How to avoid e-mail spam

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Computer users can avoid e-mail spam in several ways: End-users can use automated e-mail filtering on their own computers. System administrators can use appropriate tools to trap e-mail spam at the mail server level, either by use of software or … Read More

Basic Blackjack Strategy Matrix

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The foundation of winning at Blackjack is to utilize proper basic strategy in playing the hands. “Proper” means that each decision you make on hitting, standing, doubling or splitting pairs is the correct mathematical play for that hand. There is … Read More

EU Translation Guide: Prefer active verbs to passive

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Another easy step to dear writing is to useverbs in the active voice (‘the car hit a tree’) rather than the passive (‘a tree was hit by the car‘). Compare these: BAD: New guidelines have been laid downbythe President in … Read More

EU Translation Guide: Be concrete, not abstract

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Concrete messages are clear – abstract language canbe vague and off-putting. Too much abstract language might even lead your reader to think either that you don’t know what you are writing about or that your motives for writingare suspect. Unless … Read More

EU Translation Guide: Cut out excess nouns – verb forms are livelier

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One simple way to write more dearly is to change … this (BAD)… => … to this (GOOD):   by the destruction of => by destroying for the maximisation of => for maximising of the introduction of => of introducing … Read More

Theory of everything

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In physics, a theory of everything (TOE) is a theory that unifies the four fundamental forces of nature: gravity, the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force, and is the goal of researchers in quantum gravity. … Read More

Musical forms

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Thought-form of the Music of Gounod, according to Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater in Thought Forms (1901) The term musical form is used in two related ways: a generic type of composition such as the symphony or concerto the structure … Read More

EU Translation Guide: Make sense – structure your sentences

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You may have to write (or improve) a text containing a mass of facts and ideas. Here are some ways of untangling the information so that readers will understand each sentence straight away. Name the agents of each action and … Read More

The interests in online gambling in EU

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(a) Citizens. Many EU citizens purchase on-line gambling services for entertainment purposes1, while a smaller group of players make a living as professional gamblers (e.g. professional poker players) and there are also associations/syndicates operating in the EU market. Many of … Read More

EU Translation Guide: KISS – Keep It Short and Simple

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Short… The value of a document does not increase the longer it gets. Your readers will not respect you more because you have written 20 pages instead of 10, especially when they realise that you could have written what you … Read More

EU Translation Guide: Get your document into shape

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When you start If your outline include a summary, begin with that: you may find it is enough! Put it at the beginning because that is the first (and sometimes the only) part that people will read. Pay particular attention … Read More

John 14

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14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: have faith in God and have faith in me. 14:2 In my Father’s house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready … Read More

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