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▶ President van gastland Azerbeidzjan noemt olie en gas ‘godsgeschenk’ tijdens klimaattop - De Morgen

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Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:05:00 GMT

  1. ▶ President van gastland Azerbeidzjan noemt olie en gas ‘godsgeschenk’ tijdens klimaattop  De Morgen
  2. LIVE Klimaatconferentie - Spaanse premier dringt aan op meer klimaatactie om rampen als in Valencia te vermijden  VRT.be
  3. "Olie en gas zijn godsgeschenk”: ambities klimaattop krijgen nieuwe klap na uitspraken president van gastland Azerbeidzjan  Het Laatste Nieuws
  4. Veel Europese leiders slaan de klimaattop dit jaar over: zijn de hoogdagen van Europa’s groene politiek voorbij?  De Morgen
  5. COP29: Wil de spaarder investeren in het klimaatbeleid?  De Standaard


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Spanje bereidt zich voor op nieuw noodweer: code rood in Malaga en Tarragona, weerdienst waarschuwt voor ‘extreem gevaar’ - De Morgen

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Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:38:00 GMT

  1. Spanje bereidt zich voor op nieuw noodweer: code rood in Malaga en Tarragona, weerdienst waarschuwt voor ‘extreem gevaar’  De Morgen
  2. Spanje zet zich schrap voor nieuwe ‘DANA’: code rood in Malaga en Tarragona, al 3.000 mensen geëvacueerd  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. Opnieuw code rood voor regen in delen van Spanje: “extreem gevaar” in Malaga en Tarragona  Het Nieuwsblad
  4. Evacuaties in Valencia door instortingsgevaar 50 appartementen  De Morgen
  5. Spaanse weerdienst waarschuwt opnieuw voor noodweer: “Zeer sterke en aanhoudende regen”  De Standaard


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Trump breidt ‘dreamteam’ uit en benoemt Elon Musk tot hoofd “ministerie voor overheidsefficiëntie": “Dit zal schokgolven sturen door het systeem” - Het Laatste Nieuws

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Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:18:00 GMT

  1. Trump breidt ‘dreamteam’ uit en benoemt Elon Musk tot hoofd “ministerie voor overheidsefficiëntie": “Dit zal schokgolven sturen door het systeem”  Het Laatste Nieuws
  2. Trump wijst oude bekende Ratcliffe aan als hoofd CIA | Presidentsverkiezingen VS  Het Laatste Nieuws
  3. Trump plaatst Elon Musk mee aan hoofd van nieuw ministerie: “Dit gaat schokgolven door het systeem jagen”  Het Nieuwsblad
  4. Miljardairs Elon Musk en Vivek Ramaswamy aan hoofd van Trumps nieuwe ministerie van ‘overheidsefficiëntie’  De Standaard
  5. Trump benoemt Musk tot 'minister van overheidsefficiëntie'  De Tijd


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Not A Good Thing To See When Entering a Cab

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:00:00 -0800

Buses don't have seat belts. I don't see the problem.

~NSHA


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Tyrone get good news about Murphy

By www.bbc.co.uk
Published On :: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:30:07 GMT

Tyrone midfielder Michael Murphy's shoulder injury is not as bad as first thought, manager Mickey Harte has confirmed.


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Lakers' Anthony Davis says his eye is fine, declines to wear goggles

By www.foxsports.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:27:18 -0500

Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis says he has recovered from being poked in the left eye by Toronto’s Jakob Poeltl, and his latest eye injury still hasn’t persuaded him to wear protective goggles


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Matthew Nicholson throws down a two-handed slam to help Northwestern lead over UIC going into the half

By www.foxsports.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:03:13 +0000

Matthew Nicholson threw down a two-handed slam to help the Northwestern Wildcats lead over the the UIC Flames going into the half.


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Mavs' Klay Thompson cheered by 400 Warriors employees in return to Golden State

By www.foxsports.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:18:09 -0500

Klay Thompson was greeted by some 400 cheering Warriors employees showing their love and appreciation for the former Golden State star and lined up along his path to the Dallas locker room


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College Football Playoff Rankings: Oregon, Ohio State on top; Alabama enters top 10

By www.foxsports.com
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:59:04 -0500

The second set of College Football Playoff Predictions were released Tuesday night, with Oregon, Ohio State and Texas listed in the top three spots. See the complete rankings!


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analogous

By separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
Published On :: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:34:00 +0000

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and I notice things. One thing I’ve noticed is that no one seems to be able to agree with anyone else without saying 100%. That cliché seems to have caught on in both UK and US, so that’s not the topic of this blog post. This blog post is about another thing I’ve noticed: an apparent change in the British pronunciation of analogous.

 

Dictionaries give the pronunciation as /əˈnaləɡəs/ (or similar; all dictionary pronunciations here from the OED). That is to say, the stress is on the second syllable and the ‘g’ is pronounced ‘hard’ as in analog(ue). What I’ve been noticing in BrE speakers is a non-dictionary pronunciation, /əˈnaləʤəs/, which is to say with a ‘soft g’ as in analogy.

 

To see how common this pronunciation is, I looked to YouGlish, which finds a word in YouTube videos (using the automatic transcription), classifies them by country, and presents them so that you can listen to that word pronounced by lots of people in lots of contexts. The automati{s/z}ation means that it makes mistakes. I wanted to listen to the first ten pronunciations in US and UK, but had to listen to 12 in the ‘UK’ category to get ten that were both British and the right word.

screenshot from examplesof.net 

 

The first British one had a pronunciation that I hadn’t heard before: /əˈnaləɡjuəs/, as if the spelling were analoguous. Half (five) of the British ten had the hard ‘g’ pronunciation, four had the soft-g pronunciation I’d been hearing, as if the spelling is analogious (or analogeous). All of the first 10 US ones said /əˈnaləɡəs/.

 

The word analogous seems to be more common in AmE. There are 2433 examples of it on US YouGlish, versus 147 examples tagged-as-UK. (The US population is about five times larger than UK’s, and Americans might post videos to YouTube at a higher rate than Britons. So while that’s a very big numerical difference, it doesn’t mean Americans say it16 times more than the British.) That’s in speech. In writing, there’s about twice as much American analogous in the News on the Web corpus:

 



 

So, Americans have presumably heard the word more than Britons have, leading to a more uniform pronunciation.

 

Now, when people know a word more from reading it than from hearing it, we might expect that they will rely on the spelling to know how it sounds. What’s a bit odd here is that the non-dictionary pronunciations contradict the spelling. Perhaps some people who know the word from print have not fully noticed that the spelling is -gous and think it’s -gious. Or perhaps they’re deriving the word anew from their knowledge of other members of that word-family.

 

            Analog(ue) = /ˈanəl*ɡ/  +  -ous = analogous /əˈnaləɡəs/  [dictionary]

            (* different vowels: AmE [ɔ] or [ɑ] & BrE [ɒ])

 

            Analogy = /əˈn*lədʒi/   +  -ous  =  analogious >  /əˈnaləʤəs/ [non-dictionary]

            (* different vowels: AmE [æ] & BrE [a])

 

            Analogu(e) + /ˈanəl*ɡ/ + ous  =  analoguous  > /əˈnaləɡjuəs/ [non-dictionary]

 

 

In the last case, the ‘u’ that is silent in analogue is treated as if it’s ‘really there’ and pronounced in the extended form. This sometimes happens with ‘silent’ final consonants and suffixes. Think of how the ‘silent n’ in damn and autumn are pronounced in damnation and autumnal. This is a bit different, since it’s a vowel, and I can’t think of another example where a silent final ue does the same thing. We don’t go from critique to critiqual (it’s critical) and tonguelet is not pronounced tun-gu-let or tung-u-let: the u remains silent.

 

When I tweeted (or skeeted or something) about the soft-g analogous pronunciation, some respondents supposed that the -gous ending is not found in other words, and therefore unfamiliar. (One said they could only think of humongous, which seems like a jokey word). It is true that analogous is the most common -gous word, but the OED lists 153 others, most of them fairly technical terms like homologous, tautologous, homozygous, and polyphagous. There are fewer -gious words (83), but they’re much more common words: religious, prestigious, contagious, etc. The relative frequency of -gious endings versus -gous endings may have contagiously spread to analogous.

 

But there’s something to notice about contagious and its -gious kin and analogous and its -gous mates. The main stress in a word like contagious is in the syllable just before the -gious, i.e. the penultimate syllable (/kənˈteɪdʒəs/, religious = /rᵻˈlɪdʒəs/, prestigious = BrE /prɛˈstɪdʒəs/ and AmE /prɛˈstidʒəs/ ). (English stress patterns are often best described by counting syllables from the back of the word.) The main stress in analogous is not on the penultimate syllable, but on the one before (the antepenult). That is, we say aNAlogous not anaLOgous, no matter how we pronounce the ‘g’. If soft-g analogous was surmised from (mis)reading rather than hearing the word, and if it was following the model of words like contagious, we’d expect it to be pronounced anaLOdʒous, with some sort of O sound as a stressed vowel. That's not what's happening.


(One way to think of this is that there’s a general pattern that long -ous­ words are stressed on the antepenultimate syllable, but only if we think of the ‘i’ in -gious words as a syllable of its own, which gets elided after the stress pattern has been set. There’s way more to explain about that than I can do in a blog post…and I am relying on decades-old phonology education here.)

 

Now, I am not a phonologist or a morphologist, so I asked my former colleague and friend Max Wheeler to check my reasoning here. He's OK'd it and adds:

To make your argument another way, while -gous is unusual, '-jous' after an unstressed vowel is unparalleled.
[...] analogy is quite a common word, while analogous is much rarer (and people may not readily connect semantically to analog(ue)). Even people with a literary education are unfamiliar with the /g/ - /j/ alternation, so 'mispronounce' fungi, pedagogy, as well as analogous, taking no guidance from the spelling. The phoneme from the more frequent word-form wins.


The moral of the story: soft-g analogous is a bit weird—which is to say, a bit interesting.

 


 

If you liked this post, you might like:

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THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:00:00 -0700

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY bye mom. Gonna psend the weekend over with some college friends


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GOOD...

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:30:00 -0700

GOOD... now we don't have to worry about skynet taking over.


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'Nancy Pelosi Ripping Paper' Proves The Political Memes Aren't Going Anywhere

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 07:00:00 -0800

While we would love for election season to be over right about now, we've gotta admit that the resulting political memes have been top-notch. The internet has been loving this particular dank meme, which shows Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ripping up Donald Trump's State of the Union speech.



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Kentuckians Are Meme-ing Their Beloved Governor In These Trying Times

By cheezburger.com
Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 19:00:00 -0700

In these trying and crazy times, Kentuckians are looking to Governor Andy Beshear for answers. His daily 5pm livestream updates have become popular for their wholesome messages and his amusing call-outs to stubborn bingo halls that just won't close for coronavirus quarantining. He's even earned himself a Facebook meme page, entitled "Andy Beshear Memes for Social Distancing Teens." 

Check some of them out below!  


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Bengal - Game of Gods

By game.giveawayoftheday.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 03:00:00 -0500

Exclusive offer from Giveaway of the Day and ToomkyGames! No third-party advertising and browser add-ons! Travel across the Indian continent with a tiger in this exciting puzzle adventure. The friendly large cat will throw the balls wherever you point, so aim carefully. Group together three or more balls of the same color to make them disappear from the chain. Creative powerups will help you navigate each of the levels, which get more challenging as you progress.

  • Original powerups;
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What employers can learn from Wells Fargo’s failure to recruit and retain Black talent

By www.diversityjobs.com
Published On :: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:31:33 +0000

We’ve all seen the quotes from Wells Fargo’s CEO in a June memo in which he blamed the bank’s failure in reaching diversity goals on a lack of qualified minority talent. “While it might sound like an excuse, the unfortunate reality is that there is a very limited pool of black talent to recruit from,” […]

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We Know Diversity is Good for Business, So Why Do Corporate Leaders Remain Predominantly White and Male?

By www.diversityjobs.com
Published On :: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:07:22 +0000

An examination of diversity in senior leadership roles at America’s top companies Diversity is more than just a buzzword, it’s a recipe for corporate success. Multiple studies have shown that a more diverse workforce in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, as well as veteran, disability, and LGBTQIA+ status can bolster innovation.i A more diverse corporate talent pool is […]

The post We Know Diversity is Good for Business, So Why Do Corporate Leaders Remain Predominantly White and Male? appeared first on DiversityJobs.com.


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CC Legal Tools Recognized as Digital Public Goods

By creativecommons.org
Published On :: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:18:40 +0000

“Power Grid” by Ram Joshi is licensed via CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. We’re proud to announce Creative Commons’ Legal Tools have been reviewed and accepted into the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) DPG Registry. The DPGA is a multi-stakeholder initiative, endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General, that is working to accelerate the attainment of the UN…

The post CC Legal Tools Recognized as Digital Public Goods appeared first on Creative Commons.


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Dogecoin spikes ~20% after Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE; Dogecoin is up 153% since Election Day

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:03:16 GMT

Dogecoin shot higher on Tuesday night, extending its postelection surge after President-elect Donald Trump formally announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, which he referred to as "DOGE" in his statement. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, former Republican…


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Trump names Elon Musk to role leading government efficiency drive

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 05:13:42 GMT

Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will co-lead a newly created Department of Government Efficiency, an entity Trump indicated will operate outside the confines of government.


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Trump selects Elon Musk to lead government efficiency department

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:26 GMT

Musk and ex-presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to head up Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, Donald Trump said on Tuesday. Despite the name, the…


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Government to order review of rail fare prosecutions

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:43 GMT

Government to order review of rail fare prosecutions The government is set to order an independent review of rail fare prosecutions and enforcement by train companies following reports of disproportionate action against passengers by revenue protection teams. The BBC understands that Transport…


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Early Black Friday apparel sales are live — shop the 15 best sales from Patagonia, Carhartt, Ugg and more

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:18:45 GMT

Shopping for clothing is one of my favorite past times — and with all the early Black Friday apparel sales happening now, it's starting to feel like Christmas morning! Apparel and shoes are seeing some of the biggest markdowns with popular brands like Lululemon, Nike, Adidas, Patagonia and more…


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Musk, Ramaswamy Picked for US Government Efficiency Effort

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Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:11 GMT


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Dogecoin Trade Goes From Meme to Reality as Donald Trump Confirms D.O.G.E

By biztoc.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:40:27 GMT

In an X post, Musk said that all Department of Government Efficiency actions will be posted online for maximum transparency.


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Japan's 7-Eleven owner eyes going private with $38bn buyout

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Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:51:16 GMT

TOKYO -- Japan's 7-Eleven convenience store chain owner Seven & i Holdings is considering plans to go private by means of a management buyout, Nikkei learned on Wednesday. In a statement responding to the reports, the retail giant has admitted that it has received such an offer from its founding…


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SoftBank is Nvidia's first Blackwell chips customer. Here's what they're going to be used for

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Judge blocks Oakland airport name change, says it ‘damages the goodwill and value’ of SFO’s brand

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Why the government's flood insurance program is underwater

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Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:13:01 GMT

Why the government's flood insurance program is underwater Major flooding events are increasingly common across the U.S., but homeowners looking for flood insurance will find few choices. The main providers of flood insurance is the U.S. government through the National Flood Insurance Program, or…


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Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development

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Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:03:13 GMT

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Google DeepMind has unexpectedly released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, marking a significant advance that could accelerate scientific…


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Elon Musk to Lead New Government Department for Trump. Tesla Stock Should Be OK

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Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:13:51 GMT


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Google Keywords Disrupting Website Analysis

By linkworxseo.wordpress.com
Published On :: Fri, 04 May 2012 21:30:36 +0000

As you may know or not know, Google is not providing keywords data when users are logged in to their accounts. This has been an on-going topic throughout the SEO world for sometime now. Link Worx Seo wrote about this topic on 10/23/2011 and 11/03/2011 and the effects it is having on SEO analysis. As […]


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Who is Going to be The Next CEO for Yahoo!

By linkworxseo.wordpress.com
Published On :: Thu, 17 May 2012 00:38:37 +0000

This briefly discusses some of the thing’s the company of Yahoo! has done in the past year –  approximate time frame. This post originated from AdAge Digital and discusses other topics such as what is in for the future of Yahoo! and what getting a new CEO means for the company! Some quick numbers concerning traffic as well.


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Instructions on how to Link a Google+ Profile to Content Created

By linkworxseo.wordpress.com
Published On :: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:49:11 +0000

Linking yourself as an author to your content is relatively easy. If you do not have a Google+ profile created yet, start with by creating one. Next, on your header section of your HTML place the <link href=”[profile_url]” rel=”publisher” /> as this will notify Google you are the publisher of the content. After placing this […]


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The Current History of the Google Panda Releases

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Published On :: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:46:11 +0000

You Should Create Unique Content From Panda’s initial launch Google has been gradually updating the algorithmic formula for the Panda. These changes have been aimed at reducing content duplication primarily while allowing for better returns for searchers when searching Google. Quality content can not be stressed enough. Panda filters out the low quality content on […]


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Duplicated Web Content – Google Authorship and Article Directories

By linkworxseo.wordpress.com
Published On :: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:26:12 +0000

The Role of Google Authorship If you are the author of the article, can Google tell the difference when using article submission services? The facts point to no at this point, but there are more and more sites starting to follow the same authorship standard and business site verification standards. With authorship being more common […]


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The Google web Directory Smack Down – The Good the bad the Ugly

By linkworxseo.wordpress.com
Published On :: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:29:05 +0000

Why can Google just not index these web directories they believe to be not so worthy? Google can still let company’s submit to directories but do not have to index these directories. Sure Google can still then chose which ones are valid or not.  So what is now considered an honest legitimate directory for safe […]


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How to Prevent Your own Visits on Google Analytics?

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Published On :: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 22:03:34 +0000

Recently, I implemented some changes to the source code that allowed visits to not be recorded by the developers and designers visiting a clients website.  These visits when recorded are producing false results in the Google Analytic accounts. In light of these recorded events, it seemed to me that the information was not giving an […]


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How to Create a Custom Google+ Vanity URL

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Published On :: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 02:18:35 +0000

Well by now you probably know about the new Google+ feature available for Google+ users. But if you are not aware of it yet or you are not able to get your custom vanity URL yet, keep this post on hand or return when your profile is approved by Google for the new vanity URL […]


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How Does Google+ Social Signals Effect Websites and Posting’s?

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Published On :: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:09:11 +0000

Okay, recently there has been some discussion surrounding the Google Authorship and Publisher topic. So I figured what a great time to cover another article for the topic since it has been part of an update being done for some websites I am working on. First off, there has been some more talk about the […]


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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time

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Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:22:27 +0000

A new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals a fresh theory about Uranus's unique magnetosphere.


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Trump appoints SpaceX's Elon Musk to help head regulation-slashing 'Department of Government Efficiency'

By www.space.com
Published On :: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 03:26:32 +0000

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency, which aims to 'dismantle government bureaucracy.'


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