cedar cladding conceals the garage opening, and bold rendered projections express strength and substance. An external metal louvre shields an upstairs balcony from the sun and street to form a secret outdoor room.
The layout suits families and downsizers alike, with a generous ground level master suite and perfectly proportioned ground and upper level living spaces. Two-way outdoor living will enhance daily living and entertainment – bi-fold doors open one side of the dining area to a covered alfresco and opposite, stacking glass doors connect to further outdoor living.
Englehart Homes' commitment to craftsmanship and design intelligence stands out in The Karinya. There's full-height Italian custom window joinery that emphasises the 2.95-metre ground level ceilings and floods the master suite with natural light, a glazed double height entry void, cavity sliders for seamless connections and American oak full-height timber screens that define, connect and visually enlarge spaces.


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It was decided Daddy would buy a business with some of Tom's insurance money. Finally, their ship was coming in. With no retail experience at all, they bought a grocery store in Denver City, Texas. Adjacent to the store was an apartment, perhaps I should say rooms. Across the front there was a living room and my parent's bedroom with a small kitchen behind it. A minuscule, breakfast nook was converted into a bedroom for Ron, and beyond that was an itty-bitty bedroom for me.
Denver City is a small town in the Texas panhandle. It is west of Lubbock and 35 miles from Hobbs, New Mexico. It was born during the oil boom, and when we arrived; it was on the wane. Flat, bleak, dusty and gritty, Denver City reeked twenty-four hours a day from the gas well, burn-off odors. The town was in a two square mile radius, and the population was about 3,000 people. Demographics never occurred to my folks.
In Denver City, I met Ady Miller, who was to become my best friend. Long before Paris and Nicole became the poster children for BFF, Ady and I forged our bond. I have a small, tattered photo of us. The photo shows us leaning against a jewelry counter waiting to pick up a watch her mother had left for repair. The slightly off-color in the photo gives us a reddish cast to our hair. At least it is not in black and white. At 15-years-old, we were both desperately trying to be blonds, so I know for sure the color is distorted. I have on a red and white striped shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and Ady is, as always, prim in a short-sleeve shirt. Not even the thought of a wrinkle is on our faces. The memory of everyone thinking we were sisters is there as I look at both of us in identical, black, cat-eyed rim glasses. Sitting together in the car at the Dairy Queen, no one could tell us apart. Standing, I was three inches taller than she was, but sitting we were a matched pair.
On April 3, 2008, while visiting for her birthday, we discussed what we should do on the 50th anniversary of our friendship. Perhaps a trip together, but where and for how long was to be decided later. For our 50th birthdays which are two weeks apart, we went to New Orleans for three days. As we say in Texas – we had a high-heeled time. Having an entire year to plan our next adventure, we anticipated it would be as wonderful as our trip to New Orleans.
Ten days later in a flurry of 15 minutes, Ady had a massive stroke and died before her husband could get an emergency service to the house. In honor of our 50th anniversary, I planted a tree. As I watch it grow, I can remember our 49 years together. A best friend is like a second self and is a special, rare gift.
Billy went into show business. She returned to Arkansas and talked a school chum, named Ruby, into creating an act with her. Billy dressed in a fringed, Western costume, a la Betty Hutton in Annie Get Your Gun. Ruby wore an Indian maiden costume. Billy had enough cash to fund her long anticipated daydream. She purchased the costumes, a small organ on which she learned to chord and use the rhythm function, a banjo and a 1959 pink Thunderbird. For some unexplainable reason, she cut one-third of the steering wheel off the T-Bird. It looked like the steering wheel in an airplane cockpit. The girls formed a duo and began to practice. They had some gigs in the area because they wandered in and out of Denver City regularly. Learning Billy was a lesbian put a crimp in the partnership, and Ruby disappeared.
During one of Billy's sojourns home and being her normal ill-disposed self, she pushed me out of her way. I was sweeping the kitchen floor. I turned to push her back, and she cocked her arm. Out weighing me by 40 pounds, she fully intended to slam her doubled fist into my face. Without thinking, I instinctively pushed her against the wall. Jamming the broom handle across her throat, I pressed hard. I told her if she ever touched me again I would kill her, and at that particular moment I could ruin her voice forever. Seeing the intent and resolve in my eyes, she never physically abused me again.
Daddy bought a red Cadillac sedan. Later that year, he bought me a 1955, fire-engine red Mercury coupe with a 1957 Mercury engine. I was an extremely happy teenager. Mother was into being a store owner. She hosted a Christmas cocktail party and dinners for the employees. She may have used the treasure trove she bought at Saks Firth Avenue.
The primary traffic that came into the store, besides the oil field roughnecks, were a few locals. Occasionally, there would be a truck load of migrant field hands who couldn't speak English. While the group crowded the store, some of them stole from us. Late in the month when money was low, the town drunks came in the store to buy vanilla extract. It was a poor substitute for liquor.
Daddy's spiral began to affect everything. My parents asked Lee and Kay to move to Denver City to help run the store. Once Lee came, the Ol' Man emotionally walked away and actively participated in his own descent. Lee's second son, David, was born in Denver City. Although he was an adorable and cute toddler as a new-born,he was red and exceedingly ugly. Unsightly seemed mandatory in bedraggled Denver City.
Daddy was drinking heavily for the first time in my short life. He and Mother had declared an all out, open range war. He joined a Lonely Hearts mailing list probably looking for a rich widow to resolve his problems. He tried explaining this to me in a round-about way.
Leaving Denver City one afternoon, Daddy and I drove to La Mesa, Texas. We went to a movie and this was highly out of character for Daddy. Seated for a short time, he whispered he had some business to take care of and for me to wait for him. Like I had a choice. I sat through The Rat Race with Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds twice, until he returned. I learned that when you're in a rat race, you win a rat. Leaving the movie, he was so wasted, I drove back to Denver City. I was never sure if he had been out hustling some poor, unsuspecting widow or to the bootlegger. Normally, he didn't have any qualms about going to the bootlegger with me in the car. After being left alone in a movie for several hours, I was absolutely positive it was detrimental.
His next escapade was beyond belief. Late one evening, I answered a telephone call telling me that Daddy was in a car accident and was at the hospital. Having no idea where Mother was, I called Lee. We both got to the hospital about the same time. Daddy claimed he had been cut off by another driver, who had shot at him. In a drunken stupor, he pulled off the road and unloaded his own Colt 38 revolver into his own car.
They lost all creditability in this small-minded town. I am sure they were heavily in debt. We cut-and-ran again. Lee and Kay lost everything along with us. Packing our meager possessions in two trailers, he pulled one trailer. I drove the second trailer as pulling a loaded trailer was something Mother was completely incapable of doing. We made our way down to Houston where Margaret and Van lived. It never occurred to Mother or Daddy to not let me drive. I was a teenager pulling an open farm trailer with no idea how to back it up and probably no insurance on it. I was locked up with Mother's rage for 600 miles. Ron lucked out and got to ride with the Ol' Man. Nearing Houston on IH 10, the freeway system stunned me. I had never seen freeways, and the heavy, city traffic blew my trailer-laden mind.


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The People's Bank of China said the amount of yuan bonds issued in 2013 rose 12.5 percent to 9 trillion yuan (US$1.487 trillion) compared with a year earlier, with corporate bonds accounting for 3.7 trillion yuan, the Shanghai Securities News reported Wednesday. As of the end of 2013, 138 institutions, including foreign central banks, financial organizations, sovereign funds, clearing houses from Hong Kong and Macau, foreign insurance firms, as well as overseas companies under the RQFII and QFII schemes, have taken part in the interbank bond markets, the report said.
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My list of the top 10 most relaxing games for the PlayStation 4 so far. This list is compiled with games that are sure to calm your nerves, reduce stress, and of course relax you. Easy to play games, with visually striking designs, lovely sounds, calming music and worlds your mind can get lost in. These games are probably not for everyone, but if you're seeking some peace and calmness in your gaming, this list is for you.
10. Entwined
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A very artsy PS4 exclusive about a fish and a bird that are in love. The music and graphics are very calming. The gameplay is a unique concept, where colored panels are coming at you fast, you must control the fish and the bird at the same time and be aligned with the colored panels. Feel up your meters in order to pass the level and transform into a dragon. It's a very simple, engrossing world you are placed in. Later levels do become harder and controls might be tedious for some.
9. Sound Shapes
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When music and platforming come together perfectly you get Sound Shapes. Play as a little ball, travel through simple yet interesting levels while playing to the beat of the music. The official levels are great when you just feel like chilling after a long day at school or work. The community made levels can be both calming and exciting, making you want to come back for more just to hear the music and see the level design attached to it.
8. Bound
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A platformer with a ballerina or gymnast touch to it. Your character moves like a ballerina and reacts to the environment with almost dancing like steps. The levels are eye-catching, interactive and beautiful, easy to play for the most part. The music fits right into the calming gameplay and atmosphere. Although some areas are more difficult, you will likely find yourself falling down a lot. Other than that it's an overall soothing experience. The gameplay and character are not for everyone though, but if you have the slightest interest in gymnastics, be sure to check this one out.
7. No Mans Sky
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Many gamers were disappointed with No Mans Sky. Mainly because they gave into the developers hype and expected much more out of it and a more exciting experience. After a few patches and add-ons No Mans Sky is a pretty good game. If you go into it just as an explorer or a material harvester this game can be very relaxing and can keep you playing for hours upon end. You can become lost in these randomly generated worlds, not knowing what you will see or find next. It's a very chill game if you want it to be, it can be frustrating also if you play it expecting more to happen faster.
6. Stardew Valley
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Stardew Valley is a farming simulator at heart with even more to offer. A game that places you into a town full of opportunity. With so much relaxing things to do such as creating and maintaining a beautiful farm full of a variety of crops, upgrading your home, harvesting ore and gemstones from The Skull Cave, Going fishing, cooking meals and keeping everyone happy in town. For such a small game there is so much to do, and it can be done stress-free at your own speed if you like.
5. The Unfinished Swan
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Not only is The Unfinished Swan relaxing and fun to play alone, but it is also a great game to play with children because the story is read like a children's book. Playing as a little boy you are trying to discover the mysteries of the Unfinished Swan painting. Travel through a world covered in white and shades of gray. Black paint splatter will help you discover this world. As you progress new elements will be added to the gameplay like creating green vines to climb on. Overall The Unfinished Swan has a calm and engaging setting, where puzzles or creatures never become too hard to defeat and a story that will likely stick with you forever.
4. Minecraft (Creative Mode)
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Minecraft can become very stressful if you are playing survival mode. Having to manage food and crafting can become a heartache after a while. In creative mode you don't have to worry about managing your health or crafting anything, all items are already unlocked. Creating houses, ponds, roller coasters, castles, spawning animals or creepers, and more is the complete opposite of stressful. Playing for long hours in creative mode can be very therapeutic to a person mind and give you a sense of accomplishment as you watch your world progress into something amazing.
3. Abzu
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Playing as a scuba diver, discover the beautiful sea world of Abzu. Using your sonar you can contact fish to follow you, some of the bigger fish and dolphins will let you hitch a ride on. The sea life environments are captured perfectly with stunning cell shaded graphics. Very beautiful sights to see in Abzu, which should relax you after playing for some time. My favorite parts of the gameplay is when it transitions from slow to fast, usually in Dolphin or whale areas. Some of the scenes in Abzu give out such a positive vibe, that can't be matched in most games today.
2. Flower
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A unique concept where you play as a bundle of lively flower pedals flying through the air, in a quest to bring plants back to life in the world. The game's environments are just so beautiful, that it's hard not to smile even if you only remotely enjoy nature. The music and speed with good controls make this an experience you wont want to pass up if you are trying to calm down. This is probably the most positive and peaceful title on the PS4.
1. Journey
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If you want to relax or relieve stress Journey is the #1 game to play. Playing a woman in a red robe traveling across strange yet intriguing lands. Powerful music and visuals will keep you enticed and your positive emotions high. During your quest to understand the purpose of this Journey, you might encounter other online players that can randomly join your game. Don't worry though, the online players won't hurt or change anything and there is not competitive scores involved in this game. They are simply there for some peaceful company. The experience is fairly short, but the scenes you see are amazing. When you understand what this game is about, no telling how you will feel exactly when it's over.
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More games on PS4 that are at least mildly relaxing!
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Snowy forests and mountains never looked so beautiful. I found exploring and hiking Skyrims wilderness to be very calming. On the other hand, battling against high level enemies can be nerve racking.
The Last Guardian – Besides some tough puzzles and awkward controls at times, the gameplay and story of The last guardian keeps a very relaxing and fun pace. If you want to go on a quest through ancient castles with a giant beast known as "Trico", The last Guardians story will show you what a friend truly is.
Pure Pool – One of the best pool games ever made with smooth realistic graphics. Can be very relaxing listening to the soft jazz music while playing against others online.
Birthdays The Beginning – Evolving animals and your world at non stressful pace in Birthdays The Beginning can be a very chill out experience.
Tearaway Unfolded – A simple easy going platformer with unique puzzles, Tearaway for the most part is a calming experience.
Peggle 2 – A very casual experience. Not everyone is going to like how simple this is. Pop a number of dots and try to make it in the basket. low stress for sure though.
Little Big Planet 3 – Playing easy community levels and creating your own characters and levels with friends can be very relaxing. This game can also be very stressful if you want it to be, like playing through the single player campaign xD.
Uno – If you play it causally with friends or online players this simple card game can give you the chill out fix you might need.
Fishing Planet – Not everyone likes fishing, but if you do, Fishing Planet can be very calming if you are not too worried about what fish are biting and are just playing to earn some money or XP.
Fez – A slow paced 2D platformer with 3D dimensional areas. The game is peaceful and interesting.
Sparkle 2 – A casual Zuma clone. Simply aim, shoot balls and match 3 like colors to make balls disappear. many fun levels to play through.
Did I miss any relaxing games you feel should be listed here? Please let me know down in the comments what your favorites are!


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Lexus is excited to announce the addition of visionary architect Sir David Adjaye as the newest judge for Lexus Design Award 2018. Adjaye, one of the most influential architects of his generation, complements an already world-class panel of judges that also recently added innovative architect Shigeru Ban. Through the Lexus Design Award, Sir David Adjaye and other judges will identify and recognize the next wave of global creators and designers.
Each year, thousands of young creative talent from around the world aspire to be selected to participate in Lexus Design Award, where they have an opportunity to receive mentorship from established global designers, prototype funding, and an invitation to exhibit at the Lexus Design Event during Milan Design Week. Sir David Adjaye and the other judges will select the 12 finalists that best embody this year's theme, "CO-" and reflect the Lexus brand belief that great design can make the world a better place. At Milan Design Week 2018, Adjaye and his fellow judges will award the coveted grand prix award to one of the finalists.
Named as one of the world's 100 Most Influential People by Time Magazine, the Ghanaian-British architect was knighted in 2017 for services to architecture. In 2016, he received the Panerai London Design Medal. Among his recent accomplishments, Sir Adjaye, designed the National Museum of African American History and Culture — a Smithsonian Institution museum, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — featuring a crown motif from Yoruba (native Nigerian) sculpture.
Entries to the Lexus Design Award 2018 competition are accepted from July 24 through October 08. The 12 finalists will be announced in January 2018 and the Grand Prix winner will be announced during Milan Design Week — April 16th 2018. For more information on Lexus Design Award 2018, see LexusDesignAward.com
Judge and Mentor Profiles
Sir David Adjaye / Architect
Sir David Adjaye OBE is the principal and founder of Adjaye Associates. Born in Tanzania to Ghanian parents, his broadly ranging influences, ingenious use of materials and sculptural ability have established him as an architect with an artist's sensibility and vision. His largest project to date, the $540 million Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in fall of 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by the New York Times. In 2017, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME magazine.
Shigeru Ban / Architect
Born in Tokyo in 1957. Graduated from the Cooper Union. Started working for Arata Isozaki & Associates in 1982. Founded Shigeru Ban Architects in 1985. Became consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1995. Established the NGO, Voluntary Architects' Network (VAN) in the same year to support disaster relief. Selected works include Nicolas G. Hayek Center, Centre Pompidou- Metz, and Oita Prefecture Art Museum. Recipient of multiple awards, including Grande Médaille d'or de l'Académie d'architecture (2004), Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture (2005), Grand Prize of AIJ (2009), Honorary Doctorate from Technische Universität München (2009), L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (le grade d'officier) (2010), Auguste Perret Prize (2011), Art Prize from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (2012), L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (le grade de commandeur) (2014) and JIA Gran Prix (2016). Served as Professor at Keio University (2001-2008), Visiting Professor of Harvard University GSD and Cornell University (2010), and currently Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design (2011-), Guest Professor at Keio University (2015-). Laureate of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Paola Antonelli / Senior Curator, MoMa
Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art, as well as MoMA's founding Director of Research & Development. Her goal is to promote design's understanding until its positive influence on the world is universally acknowledged. Her work investigates design's impact on the everyday experience, often including overlooked objects and practices, and combining design, architecture, art, science, and technology. She has curated numerous shows, written several books, and lectured worldwide. She has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Harvard Graduate School of Design; and the MFA programs of the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is currently working on an exhibition on the 111 garments that changed the world; on Design Bites, a book about foods from all over the world appreciated as examples of design; and on a book collecting her essays on the different fields of contemporary design.
Birgit Lohmann / Chief Editor of designboom
Born in Hamburg, Lohmann studied industrial design in Florence before moving to Milan, where she has lived and worked since 1987. She worked as a designer and product development manager for a number of Italian architects and master designers. She has also worked as a design historian for justice departments and international auction houses. As a researcher and lecturer, she has conducted seminars on industrial design at a number of prestigious international universities. In 1999, she co-founded designboom, where she is currently the Chief Editor, Head of Educational Programming and Curator for International Exhibitions.
Alice Rawsthorn / Design Commentator
Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic, who has written about design for the New York Times for over a decade. Her latest book Hello World: Where Design Meets Life explores design's impact on our lives. Her next book, A Field Guide to Design, is to be published in spring 2018 as a survey of design today. Alice speaks on design at important global events including TED and the World Economic Forum's annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland. Based in London, she is chair of trustees of the Chisenhale Gallery and the contemporary dance group Michael Clark Company, and a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery. Alice was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to design and the arts.
Yoshihiro Sawa / President of Lexus International
Yoshihiro Sawa graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Design from Kyoto Institute of Technology. He has held a number of design-related positions since joining Toyota Motor Corporation in 1980, including Chief Officer of Global Design, Planning Division. He became President of Lexus International in April 2017.
Formafantasma / Designer
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are Studio Formafantasma, Italian designer duo based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. They have developed a coherent body of work characterized by experimental material investigations and explored issues such as the relationship between tradition and local culture, critical approaches to sustainability and the significance of objects as cultural conduits. Their work has been presented and published internationally and museums such as New York's MoMA, London's Victoria and Albert, New York's Metropolitan Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, the Textiel Museum in Tilburg, the Stedelijk's-Hertogenbosch, MUDAC Lausanne, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in North Carolina and the MAK Museum in Vienna have all acquired Formafantasma's designs for their permanent collections. Andrea and Simone are lecturing and heading workshops in various Universities and Institutions. Currently teaching at the 'Well Being' and 'Contextual Design' Departments of the Design Academy Eindhoven and they are at the head of the Design bachelor at MADE Program in Siracusa, Italy.
Sou Fujimoto / Architect
Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido in 1971. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo University, he established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. In 2016, he has won the 1st prize for "Pershing," one of the sites in the French competition called 'Réinventer Paris', following the victories in the Invited International Competition for the New Learning Center at Paris-Saclay's Ecole Polytechnique and the International Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier in 2014. In 2013, he became the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. His notable works include; "Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013" (2013), "House NA" (2011), "Musashino Art University Museum & Library" (2010), "Final Wooden House" (2008), "House N" (2008), and many more.
Lindsey Adelman / Designer
Decades before founding her eponymous studio, Lindsey Adelman was already designer — just not publicly so. First, she was simply a precarious, curious child, building endlessly in the backyards of suburban New York, uncertain of how to make a career of it; then, an English student at Kenyon College; then, on the editorial staff at The Smithsonian Institution. Fortunately, there, her accidental discovery of industrial design — in the literal form of a fabricated foam French fry — propelled her off to RISD to make a life of that childhood passion. Today, from her studios in New York and Los Angeles, she manipulates light to create fixtures that are as emotive as they are physically transformative — objects imbibed with their own history and meaning, often unselfconsciously so, that give color and texture and depth to the world around them.
Jessica Walsh / Graphic Designer
Jessica Walsh is a designer and art director working as a partner at NYC based design firm Sagmeister & Walsh. She lectures about design at creative conferences and universities internationally and teaches design at The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Her work has won numerous awards from most major design competitions including Type Director's Club, Art Director's Club, SPD, Print, New York Festivals, D&AD, TDC Tokyo, and Graphis, among many others. She has been awarded Forbes "30 under 30 top creatives designing the future" and Ad Age's "Top 10 Visual Creatives". Her work has been featured in numerous books & magazines. Clients include the Museum of Modern Art, The Jewish Museum, Jay-Z, Snapchat, Barneys, The New York Times, Levis, Adobe, and Her blog & book "40 Days of Dating" received over 10 million readers and is currently being turned into a movie by Warner Brothers.


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Scotland Street School Museum
Head back to school and back in time at this popular museum, covering education from the Victorian era up until the '60s.
Going back to school is something that would fill many of us with horror – but don't let the thought of playgrounds past put you off Scotland Street School Museum. This space is both a fine example of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's architecture, and a fascinating museum, giving insights into the education system in Scotland from the late 19th to the late 20th century (clue: it wasn't always especially forgiving).
Built between 1903 and 1906 in the Tradeston district on the South Side of the Clyde, then home to a growing population employed by the vast shipbuilding industry and engineering works, Mackintosh's design cost over £35,000 – more than £1,500 over budget. But what a school he built. Based on those of Rowallan Castle in Ayrshire and Falkland Palace, it was hardly austere inner-city stuff, with windowed Scottish baronial-style tower staircases, corridors banked with glass and bathed in light, and gorgeous little details hidden in every corner.
Ultimately, Scotland Street was to go to waste as an educational institution: as shipbuilding on the Clyde dwindled in the 1970s and urban decay took root, enrolment numbers sank to as low as 89 at a school with capacity for 1,250, and, in 1979, it finally closed. But as an architectural and cultural attraction, its story was just beginning. Since opening as a museum, it has become a must-visit for Mackintosh fans, and those interested in a taste of living social history.
Classrooms are mocked up in the style of several different eras – from Victorian times through World War II and on to the 1950s and '60s, ages when dunce's caps and the cane were commonplace, but so too a strong sense of community. It's an experience school-goers, both current and former, can all relate to.
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Current Initiatives
Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Pilot Learning Network
Shift-Results has been a long-standing partner with Cincinnati Children's Hospital (CCHMC) on the design and pilot of the CF Learning Network. Over the 18-month idealized design process starting in 2015, Shift-Results collaborated with the Cincinnati Children's project team, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and The Dartmouth Institute to engage diverse stakeholders from the CF community to design the learning network, prioritize key curriculum areas, create a dashboard of measures, and develop network key driver diagrams to illustrate the theory of change. The CF Learning Network launched in 2016 with 14 CF Programs and expanded to an additional 15 teams in 2017. Shift-Results continues to support the CF Learning Network by contributing to design and facilitation of learning events, quality improvement curriculum development and teaching, team coaching, operationalization of reporting, and creation of change packages.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation & Dartmouth University
Caribbean Regional Quality Improvement Collaborative (CaReQIC)
CaReQIC is a multi-country network directed by the International Training & Education Center for Health at the University of Washington. CaReQIC aims to improve outcomes for people living with HIV in four countries. Shift-Results provided technical guidance and support to design and launch the network including supporting stakeholder meetings, developing technical content and learning session agendas. Shift-Results also led the introduction of an approach to engage people living with HIV in quality improvement which has been critical to the project's success. Over the course of several years, Shift-Results team members built the capacity of local NGO and government staff to lead the project which has become a thriving and enduring learning community.
Building Equitable Learning Environments (BELE) Network
The BELE Network, funded by the Raikes Foundation, is a network of networks that encompasses 10 School Support Organization (SSO) Networks that joined together to advance equity in education. Shift-Results joined BELE in the second year of the initiative as a partner with the Billions Institute to provide expertise in network design and implementation as well as applications of quality improvement. Shift-Results joins the BELE implementation partners by supporting the design and facilitation of learning events, co-creating a network theory of change in a key driver diagram, building quality improvement capacity, and coaching SSOs on network development.
Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement & Innovation Network (HV-CoIIN) 2.0
HV-CoIIN 2.0 is a network directed by the Educational Development Center to scale the improvement of home visiting outcomes to 25 – 30 states or territories and 300 – 350 local implementing agencies. Shift-Results collaborated with HV-CoIIN implementation partners and faculty to build quality improvement curricula, coach teams, and provide Improvement Advisor support in an innovation collaborative. Shift-Results will support HV-CoIIN 2.0 scale efforts as well as a new collaborative to improve supports for families experiencing intimate partner violence. Shift-Results will also partner with HV-CoIIN stakeholders to provide tools and coaching to help state and local teams to strengthen partnerships with families to improve home visiting systems.
Design Options for Home Visiting Evaluation (DOHVE)
Shift-Results collaborates with implementing partners to build improvement capability and structures in home visiting systems. Examples of specific contributions include 1) designing and facilitating a virtual seven-month practicum to coach teams throughout a hands-on project to learn and apply quality improvement methods, 2) providing feedback and support on completing plans for continuous quality improvement in home visiting, and 3) creating a tip sheet and toolkit to partner with families in continuous quality improvement.
Erikson Institute's Family Child Care Learning Collaborative Pilot
Shift-Results partners with the Erikson Institute to design and implement a pilot collaborative of family child care networks. This initiative invites ten family child care support agencies to form quality improvement teams comprised of agency staff and child care providers to improve care for toddlers in mixed-age group environments. The participating agency teams will test approaches with family child care providers to increase effective planning based on child observation, encourage peer support, and allow for more targeted technical assistance. With this support, providers will identify and test approaches that improve toddler engagement in mixed-age groups.
Examples of Former Initiatives
Zika Initiative
Shift-Results supported the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the Zika Project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and delivered through the Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) Project. Shift-Results partners with a team of improvement and content faculty to support teams in El Salvador with the application of quality improvement methods. Other improvement experts in Central and South America support teams in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Un Bien Comienzo
Un Buen Comienzo (UBC) is a long-standing initiative funded and implemented by Oportunidad Fundación Educacional to improve the quality of early childhood education in Chile, especially for the most vulnerable populations. Karen Zeribi supported UBC as Faculty for The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) on this initiative between 2012 – 2016. In this role, Karen helped the implementing partners to adapt and incorporate IHI's Breakthrough Series collaborative model and quality improvement methods for the context in Chile. Karen also supported the UBC team to design and execute a strategy to build local, self-sustaining improvement networks in local structures of the education system.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California primary is a month away, but Democratic front-runner Gavin Newsom is already slamming Republican rival John Cox.
Or he's helping him.
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom aired a television ad slamming Cox's support for gun rights, noting "John Cox stands with Donald Trump and the NRA."
It's the kind of message that could benefit Cox as he seeks to consolidate Republican voters behind him instead of rival Travis Allen, a state assemblyman. Neither won the state party's endorsement at last weekend's convention, but Cox is showing stronger than Allen in polling, has much more money and the backing of prominent California Republicans.
Politics has always made for strange bedfellows, but California's top-two "jungle primary" created new incentives for odd alliances. All candidates are on the same ballot in the June primary and the top two, regardless of party, advance to the runoff in November. That means candidates aren't staying in their Republican or Democratic lanes as they would in a traditional primary.
Newsom has been clear he hopes to face a Republican, and the ad allows him to draw an early contrast with Cox while making him more appealing to the Republican party base. Cox, meanwhile, is locked in a struggle for second place with former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Democrat. Cross-party tangling is sure to be on display Tuesday at a debate in San Jose, where the three, along with Allen and two other Democrats, will be on stage together for the last time ahead of the June 5 primary.
While Newsom's ad is the most blatant example, he's not the only candidate to spend time talking about rivals from the other party. Democrat John Chiang's campaign has called Allen "TrumpLite." Allen has attacked Newsom's support for California's "sanctuary state" law, while Cox has accused all his rivals of benefiting from a political system he calls corrupt.
Polls show Newsom has a decisive lead with a close contest for the second spot. Newsom's road to the governor's mansion — which he's been openly travelling for years — would be easier if his rival comes from the GOP in a state where Democrats far outnumber Republicans.
"This is not about winning the political argument in November," said Thad Kousser, chair of the political science department at University of California, San Diego. "This is about having the governor's race be over before June 6."
For Republican Party officials, getting a candidate into the runoff has its own benefits — a standard bearer to carry the GOP message in a high-profile race while the party tries to fend off Democratic enthusiasm and hold onto congressional and legislative seats.
Chiang, Villaraigosa and fellow Democrat Delaine Eastin have all been sharply critical of Newsom in their own ways.
Villaraigosa has portrayed Newsom as a candidate focused on wealthy coastal liberals, while Chiang has accused the front-runner of offering unrealistic promises. Eastin is popular with insurgent supporters of Bernie Sanders' presidential bid, who see her as a force to shake up government.
Asked last month which candidate he'd most like to run against, Newsom made his preference clear.
"I wanted to…say I'm focused on our campaign, but then I'd be misleading you," he told The Associated Press. "We'd like to see a Republican. That's the honest answer."
It's not unheard of for the leading candidate from one party to put his finger on the scale and try to pick his general election opponent. Democratic Gov. Gray Davis relentlessly attacked moderate Republican Richard Riordan during the primary. Riordan lost to conservative Bill Simon, whom Davis defeated in the general election.
Facing tough election prospects in the 2010 election, Democrats openly rooted for Republicans to nominate far-right supporters of the tea party movement in hotly contested U.S. Senate contests in Nevada and Delaware. The strategy worked; Democrats retained both seats.
In California, the election has already begun with millions of absentee ballots in the mail.
The debate, hosted by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation and moderated by Chuck Todd, host of NBC's "Meet the Press," will be broadcast on NBC-owned stations in most California media markets including San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. It will be the last to include all the candidates; Newsom has declined other debate invitations ahead of the primary.


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|This article is about a/an actor in Power Rangers Dino Charge.
Yoshua "Yoshi" Sudarso plays Koda, the Blue Dino Charge Ranger in Power Rangers Dino Charge. and Joe Shih, the Silver Time Force Ranger/Green HyperForce Ranger in Power Rangers Hyper Force.
According to an interview with The Hashtag Show, Yoshi was a suit-actor for Power Rangers Samurai and Power Rangers Megaforce.[1]
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He is the older brother of Peter Sudarso . He is married to a woman named Sarah. Despite being older than Peter, he is a middle child. He also has an older brother who is not in the acting industry. Like Jason David Frank, Johnny Yong Bosch, Catherine Sutherland, and Nakia Burrise, Yoshi is a Christian and often attends church services. While Sudarso makes appearences at comic conventions, he will sometimes go on his own as an attendee. He also does cosplay as well.
- The Maze Runner
- Buffalo Boys
- ABC's Wipeout - June 22, 2014 episode (with brother Peter)
- Marvel's Agents of SHIELD - Hydra Agent ("The Inside Man")
- Shuriken Sentai Ninninger as Tourist[2] (Shinobi 34)
- Pretty Dudes
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- The original version of the Dino Charge opening titles credited Yoshi as Yoshua Sudarso. This was quickly corrected to Yoshi Sudarso. A similar thing happened with Johnny Yong Bosch and Steve Cardenas in Mighty Morphin season 2, being credited as John Bosch and Steven Cardenas. In all three cases, the actors' birth names were used instead of their preferred nickname or stage name.
- Yoshi returns in Power Rangers HyperForce as the Time Force Silver Ranger and Green HyperForce Ranger; Joe Shih.
- In an interview with That Hashtag Show, Yoshi stated that if he were to be a part of any team other than the Dino Charge Rangers, he'd be part of the Time Force Rangers. Thanks to his role as Joe Shih, Time Force Silver Ranger, he got his wish.
- Yoshi is the third actor to appear in new footage of both Power Rangers and Super Sentai (as opposed to reusing Super Sentai footage for Power Rangers), after Machiko Soga and Ami Kawai. A few caveats make Yoshi's appearance unique:
- Yoshi's the first to appear in Power Rangers then Super Sentai (Machiko and Ami appeared in Zyuranger then Zyu 1.5).
- Yoshi was the first to be filmed by both the Power Rangers and the Super Sentai film crews (Zyu 1.5 was footage for the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers but was shot by Toei).
- Yoshi's the first whose two roles are not connected. Machiko and Ami appeared in Zyu 1.5 as Witch Bandora and Lamy respectively from Zyuranger so there would be more footage to use as Rita Repulsa and Scorpina respectively for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. By contrast, there is no stated connection between Yoshi's unnamed Ninninger character and either Koda or his Kyoryuger counterpart Nobuharu Udo.
- His brother Peter is his Blue Ranger successor in Power Rangers Ninja Steel which is based on Shuriken Sentai Ninninger, the Super Sentai show that Yoshi guest starred on.
- The two brothers also created their own version of the traditional Hand-Off in Super Sentai.
- Yoshi's favorite Dragon Ball series character is Future Trunks.[3]
- He also has an older brother name Kak Chris.[1]
- Yoshi portrayed as Guy from Capcom's Final Fight/Street Fighter series in a fan prequel film of the original Final Fight game, titled Final Fight: The Broken Gear.[4]
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By Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy, Roger Hausheer, Mark Lilla
In this awesome choice of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of many nice thinkers of the 20th century, discusses the significance of dissenters within the heritage of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. along with his strange powers of imaginitive new edition, Berlin brings to lifestyles unique minds that swam opposed to the present in their times--and nonetheless problem traditional wisdom.
In a brand new foreword to this corrected variation, which additionally features a new appendix of letters during which Berlin discusses and extra illuminates a few of its themes, famous essayist Mark Lilla argues that Berlin's choice to renounce a philosophy fellowship and turn into a historian of principles represented now not an abandonment of philosophy yet a choice to do philosophy through different, possibly larger, skill. "His intuition instructed him," Lilla writes, "that you study extra approximately an concept as an idea in case you comprehend anything approximately its genesis and comprehend why sure humans discovered it compelling and have been spurred to motion by means of it." This number of attention-grabbing highbrow photos is a wealthy demonstration of that belief.
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For Berlin does not deal only with great thinkers: the history of ideas is not the story of a succession of great philosophers, where one system of ideas or theories begets another, as if by a process of parthenogenesis; rather, he is interested in the emergence of ideas, in many types of intellectual personality, varied, original, eccentric, often dissident and outside the mainstream of their time, in opposition to the orthodox dogmas and received presuppositions which they help to overturn. What the history of ideas is able to offer as a branch of phil osophy, and as a relatively new source of genuine knowledge and enlightenment, is insight into the origins of, and literally world-transforming shifts in, the basic conceptual patterns in terms of which we understand ourselves and acquire our identity as human beings.
Far from divorcing ethics from politics, as Croce and others have maintained, Machiavelli looks beyond the officially Christian ethics of his time (and, by implication, beyond other related moral outlooks, Stoic or Kantian or even utilitarian), which are essentially concerned with the individual, to a more ancient tradition, that of the Greek polis or of republican Rome –an essentially collective or communal morality Introduction • li according to which to be a human being and to have values and purposes is identical with being a member of a community.
Berlin's keen sense of the irreducibly wide variety of kinds of experience and types of proposition, and of the impossibility of expressing them in or translating them out into one type of proposition, or of analysing all the contents of the universe in terms of one basic kind of entity or 'stuff ', is here given free expression in the spheres of logic and epistemology. Things are as they are, and we do well not to analyse away what makes them uniquely themselves. What makes these essays so particularly fascinating and important is twofold: they are written from within the ranks of the philosophical tendency which he criticises, and, in so far as they reveal certain very deep-rooted attitudes and convictions on his own part, they point towards, and help enlarge our understanding of, both his intense interest in the history of ideas and his conception of philosophy's role.


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Henry Kenyon Daniel, one of a family of local Ramsgate solicitors, had been a Second Lieutenant in the 1st Cinque Ports Volunteer Artillery since 1897. In October 1914 he received his commission in the Territorial Force as a Captain in the 3rd Home Counties (Cinque Ports) brigade of the Royal Field Artillery.
In January 1915 he was promoted to the rank of temporary Major. On 8th August 1915 Henry Kenyon Daniel sailed for France. Travelling by a circuitous route via Rouen, St Omer and Armentieres he eventually reached the 1st Canadian Division where he joined the 3rd Artillery Brigade. He saw action around the village of Ploegsteert where he soon got used to British and German shells whizzing overhead. He and his fellow officers visited Observation Satations and chose suitable sites for new ones. They also "registered" the range for the guns to hit the German front line trenches which in places were barely 200 yards away. Major Kenyon Daniel returned to England on 23rd August.
In August 1917 Henry Kenyon Daniel reverted to the rank of captain and set off for France once more. He sailed from Southampton to Le Havre on 8th August 1917. On being posted to the 16th (Irish) Divisional Artillery he travelled to Poperinghe. First he was attached temporarily to "A Battery" of the 180th Brigade so that he could gain some experience of conditions on the Ypres Salient before being given command of B Battery. Less than eight days after leaving England he was taking part in a heavy attack just east of Ypres.
On the 28th August his battery left the Ypres Salient to go by train to Bapaume, a town on the road between Amiens and Albert. His battery was in the countryside nearby and was in telephone communication with Brigade HQ at all times. Captain Daniel then heard that his promotion from Captain to Substantive Major had appeared in the London Gazette on 16th August. He was appointed to command B Battery of the 180th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery on 1st November.The first major attack took place on 19th November near Cambrai. At the end of December the Brigade marched for two days to their new position about eight miles east of Peronne. Towards the end of February the Brigade was taken out of the line and sent down to the waggon lines to re-drill and rest.
At 4.30am on 21st March a major attack commenced. Visibility was very difficult due to dawn mist mixing with gas shells. The major's brigade spent the next few months in the thick of the fighting in the Somme valley west of Peronne. They were later moved up to fight in the Merville sector near Amiens and then moved nearer to Arras.
On 2nd September Major Daniel's battery were ordered to march to the La Bassee sector to re-join the infantry of the 16th Division who were inferior in physique and training. The area was so shell torn and pitted with mine craters that it was nearly impossible to find positions for gun batteries. Early in October the German troops began to retreat. The major's battery began to move forward to the east into areas which had been occupied by the Germans so they had to be on the look-out for booby-traps or mines.
The enemy dug in at the Haute-Deule Canal by by 15th October the Germans had retired levaing huge craters behind to delay the Allied advance.On 16th October Major Daniel was told that he would soon be returning for a tour of duty in England. His battery advanced across France into Belgium in the wake of the Germans. Major Daniel arrived back in England on 22nd October and after three weeks leave spent Armistice Day in London. He was Mentioned in Dispatches in the London Gazette on 23rd December 1918. While waiting to be released from the army in January 1919 he wrote a diary of his second period of service entitled "With a Battery in France in 1917 and 1918".
In April 1919 Major Daniel was present at the vestry meeting in St George's Parish Hall in Broad Street held to decide on the provision of a lady chapel at St George's Church, and a war memorial to be erected in the churchyard. (See separate article)
The firm of Daniel and Edwards, Solicitors, is still in business in Ramsgate today. The current Mr Daniel is the sixth generation of his family to work in the family business.


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The String Theory was the theory invented by Sam Beckett that inspired him to create Project Quantum Leap. He demonstrated his theory with a string. One end of the string represented birth, the other end represented death. Tie the ends together, and what you get is a loop. Ball the loop, and all the days of your life touch each other. Therefore, one could leap from one day to another in his/her own lifetime.
Sam originally got the idea for his String Theory from watching the 1950s television series Captain Galaxy, where he had sent a letter to the star of the show (Moe Stein) which was read aloud on the show. At this time, Sam was just over 4 years old.


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This pterapsid (also called Lyktaspis) had much longer snout or rostrum than that of its relatives. There were bony spines set along its length (rather like the "saw" of a modern sawfish), and the mouth opened above, rather than below, the rostrum.
This strange appendage must have had a hydrodynamic function, since the shape of Doryapsis suggest it was an active swimmer, probably feeding on plankton.
An additional function of thr rostrum among pteraspids could have been to stir up the bottom mud or sand and to root out crustacean prey.
Doryaspis had unusually long, lateral keels growing from the back of the head shield. Their leading edges were armed with toothlike spines. These may have acted as gliding planes and together with the rostrum and downturned tail, would have elevated the front of the body during swimming.
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Many times people talk about being a caretaker in their relationship. They want to change their partner. They aren't doing enough in the relationship. I try to turn this around by asking a simple question, "Are they worrying this much about you? Do they feel they are not doing enough in the relationship? Do they feel a need to take care of you?" Often the answer is going to be no. When there is a caretaker in the relationship, this means the couple has fallen apart and now someone is desperately trying to pick up the pieces and salvage what is left. There is no unity or a sense of "we," in a couple, if only one person is dedicated to the partnership. In this case you have two individuals going in separate directions. If you are trying to be someone's caretaker, it is probably time to end the relationship.
When two people meet and take the time to get to know one another, not by jumping in bed and declaring they are soul mates, instead they begin toward a healthy relationship that is fueled by conversation rather than sex. This does not mean there is no sex or passion as many people tend to confuse. It means that you are interested in what each other has to say and you respect one another's opinions. It means that when you have a difference of opinion you are still able to be respectful of your partner. It means that you allow the other person a voice. It means that you know and respect each other's boundaries. It means that you share the same values and beliefs. When these things occur then you begin to explore intimacy and it is so much the better because you have generated a lot of excitement for your partner. Does anyone really love to have sex with someone that does not have respect for them? Or can you be passionate about someone you can't even have a conversation with? An orgasm is a waste of time if you are then sobbing into your pillow once your partner has fallen asleep (or worse, left to go home). If you are just out to have sex, that is one thing but be clear what you want in life. Whatever you choose, make sure you can live with your choices, don't make it the other person's problem (also, be clear about your choice up front). If he/she doesn't agree with you, then they aren't willing to play your game, it doesn't make them wrong. It is not okay to set up vulnerable people.
Conversation doesn't mean that you have told your partner your deep dark secrets and so now they owe you. Your partner isn't your therapist and there is a difference between sharing childhood abuse or family drama vs. sharing who you are, right now. What is more important in a relationship building process is that you talk about the type of person you are. For example: what motivates you, what do you enjoy doing in your leisure time, what type of friends do you have, what are your goals for the future? A new relationship is not going to understand how to handle the trauma in your past until they have a solid foundation with you. This doesn't mean you shouldn't come clean on mental health issues. For example: "I don't drink, I am a recovering alcoholic." That sentence is a mouthful. It already covers the meaning of I don't drink. This doesn't open the door to re-telling how you hit bottom and what your last 10 years have been like on the bottle or being sober. It could mean this though if your partner says "I am too," and then proceeds to ask "How did you do it." If they don't, leave it and be comfortable that you have gotten this part off your chest. Never lie to anyone about anything but save the therapy conversation for a rainy day when your partner asks. Saying too much too soon is a sure way to end a relationship. This is because someone is being set up to be a caretaker and many times people are willing and this spells disaster. You are beginning the process by saying "I need help," instead of saying "I am ready to share my life with someone."
Two people can have a healthy relationship, even if they have had a hell of a life. First, they need to get into therapy and deal with this trauma. No, (1) you can't fix it yourself and (2) a relationship is not your therapist. Love will not save you from a dad who harmed you in some way or your mental health condition. Love is not really happening if you are merely trying to save someone. That is your ego saying to you "If I love them enough…" Ego and love are an oxymoron. Second, you have to know what you want in life. It isn't as simple as "I want a nice Christian…" Lots of religious people have been known to be abusive, alcoholic, drug addicts, and just plain jerks. But guess what, they thought they were a good Christian person or whatever religion because they were in denial about their vice or issue of concern. You have to really be grounded in what you do want from a person and what to look for when you see it. Be careful with admiring role models. You don't really know what they are really like behind closed doors. Thirdly, you have to know how to present yourself when you meet this person. This doesn't mean you find out that you have shared values on a first date, have a great conversation about it and then jump into bed. Again, you are not soul mates. You are just horny and happened to meet someone who was too. A person who gives up their body too easily is going to be seen as someone who has no self-respect. Sure, they slept with you too but that doesn't mean they should now be in a commitment with you. You can't blame the other party in a situation like this either. If you both do choose to fall into a relationship and move in, etc… etc… don't be surprised when it falls apart after the honeymoon is over.
Be a person who is the person you state that you are. Act like a professional when you get to know someone. This doesn't mean you can't flirt but have some patience. Don't take them into your home right away. Don't even drive with them (which will make the situation much easier). Keep your dates personal and in the field (vs. at home). Get to know their families and friends but again, be cautious about how much to say about the family or friends. Don't set your partner up before they have even gotten a chance to get to know them. Be sparse with details. For example: My dad can be a bit controlling with my mom or my brother and I are not really close. Instead of saying "My dad has been in and out of jail three times now for domestic violence," or "My brother molested me when we were kids." A partner who is respectful of you is not going to choose sides and say "Well, he sure seemed like a good guy to me." This is because a healthy partner would understand that you have a better grip on your family members than they do.
Now, how about someone who is reading this and did seem to do all the right things in the beginning but ended up in a bad place nonetheless? A healthy relationship has to work at continuing down this path and this means that you continue working together as a team throughout your lifetime together. If someone starts going off on their own, as in picks up the bottle, has an affair, becomes abusive, then the relationship is no longer a healthy relationship. A healthy relationship is one where no one "takes their eye off the ball," so to speak. Yes, it is hard work but so is owning a horse, living on a farm, keeping your luxury car in good shape, or running a business. If you don't look out for either of these things, they will die or fall apart. It is no different with a relationship.
To recap, a healthy relationship that is nurtured over time is one where you (quoting the Gottman method directly now) – have started with trust and commitment and then:
- Get to know one another's world,
- Share fondness and admiration,
- Turn toward instead of away,
- Keep a positive perspective,
- Manage your conflict by a. find relevance in what each of you have to say, b. self-soothing, c. dialogue about problems,
- Make each other's life dreams come true; and
- Create shared meaning.
If you want to learn more about a healthy relationship, I recommend reading "The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work," by Dr. John Gottman and Nan Silver. I also recommend reading "The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts," by Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee. If you want to meet someone to have this relationship with then be patient, set your boundaries, trust your instincts, know what you want and then, when you meet this person, take your time to get to know them. To be on the safe side, wait a few months before becoming intimate, don't move in until you have spent at least a year getting to know them and only then, move in for love not convenience. Don't move forward at all if you have any doubts whatsoever – they won't change with a bigger commitment. Finally, only get married because you love someone and the two of you have gone over your idea of what being married means and can agree on this. I definitely recommend pre-marital counseling with a therapist or at your place of worship. Don't have children until you have gotten married and have waited at least 3-5 years. Children don't need desperate parents. They need parents who have nurtured their relationship as a married couple and are again clear (and have discussed) that it is the right time to move forward.
A good business plan is necessary to have a successful company. Once the doors are open you have to keep on top of your firm by having good communication with all of your employees, from top to bottom. The business is not YOU, it is all of them plus your product and your customers. Each year you have to continue to look back as well as focus on the future. What do you need to do differently in order to continue this success in the changing times?
A relationship requires a plan too. You can't just run out there and start a partnership. Take your time, focus on what it is you want and then don't second guess yourself. Get back together each year and re-commit yourselves to the year ahead. If there have been problems, tackle them head on. Don't wait ten years to then decide to see a therapist. Continue to create new goals for each year and help support each other in making these dreams a reality. A cute person is not so cute when they turn out to be someone who you knew was wrong from the beginning. A cute person that you have gotten to know and taken your time to build a relationship with becomes very handsome and more interesting over time.


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ADConnector comes with 4 different modules and 1 extension pack:
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Below you can see which features are included in which modules.
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This tutorial is intended for Opensim creators who already have a good grasp of rigging and weighting (perhaps under earlier Blender versions) but haven't yet used the new transfer utility. It isn't intended for the original rigging and weighting of your avatar...it's for clothing and other such items where you want the weighting to match your body's weighting to avoid (or completely eliminate) poke-through without having to resort to alpha-masking whatever is underneath.
Before StartingI've read many people's tutorials where weighting is done each time by proximity mapping from the armature bones. In my opinion this is a colossal waste of time. It's almost always going to require significant post-work and having to do this over and over again for each item you make is counter-productive.
The only time you should need to weight by bone proximity is if you're weighting a completely new and unique mesh avatar from scratch where no existing avatar can act as the source of starting point weights. This tutorial assumes that you already have a base avatar model that will be wearing the clothing item, and that it's rigged and weighted properly.
Instead, it's far more efficient to work from a preexisting model that's already perfectly weighted and use the new weight transfer capabilities of Blender to copy those weights intelligently over to the new object. Since a fully weighted SL avatar rig is readily available from Linden Labs, anyone can do this. It's simply a matter of having a source object with weights you already like, and a target object you want to transfer them to. It works with the standard bones (base SL armature) as well as with the fitted mesh bones.
For women (or men who wear kilts) I highly recommend making a "dress blank" to go with that base avatar as well. The idea, here, is to make full length dress (to the ankles) with long sleeves (to the wrist) and high neck. Keep it quite tight to the body. This can then be used as your weight source for almost all dresses regardless of style or length.
Make this "blank" much higher poly than you'd normally work with for export in-world (mine is about 40k vert) and when you make it, ensure that it's perfectly symmetrical on the x-axis since it will make it much, much easier to weight the overlap where the left and right thighs overlap one another and to smooth out the blend for the pelvis because you'll be able to use X-Mirror in your weighting options. Having a large number of faces will result in much more consistent (and better) results when using it as your weight source for low poly models.
Spend as much time as necessary to make this blank and get its weights as close to perfect as you can. The idea is to spend all this time only once, and then be able to use it as our weight source for all future skirts, dresses, etc with little or no tweaking being necessary afterward.
When the legs are apart you're looking for radiating straight-lines from the pelvis to the ground (or as close to it as you can get -- assuming your dress started off as more or less a plane or cylinder).
The added bonus of a creating a blank like this is it also works very nicely as a convenient shrinkwrap target in addition to being your weight source. Of course if you'll only ever be making shorts or pants, you don't need one of these since you'll be using your avatar mesh as your source.
Save a copy of this blank somewhere that's easy to find later. When making something new I usually just open my blank and immediate "Save As" with whatever my new clothing item's name will be; then work directly in that file. When I've finished everything, I delete my weight blank mesh and avatar to conserve space when archiving.
At this point you'll have two archived weight source objects -- your avatar model and your dress blank -- both in the same file and parented to the same armature -- that you've invested a lot of time and effort into weighting as well as you possibly can. After that, it's easy!
Model A New Clothing ItemNow go ahead and create a new model of whatever clothing or jewellery item you feel inspired to make. You don't have to make it conform perfectly to either of your archived weight sources but the closer the new item is to one of the existing sources, the less post-work you'll need to do. both work nicely as shrinkwrap targets, too.
For this tutorial I'll be using a dress I made that's intended to look similar to the famous Marilyn Monroe white dress. The under-boob tucks of the ribbon, the extensive pleating, and flared skirt of the style make this something that would normally be a major PITA to weight -- particularly using bone proximity mapping. Here's the model (it will be white...the colours are simply material zone reminders to myself).
The picture on the left also has my dress blank visible, which you'll see pokes through in a few places where I'm conforming more tightly to the body than my blank does, but for the most part lies underneath the model I've made. The picture on the right is showing the final fit on my avatar.
Parent To Your RigNow parent the new item to your existing rig.
If you use Avastar (which I highly recommend and still use as part of my workflow) when you bind to armature select "keep" for weights since we don't need Avastar to try to generate weights for us. In pre-2.74 days Avastar's weighting routines were superior to Blender's. Now (in my opinion) Blender's are better and offer far greater flexibility).
At this point we now have a dress that's parented to the rig but unweighted.
Transfer WeightsNow for the magic of Blender 2.74+ weight transfer...
- In Object mode first select your dress blank (the source that is already weighted) and then shift-select your new unweighted dress to add it to the selection, making it the primary selected object (the dress with be highlighted in orange and your weight source will be more of a red highlighting).
- Switch to weight paint mode.
- In the toolshelf's Tools Tab, in the "Weight Tools" section click the "Transfer Weights" button (or menu Weights > Transfer Weights). Immediately after doing this look in the most recent action section of the toolshelf and set the appropriate transfer parameters which will almost always be:
(in this picture I've hidden the body and armature layers but you don't need to)
- Data Type: Vertex Groups
- Create Data checkbox checked
- Vertex Mappiing: Nearest Face Interpolated (see notes below)
- Object Transform checkbox checked (to evaluate in global space)
- Only Neighbor Geometry checkbox NOT checked (Ray Radius then doesn't apply to the transfer and its value is ignored)
- Source Layer: All Layers (see notes below)
- Destination Layer: By Name
- Mix Mode: Replace (see notes below)
- Mix Factor: 1.00 (see notes below)
The above has three rather critical choices involved that are relevant to weighting objects; but it's worth being aware that this same utility can transfer all sorts of other data if you change the data type from Vertex Groups to something else. The The Blender wiki for more information on other data transfer types.
The first critical choice for weighting is the Vertex Mapping where your choice will depend on your source and intended target. For most things you'll want to use "Nearest Face Interpolated" but there occasions where it makes sense to select one of the others (if you hover your mouse over the option in the list Blender will give you a pop-up telling you how the method calculates the weight). On occasion I will use Projected Face Interpolation or, rarely, Nearest Vertex.
The second key choice is whether to transfer all layers (all bones) or only one specific bone. Since our mesh is unweighted we want to transfer them all and our "Destination Layer: By Name" assigns those same vertex group (bone weight) names to our target mesh which is exactly what we want. You might, on occasion, only want to transfer the weight from a single bone (or do a few of them, one by one, while ignoring others).
The third important choice is the Mix Mode and Mix Factor. For our purposes you'll always be using "Replace" with the Factor at maximum because there are no preexisting weights on our model.. If you were importing one bone at a time you would typically mix or add, then later normalize all weights
Clean UpAfter transfer, I strongly suggest.using one or two additional tools from the Weight Tools tab:
- a "Normalize All" with the "Lock Active" NOT checked but only do this if you are NOT using fitted mesh weighting
- a "Clean" for "All Groups" with limit 0.0 and "Keep Single" checked
"Clean" with "all groups" just cleans up the vertices to only have vertex groups assigned to them where the weight is non-zero. If you need to do any tweaking later, this will tend to simplify things and avoid potential accidents (used in conjunction with "restrict" painting option enabled)
Test and TweakIn many cases you can simply export this result because the above method is usually remarkably accurate. Depending on your model you may need to do some minor painting tweaks or blurs, so it's good practice to test your weights by moving your armature through a normal range of motions to ensure that there's nothing odd happening and clean up any minor poke-through areas if possible.
With the default SL avatar and weighting it might not be possible to eliminate all pokethrough on very tightly form-fitted or very low poly clothes. You can then either make a matching alpha layer or adjust your model as needed. The closer your model's vertices are to the location of SL avatar vertices, the less often you'll need to do this (or simply raise the clothing further off the body, or if absolutely necessary increase the poly count in that region).
For most common clothing and jewellery items I can get a pretty respectable set of copied weights that require very little tweaking or post-work adjustment, making all that time spent on the original dress blank very much worth it. If your new item has areas that are quite distant from the source mesh you will typically need to make a few tweaks to smooth out the interpolations.
That was the case with the waist-to-hip region of my "Monroe Dress" which sits quite far out from the body and moves more naturally when the weighting transitions are blended a little more smoothly. I also did a little further tweaking to the pleating in the lower portion of the skirt to have them expand more smoothly with movements of the legs. I also removed all influence from the two knee bones since they had picked up slight weighting at the very bottom (which would be needed if the dress extended much lower) and re-normalized those vertices.
In total my dress' weighting (including post-work tweaks) took less than half an hour. Had I weighted by bone proximity it would have been many hours of work to get even remotely close to an equivalent result.
I use my dress blank as the wight source for anything that needs to have shared influence of the two hip bones (skirts, dresses, very long shirts, etc) and for anything else I'll use my own body as the weight source.
ConclusionIf you haven't yet experimented with the latest weight transfer improvements in Blender (or haven't updated to a recent build) I suggest you give it a whirl. I think you'll find the drastic improvements worth the relatively small learning curve to get up and running with it.
Edit: there appear to have been a few changes with the new Blender 2.76 and the transfer isn't behaving as expected. I'm trying to figure out what's changed and how to get back to the reliable results it was previously given. Once I do so I'll post them here.
Edit2: I have confirmed that were was a bug in versions 2.76-2.76b that broke this function. This has been corrected as of the nightly build Nov. 25, 2015 and is now working properly again on this (and presumably future) nightly builds. It will be included in whatever the next official release is (2.76c or 2.77). Until then you can either get a copy of the nightly build or revert to 2.75 where it also works perfectly.