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Congratulations, you just created a first version of your translated website within SYSTRANLinks, but one question may remain: you might ask « where's all my data, where is the content that I know I have in my website? »
Looking at it pre-translated through SYSTRANLinks, right after setting up your initial project, you might recognize the home page and perhaps a few extra pages, linked from the home page, but there is so much more to it, and yet you can't seem to find it in the Pages section. Where did it go?
The reason is simple, and actually very clever. SYSTRANLinks did not attempt (yet) to crawl and see each and every page on your site. It only worries, at first, about the home page, and possibly a few other pages that it can see from there, through the links seen in the homepage. The initial goal is to get the whole system started quickly. No time is wasted with pages that may rarely or never be visited, such as old help manuals from even older and now outdated product releases, or posts on ancient support forums. In other words: SYSTRANLinks gets you started quickly, with just the home page to worry about initially, and then it waits.
SYSTRANLinks waits…. For what?
Well, for visitors, or for you, to actually visit the page or pages of the localized site.
When you visit the pages, and you click through its links to visit even more of it and you navigate through the site, SYSTRANLinks will discover the content that is found in your site. It will encounter a new page, perhaps for the first time, and collect its content. It will record the sentences and phrases that are found in these pages. But only in these pages. It won't have to worry yet about other pages, because nobody has visited them yet.
After you navigate through a few clicks in the Visitor Preview mode, if you return to the Pages section and refresh the list, you will see more pages listed. Some will show a status that indicates that they have been seen, visited, and processed. It may show the 'Last Visited' date and time.
Other entries in this tabular view will show whether the system has detected the existence of the page (most likely through a link to it) even if it has not yet gone to the page to see and collect the content of it.
In other words: you and SYSTRANLinks only focus on what your visitors actually want to see, i.e. the content from the pages that they actually are visiting. No time and effort is wasted on translating or reviewing unpopular pages. You will not be charged based on how big the site is, but rather based on how much of it is being seen. If you have a low-traffic site, no worries. If you have a high-traffic site, no problem.
How to Visit your Pages
So how exactly can you populate the localized site's pages with the content? How can you preview it and make sure that the main pages are translated right?
Simply by visiting your translated website, using either the Visitor Preview or the Browse & edit button. That option is available in several places.
In the top right of the navigation bar, you can see the general Visitor Preview button. Use that first. It will start you at the home page of the site, as seen through the original (Source) language or one of the target languages. The language selector can be used to switch to another language. You can then click through its links and navigate the site, just like a regular web visitor would.
Another shortcut to Visitor Preview directly into a specific page can be reached from the Pages section:
- Select a page (click its checkbox), and then
- Click the other Visitor Preview button, to the left side
But that's not all. Another place where you can jump right into one of the languages from the top home page is under the Configuration panel:
You will see each of the languages that you have selected. On each language, there is a Preview button that you can use.
And there's more. Instead of just pre-viewing and visiting the pages as visitors would see them, you may also want to make corrective changes to some of the resulting translations. This is done with the Browse & Edit button. We will cover this in another tutorial.
Finally, you have to remember that if your translated website is live, any page viewed by anonymous visitor will be crawled and added to SYSTRANLinks content.
The mere act of clicking and landing on a new page of your localized site will get the data exposed to SYSTRANLinks, will get it translated, will get it populated into its database, and will make it listed in subsequent visits to the Pages panel. You are then also able to see the sentences that were discovered. You can start the human post editing process, with Browse&Edit, with setting up Tasks, inviting colleagues and outside Contributors, etc etc.
But what if you actually do want it all pre-visited? What if you do want the whole site crawled, so that each and every page and sentence of your static site can be pre-discovered, and pre-translated? What in fact if you don't want to use machine translation, and prefer to simply collect all discovered sentences, to have them translated by a human translator through a task?
Yes we can. Just ask us, talk to your SYSTRAN representative. We can help you do the crawl for you, we can trigger a crawl of your localized sites. In the future, you might even see such an option somewhere in the configuration panel, perhaps. We're thinking about such a crawl option.


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The purpose of Resource Center toolkits is to provide safety-net stakeholders with effective tools for promoting and integrating healthy relationship education into their programs. The content of this toolkit focuses on implications for safety-net stakeholders and information that can be directly applied to stakeholders' programs or agencies when working with Asian American individuals, couples, and families.
Working with Asian American Individuals, Couples, and Families: A Toolkit for Stakeholders PDFView Full Resource

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Thailand Motorcycle Tours From Royal Bike Tours
Welcome to Royal Bike Tours, the home of adventure motorcycle tours in Thailand, where you can explore this beautiful country and immerse yourself in the people and culture. If you are looking for a Thailand motorbike tour that takes in plenty of scenery with lots of fun-filled excursions and is the experience of a lifetime, then you have come to the right place. Our Thailand motorcycle tours cover all the country, with lots of different options available. You can choose Krabi motorcycle tours, Chiang Mai motorcycle tours, or anywhere else in the land of smiles. Royal Bike Tours guided motorcycle tours of Thailand are all-inclusive, and we arrange everything to ensure that you have a fantastic time when you are cruising around this beautiful country.


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Good Morning Dear Ones:
So as we get closer to the end of this school year. The assignment that is before me with homeschooling weighs on me more and more. There is just so much uncertainty but I guess if there wasn't any then there wouldn't be any need for faith.
How am I going to do this? If schools can't help her understand what makes me think I can help her understand? I have no degree. I am just a Mom. This feels way too BIG.
I was reading in my Draw The Circle Prayer Challenge book this morning and it left me in tears. It posed the question:
"Are my problems bigger than God or is God bigger than my problems? Our biggest problem is our small view of God. How big is your God? Is he bigger than your worst sin, GREATEST FEAR, or biggest dream? IF He is bigger than all of those things, then pray like it."
What I see FEELS so much bigger than me, and based on my fear level it must at times feel bigger than God.
So today I am asking for God to expand in my eyes. I am asking forgiveness for making Him too small. I know I am walking in obedience. This step into the homeschool world is a HUGE leap of faith. Father God take us the rest of the way on this journey. Do your thing and be glorified. You decide what that looks like. Not me. It doesn't matter what evidence is against us. With you nothing is impossible. I promise to keep showing up to what you have called me to do and I know from that I will see your promises come to life in our lives. Crush these fears in my life with your awesome power. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is NOT bigger than YOU. Bring on the future and the hope you have for Mercy and Jubilee.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
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Joe Girolamo '11 made his first iPhone app in a three-week class held during Calvin's January interim. Now, sitting in a corporate conference room in Chicago, he seems embarrassed to talk about what the app actually did.
"I think it was a Whack-a-mole game, or something like that," he says. "It never really made it to the App Store because of copyright issues."
While Joe's app development efforts as a Calvin student didn't exactly make him famous, it helped prepare him for the website and app design work he does now.
Design work seen by more than 200 million subscribers worldwide.
And if you've ever browsed the deals on Groupon, you might be one of them.
Make-your-own major
In high school, Joe developed websites as a hobby, so when he went to college he thought he would try software engineering and remain open-minded about career options.
"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, so the liberal arts [at Calvin] was great. I wanted to get a taste of everything."
But as a freshman, software engineering courses just didn't feel right to him, and he missed the creative side of website development. So with the careful help of his computer science advisor, Harry Plantinga, Joe created his own academic path that combined the things he loved: technology, art and business.
Joe calls it the "entrepreneurial startup major." Basically, a major that gave him the technical and design skills, tied together with enough business know-how to work in the most cutting-edge sectors of the economy. Like Groupon.
"If you go to college for something you're really passionate about, it shouldn't be too hard to find a place you really want to work at when you graduate."
Back to the "board" room
When Joe graduated from Calvin in 2011, he knew he wanted to work in technology design for a company in his native Midwest. So he pursued options in the Chicago area, receiving several job offers. But going back to his commitment to follow his passions, a temporary, three-month position at a then-startup called Groupon convinced him to eschew the other more long-term options.
"I ultimately chose Groupon because I was excited about being a part of a consumer website design team in the earlier stages of the company."
It turns out Joe made the right decision. After completing his three-month "trial job" at the company, they hired him on as a product designer. Three years later, he calls himself a "veteran" at a company that has exploded into the global market, connecting businesses and customers through great deals on products.
And as a successful startup business, Groupon creates a workplace environment that young professionals like Joe love. The "board room" he's sitting in? It has a dart board mounted on the wall, just in case a meeting gets a little too boring. Other conference rooms contain Nerf guns and other gadgets to keep things interesting while at work. Employees wear jeans and Groupon-green track jackets to work.
"I love the tech industry and Groupon because it's very collaborative, it's fairly informal and it's just a really easy environment to get into. There's no shock going from college to the tech industry. It's fast. You're always busy. There's no down time."
Learning to work with everyone
Joe attributes the success he's had in the fast-paced, collaborative work environment at Groupon to the kind of education he got at Calvin.
"What really helped prepare me for the real world was the unique opportunity I had, at Calvin College and Grand Rapids in general, to meet and learn from people across disciplines. As a liberal arts college, Calvin encourages cross-discipline learning, which helped me develop a more holistic skill set and prepare me for my current job."
Even though the "Whack-a-mole" app Joe developed at Calvin never made it to the market, the experience he had working with a team of engineers to actually make the product was invaluable when he started working at Groupon.
"You have to be a liaison. You can't just stick to your group; you have to work with all sorts of people. I work with a product manager, an engineer, other designers, editorial [at Groupon]."
And when it comes to a liberal arts education, he thinks nothing could have prepared him better for the daily grind of his work. "One of the biggest things [I learned] at Calvin was writing skills, which are huge in the corporate world. I write so many emails, which are kind of informal, but I do a lot of things where I have to be concise and explain my ideas and decisions very clearly."


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Supervisory Bodies
The Steering Committee
The Steering Committee consists of the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Coordinator of the Scientific Advisory Board, the Speakers of the FAN Forum Alpbach Network and the Financial Officer. They confer about current activities and coordinate between themselves the preparation and implementation of the main conference, the European Forum Alpbach in the summer.
Members of the Steering Committee
Executive board, Michaela Fritz, Valerie Hengl (FAN), Tobias Neugebauer (FAN), Shalini Randeria, Manfred Url (Financial Officer), Werner Wutscher
The Council
The Council follows the activities of the association "European Forum Alpbach" and supports the compliance with its aims. It sets the principle guidelines for the functions of the association's bodies and the preparation of the programme. It is composed of people who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment towards the association.
Members of the Council
Peter C. Aichelburg, Martin Bernhofer, Jürgen Busch, Verena Ehold, Friedrich Gleissner, Erich Gornik, Ivo Greiter, Wolfgang Habermayer, Michael Haider, Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Günter Hillebrand, Herwig Hösele, Michael Ikrath, Beatrix Karl, Wolfgang Knoll, Georg Kopetz, Friedrich Korkisch, Kathryn List, Johann Luif, Ulrike Lunacek, Christian Macek, Bernhard Marckhgott, Thomas Mayr-Harting, Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Patricia Mussi-Mailer, Dieter Natlacen, Ewald Nowotny, Johannes Ortner, Klaus Poier, Filip Radunovic, Reingard Rauch, Wolfgang Renner, Verena Ringler, Walter Rothensteiner, Sabine Schindler, Peter M. Schmidhuber, Christoph Schneider, Rainer Schrems, Matthias Strolz, Alexandra Terzic-Auer
The Auditors are in charge of the revision of the financial activities of the Association and report to the General Assembly.
Günther Schrems, Max Kothbauer
Arbitration Board
The Arbitration Board mediates disputes within the association. It consists of members elected by the General Assembly.
Arbitration Board
Waldemar Hummer, Michael Neider, Katharina Scherke, Matthias Strolz
The European Forum Alpbach is organised and registered as a charitable organisation. The members of the association are from the public sector, representatives of the Advisory Committees, friends and supporters of the European Forum Alpbach and former scholarship holders. The main assembly for all member of the association "European Forum Alpbach" is the General Assembly, which is convened at least once a year. The General Assembly elects the central bodies of the association, approves the management of public finances and can take a stand and decide on various matters.


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I've seen this pop up in several places over the last few days, and it was actually one of my followers on Twitter who first referred me to it, so I can't claim any special curatorship over this. Even so, I am fascinated by this, and it's worth some discussion.
There are any number of ways people express their fandom and their admiration of things online, and for the most part, it's about telling other fans how much they love something and it's about reaching out to those fans to try to create some sort of community. On rare occasion, though, people come up with a way to make you take a step back from a work of art that you know well and see it in a new way.
That's exactly what Jeff Desom's done to one of my very favorite Alfred Hitchcock films, and watching this repeatedly, I'm really impressed by just how this one works. Desome basically exploded the film into individual pieces, then reassembled in such a way that you can look at the entire film at the same time, a remarkable way of stepping into the movie.
It's hard to explain it, so let me just show it to you first:
Hitchcock's film is all about the way people are united by these common spaces we share and the way it's harder to hide your secrets when you live someplace with this many potential witnesses to every transgression. I have a feeling that if the legendary director actually saw this thing that Desom's done, he'd be delighted by it, because it's not just a gimmick. It actually makes a new statement about the geography and chronology of Hitchcock's movie. It's sort of amazing how the two main characters of the film, played by Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, have almost no presence here. This isn't meant to serve as a simple synopsis, but rather as a re-interpretation.
I'm still not even sure how you'd build something like this. I've looked at Desom's site, I've looked at the making-of, and I still don't think I'm capable of doing something like this. I can take films apart at the idea level, and any film I've seen, I'm happy to engage in a verbal deconstruction. But this is an art installation that is designed to work on someone on an almost physical level, and while I'm thrilled that it's on Vimeo so I can see it, I'd rather see this in person, properly projected. He's turned this film into a physical space that can almost be stepped into, and it seems like that would be the way to experience it.
I spent many years living in apartments here in Los Angeles, and one of the things that has always struck me as impressive about "Rear Window" as a film is the way it captures that common space that apartments buildings share and the way life spills into those spaces, the private becoming public, the individual part of a group whether they want it or not. In the film, Hitchcock does a tremendous job of making his studio-bound movie feel like it's capturing something real and alive and vital, and what Desom's done here illuminates the brilliance of the way the film was staged in the first place.
My one question: how does copyright play into an art installation like this? Because I'd hate to see Universal fall on Desom like a ton of bricks for something that honors their film, and if anything has ever seemed like a clear case of "fair use" to me, this would be it.
ONE THING I LOVE TODAY appears here every day. Except when it doesn't.


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Proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life...
Friday, 30 March 2012
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Monday, 26 March 2012
What Girls Really Do While Getting Ready
LOL soooo true!
Dear Easter Bunny...
Friday, 23 March 2012
My little lady is 4
It was Bella's birthday last Sunday, we had a fantastic party for her, face painter, bouncy castle, entertainer and a LOT of cake! Must say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who came and made the day so special for her, she loved every minute.
Dotty the entertainer, the kiddies were mesmerised in fits of giggles!
Dotty the entertainer, the kiddies were mesmerised in fits of giggles!
Lita Boots
I don't want to love these clumpy almost orthopaedic looking Jeffery Campbell boots... but I just do!
Bow side jeans!
Saturday, 17 March 2012
Dip Dye
I'm debating a Rumi Neely style Dip dye... Boho beach babe for the summer? for more on Miss Neely my #FashinCrush check out her bkog FashionToast
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Pretty as a Pitcher
How cute are these funk new tents by Field Candy perfect for fashionista festival goers this summer!
Monday, 5 March 2012
New tattoo
So I've been thinking about getting a new tattoo for a while now, and I've decided on a swallow, black & grey, on my left side, on my ribs just under my bra/bikini... I've been debating this for a year or so... Unlike my first tattoo which I bunked off school to get, and chose on the day what I thought was a very original Chinese symbol on my hip (thankfully I have now had that laser removed... haha see mum, tattoo's don't have to last forever)
But anyway... my lovely friend Carl has sort of photoshopped the design I want onto a pic of me to give a rough idea how it'll look (see below) The swallow pic underneath is a close up of the design I'm thinking of... Feel free to encourage or try and talk me out of it...
But anyway... my lovely friend Carl has sort of photoshopped the design I want onto a pic of me to give a rough idea how it'll look (see below) The swallow pic underneath is a close up of the design I'm thinking of... Feel free to encourage or try and talk me out of it...
Ideal Homes... Lush interior Madrid
As far as interiors go this is my cup of tea... Combining several of my favourite things... Zebra print, mirrored surfaces & purple velvet, this gorgeous house in Madrid uses serene colours and bespoke furniture to create a clean and modern but homely atmosphere.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
People are taking the piss out of you everyday
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs."- Banksy
Cindy... Still "Got it"
The amazing Cindy Crawford for the tenth anniversary cover shoot of French Revue de Modes... Still Super Hot at 46.
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I have been collecting Flames of war for about two years. And I wanted to post some pictures of the figures I have painted so far, and models to come.
I Started mostly with ww2 Americans, but I do have some Germans that I use for demo games as well.
I have also started collecting Jordan forces from the six day war.
Then I built a American vietnam force.
Now im working on av ww3 west german army.
Anyway, here are some pictures.
Usa M10 tank destroyers
Usa Sherman Calliopes
Usa Pershings and super pershing
German tiger force
Jordan force
Vietnam air cav
Team yankee west german Leo2
Apologies for the bad picture links, working on moving my pictures away from photobucket.


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California Exotic Ring Of Passion
Couples vibrating enhancer ring.
The Ring of Passion is a couples enhancer that provides added support for the wearer and enhanced vibrations for a partner. The design features a removable multi-speed bullet vibrator for added stimulation. The ring also features a nubby clitoral stimulator.
- Waterproof:
- Yes
- Phthalate Free:
- Yes
- Power:
- Replaceable Batteries


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Aerial 360° Panoramas Above Lake Florence
Aerial 360° panoramas above Lake Florence in Rockledge, Florida. Click the "Play" button below to view the two aerial 360° spherical panoramic images I captured with the DJI Phantom 3 Professional UAV on July 2, 2016.
Both spherical panoramic images were captured at 375 feet above the ground and about 1,000 feet away from me.
View the image on Google Maps
About Lake Florence
Lake Florence is a lake in Brevard County, Florida that connects to Lake Poinsett, the widest lake in Brevard County. This location along the St. Johns river system is a great for launching your kayak, small boat or even your air boat. The lake has been used for over a hundred years as an access point to the life giving St. Johns river system that flows north.
Here is an excerpt from the book "One Hundred years of Rockledge: The Centennial History of Brevard's Oldest City" by Eric C. Caron (1989)
"Located on the easternmost point of the Lake Poinsett chain, Lake Florence was the southern terminus for most shipping lines which navigated the St. Johns and it provided the closest access to Rockledge at the time. Once at Rockledge Landing, the hearty traveler would then board a wagon drawn by "a four mule team" and head through the thick, mosquito laden underbrush to Rockledge, whose popularity was now growing faster than ever before."


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May's Irish Racing Calendar contained a particularly eye-catching entry in the section for newly-named horses. It revealed that leading breeder Lady O'Reilly had named a pair of 2-year-old fillies Madeira Moon and Magic Mist. They are both by Invincible Spirit out of Madeira Mist - which, of course, means they are twins.
Twins are very much a rarity among Thoroughbreds, as veterinarians - and indeed Mother Nature - do everything in their power to prevent them. The harsh reality is that Thoroughbred mares are simply not equipped to carry twins to term successfully.
Twin pregnancies are not actually uncommon in Thoroughbred mares - about 10 percent of 15-day-old pregnancies are twin pregnancies. However, if humans do not intervene, more often than not the mare will abort both within the first six weeks.
Of the twin pregnancies that are still present after 40 days, 80 percent will not survive to birth, most being lost after the eighth month. Such late-term abortions can cause major physiological complications for the mares, as well as reduced fertility for the next breeding season.
Reduced nourishment
In the highly unlikely event that a mare manages to carry the two pregnancies to birth, many will not survive the stress and physical complications associated with the foaling of twins. If the mare successfully carries and delivers twins that both survive birth, it is typically expected that the combined weight of the twins will be similar to that of a normal foal, meaning that at least one, if not both, will be notably undersized and sometimes underdeveloped due to the severely reduced nourishment they receive throughout the foetal development process.
This significantly reduces their chances of survival and makes them of very little practical value, even if they do survive.
For those reasons, after a mare has successfully been scanned in foal 15 days or so after covering, many breeders will ask their vets to scan them again after 20 days or so in search of twin pregnancies. If they find them, they will manually abort one of them at that stage to leave just one in the uterus.
However, despite the best efforts of vets, twins do occasionally slip under the radar. Of over 20,000 broodmares in Britain and Ireland, for instance, an average of two are reported as carrying twins each year, most ending with predictably negative results.
Spectacular Bid's grand-dam was a twin
Mind, there have been some rare and famous cases of twins going on to make a notable impact, defying the exceptionally long odds stacked against them from the moment of their conception.
Perhaps the most successful twins in the history of the breed were Stop On Red and Go On Green.
Born in 1959 in the U.S., not only did they both make it to the racecourse, remarkably they won seven races each. Stop On Green gained even more renown as a broodmare, as she went on to become the grand-dam of Spectacular Bid, the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner.
Spot On Green still appears in pedigrees to this day, as a daughter of Spectacular Bid produced the top-class but ill-fated sire Mozart, who in turn produced the high-class sprinter Dandy Man, who is making an ever-growing impact as a sire.
In more recent times, a pair of colts by Orpen made a little bit of history when becoming the first set of Thoroughbred twins to be offered at the same sale at Goffs in Ireland in 2008. They may not have attracted a single bid when offered as foals, or indeed when offered again as yearlings, nor did they ever race under rules, but the story does have a happy ending. They have both won pony races under the names Pickpocket/Prince of Thieves (name changes are permitted in pony racing) and Tell Me Twice.
The most recent notable case of racing twins in Britain and Ireland centred on Iontas (the Irish word for "surprise") and Fiftyshadesdarker, a daughter and son of Invincible Spirit who were siblings of the smart Sesmen. While their dam, Poetry In Motion, lost her life giving birth, both her twins made it to the track and performed with credit without winning.
Invincible Spirit again
In the case of the latest case, Madeira Moon and Magic Mist may yet enhance the record of twins on the racecourse as they have both reportedly had a spell in pre-training and will return to training at a later stage.
Whatever they do on the racecourse, it is hoped that both will join the broodmare ranks for Lady O'Reilly, who has a breeding operation in Ireland and France. Their pedigrees will give them a better chance than most of leaving their mark on the breed. Their dam, Madeira Mist, won a Grade 3 at Woodbine and has already bred the top-class performer Joshua Tree, a three-time winner of the G1 Canadian International.
Thankfully, not only did Madeira Mist survive the births, she also went back in foal later that year and gave birth to a colt by Camelot in 2015.
So the last two sets of Thoroughbred twins born in Ireland have both been sired by Invincible Spirit, who stands at the Irish National Stud and is one of the most successful and expensive stallions in Europe.
Whether that is a reflection of his potent fertility or simply a coincidence is anyone's guess. Though, any breeder who pays €120,000 for a nomination to him would be well advised to make sure their vet is giving the scanner their undivided attention when checking the mare for twins. In the world of Thoroughbred breeding, two for the price of one is not as attractive a deal as some might think!


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Home > Publications > LKCNHM Ebooks > Instructions for Contributors
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) Books are peer-reviewed and usually published online, sharing information pertaining to biodiversity. Acceptance of manuscripts outside of the stated topic will be at the discretion of the Editor. The electronic books will be uploaded to the website (available here) as soon as they are ready for publication.
It would be preferable, where possible, that representative material or voucher specimens mentioned in articles published in this journal be deposited in the following:
To expedite publication, authors are advised to adhere to the guidelines stated here. Submissions of manuscripts to the LKCNHM Books for publication must be original and must not be submitted elsewhere unless they have been withdrawn or rejected.
All new submissions should be submitted as soft copies via email to the Editor, Dr Ng Ting Hui at email@example.com.
All manuscripts will be sent to one or two reviewers. The Editor decides on provisional acceptance or rejection based on comments submitted by the reviewer(s). The author will receive notification of the decision, together with his returned manuscript and the comments of the reviewer(s).
Manuscripts must be in English. Authors whose native language is not English should have their work reviewed by a person well-versed in the English language before submitting the manuscript. It is not the responsibility of the Editor(s) or reviewer(s) to provide language assistance, and manuscripts may be rejected if poorly written. Manuscripts must be in Microsoft® Word (.doc) word processing software format. They should not be in .docx or .docm formats.
All submissions must be in compliance with the LKCNHM Books formatting style. For the convenience of authors, a Template for Authors with the house formatting style is provided for the preparation of a manuscript for submission. For more information on the house style, please download the Style Guide for Nature in Singapore and Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum Books (For Editors) here.
Once the manuscript is provisionally accepted, it is returned to the author with the recommendations of the referee(s) and Editor. The author(s) must respond to each of the comments and incorporate necessary changes into the manuscript. The author(s) should also provide justification for any disagreement with the recommendations.
The corrected document should be sent back to the Editor via email. The format of the journal should be complied with strictly. Deviation from the format will cause delays in the publication as it will be returned for corrections.
If an author disagrees with the comments of the referee(s), the author is required to provide reasons via email to the Editor. Manuscripts will only be accepted once the author has addressed all of the recommendations or comments of the referee(s), and ensured that the format of the manuscript and illustrations comply with the house style. If the format of the corrected manuscript is not found to be satisfying, the Editor may request the author(s) to re-format the manuscript (also applicable to figures, illustrations, and tables). This would necessarily result in a delay in publication.
Final proofs in portable document format (PDF) are emailed to authors for correction together with the Agreement for the Transfer of Copyright Form. The completed form must be returned (as a scanned copy of the signed document) via email with the corrected proofs. Should the proofs be delayed by a late reply or excessive corrections, the manuscript will be delayed for publication.
The hyperlink to the electronic book will be sent to the lead or corresponding author immediately upon publication via email for reference.
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Amy has been married for over 30 years, her husband says it has been the happiest 40 years of his life – he is very funny.
She has two amazing kids, Danny and Jana. Well, grown up kids. Both off the payroll and the health insurance. Yes, we have arrived! Danny is a 25-year-old who works in HR at Michael Kors . No he cannot get your kid a job there, he is not a recruiter anymore. And yes, he gets a discount, so we love his job. To quote his 4th grade teacher, "he is a happy-go-lucky deep thinker. Amy is thrilled that he inherited the best of the combined gene pool. There was a distinct possibility that he could have become a very volatile space cadet. Jana is 28 and after working as a volunteer coordinator at God's Love We Deliver (check it out), she shifted to being a volunteer there and now works for a kickass EdTech startup called Fusfoo (check this out too, it is awesome). Jana was a tough toddler but has turned into the easiest adult daughter a mother could ask for. She has also recently gotten engaged to the love of her life. Both kids are the light of her life – a crazy woman who is sometimes unsure who is parent, her or them. If you call her an empty-nester there is a good chance she will throw something at you.
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York City boss Gary Mills has revealed striker Michael Rankine will move to Aldershot.
Mills said the big forward told him on Monday he would be going to the League Two outfit – leaving the Minstermen boss to say Rankine was now out of his plans.
"We made him an offer around Christmas," Mills said. "He turned that down. It came to light that a League club were chasing him so I had prepared myself for what was going to happen. You have to move on.
"The position of striker is something I have to work on. Ranks has gone to Aldershot and it is time to move on."
Meanwhile, defender Daniel Parslow added to his trophy haul at the club's awards night, held at Pitchside Bar at Bootham Crescent. The Press Player of the Year picked up the Billy Fenton Clubman of the Year and the Player of the Year trophy from Harrogate Minstermen and York City Supporters Club.
Mills said: "From the first day I came to the club he has been exceptional – not only in his performances but in the way he conducts himself. He thoroughly deserves it."
James Meredith was the winner of the Players' Player of the Year, while Rankine won the Golden Boot award for his campaign tally of 14 goals. Neil Barrett was awarded CPP Community Player of the Year. Tom Platt got the Young Player of the Year prize.


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Christine Lagarde on Reform in the European Union
Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, discusses the need for European countries to 'fire with all cylinders' when it comes to economic and social reform.
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Nottingham Forest manager Dougie Freedman is looking forward to competing with experienced manager Steve Bruce this weekend.
Bruce brings his Hull side to The City Ground on Saturday (kick-off 3pm) after guiding the recently relegated club to a strong start to the campaign.
And Freedman says he enjoys testing himself against individuals with many years in the managerial game.
He told Forest Player HD: "I played under Steve when he was manager of Crystal Palace, so I know him very well. I still speak to him regularly and I do pick his brains from time to time – he's got vast experience.
"Going into this game, I know between 4pm – 4.30pm he's going to have something up his sleeve. He's going to adapt to the conditions or the environment.
"As a younger coach with less experience it's certainly a challenge for myself but it's one I'm looking forward to, one I've had before and one I've conquered before."
Freedman says Matt Mills will be available for the match after shaking off a hamstring problem, while Ben Osborn will be absent from Forest's midfield until after the international break commencing after Saturday's match.
Those selected to play in the heart of Forest's team will be coming up against 'one of the best midfields in this division', according to Freedman.
The manager said: "Hull City are very, very strong in midfield. If they get their game going they can get quality supply to their very dangerous front men. We will adopt a gameplan to do our very best to stop that supply.
"They've kept their core players from the Premier League and they have some very good tactical and technical players in their team. It's going to be a tough challenge.
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the perfect loop for games
short, a small size and not bad, Great job.
the perfect loop for games
short, a small size and not bad, Great job.
It is a good jazz but it was a little short
Yes, well, it's only a loop, and I was only required to create 5 seconds of this sort of music, so it does all that I wanted it for, although I'll probably do a lot more jazz in the future, more full, complete songs.
Thanks for the review!
loops perfectly
i start with sayng that i like the minor one more, but this is also ok
i can imagine both in a flash movie, just put some talking and bar athmosphere in background and TA-DA !!!
also i can imagine the usage, the minor one gets in a sad moment and in the end (supposed to be happyend) you get in the same place with almost same music(this)
i might use it ...
kind of inspiring
(still somehow the minor6 or what is there bugs me a little)...
Thanks. That'll be really great if you do use it.
I think my brother might use it in a game he's making as a death sequence (the minor one). I'd love to hear more of my music in flashes. Thanks for the reviews.
It's good
It's good, but I don't think it works as a loop. I can't think of any place where a clip this short would work, and really at the end of the loop, it just feels like that's where the track could light up, and really go forth. Possibly with some drums or bass, but there are ways to do it and still keep the feel it has in this loop.
So...it's good, but I would say try to expand upon it.
Thanks for the review, but my intentions were plainly and simply to make a really short loop. It could have various applications in flash movies and games. Remember that Khuskan's "Elevator music" is less than 30 seconds long.
Anyway, thanks for the review. I might experiment a bit more and come up with a full jazz track one day, but it won't be this song.
Better than Minor.
This one is better than the (Minor) one you put up. I say consider making it a little bit longer though at least 1 Minute. Other than that great job!
Well, it was a request from a guy in a collab, and he only needed about 5 seconds. I was going to make it longer, but I think it works as a really short loop (in small doses). Thanks for the review.
Please contact me if you would like to use this in a project. We can discuss the details.


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Spring-Summer 2012 Feature: Oil & Gas by Jennie Lay
Know Your Niobrara
Will oil in Routt County boom or bust?
Illustration by Julia Hebard.
An emerging oil play in Routt County's front yard has roused local consciousness. The arrival of exploratory wells initiated an elevated level of discourse between industry and the community, and between local government and state officials.
Drilling operations have the potential for significant effects on the Yampa Valley's water, air, soil, wildlife and recreational opportunities. Decisions that will be made soon in Routt County have long-term impacts – on land, communities, the economy and maybe even our legacy.
The arrival of drilling rigs, flaring wells and fracking was foreseeable. The oil and gas industry has been prospering in neighboring areas for years – including record-setting drilling paces throughout the mid-2000s in Garfield and Rio Blanco counties.
Oil exploration is not foreign in Steamboat Springs' local headlines either. As early as 1900, a "Steamboat Pilot" headline read "Crude Petroleum Flows from the Ground."
For nearly two years, landmen have been acquiring potentially lucrative severed mineral rights in Routt County. These are sub-surface property rights below homes and ranches – ones that surface owners around the West rarely control. Landmen have spent millions of dollars with the State Land Board and Bureau of Land Management during public auctions – and bought multi-million-dollar ranches in South Routt, often sight unseen.
Last summer, Shell Oil and Quicksilver Resources filed for drilling permits at the county planning department. Local Division of Parks and Wildlife employees began working with energy companies to assess impacts on wildlife at proposed drill sites. A flare from a Quicksilver well on Wolf Mountain Ranch lit up the horizon near the Hayden airport.
By fall, community information gatherings from Hayden to Steamboat overflowed with inquisitive citizens. People crowded into county commissioner work sessions and planning commission meetings, returning week after week, while planning staff studied oil and gas regulations from other counties to learn from their experiences.
Opening November's packed oil and gas work session with the Routt County Planning Commission, planning director Chad Phillips noted that he was grateful that the pace allowed the issue to generate and build public interest.
At stake are new oil wells in the 6,000-feet-deep Niobrara Shale Formation, a complex rock formation created 90 million years ago by an inland sea spanning several geological basins from Colorado's eastern plains west into Utah, and from New Mexico to Wyoming. The layered shale and limestone typically ranges from 200 to 400 feet thick. In "Geology Profiles of the Steamboat Springs Area," Newell P. Campbell describes the Niobrara Shale Formation as "bluish gray to dark gray; shale platy with white specks; abundant marine fossils; highly fractured limestone at base; weakly to moderately resistant" with a maximum thickness of 1,100 feet.
The Niobrara has been a hotbed of activity since Houston-based EOG Resources sprang a gusher at a Weld County well named "Jake" in 2009. Initially, the Front Range well yielded 1,558 barrels of oil a day, compared to an average 300 barrels a month from an average onshore U.S. oil well.
A combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," is the pivotal technology making recovery of oil and gas accessible. Water, sand and a mixture of chemicals are shot under pressure into the rock to create hairline fractures and release oil and gas from newly opened fissures. The chemicals are designed to keep sand suspended, reduce friction and disinfect tiny new spaces.
The composition of fracking fluids varies from well to well, depending on individual geologic characteristics. Over the years, the industry resisted disclosing the makeup of their fracking fluid mixtures, arguing that they're proprietary – and harmless. It has also opposed federal legislation to regulate fracking under the Clean Water Act.
Colorado now requires disclosure of types and concentrations of fracking chemicals, which will be available in a searchable database within a year. Trade secret claims must be justified and certified by companies, and can be disputed. Data is posted on FracFocus.org.
Fracking generally involves water – as many as 5 million gallons for a single horizontally drilled well – and each well can be fracked multiple times. Some of the water mixed with fracking chemicals comes back up with the oil and some stays in the earth. What comes up must be cleaned and disposed of. But GasFrac Energy Services, a Canadian company, uses propane or butane gel instead of water. Once injected, it turns into a gas and exits the well with the oil or gas. While this may be a good solution in the drought-weary West, the hitch is that it's flammable. This is the system Quicksilver used to frack its first well on Wolf Mountain Ranch, near Hayden, last summer.
Oil ad gas drilling in Moffat County west of Steamboat Springs. Photo courtesy EcoFlight 2011.With nearly 100,000 acres in conservation easements in Routt County, Wolf Mountain Ranch's Pirtlaw Well is the county's first on a conserved property. A proposed well on the Camilletti Ranch is on a conservation easement that the Routt County Purchase of Development Rights funded in December.
So far, only a half-dozen drilling permits are in the pipe locally, but things move fast in this industry. In the past year, all permits approved at the state level have yet to transform into local planning requests for permits to drill. As of press time, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has issued 10 Niobrara drilling permits in Routt County, 18 in Jackson County to the east, and 50 in Moffat County to the west. In early January, barely two years after Jake, Halliburton committed to building a $20 million sand terminal to support its fracking in the area.
Routt County commissioners have delved into a concerted process of creating regulations that reward companies that do things right. They have received hundreds of public comments and are actively considering recommendations from an oil and gas working group. The commissioners specifically asked the group to hold nothing back.
Their recommendations may have additional weight after a January court decision in Gunnison County. The court found that the state has "no express or implied preemption" of local regulations. This "preemption" has been an oft-noted concern by county staff and commissioners, since the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has long contended that their rules trump local ones.
Community sentiment is divided. Some residents express trust that the state is adequately regulating the industry and urge commissioners to move forward with approvals that would usher in new business. Others have expressed distrust of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the state agency that is tasked with both promoting and regulating the state's oil and gas industry.
Both sides generally agreed that Routt County will have to take on some level of monitoring and enforcement responsibilities. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission employs 15 field inspectors who cover the entire state – including a single inspector based in Northwest Colorado. Spot checks cannot possibly oversee the long list of resources the county has committed to preserving.
A 24/7 flare burned at Quicksilver's Pirtlaw Well, a butane gas frack on Wolf Mountain Ranch, near Hayden. Photo courtesy Sasha Nelson/Colorado Environmental Coalition.
The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission reports that more than 90% of all oil and gas wells are now fracked. Early versions of the technology date back to 1946, and FracFocus reports that fracking has been used on over 1 million wells, and with as many as 35,000 wells of all types currently being fracked each year. Industry contends that water near fracking operations is safe because oil and gas-bearing formations are thousands of feet below aquifers and water wells, with layers of rock in between.
Science has been slow to confirm a connection between health problems and fracking. But in December, the Environmental Protection Agency released a draft scientific report linking underground water contamination near Pavillion, Wyo., with EnCana's nearby fracking. Residents there suffered an array of health concerns, many of them serious, and their water supplies revealed at least 10 compounds found in frack fluids. The EPA has ongoing long-term fracking studies going on around the country.
Fracking chemicals are not the only concern. Local employment, possible worker shortages, man camps for transient workers on drill sites, and increased pressure on schools, social services, fire and police are also issues. Air quality is of import during drilling, development and production – and the Colorado Department of Health and the Environment currently has no active monitoring stations in the Yampa Valley.
Shell's senior staff geologist, Matt Holman, points out that "not all operators are the same…Spoiling the landscape is a fundamentally poor business practice and you'll put me out of business quickly. It's valid to be concerned about these things."
In mid-January, the Routt County Planning Commission tabled a drilling permit request by Quicksilver on the Camilletti ranch. Unconvinced that proposed mitigations for drilling impacts would be adequate, they voted unanimously to wait for decisions on county drilling conditions due to be released in late February.
Among the community requests are mandatory baseline air and water testing, ongoing well site monitoring, comprehensive drilling plans, clustering of wells, pre-screening of drilling contractors, consideration of wildlife overlays, scenic byways, viewsheds and subdivisions, emergency plans and protecting surrounding property owners who aren't covered by the terms of a lease.
In 2011, new Jackson County oil wells went in along the North Platte River near Walden. Photo courtesy Jane Pargiter/EcoFlight 2011.
In the Yampa Valley, there has also emerged a tale of two counties: As Routt County officials attempt to tighten regulations before releasing permits, Moffat County strongly supports oil and gas exploration. The "Craig Daily Press," wrote, "Editorial board members had to shake their heads and smile Tuesday at a new plan afoot in Routt County….These new conditions would go beyond the energy restrictions already in place at the state level. Energy development shouldn't be allowed to wreck the natural landscape, but this latest push to muzzle progress goes too far. The oil and gas industry is regulated enough."
Brian Arel, a planning commission member, spoke out as a concerned citizen during a work session. Having visited Quiksilver's well on Wolf Mountain Ranch, he called it "impressive" with a Texas flag flying high and "workers from seemingly everywhere but here," he says. He also realized, "I'm a believer in rights, but what I realize is that I'm a believer in surface property rights."
Routt County is showing commitment to long-range planning, in case Niobrara exploration yields significant results. But since more than 90 percent of Routt County is zoned agricultural, much of the supporting industry impacts for drilling will fall on the City of Steamboat Springs and the towns of Hayden and Oak Creek.
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Hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam was convicted on all 14 counts of fraud and conspiracy Wednesday in the biggest insider-trading case in a generation, handing the government a victory after it was pummeled for bringing so few high-profile prosecutions out of the financial crisis.
The verdict is a historic achievement for the Justice Department, which used tactics once reserved for investigations of mobsters and drug dealers to expose financial professionals and insiders trafficking in secrets about pending mergers.
The government secretly recorded Rajaratnam talking to his tipsters, and it used those conversations to show the jury a dark side of the hedge-fund business that was long suspected. Prosecutors also drew upon testimony of co-conspirators whom the government had turned against Rajaratnam.
Rajaratnam, 53, head of Galleon Management, was accused of illegally reaping profits or avoiding losses of about $64 million.
The investment mogul did not testify in his own defense. His legal team argued that he traded on legitimate investment analysis and information in the public domain.
The trial was one of the most widely followed Wall Street cases in years. But it had little to do with the biggest Wall Street scandal in decades: the crisis in the mortgage and financial markets that plunged the nation into a devastating recession.
Lawmakers, activist groups and some financial analysts have questioned why the Obama administration has not brought any major criminal charges against a prominent Wall Street executive involved in the debacle. Congress has summoned top federal investigators over the past year to explain. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a special Senate investigative panel, and the Securities and Exchange Commission have referred cases to the Justice Department for possible prosecution.
Although many people have been hungering for financial titans to be held criminally accountable for the damage, Columbia Law School professor John C. Coffee Jr. said Wednesday that the government must be embarrassed that not a single high-ranking Wall Street executive has been indicted in connection with the crisis.
Coffee noted that the Rajaratnam investigation began before the crisis, and he said it was an important case for the Justice Department to pursue.
But in an earlier interview, he suggested that the current campaign against insider trading, which the Rajaratnam case symbolizes, offered an element of consolation. "If you aren't able to bring the cases that probably the public expects, you may want to compensate," he said.
Anthony Michael Sabino, a professor at St. John's University in New York, put it this way: "This doesn't make up entirely for Bernie Madoff, the mortgage crisis and a host of other wrongs, but it's a start."
Justice officials have said they are guided by the law and the evidence rather than public passions. "We have and we will continue to investigate aggressively all forms of financial crimes and when we find evidence to prove a crime has been committed, we will not hesitate to charge it," Justice spokeswoman Alisa Finelli said.
The Justice Department swung and missed in perhaps its biggest financial crisis case when a jury acquitted two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers of lying to investors. It won the conviction of Lee Bentley Farkas, former chairman of mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, in connection with fraud that it said contributed to the failure of Colonial Bank.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which can bring civil but not criminal cases, reached a settlement with Angelo Mozilo, former chief executive of subprime mortgage lender Countrywide Financial. The Justice Department took no action against Mozilo, and it dropped its investigation of a key player at American International Group, an insurance company that received a taxpayer bailout.
Goldman Sachs paid $550 million to settle SEC charges that it misled investors about a complex investment pegged to subprime mortgages, but the Justice Department has not acted on the matter.
Holding people criminally responsible for the financial crisis would require reconstructing past events and overcoming arguments that broader economic forces were to blame, white-collar lawyers said.
In contrast, the Rajaratnam case involved one of the oldest and simplest crimes on Wall Street: trading on stolen information. Proving insider trading has often been difficult, but the FBI and other authorities were able to build their case in real time, capturing conversations as they transpired.
Rajaratnam "hung himself with his own words, as caught on tape," Sabino said.
According to government transcripts, this was Rajaratnam talking on the phone on Oct. 24, 2008: "I heard yesterday from somebody who's on the board of Goldman Sachs that they are gonna lose $2 per share."
And this was Rajaratnam talking about a deal involving another company on Oct. 7, 2008: "We know because . . . one of our guys is on the board. We know that they're gonna put $41 million in escrow."
And this was one of Rajaratnam's tipsters on July 24, 2008, telling him that a company planned to issue a more pessimistic earnings forecast: "They're gonna guide down. I just got a call from my guy. I played him like a finely tuned piano."
One of Rajaratnam's alleged sources had been a member of the board of Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs and is a former head of the international management consulting giant McKinsey & Co. He allegedly tipped Rajaratnam to the fact that Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett was going to make a crucial investment in Goldman Sachs at the height of the financial crisis.
The parade of witnesses at the trial in federal court in New York included the chairman of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement: "Rajaratnam was among the best and the brightest — one of the most educated, successful and privileged professionals in the country. Yet, like so many others recently, he let greed and corruption cause his undoing."
Rajaratnam was the 35th person — and the most prominent — to be convicted of insider trading in the Southern District of New York in the past year and a half.
A prosecutor asked the court to have him held in jail until his sentencing in July, but a judge released him to home confinement with electronic monitoring. Rajaratnam had previously posted a bond of $100 million.
A Justice lawyer told the court that, by a conservative interpretation, federal guidelines point to a sentence of 151 / 2 to 191 / 2 years.
Speaking at the federal courthouse in Manhattan, defense attorney John Dowd said he plans to appeal.
The stakes were high for both sides, as J. Robert Brown Jr., a professor at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, noted.
Given the extraordinary evidence the government amassed against Rajaratnam, Brown said, had the verdict gone the other way, "it would have made insider-trading cases against Wall Street traders almost impossible."
Brown predicted that the verdict will force insider traders to exchange information "in a more devious manner," but he doubted it would hamper insider trading.
"The money in this area is too big," he said.
Staff writer Zachary A. Goldfarb contributed to this report.


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It turned into developed via Pyra Labs, which become sold by using Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs also can be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger (like www.example.com). So blogspot.com domain publishings may be redirected to the custom area. A consumer can have up to a hundred blogs in line with account.
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On August 23, 1999, Blogger became launched via Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest committed weblog-publishing tools, it's miles credited for assisting popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs became obtained via Google beneath undisclosed terms. The purchase allowed top rate features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. In October 2004, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. In 2004, Google bought Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photograph sharing application hiya into Blogger, permitting users to put up pictures to their blogs.
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On February 24, 2015, Blogger introduced it'll no longer allow its customers in late March to submit sexually explicit content material, unless the nudity on offer "full-size public gain," for instance in "artistic, instructional, documentary, or scientific contexts."[10] On February 28, 2015, accounting for extreme backlash from lengthy-term bloggers, Blogger reversed its choice on banning sexual content material, going back to the previous coverage that allowed explicit images and videos if the blog changed into marked as "adult",.
As part of the Blogger redecorate in 2006, all blogs related to a person's Google Account have been migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the provider is now more reliable because of the nice of the servers.
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In a model of the provider referred to as Blogger in Draft, new functions are tested earlier than being launched to all users. New functions are discussed inside the provider's authentic weblog. In September 2009, Google delivered new features into Blogger as a part of its tenth anniversary party. The capabilities blanketed a brand new interface for post editing, advanced photo handling, raw HTML Conversion, and different Google docs-primarily based implementations, consisting of:
adding place to posts via geotagging.
post time-stamping at publication, no longer at unique creation.
Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. the size is saved in a consistent with-person, per-weblog choice.
link enhancing in compose mode.
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New Preview dialog that suggests posts in a width and font size approximating what's visible within the posted view.
Placeholder photograph for tags in order that embeds are movable in compose mode.
New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons. also, added turned into the entire justification button, a strike-via button, and an extended colour palette.
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. the new post editor become criticized for being much less reliable than its predecessor.
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Blogger lets in its customers to choose from numerous templates after which customize them. customers may additionally pick out to create their very own templates the usage of CSS. the brand new layout template, called "Dynamic View", became added on 31 August 2011 with Dynamic views being introduced on 27 September 2011. it's miles built with AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3. The time for loading is forty percentage shorter than traditional templates, and allows user to provide weblog in seven special approaches: conventional, flipcard, magazine, mosaic, sidebar, picture, and timeslide. Readers still have the choice to choose premier perspectives whilst the weblog proprietor has set a default view. a number of the widgets (e.g., Labels, Profile, hyperlink listing, Subscription hyperlinks, followers and blog Archive etc.) are to be had for Dynamic views; other templates are chosen by means of the blogger.
In April 2013, Blogger up to date its HTML template editor that has a few improvements to make it smooth for the customers to edit the blog's source code. The editor became updated with syntax spotlight, number line and jump-to-widget button for ease of editing the code.
For over half a 12 months dynamic views customers have been tormented by a worm inflicting custom CSS and page navigation often not to load properly. This happened due to the fact a JavaScript routine rendered the web page before it was loaded. A blogger person fixed the template and published the repair.
The Google Toolbar has a function known as "BlogThis!" which permits toolbar users with Blogger debts to post hyperlinks immediately to their blogs.
"Blogger for phrase" is an add-in for Microsoft phrase which allows customers to shop a Microsoft phrase record without delay to a Blogger weblog, as well as edit their posts each on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for phrase is not currently compatible with the new edition of Blogger", and they state no selection has been made approximately supporting it with the brand new Blogger. but, Microsoft workplace 2007 adds native aid for a variety of running a blog structures, together with Blogger.
Blogger helps Google's AdSense carrier as a way of generating revenue from running a blog.
Blogger additionally started out integration with Amazon associates in December 2009, as a carrier to generate revenue. It was not publicly announced, but via September 2011 it regarded that each one integration alternatives have been removed and that the partnership had ended.
home windows live author, a standalone app of the home windows stay sweet, publishes directly to Blogger.
Blogger may be optionally included with Google.
Google feedback may be incorporated with blogger remarks.
The Campaigns tab in Blogger dashboard links to Adwords making it simpler to create advertisements.
you can create and upload HTML site map static web page on your blogger BlogSpot blogs the usage of Blogger JSON Feed API which helps both website stay site visitors and search Engine bots.
Blogger on cell devices
Blogger has released cell applications for customers with mobile devices. customers can publish and edit blogs, and also share pics and links on Blogger via their mobile gadgets. not most effective superior mobile gadgets, which include smartphones, are being taken into consideration, due to the fact that customers also can put up blogs through traditional mobile telephones via SMS and MMS.
Screenshot of Blogger app on iOS
The important cellular running systems that Blogger specializes in are Android and iOS.Blogger allow users to edit blogs anywhere thru the app and both publish the blogs or shop them as drafts. short navigation from posts and drafts is offered from a listing. users can connect images through taking a picture with a Blogger app or choosing photographs from their photo galleries. Sharing modern locations on posts is likewise feasible with the aid of tabbing My location bar and adding places. users can also proportion snap shots and links without delay to Blogger.
Blogger additionally presents dynamic mobile perspectives for the blogging compatibility with cellular devices and clever phones. They beautify the clarity accuracy on these clever devices.but modifying your blog at the blogger app remains an open issue for the customers.


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27 September, 2016On 20-22 September about 50 workers' and trade union representatives from Europe, Asia and North America where SKF Group, the world-leading producer of bearings, has operations, came to Poznan, Poland. The participants exchanged views on labour related issues in SKF, including the upcoming changes in the group.
On 20 September, group CEO Alrik Danielson and other senior management members, introduced their views on the latest development and future shape of the group. They also briefly discussed the perspectives for the group with the employees' representatives. Management spoke quite openly about opportunities and challenges that the group faces, but unfortunately, there was not enough time to discuss in-depth the employees' views on these matters.
One of the major drivers in SKF's development will be the so-called 'fourth industrial revolution', also known as Industry 4.0. This also became clear from the comments and requests made by the workers' representatives.
During the second day the participants focused expressly on employees matters, including presentations of the health and safety projects as well as new management and flexibility efforts at SKF plant in Poznan, Poland.
IndustriALL representative, Matthias Hartwich, director for materials industries and mechanical engineering, addressed the delegates and observers of the SKF World Union Committee saying,
"Company management that has a long-lasting history of local, regional and global social dialogue, such as SKF, should have nothing to hide in the discussions with its World Union Committee. Especially in times of trouble, management will need support and understanding on the employees' side. A true openness and social dialogue, including information and consultation, is not only of added value for the workers and their trade unions, but also for the company."
The delegates held active discussions during the entire conference. They also jointly indicated their clear willingness to support the process of strengthening genuine social dialogue both on local and global levels. On 21 September they positioned themselves in favour of such a form of improved social dialogue.
On 22 September the group visited the SKF Poznan plant, where delegates could see the projects presented earlier in action and discuss the situation in the plant with plant management. Next year the meeting will most likely take place in Gothenburg, Sweden.


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5400 Bogense
Harridslevgaard Castle, near Bogense - the only manor house on North Funen – welcomes visitors to take a look around. The castle was first mentioned in 1231, but the present main building dates back to 1606. In the past, the water went right up to Harridslevgaard, which according to legend was a pirate castle.
Harridslevgaard has been restored over the years and it's furnished with splendid antique furniture and features much fine detail. Visit the attractive rooms with fine furniture and enjoy the views of the garden where peacocks strut around. The impressive great hall is the largest of its kind in private ownership in Denmark. The medieval cellar was constructed before the present castle building. It has attractive vaulting and also contains the castle's large kitchen.
The castle is open to visitors on Easter holidays, Pentecost holidays, Summer and the autumn holidays - come and have a good experience.
And don't miss the beautifully decorated castle when Harridslevgaard opens it doors with Christmas market on 4 weekends in November-December.
Guided tours for large groups are available by arrangement all year round.
You can also get married in the castle! Various rooms can be hired for conferences, meetings, weddings and dinners in extraordinary surroundings.
Feast of the Ascension holidays:
30/05 & 02/06
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09/06 & 10/06
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Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturdays closed
Open in October:
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Christmas opening hours:
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Well, Tess, something significant happened in week 38 of your life. You discovered the power of knees, and their ability to hoist your tummy off the floor. Your whole world changed with that new shin-high view of things. No longer fanny-bound, you were soon free to cruise everywhere, and our whole world changed. Again.
Gone are the days of taking our eyes off you for multiple minutes, confident as we were that your stationary life brought no threat of hazard. And along with your new locomotion skills came the ability to leverage furniture to stand up and balance yourself. Therefore, gone are the days of leaving forgotten change in the couch; no more golf tees laying around. Sharp edges: padded. Stairs: gated. Adornments: minimized. And with the bounty of multicolored toys scattered about, this is starting to look less and less like our house and more like your house. Chez Tess.
Your personhood is beginning to merge with your babyhood. You're teaching us your likes and dislikes. You like edamame and bananas and avocado, but if I try to give you that nasty sour fruit blend, you'll surely spit it on my arms again. Sweet potatoes and carrots: Yes. Green beans and custard: No. Remote controls, shoes, and little books: Yes. Rattles, plastic rings, and the rubber ducky: No. Blocks: Sometimes. But I won't even think of handing you the fluffy horse again after that look you gave me, which said, "good God, man, that is so six weeks ago --- puh-leease!"
So, you've graduated. You're officially a rugrat. And as I understand it, this phase lasts a loooong time. Go easy on us, kiddo.


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The Taraba state election Tribunal sitting in Abuja has ruled that the President of the Court of Appeal has power to exercise constitutional power by moving any tribunal to any part of the country including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
This has put paid to the motion by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the relocation of the election tribunal back to Taraba State.
The Tribunal Chairman, Justice Musa Abubakar, in his ruling yesterday, held that the relocation of the tribunal has no adverse effect on the parties involved in the case.
Abubakar therefore stated that the President of Court of Appeal, Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa, has acted within the provision of the law particularly for the security of the parties and the legal officers.
Justice Abubakar having noted that Taraba state is one of the states facing insurgency crisis, emphasised that the constitutional issue raised by the INEC can only be handled by a regular court.
Speaking after the ruling, Counsel to Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State, Kanu Agabi (SAN), notified the court that there is another preliminary objection before the court challenging the jurisdiction of the court.
The INEC had challenged the relocation of the tribunal to Abuja, arguing that the tribunal ought to sit in the state where the April 11 gubernatorial election was held. The umpire also noted that the state's legislative election tribunal is currently sitting in Jalingo, the state capital.
The petitioners: Taraba State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the April election, Hajia Aisha Alhassan and her party, are challenging the outcome of the election won by Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with the view that the election was marred by irregularities.
The tribunal has also adjourned August 4, for subsequent sitting and ruling on jurisdiction.
Culled from: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/taraba-elections-court-rules-against-inec-s-request-for-tribunal-relocation/216307/


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August 31, 2011
still a winner
There were great entries in this category, and I'm sure judging had to be tough.
Even though my submission wasn't selected, the process was beneficial. I learned a lot about the importance of making an excellent first impression. I am even more determined than ever to make my story stronger.
I've made a few changes to the book already:
1. The book has a new title. Hard Hats and Flip Flops is now Hard Hats and Doormats (This really isn't a big deal in the end, because a publisher could change it, but I think every story needs to be called something.)
2. I cut out a chapter. I might work it in somewhere else, but I wanted to get to the action faster.
3. I have a new pitch. "A reformed pushover takes charge of her life and finds love and the courage to start over while working in the cut-throat Gulf Coast chemical industry.
Thoughts? I value any feedback.
Again, congratulations to the winner and thank you, Gabriela, for the chance to participate.
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If it doesn't reach the required support level, then it comes down and you are all the wiser for the experience. Anyways, until Oct 15th we are looking for the best 3 submissions, and they will all win iPad 2's. Your book sounds great and we would love to see it on the site. Best of luck to you! - PUBSLUSH
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Made in the USA. Our Alphabet Toy Box is made entirely of wood (aside from the hardware). No MDF or particle board. Solid oak is used for the corner posts. Oak veneered panels are trimmed with solid oak edge banding. Under the oak veneer is furniture grade veneer core. Finished in a warm Natural Oak stain with a clear satin topcoat.
The alphabet is laser engraved into the wood for a beautiful effect . The resolution of our laser is 300 DPI (dots per inch) which is the same detail as a magazine photo, resulting in stunning quality! (see entire alphabet below).
There are two lid supports which are positioned in the center of the toy box. The toy box lid does not slam down when lifted up. Whatever the lid position, it does NOT drop. The hinges and lid supports have a lifetime guarantee. If they break for any reason they will be replaced at no charge.
We can add a solid cedar base in the bottom of the toy box for $30. The cedar we use is aromatic "eastern" cedar. Cedar not only has a functional purpose but also adds style to the classic oak box. The outside dimensions of the toybox are 40"L x 21" W x 20" H. The inside dimensions are 36"L x 18 1/2"W x 17"H. Assembly requires a regular and Phillips screwdriver and only about 15 minutes of your time. We include easy to read instructions with photos. This toy chest is custom made -- please allow 2-3 weeks for delivery. Credit cards are charged at the time order is placed for custom made and/or personalized items. This item is made for you upon order and is not returnable.