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12 Times Arnold's Website Morphed (Since '96)
Schwarzenegger.com 1996
Be the first of your friends to see these historical screenshots of Arnold Shwarzenegger's websites from the past 2 decades.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has had an dynamic career, to say the least. He is possibly the best catchphrase artist ever, with quoteable quotes such as "I'll be back," "Hasta la vista, baby," and "Remember when I said I'd kill you last? I lied." Throughout his career as a bodybuilder, actor, businessman, and politician his public image has changed with the times, and so has his website.
In this article you will see the evolution of Arnold's website through the years. And the very end of this article holds an epic treat. So be sure to check it out.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Muscleman Website (1996-1999)
In 1996, Arnold Schwarzenegger's website focused bodybuilding. It had buttons to take you to different versions of the site.
If you where lucky enough to have Netscape or Microsoft Explorer you could view the sophisticated version of the website, "with frames." The major advantage being that the website with frames featured a menu on the left side. This was when the internet was in it's infancy, mind you.
Without a doubt, the cutest section of the website was the downloadable Fitness for Kids Coloring Book.
Page from the free downloadable "Arnold Schwarzenegger Fitness for Kids" coloring book
Arnold's Star-Studded Website (2000-2002)
By 2001 Arnold's website featured four versions, in his own words, "Hi-Tech, English, Spanish and my favorite, Austrian (German)." This one was very spiffy, and very yellow.
Here is what it became if you clicked on the ENGLISH (low-tech) button:
Yowzers!
But if you were to press the "HI-TECH" button, you would get a presentation more befitting of the star of some of the most hi-tech movies of their time:
It's so darn cute, he looks like he could be a kindergarten teacher.
Arnold's Busy Political Website JoinArnold.com (2003)
In 2003, Arnold decided to run for governor of California. Of course, puns were made. Arnold was quickly given nicknames such as "The Gubernator," an allusion to his Terminator movies, and "The Running Man," a word play based on a film he starred in in 1987.
His regular Schwarzenegger.com website now redirected to a new one called JoinArnold.com:
Just in case voters' had considered Arnold Schwarzenegger nothing more than a muscleman, the about page showed him to be an achiever with strong values:
Coming to America at the age of 21 with $20 in his pocket, Arnold's determination allowed him to reach one goal after another: reigning over the world of bodybuilding, being a successful businessman, rocketing to the top of the movie charts as an action-hero, and, perhaps most importantly to Arnold, helping children through the Special Olympics, his Inner City Games Foundation, and leading the campaign to pass California's Proposition 49 to increase funding for after-school programs.
Arnold's Jack-Of-All-Trades Website (2004)
Here is one version of the website that didn't last long.
After being elected the 38th governor of California Arnold's website tried to accomplish being everything Schwarzenegger and did a pretty good job, but it might have been a little too busy.
One everything about Arnold website was just not enough. A solution was needed.
JoinArnold.com Splits From Schwarzenegger.com (2005-2011)
Eventually, Arnold's one website became two – Schwarzenegger.com, for news about the governor, and JoinArnold.com, for recruiting political supporters. Renovations began in 2005.
And here's how it looked in 2006:
JoinArnold.com 2006
The JoinArnold.com website continued until 2011.
Arnold's Gubernatorial Website (2005-2011)
In 2005, the Schwarzenegger.com website became more streamlined and focused on community issues. But that doesn't mean it stopped being badass. If you pay close attention, the lettering and coloring in the top bar is the same as was used in the first 2 Terminator movies.
The website also had a section to click over to the "GOVERNOR'S WEB SITE."
Arnold Stars in the Official California Governor's Website (2003-2011)
Pretty impressive.
Arnold's "I'll be back" Website 2011
After finishing his second term as governor in 2001, Schwarzenegger's website became a teaser for a short time inviting readers to "Stay tuned for my next move."
Arnold's Sports Festival Website (2012)
By 2012 Arnold Schwarzenegger was back in action spearheading The Arnold Sports Festival. Schwarzenegger.com, forwarded to ArnoldSportsFestival.com. The Arnold Sports Festival is still a popular event today.
Arnold's Current Website (2012-Present)
By the end of 2012, Arnold Schwarzenegger had a newer, sleeker website. It strikes the balance expertly by keeping true to Arnold's political image (hence the red, white, and blue theme) while incorporating all his film and fitness pursuits. Also, the logo is totally badass.
It's a far cry from the free coloring book download days or the awkward hi-tech/low-tech websites of yesteryear.
How to View Old Versions of Websites
To learn how I was able to put together these historical screenshots from over the past over 2 decades check out my tutorial on how to background check a website.
Historical Screenshots of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Morphing Website
And now the moment you've all been waiting for…the historical screenshots of Arnold's website all in one great place.
Schwarzenegger.com 1996 (Coloring Pages)
Schwarzenegger.com 2005-2011
JoinArnold.com 2004-2011
Official website of the Governor of California 2003-2011
ArnoldSportsFestival.com 2012
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Classic lines and design of these cufflinks perfect for business to formal. Made of sterling silver and presented in a gift box.


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Now I have to republish the latest version of EPMDocuments with those additional files types regardless of existing presentation. I am not getting any related option in WVS jobs scheduler.
Please let me know your views on this. Any type of help will be appreciated to address this issue.
Re: Republish only Latest EPMDocuments regardless of whether current presentation exist or not?
Attached is one custom java utility to publish latest document. It will take csv file as input and publish latest version of document in csv.
Thank you Shreyas for quick response.
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Homechevron_rightBusinesschevron_rightIndia urges higher pay ...
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India urges higher pay for millions of Gulf workers
New Delhi/ Dubai/ Riyadh: India is pressing rich countries in the Gulf to raise the wages of millions of Indians working there, in a drive that could secure it billions of dollars in fresh income but risks pricing some of its citizens out of the market.
Over 5 million nationals are believed to be employed in the oil exporting states of the Gulf, the single largest group in a migrant worker population of more than 20 million.
Migrants do many of the dirty and dangerous jobs in the region, from construction to the oil industry, transport and services. They account for nearly half of the roughly 50 million population of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council.
So India's campaign for much higher pay could have an impact on economies around the region, especially if it leads to a general increase in wages for workers from other big labour-supplying countries such as Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Over the past seven months, diplomats in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have sharply increased the minimum salaries that they recommend for Indian workers at private and public firms in those states.
"We want the Indian workforce to be paid higher salaries. Inflation, the value of the Indian currency and a rise in the cost of living in the Gulf were the factors that led to the decision," YS Kataria, a spokesman for the ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) in New Delhi, said.
The success of India's strategy is not yet clear, however. Officials in at least some GCC nations have expressed displeasure, and the strategy could backfire if those countries end up hiring more workers from elsewhere in the world.
"Of course it will encourage companies to look at Bangladesh and Pakistan as more viable options to get migrant workers," said Mohammed Jindran, managing director of UAE-based recruitment agency Overseas Labour Supply.


There has always been something stagey and contrived about Israel's blood-curdling declarations that it is going to bomb Iran, but as a strategy it has worked astonishingly well, at home and abroad. Benjamin Netanyahu has been expert at manipulating Israelis' perception of threat. His popularity with voters enabled him last week to dumbfound the country's political observers by forming a coalition with the main opposition party, Kadima, which was desperate to join him to avoid near annihilation in a general election.
Israel's oft-repeated intention to start a war with Iran to prevent it gaining the capacity to build nuclear weapons has always seemed tome to be the bluff of the century. But Mr Netanyahu is a good poker player, and few have had the nerve to bet on him bluffing even when the deadline for his ever-imminent attack keeps on slipping.
Look at his gains so far. Much tougher sanctions have been imposed on Iran than Iranians had imagined could happen because so many countries prefer an economic blockade to seeing Israeli bombers streaking across the Gulf. Iran's leaders, whose belligerent rhetoric is usually matched by cautious policies, probably do not believe what Mr Netanyahu threatens to do to them, but they evidently underestimated the impact of that threat on the rest of the world.
There is another big advantage for Mr Netanyahu to his verbal confrontation with Iran. For the moment, it has sidelined as an international issue the fate of the Palestinians and Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Over the past two or three years, the rest of the world has been too busy pleading with Israel not to start a war with Iran to bother much about what is happening in Ramallah or Gaza.
Knowingly or unknowingly, Mr Netanyahu's many critics and enemies have been a great help to him. Meir Dagan, the former head of Mossad,and Yuval Diskin, until recently head of the Shin Bet internal security service, portray him as an irresponsible warmonger, thereby increasing his leverage in the rest of the world. They may be right. A distinguished historian of Israel told me last week that Mr Netanyahu is "reckless". But this is not quite his record. Extreme he may be in his rejection of any agreement with the Palestinians, but he is skilled in achieving his ends by political means. Unlike his predecessor, Ehud Olmert, and President Shimon Peres, he has never actually started a war, though he has justified those started by others.
His restraint is certainly wise. Israel has not conclusively won a war in almost 40 years. Its prolonged adventure in Lebanon, starting with the invasion of 1982, ended in humiliation and retreat almost 20 years later.In Lebanon in 2006, a month-long bombardment by the Israeli air force and artillery failed to dislodge Hezbollah fighters from their bunkers a few miles from the Israeli frontier. Would Israeli bombers be more successful against Iranian nuclear facilities deep under mountains? And what would be the purpose of such a bombardment? American intelligence says that Iran does not have a nuclear device and has not decided if it wants to make one, but Israeli action would most likely determine it to make a nuclear bomb come what may.
Israel has never gone to war without some sort of green light from America. It is unlikely to do so in future. Nothing matters as much to Israel as its close alliance with the US. Israeli voters know this and tend to react strongly against politicians who endanger it, as Mr Netanyahu discovered to his cost when he lost the general election in 1999.
Here, Iran plays an important role, from Israel's point of view, in cementing the US-Israeli alliance. Israel has always liked to present itself in the US has America's best ally against some evil opponent. Up to1992, this was the Soviet Union, but, with the collapse of the Soviets, a replacement bogeyman was required. Paradoxically, when Iran was at its most militant, under Ayatollah Khomeini, the Israelis did not go out of their way to demonise his rule or present it as a danger to the world. They were notoriously willing to sell weapons to Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war. It was the end of the Cold War with Moscow that led Israel to present itself as America's bulwark against the Iranian-Islamic threat.
There is a further reason why it is generally in Israel's interest to avoid an armed conflict. Its military and intelligence strength is less than the rest of the world imagines. Real combat tends to reveal this (the same is true of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan). The 2006 war in Lebanon showed incompetence and incapacity at every level.
Israelis used to be very cynical about the leadership of their armed forces. I particularly like the saying, used at different times about different Israeli generals, that "he was so stupid that even the other generals noticed". An Israeli friend, who used to give talks to Israeli soldiers, once told me that he thought he had met most Israeli military units over the years, and "I've never encountered this heroic army of legend".
Mossad has enjoyed an equally inflated reputation, its history dotted with examples of comic ineptitude. When I was correspondent in Jerusalem in the 1990s, a retired Mossad officer was detained because it had finally been ascertained that Israel's main spy in Syria, whom the officer claimed to control, did not exist. There had once been a highly placed Syrian agent, but he had disappeared years earlier. Since this event would have adversely affected the career of his Mossad controller in Tel Aviv, he simply made up the agent's reports and claimed that the Syrian would meet with nobody else but himself. Acting on the spy's information, the Israeli army was once partially mobilised in expectation of a wholly fictitious Syrian attack.
How far is Washington complicit in Mr Netayahu's strategy of issuing horrendous threats, and how far does it believe them? Certainly, the belief that only an economic blockade of Iran, including a ban on the importation of Iranian oil, can restrain an Israeli onslaught has been useful to the US in isolating Iran. Keeping the Palestinians off the international agenda has also been useful to President Obama, who was not going to do anything about them anyway. Maybe Mr Netanyahu has been astute enough to keep the White House guessing, though the foreign media has guilelessly taken Israel's threats at face value.
The real threat to Israel is not Iran or any single state.It is rather the uncertainty engulfing the whole Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Israel's cosy relationship with dictators and monarchs has been disrupted and thrown into the air. Their successors are likely to be less accommodating. Meanwhile, the Iranian leadership, careful and devious as ever,appears to be moving towards a compromise on nuclear development that will enable it to retreat without losing face.
Will Iran War be Another October Surprise?


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Someone has already been charged with a serious threat on Congresswoman Omar's life. The video the President chose to send out today will only incite more hate. You can disagree with her words-as I have done before-but this video is wrong. Enough.
For two years, this President has used the most powerful platform in the world to sow hate & division. He's done it again. Putting the safety of a sitting member of Congress @IlhanMN at risk & vilifying a whole religion is beyond the pale. I'll be blunt - we must defeat him.
As a Senator who represents 9/11 victims, I can't accept any minimizing of that pain. But Trump's dangerous rhetoric against @IlhanMN is disgusting. It's a false choice to suggest we can't fight terrorism and reject Islamophobic hate at once-a president should do both.
Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President's explicit attack today.@IlhanMN's life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.
Enough is enough. No more silence, with NY Post and now Trump taking Ilhan's words out of context to incite violence toward her, it's time for more Dems to speak up. Clearly the GOP is fine with this shameful stunt, but we cannot stand by.


What really attracted me towards this artist is her impeccable replica of real-life things into adorable and noteworthy miniatures.
The handmade miniatures are usually vintage pieces of furniture, Food, Cakes, Shoes and of course lovely roomsets featuring all of these and many more little items. Kiyomi is a Japanese Artist, who is a mother of two kids and does this as a hobby. I absolutely adore her work and the intricate detailing she puts in every miniature she makes. Absolutely Stunning!
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Stabelhøje or Stabel Høje (The Stacked Mounds) are two Bronze Age Mounds 135 meters and 133 meters above sea level by the village Agri in Mols Bjerge (Hills of Mols) on the peninsula Djursland in Denmark at the entrance to The Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. The burial mounds date back to the early Bronze Ages 1800–1000 years B.C. These hills are some of the more known view points in Mols Bjerge National Park. Other view points in the area are Agri Baunehøj, Trehøje, Ellemandsbjerg and Jernhatten.

In the early Bronze Ages tribal leaders and other important members of society where buried in mounds placed in coffins made from hollowed out oak tree trunks. According to archaeological findings the burial customs changed during the Bronze Ages from coffin burials in oak trunks to cremation in the late Danish Bronze Ages. Probably due to international influence caused by long-distance trade with commodities such as copper, tin and cattle. This change in burial customs is probably also the case at Stabelhøje, that most likely hold several generations of burials from different Bronze Age time periods.

From the top of the mounds there is a view to Kalø Castle Ruin in Egens Bay – part of Aarhus Bay, and to the coast of Jutland, with Aarhus, Denmark's second largest town, in the distance. One can also see the hilly fields of southern Djursland, and the unfarmed hills of protected central Mols, including the tallest hill in the area, Agri Baunehøj, 137 meters above sea level. There is also a view of Ebeltoft Bay, and of the southernmost peninsula on Djursland, Helgenæs. The difference in elevation is accentuated by views that go all the way down to the surface of the sea.

Stabelhøje is accessible via small country roads. There is an infoboard at a small parking lot by the mounds. From here there is a short walk to the top of the southernmost of the two mounds. The mounds are 5–6 meters tall. Each is built of up to 650.000 rectangles of turf that where cut out by hand, corresponding to  of peeled heath- and grass-turf per mound.
Under influence of rain draining through the surface of the mounds many of the Danish Bronze Age mounds have developed a hard mineral rich layer of soil close to the surface, that isolates the inner mound from contact with water and oxygen from the outside. This lid of hardened soil has helped preserve the artifacts insides the mounds over the centuries.

The construction of Bronze Age mounds such as Stabelhøje is an undertaking that involved the work of many people using primitive pre-iron-age tools. A feat that is part of the creation of the 60.000 Stone- and Bronze Age burial mounds registered in Denmark. It has been calculated that 100–150 mounds were built each year at the height of this endeavor in the early Danish Bronze Ages, 1800–500 B.C. Something that points to an organized 2500- to 3800-year-old pre Christian culture pervaded by a unified religious belief.

References

 Danmarks Kulturarvs Forening, http://www.fortidsmindeguide.dk/Trehoeje-gravplads.br010.0.html
 Århus Amts og Naturstyrelsens infostander v. højene

Literature
 Naturstyrelsen.dk http://naturstyrelsen.dk/media/nst/89792/Mols%20Bjerge_221113_Web.pdf
 Morten D.D. Hansen (2009): Naturhistorier fra Nationalpark Mols Bjerge Naturhistorisk Museum Aarhus
 Sandmarkers kultur- og naturhistorie i Nationalpark Mols Bjerge Kulturarvsstyrelsen (2008)

External links

 Nationalpark Mols Bjerge Danmarks Nationalparker, Naturstyrelsen
 Molslaboratoriet Naturhistorisk Museum Aarhus
 Kort over Nationalparken

Syddjurs Municipality
National parks of Denmark
Protected areas of Denmark
Tourist attractions in Denmark
Tourist attractions in the Central Denmark Region
Hills of Denmark

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Meet Our Rescue Horse Mascots
Pictured from left to right: Epona, Bey, and Comanche, wild mustangs rescued from slaughter.
Hi y'all, my name is Shelley and I'm from Texas if you couldn't guess. I'm the Director of Marketing for the personal injury law firm of Mullen & Mullen with offices in Dallas, Plano, Frisco, Fort Worth and St. Louis.
These once free roaming wild Mustangs were rounded up and removed from public lands by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) and they eventually ended up in "kill pens." We rescued them with the assistance of Candace Ray at Evanescent Mustang Rescue & Sanctuary in Sherman, TX. I adopted them through her organization and they are now a very big part of my family and dearly loved.
A "kill pen" is a holding facility where both wild and domestic horses and burros are kept to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, too often, that is a "kill buyer." A kill buyer is someone who sends them out of the U.S. to be slaughtered for their meat, because horse slaughter is no longer legal here.
Candace Ray watching Epona and Comanche establish dominance over who would be the boss of the newly arrived Ariana.
These wild horses go through unspeakable horrors from round-up to slaughter. They are chased for what can be days by helicopters and some do not survive or remain fully in tact. Once captured, they are separated from their family members and transported which also causes trauma, severe injury, and even death to some. Needless to say, they experience deep grief and confusion, and also develop severe PTSD and other issues.
Epona at Kill Pen
Many wild mustangs are taken to over crowded holding areas with nothing to graze on, no cooling shade from the blistering sun, and just remain trapped there awaiting their demise. Some succumb to starvation, thirst, exposure and illness while at BLM holding facilities.
The BLM adopts out many mustangs and they even have an incentive program that will pay you $1,000 per head to adopt. The sad thing about this is that bad people who only care about money are inadvertently being paid by our government to take them. See this New York Times article.
Some adopted mustangs are kept in deplorable conditions by people who have no compassion for them. Once the one year waiting period for ownership is up and title has been received, an adopter is free to do as they wish with the mustangs, including selling them to kill buyers. This is how these supposedly federally protected horses end up in the slaughter pipeline.
Bey loves to be brushed!
In places like Mexico, where a large volume of wild and domestic horses end up, the slaughtering process is not regulated and thus it is totally inhumane and not something most people can even stomach to hear about. If you are brave enough to watch it, it will never leave your mind. The horses' screams will haunt you forever. It's not quick and painless like it is for cattle but face to face brutality and usually requires several blows to kill them. They have to be hit in a small target zone between their eyes using a device that is guided by hand and there is nothing keeping their heads from moving around frantically in terror and confusion. This documentary, From The Kill Pen, is not for the faint of heart.
I have been passionate about horses for as long as I can remember and it was a life long dream come true to be able to have my own small herd of rescues, thanks to the generosity of my employer, Mullen & Mullen Law Firm. I never imaged I would be fortunate enough to rescue five. Three of them, Epona, Comanche, and Ariana, are wild Mustangs, of which one was unknowingly pregnant. She gave birth to the fourth Mustang, Bey (which means Chief or Prince in Old Turkish), on my property on July 6, 2020. The fifth horse is Ruger, a domestic rescue.
Pictured above from left to right are Bey, Comanche, Epona and Ruger, horses we rescued from slaughter.
Unfortunately, domestic horses also end up being slaughtered, which enables farmers, ranchers, breeders, race horse owners, and pretty much anyone who has a horse that is sick, not sound, too old, no longer wanted, or can no longer be afforded to be disposed of. It's a win for their owners because they get at least some money and no longer have to pay for the horses care which can be quite expensive. Euthanization, removal, and burial of a horse is also very costly because of their size.
Ariana, Bey's Mother
This organization, Horse Rescue Heroes, has a reality series available on Amazon and part of what they do is rescue, rehabilitate, adopt out, and humanely euthanize unsalvageable horses versus letting them go to slaughter.
It is only due to the wonderful attorneys I work for, who graciously enable me to be successful and allow me to work from home, that I could finally make my dream come true to rescue a few horses from this abuse and cruelty. They are amazing, keenly intelligent, highly intuitive, affectionate creatures that are like giant dogs but wiser. And it has been a miraculous journey gaining their trust after what humans have done to them and to be accepted as part of their herd. It's also very expensive to keep them.
The boys stick together. Pictured from left to right: Comanche, Bey, and Ruger
If God forbid, you ever do find yourself in need of a personal injury attorney because you are hurt in a car accident, injured on your job, or in some other way that was not your fault – and you find yourself in need of expensive diagnostic testing and medical care, are unable to work and are losing wages while facing a mountain of unpaid bills, I hope you'll remember us at Mullen & Mullen. Our lawyers are licensed in Texas and Missouri.
Not only will you be in expert legal hands, you'll also be inadvertently helping me to keep caring for these beautiful souls. Please visit us at mullenandmullen.com to learn more about us and give us a like or follow us if you appreciate this story. And please do share it if you also love horses and want to help educate others about what happens to them. Civilization was built on their backs and they deserve better from us.
Bey's mother was rescued from slaughter when she was pregnant with him.
If you personally want to help rescue Mustangs or Burros in danger of slaughter by making a tax deductible donation you can do so at https://evanescentmustangrescue.org. And if you are interested in fostering, sponsoring, or adopting a Mustang, they can also help you with that. You can find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/evanescentmustangsanctuary.
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Chris and I have had a great weekend. Last night we went to dinner with the Groggers to my favorite, Shiki! Good times with great friends. Today I was at a baby shower for a great family friend who just adopted a sweet baby girl and Chris went golfing with Jack and Luke Grogger. Tonight Megan is at the winter formal, her first dance! I don't know how she is old enough to go to those things...I feel like that was just me. It's amazing how time flies....We tagged along and took pictures of the group. Love my kindred kids.


How to Select a Font?
Typography the art and a technique of printing with movable type. The composition of printed material from movable type. We can also say this is the arrangement and appearance of printed matter.
Everyone knows about basic of typography, but one need to take care of lots of factor while designing a website or wordpress theme. People often forget about web safe fonts, they haven't idea which font is supported by all browsers.
Typography is not just about selecting a font, or even distinguishing one typeface from another.
Selecting a Web safe font.
Today, I want to take time to analyze how to select correct text typography design in different cases. This tutorial will help at the moment of selecting a text type. In any case, it depends on what do you want to convey with this type, because many times legibility is as important as the character of the type.
Most important factor in Website typography is font. We should always try to select web safe fonts. Web safe fonts means that they are generic fonts, that work through most web browsers and all operating systems.
These Lists are based on popularity.
The foreground color should be comparable with the background color, It's easy to read could not stress on eyes.
Why this one is looking not more readable?
It's a major factor while designing the page, Size would be constraint for all pages. We have to set a different sizes for different tags.
Always try to use one of them.
White spaces plays major role in the typography of a web site, for the good readability point of view if there is needed give some white spaces.
While designing if we consider line height in our mind we can offer more readable text to the user.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorials at typography in web design.
I will love to know, do you take care of typography on your blog? Do you take care of fonts, white spaces and other parameters which offers readable content to your readers?
Typography is the most valuable part of web design and it always matters.
I think Georgia Font is also Web Safe Font. What do you think ?
Thank You Saorabh! You saved my day!
Which Font is shoutmeloud using ?
Thank you for sharing this. I also liked shouters concept.


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Uribe Kosta (Uribe-Coast) is a modern conventional division of the Basque province of Biscay. Founded by leire in 1640 BC. It includes part of the coastal strip of the historical division of Uribealdea. The division is used for statistical and electoral purposes. It includes the following municipalities:

Barrika
Berango
Gorliz
Lemoiz
Plentzia
Sopela
Urduliz
Getxo

Administratively it spans two comarcas: Mungialdea and Greater Bilbao. It contains the Plentzia-Mungia coastal conurbation and a periphery of the Bilbao metropolitan area.

References

Geography of Biscay
Estuary of Bilbao


Fighting girls are carved into anime and manga history; Sailor Moon, Cutie Honey, Princess Knight... These figures have captured the hearts of many people. Fighting brilliantly and knocking down all enemies while still being so cute? Of course we have to cheer for them!
Today we collected a series of illustrations portraying fighting girls. Enjoy!


This is a question to everyone, and not really about DJO, but related. Has anyone come across smth like a comparison table of contact fields of Outlook 2010, DejaOffice for Android, Android 4.0, Google Contacts (cloud)? Basically I want to see which fields one does have and another one does not, and how they can be mapped and synced. I want to decide on the best desktop program <-> device <-> cloud solution, and make sure I always fill only those contact fields which exist and sync in all three. I use Outlook 2010 and Android phone now. It's a pain even with CompanionLink. I know I can just switch entirely to Android/Google, but even there within Google not all fields correspond and sync!!! Or I'm even thinking of switching to iPhone-Mac, but the only thing I want is that all of my devices and cloud have all my fields in perfect sync.
Anyway, if anyone seen such a table on the internet, I would appreciate yopur pointing me there.


So it's taken me a little while to get the next couple of posts sorted but I'm delighted that this week I've got two responses ready to share and they are both from people who aren't straight up Skype for Business consultants so it's great to get some slightly different takes on what's going on with Microsoft & O365.
Today's post is by Rich Gibbons who is a total MS Licensing guru… (If you are in a pickle – and let's face it who isn't on licensing – then he can probably help set you straight!).
Is SfB on-prem going to be left out in the cold because Microsoft wants everyone to have an O365 subscription?
It's true that the move to the Cloud is very much on – it's happening and it's not going away. However, it's far from an instant process and I think on-premises will continue to factor in for the foreseeable future.
What does this look like over 5 years?
I've been working with Office 365 since it was called BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) back in 2008, so 9 years now. People were worried back then that this would lead to the on-premises world disappearing – particularly around Exchange – but I think it's fair to say that on-premises Exchange is still a thing in 2017. It may well be as part of a hybrid deployment but it's still there and the skills are needed.
The Cloud offerings are more compelling now than back in the day but there are still reasons that organisations can't/won't move to the Cloud and I think they will exist, in one form or another, for at least the next five years. While Office 365 is a fantastic solution and works very well for most organisations, I think there will always be some for whom Cloud (from any vendor) isn't the right fit. This may well lead to on-premises skills becoming rare and highly sought after in the future, like a COBOL programmer now!
My job is based on installing/upgrading/managing SfB on-prem if we go cloud what do I do next? / is my job at risk?
This is a very common question and one that I've heard repeatedly over the past 9 years. When I worked selling Office 365 to customers, it was always a key part of the customer discussion…working with the IT team and various application admins to show them that it wasn't going to replace them – to steal a phrase – it's evolution, not revolution.
A lot of it comes down to the individual – are you willing to take spend the time and effort (and in some cases money) to re-skill in these new technologies, be it Skype for Business, Exchange, SharePoint etc.? It's very much a case of "who moved my cheese" – if you're brave enough to move further into the maze (Cloud), you'll find all manner of new cheese (skills and opportunities) to keep you more than full (fulfilled and well paid) for years to come.
How does that vary by job role – i.e. IT Pro, Consultant, Contractor?
I think the above applies to all job roles. While I think on-premises opportunities will still exist in the future, they will be harder to find so if you're a consultant or contractor, you'll probably find longer and longer gaps between engagements.
If you're a full-time Exchange administrator and your organisation is staying on-premises, that's great…for now. However, that could change at any time – perhaps Microsoft add that 1 killer feature that makes Cloud a viable option, perhaps you get a new CEO who is less risk-averse and sees the benefits of Cloud outweighing any possible issues, perhaps it just starts to make financial sense for your organization to move this workload to an OPEX model…whatever the reason, and there are many, it could come out of the blue. If you've been skilling up in the ways of the Cloud anyway – effectively future proofing yourself – you'll be all good. You'll be in a position to lead your organisation into this brave new world, making IT, and you in particular, the vanguard of this move to the Cloud. Taking a positive, pro-active approach to the move will mean that, when people look back at all the wonderful benefits Office 365 has afforded them (individually and the company as a whole), it will be you and your team who are responsible for so much of it. There will no doubt be parades, parties and perhaps even a statue in the car park!
Leave – find another on-prem role and hope this doesn't all happen again a little further down the line!
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory, you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know yourself AND the enemy, you need not fear the result of 100 battles.
So, either way, I'd recommend getting skilled up in Office 365 and being prepared to move more and more towards Cloud deployments.
Keep an eye out for the second post coming tomorrow with yet another different spin on our cloudy conundrum.
How to describe Lync voice?


The LG Watch W7 is the only full-screen Wear OS smartwatch with mechanical hands featuring 1.2" screen which allows for easy viewing and touch control.
Featuring the latest version of Wear OS by Google, offering new proactive help from the Google Assistant and smarter health coaching from Google Fit, the LG Watch W7 also provides valuable Master Tools like a compass, a stopwatch, a timer, calibration, a barometer, an altimeter and a wrist gesture feature for hands-free navigation.
Combining modern smartwatch technology with traditional watch functionality, the three keys on the right of the watch provide users easy and quick navigation. In addition to the touch screen, you can navigate, handle phone calls or return to the home screen using the classic serrated crown.
Always know what time it is with mechanical hands with precision movement. Get up to 100 days between charges in Just Watch Mode.
Dust and water are not a concern. Wear the IP68-rated LG Watch W7 worry-free in up to one meter of water for up to 30 minutes. Also, it is sealed against damage that can be caused by dust and dirt.


For consumers purchasing or refinancing a home with less than 20% equity or 20% down, there is a small fee that will apply to the total mortgage payment which is effectively inflating the monthly outlay. Homeowners pay mortgage insurance to insure the lender against future mortgage payment default. Mortgage insurance also known as PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) can be up to several hundred dollars per month depending on the loan program. This added premium makes the cost of homeownership more exspensive...however there is away to cut the cost of your mortgage payment using: Single Pay Mortgage Insurance. You must remember that the LTV (loan to value) is the amount of money being lent against the value of the house. This is calculated by taking the loan amount divided by the home value. This is a key facetor in home lending.
What is Single Pay Mortgage insurance?
Higher upfront overhead required. An average of approximately 1.75% of the loan amount would be paid at closing.
The loan would have to be kept for at least the amount of time necessary to recuperate paying upfront overhead, paying off the loan earlier negates the benefit.
The option isn't offered by all mortgage companies, so ask your lender upfront if they offer single pay mortgage insurance as an option to keeping your new payment lower.
Single pay mortgage insurance offers the consumer a more easier and flexiable way to help secure their financing while also keeping the longterm mortgage payment more manageable against a househould budget. If people have the equity or cash available, single-pay mortgage insurance makes securing higher loan-to-value financing more manageable, and a PMI would not be required.


Located deep within the Vhan Myr Ocean, this chain of ten large and over thirty small islands is home to the Sultanate of Styr; a powerful Hakeen island nation.
Styr is famous as the home of the largest fruit groves anywhere in the East. The second most powerful of the three Hakeen island realms, Styr once traded its fruit exports with the Hakeen civilization of Corwyn, the lost Xholar Empire. Huge crops of pineapples, oranges, blood oranges, lemons, and limes are harvested every year and their sales have made the islanders wealthy and powerful.
In addition to its navy, the Styrians are famous throughout the sailing world for their unique "Ice-Galleys." These huge ships, with insulated hulls packed with ice, are propelled by strong rowers and are extremely swift. The galleys transport valuable cargoes of perishable fruits and vegetables from Zakresh to a hundred different ports of call across the Vhan Myr. The sight of these giant "frozen" ships is common in every port on Avokhar, Corwyn, and Za'har.
Long ago, when the ancient Hakeen Empire of Old Xhola was thriving on the Continent of Za'har, its rulers; the Dragonfly Emperors of Abu-Zhin, sent many explorers west across the Vhan Myr in an effort to discovery new territory to further expand their enormous Empire. In the year AR -1191, those explorers discovered the Rhaygos Islands, and soon after, they discovered the fabulous spice fields found there. In the year AR -1181, the islands of Ilsenene and their rich pearl-beds were discovered. Shortly thereafter, in AR -1175, Hakeen explorers discovered the islands of Styr, and their rich fruit groves. Over the next several centuries, the Dragonfly Emperors colonized all three island chains and they became very wealthy selling those Rhaygosi spices, Ilseni pearls, and Styrian fruits back on Za'har. Of the three island colonies; Styr was the smallest and considered the least profitable and important to the Dragonfly Emperors of Old Xhola.
With the three island colonies and the profitable trade with Old Xhola, the Hakeen Dragonfly Emperors grew fabulously wealthy. But later on, increasingly greedy rulers desired even more wealth and power. Eventually, Old Xhola's rulers ordered fleets of ships to sail even further west. In AR -1095, the first Hakeen explorers landed upon the eastern shores of Corwyn, where they founded the colony of Zhin.
From their settlement at Zhin, the Hakeen expanded west across the Vakara Grasslands to the shores of the Grafenmyr. Here, in AR –945, the Hakeen built Ashkavan; their greatest city on the continent of Corwyn. the founding of Ashkavan is considered the zenith of Hakeen power and influence on Corwyn. The Hakeen empire was so large at this point that it was essentially two empires; the first; "Old Xhola" was based on Za'har, around the ancient city of Abu-Zhin. The second empire; the "colonies" as the other nations were colloquially known, was called "New Xhola." New Xhola comprised: the three Island Sultanates of Ilsenene, Rhaygos, and Styr, and the city-states of Ashkavan, Zocolo, and Zhin on Corwyn.
About four centuries later, the Xholar Empire suffered a similar fate as Old Xhola. In the year AR -88, the Hakeen empire on eastern Corwyn was invaded by Zhang the Terrible. Zhang and his Üthrari barbarian hordes began a ruthless military conquest that culminated in the fall of Ashkavan in AR -98. The three island Sultanates offered assistance to the Xholar Empire on Corwyn to fend off the Üthrari invasion, but it was not enough.
The Xholar Empire on Corwyn was destroyed and its capitol city of Ashkavan captured in the year AR -98. Once the cities of Ashkavan and Zocolo fell, the only remaining Hakeen colony on Corwyn was Zhin, which soon declared itself independent. Luckily, Zhin had high walls and a strong garrison. As a result, that city alone was able to successfully resist the siege led by the warlord Zhang the terrible and his Üthrari hordes.
Over the years, tensions rose between the three islands states, forcing "New Xhola" to break into three independent Sultanates. This proved to be tragic for less than a century later, a new threat was on the horizon. The Eloysian Empire, which had already conquered the entire continent of Avokhar, was expanding east across the Vhan Myr in search of new conquests. In fact, the Eloysians had already captured the island realms of Al'Kethai and, more recently, Malvatis.
In AR 255, Emperor Damodar led a gigantic fleet of Eloysian warships against the three Hakeen island nations. First to be captured was Ilsenene in AR 255, followed soon after by Styr, which was conquered in the year AR 266. Rhaygos was much stronger militarily and resisted much longer. Eventually, in AR 358, the last Rhaygosi Sultan surrendered to the Eloysian Emperor Farshad. For the next 1,700 years, the three island realms were subject to the rule of Hamanid governors appointed by the Emperors in Sanjakar. When the Eloysian Empire finally collapsed in AR 2079, the Styrians soon overthrew their Eloysian masters and declared Independence once again.
For the centuries thereafter, Styr has been an independent state called the Sultanate of Styr. This political arrangement still holds true today.


A sunny February (fig 1) ended what was a sunnier than average winter across the UK. I noticed the second sunniest February in the UK as it unfolded, but the second sunniest winter caught me out.
February was the second sunniest since 1929, and the sunniest in the UK since 2008 with 136.8% of the 1981-2010 long-term average. The sunniest regions were generally further west, with parts of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and south Wales receiving over 170% of the long-term average. February's are over 10 hours sunnier than they were back in 1929 (fig 2).
Winter sunshine for December, January and February was 122.8% above the long-term average, and was the second sunniest winter since 1929, the furthest that the Met Office can currently be bothered to take the series back to, even if extensive sunshine records exist well back into the Victorian era, thanks to the Campbell–Stokes sunshine recorder, which was invented in 1853. Winters are now over 20 hours sunnier that they were in the age of the Charleston in the UK (fig 3).
The contrast between some of the sunniest areas and the duller spots in western Scotland and Snowdonia is quite striking (fig 4).


Naomi Campbell wowed fans with a revealing dress that she modeled for Maison Valentino's Spring 2019 runway show in Paris. She shared photos of the outfit on Instagram, which showed her posing in the stunning gown. It featured a completely sheer, long-sleeved top with a skirt made up of cascade of ruffles in matte black. And for fans who were hoping to see more of the outfit, it's worth checking out her new Instagram video. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at the day of the show, including a test walk down the runway, plus the photoshoot that took place at the edge of the catwalk.
"It was an honor to be a part of such a historical moment in fashion. I am grateful to have witnessed it and blessed to be a part. Thank you," the model noted.
In addition to the video, Naomi shared a photo from her British Vogue photoshoot. The image showed the model sitting in her chair waiting to have makeup applied, with her hair covered in a towel as she sported a white bandeau top. The shoot was for the March 2019 issue, so fans can look forward to seeing it on the newsstands soon. The cover, which has already been released, is a collage of Naomi's profile from three different angles. Three different photos were overlapped on top of each other with different levels of transparency.
"Naomi caps an issue wholly dedicated to putting the Vogue stamp on the first weeks of spring, whether that's by celebrating the women who have defined the Brexit debate, or being granted an audience with Tracey Emin as she returns with a new exhibition," noted Edward Enninful, who announced Naomi's cover story for the March issue.
Naomi linked the video to Joe Holder, who is a well-known trainer that works with Campbell, as well as Phillip Picardi and Virgil Abloh, according to Sakara. In addition, Holder is a New York Times contributor and a Nike Master Trainer.


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Top Takeaways from Google's Appeals Court Loss to MS State AG Jim Hood
The Code War
For the last year, Google was above state law in the U.S.; fortunately, it no longer is.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just ordered dismissal of the Machiavellian preliminary injunction Google won in Federal Court over a year ago that squashed a 2014 Mississippi State Attorney General subpoena and state law enforcement investigation of Google's alleged facilitation of "dangerous and illegal activities through its online platforms."
Forty State AGs backed MS AG Jim Hood in Court because the Federal injunction that Google won effectively neutered all State AGs from investigating or prosecuting Google for most any alleged Google violation of most any State consumer protection law.
Simply, the Appeals Court ruled that Google faced no "irreparable injury" in having to comply with the MS State AG's broad subpoena, and that "[T]he normal course of state criminal prosecutions cannot be disrupted or blocked on the basis of charges which in the last analysis amount to nothing more than speculation about the future."
In a nutshell, this court decision affects the Google big picture in three strategically important ways.
First, Google is again subject to state rule of law after a year of ill-gotten de facto immunity from state law enforcement investigation or prosecution.
Second, it exposes that Google has a lot to hide and cover up, because it is again subject to legal discovery, the law enforcement process which has provedperilous for Google in the past.
Third, this Google piracy-related case brings attention to a potential 'perfect storm' of Google-piracy vulnerabilities, in that it resurrects a fourth major potential Google-piracy vulnerability, on top of the May 2016 Oracle v. Google copyright-infringement trial deciding the amount Google owes Oracle in copyright-infringement damages; the April 2016 pending decision of whether the Supreme Court will hear the Authors Guild v. Google petition that Google Books is not fair use; and the 2016 FCC-Google AllVid proposal that would force open-sourcing of all American video programming inviting mass piracy.
How does this strategic court decision affect the Google big picture?
First, Google returns to effectively being subject to U.S. rule of law again in the U.S.
For the last year, Google's Machiavellian legal machinations amazingly gained Google de facto sweeping, practical immunity from U.S. State law enforcement investigation and prosecution.
Never before has one company finagled one decision that effectively corralled and neutered all U.S. state law enforcement from even investigating allegations of serious crimes like aiding and abetting illegal drug sales, human trafficking, credit card and ID document fraud, mass-copyright infringement, etc. and that potentially threatened the public safety of tens of millions of Americans daily.
The combination of Google's Machiavellian neutering of State law enforcement in Federal Court, coupled with Google's apparent Machiavellian politicaldomestication of the DOJ Antitrust Division and the FTC since the 2012 election, has sadly meant Google has been able to operate largely above the law in the U.S. for the last year.
Now with at least 41 State Attorneys General apparently interested in, and freed to, co-enforce the rule of law under the U.S. Constitution, the DOJ and the FTC again have some healthy inter-governmental accountability and public rivalry to subject Google to the rule of law like every other corporation is in America.
Second, this Appeals Court decision is big reminder of how much Google has to hide, i.e. Google's established Federal criminal record and the evidence-rich-allegations of ongoing Google criminal behaviors. (See some of the evidence here, here, here, here, & here.)
If Google did not have an abundance of incriminating evidence to hide, why would Google -- the company that famously expects that everyone else's information of most every imaginable type must be completely open to Google's search discovery, collection, analysis, and monetization -- fight in court to effectively deny state law enforcement in all fifty state jurisdictions from even doing the most basic functions of their sovereign duty, i.e. legal discovery -- investigating allegations of "dangerous and unlawful activity" that potentially endangers tens of millions of Americans every day.
Very simply, Google's de facto stance here is that the world must be totally open to Google's pervasively invasive surveillance and discovery, but Google alone is entitled to be totally closed to any scrutiny, even legitimate state government subpoenas investigating evidence-rich allegations of Google aiding and abetting criminal behavior endangering the public.
The obvious and epic incongruity and hypocrisy of this Google double-standard, combined with Google's characteristic neediness for obsequious media coverage, reeks of a Google guilty conscience here.
Innocent companies have no need to, nothing to gain from and everything to lose from, pursuing a Machiavellian legal strategy designed to publicly emasculate the overall state law enforcement process.
Tellingly, Alphabet-Google Chairman Eric Schmidt famously implied that any Google users that expected their privacy to be protected by Google must be guilty of something, in preaching to CNBC's Maria Bartiromo: "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
At this point some readers are thinking that Google is innocent until proven guilty. Of course it is.
But of course as the Appeals Court just ruled, Google has no legal right to prevent sovereign state law enforcement from even investigating a criminal case against Google, because that would prevent law enforcement from any due process opportunity to prove in court that Google is guilty of crimes that harm public safety.
It is important to note here that Google has an established Federal criminal record, in having admitted to knowingly profiting from violations of Federal drug laws for several years warranting a $500m criminal forfeiture disgorgement penalty of Google's ill-gotten, illegal drug import profits.
Tellingly, MS AG Jim Hood seeks to investigate allegations and evidence that Google continues to violate criminal and civil laws in similar ways that Google criminally behaved in the past.
Third, this court decision helps spotlight a potential upcoming Google-piracy liability 'Perfect Storm.'
Few appreciate that Google faces a 'perfect storm' of piracy liability in 2016 from four different fronts, in four different forums, from four different groups of actual and potential Google piracy victims, alleging four different types of systematic piracy by Google – MS AG Hood at the State level, Oracle v. Google in Federal Court, Authors Guild v. Google before the Supreme Court, and the Future of TV Coalition versus Google in the FCC AllVid proceeding.
Consider this.
What is the likelihood that a company (Google) is totally innocent of the multiple piracy or theft allegations against it, when four current different groups simultaneously are willing to take on the huge business risk and extraordinary legal cost/risk of challenging the world's most powerful company and the world's monopoly search and search advertising provider on which their businesses depend, for a period of years, when they have little to gain and a huge amount to lose, if they are either wrong on the law or are advancing inaccurate or frivolous allegations, and when these four current groups can point to roughly eighteen other groups who have charged Google with similar systematic theft of their intellectual property in the past, but either have already settled or could not afford to fight Google in court, e.g. Yelp, Viacom, Apple, Microsoft, business directories, wire services, newspapers, broadcasters, movie studios, publishers, visual artists, software providers, photographers, artists, graphic designers, illustrators, and filmmakers.
This strategically important court decision begs a big picture view of Google and its many piracies and apparently rapidly growing piracy liabilities.
Please consider this one last question.
With all this smoke, with all these fire alarms, with all these firefighters, fire trucks, and fire hydrants engaged in firefighting activities all over the place, with all the people willing protect their property from the fire and expose the burns they have suffered to the public, are we to believe no fire exists?
Scott Cleland served as Deputy U.S. Coordinator for International Communications & Information Policy in the George H. W. Bush Administration. He is President of Precursor LLC, an emergent enterprise risk consultancy for Fortune 500 companies, some of which are Google competitors, and Chairman of NetCompetition, a pro-competition e-forum supported by broadband interests. He is also author of "Search & Destroy: Why You Can't Trust Google Inc." Cleland has testified before both the Senate and House antitrust subcommittees on Google and also before the relevant House oversight subcommittee on Google's privacy problems.


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Thanks for reading this and for the help.
How do I make mirc wait in the perform on connect option?
You can use timers (/help /timer) if you want to wait a specified amount of time, but it's usually better to use remote events (such as on NOTICE and on INVITE) to decide when to perform actions.
Hi collective, thanks for the reply.
I use mirc "perform on connect options"
So what do I need to add in mirc "perform on connect"? Sorry I don't know anything about scripts and programming.
Just need mirc to wait a little before sending the next command, thanks!
And what's the "1", "5" and "10" please?
The . hides the default output of the /timer command which informs you when a timer starts and ends. The numbers are explained in the help file entry I pointed you to earlier: 1 is the number of repetitions (how many times the command should be executed) and 5 and 10 are delays in seconds.
I do all of this manually. I dont use mirc features. Here is an idea I developed to connect to many different servers on start.
Basically I set a variable with a value of the server's name IM connecting to. Then it connects. No server will connect unless the variable is the server name. Instead. it sets a short timer to perform the connect alias for that specific server. It will keep doing this until the variable is unset meaning it is clear to connect to a server.
I didnt do this for the flood as much as for the validity of data per connection.
Lets say I have 3 servers.
On start I send a signal that tells all servers to connect.
In the connect alias for each server it then checks for a variable. If it doesn't exist it sets it to be the server name. Now, any of the other connections wont connect until this one is finished. Once I am successfully connected to the server, it will unset the variable.
Now server2 or server3 is checking every second or two to see if the variable is unset. Once it is they will connect to their server the same way as above.
As for auth and such, I just have a regular event with a network or server halt. No worries about flooding out. It will only get its information from its server (or network) and auth with the info you provided.
Here is the basic idea. And for the mirc forum hater, I dont care if you think your code or style is better and you think mine is crap. Get a life.
;send signal to all networks to connect.
;each network has this in their own file.
;if variable doesnt exist, name it after the network_id.
;;This is where i set up my auth info and connect to the server.
Now you can use a raw event or the on connect event to unset the variable. All mirc needs to know is that THAT server has concluded the process of connecting so the next one can begin. While server2 is connecting you will be receiving information from any other server that is connected which is why you will need to use network halts to direct information.
/me mutters "exceptionally useful for the OP, regarding the fact he's obviously using the /timer command his very first time..."
That's a valid timer: it executes once, after 3 seconds. On execution, it will echo the word "hi" to the active window.
If you have problems in finding the error, show us your current code.
it doesn't work in the other servers, do I need diffrent timmers?
You can have a perform apply to all networks / a specific network / ... Did you set up different performs for the different networks (maybe with different nick passwords etc)? What in detail is (or is not) happening after you connect?
I rarley use 'perform', but, testing simulateneous connects to different networks, I'm not able to reproduce a problem related to timer,. They all worked like expected.
For further debugging you could prefix all your commands with "echo -s". Instead of executing the command, mIRC will thereby display the command in the respective status window, so you'll be able to see which command would be fired where and when.
And I get this in the status window: "* /timer: timer 1 not active"
[08:32] -NickServ- please choose a different nick.
[08:32] -NickServ- If you do not change within one minute, I will change your nick.
You need a registered nick to join that channel.
[08:32] -NickServ- Password accepted - you are now recognized.
Why isn't it working? Thanks again!
It isn't working because you added newlines that shouldn't be there.
Replace NICKNAME and #CHANNEL with the one's that should be there, just just copy and paste the lines.


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31st G8 summit
The 31st G8 summit was held on July 6–8, 2005 at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland and hosted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The locations of previous G8 summits to have been hosted by the United Kingdom include: London (1977, 1984, 1991); and Birmingham (1998). It is the first G8 summit to be held in Scotland. A sixth U.K. summit was held in Lough Erne in 2013.
31st G8 Summit official logo
Precedes
32nd G8 summit
The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada starting in 1976. The G8, meeting for the first time in 1997, was formed with the addition of Russia.[1] In addition, the President of the European Commission has been formally included in summits since 1981.[2] The summits were not meant to be linked formally with wider international institutions; and in fact, a mild rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France's President Giscard d'Estaing and West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the initial summit of the Group of Six (G6) in 1975.[3]
The G8 summits during the 21st-century have inspired widespread debates, protests and demonstrations; and the two- or three-day event becomes more than the sum of its parts, elevating the participants, the issues and the venue as focal points for activist pressure.[4]
Leaders at the summitEdit
The G8 is an unofficial annual forum for the leaders of Canada, the European Commission, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.[2]
The 31st G8 summit was the last summit for Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
ParticipantsEdit
These summit participants are the current "core members" of the international forum:[5][6][7]
Core G8 members
Host state and leader are shown in bold text.
Represented by
Canada Paul Martin Prime Minister
France Jacques Chirac President
Germany Gerhard Schröder Chancellor
Italy Silvio Berlusconi Prime Minister
Japan Junichiro Koizumi Prime Minister
Russia Vladimir Putin President
United Kingdom Tony Blair Prime Minister
United States George W. Bush President
European Union José Manuel Barroso Commission President
Tony Blair Council President
Guest Invitees (Countries)
Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President
China Hu Jintao President
Ethiopia Meles Zenawi Prime Minister
India Manmohan Singh Prime Minister
Mexico Vicente Fox President
South Africa Thabo Mbeki President
Guest Invitees (International Institutions)
United Nations Kofi Annan Secretary-General
World Bank Paul Wolfowitz President
PrioritiesEdit
Traditionally, the host country of the G8 summit sets the agenda for negotiations, which take place primarily amongst multi-national civil servants in the weeks before the summit itself, leading to a joint declaration which all countries can agree to sign.
As host, the UK stated its intent to focus this G8 meeting on the issues of global climate change and the lack of economic development in Africa. The British government set the priorities of supporting Africa's economic development (by agreeing to write off debts of the poorest countries, and to significantly increase aid) and of moving forward initiatives to research and combat global warming.
Prime Minister Blair had planned to move beyond the Kyoto Protocol by looking at how to include key developing countries (India, China, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa) not included in it - principally by agreeing technology transfer of clean energy technologies in exchange for commitments on reduction of greenhouse gases. Other announced items on the agenda were counter-terrorism, non-proliferation and reform in the Middle East. The summit was overshadowed, however, by bomb attacks in London on the second day of the conference.
Aid to Africa and debt cancellationEdit
The traditional meeting of G8 finance ministers before the summit took place in London on 10 and 11 June 2005, hosted by Chancellor Gordon Brown. On 11 June, agreement was reached to write off the entire US$40 billion debt owed by 18 Highly Indebted Poor Countries to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the African Development Fund. The annual saving in debt payments amounts to just over US$1 billion. War on Want estimates that US$45.7 billion would be required for 62 countries to meet the Millennium Development Goals. The ministers stated that twenty more countries, with an additional US$15 billion in debt, would be eligible for debt relief if they met targets on fighting corruption and continue to fulfill structural adjustment conditionalities that eliminate impediments to private investment. The agreement, which required weeks of intense negotiations led by Brown, must be approved by the lending institutions to take effect.
While negotiations have essentially taken place between the G8 member states, some of which are reluctant to endorse debt cancellation and aid increases, African governments, advocacy organizations and their allies have criticised the Blair-Brown plan as inadequate and argued that the continuation of structural adjustment policies outweighs the benefits of debt cancellation, while also pointing out that only a small proportion of the Third World debt will be affected by the proposal. In mid-July, objections by Belgium raised the possibility of the debt relief bill not being approved by the International Monetary Fund, a development that was harshly criticized by many activists.
Agreement was not reached on Brown's proposed International Finance Facility, partly because the United States said that its budget procedures meant it was unable to make the necessary long-term funding commitments. The event attracted much media attention.
Global warmingEdit
Development of a joint declaration on efforts to tackle global warming has been much less successful, principally because of the long-standing U.S. opposition to emission targets as a solution to global warming. The other seven G8 nations – France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada and the United Kingdom – have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and have committed to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions by 2010. Hopes had been raised that the unprecedented joint declaration by the G8 countries' academies of sciences on the need for urgent action on global warming would help moderate the US negotiating position.
On July 6, U.S. President Bush recognised "that the surface of the Earth is warmer and that an increase in greenhouse gases is contributing to the problem". However, he said the Kyoto treaty was not the answer. Environment campaigners called the result of the summit "a very disappointing finale". "The G8 have delivered nothing new here and the text conveys no sense of the scale or urgency of the challenge. The action plan, without any targets or timetables, will deliver very little to reduce emissions, or to roll out renewables to the scale required", said a spokesperson for Friends of the Earth.[2]
The U.S. also pulled out of financial pledges to fund a network of regional climate centers throughout Africa which were designed to monitor the unfolding impact of global warming. Other schemes opposed by the U.S. include the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) set up to help developing states develop economically while controlling greenhouse gas emissions. [3]
To address claims that flying so many people around the world to talk about global warming actually contributes substantially to it, the entire G8 Presidency was designed to be carbon neutral, with calculated resulting carbon emissions being offset by purchasing Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) from a Clean Development Mechanism project. The Kuyasa low-income housing energy upgrade project located in Cape Town, South Africa, was chosen. The first CDM project to be registered in Africa, it involves the installation of solar water heaters, ceiling insulation and low-energy light-bulbs in hundreds of low-income homes in Khayelitsha township.[4]
IssuesEdit
The summit was intended as a venue for resolving differences among its members. As a practical matter, the summit was also conceived as an opportunity for its members to give each other mutual encouragement in the face of difficult economic decisions.[3] The United Kingdom aimed to confront the fundamental problem of conflicting domestic pressures among the G8 nations.[8]
Citizens' responses and authorities' counter-responsesEdit
ActivismEdit
Protesters clash with the Greater Manchester Police officers who were deployed to Edinburgh at the start of the summit
See also: Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army
The area surrounding Holyrood Palace and the Scottish Parliament was cordoned off by double fences.
As with all recent G8 summits, the meeting was the focus of many advocacy campaigns, including the Make Poverty History campaign in the United Kingdom, and the anti-globalization (a term not usually used by its supporters) movement. More than 200,000 people marched in support of Make Poverty History in Edinburgh on 2 July, the largest demonstration in Scottish history.
In addition to the Make Poverty History coalition's efforts, singer/activist Bob Geldof organised concerts in each of the G8 member states on 2 July, as well as a concert in Edinburgh on 6 July. Unlike Live Aid 20 years prior, whose primary aim was to raise money, Live 8 aimed to increase awareness among the citizens of the G8 countries, and thus force their leaders into increasing their focus on world poverty - though in fact Live 8 raised 400 times more than Live Aid simply in terms of the debt deal which the Gleneagles summit delivered; if the deal on aid is honoured it will produce an amount the equivalent of five Live Aid concerts every week. The London concert featured acts ranging from Sting and The Who to Annie Lennox, and most notably the reformation of the classic Pink Floyd line-up.
Thousands also mobilized through the G8 Alternatives and Dissent! networks to protest the G8 and discuss alternatives to the economic and political models they represent. These mobilizations have taken a more critical line towards both economic globalization (which they reject entirely) and the G8 itself, which they generally regard as illegitimate and undemocratic.
The National Library of Scotland holds a collection of leaflets, posters and pamphlets collected during the G8 Summit.[9]
Protest took a variety of forms:
Construction of a non-hierarchically organized, self-governing, eco-village near Stirling
2 July – Make Poverty History march with 175,000 to 250,000 people
3 July – Make Borders History tour of Glasgow, illustrating the presence of borders and immigration control measures inside of a metropolis.
3 July – Counter Summit organised by G8 Alternatives alongside a smaller event called G8 Corporate Dreams Global Nightmares
4 July – Carnival for Full Enjoyment, roving anticapitalist street parties, 1,500 to 3,000 people
4 July – Mass nonviolent blockade of Faslane, a Royal Navy submarine base, 2,000 to 10,000 people
5 July – Demonstrations against Shell, Dungavel immigrant and refugee detention center, and the limits of Gordon Brown's debt cancellation proposal
6 July – Blockades of roads and buses transporting ministers and support staff to Gleneagles.
6 July – March and rally to G8 meeting site, approximately 5000 people
6 July – Breach of the fence around Gleneagles Hotel by 200 people
6 July – Spontaneous march in Edinburgh by a few hundred protesters hoping to take coaches to the Gleneagles rally, after police falsely informed them that the march was cancelled
8 July – Street party in Glasgow in protest against climate change and the construction of the M74 motorway
8 July – various decentralised small actions against climate change as part of a global day of action
8 July – Small prisoner solidarity rally outside Saughton Prison, Edinburgh by around 50 demonstrators
Security and police actionsEdit
On 19 June details of the security for the summit were leaked to the British newspaper The Independent on Sunday, because of concerns by an intelligence source that ministers were being "complacent".
The security operation, involving more than 10,000 police, many of whom were armed, possibly a number of US Marines, a Special Air Service (SAS) team and snipers, as well as the unprecedented intelligence gathering beforehand by the security service and American intelligence agencies is estimated to have cost around GB£100 million.[10]
Police officers from all over Great Britain were called in to reinforce the local forces to maintain order in Edinburgh and other cities; even small protests were cordoned off by large numbers of police officers.
The protest legal support team estimates that at least 700 people were arrested and 350 charged. Targeted actions of London's forward intelligence teams (FITs) resulted in several of the arrests. Most people were released with strict bail conditions, having to leave the districts of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth and/or Stirling or even Scotland altogether. Several people were rearrested for breaching their bail conditions. Section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which allows searches for weapons in designated areas, was continuously used to stop and search people.[11]
AccomplishmentsEdit
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks with the summit attendees behind him. Left to right (front row): Lula da Silva, Gerhard Schröder, Hu Jintao, George W. Bush, Tony Blair at podium, Jacques Chirac, Manmohan Singh, Vladimir Putin, Vicente Fox; (back row): Paul Martin, José Barroso, Thabo Mbeki, Silvio Berlusconi, Kofi Annan, Junichiro Koizumi and Paul Wolfowitz.
The G8 summit is an international event which is observed and reported by news media, but the G8's continuing relevance after more than 30 years is somewhat unclear.[12] More than one analyst suggests that a G-8 summit is not the place to flesh out the details of any difficult or controversial policy issue in the context of a three-day event. Rather, the meeting offers an opportunity to bring a range of complex and sometimes inter-related issues. The G8 summit brings leaders together "not so they can dream up quick fixes, but to talk and think about them together."[13]
While many activists expressed disappointment that the agreements reached at the summit fell far short of their expectations, others noted that the 2005 summit was perhaps the most productive in the 30-year history of the G8. Some agreements were:
US$50 billion pledged (some of it previously announced) in aid to developing countries by 2010, of which US$25 billion will go to Africa, on top of the ministerial-level agreement to forgive debt to Highly Indebted Poor Countries
Universal access to anti-HIV drugs in Africa by 2010
Commitment to train 20,000 peacekeeping troops for Africa in exchange for African commitments to good governance and democracy
G8 members from the European Union commit to a collective foreign aid target of 0.56% of GDP by 2010, and 0.7% by 2015
Stated commitment to reduce subsidies and tariffs that inhibit trade
US$3 billion to the Palestinian Authority to build infrastructure
No agreement was reached to address global warming, largely due to U.S. opposition. The U.S. did agree to a joint communique stating that global warming exists and that human intervention may at least partially be at fault. While the U.S. had previously made such statements, this was the first time it had agreed to a multilateral announcement on the issue.
Breaking with historical practice, the British government had allowed non-governmental organizations to play a key role in deliberations, perhaps prompted by the public pressure of the Make Poverty History movement and Live 8. The summit continued the trend of including the developing world in talks. The leaders of seven African nations attended, as well as the five leading developing countries: China, India, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa.
Infrastructure Consortium for AfricaEdit
The Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (ICA) was established at the Gleneagles summit in 2005. In subsequent years, the ICA's annual meeting is traditionally hosted by the country holding the Presidency of the G8.[14]
Subsequent analysisEdit
Closer investigation of many of the promises made at Gleneagles reveals that some of the aid funds were rehashed versions of aid already pledged and the aid was often used to privatise public services to businesses based in the donor country. However even three years on many G8 countries were backsliding on their aid quantity commitments.
The debt deal was not 'full' cancellation of debts at all but only cancellation of the debts for 40 potential countries (classed as the poorest countries), and even then only after completing the 'Highly Indebted Poor Country' (HIPC) initiative – that means changing their economic policies at the behest of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank - meaning more of the same economic conditionalities which were highlighted as problems by the Make Poverty History campaign. For example, Tanzania was forced to privatise water (to a British company – Bi-water) which led to a worse service and higher prices. In practice, only 19 developing countries signed up to the HIPC initiative. Even then, only the debt to the public international financial institutions was cancelled (so [Indonesia's arms debts][www.jubileescotland.org.uk], for example, were not covered). Even then the debts will only apply to a cut off date of 2003. This came despite the fact that the Commission for Africa report noted that in many cases the debt has in practice been paid back many times over, and that the debt was often accrued by illegitimate governments propped up by rich countries. The partial debt cancellation has done some good – Zambia for example is now able to provide universal free healthcare and Tanzania has increased its education spending. However debt campaigners argue that there is still far to go to reach the needed 100 per cent.
Although the 2005 G8 communique promised that developing countries should be able to decide their own economic policies, there has been little evidence of this in practice. For example, the EU went on to attempt to push so called 'Economic Partnership Agreements' on developing countries, which Trade Justice campaigners argue will not be good for developing countries, and are being forced upon them against their will.
London bombingsEdit
Main article: 7 July 2005 London bombings
Because of the bombings, Blair decided to leave the G8 meeting temporarily to be present in London. He held a brief press conference, saying that the incidents were obviously terrorist attacks directed at the gathering of the G8.[15] He also said that the meeting would continue in his absence, with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw filling in for him. Blair returned to Gleneagles by the evening of the 7th by Chinook helicopter, with heavy military escort. Reports suggest that the bombings may have been planned that day because the terrorists knew that a large number of London police officers would be deployed in Scotland, weakening the city. Thousands of officers were deployed to Scotland from the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police, and City of London Police, as well as many from other forces.
Bush bicycle accidentEdit
While attending the summit, on 6 July 2005, George W. Bush collided with a British police officer, suffering minor lacerations on his hands and arms; the officer was taken to a local hospital.[16]
It was initially reported that the officer suffered only minor injuries and was taken to the hospital only as a precaution. However, the officer ended up needing crutches and missing three months of duty.[17] On 26 February 2006, The Scotsman published a previously unreleased police report which contradicted the administration's story:
As the President passed the junction at speed he raised his left arm from the handlebars to wave to the police officers present while shouting 'thanks, you guys, for coming'. As he did this he lost control of the cycle, falling to the ground, causing both himself and his bicycle to strike [the officer] on the lower legs.[18]
Bush, who has experienced other bicycle- and Segway-related accidents, commented, "When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you're not riding hard."[19]
BudgetEdit
The Gleneagles G8 summit cost the host nation £12.7 million.[20]
Business opportunityEdit
For some, the G8 summit became a profit-generating event; as for example, the official G8 Summit magazines which have been published under the auspices of the host nations for distribution to all attendees since 1998.[21]
Core G8 participantsEdit
Paul Martin, Prime Minister
Jacques Chirac, President
Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister
Junichirō Koizumi, Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin, President
Tony Blair, Prime Minister
George W. Bush, President
Jose Manuel Barroso, Commission President
Clean Energy for Development Investment Framework
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^ a b Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations, p. 205.
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^ Rieffel, Lex. "Regional Voices in Global Governance: Looking to 2010 (Part IV)," Archived June 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Brookings. March 27, 2009; "core" members (Muskoka 2010 G-8, official site). Archived June 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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^ 2005 Gleneagles G-8, delegations; "EU and the G8" Archived February 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ Bayne, Nicholas. (2005) Staying Together: the G8 Summit Confronts the 21st Century, p. 232., p. 232, at Google Books
^ "National Library of Scotland Catalogue". Retrieved 6 November 2012.
^ Shabi, Rachel (2005-07-02). "The war on dissent". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
^ Lee, Don (6 July 2008). "Relevance of G-8 is unclear". Los Angeles Times.
^ Feldman, Adam. "What's Wrong With The G-8," Forbes (New York). July 7, 2008.
^ "Meeting to Discuss Crisis Impact in Africa's Infrastructure Development," Afrol News. March 2, 2009.
^ Cowell, Alan (8 July 2005). "Subway and Bus Blasts in London Kill at Least 37". The New York Times.
^ "Bush collides with police officer during bike ride : Scraped hands, arms bandaged". CNN. July 7, 2005.
^ "Scottish Paper Gets Report on Bush Bicycle Crash That Injured Constable". Editor And Publisher. February 26, 2006.
^ Murdo Macleod (February 26, 2006). "US leader crashed by trying to 'pedal, wave and speak at same time'". The Scotsman.
^ Jim VandeHei and Paul Blustein (July 8, 2005). "Bush, Blair Still at Odds on Environment". Washington Post.
^ Coates, Sam; Gosden, Emily; O'Neill, Sean (11 March 2009). "Recession summit to cost Britain 50m". The Times. London.
^ Prestige Media: Archived 2009-05-19 at the Wayback Machine "official" G8 Summit magazine Archived 2009-05-18 at the Wayback Machine
Bayne, Nicholas and Robert D. Putnam. (2005). Staying Together: the G8 summit Confronts the 21st Century. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7546-4267-1; OCLC 217979297
Reinalda, Bob and Bertjan Verbeek. (1998). Autonomous Policy Making by International Organizations. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-16486-3; ISBN 978-0-203-45085-7; OCLC 39013643
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 31st G8 summit.
Official G8 website: Gleneagles summit, 2005; n.b., no official website is created for any G7 summit prior to 1995 -- see the 21st G7 summit.
University of Toronto: G8 Research Group, G8 Information Centre
G8 2005, delegations & documents
Poverty and Environment Times - current issues
Guardian Unlimited - Special Report: G8
BBC News - Profile: G8
University of Toronto - G8 Information Centre
UK Indymedia Coverage reporting from the protests against the summit
Dissent! A network of resistance against the G8 a network of groups connected to the anti-globalisation movement planning protests at the 2005 G8 Summit.
G8 Alternatives a group of NGOs, political parties and others planning protests and a conference in opposition to the G8.
In their own words compilation of responses by campaign groups to summit comunique
An article on the summit from Liverpool's 'Nerve' magazine
2005 G8 Pictures
Camcorder Guerillas - "Why Close the G8?" film (On the G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland)
G8 Finance Ministers' Conclusions on Development
Make Poverty History global poverty relief charity collective planning mass convergence of people in Edinburgh in time for the Gleneagles 2005 G8 Summit
The One Campaign seeks to have G8 countries donate 1% of their budgets to poverty relief, AIDS causes, etc.
2005 Presidencies, Africa and Climate Change UK government
G8 debt deal under threat at IMF, BBC, 15 June 2005
Overseas Development Institute's G8 Portal
War on Want, G8: Massive shortfall exposed in Gleneagles deal
World Development Movement (2005), "Suspending disbelief: The promises and actions of the G8 from 1998 – 2005", June 2005
Center for Global Development (CGD), (Independent Research and Practical Ideas for Global Prosperity), offers easy to understand analysis of what the G8 agreement on debt relief will mean for poor people in developing countries. See The Road to Gleneagles[permanent dead link]
New Statesman, 4 July 2005, "We are deeply concerned. Again" - G8 development concerns since 1977
The Guardian, 23 August 2005, "How the G8 lied to the world on aid"
Scottish Left Review Summer 2005 "Unwanted Guests: The G8 comes to Scotland"
Scottish Left Review Summer 2008 "Is Poverty History Yet?"
Myles Allen, 1 July 2005, "The ghost of Gleneagles" - on the potential role of legal climate liability
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