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May 1, 2009
Google Business Cards
Google's business cards are less conventional, since they only include a search box pre-filled with your name and a link to your profile page. If you have a public profile that's searchable, Google will include it at the bottom of the search results page for your name.
Search Engine Land reports that Google uses iPrint's technology to print the business cards. "The offer is only available in the continental U.S., and Google says the cards should arrive within 10-12 days."
The idea is far from new, but the addition of an OneBox for profile search is a big incentive to create a profile and to manage your online reputation.
{ Image licensed as Creative Commons by Bruno Pedro. }
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This is so close to an idea expressed a couple years ago I'm tempted to think they stole it. Oh well, I have to admit IT"S a GREAT IDEA!ReplyDelete
Next step, also from years ago, put enough distinct fields in the profile so that you could generate a resume as well, possibly in one of several standard formats.
Go for it Google!
PS: I got called away for the last 2 hours, and now the link doesn't work. Think they are out already?ReplyDelete
same here? any luck with this working now?ReplyDelete
You need to activate your public profile with a short url for this to work.ReplyDelete
You need to activate your public profile with a short url for this to work.ReplyDelete
Errr... 25 times 10,000 is 250,000, not 25,000, isn't it?ReplyDelete
My public profile was already active. I de/reactivated it but did not get any offer; visiting the linked page just gives a 404.ReplyDelete
Hmm I still can't get the link to work. I'll keep tryingReplyDelete
cant this link be accessed in India?ReplyDelete
How about adding a 2d barcode to the card?ReplyDelete
why only un US?ReplyDelete
www.whzzz.com is another way to create an online visiting card. Check out a sample profile under www.whzzz.com/law/newyork/basketballReplyDelete
With whzzz YOU control what online content is connected to your whzzz site, meaning your online visiting card.
To define yourself you select a unique combination of three symbols. Symbols represent different aspects such as interest, origin, taste, profession, school, personality, hobbies...
www.whzzz.com is NOT for everyone. Find out for yourself: www.whzzz.com
But whzzz.com is flash isn't it? No good for getting found on the search engines. www.online-business-card.com is built specifically to rank well on search engines.ReplyDelete
No, www.whzzz.com is programmed in FLEX, which can be crawled by search engines.ReplyDelete
Thanks for giving me such type of information which is useful for my knowledge.I think now a days Business card is too necessary to improve business areas.ReplyDelete
hope fully google will extend this service to our countries alsoReplyDelete
Thats a great idea for business card.. heheh.. For a company that makes SEO. =)ReplyDelete
There's a similar design on GraphicRiver which is doing pretty well... not bad for $6.ReplyDelete


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Update: I'm getting a lot of "pansy", which is what I was worried about. How about this one? Just squint and ignore all the seam lines.)
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Worth it?
Update: I'm getting a lot of "pansy", which is what I was worried about. How about this one? Just squint and ignore all the seam lines.)
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I like it
When I saw it I thought it was a pansyReplyDelete
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I would say pansy...ReplyDelete
Pansy!! Great idea!! Anne:-)ReplyDelete
Oh dear I'm still only seeing a pansy! Sorry!!ReplyDelete
Yeah, pansy for me too....sorry.ReplyDelete
I think it could be a peony.ReplyDelete
I see a rose or a poppy. Roses are my favorite flowers, so I see them a lot, but the yellow center reminds me of the Oriental poppies in my yard.ReplyDelete
maybe its just the color i see though
Peony! Or maybe a poppy.ReplyDelete
I see a rose! I hope I'm right. :)ReplyDelete
It looks like a poppy to me in the solids, like a rose in your fabrics. :) Pretty!ReplyDelete
I think it's a pretty poppy.ReplyDelete
peony? wow, lot of work in it xReplyDelete
Dogwood rose - lovely colours, whatever flower it is!ReplyDelete
A rose, it does look a little like a pansy, maybe because of the yellow surrounding the centre square.ReplyDelete
I thought a peony when I saw it.ReplyDelete
Looks like a poppy to me. But it's pretty no matter what kind it is.ReplyDelete
I think it is a petunia!ReplyDelete
Looks like a poppy or pansy. Lots of pieces, but I love it!ReplyDelete
My first thought was hibiscus, probably because of the yellow center. I see what it's supposed to be from the second picture name, which is not a flower I'm that familiar with (I live in the Midwest) so I wouldn't have guessed it in any case.ReplyDelete
The 3-lobe version was certainly a pansy or viola in my brain. The 4-sided center is no longer pansy, but now I'm wanting some leaves to figure out what multipetaled flower it represents.ReplyDelete
A zinnia? But does it matter? Sometimes a flower is just a flower but of course that's only when I didn't go to the trouble of making it!ReplyDelete
I think it's a poppy. Love it!ReplyDelete
Is that a rose?ReplyDelete
I'm thinking a rose or a peony ... it's pretty but wow - that's a lot of seams. I think I'd have to stick with applique :) Have fun!ReplyDelete
I will say it is a rose and a very lovely one at that.ReplyDelete
I guess it's a camelia japonica!ReplyDelete
I saw pansy too but I think it could be a Poppy.ReplyDelete
I think it's a peony... I have them at home right know actually!ReplyDelete
I would guess a poppy or peony!ReplyDelete
I don't see pansy at all - I see peony....ReplyDelete
Maybe a poppy.....ReplyDelete
It looks like a petunia to me. Anyway, it's pretty!ReplyDelete
my guess is a violet, although it's the wrong color for oneReplyDelete


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Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress. She is best known for her television roles as Susan Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and Lois Lane on the ABC sci-fi comedy-drama series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. In 2005 her Desperate Housewives work won her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actor's Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actress in a Comedy Series, as well as a nomination for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, which she lost to fellow cast member and close friend, Felicity Huffman.
Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther (née Beshur), a computer programmer who worked for Lockheed Martin, and Owen W. Hatcher, a nuclear physicist and electrical engineer. Hatcher's father is of Welsh and Choctaw Native American descent, and her mother is of half Syrian and half French/German descent. Hatcher grew up in Sunnyvale, California. Teri Hatcher took ballet lessons at the San Juan School of Dance in Los Altos. Her big debut was as the lead flying monkey in the "Wiz Of Oz." An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino. As an undergraduate she studied mathematics and engineering.
In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage who was later divorced by Hatcher's aunt. Her parents, she said, were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors with their indictment of Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to commit suicide at the age of 14. Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of child molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison. In an interview appearing in Vanity Fair, Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared Stone might escape conviction. Stone died of colon cancer on August 19, 2008, having served six years of his sentence.


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Fashionista asks, "Is the model in this new (and awesome) Chanel lipstick film saying 'Men hate women who read'?" Well, no, she's not. She is saying:
"If you're sad or heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep."
It's a quote from Coco Chanel.


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In a world full of movies like Sex and the City and Bridget Jones, romantic love is frequently viewed as a Holy Grail. We watch men and woman whose lives give the impression that revolves around the notion of falling in love, falling in and out of love over and over.
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Several persons are concerned that they do not know how to be romantic therefore they think they may not find love. Because being and falling in love is unique to individuals, the possibility of painting an accurate picture of what love is becomes difficult. But one of the factors of romantic love mentioned should be involved.
You may be wondering how you would know if you are experiencing genuine romance. Some people might say intuition played a key role when they found the person they loved right away - love at first sight (quintessential) but others take a gradual process - slow burner.
If love does not make you fall over yourself immediately as you lay your eyes on your partner, it does not mean that love is not there. When you get to know each other first and give the relationship some time to bloom can in due course lead to a stronger love than if the love was immediate without each of you knowing a lot about the other.
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So today I am thankful for my little Janey. Babies are precious gifts from heaven. There is nothing that makes me happier than a baby in my arms. She is perfect in every way, fits right into our family, and I know she and I are going to have great fun in my old age. :) I am SO thankful she is our little caboose. I adore her.
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She certainly is adorable and precious.ReplyDelete
so glad you're playing along! glad you have that darling baby girl, too.ReplyDelete
Perfectly cute dimple...ReplyDelete
She is beautiful, Sarah. And I feel the same about my Flynn. I always say I am so glad I have her to grow old with me! She took much longer getting here than we expected, but God knew what I needed! A sweet little one at the end to keep me company as my other littles grow up and away! : )ReplyDelete
incredibly gorgeous babyReplyDelete
I love that you called Janey the caboose, so cute. Love the picture, too. :)ReplyDelete
Oh, she is so sweet. How lucky you are to have a little baby to snuggle today. :)ReplyDelete
I think gratitude heightens our senses and transforms our outlook, I really do. Things we don't like are suddenly interesting. The things we love become evidence of Heavenly love. You're right, she is a gift from heaven.ReplyDelete
That photo is lovely. So lovely.ReplyDelete
I adore her, too!!! You make me think about having another one, but I'm 40 - OH MY!!!!ReplyDelete
Love her. :) So sweet.ReplyDelete
That dimple looks yummy! Thanks for sharing! Janie posts are my favorite. My youngest is almost 5 months now, very close.ReplyDelete
so so sweet!:)ReplyDelete
i have a janey too so every time i read about her little sweetness over here it gets me!:)
have a happy day sarah
That dimple! You must kiss it all day long. I know I would.ReplyDelete


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For cash-strapped IT shops looking to get out from under manual storage management chores, storage orchestration software looks like a lifeline: It promises to let users choose from a catalog of predefined storage services and then handle the provisioning details behind the scenes.
It's a worthy vision, and one vendors are moving toward. However, there's currently no "single pane of glass" product that can automatically provision, resize, back up and recover storage across multiple public and private clouds, across systems from different vendors and for virtual machines running hypervisors from multiple vendors. Most orchestration tools support only a single product line, are optimized for certain functions or don't support the public, multitenant object-based storage services that provide the lowest cost and most flexibility.
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It's even more rare to find orchestration tools that can manage both virtual machines and storage. Creating true global orchestration is an expensive, complex task usually tackled only by the largest enterprises or service providers that can spread the investment across multiple customers.
Today, storage management is "very fragmented, and things don't necessarily work well together," says Forrester Research storage analyst Andrew Reichman. "For the most part, [tools] are quite expensive, complex to use and have mixed results with [other vendors'] products.... The automation level of storage lags that of servers," especially when comparing storage management systems with server virtualization platforms such as VMware. With storage, "there is still a lot of manual, mundane work being done," says Reichman.
Despite some acceptance of standards for defining common storage and server functions, vendors are understandably reluctant to use them to make it easier for customers to move data from their products to those of their competitors. Some are also too busy integrating technologies they have acquired to focus on interoperability with their competitors.
Many of today's orchestration platforms are more like service catalogs that offer various service levels for different applications and use application programming interfaces (API) to storage and server management tools to deliver the services. HCL Technologies' MyCloud, for example, is "not like a management tool, but more like an aggregation platform [that] can integrate with the native management tools" from infrastructure providers such as VMware or Amazon, or existing management vendors such as BMC or CA, says Kalyan Kumar, associate vice president and head of cloud at HCL. Customers can request compute and storage services through it, but they must log in to each platform's management console to perform more sophisticated operations, such as archiving data, he says.
In the absence of universal orchestration, customers are using tools that support their hardware and software to solve problems in areas such as application availability, disaster recovery and quality of service. These products fall into several broad categories.
Storage 'hypervisors'
A growing number of vendors are offering "storage hypervisors" that virtualize the storage and, in some cases, their associated file servers to create scalable, flexible pools of storage. This virtualization layer often runs on standard x86 servers and is optimized for specific functions, storage protocols or applications. One example is DataCore Software's SANsymphony-V, which links to VMware's vCenter to automatically discover VMware servers running in a customer's environment. A systems administrator can then associate a given class of storage with various servers, and SANsymphony automatically provisions it.
Hosting and integration services firm Amnet Technology Solutions has been using SANsymphony for close to three years, and senior technologist Rich Conway says the product has provided "absolutely phenomenal" redundancy. "The entire storage infrastructure was essentially mirrored, where both sides are active/active, and if any component of either side fails for any reason, our entire grid stays up and our customers don't even notice," he says. SANsymphony has also enabled Amnet to eliminate planned downtime for routine maintenance such as firmware upgrades, says Conway.
Later this year, IBM plans to release IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center, an appliance-based virtualization layer that will provide services such as backup, load balancing and snapshots across applications and provision the right storage for each class of service, says Steve Wojtowecz, vice president of Tivoli storage software development at IBM.
Combining IBM's SAN Volume Controller storage virtualization platform with its Tivoli Storage Productivity Center management software and the Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager, the SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center will provide consistent performance on multiple vendors' storage arrays in data centers within 300 kilometers of each other, says Wojtowecz. But it doesn't currently support block storage, he adds.
Zadara Storage runs its storage virtualization layer on commodity servers in its own colocated cloud facilities, turning direct-attached disk drives into virtual SAN arrays. Noam Shendar, vice president of business development, says this gives those drives the performance, reliability and security of more expensive SANs, and provides capabilities such as clustering using familiar SAN management tools.
Other vendors use a global file system to separate the details of where and how VMs or data are stored from the higher-level management objectives, such as meeting the terms of various service-level agreements (SLA).
Among the vendors coming the closest to offering combined server/storage management with this approach is Tintri, whose "VM-aware" storage appliances are designed to replace traditional storage units such as volumes, LUNs and files with virtual disks. Tintri's VMstore file system monitors and controls I/O performance for each virtual disk, communicating with the VMware vCenter to detect which virtual machines are active and how they are using storage. It then automatically chooses the best combination of storage for each virtual machine, including fast but expensive solid-state drives and slower but less costly disks.
Meanwhile, open-source vendor Red Hat claims that its Red Hat Storage Server, based on its GlusterFS file system, provides better scalability than rivals because it doesn't rely on a metadata server, more effectively distributes data and uses parallelism to maximize performance. Nutanix combines storage and server management, along with its own storage and performance management software, in a physical package that includes three to four x86 server nodes. Cisco takes a similar approach to combining computing, storage and networking with its FlexPod products.
Bridging differences
One approach to cross-cloud storage management uses gateways that mask the differences among the APIs used by various cloud storage providers. TwinStrata's physical or virtual CloudArray (bundled with SANsymphony), for example, makes storage from any of 13 cloud providers appear as iSCSI devices to customers and applications. This allows connectivity and the use of a common management platform for functions such as disaster recovery and replication, says CEO Nicos Vekiarides.
Benefits plan administrator RxStrategies uses the TwinStrata gateway for cloud-based backup of its virtual machines and data. "On the outside, it looks like a SAN, which is old technology, but on the other side, it was actually part of the cloud, which enables us to transparently push our backup to Amazon or Rackspace," says senior developer Rick DeBay. In the future, he says he would like to be able to store data on more than one public cloud and easily move compute workloads to Amazon's EC2 public cloud and Amazon's S3 storage platform.
Other orchestration offerings are, however, limited to certain products or certain parts of the cloud.
CA Server Automation and CA Automation Suite for Clouds integrates with NetApp's OnCommand storage management software to provision NetApp storage for various classes of servers.
Caringo's CloudScaler virtualization layer provides automated, policy-based management -- but only of storage, not virtual machines. Like many other orchestration platforms, it doesn't currently support the block-based storage used in low-cost, multitenant public storage clouds such as Amazon S3, but Caringo is working to offer that in the future.
Storage Automator, a storage service catalog and policy engine from iWave, currently supports only selected EMC and NetApp arrays, although broader support is due this year.
While it's the leader in server virtualization, VMware is working to differentiate itself from competitors such as Microsoft and its Hyper-V offering by "pushing to include more orchestration," says Reichman. With VMware vSphere 5.0, for example, it introduced storage profiles that let users map the capabilities of a storage system to a storage profile, helping to ensure each virtual machine uses the appropriate data store.
This summer, VMware acquired DynamicOps, whose architecture will allow vSphere and infrastructure administrators to model infrastructure services. This will enable the policy, governance and self-service management capabilities in vSphere to be extended to other hypervisors, hardware and clouds, according to a blog post by Ramin Sayar, VMware's vice president and general manager for cloud infrastructure and management.
Function-specific offerings
Many vendors' offerings are focused on areas such as data protection and disaster recovery, which were the most common needs cited by VMware users in a July 2012 survey conducted by the Wikibon technology analysis website. Again, many tools are limited to specific vendors' products or storage protocols.
Actifio, for example, tackles backup, disaster recovery and business continuity with its Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) appliance, which virtualizes both storage and storage functions such as copy, store, move and restore. But the PAS appliance supports only Fibre Channel-attached storage, such as SANs, and only disaster and recovery, not the dynamic reprovisioning required to maintain the performance of production applications.
Even if this creates a stand-alone silo of tools and data for backup and recovery, that's an improvement over the multiple silos (and multiple copies of data) many companies use for anything from testing to disaster recovery or data analytics, says Andrew Gilman, senior director of global marketing at Actifio. He also says Actifio's globally deduplicated object-based file system reduces costs by storing and moving only changes to data.
VirtualSharp Software says its ReliableDR "goes into the different layers of virtualization inside the cloud" and uses the APIs provided by storage vendors to create runbooks (defined sets of operations) to execute and verify disaster recovery and failover. However, it does this only for applications running on VMware hypervisors, and only for applications, not for the data they use.
Also, the tool supports only clouds running within corporate data centers, because, says CEO Carlos Escapa, "the market is so huge behind the firewall and the protection mechanisms are lacking." He adds that the fact that ReliableDR is capable of running multiple disaster recovery tests per day more than makes up for its lack of broader management capabilities.
Symantec's Virtual Business Services doesn't handle VM management or even storage provisioning such as zoning SANs or creating LUNs, says senior director of product management Douglas Fallstrom. It instead allows customers to define dependencies among the tiers of an application stack (including VMs and their associated storage) to better understand how the stack responds to the failure of one component. This helps ensure that the terms of SLAs for the storage tier are set properly and that performance can be measured.
Continuity Software's recently announced Availability Cloud/Guard aims to improve reliability by detecting problems such as situations where "clustered servers can't see new storage" because of a failure to map the new storage device to all the appropriate servers. That's a problem an administrator often wouldn't be aware of until the server "tries to use the storage [and] fails," says CTO Doron Pinhas. Cloud/Guard helps find such problems by comparing a customer's deployment with 6,000 deployment scenarios from the vendor's customers to "observe your effort to build the environment... and gently steer [the customer] in the right direction," he says.


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Former NFL player Terrell Owens' (pictured left) estranged bride, Rachel Snider (pictured), was reportedly rushed to a Texas hospital over the weekend, after allegedly attempting to end her life over her recent marital break up, according to TMZ.
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The couple tied the knot in a quickie secret ceremony at a Norwalk, Calif., courthouse on January 23. After a two-week stint, though, the pair separated because Snider alleged that Owens had married her because of her good credit rating. The 33-year-old former postal worker and Mom of one stated that Owens intended on purchasing a $2 million home in Sherman Oaks, Calif., but his horrific credit profile stood in the way of securing the loan.
Consequently, Snider reportedly moved out of the home she and Owens shared together and said that she would file for divorce, "I really valued his love and friendship for five years. Out of the love in my heart, I tried to help him. We had a secret relationship for five years, and I married him for love. I felt in love and now I feel betrayed and heartbroken."
According to TMZ, Snider tweeted on Tuesday how she was "just a little broken down right now" and "suffering from a broken heart." The Beaumont, Texas, native then went on to tweet a day later, "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars."
Owens, a former wide receiver who played for 15 seasons with the NFL and earned — then blew through — a reported $80 million, has had a hard-knock life over the past few years. After not being picked up by an NFL team, Owens tried his hand at acting, weather forecasting, modeling and even had a couple of reality shows. Financially, though, Owens finances went to hell in a hand basket, with bad investment ventures, child support woes, massive tax debts, and poor management.
And while Owens has denied Snider's allegations, the extent of Snider's injuries have not been released.
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US President Barack Obama confirmed Sunday that the clock starts ticking January 20 on a six-month nuclear deal with Iran, which has agreed to temporarily limit uranium enrichment in exchange for an easing of sanctions against it. He also appealed to US lawmakers not to pass legislation slapping new sanctions on Iran.
"We will now focus on the critical work of pursuing a comprehensive resolution that addresses our concerns over Iran's nuclear program," Obama said in a written statement Sunday.
Under the agreement that Obama announced November 23, Iran agrees to limit its uranium enrichment to levels used to power energy plants, and to neutralize a nuclear stockpile that could be used to make weapons.
Meanwhile, the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia will ease some economic sanctions, while negotiating a permanent deal with Iran.
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"Today's agreement to implement the Joint Plan of Action announced in November marks the first time in a decade that the Islamic Republic of Iran has agreed to specific actions that halt progress on its nuclear program and roll back key parts of the program.
"Beginning January 20th, Iran will for the first time start eliminating its stockpile of higher levels of enriched uranium and dismantling some of the infrastructure that makes such enrichment possible. Iran has agreed to limit its enrichment capability by not installing or starting up additional centrifuges or using next-generation centrifuges. New and more frequent inspections of Iran's nuclear sites will allow the world to verify that Iran is keeping its commitments.
"Taken together, these and other steps will advance our goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
"In return, over the next six months the United States and our P5+1 partners – the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, and China, as well as the European Union – will begin to implement modest relief so long as Iran fulfills its obligations and as we pursue a comprehensive solution to Iran's nuclear program.
"Meanwhile, we will continue to vigorously enforce the broader sanctions regime, and if Iran fails to meet its commitments we will move to increase our sanctions.
"Unprecedented sanctions and tough diplomacy helped to bring Iran to the negotiating table, and I'm grateful to our partners in Congress who share our goal of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Imposing additional sanctions now will only risk derailing our efforts to resolve this issue peacefully, and I will veto any legislation enacting new sanctions during the negotiation.
"With today's agreement, we have made concrete progress. I welcome this important step forward, and we will now focus on the critical work of pursuing a comprehensive resolution that addresses our concerns over Iran's nuclear program. I have no illusions about how hard it will be to achieve this objective, but for the sake of our national security and the peace and security of the world, now is the time to give diplomacy a chance to succeed."
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This is the final post of my year-long project (it's a leap year y'all). 🙂
I don't form emotional attachments with clothing. Clothes are fun, but ultimately they're merely things. Objects have never held much value for me. I usually tend to value experiences instead.
That's one of the reasons why giving away everything I've made this year hasn't been particularly hard for me.
But then there's this dress.
You're looking at what would have been my wedding dress…except that didn't happen.
This was what I would have worn on a day that would have changed my life forever…except that didn't happen.
This was the dress that would have said, "See…I'm fully capable of maintaining an adult relationship for the long haul."…except that didn't happen. :/
I kept the dress. I didn't know what to do with it. It went from being something I loved to something I hated – relegated to a garbage bag stuffed in the back of my closet. I kicked it on occasion.
This one garment had the power of making me feel like I had failed…that I would never be in a long-term relationship, that I would most certainly never be married, and that I was going to spend the rest of my life alone.
I had to do something with this dress. People suggested giving it away, but I couldn't. It had permeated into my psyche to such a degree that parting with it was impossible.
As the months after the breakup stretched on, things happened. I realized I was stronger than I had ever imagined. I spent more time with my friends…who made it clear that single or no, I most certainly would never be alone.
I ate healthier. I made bolder decisions. I laughed more. In short, I'm doing just fine. 🙂
That dress, and its power over me had to go…in a different direction.
I filled a plastic tub with hot water.
I added a full bottle of Wine dye, salt, vinegar, and a dress with a past.
I carefully stirred the dress in its dye bath for a bit over an hour.
I was worried about the bodice, as I could tell that some spot cleaning had been done and that this slight discoloration could end up looking really weird when dyed. I decided to chance it.
After the dye bath was one, my dress got a good and thorough rinse. Then, I laid it over my shower rod to dry.
I wasn't done.
I put it my dress form, and chopped off a few layers.
This meant I also had to cut off some of the lining and give it a new hem.
I've lost some weight in the past few months, so some taking-in of the bodice was in order as well.
The original dress already had a few holes that needed to be taken care of, but I decided to wait until I had dyed it so I knew what color of thread to use.
After a good press…I was done!
You can see how the bodice did indeed end up looking quite uneven, but I really like it! 🙂 This happy accident is one of my favorite things about my new dress!
My new dress was perfect for a party with my closest friends to celebrate making it through this year and my ridiculous self-imposed challenge! 🙂
In this year, I haven't just been refashioning clothing. I've been refashioning my life, and how I think about the world around me.
A year ago I thought I had to be married by the time I was 30 in order to be a proper grownup and happy. I've since learned that being happy has nothing to do with being a proper grownup (which might, paradoxically, be the most grownup revelation I've made this year). 🙂
I want to give my sincerest thanks to the friends, family, and fans who made this year possible (that includes you, dear reader). There are simply far to many of you to name here! I could not have done any of this without you. 🙂
Many of you have been asking what my plans are, now that I'm done with the year.
I'm. Not. Stopping. Here.
My work here is far from done folks. Stay tuned in the next couple of days for news of my plans for Year 3!


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1. What every clinician should know
Vaginitis is a condition that encompasses a spectrum of vulvovaginal symptoms. This chapter will focus on two of the most common causes of vaginitis. Yeast vaginitis (vulvovaginal candidiasis) is discussed in another chapter.
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common type of vaginitis. It is characterized by a shift in normal vaginal flora to a predominantly anaerobic environment. As a result, the number of Lactobacilli organisms, which produce peroxide and lower the pH of the vagina, is reduced. This shift in vaginal micorflora can lead to symptomatic vaginitis, but not all women with clinical BV have symptoms. When symptomatic, women may present to with vaginal discharge, odor, and/or vulvo-vaginal irritation. The color of this discharge can vary from clear to white to gray. Women may describe an offensive odor which may be characterized as "fishy."
Trichomonas vaginalis (TV) is common type of vaginitis and the second most common sexually transmitted infection in the world and the United States. TV is an anaerobic flagellated protozoan parasite that inhabits the male and female genital tracts and is transmitted through coitus. Most men and a significant percentage of women are asymptomatic of TV infection. When symptoms occur, female patients often report malodorous discharge which can be associated with vulvo-vaginal irritation and vaginal spotting. These symptoms are very difficult to distinguish from BV. Patients with TV may also report dyspareunia or abdominal/pelvic pain, dysuria, and pruritus. Unique to TV, it is more prevalent in older women.
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BV and TV share common risk factors and associations. These infection are more common in certain populations of women and include those who are:
- sexually active, especially with a new partner or multiple partners
- have a concurrent or history of a sexually transmitted infection
- do not use condoms
- engage in douching
2. Diagnosis and differential diagnosis
Diagnosis: Bacterial vaginosis
Methods available for the diagnosis of BV include microscopy, gram stain, and point of care tests. A Nugent Score, is the gold standard, but is mostly used for research purposes. A Nugent score is determined by reviewing a gram stain of the vaginal fluid for characteristic microorganisms and requires training to interpret. If the Nugent score is greater than or equal to 7, the patient has BV.
BV is most often diagnosed using clinical criteria (Amsel's criteria). 3 of 4 criteria are required to make the diagnosis:
- vaginal discharge
- elevated vaginal pH (> 4.5) obtained from the vaginal side wall
- a positive whiff test (an amine odor produced by the addition of potassium hydroxide (10% KOH) to the vaginal fluid)
- at least 20% of the epithelial cells present are clue cells (epithelial cells covered with bacteria) on microscopy.
Point of care tests are available for physicians who do not have microscopy or laboratory support available. These include the DNA probe-based test for high concentrations of G. Vaginalis which is the AFIRM VP III® and the test card for Prolineaminopeptidase activity which is the PIP Activity TestCard®
Diagnosis: Trichomonas vaginalis
The current gold standard for diagnosis of TV is culture in Diamond's media. The TVinPouch® is commercially available. Cultures are incubated at 37° C and inspected up to five days for the presence of motile trichomonads. The sensitivity of culture is 87-90% and specificity is reported as 92-100%.
Microscopy is more commonly used that culture, because it does not require laboratory support or incubation. Vaginal fluid is combined with normal saline and inspected for the presence of motile trichomonads. Microscopy is less sensitive than culture (60%) but 100% specific.
Nucleic acid amplification (NAAT) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for TV are available in some large centers but have been used mostly for research purposes. PCR has improved sensitivity and specificity over culture and microscopy, 90% and 97-100% respectively. This method may replace the more commonly used diagnostic techniques in the future when PCR is more readily available.
Point of care tests are also available for the diagnosis of TV. These include the OSOM® rapid test, which detects TV antigen, and the AFFIRM® test, which is a nucleic acid amplification probe for TV, BV, and yeast.
Differential diagnoses
Vaginal candidiasis or vaginal yeast infections are a common cause of vaginal discharge and irritation. Yeast infections are often associated with vulvo-vaginal itching. On microscopy, the diagnosis is made by the visualization of psuedohyphae or budding yeast. Adding KOH to the vaginal fluid may enhance the examiner's ability to see yeast on a microscopy specimen.
Cervicitis is general description of cervical inflammation which may be associated with sexually transmitted infections such as gonorrhea and Chlamydia. Patients may present with vaginal discharge, but this condition is often asymptomatic. The examiner may see leukocytes (neutrophils or white blood cells) on microscopy (leukorrhea).
Desquamative inflammatory vaginitis
Inflammatory vaginitis is an uncommon cause of vaginal discharge and irritation. It is not associated with a specific pathogen or known to be infectious. It is most often a diagnosis of exclusion, especially in women who continue to have vaginal discharge despite therapy for common causes of vaginitis. On microscopy, the examiner will identify leukocytes. It is important to exclude other more common and infectious causes of vaginal leukorrhea, including Trichomonas, BV, yeast, and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
Atrophic vaginitis
Atrophic vaginitis is characterized by irritation secondary to decreased vaginal secretions. This condition results from decreased circulating estrogen and is most often encountered in postmenopausal women. On microscopy, the examiner may note parabasal cells. Atrophic vaginitis usually responds to topical estrogen therapy.
3. Management
Bacterial vaginosis
Bacterial vaginosis is most often treated with antimicrobial therapy.
- Metronidazole 500mg orally twice daily x 7 days
- Tindazole 2gm by mouth daily x 2 days
- Tindazole 1gm by mouth daily x 5 days
- Clindamycin 300mg orally twice daily x 7 days
- Metronidazole 0.75% gel per vagina daily x 5 days
- Clindamycin 2% gel per vaginal daily x 7 days
Trichomonas vaginalis
Trichomonas vaginalis should be treated with oral antimicrobial therapy, topical therapy is not recommended.
- Metronidazole 2000mg po orally once
- Tindazole 2000mg po orally once
- Metronidazole 500mg orally twice daily x 7 days (preferred therapy in HIV positive women due to high failure rates with single dose therapy)
4. Complications
Sequelae of infection
BV and TV can both be associated with an increased risk of acquiring sexually transmitted infections, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and developing post-gynecologic surgical infections. Treatment of BV prior to benign gynecologic surgery decreases the risk of post-operative infection.
During pregnancy, symptomatic BV and TV have been associated with preterm birth, premature rupture of membranes, chorioamninitis, and postpartum infection. However, current evidence does not support treatment of BV and TV during pregnancy in order to prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Allergic reaction
Some patients are allergic to metronidazole. In the case of BV, there are alternative anti-microbial therapies. However, in the case of patients with TV who have an immediate hypersensitivity reaction (hives or anaphylaxis) to metronidazole, there are limited options for therapy. Alternative therapies for TV have proven very ineffective. Because tindazole is in the same antimicrobial class as metronidazole, it is not recommended in the case of an immediate hypersensitivity reaction. Patients can be desensitized to metronidazole either through progressive incremental intravenous or oral administration.
5. Prognosis and outcome
BV recurs in approximately one third to half of women. Some women are more prone to recurrent BV. Patients that have more than 3-6 episodes of BV per year may require prolonged therapy in order to decrease recurrence.
Approximately 5% of cases of TV are not successfully treated by the recommended single dose of metronidazole. Repeat or prolonged therapy with metronidazole or treating with Tindazole may improve success. In some instances, the organism has become resistant to metronidazole and may require prolonged therapy and consultation with an infectious diseases specialist.
6. What is the evidence for specific management and treatment recommendations
Workowski, KA, Berman, S. "Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2010". MMWR Recomm Rep Dec. vol. 59. 17. pp. 1-110. (The CDC STD Guidelines are an excellent source for clinicians treating vaginitis. These guidelines are compiled by a panel of vaginitis experts and are based on the best available literature.)
Nugent, RP, Krohn, MA, Hillier, SL. "Reliability of diagnosing bacterial vaginosis is improved by a standardized method of gram stain interpretation". J Clin Microbiol. 1991. pp. 297-301. (This article determined the most reliable and reproducible means for vaginal fluid gram stain interpretation for BV.)
Amsel, R, Totten, PA, Spiegel, CA. "Nonspecific vaginitis. Diagnostic criteria and microbial and epidemiologic associations". Am J Med. vol. 74. 1983. pp. 14-22. (The findings of this article provided evidence for the use of clinical (Amsel's) criteria to diagnosis BV.)
Sobel, JD, Ferris, D, Schwebke, J. "Suppressive antibacterial therapy with 0.75% metronidazole vaginal gel to prevent recurrent bacterial vaginosis". Am J Obstet Gynecol. vol. 194. 2006. pp. 1283-9. (This multicenter randomized trial demonstrated that women on suppressive therapy for recurrent bacterial vaginosis had fewer recurrences following suppression than placebo. These findings support the use of twice weekly metronidazole gel in women with recurrent BV.)
Hillier, SL, Nugent, RP, Eschenbach, DA. "Association between bacterial vaginosis and preterm delivery of a low-birth-weight infant". N Engl J Med. vol. 333. 1995. pp. 1737-42. (This multi-clinical trial enrolled with women with no known risk factors for preterm birth, and determined the prevalence of BV in this population. The primary outcome for this study was preterm delivery (<37 weeks gestation). The presence of BV was associated with increased risk of preterm delivery of a low birth weight infant.)
Sutton, M, Sternberg, M, Koumans, EH. "The prevalence of infection among reproductive-age women in the United States, 2001–2004". Clin Infect Dis. vol. 45. 2007. pp. 1319-26. (These data are from the NHANES trial. Prior to this study, estimating the prevalence of Trichomonas in American women has been limited by the fact that this is not a reportable disease. These data also raise awareness of the racial discrepancy in TV infections.)
Schwebke, JR, Burgess, D. "Trichomoniasis". Clin Microbiol Rev. 2004. pp. 794-803. (Dr. Schwebke is a recognized expert in Trichomonas vaginalis infections. This is an excellent review of the organism, epidemiology, diagnosis, and management.)
Krieger, JN, Tam, MR, Stevens, CE. "Diagnosis of trichomoniasis. Comparison of conventional wet-mount examination with cytologic studies, cultures, and monoclonal antibody staining of direct specimens". JAMA. vol. 259. 1988. pp. 1223-7. (This article demonstrates the improved sensitivity of culture over microscopy for the diagnosis of Trichomonas.)
Helms, DJ, Mosure, DJ, Secor, WE. "Management of in women with suspected metronidazole hypersensitivity". Am J Obstet Gynecol. vol. 198. 2008. pp. 370-7. (Given the limited effective treatments for Trichomonas, this article is an excellent resource. It provides a metronidazole desensitization protocol, which can be used to treat patients with metronidazole hypersensitivity.)
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Symptomatic Homeopathy
As opposed to constitutional homeopathy, symptomatic homeopathy focuses on the immediate condition of the individual rather than examining the complex, underlying, detailed historical information.
For example, suppose you have come down with symptoms of the flu. Rather than undergoing the detailed questioning involved in a homeopathic consultation, you can simply go to a store and pick up a bottle of homeopathic tablets marked for treating flu symptoms. The most popular product of this type is made from ducks, known carriers of flu.
While this approach is simpler and less expensive than traditional homeopathic methods, it runs counter to the underlying holistic intentions of the technique.
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Language and Translation Overview
Below you will find information on how to create your own languages for Zimbra Collaboration Server(ZCS) Open Source and Network Edition.
Note: there are many officially supported by Zimbra which already ship with ZCS. You can find out more about these languages at http://www.zimbra.com/products/languages.html
Where to Get Translations
OFFICIAL ZIMBRA TRANSLATIONS ship in ZCS Open Source and Network Edition. These are listed at: http://www.zimbra.com/products/languages.html
COMMUNITY TRANSLATIONS do not ship with ZCS. These translated files are available in source control on Sourceforge.net. The language files can be freely checked out by anyone and installed on your Zimbra server (see below for directions on installation). Also, anyone in the community is allowed to translate ZCS into a language of their choice and check the files into source control.
SF.net PROJECT PAGE: Zimbra Xtras SVN.
SF.net LANGUAGE FILES: Grouped by language
COMMUNITY LANGUAGE STATUS PAGE: http://zimbra-xtras.sourceforge.net/l10n-status.html
Each language is listed with contributors and a relative percent complete for each language property file (see below for an explanation of property files).
What Localizations Ship with ZCS?
Only the 15+ translations officially certified by Zimbra are bundled as part of a public releases of the Zimbra Collaboration Server Open Source and Network Edition.
You can find out more about these languages at http://www.zimbra.com/products/languages.html
What if I Find an Error or Misspelling?
For Community translation please use the Forums first Zimbra Forums where the Community can help.
If you verify a spelling problem with an Official Zimbra translation that ships with ZCS please file a bug with a Localization component; likewise if you have identified a ZCS product internationalization issue (eg a button isn't long enough for non-English strings) then you can always file a bug with an Internationalization component.
Note: The Zimbra Support team is not able to answer localization questions!
More About the Zimbra Xtras Language Project and Contributing
The Zimbra Community is actively involved in the translation process. If you're interested in working on a translation, join the Zimbra Forums and discuss your interests with others in the Community here.
Remember, anyone can download the localization files but only official contributors and moderators can post new changes!
How Do I Get Signed Up to Contribute?
All who work on translations need to fill in and sign a contribution agreement. It must be either faxed to +1-408-349-2400 or scanned and emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more about the language translation process see Translation and Moderation.
How Does the Zimbra Xtras Project Work?
The Zimbra Translations directory contains the translated files as well as tools that are helpful to translators and users of the data files.
The Zimbra Xtras translations sub-project has the following structure:
trunk/ZimbraTranslations/ data/ {language}/ -- Language name + language code (e.g. English_en) keys/ messages/ docs/ src/ build.xml
The U.S. English message files are the default files used by the Zimbra product and can be found at the following location:
Note: The U.S. English files are provided for convenience and should not be modified in SVN. The originals are stored in the Zimbra source repository and are periodically pushed to SVN. All other languages are stored in the Xtras project and can be freely modified by the language moderators.
What Do All the Message Files Mean?
The Zimbra Collaboration Server uses message catalogs to store translated strings and patterns to localize the product. The files are standard Java properties files which are combined and converted to native JavaScript for the client code at run-time.
- I18nMsg.properties
- Internationalization messages such as names of months, date and time formats, etc.
- AjxMsg.properties
- Messages used by the ajax toolkit.
- ZMsg.properties
- Common messages such as server error messages, etc.
- ZaMsg.properties
- Messages used by the Zimbra Admin web client.
- ZmMsg.properties
- Messages used by the Zimbra End User web client.
- ZhMsg.properties
- Messages used by the Zimbra End User basic web client.
- ZsMsg.properties
- Messages used by the Zimbra Server when automatically replying to appointment requests for locations and resources. (The language used for the outgoing messages is based on the server's default locale, not the client.)
Shortcut Keys Files
The Zimbra Collaboration Server defines shortcut keys in standard Java properties files. These files contain text descriptions for operation groups as well as individual operations within those groups. Like message files, these Java properties files are combined and converted to native JavaScript for the client code at run-time.
It is possible to change the key bindings per language as well as translate the descriptions found within the shortcut keys files. Usually, only the descriptions will be translated. However, if you translate the shortcut key bindings, care should be taken that they are unique and do not conflict with other shortcuts.
- AjxKeys.properties
- Shortcut keys used in the ajax toolkit.
- ZmKeys.properties
- Shortcut keys used in the Zimbra End User web client.
A Note About Messages
A translation string can be one of the following:
- literal text, or
- a string with replacement parameters
In the second case, the application dynamically generates the display message by replacing special markers within the string with the replacement values. These markers are denoted by a number in curly-braces (e.g. {0}, {1}, etc).
Strings with replacement parameters are formatted according to the the Java MessageFormat class. Complete instructions for the use of MessageFormat strings can be found in the JavaDoc but here are a few examples:
|Hello, {0}!
|Hello, Andy!
|You last logged in on {0,date,full} at {0,time}.
|new Date
|You last logged in on Friday, December 7, 2007 at 10:52:51 AM.
|There are {0,number,integer} file(s) in directory {1}.
|There are 0 file(s) in directory /tmp.
|There are 1 file(s) in directory /tmp.
|There are 42 file(s) in directory /tmp.
|There {0,choice,0#are {0} files|1#is {0} file|2#are {0} files} in directory {1}.
|There are 0 files in directory /tmp.
|There is 1 file in directory /tmp.
|There are 42 files in directory /tmp.
Note: In order to put a literal curly-brace in the message, it must be escaped within single-quotes. For example:
|Parameter 0
|The value of '{0}' is {0}.
|The value of {0} is Andy.
This means that an apostrophe cannot be used directly in a message string with replacement parameters! In order to include a literal single-quote (or apostrophe), you must use two single-quotes in a row. This is not needed for messages that do not have replacement parameters. The following table shows correct and incorrect uses of each type of message:
|Parameter 0
|Don't get mad.
|Don't get mad.
|Don''t get mad.
|Don''t get mad.
|Don''t get mad, {0}.
|Don't get mad, Andy.
|Don't get mad, {0}.
|Dont get mad, {0}.
Installing Translations in ZCS Server
If you want to load a translation on a test (or live) ZCS deployment, simply download the files from source control to your local machine and then follow the installation directions below.
Note: There can be up to 8 language files spanning two directories (messages and keys), be sure to download them all. If there are fewer files in source control it means the localization is not complete (and English will appear in place of the missing file).
ZCS 4.x (Tomcat)
- Copy translated properties files to deployment server
- % cp *.properties /opt/zimbra/tomcat/webapps/zimbra/WEB-INF/classes/msgs/
- % cp *.properties /opt/zimbra/tomcat/webapps/zimbraAdmin/WEB-INF/classes/msgs/
- % cp ZsMsg*.properties /opt/zimbra/conf/msgs/
- Restart Tomcat
- % su - zimbra
- % tomcat restart
- Set the language preference in your browser and reload
ZCS 5.x (Jetty)
- Copy translated properties files to deployment server
- % cp *Msg.properties /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/WEB-INF/classes/messages/
- % cp *Msg.properties /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbraAdmin/WEB-INF/classes/messages/
- % cp *Keys.properties /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/WEB-INF/classes/keys/
- % cp *Keys.properties /opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbraAdmin/WEB-INF/classes/keys/
- % cp ZsMsg*.properties /opt/zimbra/conf/msgs/
- Restart Jetty
- % su - zimbra
- % jetty stop
- % jetty start
- Set the language preference in your browser and reload
Convert All Translation Encoding to ASCII
Important: your translated properties files must be encoded in ASCII before they can be loaded on to the Zimbra Server, not in their native encoding.
For example, you can translate the property files in your nativing encoding such as Shift-JIS format for Japanese, but once completed you then need to convert the property files from Shift-JIS to their ASCII equivalents.
You can use the native2ascii tool that is shipped with the JDK to convert the files (these ship with the server).
For example:
% native2ascii -encoding {type} {source file} {destination file}
% native2ascii -encoding UTF-8 ZmMsg_ja.properties.utf8 ZmMsg_ja.properties
To convert back to UTF-8 for viewing or editing in Notepad or equivalent use:
% native2ascii -reverse -encoding UTF-8 ZmMsg_ja.properties ZmMsg_ja.properties.utf8
Updating translations
.properties files are hard to update, i.e. reuse old translations, add new ones and take account of old strings which might have changed. One possible way is to convert them to Gettext format (.po files) which have a good support for updating. This is described in #Working with translations in Gettext format.
Working with translations in Gettext format
This section describes how to convert .properties files into .po files, how to translate them, how to update translation from an old version and how to turn the .po files back to .properties. The means of converting are provided by Translate Toolkit.
Detailed documentation can be found at http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/prop2po. This section will concentrate on applying this in the Zimbra translation workflow.
About the Gettext framework
Gettext framework uses the .po file format. .po files contain both original (English) strings and corresponding strings in target language. That way, the meaning of once translated string will never change, except that it may not be used in a later version of the translated software.
- Compare this to .properties files, which use name=value pairs, where the name identifies the string. The problem with this emerges when updating strings. There's no easy way to tell that the original name=value in the old version has a different value for the same name in the new version.
Po files contain header with information about the translator and format of the .po file. We won't need to use the header in our workflow in any way, so you can safely ignore complaints from your translation tool about headers containing default values.
Plain .po files without translations are called .pot files (templates). Format is the same as in .po files.
The benefit of Gettext is that it's widespread in the open source world (thus it's likely that translators are familiar with it cell phone spy) and there are quite a few tools supporting it.
Converting .properties to .po
First, we'll create an empty template (english.pot) from the English .properties file (english.properties):
prop2po -P english.properties english.pot
You can safely rename english.pot to lang.po and start translating it. Some tools recognize templates by the .pot extension but if you don't use such tool, you can create a .po file right away.
Translating .po files
Editing .po files is described in detail in the Gettext manual.
.po files are plain text files in a special format, so you may use any text editor to edit them. However if you do, there are two things to pay attention to. First, you will need to specify the encoding used in the header (e.g. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"). Second, you ought to run a check once in a while to see if you didn't break the format:
msgfmt -c -v lang.po > /dev/null
A simple, lightweight and multiplatform GUI editor for .po files is Poedit or Virtaal.
Reusing old translations
To create a translation of new version while reusing the unchanged strings from the old version, run:
prop2po --duplicates=msgctxt -t english.properties lang-old.properties lang.po
where english.properties is the english .properties file (current version), lang-old.properties is the old translation in .properties format and it will create lang.po, which is the .po file for the new version with the old strings already translated! What remains to do is translate the new and changed ones. There will be forfait sans engagement even so called "fuzzy" strings - guesses how the string might be translated, which might save you some typing on your or computer.
- Tip: If you have your old translation in .po format, you can use msgmerge to make the old translation a base for your new version.
Converting .po back to .properties
The last step is to convert your translated .po file to a .properties file in your language.
po2prop -t english.properties lang.po lang.properties
This takes english.properties, which is the original English .properties file (current version) and lang.po, which is your translated .po file as input and produces lang.properties, which is the Zimbra translation for your language.
- Note: The created .properties file is now in ASCII (Unicode characters are represented by escape sequences скачать фотошоп) just like Zimbra requires them. So there's no need to run native2ascii on them car ads!
Once you're confident with this workflow, remember to look up more tips in the Translate Toolkit's prop2po page. Other useful tools include: no deposit casino bonus codes infertility pofilter - for finding translation errors, pogrep - searching translations and poterminology - for building a translation glossary.
Getting New Translations for Spell Checker
ZCS uses the open source Aspell dictionary version 0.60.3. Localized dictionaries are freely available for other languages and can be installed into your ZCS deployment (they are not installed by default in ZCS. To see what languages are available please review the Official Aspell Dictionary page on gnu.org. To learn how to add new dictionaries to ZCS please see Adding new dictionaries to aspell
Please note that Zimbra does not officially support these dictionaries. They are provided by the open source community.


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Oracle on Tuesday is launching version 11g Release 2 of its database, about two years after the initial version hit the market.
The new release is the product of some 1,500 developers and 15 million hours of testing, according to Mark Townsend, vice president of database product management.
One major piece is Oracle's optional Real Application Clusters (RAC) technology, which allows database workloads to be deployed across a pool of commodity hardware. This increases reliability because other servers pick up the slack in the event one fails, and the system can be scaled by adding more servers.
Customers can use 11g R2 to more easily devote specific groups of server nodes to various application workloads, such as a "front office" resource pool which supports CRM (customer relationship management) implementations and Web sites, according to an Oracle whitepaper. When a particular pool needs additional horsepower, it can draw from unassigned nodes, or nodes can be drawn from pools with lower demands.
The new release also features a new option, Oracle RAC One Node, which is aimed at less mission-critical applications, according to the paper.
The database's Automated Storage Management feature also gets an upgrade in 11g R2. "Intelligent data placement" capabilities put rarely used data on disks' inner rings, while information needed more often is stored on the outer rings, boosting performance, according to Oracle.
Other improvements include advanced data partitioning capabilities for easier management of large data sets. Users can now perform online application upgrades.
Many new aspects of 11g R2 are included with an Enterprise Edition database license, which lists for US$47,500 per processor license. RAC One Node, like RAC itself, is optional, and pricing has not yet been finalized, Townsend said.
Overall, Oracle expects the new features to prompt widespread adoption of 11g, Townsend said. Many Oracle shops are still on older versions, such as 10g.
Tracking adoption is a "black art," Townsend said, but Oracle estimates between 10 percent and 20 percent of its database customers are using 11g Release 1.
Initially 11g R2 will support Linux, Townsend said. Support for "all major UNIX platforms," which would include the Solaris operating system Oracle will acquire through its pending purchase of Sun Microsystems, will likely arrive this year, followed by Windows, he said. No timetable was available for Windows support.
Users and industry observers expect the update to be warmly received.
"With every major release of Oracle, the second is the most important one," said Paul Vallée, executive chairman and founder of the Pythian Group, an Ottawa, Ontario, database administration outsourcing company. "It doesn't matter how far back you go. This is where the software comes into its own."
Another user echoed Vallée.
"I felt that Oracle 11g R1 was a reasonably solid project," said Ian Abramson, president of the Independent Oracle Users Group, via e-mail. "[But] people will now feel more confident with this release as it has had time to mature and gain stability."
Meanwhile, the new features are "all at the heart of what customers need," said Forrester Research analyst James Kobielus. "A great many Oracle customers have already migrated to 11g or are on 10g and making heavy use of RAC. Every single one of them … will undoubtedly be avidly adopted by core enterprise customers for the most demanding apps. … I wouldn't say any of these are bells and whistles."
It remains to be seen how Oracle's pending deal to buy Sun Microsystems will alter its overall database strategy, since the deal would include the popular open-source MySQL database.
The Sun deal could also affect Oracle's Exadata data warehousing product line, which was announced to much fanfare at last year's OpenWorld conference. The line employs Hewlett-Packard ProLiant servers and Oracle software.
It's not inconceivable that Oracle will break with HP and revamp Exadata using Sun servers, in Vallée's view.
"Oracle will be able to recreate the [Exadata] roadmap on their own hardware," he said.


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Advantages of Multi-currency Bank Account
When it comes to a multi-currency account, it can always be described as a bank account whereby an individual can hold various currencies which are in balances using the same account number. The best thing with a multi-currency account is that one can always transfer money in and out in the currencies which are different to any part of the world they might be willing without even the need of conversions of the currency. The multi-currency bank account favors a high percentage of people especially the ones who have transactions of the currencies internationally.
There is always an assurance to the individuals that when they use a multi-currency bank account, they are offered with ways which are very conventional as well as reliable in such a way that they hedge against any risks which might be close to the fluctuations of the currency. It is also a tool which is very convenient to its individuals since it is known to be very clear especially to the ones who might be in a position to diversify the currency they might be having at the moment. The bank account always ensure that they put all the logins and account number in one screen so that the individuals can also have ample time while dealing with the different currencies which are in their account hence making work even more easier. When it comes to exchanging of the currencies, one can always do it as fast as they can without any pressure of undergoing a whole process. The best thing with having a multi-currency bank account is that one gets to have particular currency since the bank permits them to go overdrawn. Another benefit of a multi-currency bank account is that one's checks and credit cards are linked to their multi-currency accounts that are main.
The checks can as well be drawn in any currency that one might want whereas for the credit cards one gets to choose a currency which is particular so that it can be debited. In case one is having a wide range of currencies, the multi-currency bank account allows one to do without any issue or having to ask one questions. When one is having a multi-currency bank account, the individuals are always allowed to hold the currency which is particular on deposit of the bank rather than stocking it. The bank account of multi-currency can be described as choice which is very logical especially if a person wants to diversify outside the dollars. This is always of help since it does not affect one's tax be it in a negative way or positive way. Individuals can also have the assurance of their currencies being safe since the multi-currency bank accounts play a great role in terms of privacy.


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Father's Day dinner might look like it was hard to make, but it's the easiest way to cook fish. When you make this you have to make sure you show off your fish when it comes out of the oven so those eating will think you worked really hard and will be impressed. Another great thing about this dish is the clean up. If you cover your pan with foil all you need to do is throw it out and clean up is done. The prep time for you will be shortened if you have your fish monger take the head and tail off and the scales off too. Make sure you take home the head and tail so you can make some great fish stock. Put them into a pot of water, add in some sprigs of thyme and parsley and let it simmer for 30 minutes to an hour.
Whole fish, tail, head and scales removed
1/2 lemon sliced
5 sprigs of fresh thyme
3 sprigs of parsley
Salt & Pepper
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Cover your cookie sheet with foil and curl up the edges so the liquid does not escape.
Place the herbs and citrus into the fish and place into oven. Bake 20-30 minutes. When the fish flakes it's done. Take it out of oven and using two forks pull out the center bone. The fish should open so you have the two fillets showing. You can cut it in half and serve it or take it out of the skin to serve.
It's just that easy. So head to your fish store and find out what's the fresh catch of the day. Cook it up tonight. It would be great if you take a photo of your fish and send it to me. I'll be happy to post them here.