Easter Bunny

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Easter Bunny is an imaginary creature who, according to tradition, distributes, on the eve of Easter morning, a major celebration of Christianity, the colored or chocolate “Easter eggs”. This messenger is represented by a rabbit in the English-speaking regions, but … Read More

Live captioning

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Live captioning on television is a technique of displaying text at the bottom of the screen during the broadcast of a live program. Regulatory authorities in several countries require broadcasters to caption their emissions. This is particularly the case in … Read More

EU Commission accepts legally binding commitments for sale of e-books

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EU Commission accepts legally binding commitments from Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Hachette, Holtzbrinck and Apple for sale of e-books The European Commission has adopted a decision that renders legally binding commitments offered by Apple and four international publishers – … Read More

Financing of benevolent and public interest activities as well as events on which online sports betting relies in EU

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Restrictions on gambling services at national level are at times justified by policy reasons such as the financing of benevolent or public interest activities. Notwithstanding that the systems put in place for this purpose should comply with applicable state aid … Read More

Web translation as a genre for EU institutions

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Writing for the web is the subject of great amounts of literature, in print and on the web. There have also been many studies on multilingual websites, and the architecture and technology of multilingual websites is a rapidly developing field. … Read More

Games and traditions with Easter eggs

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Egg hunting The “egg hunt” is an old tradition. In Alsace, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, in most Länder, Easter eggs are brought by the Easter bunny (Osterhase). In fact, the rabbit, very prolific in the spring, is probably a symbol … Read More

English Translation Style Guide for EU – REFERENCES TO OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS

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THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL General. The full name of the Official Journal is Official Journal of the European Union and its official abbreviation in references is ‘OJ’. It is published in three series, ‘L’, ‘C’ and ‘S’, each serving different purposes. … Read More

Supported formats and available contents for Amazon’s Kindle

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Kindle reads the electronic document in Amazon‘s AZW proprietary format file (KF8 for the last files), it supports TXT format and MP3 audio format and audio book format but from the company Audible.com, but not EPUB format supported by many … Read More

Economics of Gambling in Denmark

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Statutory regulation of the Danish gaming market dates back to the 18th century, cf. “Kongelig anordning af den 6. oktober 1753”, which prohibited games of chance. From that time until the present, the fundamental objectives of the regulatory restrictions have … Read More

History of Easter eggs

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The red eggs (Easter eggs from Belarus, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belarusian_Easter_Eggs.jpg) The custom of the Easter egg was found among Coptic Christians from the late fifth century, it is perhaps in memory of ardent eggs (ova ignita) with which the martyrs were tortured … Read More

Competitive advantage

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Competitive advantage is all that allows a company to outperform its competitors.

Gambling in Ireland

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Although casinos are not authorized in Ireland, betting and games of chance hold an important place in the culture of this nation and have been specifically authorized for decades. The country has a long-standing tradition of horse and dog racing, … Read More

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