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#BookReview :: The Vigil by Sarah Joseph
August 04, 2014 Book Review, Harper Collins
The Ramayana as seen by one of its peripheral characters, Angadan
Most writers favour Raman in their interpretation of Valmiki's original poem narrating the story of the epic battle between the virtuous hero and his nemesis, Ravanan. But this novel is about the turbulent journey of Angadan, who believes that Raman killed his father Vali against all principles of dharma. Angadan is acutely aware of the silent sufferings of women which find no expression in the Ramayana. In his view, Ram's act of forcing his wife to undergo the fire-ordeal in the name of raja dharma is against all sense of justice and fair play embedded in the human heart. In this novel, Angadan is the solitary thinker who is able to see what the others are blind to or choose to ignore.
In The Vigil, the familiar rhythm of the original poem is disturbed by the touch of Angadan's ascetic touch. It is a new beginning, new path, a new way of understanding the grand old story.
Another mythological retelling – you might think, but this one is different from the others in the sense that this time round the tale is being told from a person who had a minor role to play when Ramayana is told from Ram's point of view. Do you remember Angad from Ramayana? Yes well, it is time for us to see things from his point of view.
Anged or Angadan, as he is referred to in this novel, has been an onlooker all his life. When Sugrivan declares the death of Vali, he takes over the thrown for himself only for Vali to return and humiliate him. Still not deterred, Sugrivan approaches Raman to help him win the thrown back resulting in Vali's death and his final ascension to the throne. Angadan, is used to his family's way of twisting dharma to suit their own needs and purpose, watches by as the drama unfolds. He wants revenge from the wrong-doer and how does he go about it?
By now we all know that Ramayana is a one sided story, told from the winner's point of view painting Raman as the 'hero' and that a lot of the stories were twisted to show him in the light while at times hiding what is right and true. Not everyone Raman came up against and defeated were villains and nor did Raman always follow the right path. What is astonishing about this book is Angadan's feelings that perpetually highlights this fact. His observations and conclusions bring forth another point of view to see the same characters and paint them in another light. His sense of right and wrong is highly developed and he sees the injustices done towards the women in the story.
Wonderfully written and translated, this book is a gem that needs to be read by all, especially women.
By Debdatta Dasgupta at August 04, 2014
Labels: Book Review, Harper Collins


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Buy, Sell, Hold: Sony Michel, Derrius Guice, Lamar Miller
By Zach Brunner
Aug 6, 2019 | Updated: Aug 9, 2019, 5:30 PM EDT
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Fantasy football draft season is just around the corner, and soon we'll have to make some tough decisions. We are in the thick of training camps, which means there are no shortage of reports and moves by each team, causing fantasy stocks to continually rise and fall.
There's been a lot of news surrounding Lamar Miller, Derrius Guice and Sony Michel in particular. With that in mind, here's a breakdown of each player's stock ahead of the upcoming fantasy football season.
1. Lamar Miller, RB, Houston Texans — Buy
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The Texans recently announced that they cut backup running back D'Onta Foreman, which could really help Lamar Miller's fantasy value. Currently going as RB30, buy the perpetually underrated back. Miller is one of the more consistent producers in fantasy, and now looks like he won't face much competition for carries, even with the recent addition of Duke Johnson.
2. Sony Michel, RB, New England Patriots — Hold
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Sony Michel is a talented running back that has struggled to stay healthy early in his career. However, with the amount of goal-to-go carries he could see, along with the reports of him working as a pass-catcher, Michel offers some intriguing upside. Michel's injury history makes drafting him a bit risky, but he has the talent to become a reliable RB2, making him a nice value at RB25.
3. Derrius Guice, RB, Washington Redskins — Sell
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Derrius Guice flashed enough ability at LSU to become a second-round pick in the 2018 NFL Draft. However, Washington has one of the most crowded backfields in the NFL. Do you really think Adrian Peterson, who ran for 1,042 yards last season, will quietly take a backseat? Additionally, Washington might be the worst offense for fantasy purposes this season, which could seriously impact Guice's production. He's a risky investment at RB27.

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Our International Classes are for students aged 13–16 studying in grades 7-9. The International Classes form a small, yet significant section in our bigger Finnish-speaking school. As well as being well-integrated with the rest of the school, the classes form a close unit where mutual understanding and support among the students have always been the tradition. In this atmosphere students grow into responsible, independent and motivated individuals who can set firm goals for their future life and academic career.
Who can attend the International Classes?
Students between 13-16 years of age in grades 7-9.
Children of Finnish or other nationality who have received their elementary education in English – in Finland or abroad.
There is no charge for tuition or study materials. Students are given a hot lunch every day, with consideration to special diets. The school offers the students free health care services and dental care. Study guidance, psychologist and councellor services are also available for our students.
Parents receive information on matters concerning their child's education through an Internet portal Wilma (yvkoulut.inschool.fi). At the start of the school year, the students' guardians receive their own student-specific user ID for Wilma.
Our school has several partner schools in different European countries. Many Comenius projects have taken place over the years and students have participated in various exchange programs.
Upon entry to the school the student has to pass an English test if her/his competence of English cannot be otherwise proven. The general testing takes place in January.
The general testing for the International Classes (for the study year 2019-2020) was held in January, 2019.
We will have a second general test for new applicants on the 2nd of August. However, as student enrolment is done in March, we cannot guarantee that there will be many available study spots left in August.
At present, we are not able to take in any more students for this study year (from August 2018 to June 2019).


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require "net_observer/base"
require "singleton"

module NetObserver
# == Last Request class
# Its main purpose is to remember last request send via network.
# @example Enable last request and print it when Connection Error appear
#   NetObserver::LastRequest.instance.enable
#   begin
#     ..
#   rescue ActiveResource::ConnectionError => e
#     last_request = NetObserver::LastRequest.instance.last_request
#     site = "#{last_request[:connection].use_ssl? ? "https" : "http"}://"+last_request[:connection].address
#     log.error "Job failed due to communication problem with #{site}."
#     log.error "Request: path: #{last_request[:request].path} with body #{last_request[:body]}."
#     log.error "Response: #{e.inspect} with body #{e.response.body}."
#   end
	class LastRequest
		include Singleton
#last request sent via network
		attr_reader :last_request
# Enable storing last request
		def enable
			@last_request = nil
			Base.instance.add_observer(self)
		end

# Disable storing requests
		def disable
			@last_request = nil
			Base.instance.delete_observer(self)
		end

# methods to receive information about connection. Needed to allow itself to register agains Base
# @see NetObserver::Base for parameters details
		def update(type, request, body, connection)
			case type
			when :response
				return #don't care
			when :request
				@last_request = { :connection => connection, :request => request, :body => (request.body || body)}
			end
		end
	end
end

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TOURJACK THE RIPPER
Jack The Ripper Tour
Whitechapel and Aldgate may be a vibrant, colourful and multi-cultural neighbourhood nowadays but like many other areas of London it does play a significant part in London's dark history.
The author of the famous 1888 Whitechapel murders, Jack the Ripper, also known as "The Whitechapel Murderer" was an infamous criminal and remains the greatest mystery in the history of crime for killing five women in Victorian East London without ever revealing his identity.
If you want to feel like you have been transported in the dark Victorian East End, walk down narrow alleyways once haunted by the man himself, Jack the Ripper, listen to intriguing tales about his existence and find out why he couldn't be caught, then you can join the Jack the Ripper tour which takes place twice a day and lasts approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes.
This is an interactive tour presented by theatrical performance guides who use hand held projectors to immerse the listener into Jack's world with the help of graphic pictures.
Take advantage of the conveniently located Clayton Hotel City of London and meet the tour outside the Aldgate East Station exit 3 by the Whitechapel Art Gallery located minutes away.
After the tour, get back to the hotel bar for a strong drink or a calming tea and take more time to reflect on all the stories you just heard.
88 Whitechapel High Street London London Borough of Tower Hamlets United Kingdom
https://thejacktherippertour.com/the-tour/
info@thejacktherippertour.com


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Q: HTML img refuses to go below certain width I have a razor view in which I'm trying to put an image, a simple green plus sign.
The problem is that for some reason, the image refuses to resize below a certain width.
I have tried:

 with the css class:

.imagesize {
width:10px;
}

I've tried wrapping it in div and  tags

Absolutely nothing will shrink this image below around 40px. I've tried swapping in different images as well.
I've also tried
<input type="button" style="background-image:url('../../Images/add.png'); width:10px; border:none" />

But it just shows a blank rectangle.
Height works fine, it will go to any height I specify, but width will not go down past around 40px. It's infuriating.
Here's the entire table:

            MClass
            L
Percent
            E
GA Year
            Ey
GA Year
            Approved

          @for (int i = 0; i < Model.md10001List.md10001list.Count; i++)
          {

              @Html.DropDownListFor(model => Model.md1.name, m, Model.m[i].code, new { id = "mcl" + @i, name = "mcl" + @i })
              @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.md1.percent, "{0:0.00}", new { style = "width:50px", id = "percent" + @i, name = "percent" + @i })
              @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.md1.year, new { style = "width:40px", id = "gas_year" + @i, name = "gas_year" + @i })
              @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.md1.exipry, new { style = "width:40px", id = "gas_expiry" + @i, name = "gas_expiry" + @i })
              @Html.CheckBoxFor(model => model.md1.approved, new { value = Model.md10001List.md10001list[i].approved_flag, disabled = "disabled", id = "aprooved" + @i, name = "aprooved" + @i })
              @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.md1.approved_by, new { style = "width:70px", disabled = "disabled", id = "approved_by" + @i, name = "approved_by" + @i })
              @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.md1.approved_date, "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}", new { style = "width:80px", disabled = "disabled", id = "approved_date" + @i, name = "approved_date" + @i })

          }

A: The min-width might be somehow set to 40px.
Try
{
min-width: 10px;
}

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What news does my lover bring?
But can it ever be regained?
Was it only a trick of the light?
A fine piece of stagecraft?


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Q: What is the difference between Full, Para and Hardware assisted virtualization? I am going through the topic of virtualization and i am totally sucked up understanding the basic concept, Wikipedia does provide some relevant information, but it is not good enough for me to understand the basic idea. The concept will be of 2 to 3 line, but neither I am able to find them on net, nor on the book.
I will be pleased if someone gives me a basic understanding of these three types. I am well aware of virtualization and understand it well, but these 3 types...

A: *

*Paravirtualization is virtualization in which the guest operating system (the one being virtualized) is aware that it is a guest and accordingly has drivers that, instead of issuing hardware commands, simply issue commands directly to the host operating system. This also includes  memory and thread management as well, which usually require unavailable privileged instructions in the processor.

*Full Virtualization is virtualization in which the guest operating system is unaware that it is in a virtualized environment, and therefore hardware is virtualized by the host operating system so that the guest can issue commands to what it thinks is actual hardware, but really are just simulated hardware devices created by the host.

*Hardware Assisted Virtualization is a type of Full Virtualization where the microprocessor architecture has special instructions to aid the virtualization of hardware. These instructions might allow a virtual context to be setup so that the guest can execute privileged instructions directly on the processor without affecting the host. Such a feature set is often called a Hypervisor. If said instructions do not exist, Full Virtualization is still possible, however it must be done via software techniques such as Dynamic Recompilation where the host recompiles on the fly privileged instructions in the guest to be able to run in a non-privileged way on the host.

*There is also a combination of Para Virtualization and Full Virtualization called Hybrid Virtualization where parts of the guest operating system use paravirtualization for certain hardware drivers, and the host uses full virtualization for other features. This often produces superior performance on the guest without the need for the guest to be completely paravirtualized. An example of this: The guest uses full virtualization for privileged instructions in the kernel but paravirtualization for IO requests using a special driver in the guest. This way the guest operating system does not need to be fully paravirtualized, since this is sometimes not available, but can still enjoy some paravirtualized features by implementing special drivers for the guest.

A: In the case of hardware assisted virtualisation, the virtualisation is designed in. Instruction set provides instructions for partitioning the host. See VT-x technology of Intel as an example. So that the hypervisor works directly with hardware without using any operating system to acces it and provide full virtualisation


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import Model from 'ampersand-model';
import PostCollection from './post-collection';

export default Model.extend({
	collections:{
		posts:PostCollection
	},
	fetchData(params){
    if (this.posts.length === 0) {
      this.posts.fetch({data:params})
    } else {
		  this.posts.fetch()
    }
	}
})


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Q: How to send complex data to controller endpoint I have this basic case:
    [HttpPost("endpoint")]
    public IActionResult Endpoint(DateTime date, string value, bool modifier)
    {
        return Ok($"{date}-{value}-{modifier}");
    }

and I'm able to send a request to it with
    var testContent = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new Dictionary<string, string>
    {
        { "date", DateTime.Today.ToShortDateString() },
        { "value", "value1" },
        { "modifier", true.ToString() }
    });

Instead I want my endpoint to be this instead
    [HttpPost("endpointwithlist")]
    public IActionResult EndpointWithList(DateTime date, List<string> value, bool modifier)
    {
        return Ok($"{date}-{value.FirstOrDefault()}-{modifier}");
    }

How do I send this? I have tried the below, nothing works
    var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { date, value = valueCollection.ToArray(), modifier });
    var testContentWithList = new ByteArrayContent(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json));
    testContentWithList.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");

A: You might create a model class for the payload
public class EndpointWithListModel
{
    public DateTime Date {get; set;}
    public List<string> Value {get; set;}
    public bool Modifier {get; set;}
}

the method parameter then could use [FromBody] attribute
public IActionResult EndpointWithList([FromBody]EndpointWithListModel model)

then send the json to your POST method, example is here. Using HttpClient:
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
    var response = await client.PostAsync(
    "http://yourUrl",
     new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"));
}

A: if your variables(date, valueController and modifier) are in the right type, following code should work.
  var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { date:date, value : valueCollection.ToArray(), modifier:modifier });


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package org.olat.presentation.ims.qti.editor;

/* TODO: ORID-1007 'File' */
import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.olat.data.commons.vfs.FolderConfig;
import org.olat.data.repository.RepositoryEntry;
import org.olat.lms.commons.fileresource.AddingResourceException;
import org.olat.lms.commons.fileresource.FileResource;
import org.olat.lms.commons.fileresource.FileResourceManager;
import org.olat.lms.commons.fileresource.SurveyFileResource;
import org.olat.lms.commons.fileresource.TestFileResource;
import org.olat.lms.ims.qti.editor.QTIEditHelperEBL;
import org.olat.lms.ims.qti.editor.QTIEditorPackageEBL;
import org.olat.lms.ims.qti.editor.localstrings.QtiEditorLocalStrings;
import org.olat.lms.ims.qti.objects.Assessment;
import org.olat.lms.ims.qti.objects.Item;
import org.olat.lms.ims.qti.objects.Section;
import org.olat.lms.ims.qti.process.AssessmentInstance;
import org.olat.presentation.framework.core.UserRequest;
import org.olat.presentation.framework.core.components.Component;
import org.olat.presentation.framework.core.control.ControllerEventListener;
import org.olat.presentation.framework.core.control.DefaultController;
import org.olat.presentation.framework.core.control.WindowControl;
import org.olat.presentation.framework.core.translator.PackageTranslator;
import org.olat.presentation.framework.core.translator.PackageUtil;
import org.olat.presentation.framework.core.translator.Translator;
import org.olat.presentation.ims.qti.QTIResultDetailsController;
import org.olat.presentation.ims.qti.editor.localstrings.QtiEditorLocalStringsAbstractFactory;
import org.olat.presentation.ims.qti.editor.localstrings.ScItemLocalStringsFactory;
import org.olat.presentation.ims.qti.editor.localstrings.SectionLocalStringsFactory;
import org.olat.presentation.repository.IAddController;
import org.olat.presentation.repository.RepositoryAddCallback;
import org.olat.system.commons.CodeHelper;
import org.olat.system.event.Event;
import org.olat.system.logging.log4j.LoggerHelper;
import org.olat.system.spring.CoreSpringFactory;

/**
 * Initial Date: 14.01.2005
 *
 * @author Mike Stock
 */
public class AddNewQTIDocumentController extends DefaultController implements IAddController, ControllerEventListener {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerHelper.getLogger();
    private static final String PACKAGE_REPOSITORY = PackageUtil.getPackageName(IAddController.class);
    private static final String DUMMY_TITLE = "__DUMMYTITLE__";
    private final String type;
    private FileResource resource;
    private final Translator translator;
    QTIEditorPackageEBL tmpPackage;
    final QtiEditorLocalStringsAbstractFactory sectionLocalStringsFactory;
    final QtiEditorLocalStringsAbstractFactory scItemLocalStringsFactory;

    /**
     * @param type
     * @param addCallback
     * @param ureq
     * @param wControl
     */
    public AddNewQTIDocumentController(final String type, final RepositoryAddCallback addCallback, final UserRequest ureq, final WindowControl wControl) {
        super(wControl);
        this.type = type;
        this.translator = new PackageTranslator(PACKAGE_REPOSITORY, ureq.getLocale());
        sectionLocalStringsFactory = CoreSpringFactory.getBean(SectionLocalStringsFactory.class,
                PackageUtil.createPackageTranslator(QTIResultDetailsController.class, ureq.getLocale()));
        scItemLocalStringsFactory = CoreSpringFactory.getBean(ScItemLocalStringsFactory.class,
                PackageUtil.createPackageTranslator(QTIResultDetailsController.class, ureq.getLocale()));
        if (type.equals(AssessmentInstance.QMD_ENTRY_TYPE_ASSESS)) {
            resource = CoreSpringFactory.getBean(TestFileResource.class);
        } else if (type.equals(AssessmentInstance.QMD_ENTRY_TYPE_SURVEY)) {
            resource = CoreSpringFactory.getBean(SurveyFileResource.class);
        }
        if (addCallback != null) {
            addCallback.setResourceable(resource);
            addCallback.setDisplayName(translator.translate(resource.getResourceableTypeName()));
            addCallback.setResourceName("-");
            addCallback.finished(ureq);
        }
    }

    /**
	 */
    @Override
    public Component getTransactionComponent() {
        return null;
    }

    /**
	 */
    @Override
    public boolean transactionFinishBeforeCreate() {
        final File fTempQTI = new File(FolderConfig.getCanonicalTmpDir() + "/" + CodeHelper.getGlobalForeverUniqueID() + ".zip");
        Assessment assessment = createAssesment(DUMMY_TITLE);
        tmpPackage = CoreSpringFactory.getBean(QTIEditorPackageEBL.class, new Object[] { assessment });
        // we need to save the package in order to be able to create a file resource entry.
        // package will be created again after changing title.
        if (!tmpPackage.savePackageTo(fTempQTI)) {
            return false;
        }
        try {
            return (FileResourceManager.getInstance().addFileResource(fTempQTI, "qti.zip", resource) != null);
        } catch (final AddingResourceException e) {
            log.warn("Error while adding new qti.zip resource", e);
            return false;
        }
    }

    /**
	 */
    @Override
    public void repositoryEntryCreated(final RepositoryEntry re) {
        // change title
        tmpPackage.getQTIDocument().getAssessment().setTitle(re.getDisplayname());
        // re-save package into the repository, entry has not been defalted yet, so
        // saving the entry is all it needs to update.
        final File fRepositoryQTI = new File(FileResourceManager.getInstance().getFileResourceRoot(re.getOlatResource()), "qti.zip");
        fRepositoryQTI.delete();
        tmpPackage.savePackageTo(fRepositoryQTI);
        // cleanup temp files
        tmpPackage.cleanupTmpPackageDir();
    }

    /**
	 */
    @Override
    public void transactionAborted() {
        // Nothing to do here... no file has been created yet.
    }

    /**
	 */
    @Override
    protected void event(final UserRequest ureq, final Component source, final Event event) {
        //
    }

    /**
	 */
    @Override
    protected void doDispose() {
        //
    }

    private Assessment createAssesment(String title) {

        final Section section = createSection();

        final List<Section> sectionList = createSectionList(section);

        final Assessment assessment = QTIEditHelperEBL.createAssessment(title, type);
        assessment.setSections(sectionList);

        return assessment;
    }

    private List<Section> createSectionList(final Section section) {
        final List<Section> sectionList = new ArrayList<Section>();
        sectionList.add(section);
        return sectionList;
    }

    private Section createSection() {
        QtiEditorLocalStrings qtiEditorLocalStrings = sectionLocalStringsFactory.createLocalStrings();
        final Section section = QTIEditHelperEBL.createSection(qtiEditorLocalStrings);
        final List<Item> itemList = new ArrayList<Item>();
        qtiEditorLocalStrings = scItemLocalStringsFactory.createLocalStrings();
        itemList.add(QTIEditHelperEBL.createSCItem(qtiEditorLocalStrings));
        section.setItems(itemList);
        return section;
    }
}


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Tesco is aiming for a more integrated brand strategy with BBH hire
Tesco's move to appoint BBH as its new ad agency suggests the supermarket is looking for a more integrated solution as it plots a more cohesive approach to the promotion of its brand – from marketing to CRM to in-store.
By Sarah Vizard	 15 Jan 2015 2:52 pm
The timing of the announcement was a shock. While speculation was rife that Tesco would look at its ad business, in the end it gave it to BBH without a pitch.
However, it has a whole new team in place – none of the marketing bosses that were there at the time of W+K's appointment are still there.
Tesco has a new chief executive in Dave Lewis with an extensive background in marketing, having headed up Unilever's personal care business. It also has a new marketing boss, Robin Terrell.
His appointment as head of customer was widely seen as a move to create a more joined-up customer experience at Tesco. Lewis told Marketing Week at the time that his role would help the brand "link up" all its businesses – from Clubcard to Tesco Mobile to Tesco Bank.
An integrated approach
The decision to shift to BBH is a further sign of this strategy. BBH can offer Tesco a more integrated branding solution than W+K.
In addition to its responsibility for advertising, BBH will also oversee CRM. It is part of the Publicis Groupe which offers synergies that W+K, as an independent, can't.
That will ensure that the way Tesco communicates with shoppers, whether in its ad campaigns or more personally via newsletters and emails, is consistent. It isn't hard to envisage that in the future this could also include other areas such as shopper marketing.
BBH has precedent here. Having won the BA creative account it went on to win its direct and loyalty marketing businesses too.
Another of BBH's (now former) clients is Waitrose. The supermarket has seen huge success with its marketing since BBH was appointed to the account in 2011 by focusing on its core points of differentiation.
It has created a distinctive brand in the grocery sector by promoting its "unique values" such as its employee-owned set-up. Both its Christmas campaign and a brand campaign launched early last year focused on how that structure helps its deliver better service.
Tesco has an even bigger job to do. Its brand reputation has been hit by profit warnings and accounting scandals and it has been out kilter with the rest of the market on price and service.
Lewis has begun to make changes to improve those areas – from implementing price cuts to introducing more in-store staff.
The big decision now is to decide what Tesco stands for in a rapidly changing and hugely competitive supermarket sector. It remains by far the biggest player but the brand's values have been lost.
Much of the work W+K did was tactical rather than strategic. They launched the "Love Every Mouthful" campaign but under Tesco's previous bosses were not given much scope to overhaul the brand image or flex their creative muscle.
It is likely BBH will be given the chance to conduct a full review of the Tesco brand, with a review of whether "Every Little Helps" is still the correct tagline likely.
Lewis knows BBH well from his time working at Unilever – the agency holds the Axe (Lynx in the UK) account globally and Neil Munn, who will head up BBH's Tesco team, also used to work at Unilever.
Lewis is putting brand reputation and marketing in the hands of an agency he knows and trusts, leaving him free to focus on turning round the troubled business.
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Tesco CEO Dave Lewis says the supermarket must focus on rebuilding trust and transparency in the Tesco brand as he looks to kickstart the supermarket's turnaround by proving he is listening to customers with a round of price cuts but says unprofitable stores will shut and there will be job losses, possibly in marketing, despite an improvement in sales over Christmas.
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Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis says he sees a big opportunity for the retailer to be "much more joined up" in how it engages with customers as he says the company has so far spent £500m in improving the customer proposition, an investment that has led to the supermarket issuing its fourth profit warning in a year.
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August/September - Issue 4
Epiphany, rapper
Song: I Swear
www.BigPiph.com
URBANE: WHO IS EPIPHANY?
PIPH: I walked into my full creative scope by getting over my fear of public speaking. I was in a talent show my junior year of college, and from that, I found that I had a love for performing. That kinda married with my heavy interest in hip-hop, and I kept emerging in writing and performing. You couldn't have made me believe, at 19, that I'd accomplish or experience some of the things I've gotten to, considering I was scared to talk in front of large groups of people.
I've been at this for 20 years but have been doing it well for probably about half of that. I had a record label – Conduit Entertainment. It was myself and four other artists. I also worked heavily with a production team called "Dat Heat" until that dissipated. Nowadays, I mostly move with my live band, "Tomorrow Maybe."
I really care about hip-hop culture and having Black excellence rise. So I'm an advocate for consistently impacting those areas in ways that I think are the best. Some are purely through entertainment, and some are grassroots programing. I used to take a wider approach to impact, but now that I have found my lane, I try to go deep with approaches that I believe to be most effective, you know what I'm saying?
URBANE: WHY HIP-HOP?
PIPH: There was a point when I was younger where I was getting ostracized because I had this weird condition, and I spent a lot of time by myself. I had pity parties, but then I heard "Lay It Down" for the first time out on the street one day. That bass line! That [mimics bass line]!! I literally got stuck like, "what is that?!" I followed the car. I hadn't heard anything like that before. I remember how I felt…I was like, "I need that!" My life ain't been the same since.
I started listening to rap, and it started clicking. It was all these Black dudes who nobody would've paid attention to normally, sharing their thoughts, their life, and their creativity in a dope fashion. That clicked with me because it was like I ain't gotta wait for anybody to care about my story; I can do it by whatever way I see fit. That was the first click.
I heard a lot of East Coast rap at first, but when I started hearing Suave House, the music brought me in. Just hearing how they flowed over the music and then hearing what they said, telling their own thing – the brashness of it, like "we don't care" – that resonated with me. That was the gateway. I became a student of the game, getting immersed in it. My interest kept growing, and growing, and growing.
There's arguably few things, if any, that have influenced my life as the hip-hop culture has. So now…I can't tell you specifically what the draw is – all of it draws me – from the four disciplines to the different eras of consciousness to the brashness…it all draws me. But too, I see all that going back to the root of Black music and Black history in America. It fuels everything. I don't know anything it doesn't permeate.
URBANE: DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF TO BE A VET?
PIPH: Yeah. Yeah. I don't even have a further explanation. I'm completely kosher knowing that I put a lot of time and work in this, so I wear my Vet status proudly. I'm an active Vet… I'll say it like that.
URBANE: HOW ARE YOU CONNECTED TO ARKANSAS?
PIPH: I was born in New Jersey, but I moved to Pine Bluff when I was seven and grew up there. I'm a proud Pine Bluff High School graduate.
URBANE: WHERE HAS YOUR MUSIC TAKEN YOU – LITERALLY & METAPHORICALLY?
PIPH: I've learned to stay in the moment…to stay present. Things didn't always go the way I wanted all the time, but I learned that however it goes, be in that moment because I can always take something away from it. Like I had something totally different in mind for one project. It didn't go as I thought, but a PBS Special came out of it, and now I'm forming my own show, you know? So just doing that…be in the moment…go hard at it…enjoying the process, man…is dope. I mean, I've had a hellafide life and career off of doing music. It's taken me to 10 countries to immerse myself in different communities and the lives of new friends I've made around the globe, have had tons of shows, and made a decent living from making music that's had an impact. So there's no complaints about everything not working out as originally planned.
URBANE: WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH WITH YOUR MUSIC?
PIPH: I want to impact my culture with my creativity.
URBANE: WHAT PROJECT ARE YOU WORKING ON RIGHT NOW?
PIPH: I'm about to put out a live album in the next few weeks. And I'm leaning heavily toward short-form video content. I got renewed for my Arkansas PBS show called "The Glow with Big Piph." I got another show called "Far From Finished the Series" that I'm producing myself, and we'll see what comes from that. All new music coming will be tied into the show one way or the other.
Also, I got a really dope band, and they consist of two singers: DeeDee Jones and Bijoux; and then the instrumentalists: Corey Harris on bass, Paul Campbell on drums, Dre Franklin on keys, and Chaz Holloway on guitar. We haven't really been able to move around the way we'd like. So I'm trying to get a tour set up for the spring.
URBANE: WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR SOMEONE WANTING TO GET IN THIS INDUSTRY?
PIPH: I would tell them to quit. We say we love this career, so we give and give and give to it with no promise of it loving us back. Stuff you love generally reciprocates that love back, and this career…rarely that. I've seen a lot of my associates struggle with it mentally. Normally you're not doing a lot of self-care because you're keeping crazy hours and not eating right, so if you're not ready for that piece…naw! I'd tell them to quit.
I would map out all the benefits that they could get from this career, but show how they can get all them benefits quicker in another career. If it's money, power, or whatever their success is defined…if that's the bigger purpose and they can get it another way, do it that way.
If I can't get them to quit after all that, they're probably cursed like me – this is something they have to do. Now that they know that, my next thing would be to tell them to form a plan and keep going! It's going to be such a competitive and narrow path, so accept that the process will be extremely hard, and sometimes the sacrifice is insane. But if you still want it, embrace it, map out a plan, try to enjoy the process and be present in now, and absorb as much as possible to get to where you're going. So I just encourage y'all to find balance with this career and take care of your mental health.
URBANE: WHAT WAS YOUR BEGINNING?
PIPH: The early 2000s…those were my professional panhandling days! I was selling CDs everywhere I could…wherever the people where at! From Thursday to Saturday, we had a run – every club on Asher, Wright Avenue, and the gas station parking lots. It was a little dangerous, but we learned how to move. And then we became a staple of the parking lot, so people started looking for us to be out there. They even started watching out for me and warning me where not to be at. One dude told me, "I know the club is going off inside if you out here in the parking lot."
We would hit up college homecomings, Riverfest, and other events where the people would be for a few hours. Then it got to the point that our music was gaining momentum, and people were wondering, "Why are y'all still out here?"…almost like they thought we were just hustlin'. So we had to come up with a different approach. But yeah, I did that for about four years, and then I was like, "naw, let's switch this up a little bit." So I retired that. I saw some things out there, and in retrospect, it was probably not always the smartest thing to do, but…I mean…what was the other choice, you know? We didn't have social media, so we had to get it how we could get it. We were grassroots, and we tried to move as wisely as possible. That was part of the culture. That was our audience. We had to get the music to our audience.
URBANE: WHAT HAS BEEN THE MOST REWARDING EXPERIENCE YOU'VE HAD?
PIPH: In terms of being a creative, I've had a lot of dope moments, like concerts and great experiences; but it's honestly when someone comes up to me to tell me why something in my music resonated with them. To this day! When the music connects…when it surpasses entertainment and speaks to somebody, that always rivals any amazing show. Other than that, when you see the energy – being on stage and see people locked in on you… it's like power…like a certain type of energy that comes from that. There are very few things that come close to match that level.
URBANE: WHAT HAS BEEN THE MOST CHALLENGING EXPERIENCE YOU'VE HAD?
PIPH: The people aspect…this life strains important relationships. Choosing this career and lifestyle keeps one just not being a natural 9-5, in-the-pocket type person, so that's always been a strain on my relationships. More so than that, when certain things go funny, people that are ultra-close just aren't anymore. And it may not be your fault or their fault; it's just the nature of the beast.
For updates on Epiphany's music, follow his music pages on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube—@bigpiph
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I was type 1 for about 50 years when I changed from animal insulins to modern day insulin. That led to my gaining weight and becoming insulin resistant (IR). I had to use a type 2 med to handle the IR. Avandia was the med my doctor chose, and I used it successfully for 12 years, starting in 1999. Avandia was found to cause many users to have heart problems, so my endo would not renew my prescription, and he prescribed Metformin in early 2011.
I have mixed emotions about Metformin. It has enabled me to lose 22 pounds, and I am now only one pound above my ideal weight (185 pounds). That is great, although I have had to buy new clothes and belts. Lol! My insulin resistance has been decreased, and my insulin sensitivity has increased. That is also good.
Metformin was initially introduced as a med to help with weight loss. Later on, it was found to help with with IR. It has caused me to lose some of my appetite, and I don't want to eat as much now. At one time I was losing an average of two pounds per week. To keep from dropping below my ideal weight, I had to increase my carb intake from 130 to 150 carbs per day. My weight has now stabilized. I don't want to eat that many carbs, and sometimes I have to eat when I am not hungry. That is annoying! If I lower my carb intake, then my weight drops too. I have tried lowering my Met dosages, but then my IR increases, and my BG numbers rise a lot. I am taking 1000 mg of Met in the morning and evening.
While using Avandia my BG's were very good, and I stayed in the interval 70-130 about 90% of the time. I have used Met for 15 months, and I have a lot more highs and lows than before. My BG's are now in the 70-130 range only 66% of the time. BG's as low as the high 30s, and as high as the 170s are happening. I did not have those kinds of numbers while on Avandia. I am now on the roller coaster with my BG's, like I was before pumping.
During the first few years of the new century, I was diagnosed with some spots of neuropathy in both eyes, and neuropathy in my feet. That was caused by the unstable control, and the roller coaster I was experiencing. Complications can occur for that reason, even when the A1c is good. My A1c was below 6.0 for several years when those complications were diagnosed. After using a pump for a few months my BG's stabilized a lot, and my retinopathy disappeared. My neuropathy was still there, but the symptoms rarely appeared. The pain was gone. Pumping is great!
Now, while using Met, my roller coaster control has returned, and I am concerned that my retinopathy, and neuropathy pain may return too. My doctor says he has no other med to offer to help me with my IR. Avandia and Actos have both caused damage to many diabetics, so Met seems to be my only choice. I have tweaked the heck out of my pump, trying to get more stable control. It was easy with Avandia, but seemingly impossible with Metformin. I am apparently stuck with Met, and with the more unstable control. I am expecting those complications to return at any time now. Call me a pessimist, but this happened in the past, and it may happen again.


For all the uncountable nuances of their music, Opeth have always had a very down-to-earth approach to their live shows: just five members and a stage, though seasoned experts may already know that this is something of tradition in the prog syndicate. Anyway, Opeth's music, no matter which chapter in their epic saga it hails from, speaks for itself, and a song played live resonates with every morsel of quality as it did when created in the studio.
Anybody acquainted with previous live recordings such as The Roundhouse Tapes and In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall will be able to verify this. And therefore, a new live album, which of course will come with a revised compendium of new and old Opeth songs, is always a welcomed treat!
This particular show, which is titled Garden of the Titans, was filmed on May 11, 2017, at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado, and features a hefty dose of Opeth's latest album Sorceress. They also play a wealth of classics, going back as far as their third 1998 album, My Arms Your Hearse; a pleasing piece of news for fans of the rawer segment of Opeth's career.
As this sampler featuring "Sorceress" proves, the band have lost none of their edge. Garden of the Titans: Live at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre will be released on DVD and Blu Ray on November 2, 2018. You can pre-order now via Moderbolaget Records and Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Be sure to follow Opeth on Facebook to keep up with any news that may arise.
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Cody Ross is somewhere back there, posing as a fry cook.
Episode 26: Undercover Ross is out!
In the twenty-sixth episode, Thomas and Danny survive the Rapture to talk about Mark DeRosa's potentially career-ending wrist injury, Tim Lincecum the Great and Terrible, Cody Ross's hot streak, and Ryan Vogelsong's spot in the rotation.


Eating a salad each day is a simple lifestyle habit that pays valuable nutrition dividends. What you put on your salad, however, can affect its overall nutrients. Instead of loading on the high-fat dressings and other calorie-packed ingredients, toss a cup or two of mixed greens with heart-healthy olive oil and vitamin C-rich lemon juice to ensure you get all the nutrient benefits of your small mixed-greens salad.
A traditional mixeds-green salad is a combination of different lettuces and other greens, such as romaine lettuce, oak leaf lettuce, chard, endive, arugula, spinach, chicory and radicchio, that are lightly tossed with a favorite dressing. You can purchase and combine the individual greens yourself, and packaged greens are available in "washed," "triple-washed" or "ready-to-eat" varieties. Although washing isn't required for these prewashed greens, it's advisable to pour them into a bowl and remove any leaves that are brown, wilted or spoiled.
A small salad is the perfect choice for people who are watching calorie, fat or carbohydrate intake. When averaging the nutrients of a salad made with spinach, romaine lettuce, chard and arugula, a 3.5-ounce serving without dressing provides approximately 21 calories, 2 grams of protein, 0.39 gram of fat, 3.5 grams of carbohydrate, 2 grams of fiber and no cholesterol.
Mixed greens are packed with vital vitamins. Including 3.5 ounces of spinach in your salad, for example, provides 28 milligrams of vitamin C, which is approximately 47 percent of the daily value set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet; 194 micrograms of folate, which is approximately 48 percent of the DV; and more than 100 percent of the DV for vitamin A. Vitamin C helps your body make connective tissue, folate is crucial for new cell development and vitamin A is essential for proper vision. Other dark-colored leafy greens provide similar rich nutrient contents.
Minerals play an essential role in building and maintaining a healthy body. Adding 3.5 ounces of arugula to your salad provides 47 milligrams of magnesium, which is approximately 12 percent of the DV, and 369 milligrams of potassium, which is more than 10 percent of the DV. Including 3.5 ounces of Swiss chard provides 1.8 milligrams of iron, which is 10 percent of the DV. Magnesium is necessary for many chemical reactions, potassium helps maintain your body's fluid balance and iron helps cells carry oxygen throughout your body.


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AGGY - Get Down @aggyxx
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Fri, November 2, 2018 at 12:35 AM
"Get Down" is a song AGGY made about all the people who think they're better than you. Everyone thinks they have the upper-hand on you and can control your ship, when really you're the only one who can master your sea. Whether it's bullying, verbal abuse, physical abuse or just plain arrogance. Stand up to anyone and everyone causing you torment or pain in your life, rise above them; and tell them to Get Down on their MF'in knees for you.
AGGY started writing and recording music at the age of 13, using only a laptop and a cheap audio jack mic. He only recorded for about a year and then took a break to focus on school. During that time period he was still writing music everyday and had multiple notebooks filled with songs and ideas. Late 2016, a friend suggested making a song. Naturally, AGGY agreed. Together they went to Walmart, purchased a headset mic and downloaded a recording program. That night he made his first official song which started his career.
For the next year, AGGY taught himself how to use the program and made dozens of songs for his own pleasure in his room. It wasn't until he felt he mastered the science of mixing, mastering, recording, and engineering; did he buy a professional mic and started dropping songs on Soundcloud in mid 2017. Since then, he has accumulated over 300 fans and 100k plays in total. Currently, he is making music every night and has an abundance of content in his email he has yet to release. He drops songs about every 2 week on Soundcloud, each one sounding better than the last.
AGGY stands out from others with his versatility and originality with every song he makes and proves his immense talent through his music. This is an artist you're going to want to keep an eye on.
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This is one of the foundational truths of Holy Scripture. A mediator is a go-between. He is one who brings about peace between two parties that have been at odds.
Why is there a need for a mediator between God and men?
Sin separates man from God, creates a breach and division between holiness and culpable sinners.
But, God has provided and appointed a mediator to bring about peace between Him and His chosen people. This appointed mediator is Jesus Christ. He does not bring about peace by sweet-talking or bringing both parties to a compromise. He doesn't bring God's standard of justice down and then ask man to give a little more righteousness on his end so that a deal can be reached. Rather, He brings about peace by satisfying God's justice for the wrongs which these sinners have done. By His sacrifice on the Cross and obedience, which He imputes to our account, we are made righteous and accepted before God.
A successful mediation has been obtained by Christ and God is at peace with His people!
Let us emphasize that there is but one mediator, one go-between. Some believe that to have access to God, we must go through some human being, a priest, clergyman, etc. Somehow, the belief seems to be that these "holy men" have better access to God than do we. It is true in the Old Testament, that only the priests could enter the house of God and offer sacrifices.
But in this wonderful New Testament age, the doors have been opened for all of God's people (who are all declared kings and priests – I Peter 2:5) to have free access to God through Jesus Christ!
The writer of Hebrews declared that since we have a great High Priest, Jesus Christ, who is in heaven representing us, let us come boldly to the throne of grace, that we receive mercy and grace from God (Hebrews 4:14-16).
Rejoice, believer! You have access to God by Christ.


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Biggest challenge in completing this project?
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Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft said, "…Yellow Page usage among people say, below fifty, will drop to zero—near zero—over the next five years." That comment may be a bit optimistic but the truth is, the trend is down, down, down. The irony of this fact is: There is an entire industry built around yellow page sales and distribution… the payments on the Lexus must still be made.
· It costs about $20 to generate a call from the Yellow Pages. If you don't answer the phones after hours or if your phone skills are marginal, this cost could be $50 or more. Remember that this is $20 per call, not $20 per job booked! Car dealers spend an average of $200 to get you to walk in the door and you might just kick the tires and leave!
· The display ad that generates the most calls for the expense is the size of a dollar bill… in fact, in yellow page jargon; this is called "a dollar bill." This study was conducted by me from 1991 to 1997, with 9 directories with a separate phone number for every ad. We kept meticulous records. It is my contention that this is true everywhere. When you stack two dollar bill ads on top of each other you have what is generally a quarter-page. This ad might only pull a few more calls and it costs 80% more. A full page ad could cost $50/phone call… been there.
· Many people go to the yellow pages trying to find a plumber when they cannot remember the name… they are searching the book to find this person. That is why it is advisable to have some presence in the yellow pages.
· A few yellow page ads get more first calls than all the others of the same size. In a study of twenty dentist ads of equal size, one ad got 35% of the first calls and most received none. Point is, give some thought to your ad and do not leave it up to the yellow page salesman to "do it for you." Read on, we will talk about this later.
· Yellow page salesmen seldom caution you about increasing their commissions with more and larger advertising. Sometimes their credit department will kick it back, but seldom.
· Most Yellow page directories will try to get you to renew your ad. But this is like taking the first price the car dealer quotes you. Most of the time when you say: "I am not going to advertise in the book this year", you will get a better offer. Many times 3 days before the book goes to press you get a phone call offering half price! Been there!
· In 1976 there was a remodeling contractor that received 75% of his work from the Yellow page book in Fremont, California. The cost was less than 1%. Times have changed! Now there are multiple books by many different publishing companies and the internet has siphoned off a goodly amount of that business. Those were the good old days and that advertising scenario is now unattainable.
Many successful plumbers do not advertise in the Yellow Pages. It is becoming increasingly important to have a website with useful information… but it's all for naught if you don't answer the phone. Every time you fail to answer the phone or mess up the call, picture a $20 bill going down the toilet!
Moderation in all things,The easy route is to become complacent and simply throw money at the problem. An entire industry of telemarketing has been built around questionable advertising like place mats, ball caps, pens and a host of other things. A few, like refrigerator magnets, are OK but that has reached the law of diminishing returns. If you now put every magnet you could on your refrigerator it would look like it contracted chicken pox.
A commonly overlooked method of marketing is simply writing letters to past customers or people that received quotes. The letter should be of compelling interest to the customer with a time dated offer. Read the book The Ultimate Sales Letter by Dan S. Kennedy, because just like Yellow Page ads, some letters work and some don't. I have consulted with plumbers on marketing concerns and arrived to find the office person reading a novel because things are slow…you get the point?
The reason you will call me back is you will enjoy the relationship, good ideas, good work and fair prices.
Now picture a man interacting with his 3 year old daughter and you start to get this warm fuzzy feeling. What's that got to do with plumbing you say? Remember the customer is looking under the plumbing heading…could it not be assumed that everyone under this heading is some kind of plumber? Run your own test…take twenty ads and see which ones customers will call first, you will be surprised.
Small children interacting with adults are top vote producers. One of the best was a three year old girl in a sandbox, on her hands and knees looking up at the camera. In the sand was written, "Please call my grandpa." I found in recreating this photo you have to put black powder in the sand created letters to make them stand out.
· Audience…Will your message must be seen or remembered during a time of need.
· Believability…Are they accepting what you say?
· Personable…Do they sense a friendly, human connection?
· Credibility…Do you prove that other people happily depend on you?
Even though they have the evidence to prove otherwise, Yellow page salesmen do not walk on water. Don't be mesmerized. Remember, as service people all our marketing has but one goal and that is to get your customer to make a phone call to you! With a prepared mind you can control your destiny and win!
Sorry if we have not minced our words here. One reason for it is that collective customer reactions keep companies in check with their prices and services. When you are demanding as a consumer, you help others as well since you tell providers that they cannot get even with their excessive charges. As a final note we, at Car Insurance San Antonio are asking, would love you to save money on car insurance. Hope you will come back to see what we have written lately or get quotes on our platform.


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Sinking to sadism: Some thoughts on Eli Roth
'Hostel' director Eli Roth
Eli Roth has a theory about why horror films are doing well in spite of the fact that television screens are filled with images of another kind of horror — the war in Iraq.
Listen to him, this 35-year-old Hollywood director, discussing the issue on FOXNews.
"Thanks to George Bush and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, there's a whole new wave of horror movies," Roth said.
Incredulous, host Neil Cavuto pressed for clarification.
"Because of what's going on in the war, and because of what's happening, people have a need to scream," Roth helpfully explained. "And people are afraid and they're thinking about this stuff. Seeing it on screen and screaming about it really gets it out of your system. It helps you deal with the terror of the things that you can't control."
That, according to Roth, is "the truth of the matter."
Roth is sufficiently insipid that he ordinarily wouldn't be regarded as figure of authority in a television interview. But the man has credentials: His horror movies have made a lot of money for Lionsgate. His latest film, "Hostel: Part 2," opened last weekend.
For the uninitiated, this is the inevitable sequel to Roth's original "Hostel," which grossed $20 million its opening weekend in January 2005. The premise: Young Americans traveling abroad are kidnapped so that wealthy psychopaths can, for amusement, torture and murder them.
The Marquis de Sade would have been proud, and that's not a compliment.
Little is left to the imagination. There's no tongue-in-cheek sensibility. Roth and other "splat-pack" directors may cough up preposterous narratives to justify their images, but the violence itself — and not just the violence, but the victim's terror and physical suffering — is rendered in the most excruciatingly realistic manner possible.
"Hostel: Part 2" is the latest of increasingly sick films that critics have dubbed "torture porn." Laughably, Roth objects to the term.
Little is to be gained by howling about these films. Of course they're awful. And Roth can't wave off the criticism as indignant bleating by cultural conservatives, politically-correct liberals or stuffy critics. In fact, some horror fans object to this trend.
Roth certainly didn't invent this filth. He's also not the only one making it. The makers of "Wolf Creek," the "Saw" franchise, "Turistas" and the upcoming "Captivity" all qualify for this cinematic hall of shame.
There is a long, even honorable, tradition of horror cinema, both in the U.S. and abroad. In the medium's first century, the genre produced some brilliant, imaginative works — many made by older filmmakers who had seen something of the world and its excesses.
Obviously, it's also produced a lot of garbage — and it doesn't help Roth's case that he claims (proudly, even) to have been inspired by the worst of it — the cheap exploitation films of the 1970s such as "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Last House on the Left."
So, the problem is not horror films. Or violence in films.
Speaking on MTV.com, Roth marvels that anyone could call "Hostel" torture-porn when, he insists, that his entire point is that for those people for whom sex no longer provides a sufficient rush, violence is, in its way, a kind of pornography.
Please. I've seen "Hostel." I've heard Roth's innane ramblings on the DVD's commentary track. We are not talking about someone who has a point.
It's not enough to say, as Roth does, that the current state of the world — which did not begin and will not end with President Bush — has helped fuel a spate in sadistic horror films. There is no question that horror in the real world is reflected in the reel world. That's a no-brainer.
But the director conveniently leaves himself out of this complex equation.
Lest one attribute Roth's output to youthful ignorance, remember: Orson Welles was 26 when he made "Citizen Kane." Francis Ford Coppola was 33 when he made "The Godfather."
To be precise, the American petri dish has produced cultural retrogrades like Roth, someone who appears to know little about the world, doesn't seem to care and regards the carnage in Iraq and the horrors at Abu Ghraib as convenient excuses to make and champion films wallowing in sadism.
He takes great joy in this, as his profanity-laden, stream-of-consciousness ruminations, posted on his MySpace page, attest. His remarks — damning evidence that he clearly isn't thinking about "this stuff," or thinking about anything — sound like the ravings of some hyperactive adolescent with no moral compass.
His only flash of seriousness comes not when he is discussing Iraq or Guantanamo, but when he objects to his work being labeled "torture porn."
So we can hardly be surprised that someone as vacuous and indifferent to human suffering as Roth makes films like "Hostel." What else would he make?
But here's the thing ... how did he happen?
What is it about American society today that produces filmmakers whose response to horror in the real world is not to question or criticize it, but get off on it?
This essay was originally published by the News-Register on June 17, 2007.
Note: Two years after I wrote this essay, the film journal Cineaste published an excellent analysis by Christopher Sharrett on "The Problem of Saw: 'Torture Porn' and the Conservatism of Contemporary Horror Films." The article appears in the Winter 2009 issue, and is very much worth reading.


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Michael Nali CBE (born 1961) is a Papua New Guinean politician.  He was the leader of the People's Progress Party from 2002 to 2007 and was Member of Parliament for the electorate of Mendi Open, in Southern Highlands Province, from 1992 until 2007. During this period he held various ministerial positions, including Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry.  At the 2007 general election he chose to contest the Southern Highlands Provincial electorate, which was won by Anderson Agiru.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

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1961 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
People from the Southern Highlands Province
People's Progress Party politicians
Deputy Prime Ministers of Papua New Guinea

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Кубок Стамбула 2010 — профессиональный женский теннисный турнир. Играется на открытых хардовых кортах.

Турнир-2010 является уже 9-м по счёту, проводящимся здесь. В этом году он относился к международной категории турниров, проводящихся в рамках WTA Тура.

Соревнования проходили в Стамбуле с 26 июля по 1 августа 2010 года. Турнир являлся одним из последних соревнований WTA в Европе до US Open.

Первым номером посева в одиночном турнире стала Франческа Скьявоне (№ 8 в мире на тот момент).

Одиночный разряд

Первые раунды

Секция 1

Секция 2

Финал

Факты
 В четвёртый раз в сезоне в финале играют представители одной страны и во второй раз этой страной является Россия.
 Анастасия Павлюченкова выигрывает свой второй титул WTA во втором финале. В обоих случаях она была третьей сеяной. Оба турнира проходили на харде. В обоих финалах Анастасия уступает первый сет.
 Елена Веснина уступает свой третий финал WTA из трёх. Впервые она берёт сет.
 Титул Павлюченковой стал 10-м для россиянок на одиночных соревнованиях WTA в сезоне.

Парный разряд

Факты
 Элени Данилиду впервые более чем за 6 лет побеждает на турнире WTA. В финалах гречанка не была 2,5 года.
 Серия без парных титулов у Ясмин Вёр длилась ещё дольше — с февраля 2004 года. Последний парный финал у них был совместным — в Хобарте-2008.
 Мария Кондратьева в четвёртый раз за год в финалах турниров WTA. В третий раз она оступается в решающем матче.
 Дуэт Кондратьева / Углиржова вторую неделю подряд в финале турнира WTA. В прошлый раз они выиграли титул.

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт
 Профиль на сайте WTA

См. также
 Кубок Стамбула по теннису
 WTA Тур 2010
 Международные турниры WTA
 Портал: Теннис

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For the second year, the El Dorado Arts Council asked Dawn Roberti of Natural Flair Custom Floral Design to use flowers to design a piece that mimics a work of art at its annual Flowers Speak To Art. Each florist was randomly given a piece of artwork created by a local artist on which to base their floral designs. The works of art were pieces of bricolage, which means to create art from a variety of everyday things that happen to be available.
Dawn was presented with a yard art sculpture made of a wooden wagon filled with glass sculptures. Her task was to recreate the art using flowers. It was a challenge, but Dawn was up for it!
She used a galvanized bucket, glass plates, glass tubes, glass hurricanes and various colored glass to recreate the piece, incorporating wires, branches and flowers to complete the piece. Allium, Iris, pin cushion protea, bells of Ireland, status, croton leaves and ranunculas were arranged in the various containers to recreate the yard art piece.
The result was a beautiful, original work of floral art that resembled the piece created by the artist. Dawn was on hand to explain her floral art piece to visitors at the event. Check out the photo of Dawn's creation in this post.


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A world in lockdown: adapting to remote testing
Lucas Gade of Atlas English helps Brunel set up their tests.
Amongst the many disruptions caused by the covid-19 pandemic has been the closure of IELTS test centres and widespread postponement of IELTS tests. For most students, schools and universities this has brought the academic application process to a halt — but not for all. Brunel University, UK normally uses IELTS to assess applicants' English level. Several tests were scheduled in March for candidates in China. When these were cancelled, rather than disrupt their students further, Brunel improvised and adapted by moving rapidly to online testing.
The online alternative that was chosen was the Dynamic Placement Test (DPT) — a 30-minute, adaptive three-skills English placement test that could be set up and deployed quickly. Content created by telc Language Tests (the EU's language testing specialist) ensures a high level of accuracy and reliability, while a solid technical infrastructure makes it possible to run the test anywhere, on the candidates' own devices. Ms Yodi Yu, China Recruitment Manager at Brunel, says "as the administrator, the system is clear and allows me to check which students are doing the test, which ones have completed it, and immediately check the result". By adapting existing resources and using technology, Brunel University has been able to test applicants accurately and reliably in the safety of their own homes.
For Brunel's purposes, DPT would be replacing IELTS — a comprehensive, 3-hour examination — so modifications were made to the test set-up and execution. Firstly, the test (which assesses Reading, Listening and Language Elements) would be supplemented by a 40-minute writing task and a 5-minute online interview to provide a more holistic overview of the candidates' language ability. Secondly, the test would be invigilated remotely.
Atlas English, provider of DPT to Brunel, assisted with the initial set-up by importing students' details, creating accounts, and scheduling tests. Students were made aware of the test in advance and that it would take place in a different format to IELTS.
Students were scheduled into two test groups and informed of test days.
An automated welcome email was sent out to candidates the day before the test with login details and access instructions.
Students with unreliable internet connections were advised to access the offline version of the test (explained further below).
Test-takers were divided between three invigilators who monitored the students over Zoom. (explained further below).
Ms Yodi Yu, the administrator, used the Admin Panel to monitor the tests real-time and access results and certificates once they were complete.
Before and after DPT, teachers conducted the productive skills tasks and collated all data for an overall score per candidate.
By adapting existing resources and using technology, Brunel University has been able to test applicants accurately and reliably in the safety of their own homes.
Invigilation
As a high-stakes test conducted in lieu of IELTS, security and invigilation were key considerations. There are features built into DPT to detect and prevent cheating, including an anomaly tracker and the nature of the question types. However, as the test would be conducted remotely, an added level of security was added to ensure the candidates were the ones taking the test. Test administrators at Brunel split the test-takers into groups of seven and used Zoom (video-conferencing software) to invigilate them while they took the test.
Reflection and Advice
Looking back at the first few rounds of pilot tests, Yodi shares her experience of what went well and key learning points that can help future iterations.
The first piece of advice addresses internet connectivity issues. Some candidates in the first test group with unstable internet connections ran into audio issues with the listening questions. Yodi addressed this with later test groups by having them run the offline version of the test. The offline version downloads test content before the test begins and uploads responses automatically once an internet connection becomes available – and thus does not require an active internet connection while the test is taking place. "I would suggest that you let the students download the test at least one day before the test starts", says Yodi.
Secondly, she suggests sharing lots of information on the test with candidates beforehand — especially with regard to the question types. This is to give them time to adjust and prepare, as it is "quite different from the IELTS" that the students have been preparing for.
With regard to DPT's Admin Panel, Yodi found it "easy to use". The team at Atlas English provided support in setting up student accounts, but she found the system intuitive: easy to login, navigate the Admin Panel, and monitor the students' results herself.
The Dynamic Placement Test is very different from the IELTS — both in form and in function — and adapting it for this purpose did present challenges. However, by flexibly reacting to changes and taking advantage of available resources and technologies, Brunel was able to test applicants safely, reliably and quickly.
If you would like to learn more about remote testing and the Dynamic Placement Test, email me at elinorstokes@atlasenglish.co.uk
Test familiarisation for students
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by Elinor Stokes, Online English Specialist, Atlas English
The importance of placement testing
Computer-delivered IELTS: why you must try it out
This blog explores the experience of using technology to teach and learn English. Over the first 12 months we will interview teachers, librarians, researchers and students from around the world — and will present their thoughts and concerns in a concise and stimulating format. Please share your own experiences with us.


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Q: Convert NSGradient to NSColor Is it possible to convert an NSGradient to an NSColor
- (void) viewWillDraw {
    NSGradient *grad = [[NSGradient alloc] initWithStartingColor:[NSColor lightGrayColor]    endingColor:[NSColor darkGrayColor]];
    [super setBackgroundColor:*gradient*;
}

This is my method, I want to be able to pass the NSGradient in as an NSColor, which obviously i cant, is there any way to convert it to one?

A: On 10.8, you can create, in the following order:

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*A block that draws the gradient however you like.

*An image that is backed by the block.

*A color that repeats the image as a pattern.
In this way, you can create a color that looks like anything, including a gradient.
That said, this may not work correctly with window resizing if you try to have the gradient adapt to the size of the background (by using the rect passed to the block) and the background is of a text view in a scroll view. (When I tried it awhile back, the pattern didn't redraw the block; it simply tiled, which looked weird in at least one dimension.) If either your gradient or your window is fixed in size, then you will not have that problem.

A: NSGradient is not Convertible to NSColor.

The NSGradient class provides support for drawing gradient fill
  colors, also known as shadings in Quartz. This class provides
  convenience methods for drawing radial or linear (axial) gradients for
  rectangles and NSBezierPath objects.

As you want to set the viewBackground to to an effect (Gradient effect) you need to do as:
[grad drawInRect:<the rect of your view> angle:270]; //angle is upto your requirement,


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January 31, 2014 Categories: News IT
Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Ranking listed DreamOrbit in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2013 Winners Report.
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News from Paraguay
Sent by Airea na and translated by Mulabi
FEMALE CABINET MEMBERS IN THE NEW GOVERNMENT WILL WORK AGAINST DISCRIMINATION
On Thursday, July 24, Airea na (lesbian rights group) organized a round table under the title "Thoughts on an inclusive State". At the round table, five female ministers and vice-ministers for the new Paraguayan government – Esperanza Martínez (Health), Lilian Soto (Public Office), Liz Torres (Children and Adolescents), Gloria Rubin (Women) and Karina Rodríguez (Youth) discussed the inclusion of sexual diversity in public policies.
All of them agree on the need to provoke of cultural change, to be achieved through a human rights framework under which all individuals are entitled to all rights. Esperanza Martinez highlighted the importance of universal public health policies, covering the entire population. Lilian Soto stressed the need to develop a training plan for public officers and the inclusion of non-discrimination as criteria for accessing and keeping State jobs. Liz Torres explained that respect for sexual diversity was a challenge for the Children and Adolescent Secretary, that is already working under a human rights framework aimed at including the whole range of human rights for children and adolescents. Karina Rodriguez noted that the support of youth civil society organizations was key to develop public policies that are inclusive of LGBT youth. Gloria Rubin referred to the difficulties for advancing these issues in a conservative society while expressing her deep commitment to implement inclusive policies and the support she will provide to the bill against discrimination that is currently being discussed (Note: It is a very broad bill that includes sexual orientation and was developed by civil society and political parties, including the now ruling coalition).
For Airea na, the fact that "all" female cabinet members in the new government had agreed to be present at the round table and to discuss their concerns and commitments to build an inclusive state where all people are entitled to all rights with the audience and with society as a whole is historic. As an organization, this achievement makes us even more committed to influencing policies with the aim of generating political and cultural changes that will allow us all to live in a society with more justice and less discrimination.
The round table took place in the context of the 4th Asuncion LesBiGayTrans Movie Festival.
Airea na
lsb@highway.com.py
Alejandra Sardá
Mulabi- Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos
García Lorca 55 – Buenos Aires – Argentina
(54 11) 49 88 15 31
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We've been bombarded by psychedelic music from the new bands all over the world (thanks to Tame Impala who might have influenced the other new bands for picking up this genre to their bloods), speaking of this 'trend', this week's 'The Next Big Thing' brings up one of the hypest up-and-coming bands who've been talked on so many music magazines, Glass Animals. Glass Animals are an Oxford quarter consist of Dave Bayley, Drew MacFarlane, Edmund Irwin-Singer, Joe Seaward. The band started gaining the limelight with their indie elctronic, R n' B, and psychedelic infusion, and everything hit the bar when Paul Epworth scouted them.
The members grew up together and went the schools where music is definitely not being something that matters, and it all started when Dave gave Drew some of his songs. "I just started writing late at night because I was a bit bored and I showed it to Drew and he was like, 'Oh, that's pretty cool'. Drew and I put it online on MySpace, which was all the rage back then, then basically told the other two that they were in a band with us and they were like, 'Yeah okay cool', and that was it." Dave explained to Australia's Tone Deaf. The band had been stumbled in an on-and-off condition since the members live in a different four cities which made it quite hard for them to do a rehearsal. But then, the band decided to pour all of their times for music and released their LP 'Leaflings' via Kaya Kaya. However their debut LP was not strong enought to put them on the map, and it took Paul Epworth to fire up the steam. After working with XL's Kaya Kaya, the band moved to Epworth's Wolf Tone. Just like what we predicted, Epworth's midas touch that worked on Friendly Fires, Florence Welch and the famously known Adele, is followed by Glass Animals. Paul Epworth pushed the band to surpass their boundaries and experimented the band with new instruments which led them to their infectious tracks.
Glass Animals' music will remind you to Alt-J and Radiohead. With a smooth and tingling sound, you'll be taken afloat to their hallucinating grooves. Dave's gentle vocals also drive the ambience that does not sound over powering but strong. To make some contraries, the Oxford-based band sound so elusive with their RnB influence but the drums make their music sounded traditional, in a good way. Their songs like 'Psylla' or 'Gooey' has a sentimental mood in an addictive tune, it is weirdly good which will keep you in a replay mode, the only thing that we can think of from their musics is a slow trippy dancing. It's hard to describe their music but according to the band, "Like the sound of unicorns whispering, but with no cowbell. Probably not actually… We take inspiration from lots of different places. Dance music to R&B and also more traditional bands, which means we've ended up with a weird, psychedelic cocktail of electronic and organic sound. It's probably easier to just have a listen really." Said by Dave on how they would describe their music to the fans who have never heard their music.
The band will release their debut album, 'ZABA', in June 2014. We might be going to hear more of unicorns' whispers or a sticky oozy song like 'Gooey' on their full length album. One thing for sure, the band who attracted bunch of attention after their show at SXSW, are going to give us something good and addictive.
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EXCLUSIVE: THE INSIDE STORY ON HOW BT BROUGHT FM IN-HOUSE
In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with Martin Steele, MD of corporate services at BT, PFM hears how and why BT brought its FM services in-house. This is a glimpse of some of the topics covered - the full version will be published in the August print edition of PFM. In order to ensure you receive a copy of the August print edition, register here
Last year BT took over ownership of Monteray, a joint venture between three established FM companies, which was at the time its service provider. The new company is called BT Facilities Services (BTFS) operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of BT. While it comes under the umbrella of BT it remains a company in its own right. Martin Steele outlines the process that led to BT acquiring Monteray, and how matters have moved on since.
Some questions we asked Steele included how the relationship between BT and Monteray - the original FM provider - came about. He explains how things had changed by the time he joined BT in 2008 and when was the decision made to acquire Monteray in the first place.
He explains how the process towards insourcing progressed from then and - once the decision was made - why it wasn't publicised wholesale in the national press. Nobody was let go after the acquisition, and Steele points out the effect that naming the new entity BT Facilities Services (BTFS) had on all concerned.
Steele gives insight into the steps he took after the acquisition. ''Overnight, I was given the financial headroom to do the things we wanted - reinvest in the business, save money on the bottom line. We knew broadly what that would look like before we put the deal together.''
When asked whether BT brought every aspect of FM back in-house, Steele explains why this wasn't possible in some instances. ''Catering, for instance, has always been performed by a third party – Eurest, which is part of Compass – and that is still the case. I don't believe that will ever be insourced because it's a really specialist service, as you'll appreciate.''
He explains how BTFS is working towards becoming more specialist in some areas, and provides his views on outsourcing in general. He also emphasises the importance of learning and development on his agenda and explains the career opportunities now available for BTFS employees. ''We're putting a lot of money and effort into ensuring our learning and development programmes are top class. And we want our people to progress through the business; I want people in BTFS to get jobs in BT, and cross-transfer, and have access to wider opportunities across BT.''
Looking ahead, he explains where he sees BTFS' priorities. Of great interest to service providers however will be his views on FM contracts. He explains what he thinks is key to successful long-term contracts, and what FM service providers should be doing to retain clients' confidence and business.
He talks about the importance of energy management when he insources, and says emotional re-engagement isn't possible without insourcing. ''I think the answer is you can't. If you want to go down that path, I'll be happy to help you down it, and maybe in three or five years' time we'll work with you to bring it back into your organisation, if you're big enough or if you have the right critical mass. What we have in BTFS is that geographical reach, and we can leverage that.''
Steele gives details of the portfolio of buildings for which he's responsible. ''My team is responsible for corporate services in BT's global operations; this incorporates 7,000 properties in the UK and around 500 properties internationally. Within that range of properties we have contact centres with a thousand people in them taking calls about BT Sport, selling broadband services or answering emergency 999 calls.''
He talks about how work is progressing for BT on iCITY and how BTFS will be different.