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Contrary maybe to your experience, getting a good quality translation is not a Russian roulette game…. I put three bullets in the 6-bullet cylinder, I have a good 50/50 chance surviving pulling the trigger…. I did my due diligence when selecting my translator/translation agency, I can be reasonably certain of the successful outcome….

 

Maybe. But leaving things to chance does not bode well for your final satisfaction. In fact, empirical data show that the editing time spent on any translation does not increase/decrease in linear proportions with the quality (or lack thereof) of the job done.

 

My personal experience over the last 15 years taught me that compared with a good translation job, a mediocre one will drastically increase the time I spend proofreading/editing it, whatever the number of actual translation errors found in the document!

 

But why?

 

The mechanism is a simple one: as the proofreader/editor notices that translation errors are a bit too numerous for his/her own comfort, his/her attention cannot help but zeroing in on the possibility of further errors. His/her critique becomes unforgiving. Gradually, he/she rewrites larger and larger chunks of the copy. What might have be considered acceptable quality to start with becomes less and less acceptable. More “has” to be rewritten. Even on purely subjective grounds of perceived style improprieties.More about Translation Agencies UK

 

In quite the opposite way, an editor correcting a generally well-written and technically accurate translation will become less and less keen to superimpose his/her own indiosyncrasies on the translation job: “Mmmh, I wouldn’t have written it this way, but it’s correct”. Or in other terms, the editor tends to go by the rule “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

 

Based on this, how can you avoid the pitfalls of translator selection?

 

The …

Salah satu pengunjung lama dan favorit kami, Colly, mampir ke Thailand pada putaran terakhir perjalanan keliling dunianya – dan beberapa dari Anda akan ingat bahwa kami pernah bertemu sekali di Vegas pada putaran pertama perjalanannya saat saya meliput dua pertunjukan besar di Vegas. Dan pengunjung forum Casinomeister juga akan tahu bahwa kami membahas “Petualangan Hebat” di mana kami akan mengunjungi Poipet, Kamboja, rumah bagi enam (dan segera lebih) kasino besar yang melayani penduduk Thailand.

Saya membuat pengaturan untuk bertemu Colly di hotelnya, dan ketika kami berjalan keluar untuk minum kopi, saya bertemu dengan seorang teman – sebenarnya, teman yang telah saya rencanakan untuk mengajak kami ke Poipet, yang belum pernah saya kunjungi. dapat menghubungi selama lebih dari sebulan.

Dia siap setuju untuk mengatur mobil dan sopir, dan Petualangan Hebat dimulai.

Poipet adalah kota non-deskriptif di perbatasan di seberang Aranyapathet di provinsi Sa Kaew Thailand, empat jam dengan mobil dari Bangkok. Di masa lalu, kota ini dikenal terutama karena pasar perdagangannya yang besar – Toto SGP saat kami melewati Imigrasi, semua jenis barang dapat terlihat melintasi Kamboja, termasuk pakaian dan secara mengejutkan banyak produk segar – saya membayangkan bahwa sayuran akan berlimpah di sisi lain perbatasan tetapi jelas bahwa sebagian besar perdagangan adalah satu arah.

Pengunjung diharuskan memiliki visa – yang menurut Colly dan saya agak aneh karena dia membawa paspor EC dan saya paspor Amerika, yang biasanya memberikan akses gratis di sebagian besar negara – tetapi untungnya kami dapat mengatur visa pada saat kedatangan untuk 1000 baht (sekitar $22 AS) dan karena Colly tidak membawa fotonya, dia harus membayar tambahan 100 baht ($2,20) untuk foto yang tidak pernah diambil… dan jika Anda ingin mempercepat perjalanan Anda , izinkan salah satu pria Kamboja – atau “pemandu” – untuk mengurus semuanya untuk Anda dengan tip 100 baht – kami benar-benar dicap masuk …

Digibyte Price

This morning it became apparent that the cryptocoin called DigiByte ($DGB) was set to skyrocket in price. In the past 24 hours, the price of the coin went up a cool 43%, and beat its own previous top price (from May 21st) – once, and hasn’t looked back since. But why – why has DigiByte suddenly turned into the third most traded coin on the market overnight? We’ve got a few answers.

WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW TO FIND OUT MORE!

1. Minecraft Integration

There’s some confusion when it comes to this particular point, but the end result is the same – DigiByte will indeed have their own Minecraft server soon. To be super clear, this does not mean that Mojang nor Microsoft are affiliated with DigiByte, nor the other way around. This has nothing to do – nothing directly, anyway – to do with the release of the Minecraft Marketplace this week, the Discovery Update 1.1, or Minecraft Coins.

The Minecraft DigiByte server will be housed at Mine That Digi and it’ll be launched on the 10th of June, 2017. That’ll coincide with the event taking place on the 9th with Citi. This is just one part of the puzzle.

The reason this Minecraft announcement has caught on in the crypto-hype market is its perfect timing with the two events mentioned above. Minecraft Marketplace with Minecraft Coins launched this week on Bedrock Platforms, and DigiByte (official) is going to make a presentation at a Citi event.

UPDATE: Just for kicks we’ve also reached out the the Minecraft team at Microsoft to ask if any DigiByte business was coming to Minecraft in the near future. They said that this was “the first they’d heard of it”. So that’ll be a final nail in the coffin of that particular angle.

2. Meme

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PokerPages has instituted a new discussion forum for women poker players. It looks as it’s going to be a rich source for discussion and a rich source of article topic ideas for me.

One of the first threads was started by PokerVeteran, an internet poker troll. He basically proclaimed that women belong in the bedroom, not the cardroom.

Of course, as you might expect, a number of posters felt the need to tell him how wrong he was. A couple of them were men. Randy made a very polite post pointing out that PokerVeteran never posted anything with any poker content and calling him an a-hole.

My boss, Mark, made a post claiming, among other things, that women don’t have an advantage at the poker table.

It was Marks post that inspired this column. I think he’s wrong. I think women do have an advantage at the UFA poker table. It’s a situational advantage. It’s not an unfair advantage. And, not all women exploit the advantage. But, they do have an advantage.

Our troll, PokerVeteran, and Randy, our gentlemen, are examples of the kinds of opponents that often unwittingly give women an advantage.

Different players will react to situations in different ways.

Mr. Macho

He doesn’t think women belong at the table, and he’s aggressive about it.

Most men who think of poker in terms of a man’s game will think of it as a game of controlled aggression. But, a guy who gets verbally aggressive about not wanting women at the table is a guy who isn’t really strong on the control part. He’s likely to become hyper-aggressive, almost maniacal, when competing against a woman for the pot.

A woman who realizes that can exploit it.

Generally, the Mr. Macho kind of guy will not react well to an …

As I write this we have 4 days to go at Reno and 6 days left for the World Poker Open in Tunica. Reno has seen has not seen the numbers that were expected for the bigger buy-in events, but since the introduction of some new events with smaller buy-ins they seem to have found the larger crowd of players again. Glad to see that Amarillo Slim still has what it takes to win the events even at his age of 74, and despite his rigorous cattle ranching of the past months.

 

Mark has been in Tunica covering every final table of the World Poker Open with video footage, and this can be seen on the home page of www.PokerPages.com, and we will be bringing you the live internet audio broadcast from the main event, with the Million ligaz11 dollar guarantee. There will be audio highlights in the evening of day 1, 2 and 3 and then the full coverage of the final table action will start at noon on the 26th January.

 

You can also read the fabulous daily reports from Nolan Dalla on every event along with the daily updated results. I am sure that this event is going to be huge and they have already set the dates for 2003. Did you know that Dave “Devilfish” Ulliot could sing? Watch the video of the Omaha Tournament on the 18th to see for yourself.

 

Also in another casino in Tunica there has been action of a different kind. The Tunica Classic at the Grand has enjoyed the smaller buy-in events and have had great numbers also. This actually ends today, but full results and photos will be posted on PokerPages as we get them. Oceans Eleven is having the final day of their Puttin’ on …

CHUCK – Can you tell us a little about InterContinental and your involvement with USA Casino and New York Casino?

SHAUN – InterContinental Casinos is the trading name of ServiceNet Ltd, and is the gaming arm of an international investment group based in Switzerland and Antigua. I am the company Vice President General Manager of International Operations and my role, in addition to ongoing business development strategies, is to broaden our player base from within the South East Asia Pacific regions.

What do you think makes your casinos successful? Is it the software?

Obviously having good software is important but so is our 24-hour customer support and our commitment to giving our players a fair deal. And, of course, having a well-rounded team of professionals to manage and develop the business, as InterContinental does, is, in my view, equally important to ensuring a successful operation.

I had a sneak preview of your new multi-player games and they look absolutely sensational. When do you expect to have them up and running?

This new software will be the benchmark for other online casinos to follow, and will be available within the next few weeks.

What are the most popular games at USA and New York?

Currently blackjack, roulette and slots.

I hear from a lot of Internet gamblers and many are skeptical about the fairness of Internet casinos. How do you win over their trust?

We ensure that our payments to winners are done as efficiently and as quickly as possible. We pay close attention to the timely answering of questions and queries from our players. We feel it is important to be as open and honest with our players as we possibly can, even to the extent of meeting with them personally to discuss their problems whenever a business trip to …

Golf’s Ryder Cup took place last month, an event that pitted the best in the world from Europe and America over four days of unique competition. The European team, although underdogs at the off, were well-deserved winners. Actually, they thrashed the Americans. And to hear the Europeans talk about it, I was reminded that the golf and poker worlds are not so dissimilar.

The unique thing about the Ryder Cup is how it transforms a sport for individuals into a team sport. Players who have spent their careers competing for themselves alone are suddenly put into situations in which they have to rely on and perform for teammates rather than themselves. And with the European golfers winning four out of the last five Ryder Cups despite being outclassed on paper, these results have shown that the ability to perform as an individual does not necessarily transfer over to team play.

What if a “poker” Ryder Cup was organized? Would European team spirit be enough to overcome a perceived American advantage in individual skills? I’d like to bet on it, but first there needs to be a format created to transform poker into a team game rather than an individual one. I have an idea, using golf’s Ryder Cup as a model, whereby players compete over three days in three disciplines — Fourballs, Foursomes, and Singles. Here’s a poker equivalent of these disciplines:

In golf Fourballs, players play in groups of four, two from each team. Although each player plays his own ball, only a team’s best score counts on each hole. A poker equivalent of this would be to pit two from each team against each other in two head-up matches — playing the same cards! While Player A on one team played Player B from another team, the other …

It seems that Las Vegas casino operators are looking for customers beyond the borders of the Silver State yet again. First it was MGM/Mirage acquiring an online casino license from the Isle of Man. Now five Vegas gaming companies are looking at setting up shop in the former Portuguese colony of Macau.

The opportunity arose when casino tycoon Dr. Stanley Ho’s forty-year gambling monopoly in the territory came to an end in 2001. Three casino licenses are now available and there are 20 companies from around the globe bidding for the 25-year licenses.

Macau became a Special Administrative Region of China in 1999, and has a fair amount of autonomy over internal affairs. Like Hong Kong, Macau isn’t subject to China’s economic policies; capitalism is alive and well in the territory and casinos are a multi-billion dollar business.

U.K.-based Aspinalls is one of the familiar names in the hunt for a license, but Vegas companies are leading the charge. MGM/Mirage Macau, Asian American Entertainment Corp., Lucky 9 Casino Corp., Wynn Resorts Ltd., and MP Entertainment (a Park Place Entertainment / Mandalay Resort Group joint venture) all have their names on the list of potential candidates.

That doesn’t mean they’re going to get in, however. Ho’s STDM group is expected to get one of the licenses and MGM/Mirage will likely get the second, leaving only the third up for grabs. MGM is reported to have been willing to spend US$2 billion to operate casinos in the territory, and it will be hard for the people in charge to ignore those kinds of numbers.

Two-thirds of Macau’s annual revenue from a 35-percent betting tax, and these new ventures stand to substantially increase that amount. They will also attract more tourist dollars and international Togel Hongkong corporations to the region if the government …

VANCOUVER, BC, Canada — Poker.com, Inc. (NASD OTC BB:PKER.OB), a leading provider of online gaming systems, is excited to announce the successful launch by Ladbrokes of their poker room. Ladbrokes is the world’s largest bookmaker and the betting and gaming division of Hilton Group plc, the world’s premier international hotel brand.

Ladbrokes poker room is the first of many sub-poker rooms to be run under the Microgaming agreement. Poker.com entered into a strategic relationship with Microgaming Software Systems LTD to market online multi-player poker software sublicenses.

Microgaming’s intention is to provide all their casino licensees with a poker card room sublicense. The Card room will offer several different variations of poker games that include Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, 5 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud, and tournaments along with future enhancements as they are released.

Poker.com will earn a monthly royalty fee from revenue generated by Ladbrokes card room.

“Having such a well-known and recognized gaming organization using our software is a real delight and pleasure for Poker.com Inc. Licensees with this level of expertise both secures Poker.com’s position within the gaming marketplace and solidifies the companies future growth,” said Christa Taylor, President and CFO of Poker.com.

Jackpot Madness Launches Roulette Royale

CURACAO — Jackpot Madness, the World’s#1 Jackpot Destination, announces the launch of Roulette Royale, the Web’s ONLY progressive roulette game. Starting at $60,000, Roulette Royale joins a network of the 10 most popular progressive games on the web. This launch follows April’s fantastically successful launch of Major Millions, which paid out the biggest jackpot in online gaming history to its first winner – a record-breaking $1,594,649.21. In all, Jackpot Madness casinos have paid out a grand total of over $67,000,000.

Roulette Royale is an exciting game of chance based on traditional Roulette and is connected to multiple casinos …

As around a dozen games are left in the Barclay’s Premier League, it seems Chelsea might be on course for the title following Manchester City’s defeat against a resurgent Liverpool at Anfield.

 

Tonight’s midweek’s matches include Manchester City against bottom club Leicester where anything less than a win could hand the title to Situs Online Judi Terbaik 2021 Chelsea who face West Ham in an all-London derby. Manchester United travel to the North East to play Newcastle while QPR face Arsenal at Loftus Road.

 

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

 

Man City 2 v Leicester 0

Newcastle 2 v Man Utd 2

QPR 0 v Arsenal 2

Stoke 1 v Everton 1

Tottenham 2 v Swansea 1

West Ham 1 v Chelsea 3

Liverpool 2 v Burnley 1

 

More Burnley Than West Ham As Points Safety Total Lowers

 

West Ham were relegated in 18th spot with 42 points in 2002/03, whilst Burnley finished in the same position with just 30 points in 2009/10 and bet365 think it could be low 30’s, rather than 40’s, for the team ending the 2014/15 campaign in 18th.

 

There was a relegation feel to Tuesday night’s fixtures with Aston Villa (Evens for the drop) hosting local rivals West Brom (33/1) and Steve Bruce’s Hull team (3/1) looking to get one over on his former club Sunderland (3/1).

 

2014/15 Premier League

 

Points Total of Side Finishing 18th

 

To Be Relegated

Yes No

Burnley 4/11 9/4

Leicester 2/5 2/1

QPR 4/7 11/8

Aston Villa Evs 4/5

Sunderland 3/1 1/4

Hull 3/1 1/4

West Brom 33/1

Crystal Palace 33/1

 

Relegated Teams

 

Burnley, Leics & QPR 10/3 Burnley, Leics & Villa 5/1 Leics, QPR & Villa 13/2 Burnley, QPR & Villa 8/1 Burnley, Leics & Hull 16/1 Burnley, QPR & …