Caitlin Shufelberger, Senior Business Development Manager for Daymon's consumer experience marketing team, was recently named a Rising Star in the retail industry by Progressive Grocer's Top Women in Grocery. She was recognized for her efforts in creating countless creative marketing concepts for grocers and brands, and for helping to launch the company's newest Brands2Desk programs. This month, Retail News Insider sat down with her to find out more about how she identifies opportunities like these.
RNI: Can you tell us a little bit about your history with Daymon?
CS: I've been with the company for two and a half years. Originally I was brought on to help manage a specific QSR account that needed focused attention. Once the project came to completion, I transitioned to more of a business development role across all customers, drumming up new business and helping to drive growth through existing clients. One of the things I appreciate most about Interactions is the opportunity for growth—the more you're willing to take on, the more opportunity there is.
RNI: Finding and developing opportunities is also a key part of your current job. How do you go about it?
CS: There are a lot of opportunities that come through our other Daymon business units. For example, if our Brand Development team hears of an opportunity where one of our retail partners is in need of ongoing marketing assistance, or they're opening new stores or launching new products, they will reach out to our team for support. For other services like our new Brands2Desk program, we are leveraging our entire client base to offer a unique way to reach at-work consumers. We're always working closely with our clients to identify new opportunities to help them raise the bar and remain competitive.
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In 2018 the Taiwan Season returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for a fifth consecutive year with some of the best live performances being made on the island today. Drawn from an open call to practitioners of all art forms in Taiwan, this season of uniquely entertaining dance and theatre is curated by the key Fringe venues Dance Base and Summerhall.
Taiwan Season 2018 invites audiences to experience a range of ideas, emotions and flavours in a hand-picked sampling of some the most stimulating contemporary performances from Taiwan. Whether the tone is playful or dramatic, and based in bubbly fantasy or stark reality, these four shows embrace a gamut of creative impulses, varied settings and complex themes.
Collaborating with the prize-winning Israeli choreographer Eyal Dadon, the four real-life brothers of Chang Dance Theatre take to the stage in a smart, fresh and engaging story of memories and mangoes. Bon 4 Bon is the first work in which the siblings perform together, using material that expresses their individual experiences of being related. The result? A touching and humorous look at the slippery rhythms and habitual behaviours of family.
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Taiwan's premier indigenous dance-theatre company presents an artfully patterned, open-hearted performance in which private feelings are always on the verge of being made public. Both physically and emotionally charged, Tjimur Dance Theatre's evocative work embraces a bounty of intoxicating sensations. By doing so, they bring ancient Paiwan cultural traditions appealingly up to date. Every human heart holds profound secrets – an awareness that lends the impulses behind Varhung – Heart to Heart a distinctly universal resonance.
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In Once Upon a Daydream, a bouncy, colourful but lonely single female invites you into a light-hearted world of live action and hand-crafted animation. Originally created for Sun Son Theatre by a visual artist and actor, this disarming show is a 21st-century urban fairytale where the line between real life and fantasy is sweetly blurred and dreams can come true.
Once Upon a Daydream, Summerhall, 3–26 Aug (not 6, 13, 20), 2.40pm, £8 (£6). Previews 1 & 2 Aug, £5. Suitable for ages 5+.
The Delusion of Home is a strong, bitingly witty and original documentary-style depiction of everyday life refracted through one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies. Oyster farming and Taoist funeral rites are as much of a touchstone as King Lear in Our Theatre's character-driven study of displacement, poverty, homelessness and the search for meaning and renewal. Live performance and projected photographs of the declining villages of Taiwan's southern coastline are skilfully integrated to illuminate sometimes harsh human truths.
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Event modeling systems provide a semantic interpretation of sequences of pixels that are captured by a video camera. The design of a practical system has to take into account the following three main factors: low-level preprocessing limitations, computational and storage complexity of the event model, and user interaction. The hidden Markov model (HMM) and its variants have been widely used to model both speech and video signals. Computational efficiency of the Baum-Welch and the Viterbi algorithms has been a leading reason for the popularity of the HMM. Since the objective is to detect events in video sequences that are meaningful to humans, one might want to provide space in the design loop for a user who can specify events of interest. This chapter explores this using semantic approaches that not only use features extracted from raw video streams but also incorporate metadata and ontologies of activities. It presents three approaches for applications such as event recognition: anomaly detection, temporal segmentation, and ontology evaluation. The three approaches discussed are statistical methods based on HMMs, formal grammars, and ontologies. The effectiveness of these approaches is illustrated using video sequences captured both indoors and outdoors: the indoor UCF human action dataset, the TSA airport tarmac surveillance dataset, and the bank monitoring dataset.


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ALAVETELI_TEST_THEME = 'whatdotheyknow-theme'
require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__),'..','..','..','..','spec','spec_helper'))

describe UserInfoRequestSentAlert, "when patched by the whatdotheyknow-theme" do

  it 'should allow an alert type of "survey_1"' do
    info_request_sent_alert = UserInfoRequestSentAlert.new(:alert_type => 'survey_1')
    expect(info_request_sent_alert).to be_valid
  end

end

describe User, 'when patched by whatdotheyknow-theme' do

  describe '#can_send_survey?' do
    let(:user) { FactoryBot.create(:user) }
    subject { user.can_send_survey? }

    before do
      allow(AlaveteliConfiguration).
        to receive(:send_survey_mails).and_return(true)
    end

    context 'a survey has not been sent to an active user' do

      before do
        allow(user).to receive(:survey).
          and_return(double('survey', :already_done? => false))
      end

      it { is_expected.to eq(true) }

    end

    context 'a survey has already been sent' do

      before do
        allow(user).to receive(:survey).
          and_return(double('survey', :already_done? => true))
      end

      it { is_expected.to eq(false) }

    end

    context 'the user is not active' do

      before do
        allow(user).to receive(:active?).and_return(false)
      end

      it { is_expected.to eq(false) }

    end

  end

end

describe RequestMailer, 'when patched by whatdotheyknow-theme' do

  context 'when SEND_SURVEY_MAILS is set' do

    before do
      allow(AlaveteliConfiguration).to receive(:send_survey_mails).and_return(true)
      InfoRequest.destroy_all
      ActionMailer::Base.deliveries = []
    end

    def get_surveyable_request(user=nil)
      info_request = if user
        FactoryBot.create(:info_request, :user => user)
      else
        FactoryBot.create(:info_request)
      end
      info_request.created_at = Time.now - (2.weeks + 1.hour)
      info_request.save!
      info_request
    end

    it 'sends survey alerts' do
        expect(RequestMailer).to receive(:alert_survey)
        RequestMailer.alert_new_response_reminders
    end

    context 'when there is a requester who has not been sent a survey alert' do

      it 'sends a survey alert' do
        allow_any_instance_of(User).to receive(:survey).
          and_return(double('survey', :already_done? => false))
        get_surveyable_request
        RequestMailer.alert_new_response_reminders
        expect(ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size).to eq(1)
      end

      it 'records the sending of the alert' do
        allow_any_instance_of(User).to receive(:survey).
          and_return(double('survey', :already_done? => false))
        info_request = get_surveyable_request
        RequestMailer.alert_new_response_reminders
        expect(info_request.user.user_info_request_sent_alerts.size).
          to eq(1)
      end

    end

    context 'when there is a requester who has been sent a survey alert' do

      it 'does not send a survey alert' do
        allow_any_instance_of(User).to receive(:survey).
          and_return(double('survey', :already_done? => false))
        info_request = get_surveyable_request
        info_request.user.user_info_request_sent_alerts.
          create(:alert_type => 'survey_1',
                  :info_request_id => info_request.id)
        RequestMailer.alert_new_response_reminders
        expect(ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size).to eq(0)
      end

    end

    context 'when there is a requester who has previously filled in the survey' do

      it 'does not send a survey alert' do
        allow_any_instance_of(User).to receive(:survey).
          and_return(double('survey', :already_done? => true))
        get_surveyable_request
        RequestMailer.alert_new_response_reminders
        expect(ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size).to eq(0)
      end
    end

    context 'when a user has made multiple qualifying requests' do

      it 'does not send multiple alerts' do
        allow_any_instance_of(User).to receive(:survey).
          and_return(double('survey', :already_done? => false))
        request = get_surveyable_request
        get_surveyable_request(request.user)
        RequestMailer.alert_new_response_reminders
        expect(ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size).to eq(1)
      end
    end

    context 'when a user is inactive' do

      it 'does not send a survey alert' do
        allow_any_instance_of(User).to receive(:survey).
          and_return(double('survey', :already_done? => false))
        allow_any_instance_of(User).to receive(:active?).
          and_return(false)
        get_surveyable_request
        RequestMailer.alert_new_response_reminders
        expect(ActionMailer::Base.deliveries.size).to eq(0)
      end

    end

  end

  context 'when SEND_SURVEY_MAILS is not set' do

    before do
      allow(AlaveteliConfiguration).to receive(:send_survey_mails).and_return(false)
    end

    it 'does not send survey alerts ' do
      expect(RequestMailer).not_to receive(:alert_survey)
      RequestMailer.alert_new_response_reminders
    end

  end

end

describe InfoRequest, "when creating an email subject for a request" do

  it 'should create a standard request subject' do
    info_request = FactoryBot.build(:info_request)
    expect(info_request.email_subject_request).
      to eq("Freedom of Information request - #{info_request.title}")
  end

  it 'should create a special request subject for requests to the General Register Office' do
    info_request = FactoryBot.build(:info_request)
    allow(info_request.public_body).to receive(:url_name).and_return('general_register_office')
    expect(info_request.email_subject_request).
      to eq("Freedom of Information request GQ - #{info_request.title}")
  end

  it 'should be able to create an email subject request for a batch request template without
      a public body' do
    info_request = FactoryBot.build(:info_request)
    info_request.public_body = nil
    info_request.is_batch_request_template = true
    expect(info_request.email_subject_request).
      to eq("Freedom of Information request - #{info_request.title}")
  end

end

describe InfoRequest do

  describe '#late_calculator' do
    subject { InfoRequest.new(:public_body => FactoryBot.build(:public_body)) }

    it 'returns a DefaultLateCalculator' do
      expect(subject.late_calculator).
        to be_instance_of(DefaultLateCalculator)
    end

    it 'caches the late calculator' do
      expect(subject.late_calculator).to equal(subject.late_calculator)
    end

    it 'returns a SchoolLateCalculator if the associated body is a school' do
      subject.public_body = FactoryBot.build(:public_body, :tag_string => 'school')
      expect(subject.late_calculator).
        to be_instance_of(SchoolLateCalculator)
    end

  end

end

describe InfoRequest, "when calculating the status for a school" do

  before do
    @ir = info_requests(:naughty_chicken_request)
    @ir.public_body.tag_string = "school"
    expect(@ir.public_body.is_school?).to eq(true)
  end

  it "has expected sent date" do
    expect(@ir.last_event_forming_initial_request.outgoing_message.last_sent_at.strftime("%F")).to eq('2007-10-14')
  end

  it "has correct due date" do
    expect(@ir.date_response_required_by.strftime("%F")).to eq('2007-11-09')
  end

  it "has correct very overdue after date" do
    expect(@ir.date_very_overdue_after.strftime("%F")).to eq('2008-01-11') # 60 working days for schools
  end

  it "isn't overdue on due date (20 working days after request sent)" do
    allow(Time).to receive(:now).and_return(Time.utc(2007, 11, 9, 23, 59))
    expect(@ir.calculate_status).to eq('waiting_response')
  end

  it "is overdue a day after due date (20 working days after request sent)" do
    allow(Time).to receive(:now).and_return(Time.utc(2007, 11, 10, 00, 01))
    expect(@ir.calculate_status).to eq('waiting_response_overdue')
  end

  it "is still overdue 40 working days after request sent" do
    allow(Time).to receive(:now).and_return(Time.utc(2007, 12, 10, 23, 59))
    expect(@ir.calculate_status).to eq('waiting_response_overdue')
  end

  it "is still overdue the day after 40 working days after request sent" do
    allow(Time).to receive(:now).and_return(Time.utc(2007, 12, 11, 00, 01))
    expect(@ir.calculate_status).to eq('waiting_response_overdue')
  end

  it "is still overdue 60 working days after request sent" do
    allow(Time).to receive(:now).and_return(Time.utc(2008, 01, 11, 23, 59))
    expect(@ir.calculate_status).to eq('waiting_response_overdue')
  end

  it "is very overdue the day after 60 working days after request sent" do
    allow(Time).to receive(:now).and_return(Time.utc(2008, 01, 12, 00, 01))
    expect(@ir.calculate_status).to eq('waiting_response_very_overdue')
  end

end

describe PublicBody do

  describe '.extract_domain_from_email' do

    it 'extracts the domain part of a valid email address' do
      result = PublicBody.
        extract_domain_from_email('some.email+address@example.com')
      expect(result).to eq('example.com')
    end

    it 'returns nil if the email is invalid' do
      result = PublicBody.
        extract_domain_from_email('invalid.email+address.example.com')
      expect(result).to be_nil
    end

    it 'replaces various uk-specific government domains' do
      emails = ['person@example.gsi.gov.uk',
                'person@example.x.gov.uk',
                'person@example.pnn.gov.uk']

      emails.each do |email|
        result = PublicBody.extract_domain_from_email(email)
        expect(result).to eq('example.gov.uk')
      end
    end

    it 'does not replace addresses similar to uk-specific government domains' do
      emails = ['attacker@example.gov.gsi.uk',
                'attacker@example.gov.x.uk',
                'attacker@example.gov.pnn.uk',
                'attacker@example.gsi.gov.uk.example.com']

      emails.each do |email|
        result = PublicBody.extract_domain_from_email(email)
        expect(result).to_not eq('example.gov.uk')
      end
    end

  end

end

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Breeders' Cup 'Win and You're In' Preview: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes
The Breeder's Cup "Win and You're In" series will take us to Ascot on Saturday for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (GI). The winner of this affair will have free entry into the 2016 Breeders' Cup Turf run at Santa Anita Park later this fall.
The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes took a hit early in the week, as the top distance turf horse in the world, Postponed, fell ill with an upper-respiratory infection and was forced to be withdrawn from the race.
All is not doom and gloom for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, however, as a solid field of seven have drawn for the contest. The race features a rematch between Highland Reel, who just missed against Dartmouth at Royal Ascot last month.
We also have some horses looking to cash their free ticket to the Breeders' Cup. Let's take a look at the contenders.
7-Wings of Desire (7-2) represents the lone three-year-old in the race, but he has a big opportunity here. He just knocked heads against two budding superstars in Harzand and US Army Ranger in the Epsom Derby (GI). Two starts back, he defeated the Belmont Derby Invitational winner (Deauville) handily in the Dante Stakes. He also gets a huge 12-pound break in the weights against his elders. Lot's to like here. He's my top choice.
1-Dartmouth (2-1) is 3-for-3 this season, including the victory by a head over Highland Reel last month in the Hardwicke Stakes (GII). He showed some grit in that affair and not having to face the likes of Postponed will help his chances to stay perfect on the year. The one to beat.
3-Highland Reel (5-2) has been knocking heads with some of Europe's best distance horses and finally showed some signs of life in his latest when losing by a head against Dartmouth. He does have some back class, as he won the Hong Kong Vase (GI) and the Secretariat (GI) last season. A return to last year's form would make him quite scary in here.
6-Western Hymn (20-1) flopped against Hawkbill and The Gurkha earlier this month in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes (GI), but, besides that effort, this horse is a steady producer and is always in the thick of things. He owns two wins, three second-place finishes, and three third-place finishes out of nine total starts over the past two seasons. Chance to hit the board at a big price.
2-Erupt (5-1) is coming into this one off of an impressive second-place finish to Silverwave in the Grand Prix De Saint- Cloud (GI) earlier this month. His form last season was good and, if he is starting to hit his stride, he can be competitive against these, despite only having one victory out of his last six starts.
Rest of the field: 4-Second Step (20-1) and 5-Sir Isaac Newton (15-1).
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By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 19:00 EST, 13 August 1999
Someone is trying to take a pot shot at Highland Distillers, best known for The Famous Grouse whisky.
The day after the 'Glorious Twelfth,' when the life expectancy of grouse is drastically shortened, Highland became the target of an approach from an unnamed party.
The shares jumped 76 1/2p to 370 1/2p, their best in three years, valuing Highland at £495m. The news put it in play as any offer will flush out others wanting a blue-chip portfolio of blended and single-malt whisky brands. An auction could go as high as £800m.
Thanks to cross-holdings, the ownership of Highland is of Byzantine complexity. Analysts believe management is trying to take the company private.
That may tempt Canada's Seagram to swoop on The Famous Grouse and The Macallan to add to its Chivas Regal Scotch.
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The Objectives of Sports Rule Changes?
In recent days and weeks there have been a few high-profile discussions regarding sports federations making significant changes to the rules of their sport. These sports rule changes have the ultimate goal of making the sport more attractive to fans. Many fans will be open to good rule changes, while others will be resistant to change regardless of how good the changes are. Many rule changes have contributed to the growth of a sport, while others are less effective. Rule changes can be considered to be the 'product' section of the marketing mix and good rule changes can contribute to a stronger sports brand. In this post I discuss why sports federations make sports rule changes, highlight changes they have made in the past and examine changes that are currently under consideration.
Why Make Sports Rule Changes?
The ultimate goal of sports rule changes is to keep fans coming to the games. Sports is part of the wider leisure market and sports organisations compete for consumers' (fans) time with other forms of leisure. Therefore, sports organisations must ensure that their product (the sport) remains attractive enough that they maintain the consumers' interest. Below are a few key factors that will determine whether fans continue to attend games.
Fan Interest in Play
One way of maintaining fans' interest is to adapt the rules of the game to ensure that it is always exciting. There are many ways to do this. Two of the most common ones are:
Speed up the game:
This is considered to be more attractive to fans as there will be more action events on the field of play and so more reasons to cheer.
Speeding up the game can also increase the skill level required as players are more likely to make mistakes under pressure.
More points:
More points in a game gives the fans more opportunities to celebrate their team's successes.
Integrity Through Fair Play
Another way to keep fans coming to the games is to maintain the integrity of the sport through fair play. If fans perceive the sport to not be on a level playing field, whether due to the referee or the rules, it will quickly lose its credibility and if fans perceive players to be taking advantage of weaknesses in the rules it will also be detrimental to the game. Just consider the recent Barcelona vs PSG UEFA Champions League result, whether you agree with the referee's decisions or not, there was a huge backlash from fans due to perception of poor refereeing. Therefore, sports organisations will often make sports rule changes to ensure the integrity of the sport and a level playing field among participants.
Safety is also a key concern in many sports. Most of us like to see some aggression in sport, however, I hope sincerely hope that none of us enjoy seeing participants getting seriously hurt. At various points in their history, this has become a serious issue for a number of sports, perhaps most notably in motor sports, mixed martial arts (MMA) and American Football (NFL). The difficulty in sports that are inherently dangerous is to find the right balance between participant safety and fan excitement through sports rule changes.
Major Sports Rule Changes in the Past
Basketball Shot Clock. Source: Next Impulse Sports.
It is difficult to imagine nowadays, but prior to this, once a team was in the lead, they would hold onto the ball and endlessly pass it just to keep possession of the ball. In 1950, Fort Wayne Pistons beat the Minneapolis Lakers 19-18 in the lowest scoring game in NBA history! It was clear that the NBA had to speed up the game and increase the number of points scored. There were various attempts to improve the situation and finally in 1954 the NBA introduced the shot clock, which all basketball fans can attest to is an important part of the game to this day.
One Day Cricket
Up until the 1970s, Test cricket was the only form of cricket – for everyone from a non-cricket nation, this is the five-day version that can still end in a draw. In the late 1970s, media mogul Kerry Packer created World Series Cricket, a rival to the established international cricket series. This form of cricket became known as 'One Day cricket' because it was limited to 50 overs per team and could be played in one day. Players became professionals overnight so they were very receptive to the idea. Players wear coloured uniforms (test cricket uses white uniforms), matches can be played during the day or at night and a variety of on-pitch microphones and cameras improved TV broadcasts. These rule changes clearly improved the fan experience and the duration of the game.
Twenty20 Cricket
Twenty20 Cricket. Source: The Indian Express.
In 2003, the ECB (The England and Wales Cricket Board) created another new version of cricket called Twenty20 (T20) cricket. T20 cricket is more fan-friendly than its predecessors because each team has only 20 overs to bat and matches last less than three hours. The success of T20 cricket is most visible in the explosion of the IPL (Indian Premier League) which is now worth an estimated US$4.5 billion. It has also brought in many new innovations aimed at improving the fan experience including LED wickets and players having microphones and able to provide commentary during the game.
FIA probably implements more regular rule changes in Formula 1 than any other sports federation. Motor sports are so reliant on the equipment used (cars/bikes) and how quickly engine advances are made that the rules are constantly tweaked to ensure that the races are as fair as possible.
The second part of the equation is safety. Formula 1 had a lot of bad publicity over the years which peaked with the death of Ayrton Senna in 1994. Since then, they have been far more cautious when it comes to the safety of its drivers. The results speak for themselves because since Ayrton Senna, there has been only one death, that of Jules Bianchi in 2015, which is significantly lower than the preceding decades.
Current Potential Sports Rule Changes
MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has been pushing for baseball rule changes that will speed up the game for some time. The players are notably against any rule changes in baseball. However, many of Manfred's peers agree with him, with David Samson, President of the Miami Marlins stating:
"Pace of game is critical; We know that from our fans and TV partners. We have to recognize the reality of life today, which is that attention spans are going down and choices are going up. Whatever business you're in, you have to adjust."
When considering rule change, this is the type of reasoning that should be happening at board level. The key question they asked themselves is "what is right for our fans?". However, given this rhetoric, many people doubt that the rule changes that were actually implemented in 2017 will significantly speed up the game.
Fans have criticised Formula 1 for being too predictable in recent years with Mercedes winning the last three constructor's championships.
"Not only that, the balance between man and machine was tilted too far in favour of the latter. In short, the pinnacle of motorsport had become too easy for the drivers, the cars too easy to drive."
Source: ABC.
Formula 1 design rule changes for 2017. Source: Formula 1.
As I mentioned earlier, Formula 1 changes are an annual occurrence, but there is a feeling that the rule changes this year will have a more significant impact. With major rule changes regarding the designs of the cars allowing for more downforce and more speed, it will be tougher on the drivers. Lap times will improve by three to five seconds and there will be less reliance on the cars, thus giving the power back to the driver. The faster speeds are likely to make it more exciting for fans and by giving power back to the drivers, FIA is levelling the playing field, which should also make it more exciting for fans.
Following FIFA Director General for Technical Development Marco Basten's announcement in January regarding potential rule changes to football, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), who is responsible for the rules of football, discussed some of these major rule changes. Setting aside whether you agree with the changes or not, some of these rule changes have a clear purpose while others are perhaps a little less clear.
It is difficult to argue that football needs to be more exciting as it is the most popular game around the world and it is still growing in popularity. Nevertheless, some of the rule changes are about addressing particular instances where they could bring a greater fan experience. Removing 'lost' time (i.e. time wasted by the teams) to make the last ten minutes of a game flow better is clearly targeting something that fans see as a problematic element of the game.
FIFA introducing Video Assistant Referees (VAR). Source: Extra.ie.
A few of the rule changes are trying to improve the integrity of the game. Consider Video Assistant Referees (VARs) proposals which are present in most major sports worldwide but are notably missing from football. Also, IFAB is considering allowing only captains to speak to the referee as a potential solution to the problem of having players surround and influence the referee.
Then, the proposal for a cap on the number of games a player can play is clearly targeting player safety.
On the other hand, some of the potential rule changes have less clear goals. Take for example replacing penalty shoot outs with the 'take-on' challenge or introducing 'orange' cards. One could argue that these target excitement or fair play, but without further information, it is less clear what IFAB is hoping to achieve with such changes.
The NFL has also been looking at rule changes to speed up the game, but even more importantly to improve player safety. The NFL received negative publicity regarding player safety, especially related to concussions (Hollywood even made a film about it), so such pointed rule changes are no surprise. It is also arguably a fight to secure the future with the sport with many fearing that mothers will not allow their children to play the sport in the future if they deem it to be too dangerous.
How to make Sports Rule Changes?
Sports rule changes can have a major impact on your sport. There must be good reasons for making rule changes otherwise you may alienate fans. Therefore:
The first step is to ensure that there is a clear reason for a rule change.
Next, it is vital that you are clear on the objectives of each rule change.
Thirdly, develop proposals that achieve your objectives.
Analyse and discuss in detail each proposed rule change to ensure that you are confident that they will achieve your objectives.
Communicate the reasons and the objectives for all rules changes effectively. People will naturally be resistant to change so it is important to be clear in your communication of the reasons, the objectives and the final decision on rule changes.
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One of the most common New Year's Resolutions is to get on track financially for 2019. As holiday bills start coming in and everyone gets back to their everyday schedule, many start to refocus for the coming year. One of the best ways to get on track and get your finances in order for 2019 is to have a plan. Set aside some time to write down your goals and how you're going to achieve them. By following these four simple steps, 2019 will end on a much better financial note than 2018.
It's no secret the cost of attending college has become more and more expensive over recent years. Tuition costs and a whole host of other fees must be accounted for and, for many, paying for college with high-cost student loans is the only option. But for homeowners, there's another way to help defray the cost of higher education. You can use a debt consolidation mortgage to save for your kids' college by leveraging the equity in your home.
There's no doubt that your mortgage is likely your biggest credit obligation. That also typically means stretching that loan over as long a period as possible to keep your monthly payments low. The most common loan term today by far is 30 years, and while that provides a lower monthly payment compared to, say, a 15 year mortgage, it can also linger into your retirement years. One goal all of us should have is to get into retirement as debt free as possible and this includes all credit obligations. Being able to pay off your mortgage with debt consolidation means making less payment, paying less interest, and going into retirement with less worry.
If you're thinking about refinancing your mortgage, typically the main consideration is the interest rate. Maybe interest rates have fallen since your loan was first approved and funded, so getting a lower rate may make sense to save on interest. Other valid reasons to refinance might be to get out of the uncertainty of an adjustable rate mortgage and into the stability of a fixed rate mortgage. Or, you might decide to refinance to a different term and change the monthly payment amount. Whatever the motivation to refinance, there will be some costs to refinance your mortgage. Understanding the costs of refinancing will help you make the best possible plans.
Millennials are currently the largest demographic of home buyers in today's marketplace, having recently replaced the Baby Boomer generation as the most populous. A recent report from the National Association of Realtors highlights some of the characteristics and some particularly interesting differences between today's home buyers and those of previous generations. One of these differences is the how Millennials are using gift money for down payments. This trend tells us a lot about the current housing market, not only how prices have changed but also about the challenges that this generation faces.
You probably remember the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, or TCJA, introduced and signed nearly a year ago, but if you don't recall it's because the new changes haven't yet come into play. But when it's time to file your 2018 income taxes next year, there are several changes that will impact your taxes, particularly homeowner tax credits. The mortgage interest deduction is one of the few remaining tax deductions you can still take, but also one of the most popular. There are some changes to this and several other homeowner tax credits in 2018.


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Airport Flag Used to Represent Korea. September. 25, 2006 07:04. sys1201@donga.com.
It was belatedly discovered that Prime Minister Han Myeong-sook, who visited Libya on September 19 and 20, inspected the honor guards while a faulty Taegeukgi (the national flag of Korea) was flying at the Mitiga Airport, Lybia.
It turned out that the Korean Embassy in Libya knew of this but neglected to take measures.
The Taegeukgi raised on the reviewing stand of the airport was made by Libya and is a crude flag, similar to the original only in the approximate placing of the Cheong and Hong (blue and red) and Palgwae (the black lines) and differing in the size and proportion of the flag, the size of the Taegeuk symbol, and the proportion and spacing of the Palgwe.
The horizontal-vertical proportion of the Taegeukgi is 3:2, the radius of the Taegeuk symbol half of the vertical length and the distance between the lines of the Palgwae 1/24 of the radius of the circle.
However, the Taegeukgi made by Libya is too long horizontally and the Taegeuk mark is too large. The outline of the Taegeuk symbol and the lines in the Palgwae are crooked as if they were drawn without using a ruler.
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A Closetful of Skeletons by Tanushree Podder | Book Review
Five men are on their way to a hill station, where Ramola, a fading movie star, waits for them to make an announcement that will change their lives forever. Ramola withdrew from the public eye at the peak of her stardom. Now, surrounded by retired couples spending their twilight years gardening and gossiping, her life is idyllic. Or at least it was, till the night of her birthday party, when she announces that her tell-all memoir will soon be published. The book, documenting her rise to fame, puts each of her ex-lovers' careers in jeopardy. As each desperate man tries to save himself, Ramola is drawn back into the very web of lies and deception she'd left behind. By the time the party is over, Ramola's neighbour, retired army officer and amateur sleuth, Colonel Arjun H. Acharya, has found his first murder to solve. A Closetful of Skeletons reels you into a cosy world of fresh mountain air, long-drawn bridge games and bloody murder.
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A Closetful of skeletons is the story about Ramola, a fading movie star who invites her boyfriends from the past to her fortieth birthday party where she announces her autobiography, to the dismay of the guests. The book, documenting her rise to fame, puts each of her ex-lovers' careers in jeopardy.
The language is simple and yet makes you enough impact as and when needed. Most of the characters, in my opinion, were well sketched. I am particularly happy with the author's decision of placing the murder much after the initial character-building of the book has taken place. The interaction between the characters was so natural that I felt I knew them all. Once the pace of the story sets in its difficult to leave the book
I wont go into detail as i dont like giving away possible spoilers. But its a good read and if you into crime thriller i'm sure that you'll enjoy this.
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2021 Louisiana High School Volleyball State Championships Moving to Lafayette
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Jude Walker Published: October 7, 2021
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The Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) announced yesterday that the 2021 Volleyball State Tournament will move from Kenner to the Cajundome in Lafayette.
The reason was simple -- the Pontchartrain Center sustained damage due to Hurricane Ida.
"We are saddened by the damage Hurricane Ida caused to the Pontchartrain Center but look forward to the Cajundome hosting the volleyball state tournament," said LHSAA Assistant Executive Director Karen Hoyt. "The Cajundome will be a fantastic venue for the student-athletes, and we look forward to a successful event."
The quarterfinals, semi-finals, and championships for all five divisions will be held on the original dates of November 11-13, 2021.
Teurlings head coach Terry Hebert is very happy with the decision.
"We're all ecstatic here," Hebert told KATC. "It's a trek for our fans (to Kenner). It's a 2-hour trek every year. A lot of our fans drive 4 hours both ways, each day. For them to be in town, it's exciting for us. But really, I'm excited for our fans, the student body, and the Lafayette area."
The Teurlings Catholic Rebels have made it a habit of making it all the way to the LHSAA Volleyball State Tournament. The school has won the last eight state championships in their respective division.
For more information regarding the volleyball state tournament, click here.
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Joseph, Gilbert M.
Making Race
Rosenberg, Emily S.
Seigel, Micol
Brytewave (CafeScribe-Follett Higher Ed)
Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
by Micol Seigel
series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg
eISBN: 978-0-8223-9217-0 | Cloth: 978-0-8223-4426-1 | Paper: 978-0-8223-4440-7
Library of Congress Classification F2659.A1S44 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800981
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the "foreign" qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Along the way, she shows how race and nation for both elites and non-elites are constructed together, and driven by global cultural and intellectual currents as well as local, regional, and national ones.
Seigel explores the circulation of images of Brazilian coffee and of maxixe in the United States during the period just after the imperial expansions of the early twentieth century. Exoticist interpretations structured North Americans' paradoxical sense of themselves as productive "consumer citizens." Some people, however, could not simply assume the privileges of citizenship. In their struggles against racism, Afro-descended citizens living in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York, and Chicago encountered images and notions of each other, and found them useful. Seigel introduces readers to cosmopolitan Afro-Brazilians and African Americans who rarely traveled far from home but who nonetheless absorbed ideas from abroad. She suggests that studies comparing U.S. and Brazilian racial identities as two distinct constructions are misconceived. Racial formation transcends national borders; attempts to understand it must do the same.
Micol Seigel is Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the Program in American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
"I can think of few works about Brazil that reveal so much about the United States, and no work about the United States that tells us so much about Brazil. . . . . [A]n important, thought-provoking book." - Marc A. Hertzman, A Contracorriente
"Uneven Encounters is an imaginative, thoughtful, and eloquently argued work of Atlantic history." - George Reid Andrews, Journal of American History
"Drawing widely from postmodern, postcolonial, feminist, diasporic, and queer studies, Seigel approaches this topic through a bold use of sources, archives, and theoretical approaches, arguing quite convincingly that Afro-Brazilians played an active role in the international circulation of ideas and cultural expressions in the tumultuous 1920s. . . . [An] outstanding study." - James M. Green, American Historical Review
" . . . Micol Seigel offers a refreshing analysis of racial perceptions in the USA and Brazil. . . . The contributions of Seigel's are many and to different fields, including history, American, Latin American, cultural and race and ethnic studies. Rather than a comparison of national traits and differences, Seigel's sophisticated study explores the complexities in the encounters between Brazil and the U.S. in the transnational scenery of popular artifacts. It sheds new light on notions of race and nation in Brazil and the U.S. by maintaining that these were forged often in relation to on another." - Cileine de Lourenco, Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Seigel . . . displaces scholars who have argued that the myth of racial democracy was possible in Brazil due to an ignorant lack of black identity, showing instead how blacks helped create and shape racial democracy." - Felipe Cruz, The Latin Americanist
"I suspect everyone, depending on research interests, will find something here that illuminates previously held understandings of complex and sometimes misread histories of the United States and Brazil." - Stanley R. Bailey, Bulletin of Latin American Research
"Uneven Encounters is a very important contribution not only to the transnational study of racial formation but to the very definition of what transnational scholarship should be."—María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, author of The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development
"In recent years, the comparative study of race in Brazil and the United States has reached an impasse. Uneven Encounters, rather than reviving the old debates, challenges their very premises. With style and substance, Micol Seigel offers us a searing critique of the comparative method and brilliantly demonstrates how a transnational and cultural approach to race and racial identities can open up genuinely new and productive lines of inquiry."—Barbara Weinstein, author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964
"[M]icol Seigel offers a refreshing analysis of racial perceptions in the USA and Brazil. . . . The contributions of Seigel's are many and to different fields, including history, American, Latin American, cultural and race and ethnic studies. Rather than a comparison of national traits and differences, Seigel's sophisticated study explores the complexities in the encounters between Brazil and the U.S. in the transnational scenery of popular artifacts. It sheds new light on notions of race and nation in Brazil and the U.S. by maintaining that these were forged often in relation to on another."
-- Cileine de Lourenco Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Uneven Encounters is an imaginative, thoughtful, and eloquently argued work of Atlantic history."
-- George Reid Andrews Journal of American History
"Drawing widely from postmodern, postcolonial, feminist, diasporic, and queer studies, Seigel approaches this topic through a bold use of sources, archives, and theoretical approaches, arguing quite convincingly that Afro-Brazilians played an active role in the international circulation of ideas and cultural expressions in the tumultuous 1920s. . . . [An] outstanding study."
-- James M. Green American Historical Review
"I can think of few works about Brazil that reveal so much about the United States, and no work about the United States that tells us so much about Brazil. . . . [A]n important, thought-provoking book."
-- Marc A. Hertzman A Contracorriente
"I suspect everyone, depending on research interests, will find something here that illuminates previously held understandings of complex and sometimes misread histories of the United States and Brazil."
-- Stanley R. Bailey Bulletin of Latin American Research
"Seigel . . . displaces scholars who have argued that the myth of racial democracy was possible in Brazil due to an ignorant lack of black identity, showing instead how blacks helped create and shape racial democracy."
-- Felipe Cruz The Latin Americanist
Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Note on Language xvii
Acknowledgments xix
1. Producing Consumption: Coffee and Consumer Citizenship 13
2. Maxixe's Travels: Cultural Exchange and Erasure 67
3. Playing Politics: Making the Meanings of Jazz in Rio de Janeiro 95
4. Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic 136
5. Another "Global Vision": (Trans)Nationalism in the Sao Paulo Black Press 179
6. Black Mothers, Citizen Sons 206
Conclusion 235
Abbreviations 241
Discography 321
Bibliography 323
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What happened to Boston's rock radio?
It's not dead, but with the sale of 'FNX, the city lost another part of its identity
By James Reed Globe Staff,May 27, 2012, 12:00 a.m.
Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff
Looking back, we should have seen this coming. When WBCN left the FM dial in 2009, after more than four decades on the air at 104.1, it slammed shut a seminal chapter in Boston's history of rock radio. Some called it the end of an era, which it was, while others groused that the groundbreaking station had lost its direction long ago.
At 101.7 FM, WFNX was sort of like 'BCN's kid sister. Independently owned, it was the misfit born in 1983 with a chip on its shoulder and a penchant for taking chances on fledgling bands such as R.E.M., Nirvana, and Green Day, and later championing hometown heroes like the Dresden Dolls and Passion Pit.
Proudly claiming to be "the East Coast's first alternative rock station," 'FNX was by no means the only game in town for rock programming. But it was certainly in a league of its own. Even now, more than a week removed from its $14.5 million sale to Clear Channel Communications Inc. on May 16, it's strange to talk about the station in the past tense.
"It's bleak," says Julie Kramer, who spent 25 years as one of WFNX's most popular DJs. "When I heard the news, I was devastated. I was crying not only about the loss of my job, but also about what it means for all these indie and local bands. What's going to happen to them now? Who's going to play them? Someone has to be first, and someone has to start the story. And that's what we did."
Coming so closely on the heels of WBCN going away, WFNX's sale poses a more serious question:
Is rock radio dead in Boston?
"I don't think so," says Scott Fybush, who runs NorthEast Radio Watch, an industry news site based in Rochester, N.Y. "I think what we're seeing really parallels what's happening with radio as a whole around the country. There's still plenty of vibrancy to rock radio in Boston, but it has just moved to different places. If anything, it's probably healthier than, say, in New York, which was a real rock town that completely lost its rock radio over the last few years."
From left: WFNX news director Henry Santoro, midday DJ Julie Kramer, and program director Keith Dakin in an undated photo.handout
When we talk about the demise of 'FNX, which is still on the air until the Federal Communications Commission approves the sale by the station's owner, Phoenix Media/Communications Group, it's not a matter of mourning the death of a terrestrial radio station. We can — and do — hear and discover music from various sources these days, be they blogs, podcasts, satellite radio, or streaming sites like Spotify and Pandora.
If you want rock on Boston radio, you'll find it across the dial. Tune in to WAAF for your fix of all manner of rock — classic, hard, heavy, Nickelback, you name it. There's more classic rock at WZLX. Radio 92.9, formerly known as WBOS, spins plenty of U2, Coldplay, and Pearl Jam. WXRV (92.5 The River) is an independent station with an alt-rock bent similar to WFNX's programming.
No, the looming disappearance of WFNX feels like losing a piece of our local identity. Starting in the 1960s, Boston has had an indelible reputation for its love of rock music, and part of that stems from the city's radio resources.
"In this town, we're spoiled more than others because we have so many unique outlets on terrestrial radio, and so many colleges have good stations," says Peter Wolf, the J. Geils Band frontman who has a long history on local airwaves, dating back to his days as one of the founding DJs at WBCN in 1968.
"When something has such an important history in the community, it's always sad to see it go," Wolf adds. "The great thing about 'FNX was that it clearly knew what it was and what it wasn't. Its aim was true, and that's unusual."
That commitment to its mission endeared the station to generations of listeners. One of the most striking developments since 'FNX's sale was how quickly its supporters sprang into action. Within 48 hours, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr accounts by the name of Occupy WFNX had cropped up.
"If it weren't for WFNX, I wouldn't have discovered a ton of bands both big and small because the station wasn't afraid to take risks," says Andrea, a 34-year-old software engineer who started the Occupy WFNX accounts as a way for fellow fans to connect and share their support. (In the spirit of keeping the focus on 'FNX, Andrea prefers not to give her last name but says she lives in Medford.) "I have a feeling a lot of people feel the same way I do."
Fybush says you simply can't sift Boston's rock culture from its radio history.
"When I was going to college in Boston 20-something years ago, it was unimaginable that someday there wouldn't be a WBCN or a WFNX," Fybush says. "There's a synergy between having the music present and having a place for people to find out about it. It's invaluable to have someone tell you why you gotta be at the Middle East on Friday night and why you gotta be at T.T.'s. on Saturday. Clubs used to need that radio piece. I think to a certain extent that has changed now with the advent of music blogs, Twitter, and things like Pandora and Spotify."
Fybush suggests that 'FNX might have been a victim of its own pioneering programming.
'FNX introduced many indie bands to the Boston audience.Globe file photo
"One of the reasons 'FNX probably didn't do better than it did is because of the number of college stations that take a similar approach to radio," he says, mentioning Emerson College's WERS, MIT's WMBR, and Boston University's WBUR. "They have the ability to be even more out there in their selections and less constrained by commercial necessities."
As the general manager of WXRV , one of the last independent stations in Boston, Donald St. Sauveur understands those financial pressures.
"We knock on wood every day. We're blessed to have 400,000 or so listeners who have consistently supported us," he says. "But it's hard to compete with these corporately owned clusters of radio stations."
WFNX and WXRV have had similar alt-rock programming, but St. Sauveur says they've shared something even more important.
"We're both committed to the local music scene, to being live on the air with real people from the marketplace who know how to pronounce Worcester and Leominster," St. Sauveur says with a laugh. "I think its loss says that even though market research suggests the masses don't care [about local radio], you shouldn't care only about conventional wisdom."
The problem, of course, lies in the ratings.
"The inevitability of this for 'FNX, which had been suffering for a while, has always existed, but when it actually happens, it's like, 'Wow, here it is,' " says Anngelle Wood, the veteran radio personality who hosts the local music showcase "Boston Emissions," which moved to WZLX in 2009 after WBCN went under. "People have really loved 'FNX, but I wonder how many of those people were actually listening to it. Still, they don't want it to go away."
Wood suspects the nature of how it's going out is particularly bothersome to some fans.
"I think the sale to Clear Channel hurts the most for a lot of people," Wood says. "I've never worked for a Clear Channel station, so I can't say what really happens, but the conjecture is always that they homogenize radio and pipe in people from different places. It's not live; it's not local."
At press time, Clear Channel had not announced any plans for the station, though there have been rumblings about a format switch — possibly to talk radio, commercial country, or Spanish-language programming.
Stephen M. Mindich, chairman and chief executive of Phoenix Media/Communications Group, which sold WFNX, retained the station's intellectual property, including its call letters and music library. He sold the license to broadcast at 101.7 FM, which means the station could relaunch elsewhere. WBCN did that, splitting into two separate formats (classic rock and free-form) on a digital station, but its biggest challenge has been letting listeners know it exists again.
While 'FNX awaits the FCC's approval, the station is broadcasting with a skeletal crew. Longtime DJs such as Kramer and Adam 12 have played their final sets.
But a defiant spirit — the same one that made 'FNX not just a radio station, but a way of life around here — has been alive and well in the playlists. It's hard not to equate the station's struggle with songs such as Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'."
Clearly, WFNX is not going down without a fight.
"I know you can listen to radio on the Internet. And I know you can download this and that. You can spend half your life on iTunes," Kramer admits. "But when you're driving in your car, and that awesome song comes on the radio, and someone's talking about it being a beautiful day, and you roll down the windows, and the wind is blowing in your hair — there's nothing else that feels like that."
Radio that isn't local just isn't the same, whether it's coming from Clear Channel or a satellite company like SiriusXM.
"The people at Sirius don't know if it's sunny or rainy outside your door," Kramer says. "But we do — or we did."
James Reed can be reached at jreed@
globe.com.


Lise Iversen Kulbrandstad is a Professor of Norwegian at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, and a guest Professor at Karlstad University, Sweden.
The main research interests of Professor Lise Iversen Kulbrandstad are literacy, second language teaching and learning, and professional development of teachers in kindergarten and schools. She has been especially engaged in the establishment of research networks in the Nordic countries, and was one of the founders of NORDAND, the Nordic journal of second language research.
In this talk, I will discuss results from studies of diverse classrooms and kindergartens in the Nordic countries. In which ways do teachers organize classrooms and activities to create language-rich environments? I will also explore the different roles given or taken by teachers in classroom research. In which ways can participation in research project contribute to teachers' professional development in second language teaching?
While teaching in earlier generations was characterized by stability and predictability, the last decades have been characterized by change. Thirty years ago few teachers in the Scandinavian countries met students with a multilingual background. Today "linguistic minority students", which is the official Norwegian label, make up 14 % of all students in compulsory school in Norway. This change challenges the provision of equal educational opportunities since an achievement gap is documented in PISA, PIRLS and in national tests in reading. To improve the situation the politicians have put more emphasis on kindergarten and the first school years, but also on the use of multilingualism as a pedagogical resource and on stressing the importance of long-term second language support. Teacher qualifications, teacher education and teachers' professional development also are in focus.
The conference will be organized by the research group SISCO and the Department of Teacher Education and School Research.


It is nothing more then windows 7 base code with a tweaked UI.
I find it no faster, not even slightly.
pclinuxguru wrote: It is nothing more then windows 7 base code with a tweaked UI.
A website just did a comparison between 7 and 8. Ten-second boot-time as opposed to 32 seconds for 7. Also significantly faster on several other benchmarks. Not 7`s base code either. Honest and open discussion is one thing, sour grapes is another. I don`t care about your business experiences with Windows, all I know is it works. Besides, none of your customers are using 8 yet, yes?
I remember the same being said of vista to windows 7 lol.
Ended up being false once all the hype settled.
There might end up being a slight code improvement. But it always ends up being very slight.
We already know windows 8 isn't anything NEW. Just revised.
Almost everyone, including many Linux enthusiasts, agree that Win7 is a great OS. Vista wasn`t. 8 is also including Hyper-V virtualization, that`s usually only found in server editions and I don`t believe a Linux distro includes that as standard.
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vista was the building blocks for windows 7.
I have 1502 clients that would tell ya windows 7 was a waste of money and wont ever go back lol.
pclinuxguru wrote: vista was the building blocks for windows 7.
Anyway, it`s time for the Charlie Sheen Roast so I`m outta here. Let me know when you get over your jealousy, guru, okay?
Lol...I do like Win 7, Win 8.....not to my liking.
As far as the roast...he he..they may put me in the same fire.
#1...you cannot even compare a beta release..there are going to be a lot of driver issues, to name just one.
I will stay with my Ultimate Edition or even my own build when it comes down to Linux.
But I will always have a Win install, I do have $$$ on Graphic Software and on on some Games also.
Someone let me know if there is a Linux distro that will play BF3 when it is released or even Crisis 2 at present.
Yep, as you can see I also have 3 licenses of windows 7.
But the only thing I use it for is Itunes and gaming.
Linux surpasses all other needs.
The only thing windows ever got right was D.X. gaming.
Sadly, there are times windows comes in handy. Lucky for me them times are very far and between.
pclinuxguru wrote: Yep, as you can see I also have 3 licenses of windows 7.


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Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which has faced concerted criticism over the past year from both the defence ministry and the Indian Air Force (IAF), has announced a record turnover of over Rs 19,400 crore (provisional and unaudited) for the financial year that ended March 31.
This amounts to 6 per cent revenue growth over the previous year's turnover of Rs 18,284 crore.
That comfortably beat the revenue growth of 3.8 per cent during 2017-18.
However, the IAF still owes HAL about Rs 20,000 crore in unpaid dues for aircraft delivered and overhauled and for milestone payments due, Business Standard has learnt.
At the time, HAL Chairman R Madhavan had told Business Standard: "The IAF owes HAL money for aircraft, helicopters and services that we have already delivered. Current dues are at Rs 15,700 crore and will rise to Rs 20,000 crore by March 31." Madhavan's projection has turned out to be accurate.
Amongst the research and development (R&D) projects under way in HAL are the Tejas Mark 1A fighter. HAL is also claiming a breakthrough with the HTT-40 basic trainer aircraft, which it expects to certify this year.
"HAL's R&D projects are on track and are tailor made for the requirement of the armed forces," the company said on Monday.
Senior HAL executives say that more than an 'excellent' rating, the company requires cash to meet its monthly running expenditure of Rs 1,300-1,400 crore.
This included Rs 6,393 crore to the government in an "equity buy back scheme. HAL made this payment in two tranches — Rs 5,265 crore in 2015-16 and Rs 1,128 crore in 2017-18.
During this period, HAL also paid the government dividend and taxes worth Rs 4,631 crore: Rs 1,041 crore for 2013-14; Rs 576 crore for 2014-15; Rs 755 crore for 2015-16; Rs 963 crore for 2016-17; and Rs 1,295 crore for 2017-18.
Masked by the healthy turnover, HAL executives are worried about the impending closure of one of its most lucrative lines — the production of Sukhoi-30MKIs at Nashik. Two years down the line, HAL would have delivered all of the 222 Sukhoi-30MKI fighters that are on order, with no production to replace the Rs 4,000-5,000 crore HAL makes annually from building about a dozen fighters.