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PAUL HUMPHREYS: The OMD 40th Anniversary Interview
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Paul Humphreys and Andy McCluskey were two lads from The Wirral who creatively realised their passion for European electronic music following the purchase of a Korg M500 Micro-Preset synthesizer.
Having formed a more conventional outfit called THE ID, they grew frustrated with the band format and felt they could better pursue their more experimental leanings inspired by their love of KRAFTWERK, NEU! and LA DÜSSELDORF as a duo.
Backed by a TEAC tape recorder named Winston owned by Paul Collister who became their first producer and manager, Humphreys and McCluskey played their first gig as ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK at Liverpool's Eric's in Autumn 1978. Roger Eagle who ran the club liked what he heard, leading to more gigs and visits to other cities.
Eventually the single 'Electricity' b/w 'Almost' was released in June 1979 on Manchester's Factory Records, housed in a black-on-black thermographed sleeve designed by Peter Saville illustrating the two songs as avant garde music notation. Gary Numan heard the single at his label Beggars Banquet and the rest as they say is history…
With OMD currently on a huge world tour to celebrate their 40th Anniversary, Paul Humphreys took time out to speak from California about their past, present and future…
Who'd have thought when you were recording 'Electricity' in Paul Collister's garage, you'd still be doing it after 40 years!?
I still find it utterly amazing and rather fantastic that after 40 years, OMD is still alive and well, selling out big tours and making what even our harshest critics consider to be relevant new records. We've said this many times but we really only planned to do one concert at Eric's club in Liverpool in 1978, as kind of a dare to each other.
So it was the series of chance meetings of important people that followed that led to an incredible series of doors opening for us that led the way to our success, probably the most important of which was Tony Wilson at Factory Records. We considered ourselves an art project, Tony saw us as pop music. Time then proved that we could actually end up being both. I remember a confused executive at Virgin Records once saying, "What exactly are you trying to be, Stockhausen or Abba?" We said, "Can't we be both?"
When was the moment you thought OMD might have legs, was it the Gary Numan tour, signing to Dindisc or was it much further in?
It took us a long while before we realised that OMD could actually have a future. We tried not to believe some of our friends on the Wirral who thought we were a bit crap and thought we made weird and mostly unnaccessible music, and in the back of our minds we always thought "hmmm… perhaps they are right…" to the point where after we signed a 7 album record deal, we still budgeted for failure by spending nearly all of our signing on advance money, building a modern studio in the centre of Liverpool.
The deal we signed with them, gave them the right to terminate at any time, yet we couldn't, so our rational was to at least have a recording studio as a viable business, if and when Dindisc / Virgin ripped up the contract.
I think it was when we stood on the stage at Top of the Pops for the first time, playing 'Messages', that we had a little inkling that maybe, just maybe, we are doing something good…
But yes you mentioned Gary Numan. We love Gary and he did give us a massive opportunity to play on big stages, frighteningly big stages for 2 kids who weren't even 20 years old!
At that time we couldn't have dreamed that only a few years later, we would be playing the very same stages but this time as the headline act selling them out. I saw Gary only recently when he played a fantastic concert at the Royal Albert Hall, and after we had a little reminisce about what a fantastic tour that was, don't forget that for Gary, that was his first major tour too, which went on to define him as a fantastic live artist.
It's not like OMD has stood still. After a tentative recorded return, 'English Electric' in 2013 was perhaps stylistically the album that many had been waiting for since 1984, how do you look back on it all now?
It was a scary thing making a new OMD album after so much time had passed. We hit a point where we had had several years of touring since we all got back together. The touring was very successful, and it was wonderful to be touring with Andy, Martin and Mal again (and now of course with Stuart) and we really enjoyed taking picks from our career catalogue, and playing the whole of 'Architecture & Morality' live was so much fun.
But, after several years of this, we thought, is this it? Do we really want to just be considered a retro band just trading on our former glories? Don't get me wrong, for some bands that's absolutely fine and in no way am I criticising them for doing it because songs are like little time capsules and when you play them people are transported back to the time they were released and remember the people they were at that time and they people they were with, and associated feelings, events and emotions of the time. That is essentially the power of music, and we recognise this, and we really really love playing and picking songs from our big catalogue.
So why not just give new songs a try, after all moving forward and looking to the future was the band's original remit? So, without announcement we went back into the studio to just see if we still had something relevant to say, in the voice of OMD.
'History Of Modern' was the album that we look back on as getting the OMD engine running again, and I think it has some really great tracks on it. It certainly was very well received by fans and critics alike.
For me, despite the fact that I think it's a great first offering after many years, it doesn't quite have the sonic and stylistic cohesion that 'English Electric' or ''The Punishment of Luxury' has, I think largely to do with the fact that the songs were selected from the ideas we'd both had collected over several years independently and we worked them up together. We did try being very modern sending ideas to each other via the internet and working independently as I live in London and Andy lives on the Wirral.
But you had a bit of a re-think?
When we realised that it really didn't work to our satisfaction, we changed the way we worked for the following 2 albums, kind of going back to how we used to write and create in the very beginning, being in the same room at the same time throwing ideas into it and seeing what happened…
There is no replacement for that, it sounds bloody obvious really as its most creative way to interact, so now we mainly write up in Andy's house and finish, overdub and mix in my studio in London.
'The Punishment Of Luxury' album maintained the standard, audiences didn't think you could get any more electronic but you did!
Yes, 'The Punishment Of Luxury' was a definite return to our original roots. In deciding to play some of 'Dazzle Ships' at the Museum of Liverpool and the whole of 'Dazzle Ships' at the Royal Albert Hall, we found the preparation for them utterly fascinating.
We needed access to, and to be able to deconstruct our original recordings to retrieve all the mad radio samples and FX that were so randomly generated at the time as they couldn't possibly be recreated, and, in listening to these old recordings in their multi-track form, we realised just how simple and how very electronic they were. It was a real 'eye opener' to be honest, and therefor made the remit for 'POL', to try to go back to a "less is more" philosophy, the discipline to be as simple and as electronic as we could make it yet also trying to sound 'modern'…
You made good use of the Omnisphere VST on 'Isotype', what are your preferred creative tools these days?
We made almost the entire last 2 albums completely in the box so to speak, inside the computer with Protools using a lot of modelled analogue synths from the early days such as the Jupiter 8, Prophet 5, Virus, ARP etc, but also using new synths that have never previously existed in the physical world that provided colours and sounds that we found new and inspirational, namely the Omnisphere (great for melody sounds such as the one in 'Isotype') and also Waves have a great synth / sequencer called Element which we used extensively.
The problem these days is that there are so many sound possibilities that unless you're really careful, you can get so completely lost in your choices and exhaust yourself exploring all those possibilities, you can forget the initial goal which is to write a good song! We call this 'the tyranny of choice'. These days we find it important to reduce the choices by deciding on a sound palate, in the same way a painter decides his colour palate for a particular painting.
For 'POL' for instance, we decided that we should only use small electronic sounding drums and percussion, and only drew from that palate… between us Andy and I literally have a library of thousands of kick drums and thousands of snare drums, unless you reduce that into small categories, you're completely lost.
The live set-up has changed from Roland Fantoms X8s to Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S88s, how have those been to use on tour?
Yeah, when we first got back together in 2006, Roland had a great synth / sampler out called a Fantom X8, so I sampled all of our sounds into that machine for myself and Martin to play, it took me months and months, I had to sample Mellotrons, Fairlights, organs, and sounds from all of our analogue synths we used to use.
Some of those early synths we had to find a re-buy from Ebay as we'd either lost them or they were broken beyond repair. There was a night when Andy and I were both bidding against each other on Ebay for the same synth, a Korg Micro Preset. Idiots! We could have got it for so much cheaper if we'd spoken on the phone first… DOH!
Anyway, the Fantoms got old, they started to develop problems, and Roland stopped making new ones.
One day Roland called to say they had a new version of Fantom called a G8 about to come out and asked if we wanted to try it out, I said great, can you talk me through how to export all my sounds into the new machine from the old? To which they replied, oh you can't do that, you'll have to resample everything… yeah sure, another 3 months' work… NOOO!
Not an option, so we kept buying Fantom X8s on Ebay to replace broken ones until THEY started to fail and finally decided to switch to a system that has built-in redundancy, the world of laptops and Native Instruments Kontakt running in MainStage. It still meant that we had to spend months importing all the sounds them into the new system, but for the last time!!! I have to confess something, we employed a tech geek to do it for us, I couldn't face doing it again myself!! *laughs*
Have you any thoughts on these hardware synth reissues like the Korg ARP Odyssey and Korg MS20 Mini, the new Prophets or those Behringer clones? Are they something that would interest you?
I think it's great that they are made available again, but they are not all exactly the same as the originals, most of the core engines and oscillators are different and are digitally controlled. I'm actually more interested in new hardware synths that I've never used. I'm gonna buy an Arturia MatrixBrute when the tour is over, it has a fascinating and versatile modulation matrix with a brilliant sequencer. I have a friend who owns one and is total love with it. I also want to buy a Moog, the Moog One Poly looks amazing but it's like £6k I think… ouch! Amazingly, we've never owned a Moog. Not sure why really, we were more drawn to Roland, Korg and Sequential Circuits synths as they seemed more suited to our needs.
While there were classic styled OMD songs like the title track, 'One More Time' and 'What Have We Done?', there were more harder rigid numbers like 'Robot Man' and 'Art Eats Art'?
As with all our albums, we like to remove ourselves from our comfort zone and explore new ways of writing songs, experimentation is our remit, and stylistic repetition can become boring, it's very easy to fall into "Verse, Bridge, Chorus, repeat, then Middle 8, then Chorus to fade" arrangements of songs… sometimes that works fine, but I think we fell into that trap a little too much in the mid-80s. 'Art Eats Art', is basically a list of our favourite artists, designers etc. played over a tough electro track that's bonkers and follows no standard arrangement format, as many of the songs on ''The Punishment of Luxury' and 'English Electric' do.
The 40th Anniversary 'Souvenir' tour is coming up, have you got a large pool of songs ready to perform depending on which territory OMD visits?
Yeah, there will be some surprises on the tour, it's hard with so much to choose from, but we're also limited by the amount of available time for all of us to programme and rehearse things that we've hardly ever or even never played before. There will be a few lovely surprises though! Can't say anything else ?
And yes we do play a different show in other territories and that makes things a little more complicated for us. America didn't properly accept OMD until 'Junk Culture' times and songs like 'If You Leave', 'Dreaming', 'So in Love', 'Secret' are really huge in the USA and there would be a riot if we didn't play any of these, not so in Europe though.
The 2017 tour saw you bring in a pre-show online poll for fans to decide one song to perform out of a shortlisted three? How practical was that to implement as a band and will the system return?
We have no plans to do that on the next tour, it was kinda fun though and kept us on our toes every night, the crew didn't like it much though as all the computers for stage and screen images, had to all be reordered at the very last minute!!
You personally got involved in the Abbey Road remasters of the first four OMD albums released in 2018, how did you find that experience? Did it prompt any interesting memories for you?
It was an amazing experience to work in Abbey Road doing the mastering, and it did bring back a lot of memories. It was a bit stressful though, as there have been so many different versions / mixes and edits of all the songs, choosing the right ones wasn't an easy exercise!
Photo by Trevor Key
What was more interesting to me was for the 'Souvenir' box set extras, I found 22 unreleased songs / ideas which I mixed and compiled into one album.
It started by me going to the EMI archive near Heathrow, it's a temperature controlled vault, with a giant foot thick steel door with an enormous wheel that you spin to open it, like you see in movies. All THE BEATLES tapes are in there, Bowie, Stones etc. It's absolutely massive!
Everything OMD ever recorded is in there and I pulled out all the tapes I could find that I didn't recognise the title for.
It was difficult though as many times, we used working titles for songs that we've used that were changed at the last minute. I spent several days there taking tapes out and sending pictures of tape boxes to Andy for ideas and to jog each other's memories. I ended up taking out tapes from around 1980 to 1990 period.
The problem I also had is that tapes from that era degenerate and actually you can't actually play them now. The glue they used to put the oxide on the tapes starts to lose its stick so you have to bake the tapes in a special kiln oven to re-glue the oxide back on to the plastic tape, sounds completely mad I know, but it works!
So, I found 22 tracks, some of which are full songs and some are just experiments that were never developed, but I had great fun mixing them. I mixed them only using FX and E's that we would have used at the period, spring reverbs, crappy delays and Eventide Harmonisers. I had so much fun doing them and there are a couple of absolute gems in there! The big take away for me in this whole exercise was to see how we used to work, pre-computers.
We basically used to lay down 5 minutes of one idea, then when we wanted a change of chord, we'd drop in the new section on different tracks, so on the desk we'd have to hand mute the first idea so they wouldn't play together.
But of course I can't remember where to mute things now as I barely even remember the songs themselves, never mind what our vision was at the time, so I was left with a giant puzzle working out what tracks have to be on or off at certain points of the song… it was great fun, I hope you enjoy it…
In 2015, OMD did series of gigs featuring 'Dazzle Ships' and 'Architecture & Moraility'. As 2020 is the actual 40th Anniversary of the 'Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark' and 'Organisation' albums, are there any plans to do a similar type of special showcase?
I'm not so sure if we'll play those albums in their entirely again, but we do have some future 'specials' planned and one is actually booked… That's all I can say at this stage…
Would you consider trying to write a new song around the limited functions of the Korg Micro-Preset as a kind of "four decades on" experiment?
That would be an interesting experiment. Although the Micro-Preset was a totally limited synth and actually sounded pretty shit until you put the original signal through a long chain of FX processors, then it became an interesting synth. I think we may have already exhausted every possible sound that synth can ever make though!
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The 'Souvenir' 5CD + 2DVD deluxe boxed set is released on 4th October 2019 by Universal Music and can be pre-ordered from the OMD official store at https://store.omd.uk.com/collections/40th-anniversary/products/souvenir-5cd-2dvd-deluxe-boxset
OMD Souvenir 40th Anniversary 2019 – 2020 European + UK Tour, dates include:
Lisbon Aula Magna (15th October), Porto Casa da Musica (16th October), Madrid Riviera (19th October), Barcelona Apolo (21st October), Belfast Ulster Hall (23rd October), Dublin Olympia (24th October), Nottingham Royal Concert Hall (26th October), York Barbican (27th October), Hull Arena (28th October), Gateshead Sage (30th October), Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (31st October), Manchester Apollo (1st November), Sheffield City Hall (3rd November), Liverpool Empire (4th November), Birmingham Symphony Hall (5th November), Leicester De Montford Hall (7th November), Bath Pavilion (8th November), Oxford New Theatre (9th November), Guildford G Live (11th November), Portsmouth Guildhall (12th November), Watford Colosseum (13th November), Cambridge Corn Exchange (15th November), Ipswich Regent (16th November), Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion (17th November), Bournemouth Pavilion (19th November), London Hammersmith Apollo (20th November), Rostock Stadthalle (25th November), Dresden Kulturpalast (26th November), Leipzig Haus Auensee (28th November), Berlin Tempodrom (29th November), Hamburg Grosse Freiheit 36 (30th November), Berlin Tempodrom (2nd December), Stuttgart Leiderhalle (3rd December), Düsseldorf Mitsubishi Electric-Halle (5th December), Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle (6th December), Krakow Studio (3rd February), Warsaw Progresja (4th February), Oslo Rockefeller Musichall (7th February), Stockholm Berns (9th February), Malmo KB (10th February), Copenhagen Vega (12th February), Brussels Ancienne Belgique (14th February), Utrecht Tivoli (15th February), Paris La Cigale (16th February)
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Q: map a custom JavaScript model to a Knockout model with observables I receive a model from the server, and it is a (navigation)menu.
So it has 1 root item, with an array of menuitems. The root item also has a title.
the array of menuitems is an array of items with a title and an array of linkItems (objects with properties like controller, action, css etc.)
I have the same model in my knockout viewmodel, but then all the arrays and properties are observable arrays/strings/ints.
Now when I do this
vm.menuitems(menuitemsfromserver) I have a menu with an observable array, but all the items 'below' or 'lower' in the tree are 'normal' objects and not observables anymore.
I have seen the map method, but I can't make any sense of it.
The models are identical, the only difference is that one consists of observable(-arrays) and the other of plain javascript objects.

A: There is a plugin made especially for that case: http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/plugins-mapping.html
From its documentation:
// Every time data is received from the server:
ko.mapping.fromJS(data, viewModel);

All properties of an object are converted into an observable. If an update would change the value, it will update the observable.
Arrays are converted into observable arrays. If an update would change the number of items, it will perform the appropriate add/remove actions. It will also try to keep the order the same as the original JavaScript array.

In your case the code would look like:
ko.mapping.fromJS(menuitemsfromserver, vm.menuitems)

and it would iterate over all properties and all arrays of menuitemsfromserver and turn them into observables.
Plugin is not maintained actively lately, as seen here: https://github.com/SteveSanderson/knockout.mapping, but still, for that purpose, its a useful code.

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For The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2019: Axions? Phantom energy? Astrophysicists scramble to patch a hole in the universe, rewriting cosmic history in the process. Fermilab scientist Josh Frieman is quoted in this article.
The discovery of gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein in 1916, is now enabling important tests of the theory of general relativity, as well as beginning multimessenger astronomy: the combined observations of astrophysical phenomena using electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves and neutrinos. Barish will explore plans and prospects for gravitational-wave science.
From Scientific American, Jan. 30, 2019: Fermilab scientist Antonella Palmonese weighs in on a new method of determining the Hubble constant. The method uses data taken from the Fermilab-hosted Dark Energy Survey.
From Nature Reviews Physics, Jan. 28, 2019: The Dark Energy Survey completed its six-year-mission to map more than 300 million distant galaxies; however, an equally arduous task — analyzing the acquired 50 terabytes of data with a view to understanding the expansion of the universe — is just beginning.
From APS's Physics, Jan. 29, 2019: On Jan. 9, a handful of researchers with the Dark Energy Survey — one of the most ambitious attempts to probe the dynamics of the universe's expansion — headed to the control room of Chile's Blanco Telescope. For one last time, they opened the white telescope's dome. From their perch overlooking the red Andean Mountains, they set up for a night of observing the southern sky.
The coldest place in the Milky Way?
Chicago in January may feel like the coldest place in the universe, but it's colder at the South Pole. Scientists there are looking out into space and observing microwaves that have been traveling at the speed of light for 13.6 billion years. Once they were ultraviolet rays, but as the universe expanded, their wavelengths stretched, and they became blue, then red, then infrared (heat) and now they are microwaves, which you may have in an oven in your kitchen. Radio waves have even longer wavelengths.
From Gizmodo, Nov. 27, 2018: University of Portsmouth measure the Hubble constant using Dark Energy Survey data.
From Wired, Nov. 20, 2018: Scientists use Dark Energy Survey data to recalculate the Hubble constant.


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Q: What is the real benefit of using canvas for games? I'm currently reading up on the canvas, but I'm finding it hard to find practical benefits of using canvas, when a lot can be done using simple css overlays/JavaScript (+ jquery lib).
This is probably because I don't know the FULL practicalities of using canvas.
Looking at this game:
http://www.pirateslovedaisies.com/
Could someone help explain how and why canvas is being used as opposed to just css?

A: This is a 4k js/canvas demo I wrote to experiment with the 2d context (here is a video if your browser doesn't work). I tested it only on chrome, opera, firefox, safari and nexus one browser.
Note that no external resources are loaded (i.e. the texture and the raytraced envmap are built dynamically), so this is just a single self-contained 4096 bytes HTML file.
You can do something like that with DIVs?
But indeed I agree that the game you linked IMO could be done also with DIVs; apparently there are no transformations - not even in the falling daisy loading scene - and the action areas for the pirates are just circles. Not sure but could be that even shooting only happens at fixed angles.
Canvas could have been used instead for:

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*Drawing general sloped lines and polygons (the map could be created dinamically from a compact description or could have been generated randomly). Shooting could be done at any angle...

*Procedural image creation (e.g. textures or special pixel effects)

*Gradients, texture mapping

*General 2d matrix transforms

Of course a game using an image+DIVs approach is probably way easier to make (a lot of photoshop and simple xy animation).

A: Creating tons of HTML elements is extremely slow and memory-hungry. The canvas object is made for graphics operations and thus optimized for it. Besides that.. how would you draw a curve with plain HTML/CSS? ;)

A: Using <canvas> you have a per-pixel control of what's shown on the screen. You don't have to deal with specific browser CSS or DOM compatibility.
Also, that's actually a pretty similar programming model to 2D non-browser games, like those created using SDL o DirectDraw.

A: Here's a game I wrote in a few hours using Canvas; note that the scaling of the tiles, the anti-aliasing of the lines, is perfect. This would not be the case with image tiles that were being resized by the browser.
Click the tiles to rotate them in an attempt to make all connections. Click the row of buttons at the top for a new board of a different size; click the row of buttons below that for a new board with different numbers of connections.
The game concept is not mine, only the implementation.


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I attended Judith Supines solo premier show last night at his studio space in Bushwick BK entitled DIRT MANSION. Judith has been a personal favorite of mine for a while and I am lucky enough to be a friend of the genius/maniac/terrorist/artist. Judith show showed an amazing evolution from his street pieces to his firm grasp of creating a truly inspiring multi media environment. Entering the room I felt like I had arrived at some psychedelic botanical garden of sorts. I was blown away by the amount of work Judith had created for this show and the scale of the pieces. My photo's do not do this show justice as some of the panels and pieces are 20×10 feet in scale and some of the paneled walls being 30×20 feet in scale. It is simply something you need to see in person to fully understand. This show simply put was and is one of the best shows one man shows I have seen in a long time and in keeping with Judith's tradition of mania is a total representation of the space that Judith has created for himself in the underground art scene. Judith congrats your evolution is a beautiful thing to watch!
This piece is easily 25 feet tall and is simply amazing. It is the first piece you see upon entering the space and it is a prolouge of whats to come. Amazing piece!
This is rumored to be a portrait of me……This was pointed out by Judith's mother to me……..craze I am now officially a muse of sorts!
These are the panels I'm talking about……it's just amazing you have to see it in person to fully understand the magnitude of these pieces.
I have to say this show is just a must see. I was happily surprised that the entire show was sold before it opened which is a testament of Judith's ascent in the art world. The coolest thing is this show is hung in the environment that Judith creates in daily and where I first encountered him when I shot his sketch books for Supertouch blog a while ago. Judith's mystique is serious, the talent unquestionable and the genre beyond classification. It's my pleasure to watch Judith's growth and evolution and I have to say I love watching a friend achieve this amazing moment in his career. Congrats!
Now which one is Judith? Your guess is as good as the vandal squads!
Dirt Mansion show is @English Kills Art Gallery is located close to the Morgan Ave Station on the L train. Get off at the Morgan Ave stop and use the Bogart St. exit. Take a right down Bogart until you hit Flushing Ave. Go Left on Flushing until you hit Forrest St.(first right). The show is @ English Kills Art Gallery, 114 Forrest Street - alley entrance. I highly recomend what is quickly being hailed as the show of the year! Taking a page from Banksy and Faile and superceding the existing gallery structrue Juith on his own terms has achieved what many others are afraid to do empowering himself to create and show Judith's terms. I salute for one salute you!


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By SANDRA HARWITT - Associated Press - Saturday, February 22, 2014
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Venus Williams won her 45th career WTA title at the Dubai Championships in an impressive 6-3, 6-0 victory over Alize Cornet of France in the final on Saturday.
The 44th-ranked Williams, playing courtesy of a wild card, also won this title in 2009 and 2010. She's won her last 15 matches in Dubai.
Williams, who will move up to No. 29 in Monday's updated rankings, last won a title at the 2012 Luxembourg tournament.
"I have had a good week," she said. "Everything is falling together."
The former world No. 1, Williams won all five of her matches this week in straight sets.
"Just a lot of match toughness, mental toughness," said Williams, when asked to explain her remarkable week of play. "When things got tough, I definitely got going this week.
"If I was down break point, when push came to shove, I was pushing and shoving, I guess," she added, laughing.
The scoreline didn't indicate how strong an effort Cornet put into the final, often matching Williams stroke by stroke, but falling short in the end.
After Cornet squandered a 2-1 lead with a service break by losing the next four games, she was in tears during the changeover.
"I think 6-3, 6-0 is a bit tough in an hour and 30, so I guess there was a battle on the court, but she was just better than me today," Cornet said. "She was playing more aggressive.
"She was pushing me out of the court very far from the baseline, and I didn't play as deep as yesterday, didn't serve as well. She deserved to win."
Williams closed out the first set on a third set point with a clean backhand winner. In the second set, it was Williams all the way.
The 26th-ranked Cornet was attempting to post back-to-back wins over the Williams sisters.
On Friday, Cornet scored her first career upset over a No. 1-ranked player by beating Serena Williams 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals.
"The difference between me and Serena was just I put a few more balls in the court," Williams said.
But Cornet walked away hoping if she ever had a similar opportunity to play the Williams sisters in the same tournament the result might go in her favor.
"For sure, beating the Williams sisters in the same tournament would have been amazing, and maybe next time if I have the chance (I can) do it," said Cornet, offering her only smile of the night.
Capitals open Peter Laviolette's tenure with a win against Sabres
Nationals partner with BetMGM to develop in-stadium betting
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After living up to hype, Young says defense will be 'scary for years to come'
College to pros: a mixed bag of results for coaches making the jump in level
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Packers' LeFleur, Rams' McVay put aside bond in quests for Super Bowl title
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Trinity Rodman, daughter of NBA star Dennis Rodman, drafted by Washington Spirit
Georgetown basketball has two more games postponed after positive test
Wizards have third player test positive for coronavirus
Eagles request to interview Cowboys' Kellen Moore for coaching vacancy
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Direct and indirect product experiences
Research by Rebecca Hamilton
Direct experiences with products helps customers choose the products with which they will be most satisfied in the long run.
Enter a big-box electronics store and you are likely to find customers poring over displays of cell phones, digital music players and DVD players, trying to determine which product is right for them. Yet despite their efforts, many of them will ultimately be unhappy with the product they take home.
The reason for their post-purchase dissatisfaction, according to recent research at Smith, may lie in their pre-purchase evaluation of the product. Simply reading product descriptions or seeing products on display may not provide enough of the right kind of information—or the right kind of experience—to allow customers to choose the product with which they will be most satisfied in the long-term.
Rebecca Hamilton, associate professor of marketing, and Debora Viana Thompson, PhD '06, of Georgetown University, address this issue in their paper "Is There a Substitute for Direct Experience? Comparing Consumers' Preferences after Direct and Indirect Product Experiences."
In a series of studies conducted in the Smith School's Netcentric Behavioral Lab, the authors examined the effect of direct experiences, such as actually using a product, and indirect experiences, such as reading a product description, on consumers' purchasing preferences. "We looked at the underlying thought process and were able to actually measure how people were thinking about their choices," says Hamilton. In the studies, participants read about or used a virtual digital music player, and then answered a series of questions that asked them to describe the product. The authors then coded the participants' thoughts to determine if they were focused on concrete details , such as how they would use the product, or on more abstract themes , such as why they would want to own the product.
The authors found that when consumers rely on product descriptions, and have not actually used a product, they tend to focus more on the desirability of the product, rather than on how easy the product will be to use. In contrast, after using a product, customers become more focused on the usability of the product rather than on all of the things the product can do for them. This means that consumers might prefer one product in the store, but prefer a different product once they bring it home and begin using it.
Hamilton found that product experiences at the point of purchase seem to be critical in shaping the customer's product preferences. In one study, participants were given the opportunity to use two models of a virtual digital music player—one that offered more pre-loaded songs but was harder to use, and another that had fewer songs but was easier to use. After using both, the majority of participants preferred the easier-to-use music player with fewer songs. Two weeks later, the same participants were asked to read product descriptions and then choose between the same two models of music players. To Hamilton's surprise, this time they preferred the more desirable but harder-to-use music player with more features. "We expected to find more evidence for learning, and less of an effect based on the context in which consumers made their choices, but product experiences at the point of purchase were very influential," commented Hamilton.
To combat buyer's remorse, more and more companies are offering a 'try-before-you-buy experience' to consumers. At some stores that sell Maytag products, you can throw a load of dirty laundry into a Maytag washer or bake a tray of cookies in a Maytag oven. REI staffers encourage campers to actually put up a tent before purchasing.
Providing a hands-on, point-of-purchase experience with their product may not be feasible for all manufacturers and retailers. But it is possible to manipulate consumers' thought processes by encouraging them to focus on concrete details about the product. Hamilton found that engaging in a preliminary exercise in which consumers focused on how they would accomplish a goal made consumer preferences formed by indirect experience indistinguishable from those formed by direct experience. The authors note that successful interventions require more than rewriting product descriptions. As their research shows, simply providing more information about the product isn't enough to resolve the discrepancy between consumers' preferences before and after purchasing.
Hamilton says that virtual experiences with products, either online or in a product display, may also help increase the consistency between consumers' preferences before and after use. On the Kodak Web site, potential camera purchasers can examine digital cameras in three dimensions, rotate them 360 degrees, and view demos showing how to use each camera's different modes and menus. Encouraging consumers to imagine how they would use the product's features step-by-step may produce preferences more like those formed based on direct experiences.
"Is There a Substitute for Direct Experience? Comparing Consumers' Preferences after Direct and Indirect Product Experiences" is forthcoming from the Journal of Consumer Research. For more information about this research, please contact rhamilto@rhsmith.umd.edu.
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John Perryn Primary School's PTA is a voluntary organisation which aims to involve parents in school life, fund raising and other activities. All parents are automatically PTA members and are welcome to attend meetings which are advertised in both schools' news letters and the school calendar. An extra pair of hands is always welcome at PTA events, even if you cannot attend the meetings. Without question, the most valuable asset that we have is the volunteer. Sometimes people say the reason why they don't volunteer is because they weren't asked – well please consider yourself asked!


Home Tech Design What's The Future Of Graphic Design?
Future Of Graphic Design, For the after decennary, adventure websites alike Fiverr and crowdsourcing situation like 99designs have origin massy dilaceration in the graphics project activity. Some of the diversify have been good – it's easier than ever to find a graphic schemer, especially for trivial businesses, it's easy to destroy into the laboriousness, impartial companion an account, and of course Google has made it easier than ever to teach how to design.
With that said, inexpensive freelancers on Fiverr and similar websites have improved a reputation for providing low temper, often stolen and reworked plan.
Then there's the schemer's view, where it's seemly increasingly painful to merit a proper stake. With measure, hiring methods and wages should fire, but, the party a sculptor or plotter has will be entirely separate.
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By the same memento, swell reality will also bestow designers to unchain themselves from their desks and indicate on the go or incorporate more regal–Earth elements.
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Amrut Intermediate Sherry is not particularly well-known – which is a shame, given the quality of this distinctive single malt.
Amrut Distilleries is the first Indian single malt whisky-maker. A number of their recent expressions have won major International awards. As a result – and like Japan and Taiwan before them – they have now become quite popular with Scotch malt whisky aficionados.
I have previously reviewed one of their more entry level malts, the lightly-peated Amrut Fusion. Please see that review for more background information on Amrut, and on the challenges of maturing whisky in a hot and humid environment.
For Amrut Intermediate Sherry, the distilled spirit starts off in a mix of ex-bourbon and virgin oak casks. It then gets transferred into sherry casks before going back into bourbon casks to complete its final maturation (hence the "intermediate sherry" name). Note that while there is not a lot of information about this distinctive process online, the product label inside my box specifically states that the whisky is transferred into "Spanish ex-Oloroso sherry butts" for one year. I will come back to this point later at the end of my review.
Amrut Intermediate Sherry is bottled at cask-strength, 57.1% ABV in this case. It is obviously not chill-filtered, and I believe no artificial colouring is used. My bottle is from batch 20 (2015).
Color: Rich golden/orangey brown. You can see the effect of ex-bourbon and sherry cask aging.
Nose: Rich nose, bringing in both moist earth and dried tobacco. Very sweet, with heavy raisin and grape overtones, along with blueberries and tropical fruits like banana and kiwis. Chocolate fudge and vanilla cake. This is not your typical Oloroso sherry-finished single malt. Surprisingly, not much ethanol singe despite the high ABV.
Palate: The berry notes from the nose are accentuated, with blackberry and red currants joining the strong blueberry presence. I get a definite impression of blueberry-banana pancakes with maple syrup! Surprising kick of rye spices, particularly cinnamon and all-spice, plus a bit of anise (black licorice) and pepper. Very spicy overall – I'm guessing most of this must be coming from the oak casks. Creamy mouthfeel, but with a drying effect over time. This moist earth/syrupy/astringent combo reminds me of some of the Kavalan fortified wine-finished casks. Water brings up the sweeter port-like grape flavours.
Finish: Medium long. Sweet wood notes, like hickory (but not as smokey). Lingering fruit, like left-over blueberry pie crust. There is a drying astringency, and a bit of bitterness creeps in over time (but it is not excessive, and water helps here too). A touch of that classic nutty rancio aroma from fortified wines shines through.
The blueberry experience is really wild here – I can't say I've ever come across this much of it before. But this is definitely not your typical dry Oloroso sherry-finished expression. Indeed, I'd say it tastes more like a mix of various fortified wines – including both sherry and port – went into finishing this one.
Trusting my taste buds, I decided to look into its background a little further. I eventually found this Business Standard article where the Amrut VP of production specified that they used "400-litre sherry 'butts' imported from Spain and Portugal" (emphasis mine). If this quote is accurate, it would suggest that they mean "sherry" in only a very loose sense – and are in fact incorporating some port casks in the intermediate step. That would certainly help to explain the classic Portuguese port-like flavours that I am getting here, along with the classic Oloroso sherry and ex-bourbon cask finishing.
Personally, I slightly prefer the Amrut Intermediate Sherry over the Amrut Portonova – which is a classic cask-strength, pure port-finished single malt (and one that I plan to review soon). The Intermediate Sherry probably handles water a bit better as well – it helps bring out some additional flavours, without taking anything away.
For other reviews, Serge of Whisky Fun and Jim Murray both really loved this one (how often does that happen?), as did Thomas of Whisky Saga. Ruben of Whisky Notes, John of Whisky Advocate and Nathan the ScotchNoob both gave moderately positive reviews. The boys of Quebec Whisky were very variable on this one, with Patrick giving it quite a low score.
This is my favorite Amrut offering, with the Bourbon Cask a close 2nd. Odd that Fusion scores higher as it is no where near the quality of IS. IMHO.
It's true the average Fusion score is close to the IS. But Fusion gets a very consistent rating by reviewers, whereas IS has some negative reviews, dragging down the average a bit (as indicated by the much higher standard deviation above).
Also, you need to consider the flavour clusters when looking at scores. Smokey whiskies seem to consistently get higher scores from reviewers than non-smoky ones, which is likely a factor at play here.
In any case, I personally agree that IS is a better whisky than Fusion.


Malibu Springs Trail is a great option for a loop with other trails in the Nicholas Flat Network. Much of the trail is lined with sage and other low chaparral allowing excellent views of the surrounding parklands. Bright wildflowers thrive in the sunny, exposed conditions and bloom along the trail in the spring. There is a climb up from Decker School Rd. The trail may also be accessed from Mulholland Hwy, via Malibu Springs South Trail, but this also requires climbing.
The trail can be accessed from Decker School Rd. From the PCH, head east on CA-23N/Decker Rd. After 2.4 miles, make a slight left onto Decker School Rd. Continue on road around a series of turns until reaching trailhead on right. There is limited street parking available.


Newham Council is investigating allegations of fraud in the department that deals with social housing and road repairs after it was found to be £9million over budget.
A whistleblower exposed "major" financial issues in the town hall's repairs and maintenance services, according to a summery report by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).
Staff have already been "suspended or dismissed" and highway repair work has stopped while an investigation is carried out.
The department is responsible for building repairs, the council's gas servicing, highways maintenance and planned roadworks and started building council homes in 2015.
But investigators uncovered "a number of undocumented deals" in the service and found staff had allegedly "cut work prices arbitrarily by around 20 per cent and then used sub-contractors at higher rates", according to the report.
The report, published last week, notes that "work was billed at higher than quoted rates to hide the effects of price cuts".
It is alleged that the department "manipulated" its list of work in progress in 2017 and invoices were not raised until month 12 so commissioners were left "unsighted".
"There have been allegations of fraud and staff have been suspended or dismissed", the report adds.
The department was overspent by some £9m when auditors were brought in earlier this year.
In March 2017 Newham ouncil boasted that the service won the "most innovative service delivery accolade" at the Local Government Chronicle Awards – the "Oscars of the local government world".
It said the judges were impressed with the way it "had modernised into larger scale repairs and refurbishment to provide better value for money and customer satisfaction".
Then mayor, Sir Robin Wales, said the new approach had "saved the council more than £10m since 2007".
Newham Council refused to say how many members of staff had been sacked or suspended over the allegations because the investigation was "still ongoing".
The borough's new mayor Rokhsana Fiaz said: "My election pledge was to clean up the council's budget so that it is open and transparent, and that we had a clear idea of what the financial picture is.
"The CIPFA review expresses real concerns about a lack of financial controls and sets out clearly how we need to improve our financial management systems across the board, including proper scrutiny from council members.


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Report: Heatley refuses to waive no-trade clause, nixes Oilers deal
Ottawa Senators winger Dany Heatley refused to waive his no-trade clause and killed a deal that would have sent the former 50-goal scorer to Edmonton, according to several media reports published Thursday.
The trade, first reported Tuesday, would have sent Heatley to the Oilers in exchange for centre Andrew Cogliano, winger Dustin Penner and defenceman Ladislav Smid.
The Senators had hoped to get a deal done by midnight Wednesday to avoid paying Heatley a scheduled US$4-million bonus, but the deadline reportedly passed without the sniper agreeing to waive his non-movement clause in order to allow the trade to go through.
Heatley twice scored 50 goals for the Senators but requested a trade after the regular season because of a rift with coach Cory Clouston.
His trade demand that comes less than two years after he signed a US$45-million, six-year deal with the Senators.
Heatley has reportedly given the Senators a list of destinations where he would agree to be traded. Edmonton was not believed to be on the list.


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fuboTV Adds the Tennis Channel to fubo Extra & Sports Plus Add-On
fuboTV announced today that they have added the Tennis Channel to fubo Extra ($50) and their Sports Plus add-on (+$9).
The channel brings 24/7 tennis matches, documentary-style series, and tennis news. You will be able to watch match coverage from the upcoming Australian Open, plus shows like Tennisography, Tennis Channel Academy, and One Minute Clinic.
In addition to the Australian Open, Tennis Channel has telecast rights to the other Grand Slams (the US Open, Wimbledon and Roland Garros/French Open), as well as other ATP World Tour events, top-tier WTA competitions, Davis Cup, Fed Cup and Hopman Cup. It is the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle.
The channel is also available on services like PlayStation Vue, AT&T TV NOW, Sling TV, YouTube TV.
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The channel joins others in Sports Plus add-on like NFL RedZone, Universo, Pac 12 Network and more. The Sports Plus add-on can be added to fuboTV for $8.99 a month.
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The average wedding in the UK costs almost £25,000 with a fifth of that budget being spent on venue hire for the ceremony and the reception, according to a poll by a leading wedding magazine. Of course, deciding what to spend and how, is a completely personal decision but whatever the budget and style of wedding, there is no escaping that booking a venue is a big investment.
Finding the right ceremonial setting is crucial for your big day but so too is finding the right team to make sure everything goes smoothly.
Venuefinder.com Blue&Green has a huge selection of beautiful licensed wedding and reception venues. These settings boast outstanding catering facilities, dedicated wedding planners and a range of spaces to suit any size of wedding party.
They also range in style, from a traditional hotel or country house to the more unusual, such as a theme park or museum. So be it a lavish celebration in a stately home or castle, or a chic, contemporary ceremony in a boutique hotel, there is something for everyone. For large wedding parties, there are stunning venues with acres of landscaped gardens and grounds perfect for marquees, while couples wanting to host their big day abroad can search the overseas options.


Many Jenkins Homes are for out-of-town clients building weekend homes to enjoy and one day move into permanently. Many of them are Texas Exes (University of Texas ex-students) who lived in Austin during college and always wanted to have a second home here. For them, waterfront property is the best of Austin living, as well as a great investment.
This Santa Barbara style custom home serves as a second home for this couple. It is a meeting place, central to all their children and grandchildren, for holidays, weekends, and just because… The home's design, produced in-house by the Jenkins team, was the vision of the owners and is a beautiful reflection of their taste and worldwide travel. Doors purchased on their trip to China became the wine door and decorative doors in the Great Room. Many other decorative items were custom-fit to the home.


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737 MAX still not close to flying again, as FAA testifies in front of Congress
By Nick Bowman
Boeing's 737 MAX will not be re-certified to fly until sometime in 2020 — that's the latest word from the Federal Aviation Administration as it goes before Congress.
Boeing rolls out 737 MAX 10 jet in subdued ceremony
FAA head Stephen Dickson told CNBC that there are 10 to 11 "milestones" to reach before the agency will allow the planes to fly again. That means the 737 MAX will remain grounded well into 2020.
At this moment, there's no solid plan as to when exactly the MAX will get the necessary certification it needs to re-enter circulation.
Dickson, meanwhile, is testifying in Congress Wednesday morning about plans for the 737 MAX, and how it will address safety issues in the future.
"When the 737 MAX is returned to service, it will be because the safety issues have been addressed, and pilots have received all the training they need to safety operate the aircraft — this process is not guided by a calendar or schedule," Dickson said in his testimony.
The FAA has faced flack for its own role in allowing the 737 MAX to be rushed to market, something lawmakers wanted addressed Wednesday.
"The FAA must fix its credibility problem — today I expect to hear specific steps the agency is taking to restore public confidence," Washington Rep. Rick Larsen said in his opening statement.
Boeing CEO testimony highlights interplay between profits and humanity
Earlier in the week, former Boeing manager Ed Pierson said the push to increase production of the 737 MAX created "a factory in chaos." He told NBC News he warned the company about problems at the Renton plant months before two of the planes crashed. He's expected to testify before Congress about that.
Pierson said that before the first tragedy, he wrote to a company executive about his concerns.
"For the first time in my life, I'm sorry to say that I'm hesitant about putting my family on a Boeing airplane," he wrote in the email before the crashes took place. He wanted the production to be temporarily shut down until factory issues were worked out. Four months later the first of two crashes occurred.


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Q: Mock the CSS4 Subject Selector with jQuery? Introduction
So part of the specification for CSS4 is the subject selector.
E! > F
This exciting selector syntax allows for styling of a parent element (E!) based on its child element (F). One example would be:
/* style the LI element */
ul > !li > p { border: 1px solid #ccc; }

In the case above, the LI element is styled, not the P element!
At the moment no browsers support this selector. What I am trying to do is create a jQuery plugin that
a) Checks if the browser supports this selector,
b) If not, then checks the CSS styles for a matching selector and
c) Implements the styling associated with the selector.
At the moment I can get my jQuery to read the CSS from a <style> tag on the page, but not from a <link>ed stylesheet.
Question
How do I get jQuery to read all selectors for all loaded styles?
What is the best way to test if a browser supports this selector? I am thinking of creating a hidden element, adding a style to the page, and testing the css of the parent. Something like this (but more efficient):
//Create elements
jQuery('<div/>', {
    id: 'selectorTester',
}).appendTo('body');
jQuery('<p/>', {
    id: 'selectorTesterP',
}).appendTo('#selectorTester');
jQuery('<style/>', {
    id: 'selectorTesterStyle',
    text: 'div#selectorTester! > p#selectorTesterP {color:red;}'
}).appendTo('body');
//Test if div has the correct style
if(jQuery('div#selectorTester').css('color') !== 'red') {
    // rest of script
}

A: This code works on <link>ed stylesheets, but not on on-page <style> scripts.
//get loaded stylesheets
var x, sheets,classes;
for( sheets=document.styleSheets.length-1; sheets>=0; sheets-- ){
  classes = document.styleSheets[sheets].rules || document.styleSheets[sheets].cssRules;

  //check each rule for css4 selector
  for(x=0;x<classes.length;x++) {
    if(classes[x].selectorText.indexOf(':has(' > -1)) {
      //execute code here
    }
  }
}

This script assumes the new subject selector gets changed to :has().


This news summarizes the most important IMO/ ILO requirements entering into force from 1st July 2016 to 1st July 2018 inclusive.
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For educators, back-to-school is the real start of a new year. It's a natural time for starting fresh, reorganizing, re-prioritizing. Educators in Florida head back to school early, as in now. So I'm getting myself pumped up, psyched, and ready to rise to new challenges!
Last August I challenged myself to get rid of 365 things in 365 days. I amazed myself with my success! I not only unloaded more than 365 items; I am also routinely purging as I bring new items into the home. The scent of success is sweetly satisfying.
Every time I boot up the computer, I'm confronted with files sorted into files sorted into more files. Many of my images, documents, and photos are stored in multiple places: hard drive, flash drive, cloud, camera. How is this better than multiple file cabinets (which I've pared down to notebooks, one file box and two file bins,) or shoe boxes of unsorted photographs (of which I have many)? To add further insult, paper still accumulates on our table and counter tops, then gets piled willy-nilly into baskets or bins when we need to tidy up for an occasion. I confess: I often won't go through those piles for months. They're just too daunting.
It's brilliant! By this time next year I will have sorted through all our papers, files, and photos. I will have selected what needs saving. I will have created a system for housing and retrieving. I will be facing a future of never being overwhelmed by files and photos again!
Oh, wow, Natine, can I ever identify with this post! I'm in the middle of major purging and organizing, too. I think you've struck upon the best way to tame the clutter monster. It's the same proverbial way you eat an elephant: one bite at a time.
Congrats on you're 365 success!
Thanks, Dee Dee! I know I'm not alone in this venture. It's kind of like making health changes; every day is a new challenge in keeping at it.
I keep trying to go through my piles of paperwork and before I get even a little handle on it, I wind up falling farther behind. The Oldest told me that if I haven't gotten things organized better before I die, she will just light a match to the house and be done with it all in one smooth act. :D This is definitely one area of my life that I need to work on.
Your oldest is hysterical, CMK! I know if I go first, G will never find anything! And he keeps everything. Hoping my unpapering will rub off on him. Ha!
At least electronic files aren't cluttering up household surfaces - I'd say GREAT progress has been made! Looking forward to an update for Fat Bottoms on this!


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It does look like it could be a lark.
Oh! I almost forgot the all-important story: blah blah story blah blah megacorp wants you blah blah cyborgs blah blah retreat to become a monk blah blah oh no it's murder o'clock blah blah redemption??? And that's the name of the game.
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import bpy

class NifOperatorCommon:
    """Abstract base class for import and export user interface."""

    # filepath is created by ImportHelper/ExportHelper

    #: Default file name extension.
    filename_ext = ".nif"

    #: File name filter for file select dialog.
    filter_glob = bpy.props.StringProperty(
        default="*.nif;*.item;*.nifcache;*.jmi", options={'HIDDEN'})

    #: Level of verbosity on the console.
    log_level = bpy.props.EnumProperty(
        items=(
            ("DEBUG", "Debug",
             "Show all messages (only useful for debugging)."),
            ("INFO", "Info",
             "Show some informative messages, warnings, and errors."),
            ("WARNING", "Warning",
             "Only show warnings and errors."),
            ("ERROR", "Error",
             "Only show errors."),
            ("CRITICAL", "Critical",
             "Only show extremely critical errors."),
            ),
        name="Log Level",
        description="Level of verbosity on the console.",
        default="WARNING")

    #: Name of file where Python profiler dumps the profile.
    profile_path = bpy.props.StringProperty(
        name="Profile Path",
        description="File where Python profiler dumps the profile. Set to empty string to turn off profiling.",
        maxlen=1024,
        default="",
        subtype="FILE_PATH",
        options={'HIDDEN'})

    #: Used for checking equality between floats.
    epsilon = bpy.props.FloatProperty(
        name="Epsilon",
        description="Used for checking equality between floats.",
        default=0.0005,
        min=0.0, max=1.0, precision=5,
        options={'HIDDEN'})


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Wearing improper footwear — shoes that are too tight in the toe box or shoes that have high heels.
Physical Examination: Your doctor will examine all your toes, testing whether or not buckled joints can be moved. Your feet will also be checked for any skin changes. Corns (a buildup of dead skin cells) often form between curled toes or on top of buckled joints where shoes rub. If irritated, corns may turn into open wounds and become infected.
X-ray: X-rays may be taken of a curled toe to show the amount of deformity. An x-ray may also show whether or not the joint is affected by arthritis.
What are the treatments for Hammer Toe?
Surgery. Hammer toe can be corrected by surgery if conservative measures fail. The actual procedure will depend on the type and extent of the deformity.
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This was delicious and not what I expected. Can you guess what it is?
OK, time is up. The answer: spicy buffalo cauliflower bites.
Who thought chicken wings? So did I. When I came from work one day last week, April Fools Day no less, I was greeted by the whiffy tang of hot sauce. I instantly thought wings. But, my wife, who prepared this dish, is a vegetarian. I knew something was up.
"Don't say anything, just try 'em," she said. Down the hatch they went. And they were good. Hot sauce makes everything better, doesn't it.
These were really simple to make and one cup of cauliflower makes six servings. The recipe came from www.skinnytaste.com. I've included it below and on my recipe page.
Pour the hot sauce mixture over the baked cauliflower and continue baking for an additional 5 minutes. Serve with skinny blue cheese dressing and celery sticks.
* Homolka, Gina. 2013, January. Gina's Skinny Recipes, http://www.skinnytaste.com/2013/01/spicy-buffalo-cauliflower-bites.html. Accessed on April 10, 2014.


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La World 10K Bangalore è una corsa su strada di 10 km che si tiene a Bangalore, India, a fine maggio di ogni anno dal 2008.

La corsa, che ha lo status di Gold Label nel calendario di World Athletics Label Road Races ed è certificata dalla AIMS, inizia e finisce allo Sree Kanteerava Stadium dopo un circuito nelle strade cittadine. A fianco della prova élite si svolgono anche altri eventi: una prova per nazioni, una marcia non competitiva di 10 km, una corsa più corta di 5,7 km (chiamata Majja Run), una 4 km su sedia a rotelle e una gara master.

Il record della corsa è detenuto dal keniota Geoffrey Kamworor con 27'44", mentre la connazionale Agnes Tirop possiede il record femminile in 31'19".

Albo d'oro

Collegamenti esterni

Competizioni di atletica leggera in India
Competizioni sportive a Bangalore

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Lovely large sunglasses for days when you need light sun protection. They were a little small around my face but that is not too unusal for me.
Super cute sunglasses. They fit perfectly and I get a lot of compliments!


But what's actually going on with Yoda, linguistically?
First, let's examine how Yoda doesn't speak. Many of the world's most-spoken languages—English, Mandarin—are built around constructions that go subject-verb-object. An example would be: Yoda grasped the lightsaber.
Another common construction, and one you'd find more commonly among speakers of Japanese, Albanian, and many other languages, goes subject-object-verb: Yoda the lightsaber grasped. More rare is a verb-subject-object construction, but that's how people who speak Hawaiian and some Celtic languages do it: Grasped Yoda the lightsaber.
There are other fictional examples of characters who speak like Yoda. Bowyer, from the 1996 Super Nintendo game, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, says things like, "Fun this is, yes?" and "Disturb me, you must not! Practicing I am." But what about in the real world?
Looking more closely at how Yoda speaks, it's not always object-subject-verb, but sometimes a construction Pullum once referred to as XSV, the "X" being a stand-in for whatever chunk of the sentence goes with the verb, even if it's not an object. So, for example: "Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is," as Yoda says in Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Truly wonderful, in that case, is the "X." Pullum, in a blog post in 2005, called this construction "fantastically rare" in the real world.
Looking more closely at Yoda, and particularly at his dialogue in Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, further confused Liberman, who analyzed dozens of Yoda's lines in the film. "A bit of empirical investigation has left me more puzzled about Yoda's syntax than I was before," he wrote. (Most perplexing, he said, was an example of a fronted element—the sort of clause that you might bring to the start of a sentence for emphasis—found between the subject and predicate: "That group back there, soon discovered will be.") Liberman has said it would take a larger dataset to fully analyze Yoda-speak, but he won't get it from the latest film (spoiler alert): Yoda's a no-show.
Yoda-speak gets even more confusing, to me anyway, when you try to translate it from English. In Estonian versions of the films, according to one fascinating Reddit thread about linguistics, Yoda retains the word order used in English versions. "This is grammatical in Estonian, but does make it seem as though Yoda is constantly stressing the object phrase as the main point of his statements," according to one commenter. "This gives his speech an unusual quality." But in Czech translations, rather than speaking in his general object-subject-verb manner, Yoda apparently speaks in subject-object-verb (like in Japanese).


I have mined Bitcoin (BTC) on GPUs until my PSUs burnt out, converted my whole house to a mining farm so we didn't need heaters in the winter, and stayed up all night staring at Chinese trade volumes on many, many occasions. Bitcoin is the most exciting tech revolution since the Internet and its only getting better while offering more opportunities to learn about economics, money, and financial institutions. The main issue for most people is understanding the tech speak lingo that is designed to be aloof and imposing. Let me break down the main arguments over the last few months/years into easy to understand layman's terms.
Satoshi Nakamoto, supposedly Bitcoins creator (or one of them!), wrote a whitepaper in 2008 describing a peer to peer electronic cash system that relies on cryptography and a distributed ledger technology to ensure fair and transparent transactions. All without any bank having anything to do with it. No need to ask for permission to do anything with your money. If you hold all the private keys, it's YOUR money, not a bank's, not an IOU, yours. It offers the unbanked (2 billion people) the ability to skip generations of technology and bank from their phone with no monthly fees and cheap transactions, as they have phones but they don't have enough money to create a bank account. It also removes the bank's ability to run Fractional Reserve Banking.
Satoshi's departure from the development team in 2010 allowed interested parties to become involved. This created competing visions for Bitcoin which culminated in a shady group called Blockstream hiring most of the key developers and giving them a steady wage. This sounds like a nice idea except Blockstream started to accept corporate money and this turned into a corporate vision for Bitcoin.
The first main argument is the Block Size Debate. Satoshi had mentioned on numerous occasions that Bitcoin can and should be scaled to allow more things to happen on the blockchain. As more users started using Bitcoin, the transactions through the network started to clog up. Every ten minutes, a group of Bitcoin Miners solve the current "Bitcoin Problem" (it's like a maths problem and the winner gets 25BTC) The main Bitcoin Core Developers (Devs), paid by Blockstream, started proposing different solutions for the scaling problem, mostly surrounding SegWit (Segregated Witness). SegWit proposes to add a sidechain to the main blockchain for pushing through smaller transactions that might not go through on every Bitcoin block. Essentially, they are trying to create another side coin to handle smaller transactions and Blockstream would make around 1% profit. Blockstream have also been refusing to increase to the blocksize limit, which would allow more transactions per ten minutes but Blockstream wouldn't make any profit. They claimed increasing the blocksize limit was almost impossible and certainly reckless.
The propaganda raged on through all forums. r/Bitcoin split into two as censorship spearheaded by the utterly revolting u/Theymos on reddit and bitcointalk wore down communities and friendships while creating division. Theymos is rumoured to have used his role as an admin to steal 6000 Bitcoins from users and continues to muddy the water and ban opposing opinion – a true paragon of virtue.
Blockstream created the opportunity for a User Activated Soft Fork (UASF) which is designed to wrest the voting power (hashrate in this case) away from miners and install voting options within nodes. A node is a type of program that runs the Bitcoin blockchain. Miners run their hardware to find blocks which are then incorporated into the blockchain and nodes document the blockchain to allow it to be explorable, as well as a few other services like wallets.
Blockstream noted that in Bitcoins original vision, the miners had all the power and they hated that. Miners invest considerable amounts of money on mining equipment, the exorbitant electricity costs and in time learning to keep their rigs running 24/7/365. Blockstream obviously don't care about investment into mining, miners, or the ecosystem, they only want to control everything themselves.
So, the miners rightfully rebelled against this corporate vision and created a User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) as "a contingency plan". Blockstream fired up nodes around the world to influence the voting and consequently UAHF was active yesterday in the form of Bitcoin Cash, as a retaliation.
AXA Strategic Ventures are the company who predominantly support Blockstream. They are funded by The Bilderberg Group. If you don't know who they are you have been living under a rock. Henri de Castries is the CEO of both AXA and The Bilderberg Group. The Bilderberg Group bought a controlling share of Blockstream for $55,000,000 so they can push whatever agenda they want, mostly in favour of slowing development of Bitcoin and promoting division and lies. This flowed directly against the Cypherpunk mentality in which Bitcoin was created.
The Cypherpunk movement, advocates widespread use of strong cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies as a route to social and political change. The decentralised peer to peer cash system with a distributed ledger that Satoshi et al. created, flies in the face of everything banks stand for. No wonder they have invested to control Bitcoin development, it probably terrifies them.
Self-imposed stagnation from Blockstream which is blatantly in the interest of archaic financial institutions, tried to slow the currency down so either A) they had time to build a new crypto for the banks to start all over again with their criminal activity (SETLcoin). B) a new currency would take the lead and diminish Bitcoins market cap (Ethereum). Whichever outcome will make Bitcoin more controllable to the banks will be the primary concern and motive. The control they yearn for must be understood.
The spats, arguments and vindictive attitude displayed by many of the leading developers, on both sides, has meant most arguments degenerate into mud-slinging. Real technical discourse has waned in favour of polarised camps which no doubt was the Bilderberg's Divide and Conquer policy. We must rely on the libertarian vision of Roger Ver and Craig Wright in the form of Bitcoin Cash, and see what the miners do. We need visionaries who don't mind vigorously swimming against the tide and can go head to head against powerful enemies.
Launch your miners. Fire up your nodes. Bring on the hashrate war. Bitcoin Cash is a real alternative vision for peer to peer electronic cash system and hopefully it will smash Blockstream's corporate tirade once and for all. Wait for the difficulty to drop and watch the Chinese wade in.
As the world's first Drone Services company to accept bitcoin, we demand larger blocks. We demand a separate dev team that has nothing to do with the banks. The banks are the issue. Almost 10 years into the Great Recession and we are staring into the abyss of another crash this Autumn as the criminal bankers were not punished, rather they were bailed out and crippled the worldwide economy enabled by the cowardice of our political leadership.