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How do I find mystery shops? December 31, 2008Posted by Ann Michaels & Associates in Mystery Shopping Jobs.
Tags: become a mystery shopper, Find mystery shopping jobs, mystery shopper
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Mystery shopping is a unique industry…..you are an independent contractor, which means you can work for as many companies as you'd like. While this is great news, it can be difficult to get to the point of having enough work to meet your personal goals. Hopefully, we can give you some tips on making the most of the job boards to increase your workload without spending excessive time searching for jobs.
Each mystery shopping company is different. Some focus on specific industries, such as fine dining or retail, while others serve a variety of industries. There are companies who concentrate on specific areas of the country, while others are global. So, how do you know which companies have work in your area?
The old advice to new shoppers would be to go to a site, such as the MSPA or Volition and find their list of legitimate companies and start registering with each and every one. While this can be comprehensive, it is also extremely time consuming. You won't know if they have work in your area all the time, so you may find yourself spending time registering with many companies you will never do work with.
Job boards make your search easier and frees up your time, allowing you to focus on companies with known work in your area. One example is Jobslinger – you can register for free and search for jobs listed by zip code or other parameters you set. Once you see which companies are posting in your immediate area, even if you are not interested in the specific job they are currently posting, you can register with the company to be notified of future shops. By doing this, you will know that these companies do have work in your area.
Once you are signed up with companies who have job postings on the boards, you will have a good base of companies to do work with. Another tip is to search for company feedback on boards such as the Volition shopper's forum or the MSPA shopper's forum – if a company has long standing bad feedback, you will know to stay away from them.
While these are the largest forums available, there are many other options that will help you in finding more work. From general to state-specific boards and forums, the list below will give you a good start in your search for work. With many of these sites, you can sign up to have digests or updates emailed to you, giving you a streamlined method of finding companies and shops.
Mystery Shop Resources….this forum provides general discussion, a place for schedulers to post mystery shops, as well as an area for shoppers to list the areas they are willing to shop. Schedulers will look to this when they are seeking new shoppers in newer or more remote areas. It is a great community!
MS Freedom
Mystery Shoppers Freedom….this is a forum "dedicated by and for mystery shoppers." Registration is free, but required to participate. Offers a variety of information for mystery shoppers.
My Space/Facebook
Both newer venues for mystery shoppers, you can search both sites for "mystery shopping" to locate companies that participate on these sites. You can become a fan on Facebook, or become a "friend" of the company to learn more about its shops, news, etc.
Though not as popular as the sites noted above, Topica lists has different forums for schedulers to post available mystery shops. Simply do a search for "mystery shopping" for a general search, or you can search for "mystery shopping (name of your state here)" for more state specific mystery shopping lists.
Once you are registered with companies, it is always a good idea to keep up with the boards and forums, especially for support, feedback, and industry news. As far as shop postings, those will start coming from specific companies as shops become available. This is not true in every case though; be sure to check the company's website to determine how and when they post jobs, how shoppers are selected, and what their payment policy is. Keeping a spreadsheet or other method of record-keeping will greatly assist you in this new venture.
While it can seem time consuming, the "hunt" for shops can be addicting. By continually building on your list of companies to work with, you will increase the work possibilities.
Good luck and until next time….happy shopping!
Mystery Shopping's Reputation December 30, 2008Posted by Ann Michaels & Associates in General Mystery Shopping Information.
Tags: mystery shopper, mystery shopping, mystery shopping scams
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As this blog launches, we first want to address an important issue in this industry. Unfortunately, with the number of scams tied to mystery shopping out there today, people who are first seeking out work may have a jaded perception of mystery shopping and if it's really legitimate.
We are very aware of this misperception, and it always reminds me of this story…..when I was first getting to know my neighbors, the woman asked about my job. As soon as the words "mystery shopping" came out of my mouth, her eyes lit up and she said, "Oh, wait! My husband knows all about that. I have to go get him." So she runs inside her house, and I'm standing there thinking he's going to grill me for information on how to become a shopper. Instead, her husband comes out of his house, finger waving and clearly agitated. He points at me and says, "YOU! You guys are all a scam! I've looked into that, and so have my coworkers, and you're nothing but a scam." And he turns and goes back inside.
Alrighty then…..
While we can laugh about that now that years have passed, it reminds me of what we're up against. From radio commercials, unsolicited emails asking for people to perform mystery shops in exchange for gift cards, newspaper advertisements that ask for a $100 fee promising "hundreds of shops a month", to the newest check scam, it's no wonder mystery shopping has gotten a bad rap. This article provides a good base of information regarding scams related to the industry and is a must read for all.
It's difficult to know where to start when you're new. Our goal is to help people learn the ropes and get into the industry safely and without paying any money upfront. There are links to the right that provide some good sites that not only list legitimate mystery shopping companies, but also have great message boards for mystery shoppers. By reading what other shoppers experience, you will get a better feel for the industry and learn what to do (and not to do) during a shop.
The next installment will include more details on where to go online and how to get started, and some things to think about before you delve into the industry.
Mystery shopping IS legitimate and very useful to companies across the globe. Getting started may be tricky, but it can be a valuable and worthwhile experience – you are helping companies improve their customer service, one shop at a time.
Happy Shopping! Until next time…


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The lamb mixture should be cold when you make your rolls, or the pastry will melt and fall apart and it will be a big hassle to handle. I recommend making the mixture well ahead (even the day before) to ensure that you get the best results. These rolls (uncooked) will freeze well - just put a layer of baking paper between them if you are stacking them in layers into containers. Although I used filo pastry, you could substitute puff pastry if filo is hard for you to get hold of.
These are very moreish and tasty, so give them a try.....
You will need: 1 pack Filo pastry, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons poppy seeds,1/2 cup melted butter, 500g lamb mince, 1 large finely chopped red onion, 1/2 cup finely diced celery, 4 cloves finely chopped garlic, 2 cups diced cooked pumpkin (cooked until just soft, not too mushy), 1 cup crumbled fetta cheese, 1/2 cup chopped mint, 1 bunch fresh coriander, 1/2 teaspoon dried chilli, 1/2 tablespoon coriander powder, 1 tablespoon paprika, 1 teaspoon cumin powder, 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg, a pinch of cinnamon, pepper, salt, a splash of olive oil.
Method: Add a splash of olive oil to a pan and cook the onion, garlic and celery until soft. Add the chilli, coriander powder, paprika, cumin, nutmeg and cinnamon and cook for about a minute. Add the lamb mince and cook it until browned. When it is done, remove from the heat.
Allow the lamb mixture to cool, then stir through the pumpkin, fetta, fresh mint and fresh coriander. Taste for seasoning and add salt and pepper as required. Once the lamb mixture is completely cold, it is ready to use to make you filo rolls/parcels.
Unroll your packet of filo and cut it in half. Each roll will take 3-4 individual sheets. Brush each sheet with a little butter until you have a few layers, place a tablespoon of the lamb mixture onto the pastry and roll up to form a parcel.
When you are done, place the rolls on a greased or lined baking tray. Beat together the 2 eggs and a couple of teaspoons of water. Brush the rolls with the egg wash and sprinkle with the poppyseeds.
Bake in a moderate oven for 20-30 mins, until golden brown.

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Skyhawks recognized its five seniors before the game
DeLanty tallied 18 kills and four blocks
EASTON, Mass. (November 11, 2017) – The Stonehill College women's volleyball team fought back, but was unable to get past Northeast-10 Conference foe Pace University, 3-2, on Saturday afternoon in Merkert Gymnasium with set scores of 18-25, 21-25, 25-17, 25-23, and 15-13.
Prior to the match, the Skyhawks honored the team's five seniors: Marykay Nasby (Belle Plaine, Minnesota/Belle Plaine), Ashley Hitchcock (Warrenville, Illinois/Benet Academy), Claire Manuszak (Indianapolis, Indiana/Bishop Chatard), Colleen Kenney (Barnstable, Massachusetts/Barnstable), and Katherine DeLanty (Smithtown, New York/Smithtown West).
Stonehill (11-14, 8-6 NE10) saw junior Allyson Hughes (Modesto, California/Big Valley Christian) notch a match-high 19 kills and four blocks, while Delanty and Hitchcock followed with 18 and 11 kills, respectively. Hitchcock also tallied her ninth double-double of her career with 19 digs and chipping in two blocks, as DeLanty recorded four blocks. Freshman setter Jessica Givens (Albuquerque, New Mexico/St. Pius X) added in 47 assists and 12 digs, as Manuszak registered 29 digs.
For Pace (16-16, 8-6 NE10) Colette Clarke registered 12 kills, Sydney Lecker chipped in 13 kills and 20 digs, while Claudia Fontanet recorded 11 kills and 18 digs. Tatjana Calimpong-Burke and Clarke notched four blocks each.
The Setters saw the highest hitting percentage of the match in the first game with its . 263 hitting clip, while they were able to hold the Skyhawks to a .089 percentage. Pace held an eight-point lead, its' biggest of the set, 18-10, as Stonehill tried to fight back but were only able to come within six, 18-13. Pace went on a 7-5 run to take the first frame, 25-18.
The second game was very similar, as Pace took an early six-point lead, 11-5, but Stonehill knotted up the with a 7-1 run, 12-12. The Skyhawks battled again tying the frame two more times, 19-19, before the Setters scored six more points taking the second frame, 25-21.
Manuszak notched a match-high 29 digs
The Skyhawks saw its highest hitting percentage, .250, and its first lead of the match, as the Setters were held to a .025 hitting clip. As the score toggled back and forth in the beginning, Stonehill tied up the game, 9-9, and took on a four-point lead, 14-10, but Pace responded with four-straight points of its own, 14-14. After a kill by DeLanty, the Skyhawks went on an 11-3 run taking set point, 25-17.
Stonehill fought back from a six-point deficit in the third frame, 5-11, to take its first lead of the set, 12-11. The Setters scored one point to tie the frame, 12-12, but Stonehill took control of the game with a four point lead, 21-17. Pace cut the deficit to one, 23-24, but DeLanty closed the third game with her 17th kill of the frame, 25-23.
In the Skyhawks fourth fifth-set game of the season, the Setters took an early 4-1 lead, but the Skyhawks battled back to tie the deciding set at five, 5-5. Pace tallied four-straight points to regain the lead, 9-5, before the Skyhawks closed in on the Setters with an 8-5 run, 13-14. Pace finished the match with a kill from Lecker for a 15-13 win.
Stonehill wrapped up the regular season with an 11-14 overall record and an 8-6 NE10 mark. The Skyhawks finished fifth in the conference and will face fourth-seeded Adelphi University on Tuesday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the Center for Recreation and Sports in Garden City, New York for the first round of the NE10 Tournament.
For the latest on Stonehill Athletics, follow the Skyhawks via social media on Twitter and Facebook. Fans can also download the Stonehill Skyhawks "Front Row" mobile app, powered by PrestoSports, on iTunes and the Android Market.


text: http://www.efgoffice.co.uk/en/News/Relocation-Stockholm The relocation of the EFG Stockholm office! Jun 29 – Stockholm The relocation of the EFG Stockholm office! THE INSIGHT One day we realized that we were in the same situation as many of our customers. Our facilities had become an obstacle to our development. We have to move! Neither customer visits to our showroom nor our own workplaces suited us any longer. The premises were large and the walls inhibited our business, so we started looking for other facilities. So we found LUMA in the jungle of premises market. The LUMA-house is a functional and cost-conscious industrial plant that needs to be conserved. We felt at home at once – although the facilities were empty. The place spoke to us and it felt as if it was just waiting for us to move in and make the rooms come alive. We know that journey. Our story can also be your story. Let us explain how we achieved it. As a first step we investigated the employees' needs. Secondly we listened to their wishes. After all it is the employees who make things happen as well as making the company culture alive. "Before, we adapted ourselves in the old facilities which were dark and too big. Not very stimulating at all." - Sören Andersson THE ANALYSIS Offices have become an extremely complex environment. It is easy to fail in the connection to the organization's culture, values and goals. Therefore many employees feel bad in today's office environments. In today´s situation, offices are converted into open solutions, landscapes. This means big changes in the flow and presence - completely new areas and constellations are created. Just like in a small town, it is important to create natural flows to move and choose the right place for different needs. If we are to succeed, we must simply understand our employees' needs. Only then - when we have a work-friendly, creative and motivating environment, everyone can share and develop. It is all about creating a balance between hard and soft values, i.e. between design factors such as light, color, sound, air and the connection to participation, control and workload. These will then be linked back to both working and organizational goals. An operational change must also comply with the interior environment. Such conditions we have to build from the beginning - to face the future. "Before it was those up stairs and we down stairs. Now we have considered flows - we're working in a new and very fun way. Together!" - Kerstin Swedberg THE PLANNING There are no shortcuts, one must start with the way it looks today and work out a need analysis. Sustainable and motivating furnishing solution is a teamwork where different disciplines work together. It is about seeing the whole picture and creating a context that is maintained over time. In this way, we help the customer throughout the entire interior design process. Learn more about our way of working here. "Our new smart flows enable us to spontaneously get together across departmental boundaries. It has become much more enjoyable and also more creative". - Peter Bäckman RECYCLING For us it was natural to make use of the service EFG REUSE in the move to the new premises. In the first stage, we assessed which products that are relevant to donate. Step two then became to determine what we can recycle. In total EFG Stockholm managed to recycle: 3 280 kg metal, 358 kg electronics, 9 097 kg burnable waste, 4 940 kg wood, 5 950 kg mixed waste. Together, the leftover material could either be 261 new bikes, 27 EFG Izi Niveau desks or heat a large villa for 1.5 years! Learn more about EFG Reuse here. DONATION Of the total surplus from our old premises, we donated the entire 10,285 kg to Stockholms Stadsmission, an organization that supports people in need. "We are very happy to take part of your sustainability work, generosity and care. All the furniture that we received from you will be used by our staff and participants in social projects for people that, in one way or another find themselves in difficult life situations." - Marie Malm, Collection Manager Second-hand Stockholms Stadsmission THE MOVE We can both build furniture and understand people! We are now working in the same environment that we sell to our customers. We have no handbook of rules, but have shaped our own working environment, self-explanatory. We have always observed the people and behaviors and then designed environments based on their needs. Thanks to that, we have also been able develop from being a furniture producer to the full design house that we are today. Now, not only our new premises lives through color, light, space and transparency, but also we as employees received a new glow. Let us show you what we can! "The move has given us new energy. Even the customers are enthusiastic! I am convinced that it will also show in our results." - Mathias Fogde Inspiration from EFG Stockholm Showroom on YouTube. See more images from our new Showroom!


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September 1, 2015
The Honorable Loretta Lynch
Attorney General
Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
RE: Request for DOJ to Investigate "Muslim-Free Zone" Bans by Public Accommodations
Dear Attorney General Lynch:
We the undersigned civil liberties, human rights, immigrant rights, faith, and cultural organizations call on the Department of Justice to investigate whether so-called "Muslim-Free Zones" by places of public accommodation violate federal civil rights laws, particularly Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title II makes clear that it is unlawful for certain establishments to deny any person, "full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation … without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin."
If such an investigation reveals that an entity has engaged in illegal discrimination, we urge the DOJ Civil Rights Division's Housing and Civil Enforcement Section to bring civil enforcement proceedings against business owners who have violated the law.[1]
Since 2014, a number of U.S. gun shops and firing ranges have publicly declared themselves "Muslim-Free Zones" in Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Oklahoma, and New Hampshire. Such declared bans are a clear denial of public accommodation to American Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim, based solely on perception of religious beliefs. Several examples of these bans are included in the attachments below. Title II specifically prohibits discrimination by places of entertainment like, in many instances, firing ranges.
Despite numerous reports of public bans of American Muslims by U.S. businesses, including firing ranges, the DOJ has remained silent in its response to this growing trend of denial of a religious minority's right of equal access to public accommodations.
American businesses posting "Muslim-Free Zone" declarations are no different than the "Whites Only," "No Dogs, No Jews," "No Mexican" and "Irish Need Not Apply" signs that were posted during past shameful periods of our nation's history that we hoped were over.
We look forward to your prompt action in addressing these highly visible displays of public accommodation denials. We also request a meeting with you to further discuss the civil rights impact of these bans and how we can best engage with the DOJ to address current and future discriminatory exclusions by public accommodations.
9to5, National Association of Working Women
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
American Civil Liberties Union
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus
Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Center for Community Change
Center for Popular Democracy
Council on American-Islamic Relations
Defending Dissent and Bill of Rights Defense Committee
Fair Immigration Reform Movement, FIRM
Islamic Circle of North America
ICNA Council for Social Justice
Islamic Society of North America
Japanese American Citizens League
League of United Latin American Citizens
Muslim Advocates
Muslim American Society
Muslim Legal Fund of America
Muslim Public Affairs Council
Muslim Ummah of North America
NAFSA: Association of International Educators
National Association of Social Workers
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Council of La Raza, NCLR
National Employment Law Project
National Fair Housing Alliance
National Immigration Law Center
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium
National Network for Arab American Communities
National Partnership for New Americans
National People's Action
National Center for Transgender Equality
Northern Borders Coalition
Rights Working Group
Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network
Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, SALDEF
Sikh Coalition
South Asian Americans Leading Together
US Council of Muslim Organizations
Voices For Freedom
Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice
Arkansas United Community Coalition
Causa Oregon
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
Commuidades Unidas / Communities United
Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas
El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights
Idaho Community Action Network
Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement
Junta for Progressive Action
Latin American Coalition
Maine People's Alliance
Make the Road NY
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Michigan United
Montana Organizing Project
Nebraska Appleseed
New Hampshire Alliance for Immigrant Rights-MIRA
Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice
Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste
Progressive Leadership Alliance for Nevada
Promise Arizona
Rights for All People
Somos Un Pueblo Unido
Sunflower Community Action
The New York Immigration Coalition
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
Texas Organizing Project
Workers Defense Project
Voces de la Frontera, VOCES
Example of "Muslim Free" sign posted by the gun store Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear in Oktaha, Oklahoma.
Example of "Muslim Free" sign posted by the gun store Jace Firearms in Whitesburg, KY.
Facebook post by the hunting and fishing store JJ's Sporting Goods in Saint Johnsville, New York publicly declaring that the shop would no longer sell to Muslims.
[1] DOJ Civil Rights Division, "Combatting Religious Discrimination and Protection Religious Freedom - Religious Discrimination in Public Accommodations," August 6, 2015, Source: http://www.justice.gov/crt/combating-religious-discrimination-and-protecting-religious-freedom-1


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Doing Business in China
Wu Changjiang founded NVC Lighting in 1998. It has since gone on to become the biggest lighting manufacturer in China, and Mr Wu's 20% stake has helped to make him a billionaire (in Chinese yuan at least).
When I was a child, my family was the poorest in our village, and I remember that we were starving most of the time.
I was born in 1965, the year before the Cultural Revolution began, and I grew up during a tense and turbulent period in China.
My father was a coal miner. I and my two siblings lived with our mother in the countryside, where life was very hard and we often had nothing to eat.
As the eldest son, I did whatever I could to help my family, and started doing agricultural work when I was just 10 years old.
I learnt from an early age that hard work and ambition are the keys to success.
Despite not having had a proper education themselves, my parents - and particularly my mother - inspired me to study hard.
In those days most people believed that education was not important. But I was very dedicated and worked hard, and as a result my grades always came out on top.
Hard work
After graduating from high school in 1984, I studied aircraft manufacturing at university.
My academic performance was good enough that I was offered to stay on at graduate school.
But I did not want to put more financial pressure on my family, so I opted instead to start work.
I was assigned to a state-owned aircraft manufacturing company, where I made a good impression on my manager.
I was given a lot of training, and was assigned to take care of the overseas department, and was often sent on business trips - a big responsibility for a university graduate.
But although I was in a good position to move up within that company, in 1992 I chose to quit.
I did not like the structure of Chinese state-owned companies, and - more importantly - I harboured dreams of starting my own business.
Tough decision
I was not afraid of taking risks.
I had my education and believed that I was able to feed myself through hard work. I knew from my childhood that I could bear hardship well. And I didn't have much in the way of savings, so felt I had little to lose.
I was also determined to earn the money to change my family's condition and improve their way of life.
So I went to Guangdong [the southern Chinese province neighbouring Hong Kong], and began thinking of ways to start my own business from the very first day.
Initially I took jobs working for other companies, in order to gain experience.
I ended up working for a Hong Kong lighting manufacturer, with good pay and excellent job prospects.
But again I decided to leave.
It was a very tough decision for me. It led to the break-up of my marriage.
But I simply had to chase the dream I had in my heart, to build my own business. So in 1998 I set up NVC Lighting
When we started out, my co-investors and I just managed to scrape together 1m Chinese yuan (£75,000; $120,000) between us.
After 10 years, NVC Lighting had become a very well-known brand in China with the largest market share in its industry.
I don't believe this success has come through luck, but rather through hard work and aiming high.
From our small beginnings, we set ourselves the goal of building a respected enterprise at the top of the industry.
We wanted our brand to become identified with a high quality of service, products and manufacturing expertise.
Rather than maximising our profits, we kept our prices competitive, and what profits we did make we reinvested in improving our product.
From the beginning, I was very focused on innovation.
I like to learn, research and analyse, and I have continually made changes to our business strategy, marketing model, management, and so on.
Success in business demands adventure. We cannot walk an ordinary path, the same path as everyone else, if we expect to achieve extraordinary results.
The results proved that some of my ideas were good, and gradually I gained support and respect from distributors, suppliers and employees.
But the other shareholders often did not understand the rationale behind my decisions - they only saw the risks, and did not support my innovations.
On two occasions there were serious disagreements.
In 2005 I resigned because my business partners at the time would not back me.
And again, just this year, I stepped down temporarily to clear my name from government enquiries into business dealings connected with the Chongqing area [Mr Wu's home province, whose Communist Party boss, Bo Xilai, was recently deposed and disgraced].
On that occasion, in certain stages, some of the other shareholders tried to stop me from returning.
But in both these cases I was able to regain control of the company because the employees, suppliers and customers made clear that they only had confidence in me.
I consider myself a typical entrepreneur for my generation in China.
Our will and indomitable spirit to do things better stems all the way from childhood. We have encountered much pain and suffering, but maintain a positive outlook.
I have always disliked laziness and those who benefit through the hard work of others, a common problem at Chinese state-owned companies.
I much prefer reward through hard work, something my mother taught me from an early stage.
In recent years I have returned to my hometown to set up several businesses there, bringing jobs and opportunities to the area, and this has made my family and friends particularly proud of my success.
The opinions expressed are those of the author and are not held by the BBC unless specifically stated.


text: PeriOperative/OR RN Travel Nursing Jobs: Be a Problem Solver in Hospital Surgery Departments As a valued member of the OR team, you care for patients in an environment where compassion meets the latest in advanced technologies. It's your dynamic abilities as a caregiver that provide a safe patient experience before, during, and after surgical procedures. Be a problem-solver in hospital surgery departments across the country by applying for PeriOperative nursing jobs; join a team of healthcare professionals in great locations across the country.


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Nov. 13, 2006 – (November 14, 2006) Audio4Fun.com – Audio4Fun (aka Avnex Ltd.) has just opened an innovative promotion program in which users are encouraged to write about the voice changing technology and Voice Changer Software to receive hi-tech gifts from the company in return.
Since the early days of its existence, Audio4Fun Voice Changer Software has dynamically suited the ceaseless need of voice changing and been always improved to become the first of its kind. Starting from version 1.0 with only the humble Pitch and Timbre modification, Voice Changer Software 4.0 is now furnished with several features performing multiple tasks and bringing users more practical benefits. The program does not only limit its capacity for voice changing in online voice chat and role playing games, but expands to many other fields, such as entertainment, business, education just to name a few.
In order to celebrate creative experiences with Voice Changer Software, the promotion appeals users to write about their uses and impressions of the application. There is no strict restriction in the number of words; however, a 250-word minimum is recommended for submitted articles. The writings may be a tutorial, a guide for a better use of Voice Changer Software, a share of your work with the program, a piece of information and analysis about voice changing trend and technology, or just simply a manifestation of your own feelings and perspectives about this product.
"Our primary purpose is to give users a moment to reflect on Voice Changer Software and encourage them to share their experiences with others," said Jenny Le – Audio4Fun Public Relation Executive. "Of course, participants will be awarded valuable digital gifts up to $100 and become valued members of Audio4Fun community. This is also a good opportunity to bring the application and voice changing technology one step closer to the public."
About Avnex Ltd.:
Throughout many years of development, Audio4fun has been promoting audio and video software technologies and specializing in three core areas: Audio and Video Morphing Algorithms, Audio and Video Stream Interception, Audio and Video Real Time Effecting and Webcam Morpher. The wide range of products of Audio4Fun is detailed on http://www.audio4fun.com.
Selena Doe
Website: http://www.audio4fun.com
Email: email@example.com
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The Snipe Hunt
This morning, over espresso (how terrible war is), somebody wanted to play with my iPad (again, this war, right now: terrible) and started an impromptu game of Scrabble. We started a "pass the iPad" multiplayer game, and to my surprise the demo turned into a serious contest. Time passed, and finally somebody suggested that it would be great if we had a multiplayer computer version to play on our laptops, taking turns during little breaks throughout the day.
Surely, I offered, some enterprising programmer has created a free version of Scrabble that can be hosted on one computer and played locally with other computers on the same network. Probably, I hypothesized, this programmer had even made it possible to play through your web browser. The other two agreed that this was virtually certain to have happened.
"Well," said one, "you should probably go back to your CHU to download whatever it is since the Internet is so slow so we can have this set up by tonight."
"Right," I agreed.
Six hours gone, and many vast and deep Internet searches later, I had to give up. I realized that the challenge to find this thing on the Internet had been like a perfectly aimed special munition into the very heart of my personal Death Star. A whole perfectly splendid idle Sunday used up in futile sifting through the bed of the web's Mariana Trench.
"Well played, friend," I admitted to my new enemy, many hours later.
Perhaps all was not lost. I have been casting about for something to work on to keep my coding skills sharp. A locally shareable game like Scrabble, with an HTML5 client, would have a pretty deep stack of the technologies I'm interested in. So I may pursue it.
Around dinner time I got a late invitation to go barbecue with our Lebanese friends. The food tonight was really, really good. I think that perhaps my culinary interest in Lebanese food has prompted our host to up his game, or it may be that improving economic conditions have made it possible for him to acquire better ingredients and equipment (for instance, tonight he had actual hard wood charcoal as opposed to briquettes). Whatever the cause, it's great to be able to enjoy simple food, well prepared.
We were going to make peanut brittle afterwards, but everybody was stuffed, and I owed this to the blog.
Tomorrow I start teaching math class again. We learned in the last that having the class five or six times a week was likely too much, so we're cutting back to every other day and placing more emphasis on homework.
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Corrupting your Preferences
There is nothing more insidious than having your preferences corrupted. Of course I'm talking about the file that stores your configuration information from an application running in Mac OS X becoming unreadable to the computer, causing unpredictable results.
Every application stores information about itself in something known as a property list file, or plist file for short. Any well-behaved application will create it for you if it is missing. This happens, for example, the first time you run the program. If this configuration file gets corrupted—for example, if there was a crash while it was being updated—then the program may not be able to read it the next time it starts up. Rather, it may be able to read it, but only partially, yielding strange, incomplete, or undefined options controlling the behavior of your application.
This happened to me recently when iChat refused to start up with the video camera enabled. It would tell me that the computer did not support video conferencing. However, it was able to turn the indicator light for the camera on, and all other programs using the camera worked fine. A bit of Google searching revealed that iChat is particularly susceptible to having its plist file corrupted in a way that has this effect.
Even if you don't have a reason to suspect the preferences file, it is not a bad troubleshooting technique, when you are up against the wall and everything else has failed. So it's a good technique to remember.
Most plists will live somewhere in your Home folder's Library. In my case, I found the .plist for iChat in Home/Library/Preferences. It's name was com.apple.ichat.plist. Quitting iChat, deleting the file, and restarting iChat solved the problem.
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Alabama's long tradition in football just set another first for any school in the land. Yesterday, when the AP All-American Team was announced, Alabama made history by being the first school to ever have 6 players named to the team. Until yesterday, Oklahoma had the record with 5 athletes making the team.
Here is a list of the Bama players who made the team:
Running Back Mark Ingram
Linebacker Rolando McClain
Defensive tackle Terrence Cody
Cornerback Javier Arenas
Offensive Guard Michael Johnson
Kicker Leigh Tiffin
Both Mark Ingram and Rolando McClain were unanimous additions, and Terrence Cody is now on the team for the second consecutive year.


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Bell Micro Adds Hitachi SMB Storage to LineupBy Sharon Linsenbach | Print
Bell Micro will distribute the Hitachi SMS 100 line, giving partners selling into the SMB space another option to take against rival HP.
Bell Micro is adding the Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 products to its distribution lineup, giving its channel partners another option to compete against entry level storage offerings from rivals like Hewlett-Packard.
Hitachi's SMS (Simple Modular Storage) 100 is being marketed to small and midsize businesses that don't have sufficient IT staff to manage complex storage technology, said Gary Gammon, vice president of marketing for Bell Micro.
Gammon said that while performance and price points between the Hitachi SMS 100 and Hewlett-Packard's Modular Storage Array 1000 series are similar, Gammon said Bell Micro's support and Hitachi's own reseller program offer extensive training and support to partners to help them sell the storage technology
Gammon said the SMS 100 is a great fit for SMBs, but that it can also find a niche within larger enterprises that need storage capabilities at branch offices. The SMS 100, he said, is extremely simple to set up and is nearly "maintenance-free," another boon for resellers selling to the SMB space.
"The SMB market is the fastest-growing segment of the storage market for our partners," Gammon said. He added that Bell Micro is encouraging its partners to take advantage of the new product offering, and "wants to have hundreds of partners selling the SMS 100 by the end of 2008.
Gammon said the SMS 100 can scale from 3TB to as much as 12TB of storage. The SMS 100 is currently available through Bell Micro starting at about $4,000.
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December 11, 2019
Volkswagen of America Foundation to Contribute $500,000 to the American Red Cross for Relief Efforts
Submitted by: Volkswagen of America
Categories: Philanthropy & Corporate Contributions, Community Development
Posted: Oct 31, 2012 – 04:02 PM EST
HERNDON, Vir., Oct. 31 /CSRwire/ - (Marketwire) - The Volkswagen of America Foundation, on behalf of the Volkswagen Group of America, announced today that it will make an immediate donation of $500,000 to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy relief to provide support for affected areas across the Northeast.
"Given the scale of the storm and its severity in several states throughout the Northeast, the Volkswagen of America Foundation has decided to provide resources to the American Red Cross, who can then allocate the resources where needed," said Jonathan Browning, President and CEO, Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. "It is our hope that this donation will provide some relief to those affected and help them rebuild their communities and their lives."
The donation will help cover costs of shelter, food, recovery and other assistance to families affected by the storm. Volkswagen would like to express their thoughts and concern for all of its customers, dealers, employees and their families who have been affected by the storm. Additionally, Volkswagen will provide matching funds to any employee donations made to the American Red Cross or the organization of their choosing.
The Volkswagen of America Foundation was formed by the Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. to make grants to organizations that provide disaster relief.
About Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Volkswagen AG, one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. It operates a manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee and houses the U.S. operations of a worldwide family of distinguished and exciting brands including Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Volkswagen, as well as VW Credit, Inc. Founded in 1955, the company's headquarters are in Herndon, Va., and Volkswagen Group of America brings to the U.S. vehicles that marry the science of engineering and the art of styling, with the goal of offering attractive, safe, and environmentally sound automobiles that are competitive and set world standards in their respective classes. The company has approximately 5,900 employees in the United States and sells its vehicles through a 950-strong dealer network.
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Deadliest Catch star Sig Hansen has been accused of molestation by his daughter, and now a disturbing sketch she made as a little girl will be included in the explosive lawsuit filed against him.
Sig Hansen, 50, is named as a defendant in a court declaration filed in Seattle, Washington, by Melissa Eckstrom.
Hansen, however, has denied the accusations saying that they are just "an old-fashioned shakedown" attempt.
'I have memories of my father hurting my genital region.
Hansen's daughter, Melissa Eckstrom, now a 28-year-old family law attorney in Seattle, contends in a lawsuit that she battled depression, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, and other trauma.
The documents of the lawsuit have been filed back in November of a year ago but the case was made public just now because Mellissa finally chose to make her identity known.
However, in her lawsuit, Eckstrom has attached a letter from the county deputy prosecutor's office dated 1990 along with medical findings and a therapist's evaluation that was produced by her mother Lisa during her divorce proceedings.
"I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy, and to me, this is nothing more than a shakedown".
A deputy prosecutor's letter, written in August 1990 to Eckstrom's mother, states that "the information at hand suggests that Mr Hansen has acted in a sexually inappropriate manner" towards his daughter. The allegations are completely false, rehashed lies my ex-wife Lisa Eckstrom used almost 30 years ago to take away my daughter and has continued to try to use to extort money from me.
The case is now in limbo, as all involved parties wait for the Washington Court of Appeals to make a decision on whether or not it will go to trial.
Melissa alleges that her father, from whom she has been estranged for most of her life, touched her inappropriately in 1990 after he and her mother separated.
Hansen, who has starred in The Deadliest Catch since 2005, gave up his parental rights on Eckstrom after the divorce. In a lawsuit filed past year, Melissa Eckstrom contends that she suffered eating disorders, battled depression and wrestled with suicidal thoughts throughout her childhood. She is also quoted in the 1990 documents as saying "daddy hurt my bottom", and that he poked her with his "big peepee".
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IUD's and Miscarriage
I'm sure IUD's are a good choice for birth control for some women who can't tolerate other forms of contraception. However, they do come with risks. I mention this article because I actually spoke with a women who had an IUD inserted many years ago and her doctor could no longer find it. Yikes! Here is a story of a woman who became pregnant after her IUD dislodged:
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In a lawsuit filed Monday in Portland's U.S. District Court, Washington County resident April Rodriguez claims she had a Mirena brand IUD (pictured above) inserted on Oct. 14, 2005, by Dr. Mitchell Strauss, an obstetrician at PMG Columbia Women's Clinic in Southwest Portland.
According to the lawsuit, Rodriguez saw her family physician on Jan. 9, 2006, and learned she was pregnant. The doctor could not find the IUD string, the lawsuit says. An ultrasound four days later revealed Rodriguez was five weeks pregnant and had no IUD in her uterus.
An abdominal x-ray showed that the IUD had perforated Rodriguez's uterine wall and lodged itself below her diaphragm. After undergoing surgery to have it removed, Rodriguez miscarried on Jan. 24, 2006, the lawsuit says.
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I just updated kde4 Factory from Beta 1 to Beta 2 - Now in the repo's.
Pretty much everything is fine as far as I can tell. Dolphin still not working with fish://
Anyone else still having issues with fish://
I'm having to use K from kde3 ATM
Tried just about everything on my laptop and it's good.


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It's my dad's birthday on Wednesday 15th June, so I've made him a card. He is very interested in clocks and repairs them as a hobby, and he also has quite a collection of his own. The card I have made him is in the shape of a long-case clock (commonly called a grandfather clock, probably after the famous Victorian song).
The clock face was cut from an image that I re-sized in Serif DrawPlus and printed out, and lightly coloured the edges with Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress Ink.
I designed all the pieces for the clock in Serif DrawPlus and exported them as a .svg cut file (now uploaded to my SkyDrive – see link on the right side of my blog). These pieces were lightly distressed with Black Soot Distress ink. The top piece which frames the clock face, and the panel on the main, long, central body of the clock both have pieces cut out, which are not kept; the door piece is sized between the outer and inner outline of the door panel, if that makes sense - when you make it up, it becomes clear.
The door is attached on the inside by a narrow strip of card which is scored down the middle to form a hinge. There is no cut file for this piece; it can be cut from the piece removed from the centre of the main body panel. To close the door, I cut a small piece of self-adhesive Velcro and attached it onto the main body frame and the inside of the door. The pendulum bob, hinges and door catch were cut from gold card, and the catch was attached with a gold-coloured brad.
In order for the pendulum to swing, I attached it at the top with a brad, hidden by the main body panel. I had to build up this panel with two layers of double-sided adhesive foam tape in order to give the pendulum room to move, but unfortunately, even though I cut this foam tape in half length-wise, it did make the space inside the panel rather narrow, so the pendulum doesn't have a very big swing – this would be enough to stop a real clock! To remedy this, I have reduced the size of the pendulum bob in the cut file slightly.
I coloured the visible edge of the foam tape with Black Soot Distress Ink, which I applied by rubbing the ink pad on my craft mat and spritzing it with water, and applying it with a small brush.
I cut a large shadow piece in Make The Cut (not included in the cut file), copied and pasted it, and welded the two pieces together to form the actual card; this was cut in black cardstock, scored and folded down the centre, and the whole of the rest of the clock was glued onto this, building up the layers.
I lined the right-hand side of the inside of the card with white cardstock, cut from a shadow piece created in Make The Cut, slightly smaller than the main card piece, and distressed it with Pumice Stone Distress Ink. I hand-wrote the sentiment, and added a bit of decoration in the form of some gold peel-offs. I don't use these very often but they come in handy sometimes.
I think the whole thing has a nice antique feel, and I hope my dad, expert horologist that he is, will appreciate it!
This is the last of a long string of projects I've made during the first part of the year, all of which have had quite tight deadlines – I've had to work out a timetable to get each one done in sequence, and I don't think I've ever had such a productive time! Apart from our nephew's wedding present that has to be made by August, I haven't got any more deadlines until I have to start thinking about Christmas… In the meantime there are plenty of other things I want to do, with no pressure, so I'm looking forward to having some real FUN in my ARTHaven!


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CAN GOD REWARD US IF WE ARE NOT FREE? In the diatribe, Erasmus raises yet another common logical/emotional objection to Calvinism's view of the Sovereignty of God. The objection is that if God rewards and punishes the deeds that men do, and if all men's deeds were foreordained by God, then God ultimately punishes/rewards based … Continue reading Martin Luther: Bondage of the Will, part 4
Tullian Tchividjian Reflects on Free Will
In the essay at the following link, Tullian Tchividjian reflects on Jonathan Edwards famous work, the freedom of the will. REFLECTIONS ON JONATHAN EDWARDS' VIEW OF FREE WILL Tchividjian sums Edwards: We choose according to that which we desire most. The problem, however, as we noted earlier, is that because the fall was total and … Continue reading Tullian Tchividjian Reflects on Free Will
Martin Luther: Bondage of the Will, part 2
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jer 17:9) One common objection to God's Sovereignty as revealed in the Scriptures is that it makes man a robot. I've heard Christians describe Calvinist doctrine as the idea that God brings people to salvation against their will and damns other … Continue reading Martin Luther: Bondage of the Will, part 2
This summer I had the privilege of spending some time in the land of Luther and while I was there I wanted to read one of Luther's works. I had just finished his commentary on Galatians so I decided to take his masterpiece along with me - The Bondage of the Will. I scratched a … Continue reading Martin Luther: Bondage of the Will, part 1


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Nicole started a new medicine, Remodulin, on July 25th which is delivered subcutaneously (SQ) . This means that the medicine is absorbed through the skin through a tiny catheter. She uses a pump that gives her a continuous supply of medicine... like a diabetic.
Nicole seemed to be doing well. On Aug. 27th she took her inhaled medicine for the last time. It is Remodulin in the inhaled form and the doctor wanted her to slowly wean off of it. It seems ever since this time she has had more shortness of breath and more fatigue/tiredness. If she is without oxygen for more than 10 minutes sometimes her lips will start to turn blue. Her ability to exercise at rehab has decreased.
Until we start with a stronger concentration vial of the medicine we have to change Nicole's syringe of medicine and the pump every 2 days a process that takes about 20 minutes if everything goes smooth. Every other pump change came with an increase in the medicine. Nicole seems to be tolerating the medicine well.
I contacted the PH nurse earlier in the week as I am concerned that Nicole isn't feeling well. She was complaining of site pain again also. The nurse recommended the site be changed. On Friday the Accredo nurse and a local nurse were here to help Nicole and I do the site change. This means that the administration site is changed. Nicole's initial site was on her left side stomach area. A decision had to be made where to put her next site. It was decided that we would try the middle abdomen area. Nicole put in the site which at the time of insertion should have no pain other than a prick when the needle goes it and then when it is pulled out. Nicole kept having burning pain so the nurse said that wasn't normal so the site had to be taken out and was moved over closer to her side. It is almost in the same spot as before except on her opposite side. This worked a lot better.
We had an appointment with the doctor that afternoon. She was suppose to do a six minute walk test to see if there has been improvement from a month ago but she wasn't feeling well and just her walking to the back had her SOB (short of breath). Liz could tell she didn't feel well and her oxygen saturation levels were low, even for her. Liz had said she was going to tell the doctor to see her first and then to tell her to do the six minute walk. He didn't make her do it. She would have done worse than 6 weeks ago and she did pretty bad then. I explained to him her symptoms and how ever since she stop the Tyvaso she has felt bad. She was squeezed in for an echo which he said showed no sign of decline from the last one she had which was earlier this year. He said that he is stumped as to why her symptoms are worsening. He told me to get her a chest x-ray next week just to rule out pneumonia since she has had some congestion. He also said that instead of every other syringe/pump change do an increase of medicine every syringe change.
I started the 2.5 mL vial yesterday so according to the pharmacist this will last 12 days. Since we will be doing an increase every two days this means it will only last for maybe 5 more pump changes. The pharmacy called during her doctor's appointment and I wasn't able to take the call. I was told earlier in the day that the pharmacy had gotten the authorization from Medicaid for the 5 mL strength vial :). I know they will be getting that to me next week once I call them on Monday (which will be another long, busy day more for me than Nicole). I also have to compare the dosing chart that I have that tells me how much medicine to put in the syringe, what to set the pump at and how many nanograms of medicine it is and coordinate it to the 5 mL chart.
I'm hoping that this increase in medicine will start to make her feel better. Nicole tends to downplay everything but I know that something is bothering her when she has been quite grumpy which isn't like Nicole. Today she will start the battle of site pain which will probably last until for about 7- 10 days during which time she will be taking pain medication every six hours so it doesn't get too unbearable. Last night she started walking hunched over because of the pain and that will probably continue through the weekend so sitting is the best option for her. My prayer is that she won't have the pain but if she must it will be tolerable.
Yesterday when we were at the doctors, a lady who was there with her husband came over and asked me about Nicole portable oxygen concentrator. I answered her questions and she told me about her husband. She told Nicole how beautiful she was (which she is) and that she hoped that she would get better. Another lady who worked at the office saw us when Nicole was getting her echo and she said hi to me and wished my luck and blessing and seemed very nice. When we were done with the doctor the office had already closed. The doctor pushed Nicole in a wheelchair out into the waiting room as my husband was coming from work to pick us up. The same lady that I saw earlier outside of the echo room came out and told the doctor that she would make sure we got out of the building when Rick got their. She stayed with us and talked to Nicole and I. She said that she knew the doctor would do everything he could for her and she was in good hands. She asked if we had been there before and I said "yes". She said she recognized Nicole. She also told Nicole how pretty she was.
While we were waiting for the doctor to read the echo a friend called me. This person we only know because of Nicole's illness. She had a dinner for us and wanted to drop it off as she knew we had had a long day. She has done so much for me and especially Nicole and for that I am forever grateful. I am forever grateful for her doctor who has also gone above and beyond to help Nicole.
It is very difficult to watch Nicole be so ill, but I am no different or more special than any other parent who has a seriously ill child. It saddens me to watch Nicole some days only focus on her illness and how bad she feels and how hard her life is instead of all the blessings she does have. Nicole doesn't complain but I can see it through her attitude and anxiety. She is beautiful, sweet, kind, intelligent, a very gifted artist and has people who really care about her. I know she is mad at God for letting her be born sick (her congenital heart defect) and doesn't understand. I try to tell her that in some ways she is more special because not every teenager could go through what she does every day. She is an inspiration and some day I hope that she will see that.


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While the iPad has been setting tablet computing on fire, a tiny Indian startup, Notion Ink has been working diligently to roll out its own tablet computer – Adam. We covered Adam fairly extensively in the past, including an exclusive interview with its CEO Rohan Shravan.
Some recent reports suggested that Adam might have been delayed until November. Notion Ink has now come out and debunked those rumors without promising any specific release date. "We are on track" is all Rohan Shravan revealed in his blog post. This probably means that Adam will be launched in a couple of months. However, like the iPad, Adam will have a staggered roll out all over the world. The good news for Indians waiting for a competitive tablet device is that India will definitely be among the first to receive the gadget.
Notion Ink has also closed their final round of fund raising. Once again, they didn't provide any specifics, but Shravan did seem pretty jubilant about it. He wrote, "We have closed the final round of funding and are now in perfect sync with our investors. This is extremely good news for everyone. I say that, because if we have Global ambitions, there must be someone who can help us achieve that. And now we have got the muscle power".
The Adam is an nVidia Tegra 2 powered Android tablet with Pixel Qi technology, which ensures readability even under direct sunlight. A cheaper version with normal LCD screen will also be available for users who don't plan on doing too much reading on the Adan. In fact, we may even get a third variation, which is supposed to run on a mysterious battery efficient platform.


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Artifacts Cycle, Book 2
(Book 15 in the Magic The Gathering series)
A novel by Lynn Abbey
The war is over, but the battle has just begun.The Brothers' War crushed continents, boiled oceans, and destroyed the lives of millions of people. That was only the beginning. The demons and inner circle of priests who corrupted the Brotherhood of Gix live on, serving the unseen lord cocooned at the center of Phyrexia. Their mission to control the brothers Urza and Mishra failed, but their appetite for conquest remains. And from the aftermath of the largest battle in Dominarian history emerges a single man-a man changed to the core of his being. Harboring a deep guilt for the monsters he let loose on his homeland and the destruction he provoked, this legendary figure is haunted by the ghosts of those who once were and of those he knows will come again. The man is Urza, and he has become a planeswalker. Able to move easily from one world to the next, he wanders the planes seeking to destroy the foul evil that corrupted his land and sundered his sanity. If you are a fan of Magic: The Gathering or have read The Brothers' War you will love Planeswalker. Lynn Abbey gets into the deepest, darkest corners of Urza's mind and reveals the madness and horror that lurks within. Urza, together with an unlikely ally, takes on the greatest evil to ever exist in the world of Magic. Lynn's portrayal of this horrific and mind blowing tale is truly stunning. You don't want to miss this one. Look for Time Streams by J Robert King and Bloodlines by Loren Coleman, the third and fourth books in the Artifacts Cycle.
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Deutsche Bank has been placed first for the eighth consecutive year in Euromoney's annual foreign exchange survey with 14.6% of overall market share. This industry benchmark survey result demonstrates the bank's consistent delivery of best-in-class products and client service.
Deutsche Bank's Global Head of Foreign Exchange, Zar Amrolia said, "Deutsche Bank leads the market in advising clients and offering new services, which is reflected in our success in this industry benchmark survey. We do not take this achievement for granted and in 2012 will be delivering new products and electronic services to our clients that will set new standards for the industry.
"By the end of 2013 the result will be that we will trade at least EUR 1 trillion every week."
Commenting on reasons for Deutsche Bank's success in 2011, Mr Amrolia said, "People, technology and innovation are key to success. These differentiators allow us to offer clients the best liquidity, product variety, post-trade services and sophisticated trading technology that consistently keeps us at number one."
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Crushed new potatoes with bacon & hot mustard sauce
A comforting dish with a pleasing mustard kick
This is very good served with griddled asparagus spears, which will enjoy the sauce. Leftovers can be refried bubble-and-squeak-style for a hearty brunch with a fried egg on top.
For more on the pleasures of seasonal potatoes, read Angela's blog
550g new potatoes
150g unsmoked streaky bacon or pancetta, cut into 5mm dice
1 tbsp chopped tarragon
300ml crème fraiche
2 tbsp wholegrain mustard
2 tbsp English mustard
Simmer the potatoes in a large pan of salted water for 15-20 mins until only starting to become tender. Drain the water off, then return the potatoes to the pan and half-cover with a lid for 15 mins so they finish cooking in their own steam. Slip the skins off or keep them on, as you prefer. Crush with the back of a fork.
Fry the bacon in its own fat (or add 1 tbsp oil if needed) until crisp. Use a slotted spoon to lift the bacon out and over the crushed potatoes, along with the tarragon. Put the crème fraiche into the same pan the bacon was cooked in, and whisk for 1 min over a gentle heat to reduce slightly. Whisk in the mustards. Pour the sauce into a jug to serve over and alongside the potatoes and bacon while it is all still hot.
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CLERMONT, Fla. – Coast Guard remained undefeated to start season topping University of New England 13-4 in five and Farleigh Dickinson–Florham 4-2 on day two of their spring break trip.
With the win the Bears improve to 4-0 while the Nor'easters fell to 0-2 and the Devils dropped to 1-5. It is the first time Coast Guard has started the season 4-0 since 2012.
The Bears were led by senior Emma Hvozdovich who was a combined 4-6 with two RBI's and two runs scored. Classmate Casey Cruzpino went 2-6 with a double, triple and two RBI's. Sophomore Courtney McKenna finished the day with three RBI's while freshman Charlee Kraiss and sophomore Audrey Bartz each had two.
In game one, Coast Guard opened the game up in the top of the second as they scored seven runs on four hits. Cruzpino highlighted the inning with a two run double down the left field line while Kraiss, Hvozdovich, Mckenna and Bartz each had an RBI.
After the Nor'easters scored four in the bottom of the second freshman Sydney Arendt (1-0) came on in relief to shut down the University of New England offense giving up one hit and striking out four for her first collegiate win.
The Bears ended the game in the fifth with five more runs with a triple from Cruzpino and RBI's from sophomore Claire Hurley, Kraiss, Hvozdovich, Mckenna and Bartz.
In game two, the Bears got on the board in the bottom of the first with Hvozdovich doubling to deep left center. In the next at bat, McKenna reached on an error by the first basemen which allowed Hvozdovich to come around and score.
Coast Guard then moved ahead 2-0 in the bottom of the fifth as sophomore Carly Hattman walked with Hurley at third. Hattman rounded first forcing the throw down which allowed Hurley to hustle home.
After the Devils got one back in the top of the sixth, the Bears scored two more in the bottom to go up by three (4-1).
In the top of the seventh, sophomore Julia Ferris re-entered the game and, with the winning run at the plate, forced Nicole Casale to ground out to second preserving the 4-2 win for the Bears. Ferris (3-0) pitched five and third scoreless innings striking out two and allowing one hit.
The Bears are back in action on Tuesday, March 13th when they take on Bethany (W.V.) at 9:00 and Fitchburg State at 11:30.


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What I'm going to do this time is to create the subsidiary services that I'll need for the Pulp service within a Kubernetes cluster.
UPDATE 12/16/2014: recently the kubecfg command has been deprecated and replaced with kubectl. I've updated this post to reflect the CLI call and output from kubectl.
A Pulp service stores it's persistent data in the database. The service components, a Celery Beat server and a number of Celery workers, as well as one or more Apache web server daemons all communicate using the AMQP message broker. They store and retrieve data from the database.
In a traditional bare-bare metal or VM based installation all of these services would likely be run on the same host. If they are distributed, then the IP addresses and credentials of the support services would have to be configured into Pulp servers manually or using some form of configuration management. Using containers the components can be isolated but the task of tracking them and configuring the consumer processes remains.
Using just Docker, the first impulse of an implementer would be similar, to place all of the containers on the same host. This would simplify the management of the connectivity between the parts, but it also defeats some of the benefit of containerized applications: portability and non-locality. This isn't a failing of Docker. It is the result of conscious decisions to limit the scope of what Docker attempts to do, avoiding feature creep and bloat. And this is where a tool like Kubernetes comes in.
As mentioned elsewhere, Kubernetes is a service which is designed to bind together a cluster of container hosts, which can be regular hosts running the etcd and kubelet daemons or they can be specialized images like Atomic or CoreOS. They can be private or public services such as Google Cloud
For Pulp, I need to place a MongoDB and a QPID container within a Kubernetes cluster and create the infrastructure so that clients can find it and connect to it. For each of these I need to create a Kubernetes Service and a Pod (group of related containers).
Kicking the Tires
It's probably a good thing to explore a little bit before diving in so that I can see what to expect from Kubernetes in general. I also need to verify that I have a working environment before I start trying to bang on it.
cluster/kubectl.sh It looks as if you don't have a compiled kubectl binary. If you are running from a clone of the git repo, please run './build/run.sh hack/build-cross.sh'. Note that this requires having Docker installed. If you are running from a binary release tarball, something is wrong. Look at http://kubernetes.io/ for information on how to contact the development team for help.
For convenience I alias the kubectl.sh wrapper so that I don't need the full path.
alias kubectl=~/kubernetes/cluster/kubectl.sh
Like most CLI commands now if you invoke it with no arguments it prints usage.
kubectl --help 2>1 | more Usage of kubectl: Usage: kubectl [flags] kubectl [command] Available Commands: version Print version of client and server proxy Run a proxy to the Kubernetes API server get [(-o|--output=)json|yaml|...] <resource> [<id>] Display one or many resources describe <resource> <id> Show details of a specific resource create -f filename Create a resource by filename or stdin createall [-d directory] [-f filename] Create all resources specified in a directory, filename or stdin update -f filename Update a resource by filename or stdin delete ([-f filename] | (<resource> <id>)) Delete a resource by filename, stdin or resource and id
The full usage output can be found in the CLI documentation in the Kubernetes Github repository.
Exploring the CLI control objects
A minion is a host that can accept containers. It runs an etcd and a kubelet daemon in addition to the Docker daemon.For our purposes a minion is where containers can go.
I can list the minions in my cluster like this:
kubectl get minions NAME LABELS 10.245.2.4 <none> 10.245.2.2 <none> 10.245.2.3 <none>
kubectl get pods NAME IMAGE(S) HOST LABELS STATUSSee? not very interesting.
Replication Controllers
Replication controllers are the tool to create HA or load balancing systems. Using a replication controller you can tell Kubernetes to create multiple running containers for a given image. Kubernetes will ensure that if one container fails or stops that a new container will be spawned to replace it.
In Kubernetes, a service defines a TCP or UDP port reservation. It provides a way for applications running in containers to connect to each other without requiring that each one be configured with the end-point IP addresses. This both allows for abstracted configuration and for mobility and load balancing of the providing containers.
When I define a Kubernetes service, the service providers (the MongoDB and QPID containers) will be labeled to receive traffic and the service consumers (the Pulp components) will be given the access information in the environment so that they can reach the providers. More about that later.
I can list the services in the same way as I would minions or pods. And it turns out that creating a couple of Kubernetes services is the first step I need to take to prepare the Pulp support service containers.
Creating a Kubernetes Service Object
Kubernetes both accepts and produces structured data formats for input and reporting. The two currently supported formats are JSON and YAML. The Service structure is relatively simple but it has elements which are shared by all of the top level data structures. Kubernetes doesn't yet have any tooling to make the creation of an object description easier than hand-crafting a snipped of JSON or YAML. Each of the structures is documented in the godoc for Kubernetes. For now that's all you get.
There are a couple of provided examples and these will have to do for now. The guestbook example demonstrates using ReplicationServers and master/slave implementation using Redis. The second shows how to perform a live update of the pods which make up an active service within a Kubernetes cluster. These are actually a bit more advanced than I'm ready for and don't give the detailed break-down of the moving parts that I mean to do.
- Line 2 indicates that this is a Service object.
- Line 3 indicates the object schema version.
v1beta1 is current
(note: my use of the term 'schema' is a loose one)
- Line 4 identifies the Service object.
This must be unique within the set of services
- Line 5 is the TCP port number that will be listening
- Line 6 is for testing. It tells the proxy on the minion with that IP to listen for inbound connections.
I'll also use the publicIPs value to expose the HTTP and HTTPS services for Pulp
- Lines 7-9 set the Selector
The selector is used to associate this Service object with containers that will accept the inbound traffic.
This will match with one of the label items assigned to the containers.
Querying a Service Object
kubectl get services db NAME LABELS SELECTOR IP PORT db
name=db 10.0.41.48 27017
kubectl get --output=json services db { "kind": "Service", "id": "db", "uid": "c040da3d-8536-11e4-a18b-0800279696e1", "creationTimestamp": "2014-12-16T15:18:12Z", "selfLink": "/api/v1beta1/services/db?namespace=default", "resourceVersion": 13, "apiVersion": "v1beta1", "namespace": "default", "port": 27017, "protocol": "TCP", "selector": { "name": "db" }, "publicIPs": [ "10.245.2.2" ], "containerPort": 0, "portalIP": "10.0.41.48" }
Clearly Kubernetes has filled out some of the object fields. Note the --output=json flag for structured data.
I'll be using this method to query information about the other elements as I go along.
Describing a Container (Pod) in Kubernetes
Here's the description of a pod containing the MongoDB service image I created earlier.
This is actually a set of nested structures, maps and arrays.
- Lines 1-21 define a Pod.
- Lines 2-4 are elements of an inline JSONBase structure
- Lines 5-7 are a map (hash) of strings assigned to the Pod struct element named Labels.
- Lines 8-20 define a PodState named DesiredState.
The only required element is the ContainerManifest, named Manifest in the PodState.
- A Podstate has a required Version and ID, though it is not a subclass of JSONBase.
It also has a list of Containers and an optional list of Volumes
- Lines 12-18 define the set of containers (only one in this case) that will reside in the pod.
A Container has a name and an image path (in this case to the previously defined mongodb image).
- Lines 15-17 are a set of Port specifications.
These indicate that something inside the container will be listening on these ports.
You can see how learning the total schema means fishing through each of these structure definitions in the documentation. If you work at it you will get to know them. To be fair they are really meant to be generated and consumed by machines rather than humans. Kubernetes is still the business end of the service. Pretty dashboards will be provided later. The only visibility I really need is for development and diagnostics. There are gaps here too, but finding them is what experiments like this are about.
A note on Names and IDs
There are several places where there is a key named "name" or "id". I could give them all the same value, but I'm going to deliberately vary them so I can expose which ones are used for what purpose. Names can be arbitrary strings. I believe that IDs are restricted somewhat (no hyphens).
Creating the first Pod
kubectl create -f pods/mongodb.json pulpdb
TADA! I now have a MongoDB running in Kubernetes.
But how do I know?
kubectl get pods pulpdb NAME IMAGE(S) HOST LABELS STATUS pulpdb markllama/mongodb 10.245.2.3/10.245.2.3 name=db Running
Familiar and Boring. But I can get more from kubectl by asking for the raw JSON return from the query.
{ "kind": "Pod", "id": "pulpdb", "uid": "4bac8381-8537-11e4-a18b-0800279696e1", "creationTimestamp": "2014-12-16T15:22:06Z", "selfLink": "/api/v1beta1/pods/pulpdb?namespace=default", "resourceVersion": 22, "apiVersion": "v1beta1", "namespace": "default", "labels": { "name": "db" }, "desiredState": { "manifest": { "version": "v1beta2", "id": "", "volumes": [ { "name": "devlog", "source": { "hostDir": { "path": "/dev/log" }, ... "pulp-db": { "state": { "running": { "startedAt": "2014-12-16T15:27:04Z" } }, "restartCount": 0, "image": "markllama/mongodb", "containerID": "docker://8f21d45e49b18b37b98ea7556346095261699bc 3664b52813a533edccee55a63" } } } }
It's really long. So I'm not going to include it inline. Instead I put it into a gist.
If you fish through it you'll find the same elements I used to create the pod, and lots, lots more. The structure now contains both a desiredState and a currentState sub-structure, with very different contents.
Now a lot of this is just noise to us, but lines 59-72 are of particular interest. These show the effects of the Service object that was created previously. These are the environment variables and network ports declared. These are the values that a client container will use to connect to this service container.
Testing the MongoDB service
This is where that publicIPs key in the mongodb-service.json file comes in. I set the public IP value of the db service to an external IP address of one of the Kubernetes minions: 10.245.2.2. This causes the proxy on that minion to accept inbound connections and forward them to the db service pods where ever they are.
echo "show dbs" | mongo 10.245.2.2 MongoDB shell version: 2.4.6 connecting to: 10.245.2.4/test local 0.03125GB bye
And now for QPID?
Now I have two running network services inside the Kubernetes cluster. This consists of a Kubernetes Service object and a Kubernetes Pod which is running the image I'd created for each service application.
I can prove to myself that the application services are running and accessible, though for some of the detailed tests I have to go under the covers of Kuberntes still.
I have the information I need to craft images for the other Pulp services so that they can consume the database and messenger services.
Next Up
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Kubernetes Source Code Documentation
- Pulp
- Celery
- Pretty Printing JSON with Python


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Fruity Friday November
This month, we got to taste some delicious, healthy, interesting and scrumdidliumptious fruit!
The first fruit we tasted was a hairy apple, otherwise known as a peach! Peaches grow in hot countries. They grow on trees. The skin of the peach has all the good stuff in it: vitamins and fibre.
Peaches make excellent moisturizers! A cheap Christmas present perhaps?
Then we tasted the peaches less hairy brother, the nectarine. Like its brother, the nectarine is a stoned fruit. The nectarine gets its name from the tasty treat the gods ate, nectar! Like our apples last month, the nectarine is part of the rose family. Nectarines are delicious: fact!
Then Mrs. Shine produced from her bag, what we thought was a dinosaur egg!
We were wrong however, as they were not dinosaur eggs but cherimoya! Yes, thats right, a cherimoya! This lumpy and bumpy fruit is part of the custard apple family, just like the pawpaw fruit. It was squishy and soft and smelt interesting.
We had to be careful not to eat the black seeds.
It was certainly an interesting tasting! We took a vote and 9 people in our class liked it, 18 did not!
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Iranian Workers: "Keep Your Stinking Nukes!"
The Iranian worker's protest this week included this bold message to the mullahs:
"Keep your nukes! We need higher wages!"
Winston has the translation.
Meanwhile… It's crunch time for the mullahs.
The masses are restive and the economic future does not look promising.
Resource Investor reported:
On 21 May, the long awaited next economic blow will strike when gasoline rationing goes into effect. Iranian drivers will be limited to three litres per day at the subsidized cost of 40 cents per gallon. They will be permitted to purchase more than the three litres, but anything beyond the limit will be at a higher price. What that higher price will be has not been announced.
Rationing is the final admission by the Ahmadinejad administration that the program of promised prosperity that began a mere two years ago has failed and has brought only inflation, hardship and unemployment. The president's preoccupation with verbal warfare with the rest of the world has done nothing to improve the lives of the Iranian public.
Too late, he has seen the light. In terms of verbal fencing with the U.S. and Europeans, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's tone has changed. During an interview with Reuters News Service on the 23 April, he denied that petroleum would be used as a weapon and contradicted his Minister of Petroleum, Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh. He has agreed as well to participate in the coming Iraq Security Conference in Egypt to discuss the future of Iraq. He has gone as far as to state that he does not expect Iran to be attacked.
His statements to the outside world may reduce the level of tension, but his political survival does not depend upon what foreigners think. His survival will be determined by what Iranians do; and they have spoken already. President Ahmadinejad's days are numbered. His failed policies have alienated the lower income portion of the population that had been is strongest supporters.
He ignored in December the discontent of the public when his faction was defeated in the local elections. In spite of the severe losses, he continued his confrontations with the U.S. and the U.N.
More shots from the worker's protest this week in Tehran. (FARS & ISNA)
Maybe the latest economic news explains the calls for a new crackdown?
More on the Worker's Protest:
Violent Clashes at Iranian Labor Protests!
Iranian Workers Protest Regime- Chant "Death to Oppressors!"


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What's going on gamers! Summer vacation is almost over and it almost time to head back to school. Even though it time to focus on the books, there are some games that will help keep your mind off of the upcoming semester. So with that being said, here are some new video games releases coming out for the month of August.
New Video Game Releases For The Month Of August
August 8 – Batman: The Enemy Within – PS4, Xbox One, PC
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