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As part of a new weekly series on MLSsoccer.com, senior writer Jeff Bradley spends 10 minutes with some of the biggest names in North American soccer to talk about how they've made their mark on the game through the years.
His subject this week, New England Revolution striker Juan Agudelo, is trying to finish his season in style before heading to England to join Stoke City. Agudelo burst onto the scene with the New York Red Bulls in 2010, showing enough fire and talent to earn some call-ups to the US national team at the age of 18. Since then, he's been traded twice, battled some injuries and now, at 20, is once again showing that he has rare abilities as a striker.
BRADLEY: What's it been like being a part of a Revolution team that's played pretty well since you came over in a trade from Chivas USA?
AGUDELO: It's been a lot of fun. It's a great group of guys, on and off the field. Getting wins with this group is a good feeling. We're definitely all-in together. I think people are starting to see this team has potential. When we play well, we play really well.
BRADLEY: Of the three places you've played in MLS -- New York, Chivas USA, and New England -- how does this environment compare? Was it easy to adjust?
AGUDELO: Obviously, it's a different environment everywhere you go, but it's been good here. Dealing with the turf was one issue, but I think I got adjusted pretty fast. And I feel like when I've been healthy, I've done well.
BRADLEY: You'll be moving to Stoke City in the English Premier League when the season is over. What was the whole thought process like in deciding to make that move?
AGUDELO: It was basically, as I played and knew my contract was up, I began to think of possibly making a move overseas. When the chance came up with Stoke, it was hard to say no. Especially at my age, I felt it was important to take the chance rather than possibly have regrets down the road that I didn't give it a shot when the opportunity was there.
New England Revolution star Juan Agudelo says even a Designated Player contract may not have kept him in MLS. "I want to take my shot in England," he says.
(USA Today Sports)
BRADLEY: Would you have considered staying on a Designated Player contract?
AGUDELO: Yeah, maybe. But I don't know if anything could have changed my mind. I'm not really sure there's anything that would've kept me around. I want to take my shot in England.
BRADLEY: New York, Los Angeles, Boston. How are you going to adjust to life in Stoke?
AGUDELO: I have no idea, but I'm hoping it will help to be around some familiar faces in Marice Edu, Geoff Cameron and Brek Shea. I'm adjustable in the US, but I won't know if I'm adjustable to life in a foreign country until I give it a shot. I think I'll handle myself well. I've been pretty much living on my own since I was in residency.
BRADLEY: Who's your favorite player in MLS?
AGUDELO: Marco DiVaio of Montreal has been the man this year. That's a guy I really enjoy watching, just his movements on the field and the way he plays. I think he's by far the best strike in the league this year.
BRADLEY: And what do you make of Clint Dempsey's return to the league? What's it like to see an American player in his prime returning to MLS and making so much money?
AGUDELO: I think that helps out a lot of us who are thinking we'll be back in MLS after our spells in Europe are over. I'm really happy for him. I don't know if Clint even realizes what he's done for the whole league by coming back, but it's huge. The whole process of making the league better took a huge step with him coming back. It's awesome for him.
BRADLEY: What do you think you have to do to get back in the national team mix?
AGUDELO: I'm not sure, but the main thing is to keep doing what I've been doing when I'm healthy. The main thing, the first thing, is to stay on the field. I feel when I'm on the field I've been able to provide for my teammates. So my main focus is just to keep playing well.
BRADLEY: Certainly, some of the goals you've scored lately will get you attention. That backheel goal against Chicago [video above], is that something you've ever done before?
AGUDELO: Never did that in practice. Would probably never even think about doing something like that in practice. It was just an instinct when I saw the keeper was really close to me. I guess the salsa lessons are paying off.
BRADLEY: Best goal you ever scored?
AGUDELO: I like the one against D.C., when I flicked it up and shot it. But the most meaningful goal I ever scored was my first goal for the US national team against South Africa.
BRADLEY: You and Diego Fagundez seem to be having fun on the field together. What's it like playing with him?
AGUDELO: Yeah, it's fun playing with Diego. He's a kid that never seems to get tired. He's kind of like a free player who doesn't think too much. He plays with a lot of freedom. He's great to play with because he's always on the move, making space for me. And when I open up space for him, he recognizes it and takes advantage.
BRADLEY: Goals before you leave for England?
AGUDELO: Make the playoffs. And if we achieve that goal, win the Cup.


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KC business helps troubled women stitch lives back together
Weave Gotcha Covered plans to open new sewing lab
A Kansas City area business that makes with a focus on helping single mothers is teaching them to sew.
Weave Gotcha Covered, which makes custom drapery and furnishings, was originally headquartered in Gladstone. Because so many of the women it helps and employs live in transitional housing in downtown Kansas City, the business packed up and moved so it could be closer to them.
"This is therapy right here," said owner Kelly Wilson.
Wilson has been stitching fabric and helping stitch lives back together for the past 11 years.
"You just sit down and you take pieces of fabric and you can make them do all of these amazing, beautiful things just by putting them together," Wilson said.
Working with Amethyst Place, which offers transitional housing for women in recovery, Wilson focuses on hiring women who could use a hand: single mothers recovering from addiction who are trying to get their lives back on track.
"Four years ago, I was addicted to drugs and never thought I'd be here, ever," said employee Jamie Gray.
Gray, a single mother of three young boys, said Weave Gotcha Covered allows her to put food on the table while working around her schedule. It's helping her go back to school and get a fresh start.
"I moved out of Amethyst almost a year ago," said Gray. "This month will be a year."
"They're so excited to have an opportunity to be able to show who they really are. Several of them would have had to check a box on applications and that would have just stopped them right there," Wilson said.
The women said they're working in a place that's become like family. It's a place where they're able to create beautiful things out of fabric and their lives.
"Just being able to take care of my kids and do the right thing, work and go to school, it's just everything to me," Gray said. "You know, it's normal life. I never thought I'd have that."
Wilson said the business will soon create a sewing lab to train people how to sew and create their own sewing business just like hers.
Weave Gotcha Covered currently employs 18 women and it's still hiring. To learn more, go to its website.

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Us and Ras
Apart from shopping and coffee drinking and catching up, we also spent a lot of time having cat cuddles. Perfect time well spent. Oh and I absolutely love the top right hand photograph; last time Laia came to visit we were shopping (as usual!) and bought the same cute top from Urban Outfitters. It always makes me smile when I wear it, and I think of my best friend <3 Finally we managed to capture both of us wearing it at the same time! (Although we didn't leave the house wearing matching outfits…)
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Don't panic over the amount of calories and fat in this dish. The recipe is for an entire meal that, despite the daunting ingredient list, is easy to make.
How to Make It
Step 1
Brush lamb chops with oil, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
Step 2
Grill, covered with grill lid, over high heat (400° to 500°) 4 minutes on each side or until a meat thermometer inserted into thickest portion registers 145°. Serve with Rosemary Sauce and Wild Rice-Fennel Pilaf; garnish, if desired.
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I couldn't believe it: Japan is supposed to be hideously expensive [at a current exchange rate of about $1=¥100], yet the Mini Mini and ABC real estate offices of these two well-known Japanese chain operations I visited here have real apartments that rent for as little as about $270 a month (¥ 27,000) on a standard 2-year lease—perfect for a working budget-conscious expat with minimalist tastes.
[But be forewarned: As I will explain in the sequel to this article, affordability is just one hurdle to embarking on a career in your personal Shangrila—the bizarre law of what I call the "inverse law of work-life balance" being among the most formidable, i.e., the vexing irony of finding the perfect locale, only to also find only awful job opportunities.]
Unthinkable at Home
That rent, unthinkable in Vancouver—even for a residential closet, is for an older en suite, private, clean, safe, compact city apartment in one of the world's most charming, friendly, cultural, historic and aesthetic smaller urban centers—Nagasaki (which I now rank among my personal "Top 5″ among the cities of the 50+ countries I've been in).
[Note: Exactly the same low rents are, as I have since discovered, elsewhere in Japan, e.g., in the bustling, international port city of Kobe—and in pleasant, conveniently situated neighborhoods.]
In itemizing the entailed expenses, Kenji Matsuda, the branch manager at one of the four Mini Mini offices in Nagasaki, noted that, given average consumption, gas, water and electricity add about another $100 on top of some modest initial one-time fees.
These include $150-$200 for two years of mandatory fire insurance, depending on the real estate service used. But these and the other upfront expenses are hardly crippling deal-breakers.
The flyer he handed me itemized all such initial, one-time expenses, payable before moving in: cleaning and disinfecting, 24-hour support, key fee, fire extinguisher set and the $150 (¥ 15,000) fire insurance fee.
The total, approximately $800, prorated over the 2-year lease adds $33/month to the base rent, irrespective of the size and rent for the apartment. So, a $270 rental becomes $300.
If you are willing to spend more on rent, $500 to $600 will get you substantially more legroom, as compared to one of the smallest micro-apartments I saw listed, which was 15.75 square meters or 161 square feet.
In the centrally-located property (shown here, in each of the apartment photos), $550 (¥ 55,000) gets you a balcony, an ocean and mountain panorama, mixed tatami and hardwood floors, and about 512 square feet.
(Note: Viewing the apartments in-person is, understandably, a privilege reserved for prospective renters. So, I was unable to see any firsthand or firstfoot, and therefore cannot add any onsite observations.)
The Numbeo International Cost-of-Living Tool
When contemplating an expat job or an overseas business trip, check out www.numbeo.com –a site that provides a very useful trove of data for expats and travelers, comprising comprehensive cost of living data and comparisons for most countries in the world.
Although no data for Nagasaki are available on the site, its cost of living data for Japan are illuminating and surprising, e.g., on average, an apartment outside city centers is about $583 per month.
That compares favorably with a Numbeo-reported national average disposable income for the Japanese of about $2,850 per month.
But it's not just the rents. Commuting to work on a charming tram (shown above) will cost you $1.20 one-way, from one end of the cross-city line to the other. A standard McDonald's burger in Nagasaki, at the regular price of ¥ 100 ($1), costs less than in Vancouver.
The budget-friendly Nagasaki Yoshinoya-franchise "gyudon" beef, rice, miso soup, corn and cabbage salad set shown above with unlimited green tea costs $4.30 (¥430).
The omnipresent 24-hour "konbiniya"—convenience stores, such as 7-11, Family Mart and Lawsons, catering to single workers and students, offer cheap alternatives to restaurants, competitive in some respects to the supermarkets: a pack of frozen spinach—less than $1, natto (fermented soy bean) 3-pack for 73 cents (vs. $3 plus back home), take-out box lunches for around $3, 2-liter bottle of mineral water—less than $1, 1/4 pound of breaded, cooked, crispy shrimp—less than $3, bananas—5 for less than $1.
Then there are the Japanese versions of our dollar stores—a.k.a. ¥ 100 shops, e.g., a bulging pack of dried fruit—$1.The six plump mandarin oranges I bought at the grocery store across the street were also $1 (on special and shown here, with a ¥ 100 coin as size and cost reference).
Japan Work-Life Balance on the Cheap
If you are a savvy, budgeter and (aspiring) minimalist, you can work and live in Nagasaki for about $1,500 or less per month, while easily earning double, and possibly triple or more—depending on your work skills, sponsorship, qualifications and language ability (with about $2,000 per month being the government minimum required for a work visa).
I'm currently only a tourist, but am getting by spending approximately that amount per month (because I found a friendly, cozy, clean, air conditioned central hotel for $30 per night).
Budgeting for an Urban Shangrila
My estimate of total costs for a resident, employed expat and agile visitor here perfectly matched the feedback I got from several locals: $1,500-$2,000 per month should cover everything (car not included), unless you have upscale tastes and habits, or otherwise love to party in bars and clubs.
This is perfectly aligned with the government requirement of ¥ 200,000 ($2,000) per month as the minimum for work-visa eligibility.
Nagasaki Job Prospects and Global Jinzai Management
Mitsubishi is a primary employer here, and there are several colleges and universities; so, if you have the right skill set and gumption, check Nagasaki out.
It may even be worthwhile checking out working remotely here for a Japanese company, e.g., as a translator, writer, editor or independent consultant (although I have no hard data regarding this.)
Otherwise, regarding job hunting in Japan in general, that's a topic I'll be dealing with separately, in a subsequent article.
Now, it`s true that the days when it was easier to make $10,000 a month or $200/hour are gone, buried by Japan's protracted recession, but Japan remains a land of opportunity, and not just jobwise, given the cultural, historic and visual charms and internationalization of the economy and society.
However, one encouraging consideration is that the Japanese have, for some time, been pushing the idea of "Global Jinzai Management"—global human resource/asset management, with an emphasis on importing, exporting and training internationalized talent, in order to keep Japan competitive on the global economic stage, especially in light of the meteoric economic rise and market penetration of China and other Asian countries.
Japan's JET (Japanese English Teachers) program, dating from the 1980s, which has brought thousands of English teachers to Japan, was one of the earliest manifestations of this policy and recruitment shift.
Hence, whether you feel pushed by the lack of the right job opportunities at home or pulled by the allure of Japan, it may be worth your while to vet Japan—or at least Nagasaki—as a springboard or at least as a potential plank in your career.
Other Important Considerations
But before doing that or taking any other steps toward becoming a working expat in Japan, you`ll probably need or want to consider the following:
Reluctant landlords: Renting an apartment anywhere in Japan, including Nagasaki, can be a real challenge for an expat—and, according to Hiroshi Mine, an adviser at the Nagasaki ABC Real Estate branch I visited, the likelihood of succeeding is virtually zero if that's how much Japanese you speak and understand, and don't have a strong sponsor.
However, he added that, with a respected sponsor, who will assume legal and financial liability for you, while serving as an intermediary when necessary, and some Japanese-language ability on your part, the probability of being accepted by the landlord as a tenant can be as high as 80%.
What is called "self-sponsorship" is possible, e.g., for self-employed expats, but that makes acceptance by the landlord less likely, since there is no intermediary between the prospective tenant and the landlord.
Radiation concerns: Because of Fukushima, concerns about radiation in Japan are widespread—at least overseas. Some may even have concerns about residual radiation from the 1945 atomic bombing. Now, I`m no radiation expert, but I am a very cautious traveler.
So, I brought with me my Radex 1212 radiation detector that I had been planning to take on a now-canceled trip to Ukraine (which translates into "Chernobyl") and Russia.
At ground zero in Nagasaki (shown here), the radiation levels of no more than 0.13 microsieverts my device detected were less than the radiation emitted by a banana—the banana`s contribution to background radiation being an informal international standard of low levels.
(One reason for this is that the atomic bomb detonation over Nagasaki was an air burst, which dissipated the radiation in the atmosphere, rather than sweeping up and contaminating tons of soil.) Moreover, Nagasaki is just about as far in Japan as one can get away from Fukushima and its cross-Pacific winds.
To put this in perspective, in-cabin radiation levels during various legs of my flight from Vancouver and at about 37,000 feet were almost 25 times as high (3.18 microsieverts/hour).
Furnishings: As is the case anywhere else, furnished apartments cost more. It should be noted that "unfurnished" is likely to mean no stove, refrigerator, washing machine or dryer.
But, if like me, you're fine with an electric skillet, a mini-fridge and handwashed laundry, you'll not only survive, but also reduce your utilities' charges, such as gas and water. (As for microwave ovens, you'd have to revisit and investigate radiation concerns, if you have any, about food or personal exposure.)
To succeed as an expat minimalist in Japan, you'll have to be adaptable and agile or have great support and buffers, in the form of corporate or personal helpers and handlers.
Yes, the expat package described here is Spartan in many respects; yet it isn't as alien to the Japanese workers who live within its constraints as you are likely to be to them.
Note: Mini Mini does have an English website and English-speaking staff serving Tokyo and Saitama, Kanagawa and Nagano prefectures, with both furnished and unfurnished listings; however detailed online search results appear in Japanese only.
Property photos: courtesy of ABC Real Estate, Nagasaki Station branch.


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Airbnb, an American company which operates an online marketplace and hospitality service for people to lease or rent short-term lodging, successfully develops its business in Georgia, Property Georgia reports.
5678 apartments were listed on Airbnb from Tbilisi in 2016 while this number almost doubled in 2017 and made 9679. The market research was prepared by the global real estate service company's local representation Colliers International Georgia together with Enterprise Georgia, under the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.
"Airbnb will compete with small and medium size international hotel brands as well as local brands," declared Irakli Kilauridze, Managing Director of Colliers International Georgia. In his words, Colliers International Georgia started partnership with Airbnb a year ago. "This market is developing rapidly. We should think about Airbnb while talking about hospitality sector as it is an alternative supply source," he noted.
The market research presented on April 4th at Holiday Inn hotel, covered different fields: hotel industry, commercial, office and residential spaces, as well as entertainment sector. Colliers International Georgia will publishing detailed research of Georgia's activities on Airbnb in several days.


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Report: You Can Charge Women More, but Should You? | Harvard Business Review
The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (NYDCA) recently released a well-researched report documenting similar products having different prices based on the target customer's gender. Target, for instance, charged $24.99 for a red scooter and $49.99 for a scooter that appeared to be identical — except for its pink color. (Note: that's a 100% difference!) Target equalized the prices after the report was released, labeling the differential a "system error."
The NYDCA report also provides examples such as women's hair care products selling at an average 48% premium compared to similar men's products, and Levi charging 29% more for the female version of its 501 CT jeans. The study, which has garnered a good bit of media coverage, focuses on 794 products in 35 categories, and it concludes that in 30 of these categories, women pay more than men.
These findings spotlight a dicey pricing quandary faced by most companies: should you charge certain demographic groups more simply because you have the ability to profit by doing so?
The bottom line: the free market may be the backbone of a thriving economy…but it isn't necessarily fair to all consumers.
While I've long trumpeted pricing as an underutilized profit lever at companies, being aware of the implications of offering different prices to different market segments is important. Beyond the public relations concern of avoiding customer backlash if unseemly pricing practices are exposed, pricing reflects the moral fabric of a company. In this sense, pricing is more than profit. Executives — who often are not well-versed in how their products are priced — need to reflect on whether current strategies result in prices that represent their company's intended values.
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Having found our lovely candidate Lucy over two years ago at a local shelter, when we heard about upcoming dog accessory brand JAXX HOUND's story, we couldn't help but want to spread the word!
Jaxx Hound not only works to create stylish, comfortable, durable pet accessories– including leashes, collars, and doggy carrying handbags– a portion of all their proceeds are directly donated to the NYC Animal Shelter, Animal Haven.
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Dixie Chicks focus on their present home
Kodak Theater, West Hollywood, Cal., Aug. 15, 2002
By Dan MacIntosh
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA Đ The three Dixie Chicks are seemingly always in various stages of motherhood these days, as Natalie Maines performed on the "Fly" tour with Ôone in the oven,' and Emily Robison was clearly showing during this concert being taped for an early December NBC TV special.
But tonight's show revolved around parenting of a different kind, as the Chicks previewed their new "Home" album before an audience of adoring fans - like parents proudly holding their newborn in a delivery room.
Clearly, The Dixie Chicks have much to be proud about. They played the album from start to finish and gave every indication that this is their strongest album to date. This consistently folk, country and bluegrass offering was recorded in their hometown of Austin, and every song they sang seemed to be better than the last one.
Maines told the audience about how this new album is a reflection of newfound peace and calm in their lives. The group then backed up her words by playing a mostly calming and peaceful set of music.
One of these notably reflective pieces was a cover of Stevie Nicks' "Landslide," which the singer/songwriter wrote when she was 27. Maines is 27 now, and she probably understands exactly what Nicks was talking about. Change is a constant, it's true, but change is not necessarily a negative thing. For Maines and the Dixie Chicks, this song helps document their artistic evolution from "Wide Open Spaces," if you will, to the more contained surroundings of family and home.
The Chicks have tremendous respect for singer/songwriter Patty Griffin, which is why this new album contains two of her songs. The first is the upbeat, yet biting, "Truth," and the other one is called "Top Of The World," which the group chose as their show closer. With it, they pulled out all the stops by augmenting a six-piece acoustic band with added strings to present this dramatic and moving ballad.
But bluegrass was a more common musical denominator than ballads on this night. These down home selections ranged from the Jerry Springer-ready "White Trash Wedding," to the Maines' baby-inspired instrumental, "Little Jack Slade."
When these women played slower songs, however, they were equally effective. Maines introduced the slightly Irish-tinged "More Love" be telling about how this song always reminds her of the contradictory nature of religious wars. They followed this up with the hopeful "I Believe In Love," which they wrote in response to the events of 9/11.
Their short encore included predictable renderings of "Cowboy Take Me Away," "Goodbye Earl," "Sin Wagon" and "Wide Open Spaces." Maines even messed up the lyrics on "Wide Open Spaces," which is probably their most popular song. But you can't really blame her, since the Dixie Chicks are much more focused on their present "Home," rather than reliving in the past.
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I'm currently at a conference in the USA and despite having jet lag, dealing with health flare ups and having a super packed schedule – I'm enjoying it, and I feel like the time I am spending here is filling me up. It got me thinking about the different ways and parts of our lives where we can nourish and fill ourselves up, and why it's important to do so.
I think of this in a very literal way. For me, I think of having an internal battery, the more charged up my battery is, the more able I am to take part in and most importantly, enjoy what I am doing in my day to day life. This is why, for me, it is vital to focus on the things that nourish, nurture and fill me up. This analogy also makes it a bit easier to get some perspective on the rare occasions that thoughts like 'I shouldn't have time off' or 'I can't afford to go to yoga this week' – would I expect my car to take me to work without any fuel? No. Would I expect my laptop to run without any charge? No.
There are lots of different ways we can fill ourselves up and recharge our batteries, and what works for one person might seem like the most draining thing for someone else. We might also sometimes surprise ourselves when we come across something new that fills us up. There are of course the traditional self-care activities which can help us with our energy levels, motivation and general functioning – getting good sleep, eating good food an exercising regularly. But sometimes, there is a bit of a paradox. Sometimes, going out for dinner with a good friend and staying out later than normal might be just what you need for charging yourself up. In terms of food, I've long been an advocate of what is most nourishing may not be the healthiest. Sometimes a good take away can nurture you as much as a fresh salad, especially if getting take out is the only way you'll eat during a stressful period. Ruby Tandoh's new book 'Eat Up' talks about this beautifully – how the emotional state we are in when we eat impacts nourishment and backs it up with some great scientific evidence. It's the intention behind what we do that most often impacts the outcome.
For me personally, I have spent a lot of time over the last few years trying to focus on the things that fill me up and nurture me. A small number of examples are what you would probably typically expect to 'fill you up' and include yoga, meditation, massage, early nights and long baths. But there are other activities that fill me up too that require a bit of energy – brisk walks, wild swimming, travelling, horse riding, organising events and as I have discovered this week – attending conferences! Though these things might require the expenditure of physical energy, they do so much for me on an emotional and mental level.
So how do we figure out what fills us up? Follow joy – follow the things that feel really, really good – for your mind and body. And don't worry about what other people might think of you. You are in charge of your internal battery, you are the one that has to function on whatever energy you have – so forget about the opinions of others and focus on yourself.
The amazing thing about focussing on what fills you up and what charges your battery is that without even trying, you start to become much more aware of the things that do the opposite – the things that drain you. Maybe it's an extra job you've taken on, a project you've got involved with, a relationship/friendship that isn't healthy or a work environment situation that is stressful. And when you begin to remove those aspects of your life that drain you, you open up much more space and freedom to do the things that do the opposite – fill you up.
I invite you to spend a few moments thinking about the things that make you happy, whether they are something small (like a brief meditation, wearing your favourite outfit, eating your favourite meal) or something bigger (enrolling on a course, travelling or volunteering) and try to bring them into your life a little at a time.
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Last chapter of my reposting of old posts in civland forum. This time it is clearly a feature almost exclusively interesting for big multiplayer environments such as longturn or greatturn, but some of those lonely single-player empire builders out there could find the idea much interesting. Here it is.
I found out that one of the real-life features of history which I miss more in LongTurn is involvement in game atmosphere
This could be achieved by many means. One of them could be "giving names" to things, i.e. toponomy.
The idea to give name flags to maptiles can be implemented in 4 different ways
1. the easiest: any tile (or group of tiles) can be labeled by any player, and this label may be seen by everybody, by one player or by allies with his view. It does have no function in game.
2. the label may be seen by enemies or other players, if they conquer or control the land or if the player open them. They still have no function than just aesthetical one.
3. labels are automatically created when discovering new pieces of interesting land, and are visible to anyone. The player that triggered the label creation can change the proposed name. Many Wonders trigger labels to islands/continents/oceans. Again, no structural function.
4. the labels have a structural function in the game. This is the most interesting but also the most difficoult to implement, and only after some experiments with 1, 2 or 3.
Let's see only point 4, but the simplest ideas of it can be tranferred in the former three.
The idea is to incourage or "force" players to give names in order to get some little extra advantage. (The obvious disadvantage for the player is that enemy players can inderectly gain info about land and/or player who gave name to it. This should of course be balanced.)
Player Benefits
I think that the given benefits may be 2 or 3 at once (any other idea is welcome):
- labeled land/sea may gain a +1 passive visibility range for the player who gave and "own" the name, i.e. in common longturn rules player may see them from 5 rather than from 4 tiles. This would be even better implemented if we slightly or strongly lower base-visibility range (thing I strongly recommend anyway regardless of this chat)
- they may slightly lower enemy unit/cities bribing cost, improve the player ones, or give other diplomatic advantage.
- they may gain a +1 passive territory range bonus, i.e. in longturn the tiles would switch to my side at 5 of distance rather than 4 (very similar to the visibility thing).
- in the same way they may decrease enemy territory range.
- for ocean/lake tiles, benefits can be inherited by adjacent land (this because otherwise no one would give name to a lake, or a gulf).
In this way name labels would work like a sort of "cultural" border, and also affecting the "military-political-administrative" border.
Labelling units
Label may "cost" turns to produce, exactly like a land improvement. The uint who can "build" them is the Explorer (and later Partesans), but also Settlers. Caravel may also have this ability, to be inherited by more advanced naval units.
Label layers
Label can be of different types and also of different "layers", i.e. a single tile may be labeled with different labels, for example, the "Longturn Peek" may be a part of the "Freeciv mountains".
Layer types can be somewhat hyerarchycal, non-hyearchical, or both.
A VERY complex example of this could be:
A - hyerarchcal layers
1 - Island/continent/ocean layer: very hard to build, limited advantages
1a - automatically-defined sub-continet/sub-oceans/peninsulas/gulfs/channels/istmus... (this is quite hard to implement, but it would be great)
2 - General land type layer: can be assigned to group of tiles adjacent (NSEW) each other, of similar terrain kind. Max tiles should be around 30. Terrain general kinds should be 4 or 5, e.g:
- elevated (mountains and hills)
- agricoultural (plains and grasslands)
- wet (forest, jungle, swamp)
- desolate (desert, tundra and glaciers)
- sea (ocean, deep ocean, and lake)
3 - Terrain type layer: same as above, but terrain must be identical. Max n. of tiles should be around 10
4 - single tile layer (the most important type). A city name could be just a special case of it. Settlers can only name single tiles.
B- special layers (group of tiles adjacent to each other and with the same characteristic, regardless of terrain):
1 - river layer
2 - road layer (uff, quite hard to implement)
3 - other improvements layer (irrigation, mining)
C - custom (geo-strategical) layers (?)
layers can have only one name, "belonging" to one player. E.g. some mountains name can only be one, and give its benefits only to one player. a tile may be labeled under different layers which could be of different players. In our example, the name of a single "Peek" can be of a different player. Each of them takes it corresponding benefits. Different layers benefits are cumulable, with or without a maximum.
Label building
When a explorer choose the "name this place" action, player will be given a menu with all available layers, plus a "custom" one. For sea layers, the Explorer should be on its shore. A caravel can give names to land, but it have to be on its coast.
For normal layers, the server would automatically show the tiles, unmodificable. Only known tiles will be labeled. Then it would propose a name, based on a proper nation-based simple toponomastical list without connection to the kind of land (e.g. "Florida Mountains", or "Tyrol Bay"). Player can change the name as he wants but color, font and other details of label will always betray the kind of layer to enemies, if terrain type is not self-sufficient; this way there's no point on choosing disorienting names.
For custom layer, player can choose manually the tiles (of all kind), but they have to be adjacent.
Label production cost
Turn cost should vary deeply, but may be fixed for some of the above cases:
- single tile: 1 turn (of course calculate a proper multiplier for LongTurn)
- terrain type layer: 2 turns
- general land type: 3 turns
- island/continent: 4 or more turns
- river layer: 2 turns
- custom layer: amount should be calculated by some algorythm which takes in account number of tiles, number of different terrain kind involved, etc. and keep it quite high, in order to discourage it.
Only known tiles can be labeled. A name can be extended if more suitable (and non-labeled) land is discovered later, and this could be .automatically or should be done manually at a fixed minimum "price" of 1 turn.
Label change
Of course, name can be "changed" (i.e., they change to enemy side) under some conditions. The condition is the new player should know all tiles labeled. Then, its explorer should build a "name change", and would take an amount of turns proportional to the original cost, but maybe doubled. "Change to original name" action would take less. Or: each time one "change name" the cost is increased, each time is reverted to original, it doesn't change, so a war of names (how many times we saw it in real history?) would gradually increase its cost while being always relatively less expensive for the original owner of the "copyright".
Names may be subject of diplomacy.
If possible, one player can "merge" a enemy name to another one, for example if he founds that enemy already gave a name to the other half of a river he already labeled when he only knew his side. A double name for a river should be avoided, thus the merging action, which would be still expensive, would be at least not reversable.
Enemies can't see labels unless they know one tile or a percentage of its tiles. At least for a tile, fog of war DOES count (you can get back to a remote island and find that someone else gave a name to it). In order to see enemy custom layers, which grant specific military/strategical benefits (to be discussed a part), one have to know all his tiles. This would encourage the creation of "strait", "isthmus", "channel", "pass", "archipelagus", "peninsula" labels without fear of giving too much details to enemies.
If labeled land is altered and label can't be no more applied to one of its tiles (terrain alteration), label is restricted to the biggest surviving portion of still suitable tiles.
There's more:
Once conquered a enemy city, the tile (i.e. city) name still is owned by the original player, and must be properly changed in order to delete his diplo/visibility/whichever benefits. (Note that according to what previously told, changing a city name is expensive, while reverting to original would be less)
Turn cost is proportional to city size. If you don't have a settler/explorer handy, you can still change city production to the "Change city name", which would cost some shields, proportionally to size.
If a city is destroyed, the label remains, as "ruins".
Cities may be found on enemy labeled single tiles (including ruins), but have to assume its name. They also can be found on enemy labeled layers, with all the disadvantage of the case. On the other hand, one can name layers with some enemy cities on them, with great benefits.
City may also "build" names to layers they are built upon, and this should also cost some little shields. In order to do this, city should own some proper facilities, each giving access to a upper-level layer, e.g. libraries and universities - or harbour for sea... Or it could be cost zero and automatical: when builded a library, the terrain type layer would be given the name of the city, same with the general kind terrain layer and university, ocean with the harbour... ocean+deep ocean for the port...
Wonders could work like this, but for island/continent or oceans.
About terrain recognition
It would really interesting to have some code which recognizes and describe some simple features in a world map, depending of course on the generator used.
I guess there's no problem in recognizing a pangea, an island or a continent, a inner sea/lake, a closed ocean, or THE ocean.
It could be tougher when it comes to: peninsulas, subcontinents (such as Africa, Eurasia and both of Americas), connected oceans/seas, isthmuses, channels/straits, gulfs/bays, or group of repeated features (archipelagos, groups of mountains/lakes/peninsulas etc.). If some piece of code could do this, then we could have a map of features available to be given a name by players (forced or encouraged to) or automatically.
What would you like to see in Freeciv? Do you have a good idea what should be improved or how?
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A new league campaign kicked off last Sunday with top billing going to Rushen Utd against Douglas Royal.
Two bursts of genius from Rushen Utd's Anna Dillon and two goals from Eleanor Gawne paved the way for the southerners and ensure they started their league campaign in perfect style, beating their old adversaries 2-1.
You have to go as far back to the 2002-03 season when Royal last recorded a league win at Croit Lowey. Although both teams were showing nerves it was Royal who were sharper and determined from the outset and looked to upset the form book, Bekki Cole thrusting a shot straight at Ozga's body with Johnson coming close for Rushen Utd following a corner, Kerri Williams pulling off an excellent save. Royals were deserving of their 1-0 lead after 14 minutes when Donna Shimmin fashioned a move on the left goal line, teeing up Bekki Cole to slot home from close range.
Rushen looked for inspiration and it come from one of their new recruits, Anna Dillon, who single handedly created the equalising goal. A quick burst of pace from Dillon sliced apart the Royals' defence like a gourmet slicing apart his Sunday roast which resulted in her tumbling in the opposing box and referee Alan Cowin awarded a penalty. Eleanor Gawne made no mistake from the spot, driving it into the bottom right corner.
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Gymnasium currently top the Isle of Man women's league thanks to a 4-0 win over Ramsey at the Ballacloan stadium. Dawn Quinn broke through into the six yard box to open the scoring with Suzie Maiden reacting to a goalkeeping save to fire home from the edge of the penalty area for Gymnasium's second. Quinn made it 3-0 in the second half after beating a couple of players to fire home with Rachel Beckley put in the clear to score Gymnasium's fourth.
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What exactly is the difference between the internal and external martial arts?
While I certainly can provide no definitive answer, I thought it might be helpful to share a bit of what I've learned in my experience with the Chinese internal martial arts, and particularly the distinction between jìn (勁) and lì (力).
First of all, an important linguistic note from native Chinese speaker & master taijiquan practitioner, Zhang Yun's article on Li & Types of Jin in Taijiquan.
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I have been travelling a lot these days.. yes i have been.. in the local trains.. in ricks.. in buses.. that sums up the quintessential life i have been living off late.. anyways the point is I have been enjoying the ride more than anything else.. yes more than even the lectures at my MBA college.. know how!!!!
1. I get to dry my hair without using the dryer which had started ruining my hair. Sit in the rick for the medium dry hair look and then tie it up else for the totally rock-star look trains r the best. But then this works for my curls.. you can fuh-get it if you are used to blow drying.
2. I finish reading 2-3 books in just 3 days down..all thanx to the Andheri traffic and sometimes the ever so fast trains.
3. I get the latest on-going gossip and songs in the ladies dabba.. that saves the gruesome task of reading Mumbai Mirror and downloading not-so-happening songs from the net.
4. If you are an atheist.. try having a conversation with the woman next to you in the bus/train who's reading a Hanuman Chalisa.. chances are you will start doing the "upwas" from the next day.
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6 Easy and Engaging Ideas for Passive Programming
You want to provide your patrons with engaging programming that will pique their interest and inspire them to return to the library again and again. But, let's face it — sometimes budget and time constraints prevent your awesome ideas from ever seeing the light of day. After all, it's likely you don't have much time (or staff) to spare, and there might not be much left in your budget to bring in presenters or buy supplies. It can also be a challenge to get patrons in the library at a specific time and date.
So what can you do? Passive programming can be just as effective, not to mention much more economical, and requires very little time commitment. Because these programs are unsupervised and available during all library hours, patrons can discover them while they are perusing the library on their own schedules. Read on for some creative, cost-effective ways to capture your patrons' interest that require minimal effort on your part.
1. StickTogether™
This fun, collaborative activity is perfect for patrons of all ages. Display the poster grid on a wall or bulletin board and place the color key and colored stickers nearby, along with the instructions. Patrons can add stickers to the poster at their leisure. When completed, the result is a beautiful mosaic made out of stickers.
2. Coloring Corner
Coloring is not just for kids anymore! Adult coloring has become immensely popular, making coloring the perfect intergenerational activity for your library. Set up a coloring corner and provide supplies for all ages, including adult and children's coloring pages, markers, colored pencils and crayons. Check out Upstart's line of Color Craze resources for bookmarks, stickers, coloring sheets and more to add to your selection.
3. Interactive Displays
Create displays that encourage patrons to get involved. Here are some ideas:
- Book Club Bulletin Board: Encourage patrons to share their comments about a book they loved by writing them on provided note cards or Upstart's Book Review Cards and posting them to a bulletin board under the heading "Books We Couldn't Put Down."
- Question of the Week Bulletin Board: On a bulletin board, ask patrons a book- or library-related question. Provide colorful sticky notes for patrons to display their answers on the board.
- What book character would you love to have dinner with?
- What book changed your life?
- What do you love about the library?
- Who is your all-time favorite book character?
- What is your favorite childhood memory from the library?
- What book made you cry?
- What book have you read more than once (and how many times have you read it?)
- Book Spine Poetry: Leave a selection of books out on a table, along with instructions for book spine poetry. Challenge patrons to create their own poems with the books! Encourage them to take pictures of their poems and tag your library's social media.
- Favorite Places to Read: Title a bulletin board "Where Do YOU Like to Read?" Have patrons post snapshots of their favorite reading spots. Encourage participation by offering a prize (such as a gift certificate for a local business) for the most unique reading spot.
- Blind Book Display: Set up a display of books that are wrapped in decorative paper so that patrons can't see the titles. Depending on the time of year, you might title the display "Book a Blind Date!" (Valentine's Day), "Are You Feeling Lucky?" (St. Patrick's Day), "A Book Is a Gift You Can Open Again and Again" (December), or simply "It's a Mystery!" Your checkout system may be able to read the bar code through the wrapping, allowing patrons to leave the book unwrapped until they get home.
- A Sense of Community: On a bulletin board, ask patrons what additions they would like to see in your community. Invite them to post their suggestions on sticky notes on the board. Share any popular ideas with your local chamber of commerce or city council.
- Vote for Favorites: Set up a display of books according to a theme (books that have been made into movies, suspenseful books, stories about animals, etc.). Provide note paper and a decorated box, and have patrons vote on their favorite book from that category. Display the results after a set period of time.
- Timely Trivia: Create a bulletin board titled "Did You Know?" with questions about timely events, such as the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Post trivia questions about the event on the front of folded pieces of paper. Write the answers on the inside of the fold so patrons can lift the flap to see the answers.
4. Puzzles/Games
Old-fashioned puzzles and board games are a great way to get patrons to spend more time in the library. Put a puzzle out on a table along with a sign inviting patrons to jump in and work on the puzzle. Another idea is to create a game corner in the library. Display a couple of board games on tables, along with the instructions, and provide several more games on a shelf nearby. Be sure to provide games for a range of ages, such as Candy Land, Guess Who?, Apples to Apples, checkers, chess and Monopoly.
5. Craft Stick Bookmarks
Next to a sign inviting patrons to make their own bookmarks, set out craft sticks, markers and/or paint, glue and decorations such as stick-on googly eyes, small stickers, beads, small pompoms, scrapbook paper, etc.
6. Favorite Place in the State
Partner with your state's tourism office to provide brochures, maps, guide books and more as part of a display titled, "Where's Your Favorite Place in Our State?" Have patrons post pictures or post sticky notes of their favorite places to visit, and create a display of travel books relating to your state.
For more great passive programming ideas, check out Demco's Passive Programming Pinterest Board.


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Everyone has a lamp shade that has seen better days. Instead of tossing it, why not head down to your paint store, grab some stirrers and give your shade a new lease on life.
Lamp shade – you want a fabric lampshade that has a wire frame underneath, unfortunately paper shades won't work for this. Also, the more cylindrical the better.
Paint Stirrers – Get these at any paint shop, they'll often give them away for free since they have their name printed on them. Just make sure that one side is blank.
Glue or glue gun
Strip the fabric off to get down to the wire frame. It should all peel off pretty easily.
I wanted my stirrers to come down beyond the wire frame a little, so to make things easy, I found a vase that would lift the frame off the table about and inch and just rested the shade on it. Definitely not necessary, you can rest the frame on your work surface and have a nice flush edge as well.
Start gluing your stirrers on, one at a time. I used a glue gun since it sets immediately and I was in a hurry. Hot glue doesn't always hold that well to metal, so if you go this route, use lots of hot glue. If you have time on your hands use a slower setting glue (like E6000) that works on wood and metal and just be patient and hold each in place until it's set. If you have a logo on your sticks, obviously make sure that's on the inside.
Resting the bottom of the stirrer on the table insures that your shade bottom will be even. Depending on how tapered your shade is, you're going to want to leave a little space between each stick. I left slightly more room at the bottom than the top between sticks to accommodate for the taper. When you get to the last 4 or 5 sticks, hold them up in place and judge spacing. You might need to put the last few in with a little more or less space between them so that it looks consistent and you're not left with a gap that needs half a stick. When you're done, feel free to stain or seal it with a coat of polyacrylic. Personally, I like the natural raw wood – keeps it true to it's origins.


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1. Re: Seam 3 : Security Modulelightguard Dec 19, 2011 4:09 PM (in response to mjhazbri)
Have you read the docs, or looked at the examples? They may not be specifically pinpointed at Web Services, but they will still apply. The main thing is you'll want to enable the security interceptor and then create your bindings and annotate the methods / classes you need with those security bindings.
2. Re: Seam 3 : Security Modulemjhazbri Dec 20, 2011 11:06 AM (in response to mjhazbri)
But me i told an example for making this Component with with JSF2 and EJB3.1 and CDI, like what should i write in JSF page and how this circulate between JSF and EJB3.1, thinks a lot !
3. Re: Seam 3 : Security Modulelightguard Dec 20, 2011 3:19 PM (in response to mjhazbri)
We don't have an example at the moment. If you would like to create a JIRA feature request, please do.


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Stolen picture used on a billboard in another country
Danielle innocently scans holiday card of her family, posts picture to facebook and her blog and a friend notices it used on a billboard advertising a grocery store in the Czech Republic.
No doubt this goes on all the time and sometimes through chance it's caught. The assumption of the folks who steal the pictures is that if you reuse them in another country the odds of someone familiar with them finding out will be low to nil. But, now that the world is much more connected the odds of someone on facebook with friends in other countries means the odds change and this is an example of that.
I see an idea for a new web site: a lost and found for images. Photographers can post images there that they know have been stolen and folks who see images like this can post pictures of the stolen pictures in use. Hopefully the site would have a way for these two posts to match up. Of course, thieves might troll this web site looking for images. Gad.
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Yesterday, Microsoft issued an emergency patch for Windows to protect against new vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown. Apple made a public statement about the flaws and they're essentially telling customers not to worry. Though many Macs, iPads, and iPhones with Intel-based processors are vulnerable, the Mac maker wants users to know several of their platforms have already been patched. They also noted that the Apple Watch is not vulnerable. For the amount of press this topic has been getting, Apple's response seems kind of unenthusiastic.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 7 seconds Welcome back. The goal in this tutorial video is to learn how to use the Iterative Closest Point method to fit a statistical model to a target mesh, and also retrieve correspondences while doing so. So let's start immediately by loading a target mesh that we would like to fit in our model, and display it in the scene. And here, we see this familiar face now that you know, with its original nose. And since we know we want to use also our face model to actually fit to this target, we can now also load our model and display it in the scene.
Skip to 0 minutes and 46 seconds And as you can see here, now we have our model that is loaded behind the target face, and we have an instance of the model that is the mean face that is still far away from our target mesh. And the goal in this video now is to try to find an instance out of this model that is similar to our target, and in this case, without having correspondences.
Skip to 1 minute and 8 seconds So since we are searching for correspondences, I here selected or preselected a few characteristic points that are easily identifiable, that I store here in the file called icpLandmarks.json. And I load them using the LandmarkIO object. And then I simply add them to the model in the scene. And you see it here that now we have these landmarks that are added that are at points that are easily identifiable. So we have points at the for example corner of the eyes, at the tip of the nose, the corners of the mouth, and also here, easily identifiable points on the ears. And the goal now is actually to try to find correspondences for these points on our target mesh.
Skip to 1 minute and 55 seconds So the question now is, how can we find these correspondences? Well, the simple way the Iterative Closest Point method suggests is actually to attribute the closest point as candidate correspondences. So if we now go back to our scene and visualise the position of our clicked points, these blue ones that are clicked on the mean of the face and visualise their position with regard to our target mesh, what the Iterative Closest Point method would suggest is for every one of these blue points now to attribute a candidate correspondence, that is now the closest point on this mesh to this point here, to this blue point here.
Skip to 2 minutes and 36 seconds And if we now try to translate this method into code, then we can do this as I do here, by first defining this attribute correspondences method. So this is now a method that takes as argument a sequence of 3D points, and these are now the blue points that we clicked on the model. And then we transmit a sequence also of corresponding points that are now points that will be, or should be points that are on the target mesh.
Skip to 3 minutes and 8 seconds And the way this works is by simply now looping over the sequence of given points, and then for every one finding the closest point on the target mesh– so this is done by calling this findClosestPoint method, that is a method of the triangle mesh in Scalismo, and then retrieving the point position of this closest point. And what I did here is then simply apply this method to the blue points, the characteristic points that I loaded from file, and then display their corresponding points, according to this rather simple method.
Skip to 3 minutes and 38 seconds And if I now go back to the scene and colour these suggested correspondences as you can see here– So you see that to every one of these points here, we found again this candidate correspondence that is the closest point. And if I try to see where these points do actually lie on the target mesh, you see that we have a more or less OK initialisation for our correspondence, so a few points are more or less at the good positions, like for example the corners of the mouth here, the corner of the eye, for example. But if you now look at the tip of the nose here, for example, we're still a bit far away.
Skip to 4 minutes and 20 seconds And also here, for example, at the ear area, we still have quite some work to do. So this is an OK initialisation with this basic method, but we're still far away from the correspondences that we would like to have. Now, the idea behind this Iterative Closest Point method is to say even though we don't have such perfect correspondences, we nevertheless can use them in a Gaussian Process regression method. And hopefully, the idea is that when we do that, we actually get corresponding points to our blue points that are in the model fit that are hopefully at the better position than these candidates correspondences.
Skip to 5 minutes and 3 seconds So before we do that, I would like first to visualise this deformation field, or partial deformation field that we're going to be feeding to the Gaussian Process regression method. So what I'm doing here is again, as we did quite often is I'm building a discrete vector field that is defined over the domain of the model points, and with values here that are the vectors pointing from the blue points to their candidate correspondences that are found with this closest point method. And if I now visualise this deformation field, you see that this is now the partial deformation that we're going to be feeding for our Gaussian Process regression, based on these again candidate correspondences.
Skip to 5 minutes and 51 seconds So now that we have our partial deformation field, we can plug it into our Gaussian Process regression framework using the posterior method, as we did before. And what I do here is I define now this fit model method that you see here, because I intend now to be calling this regression face iteratively, in the later phase of this tutorial. What this method now here, fit model does is it takes as a first argument now a sequence of point identifiers, and these are now the identifiers of the blue points that you see here. So these are the identifiers of these points on the mean mesh of our model.
Skip to 6 minutes and 31 seconds And it also takes as a second argument a set of point positions, 3D point positions, that are the candidate correspondences that we observed, and these would be in this case these orange point positions that you see here. And what we do then is we simply build our training data, as we saw previously, which is again this triplet consisting of a point identifier that is coming from our given list, the corresponding point position that is observed that is also given to us in this candidate correspondences, and then also this noise parameter that specifies the certainty. And here I define the nose parameter up, here with a one millimetre variance on the diagonal.
Skip to 7 minutes and 17 seconds And then once we have this training data, we again call this posterior method to obtain a posterior model. And the special thing about this method here is that instead of returning the posterior, now we are just returning the mean of this posterior, because we're actually interested in the mesh, or the most probable mesh according to this observed data. And what I do is I simply now apply this method to the identifiers of the points that I loaded from file. So these are, again– the identifiers are these blue points on the model, and the candidate correspondences that we found with this find closest point method that we applied before, and then simply displaying the result of this fit in the scene.
Skip to 8 minutes and 6 seconds So if we now look in the 3D scene at our fit that resulted from this observed deformation field, and especially if you observe now the position of these orange points on this target fit, you notice that they are not quite exactly at the characteristic points that we chose, right? So the tip of the nose, for example, is not exactly where it should be. And this is because the model actually didn't exactly fit the candidate correspondences that we proposed, but instead has got close to these positions.
Skip to 8 minutes and 39 seconds And if we in fact now want to see where the actual corresponding points to our blue points of our model are in this fit, then we can execute now this part of the code here, where simply for the point identifiers of these blue points that I had before, I simply loop on them and then for every identifier I locate the 3D position of this identifier using the point method of the triangle mesh class. So I locate it on this fit, and then I simply display the set of points there. And if I now go back to the 3D scene, you see that these points now are again where they actually should be. So let's colour them maybe pink.
Skip to 9 minutes and 25 seconds So these are again at the points that are the characteristic positions for which we want to find the correspondences. And if we now have a look again at their position with regard to our target mesh and look from the inside here, you see that we actually got much closer now to the target mesh. And again, the difference here with regard to the previous situation that we had with the orange points is that these are now real correspondences. These are no longer candidate correspondences, but real correspondences given by our model. And now we have a much better starting point that is closer to our model.
Skip to 10 minutes and 5 seconds So if we were now to iterate this whole operation again, we would have a much better starting point. And hopefully, we can find better candidate correspondences. So let's now see what happens when we do this same procedure repeatedly. What I'm doing here is I'm defining a recursive function, called here recursion, that at every iteration takes two parameters. Here it takes first this number of remaining iterations, and it also takes a current positions of the points based on which we would like to do a fitting.
Skip to 10 minutes and 40 seconds And for example here, in the first iteration of when we call this function recursively, we would typically feed it the positions of these blue points here that are the initial positions of the points for which we would like to find correspondences in our model. And now that we have these current positions, what we do is we do what we did– pretty much the same thing that we did previously. So we first find candidat correspondences using this attribute correspondence method that if you remember now finds closest points to these points on the target mesh. And then we perform a Gaussian Process regression based on these candidate correspondences, which gives us a triangle mesh or a candidate fit out of the model.
Skip to 11 minutes and 27 seconds And then based on this fit, we're actually now retrieving the new position of our characteristic points on this fit, as we did before. And this would be now, for example, the equivalent of these pink points that we displayed before on our fitted mesh, except that now we're doing this repeatedly, so once at every iteration, and we're actually displaying now the position of these points at every iteration. And then if I have still iterations left, then here, first of all, I sleep in the thread, in order for us to be able to follow in the 3D scene what happens. And then I call this recursive function again, with now this new position of the points.
Skip to 12 minutes and 9 seconds So now in this case here, I would call now the recursion with this new position where the past current points would be now the position of these pink points that you see here. So let's now run our recursion for five iterations, and starting from the mean point from the loaded landmark positions, the initial blue points, and see what happens in the 3D scene. So if we follow now this point here that is close to the ear, you see that at every iteration of our recursion we are actually getting corresponding points that are getting closer and closer to the corresponding point on the target mesh, which should be more or less somewhere in this region here.
Skip to 12 minutes and 52 seconds So of course, we might not necessarily reach it with this little number of candidate correspondences, and also with this little number of iterations. But you see here, hopefully, this gives you the intuition that with this iterative method we're actually heading in the right direction. And in fact, if I now display here, you see that in red, the position of the final iteration. So this would be iteration five. You see that actually, also here we did move more or less, or slightly towards the right direction. So let's now do this same, exactly the same operations, with now much more points.
Skip to 13 minutes and 39 seconds So what I'm doing here now is instead of taking these characteristic few points, I'm now sampling uniformly on my mean mesh 5,000 point positions. And I'm taking the 3D coordinates of these points, and then also now displaying them in the scene. And if I go back to the scene and maybe clean up a bit–
Skip to 14 minutes and 7 seconds You see that now I have sampled uniformly these points that actually these are not points from the sampled ones. So the points that are actually on the mean mesh, these are now the new sample points for which I would like now to perform an Iterative Closest Point method. And what I'm doing now is I'm doing exactly the same operation as we did before. So first, identifying or retrieving the point identifiers for these points, and then defining a recursive method to perform this Iterative Closest Point fitting, that again has pretty much the same operation as the previous recursions.
Skip to 14 minutes and 50 seconds So we actually find the closest point to every one of these 5,000 points, and then do a model fitting based on this partial deformation field that we get. The only difference here is that now instead of following the position of the new corresponding points, I'm now instead displaying the fit that I'm getting at every step, which is now the mean of the posterior that I get at every iteration of this iterative closest point. And then once I define now this recursion here, I can now run it, again starting from the initially sampled points, so the initial 5,000 points that I sampled on my mean, and now for 10 iterations.
Skip to 15 minutes and 34 seconds So now before we run this recursion for 10 iterations on our target, let's first start by colouring this target mesh in our scene, such as we can more easily track what is happening during the iterations.
Skip to 15 minutes and 51 seconds And now, let's run again now this recursive method that we defined, again, based on the initial sample point, and now for 10 iterations.
Skip to 16 minutes and 4 seconds Let's see the results. So here you will see that at every iteration, we actually get now a model instance that is getting closer and closer to our target mesh. And you see that at every iteration, pretty much the same way that every point was adapting and getting into better position, here all of our 5,000 points that we sampled are getting to better and better positions, which ultimately yields a better fit of our model to this target mesh.
Skip to 16 minutes and 34 seconds So you see that we get a very, very similar instance of our model to our target, as you can guess somehow by this overlaying of the colours that you see here in the meshes.
Skip to 16 minutes and 47 seconds So you see that using this simple and intuitive Iterative Closest Point method, we manage actually to fit our statistical model to the target mesh, and also obtain correspondences by doing so. I now encourage you to check the companion document to this tutorial video, and give it a try for yourself.
Model fitting with Iterative Closest Points
Here, we finally get to learn how to establish correspondences in Scalismo.
Using the Iterative Closest Point (ICP) method, we start by establishing correspondences for a few characteristic points between the model and a target face mesh. We then move on to establish correspondence for many more points and obtain, doing so, a model instance which fits our target mesh.
Each tutorial video is followed by a companion document that you will find in the consecutive Scalismo Lab step.
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"David 'Dave' Glyn Griffiths Was born July 31st 1995 In Bangor, North Wales, UK. Growing Up on Rock Music, Horror Films, Cigarettes and More Rock music, he someday aspires to be a Musician. His biggest influences in the music world include:
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It was in mid 2009, i baught With Teeth, It was a great record, sorry, IS a great record, bying that album sprked my huge interest in the bands music, The Halo numbers and all that stuff, reading up on wikipedia took a while but it was worth it. A Few weeks later i went to buy The Downward Spiral, In my opinion not as great as With Teeth but some top tracks like, Heresy. These days im a massive fan, hence joining NinWiki. I'd say my favrioute Nails tracks now are:
My Favrioute record would be The Slip.
Ive joined NinWiki becuase i want to be a part of the Nine Inch Nails Community. I Hope some day to be put up as an administrator for the Wiki. Id say most of my knowledge is surrounded around Trent Reznor and the Band, i know alot of these 2.