text:
Andrew Bird has announced his upcoming album Break It Yourself. The masterpiece is set to release on March 6, 2012, followed by a US tour. How beautiful is this video?
In celebration of their third album's first birthday, this local Austin band is giving Chasing Color away for free. With so many local bands out there (especially in Austin), it's hard to find a solid one. But that's exactly what The Canvas Waiting is - a solid band. They make genuine and captivating music that you really can't help but love. If you ever get the chance to see them live, do it. But first, download this album and support them by buying their other two albums.
Andrew Bird wrote a song about 11/11/11. What did you do? I spent my day listening to this song and wishing that we hear something full-length from Mr. Bird soon. Anything's possible on 11/11/11, right?
Ghosts That We Knew // Mumford & Sons
"Give me hope in the darkness and I will see the light."
They just keep cranking out masterpieces. It's in their blood as a band. Always meaningful, always honest, Mumford & Sons makes some of the most genuine music around today. I hope this album they've been kicking around will come out relatively soon.
Delta Spirit is very kindly offering The Waits Room EP for free! Five great tracks by a phemonemal band for free. Is there anything better? Yes, there is. The version of Bushwick Blues that is on this EP. I didn't think my favorite Delta Spirit song could get any better. But then it did. Do yourself a favor, head over here, and get you some solid music.


text:
Meaningful Use in 2014: Are We Seeing the Forest Through the Trees?9/8/2014
"Meaningful Use" is largely about implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs) rather than about meaningful use of clinical data to improve population healthMore
What Goes Around Comes Around9/8/2014
In the September/October issue of The Art of Health Promotion, we examine how the theory of "Perceived Organizational Support" (POS) has been applied to improving employee wellbeing.More
The Best ROI Meta-Analysis Ever: Case Closed?7/30/2014
Well-designed wellness programs seem to pay for themselves, but the reported magnitude of the financial return depends on the quality of the program and the rigor of the evaluation design.More
Coaching and Accountability7/8/2014
In the July/August 2014 issue of The Art of Health Promotion Dr. Paul Terry explores the relationship between coaching, culture and health outcomes and for what coaches should be held accountable.More
Welcome to the new StayWell5/7/2014
StayWell CEO Trent Sterling: The world of health care is changing: it's undisputed. And, while there are still many moving targets in this changing landscape, there are also many positive developments, such as the coming intersection of health care delivery and population health management. I'm personally thrilled to be at the epicenter of this movement as the CEO of StayWell.More
Accountable Care Organizations and Cultural Area Variation5/2/2014
Dr. Paul Terry discusses how both public policy and scientific consensus is needed to develop cultural metrics that show whether America's health system can play a larger role in a community's culture of health.More
Is Health a Measure that Matters to Leaders Interested in High Performance Employees?4/30/2014
In the May/June 2014 issue of The Art of Health Promotion we explored the relationship between health and employee performance.More
Expert divergence meets the wisdom of crowds4/2/2014
Dr. Paul Terry shares reflections on the 24th Annual Art and Science of Health Promotion conference.More
Value on Investment: Is it Time for a Broader Value Proposition for Wellness?3/23/2014
What can new measurement standards tell us about trends in worksite health promotion?More
The predictive value of the HERO Scorecard3/6/2014
Many rigorous research studies have demonstrated that well-designed, comprehensive health management programs have the potential to lower health care cost trends, but there is less evidence to guide employers about how to design and implement effective programs. The HERO Employee Health Management Best Practice Scorecard in Collaboration with Mercer© (HERO Scorecard) was designed to provide such guidance.More
Psychogenesis and Health Reform 2.02/25/2014
It Is Time for a Broader Value Proposition in Managed CareMore
Most Newsworthy New Year's Birth: ACA is an Infant With Boundless Potential1/2/2014
2014 New Year's arrival will forever be a major milestone — it marks the most monumental day in the history of American health policy.More
Case Study: How Can This Organization's Culture Support Employee Health?1/2/2014
What of organizations where health is not such a priority for the leaders?More
Changing the Outcomes Conversation: Shifting from ROI to VOI11/21/2013
You may have begun to notice a shift in the thinking around measuring the return on one's investment in worksite health management programs. Will the industry be able to agree on a consistent way to measure VOI?More
Supporting behavior change at the individual level11/6/2013
Improving health is a little like raising a child: it takes a village if you want to do it well enough to prepare the child to be a productive and responsible adult. When it comes to improving the health of a population, you'll get the best results if you're able to engage all of the individuals in that population "village" and motivate them to make the changes they need to make in order to protect their health.More
When sixty percent of Americans spend over fifty percent of each day in one place, the CDC is interested11/4/2013
Worksites surpass any other venue for addressing illness before it occurs. So it stands to reason that our nation's premier public health researchers are dedicating considerable resources to the health of our workforce.More
Implementation matters. Particularly if it relates to what matters to the purchaser10/31/2013
Dr. Paul Terry discusses insights from the Care Continuum Alliance - CCA Forum 2013 and the appetite among consultants and purchasers for broadening the criteria we use to judge success in population health management.More
Finally, the Leavening of Wellness10/18/2013
Dr. Paul Terry discusses insights from the 27th National Conference on Health, Productivity and Human Capital and findings from the NBGH and Towers Watson 2013/2014 Staying@Work ReportMore
StayWell staff walk the talk, engage in social support at the recent Twin Cities in Motion TC 10K10/17/2013
The goal of the StayWell team, supported by the Heart and Soul wellness committee, was simple: finish and finish strong.More
The Power of Peer Support10/1/2013
Insights from a StayWell session at the 2013 HERO Forum in Orlando, featuring a wellness program case study for client, Dover Corporation. Throughout our lives we're influenced in different ways by the people around us. Social connections can influence our personal and professional interests, as well as where and how we choose to spend our time and money. Social connections can even contribute, either positively or negatively, to health status.More
HERO Forum Fun Run/Walk: Mixing business with pleasure9/30/2013
Nearly 200 employee health management and human resource professionals and benefit consultants participated in the StayWell sponosored HERO Fun Run/Walk this year.More
An enriching day at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Wellness Council of Wisconsin9/24/2013
Insights from the WELCOA conference in Wisconsin, "Engaging Healthy, High-Performing Organizations." We were honored to be able to contribute to the discussion on the value of wellness champion networks, which was immediately relevant to many in the audience who are currently designing or implementing such networks.More
Wellness Champions as Leaders in Culture and Engagement9/13/2013
An enlightening update on the evidence concerning the effectiveness of peer support and the great opportunities worksites have for tapping the power of peers.More
Dr. David Anderson Wins HERO's "Bill Whitmer Leadership Award"9/3/2013
At StayWell we have always been quick to point to Dr. David Anderson and his extraordinary number of accomplishments when we count the ways that we feel special as a company. I have always known that there are plenty of thought leaders in the field of employee health management who feel the same way, and a recent announcement makes that assumption official.More
There are no shortcuts when it comes to wellness programs8/22/2013
Dr. Anderson, who brings his expertise in behavioral psychology to wellness program design, sheds light on why trying to do too much too soon in a wellness program can lead to confusion, frustration and misconceptions.More
Engaging Individuals with Chronic Conditions: Findings shared at the 2013 National Wellness Conference7/25/2013
StayWell's Erin Seaverson and Ben Heinz share insights from their presentation, "Engagement and Health Risk Improvement Among Coaching Participants with Chronic Conditions".More
How Attuned are you to Employee Health Needs and Interests?7/2/2013
How do you ensure that your programs meet employee interests while at the same time tuning up their accountability for good health?More
The Final ACA Wellness Provisions and the Reticence of the EEOC7/1/2013
The EEOC has remained silent on whether they deem wellness programs to be voluntary, a key concern of an agency committed to ensuring that all employees enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment such as is guaranteed under the American with Disabilities Act (ADA).More
The Merits of Compromise for Advancing Health6/11/2013
Reflections on the 21st Annual "Great American Think-Off, by Dr. Paul Terry, "America's Greatest Thinker".More
Celebrating the 2013 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles5/23/2013
StayWell applauds all of the 2013 winners — including a number of our clients — for the commitment they have made to creating a culture of health for their employees, and for the outcomes they've achieved.More
What is a "Reasonably Designed" Wellness Program?5/2/2013
Experts describe the state-of-the art in organizational health scorecards and compare and contrast instruments used for designing and assessing employee health programs.More
A recap of ACSM's 17th Health & Fitness Summit & Exposition4/22/2013
Throughout the Worksite Health Promotion track, we found more wellness champions and learned how relevant wellness champion networks are.More
Join Our "Journal Club" Discussion3/1/2013
In this month's issue of The Art of Health Promotion we feature an article from Seth Serxner Ph.D., MPH, entitled: "A different approach to population health and behavior change: Moving from incentives to a motivation-based approach."More
Remembering C. Everett Koop and reflecting on his legacy3/1/2013
StayWell Health Management's connection to Dr. Koop began in 1992 when he joined forces with The Health Project to create the C. Everett Koop National Health Award programMore
ROI of Wellness – Isn't it Time to Move On?2/25/2013
As employers consider investing in employee wellness programs, many want to know there will be a positive return on investment (ROI).More
Defining Nondiscriminatory Wellness Programs Remains a Work in Progress2/5/2013
The Department of Labor has issued new guidelines concerning the wellness provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that relate to the use of financial incentives, and the Office of Health Plan Standards and Compliance Assistance is seeking public comment.More
How Do You Engage Families in Health Promotion?1/4/2013
Involving families in a company's wellness program has broad social as well as health benefits as highlighted by Judd Allen and his colleagues in the January/February issue of The Art of Health Promotion.More
Answering the question: How much, by when?12/18/2012
This research is a tremendous leap forward in our understanding of how changing health risk status impacts health care spending. While there is still much to know and understand, this research closes an important gap in the business case for a population health management approach to health care cost containment.More
Wellness and Citizenship: Learning about Engagement from the Volunteer Service Movement11/5/2012
The idea that volunteerism and social connectivity rate right up there with the most potent of personal health practices.More
With Weight Management, One Thing Leads to Another10/15/2012
Are we acknowledging that the sustainability of healthy lifestyle improvements in diet, exercise, or tobacco use is fundamentally linked to our surroundings?More
Dr. David Anderson Wins HERO's "Mark Dundon Research Award"10/4/2012
Dr. David Anderson, StayWell's senior vice president and chief health officer, has been honored with the "Mark Dundon Research Award" from The Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO).More
Mutualism of Culture and Engagement8/2/2012
A panel discussion on the concept of advancing a culture of health as an accepted strategy for improving a population's health.More
A whirlwind tour of the 37th National Wellness Conference7/26/2012
Being passionate about what you do and being successful in your career is associated with greater longevity -- and other great lessons from the 2012 conference.More
Supreme Court Ruling on the Individual Mandate: Financial Incentives vary according to the eye of the beholder7/20/2012
Health care policy wonks were abuzz about the samurai jujitsu move that Chief Justice Roberts struck with his ruling in support of the constitutionality of Obamacare.More
Many perspectives. One consensus guidance statement.7/19/2012
I've participated in many collaborative projects over the years, but my recent involvement in the development of a consensus guidance statement on the use of outcomes-based incentives was unique in several ways.More
Honoring employers who commit to best practices6/29/2012
Whether our focus is on employee participation, health assessment results, risk change or financial outcomes, understanding what a company has been able to accomplish through its commitment to employee health enables them to prove the worth of their program to C-suite executives, while contributing to the evolution of their wellness initiative.More
The Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Care Act6/28/2012
Business leaders responsible for making decisions about employee health benefits should view this morning's Supreme Court ruling as interim relief from the need for changing course.More
Improving Health Practices by Changing the World: Some notes from the 22nd Annual Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference4/26/2012
Dr. Paul Terry on current trends and issues in health promotion.More
Reflections on the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Summit4/17/2012
Research suggests that getting up for a mere five minutes each hour may have an impact on overall health -- and other interesting takeaways from the 2012 conference.More
Health Care Reform 2012: What Congress Giveth... the Supreme Court Taketh Away?4/5/2012
What I am willing to bet, however, is that fundamental changes the law has stimulated at the heart of health management will forge ahead – regardless of what the Supreme Court decides!More
The opportunities that lay ahead for wellness professionals4/4/2012
I am often asked to address university student groups and typically welcome the opportunity because I have found I often walk away from the discussions more excited than ever about the wellness field and the opportunities that lay ahead for wellness professionals.More
Get your game on3/15/2012
Paul Terry, Ph.D., CEO discusses the remarkable "overlaps between behavioral economics, social psychology, and game theory as each informs what we know about motivating people and supporting their successful health behavior changes."More
Reflections on the The Twelfth Population Health and Care Coordination Colloquium3/12/2012
CEO Paul Terry, Ph.D., disucss a StayWell study, "The Role of Incentives in Improving Engagement and Outcomes in Population Health Management."More
Health Reform and the use of Financial Incentives in Wellness Programs11/15/2011
This means companies are allowed to use an "outcomes-based" incentive model that provides financial rewards for those who satisfy a prescribed health standard such as a BMI of less than 30 or who meet a "reasonable alternative standard" or obtain a waiver from their physician.More
At the Midwest Worksite Health Conference, it's all about context11/14/2011
This conference attracts worksite health professionals and vendors from the Midwest, and speakers from all over the country.More
Do we get what we pay for with financial incentives in wellness programs?10/7/2011
Our short answer to this question about incentives, one that seems to be the pressing issue of the moment many of our clients, is: "we don't yet know." Believe us, it's an unsatisfying answer for those of us who have studied wellness program effectiveness for many years. But here's the problem. We're dealing with a moving target.More
Focus on Progress in your Wellness Strategy9/9/2011
It's hard to argue with progress. Researchers have shown that the thoughts, feelings and behaviors signaling progress toward a goal are the best predictors a person will achieve that goal. At StayWell, we're applying this principle to the use of incentives in health improvement.More
My Own Best Ally - Part Two8/2/2011
"Know thyself."More
Industry awards recognize excellence and drive program outcomes7/19/2011
StayWell has represented 28 companies that have received NBGH's "Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyle" award.More
Connecting health risks to productivity loss6/28/2011
StayWell has such a solid foundation in, and commitment to, best practice programming and to research,More
Health promotion: 25 years later5/26/2011
As a young health promotion professional with just six years of on-the-job experience under my belt and a freshly stamped Ph.D. in hand, I was eager to apply my training and skills to an important societal issue.More
My Own Worst Enemy - Part One5/3/2011
Take some time and think of how you are your own worst enemy and next time, I'll share how you can get yourself off the weight battlefield and make peace with your body and yourself.More
Understanding the value of health assessment data4/11/2011
State-of-the-art health assessments work by allowing companies like StayWell to collect data not only about a participant's risks but about their psychological readiness to change, which is a key element in tailoring a wellness program to be more effective for that individual participant.More
Essential Reading List for Coaches3/17/2011
Our initial thoughts on who we think belongs in our top-10 list of experts in the field of health promotionMore
Nike has it right...Just Do It.2/1/2011
It's the time of the year when visions of vigorous exercise replace the visions of sugarplums that danced through my head...More

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Events for Friday, July 12th 2013
Day Navigation
All Day
Nowhere is an experiment in creative freedom, participation and cash-free community, conceived, built, experienced and returned to nothing by YOU Find out more »
Element 11 Arts Festival (Utah Regional Burn)
Each July on a local Utah playa, burners gather to celebrate our unique burner culture here in Utah. This festival is sanctioned by the Regional Burning Man Network and is intended to create an immediacy of experience and personal connection, encouraging relationships and collaborations that enable people to act more powerfully than individuals alone could... Read the rest → Find out more »
Burn in the Forest
Burn in the Forest is the Greater Vancouver Interactive Arts Society's (GVIAS) Official Burning Man Regional event. The annual summer event takes place in the beautiful surroundings of the Squamish Valley. Our community is built on the participation of its members – from the simple exchange of food, stories, or a lending hand, to the elaborate construction of an interactive art project. Find out more »
Float / Camping Trip
This is NOT a sanctioned burn event. This is a chance to check out a potential future burn location and spend some time with fellow burners. Come enjoy a weekend of floating. $5 per person camping fee, and $10-$15 tubing fee ($5 fee waived if you bring your own life vest). Location website: http://www.pipedreamcamping.com/index.html Find out more »
Portland Winter Town Hall
Portland Winter Town Hall - Q&A Find out more »
Dutch Burning Pub/ Amsterdam: July 11
Monthly Burning Pub in Amsterdam Find out more »
Burnin Down The River
Midwest Burners' annual float trip and burn Find out more »


text:
Feb 16, 2014; New Orleans, LA, USA; Eastern Conference guard Dwyane Wade (3) of the Miami Heat is introduced before the 2014 NBA All-Star Game at the Smoothie King Center. Mandatory Credit: Derick E. Hingle-USA TODAY Sports
Miami Heat
by Wes Goldberg 35w ago Follow @wcgoldberg
Tags: Dwyane Wade Video
Pick your favorite teams, topics and players and get content right in your inbox.
© 2014 Fansided, LLC. All rights reserved.


text:
Tel: (636)978-1680
Grades: PK - 12 | 669 students
We are a discipleship school offering a Christ-centered education in grades PK-12.
School Overview
|School Membership(s)School Assoc.
|Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)
North Central Accreditation
Other school association(s)
|Religious Affiliation
|Grades Offered
|Grades Prekindergarten - 12
|Learning Difference Programs
|Learning Programs Supported
|Academic Learning Lab
|Year Founded
Student Body
|Total Students
|669 students
|Student Body Type
|% Students of Color
State avg.: 15%
|Students by Grade
Academics and Faculty
|Total Classroom Teachers
|53 teachers
|Student : Teacher Ratio
National avg.: 13:1
|% Faculty w/Advanced Degree
|Average Class Size
|23 students
|Number of AP Courses
|4 courses
|List of Courses Offered
|Link to List of Courses
|Advanced Courses
|AP U.S. History; AP English Literature and Composition; AP Calculus; AP Chemistry
|Average ACT score
|Classroom Dress Code
(Guidelines have been set that assure modesty prevails. )
Finances and Admission
|Admission Deadline
|None / Rolling
|Tuition Notes
|Tuition cost depends on grade level and ranges from $1840 to $7500 as of Fall 2012.
|Acceptance Rate
National avg.: 85%
|Admissions Director
|Stacie Harrell
|Total Sports Offered
|13 sports
|Baseball, Basketball, Cheering, Cross Country, Dance, Football, Golf, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Track and Field, Volleyball, WrestlingBaseball, Basketball,
Cheering, Cross Country,
Dance, Football,
Golf, Soccer,
Softball, Swimming,
Track and Field, Volleyball,
|Total ExtracurricularsTotal Extra-curric.
|15 extracurriculars
|Art Club, Book Club, Booster Club, Chess Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Chapter, Gastro Intestinal Club, Helping Hands, Math Club, National Honor Society, Pep Club, Photography Club, Recycling Club, Student Government Organization, Swing Dance, Yearbook Art Club, Book Club, Booster Club, Chess Club, Helping Hands, Math Club, Pep Club, Recycling Club, Swing Dance, Yearbook, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Chapter,
Gastro Intestinal Club,
National Honor Society,
Photography Club,
Student Government Organization,
Nearby Schools:
All Schools |High Schools High Schools |Elementary Schools Elementary Schools |Preschools Preschools |Public Schools Public Schools
Show me:
- School Location Miles Students Grades
O''fallon Assumption School
203 W 3rd St
O''fallon , MO , 63366
(636)240-4474(Roman Catholic)1.5 mi | 456 students | Gr. PK-8
O Fallon First Baptist Christian Academy
8750 Veterans Memorial Pkwy
O Fallon , MO , 63366
(636)272-3220(Baptist)1.5 mi | 295 students | Gr. NS-8
Saint Peters Westgate Christian Academy
1913 Trade Center Dr.
Saint Peters , MO , 63376
(636)442-8000(Christian)1.7 mi | 259 students | Gr. PK-8
Saint PetersChurch On The Rock Christian
Po Box 1668
Saint Peters , MO , 63376
(636)240-7775(Christian)2.1 mi | 138 students | Gr. PK-12
Saint PetersChild Of God Lutheran School
650 Salt Lick Rd
Saint Peters , MO , 63376
(636)970-7080(Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod)2.2 mi | 166 students | Gr. K-9
School Reviews
Area Statistics
Recent Articles
Updated October 14, 2014
Add things up and you'll quickly find the answer- math is crucial both in academics and the real world. By following these strategies and following personal training programs, students can uncover their weaknesses and conquer math.
"Because I heard it is a good school." That may well be, but there are some other factors in the private school selection process we need to consider.
Running a small to medium sized private school? Can't afford marketing staff and expensive marketing programs? Read on.


text:
Stallwang Apartment Rental Photos and Description
Holiday apartment, up to 5 people through New Years!!
Dive into the stunning atmosphere of our house and spend your well-deserved holiday in our **** holiday apartment. The equipment is rural, cosy, comfortable. For those travelling alone, but also for large families, there is enough space. Our large garden offers recreational activities for 'big and small'. In the nearby environment you will find a lot of attractions and facilities of the Bavarian Forest. Relax and experience the nature during the spring, summer, fall and winter, with tasty Bavarian delicacies add to a successful holiday. Our house is located on the edge of the city and you will have a stunning panorama in the Kinsachtal and of the surrounding hill and mountains of the Bavarian Forest. Starting point for visiting historical cities in Eastern BAvaria, Straubing, Regensburg, Passau. Our family-friendly holiday apartment can be extended to 12 people. House brochure and apartment description can be sent on request!
- Suitability:
- Events Allowed
- Long-term Renters Welcome
- children welcome
- pets not allowed
- wheelchair inaccessible


text:
Formed around a take-out coffee cup, the "coffee cuff"™ satisfies both form and function - the bracelet doubles as a java jacket. This fashion accessory (part of the Bentwood line) is hand made in Vancouver, BC by Contexture Design, a multidisciplinary design team whose industrial art projects specialize in reclaimed materials.
Coffee cuffs are made from exotic wood veneer like rosewood, ebony and zebrano. The materials are leftover "scraps" from the larger local furniture industry, off-cuts that would otherwise be discarded. Contexture is able to salvage these woods and extend their life through the Bentwood line of accessories.
Recycling principles are used in every step of the production process. Discarded coffee cups are used as forms, and punctured bicycle inner-tubes provide even pressure during the laminating process.
Available in Vancouver at:


text:
one of those days
im seriously on the verge of having a breakdown.would really like to shout at someone or hit something…maybe i'm just getting tired of this emotional roller coaster hell ride…the only thing that's keeping me sane is my husband and daughter.i need a major chill pill.i should learn how to shrug it off and let it be, it's too stressful to be angry at someone or something that you have no control over.or maybe i should just accept the fact that some people are in your life to test your patience and bring you down.oh how i'd love a drama-free-day…trying my best not to cry or get mad.>
Yellow day
Angel sleeping.
In a relationship, married or not… You should read this.
"When I got home that night as my wife served dinner, I held her hand and said, I've got something to tell you. She sat down and ate quietly. Again I observed the hurt in her eyes.
Suddenly I didn't know how to open my mouth. But I had to let her know what I was thinking. I want a divorce. I raised the topic calmly. She didn't seem to be annoyed by my words, instead she asked me softly, why?
50's Guidelines on how to be a wife
From a 1950's high school home economics textbook, teaching girls how to prepare for married life.
1. Have dinner ready: Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal on time.
This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him, and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospects of a good meal are part of the warm welcome needed.
2. Prepare yourself: Take 15 minutes to rest so you will be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking.
He has just been with a lot of work- weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift.
3. Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives, gathering up school books, toys, paper, etc. Then run a dust cloth over the tables.
Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift, too.
4. Prepare the children: Take a few minutes to wash the children's hands and faces if they are small, comb their hair, and if necessary, change their clothes.
They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part.
5. Minimize the noise: At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of washer, dryer, dishwasher or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet.
Be happy to see him. Greet him with a warm smile and be glad to see him.
6. Things to avoid: Don't greet him with problems or complaints. Don't complain if he's late for dinner.
Count this as minor compared with what he might have gone through that day.
7. Make him comfortable: Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or suggest he lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes.
Speak in a low, soft, soothing and pleasant voice. Allow him to relax and unwind.
8. Listen to him: You may have a dozen things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first.
9. Make the evening his: Never complain if he does not take you out to dinner or to other places of entertainment; instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure, his need to be home and relax.
10. The goal: Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can relax.
it's the good girls who have diaries, bad girls dont have the time…


text:
Now That it's Now The New Directions Blog
George Szirtes, whose recent work includes the translation of László Krasznahorkai's Satantango, illuminates the translator's art in a conversation with Bethany Pope of The Quarterly Conversation. Read it all here.
New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful."


text:
Tag Results: richter collective
And So I Watch You From Afar "Gangs" Out Today on Sargent House / Full Album Stream on Spinner
Belfast, Ireland's celebrated instrumental band And So I Watch You From Afar release their sophomore album, Gangs today via Sargent House, partnered with Dublin label Richter Collective. The complete album is available for streaming all week courtesy of Spinner: listen HERE.
"This is the sound of a gang who've never been tighter, and a postcard of their journey that couldn't have captured them at a higher peak."
9 out of 10 - Drowned In Sound
"An utterly immersive tour de force and a series of thrills as transient as the breeze, 'Gangs' triumphs on every possible level. " 9 out of 10 - Rock Sound
Known for their unrelenting tours that has seen them play over 300 shows since the start of 2009, And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWYFA to their fans) don't know how to take a break. From appearances at SXSW, Eurosonic, Electric Picnic, Novarock, Canadian Music Fest, Popkomm, Pukkelpop, Sonisphere, to tour dates in Europe, North America, Russia and a support slot for rock supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, the band has been on the road playing music non-stop since the release of their fan-stirring debut self-titled album.
Sargent House Poised to Become the Arbiters of Instrumental Music
Sargent House Poised to Become the Arbiters of Instrumental Music.
The Echo Park, CA based independent record label & management company, Sargent House has added another instrumental band to their growing roster of (mostly) instrumental bands. This time it's the celebrated Irish band And So I Watch You From Afar.
According to the press release Sargent House partnered with Dublin label Richter Collective to announce the forthcoming North American release of the group's sophomore album, Gangs. A pair of MP3s from the album are available today: opener, "BEAUTIFULUNIVERSEMASTERCHAMPION" is available for download HERE and the brilliantly titled "Search:Party:Animal" can be downloaded HERE.
Let's admit that we aren't aficionados of the Irish music scene, like, at all, and our only references are U2, The Cranberries and The Corrs. Oh yeah, and how can we forget Enya or, god forbid, Sinèad O'Connor – all of whom have wrung the fuck out of life's pathos with their baleful tomes to love and war – Irish style, of course. I can't imagine Sargent House would have signed anyone of those acts (well, maybe Sinèad circa The Lion and The Cobra, but forget about it after that.), especially in light of the current roster which features Fang Island, Red Sparowes, Adebisi Shank, Russian Circles, Zechs Marquise (on imprint Rodriguez Lopez Productions), Tera Melos, Hella, etc. — all bands with epic instrumentation and minimal, if any, (mercifully) lyrical content. Each band has its own unique voice on a roster filled with like-minded musicians, and while some stand out more boldly than others, it is the diversity and plurality of the instrumental approach that makes this supposed non-genre a boon, if not calling card, for the label.


text:
It's that time of year again... the time of year when we *sniff* reflect back on our charmed existence here at Team HotHardware.com; our opportunities to play with the hottest new technologies on the market and of course being blessed with you, our faithful (and might we add extremely good-looking) readers, who are simply the best on the planet!
From now through the US Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays, we're giving away FREE STUFF! Thaaaat's right! Santa has come early for all you Geek-Boys and Girls and we're here to spread the wealth!
HH Tees!!
We have some basic, simple rules to be eligible for the promotion and a chance to win some FREE HH schwag. First, we'll be choosing winners randomly and reporting the winners in separate, dedicated forum thread, so check back here OFTEN. Second, participation in HotHardware.com News comments and discussion will without doubt increase your chances of being selected and winning. We have several dozen of these prizes so your chances are good. All you need to do is participate in the HH Community News comments threads and you could easily win!
Via: HotHardware.com | News Archive | Tags: HotHardware, Hardware, Free, TUF, thanks, hot, AR, COM, K
you guys still owed me, my gift :p, this would bring back old people for sure
Shoot me an IM when you get a chance, I'll take care of ya.
msg has been send :p
Hell Yeah!!..
Courage? :) You don't need courage! Have some fun everyone!
Hi All,
OK, that makes two with you and BigWop. Anyone else?
XXXL for the Virginia Fat boy.
Yeah, I know, I may be a little late,.........sigh!
Heheh... are you implying that you already lost and just get the consolation prize tee-shirt?
No, after I started to post on this one I noticed it was dated way back in in 2007.
So I guess I should read them all the way through before yapping my yap. (or is that rapping?)
Truly, I don't always understand everything you guys talk about in these threads either. My technical knowledge is lacking on allot of these subjects. I've never cooled a CPU with other than air for one thing, and this system is Water Cooled! It looks cool in the pictures. (no pun intended) I've only managed a reliable RAID setup once. When the discussion goes to CPU design and Chip Set capabilities, I'm lost and have to go read up on what you're talking about to try and find something new to say! I'm not totally out of it though, After my stint in the Vietnam era Army, I was lucky enough to land a job with Rockwell International working on the Space Shuttle fleet. I retired from there with Boeing after they bought the company. I was privy to allot of tech developments as they happened and I couldn't have had a more interesting and important job anywhere else as far as I can see.
Because of retired guy money constraints I usually have to buy the very least expensive parts out there. Or I have to wait until they are far from being the newest thing before I can get them. So this system that's up for grabs is like a pinnacle to me.
I feel compelled to comment besides all of these factors because there is a contest going on after all. So,........I'm trying my best not to sound too out of touch or downright stupid while continually spouting off!
This time I threw in for a Tee shirt before I knew the date of the post,............sigh!
I don't need courage! The wizard from Emerald City gave me some on my trip over the rainbow last week.
It won't matter because when you post in one of these threads that is in both the main site and the forum, it populates your comments on both engines (nice huh? :)). However, we're trying to get people use to logging in on the main site and using the simple comments boxes on the news posts.
yeah guilty of that. My quick link for this site takes me straight to the forums. Guess I need to change that huh. Oh and I am a XL since your asking.
Heh, very nice idea! It looks like news comments have at least quadrupled since this was posted.
Free stuff, sounds to good to be true lol. Uni has been rough to me lately which has kept me from doing a whole lot of anything but work, eat, and sleep.
Hmm... look at that Most Active Users list on the front page of the forum starting to get busy. :) Nice!
What's up Drago. Nice to hear from ya.
Hello all! Man it's been awhile. Being a newly wed and my job has kept me away from the site a pretty good bit. I've actually been away from my home for the past two weeks. We had an IT conference out of state, I came home for a few hours and then turned around and went out of town on a family vacation. Our office is also upgrading 45 users to new desktops and dual 22" monitors. I'm the only network admin there so it's been crazy!!! I'm off for 4 days so my post count should shoot right up!!!
I look forward to getting back in my old swing on the forums. Happy Thanksgiving all!!!
I'm like ice91785 in that department.. Have gotten a little fatter, but Still I consider myself using Medium size tshirts :)
@ Bad_boy
I heard "FREE"... Sounds good to me, I'm a large. If only Boa would return
I have requested Boa's presence here again. We'll see if he's around. ;)
Woot boa coming back nice. I need to ask him some questions about overclocking my rig now that its cold enough and im kinda bored. It has been a few years since i have seen him.
Maybe he could re-write the beginners guide to overclocking hmm? Game has changed a bit since then.
Drago you have the same rig that is in your sig?
Ice you brought a good point, OC guide, CPU guide for AMD and Intel needs to be updated or created. also a good Laptop guide which I love to be part of. since it is fun to have one and with all the opportunities now that we could swap parts without any problems. Who would it thought about that 5 years ago hahhahaha, screw recycling I would just keep buying :).
|HotHardware's Halloween Spook-Tacular...
|Apple Joins 5K Revolution, Introduces...
|FCC Claims Butt Dialing Puts A Strain On...
|Anonabox Is A Little Device That...
|Leaked Nexus 9 Benchmark Results Show...
|It's Official: Motorola Announces Google...
|Netflix Quietly Starts Charging New...


text:
Refrigerators & Refrigeration Systems
Helmer on refrigeration aisle is a manufacturer and worldwide distributor of high quality laboratory equipment and refrigerated products. Helmer Refrigerators, Freezers, Platelet Storage, and Plasma Thawing Systems with blood product and vaccine storage also controlled temperature environments. temperature controlled storage with platelet incubators and agitators using the i.Series™ and Horizon Series™. Hettich and helmer with centrifuges.
Nor-Lake scientific, environmental storage equipment, pharmacy refrigerators, freezers, walk in rooms, -86C select Ultra Low, stability chamber
talyst auto cool refrigeration pick to light remote temperature auto carousel autopack
MEPS real time on supply chain. Medication Error Prevention Systems and RIFD Solutions with critical-dose medication dispensing and State-of-the-Art RFID Technology patient safety in medication dispensing with PC-based and HL7 Compliant Software. RFID Automated Dispensing Cabinet (ADC) with Patient Bedside Reader. intelliguard RFID Solutions for Critical Inventory
pharmaceutical refrigerators, tcgrx, sanyo, MPR-514, MPR-1014, +4°C MPR Series, medicines, vaccines, temperature sensitive
Virtual Trade Show Aisles


text:
Health Education
Related Items
News10 Percent of U.S. Adults Physically Limited by Arthritis: CDC
After Hip Fracture, Home Exercise Program May Boost Recovery
Alternative Therapies Widely Used for Autism
Always Ask a Vet Before Giving Painkillers to Pets, Expert Says
Avoiding Injury During Winter Sports
Blood Thinners May Not Be Needed for Kids' Back Surgery
Bone Doctors May Miss Signs of Domestic Abuse, Survey Finds
Bones Benefit From Exercise After Breast Cancer, Study Finds
Breast-Feeding Might Reduce Moms' Odds of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Calcium Supplements Don't Raise Women's Heart Risks, Study Says
Can 6,000 Steps a Day Keep Knee Arthritis at Bay?
Certain Childhood Fractures May Signal Low Bone Density: Study
Certain Symptoms Can Delay Lupus Diagnosis, Researchers Report
Cinnamon May Help Ease Common Cause of Infertility, Study Says
Common Gout Drug Tied to Lower Risk of Early Death in Study
Common Painkillers Tied to Blood Clot Risk, Study Suggests
Could Antioxidants Speed Up Cancer Progression?
CT Scans Might Help Diagnose Gout in Some Cases
Daily Fish Oil Supplement May Not Help Your Heart: Studies
Dance Those Cares Away!
Death Rate After Hip, Knee Replacements Has Dropped Sharply: Study
Delaying Kid's Knee Surgery Could Be a Bad Play, Study Finds
Despite New Rules, Injuries Still Costly for NHL, Study Finds
Dietary Supplements Can't Treat or Cure Concussions: FDA
Drinking Milk as Teens Might Not Protect Men's Bones, Study Suggests
Drinking Milk May Slow Knee Arthritis in Women, Study Finds
Drug Shows Promise Against Arthritis Common in People with Psoriasis
Ease Into a Workout Program to Prevent Injuries
Epilepsy Often Hand-in-Hand With Other Health Problems: CDC
Even Routine Housework May Help Stave Off Disability
Exercise in Youth Boosts Bone Strength Later: Study
Exercise May Help Breast Cancer Survivors Battle Bone Loss
Exercise May Make Life Better for Those With Arthritis
Exercise Might Ease Joint Pain Caused by Breast Cancer Drugs
Experts: Don't Waste Your Money on Multivitamins
FDA Approves Generic Version of Painkiller Celebrex
FDA Warns Consumers Against Body-Building Supplement
Female Triathletes May Face Health Problems Such as Incontinence
Fish Oil Supplements Have Little Effect on Irregular Heartbeat: Study
For Many College Athletes, the Payoff Is Lifelong Disabilities: Study
'Gastric Banding' Patients Often Have Dietary Issues, Study Finds
Good Marriages Might Be Good for More Than a Man's Heart
Gout May Be Linked to Raised Diabetes Risk: Study
Hairless Man Now Hairy, Thanks to Arthritis Drug
Health Tip: Are You at Risk for Arthritis?
Health Tip: Caring for Foot Arthritis
Health Tip: Exercising With Arthritis
Health Tip: Have Jaw Pain?
Health Tip: Losing Weight May Help Against Osteoarthritis
Health Tip: Maintaining Healthy Joints
Health Tip: Managing Arthritis-Related Fatigue
Health Tip: Reducing Your Risk of Stress Fractures
Healthy Adults Shouldn't Take Vitamin E, Beta Carotene: Expert Panel
Heavy Kids May Suffer Worse Elbow Fractures
Hip Replacement Safe for Patients in Their 90s, Study Finds
Hormone Therapy May Cut Risk of Repeat Joint Replacement Surgery in Women
Jury Still Out on Benefits of Vitamin D
Knee Ligament Tears Don't Permanently Sideline Most College Football Players
Knee Replacement Surgeries Rising With Obesity Rates
Knee Surgery May Put Kids at Higher Risk for Future Arthritis
Ladies, Take 5 Steps to Avoid Osteoporosis
Low Vitamin B-12 Levels Tied to Bone Fractures in Older Men
Low Vitamin D Levels Linked to High Blood Pressure
Low Vitamin D Tied to Anemia Risk in Kids
Malnutrition Threatens Many U.S. Seniors Seen at ERs
Many Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients May Skip Meds: Study
More Evidence That Probiotics Won't Ease Baby's Colic
More Evidence Ties Some Bone-Building Drugs to Rare Fractures
Most Crash Victims Don't Plan to Sue: Study
Nail-Gun Injuries on the Rise Among Construction Workers
New Knees, Hips May Also Help the Heart
New Ligament Discovered in Human Knee
No Good Data For or Against Taking Vitamins, Experts Say
No Sign That Vitamin D Supplements Help Aging Bones: Study
Novel Osteoporosis Drug Could Change Treatment: Study
Nutritional Supplement May Benefit Parkinson's Patients
Obesity Is Driving Surge in Knee Replacements, Study Finds
Osteoporosis Drugs' Long-Term Use Needs More Research: FDA
Otezla Approved for Psoriatic Arthritis
Pain Can Plague Women After Knee Replacement Surgery
Parents' Addiction May Be Linked to Arthritis in Offspring
Physical Therapy May Not Improve Hip Arthritis, Study Finds
Poor Fitness in Middle Age Tied to Early Death Risk in Study
Potentially Helpful Omega-3 Fatty Acids Can Cross to Brain: Study
Probiotic Drops Might Ease Colic: Study
Probiotics Don't Prevent Childhood Asthma, Study Finds
Probiotics Not Shown to Soothe Babies' Colic, Review Finds
Restless Sleep Linked to Widespread Pain in Older Adults
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients See Big Boost in Quality of Life
Salty Foods May Double Smokers' Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Shoulder Replacement May Help for Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis
Shoulders Take a Pounding in High School Football
Skip the Steroids for Shoulder Pain?
Smokers' Broken Bones May Heal Less Quickly: Study
Some Hip-Replacement Parts Not Proven Safe or Effective: Study
Steep Drops in Weight May Raise Risks After Body-Contour Surgeries
Steer Clear of Dietary Supplements for Concussions: FDA
Study Questions Value of Certain Knee Surgeries
Study: Vitamin D Supplements May Not Raise Risk for Kidney Stones
Surgeons' Group Gives Gift of New Hips, Knees to Uninsured
Take Steps to Control Bunions
Teen 'Growing Pains' May Persist For Years
Teens' Screen Time May Affect Their Bone Health: Study
Those With Arthritis Face Higher Risk of Falls: CDC
Timely Surgery Tied to Better Outcomes After Hip Fracture
'Tommy John' Surgery Gets Major League Pitchers Back on the Mound
Training Programs Protect Young Athletes From ACL Tears: Report
Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis Early May Cut Damaging Effects
Ultramarathoners: How's Their Health?
Vitamin D Deficiency Might Be Overdiagnosed in Blacks, Study Suggests
Vitamin D May Slow Multiple Sclerosis, Study Suggests
Vitamin D Supplements Don't Help Your Health: Review
Vitamin D Supplements Won't Help Prevent Disease: Review
Vitamin E, Selenium Supplements Don't Seem to Prevent Cataracts
Vitamin E, Selenium Supplements Might Double Chances of Prostate Cancer
Walking May Help Older Men Sidestep Hip Fractures
Weight-Loss Surgery Might Help Mild Knee Pain
What Happens When a Child With Autism Refuses Most Foods?
Will You Need Knee Replacement? Maybe Your Hand Can Tell You


text:
As a manufacturer and a supply-and-installation provider, BlueScope Lysaght Malaysia offers a broad range of roofing, wall cladding and structural products made of ZINCALUME® steel and Clean COLORBOND® steel. On top of that, customers can be assured with a comprehensive range of technical and consultancy services.These value-added services distinguish the company from other manufacturers and suppliers of steel building products. With quality being the focus, BlueScope Lysaght Malaysia aspires to maintain its market leadership that exudes confidence to our customers and partners in an increasingly competitive market.
The commitment to continuous research, development and innovation together with the practice of quality assurance at all levels and keeping abreast with the dynamics of the building and construction technology, has earned the Company the trust and confidence of its customers.
In November 1989, BlueScope Lysaght has received MS ISO9002: 1994 recognitions for Quality Systems – Model for Quality Assurance in Production, Installation and Servicing.
From 1997 to 1999 and year 2001, Malaysian Society for Occupational Safety and Health conferred the Gold Award status to BlueScope Lysaght Malaysia for excellent safety and health practice.
In June 2002, BlueScope Lysaght Malaysia obtained accreditation from Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance for the ISO14001: 1996 Environmental Management System Standard.


text:
Activity from games (page 2)
Talkin' Trizzle for 100 Swag Bucks or More
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Wed, April 2nd, 2014 at 6:00 am
Happy Wednesday, Swag Nation!
Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us for this week's Wednesday Game Challenge. How's everybody doin'? Great. Glad to hear it. There have definitely been some changes since our last challenge on Friday. I know it's an adjustment, but we will be adding some more games and bringing some back soon. I'm actually really excited about all the great new games coming to Swagbucks Play. I'm actually really excited about the three great new games we've added already!
Today, we're looking at one of the three. So far, it's probably my personal favorite. Talkin' Trizzle.
At a glance, Trizzle seems like a game made up by Snoop Dogg'sSnoop Lion's Russian grandmother, but it's actually about cannibalism. Okay, maybe not, but there are these cute Russian dolls and when you get three identical dolls in a row vertically or horizontally, they stack up to form a larger doll that could then be matched with two identical, larger dolls. They all look pretty happy so perhaps there's no digestion involved, but maybe they are all just looking satiated. Anyway, to stack these sweet/ravenous dolls/man-eaters, you'll need to slide rows left, right, up, or down to line up 3 in a row and each slide counts as a move. You have a limited number of moves so think about your decisions carefully and go for the highest score you can. If you manage to match 3 large dolls in a row, the dolls will disappear and make the surrounding dolls grow larger. Probably, because they fear they need to bulk up to not get eaten… Sorry, I'm just not sure I trust the way they all climb inside each other so happily. Respect people's (and dolls') personal bubble, folks!
So what's today's challenge? Get any score on Trizzle, take a screenshot, and post a link in the comments for this blog post. Alternatively, you can take a screenshot of a tournament entry from today with any score on any game. For each of these correctly filled out posts you make, you will have one entry in a raffle to win 100 Swag Bucks. You may enter as many times as you like with new screenshots showing different scores. You may wish to protect your efforts by adding your Swag Name to it in a paint program. If you need an image hosting service, I recommend tinypic.com because it's quick and easy. Three winners will be selected at random from all of today's entries and announced in this blog post and on Twitter on Thursday.
You can also participate via Twitter by tweeting your screenshot @Swagbucks, along with your Swag Name and the hashtag #sbgames. You may place each entry both on Twitter and in the comments, but if you win from an entry placed on Twitter, you will win an additional 100 Swag Bucks.
There's no score requirement for today's challenge, but if you are one of today's three lucky winners and your screenshot shows a score over 50,000 or any score in one of today's Trizzle tournaments, you will receive an additional 25 Swag Bucks. In addition, if you are one of today's lucky winners and your entry includes a comment about what you think of Trizzle or an explanation of why Snoop Lion's Russian grandma would make such a game, you will receive another additional 25 Swag Bucks. That's a total of 250 SB you could win today.
Good luck and have fun!
Update: This week's winners are CandyCondy, Sapphire2007, & Swagger4Cash -Congratulations! New Challenge next week!
Don't forget: You can still earn yourself 100 swag Bucks by submitting a game challenge of your own!
Friday Game Challenge – Tower Builder and Fyoozd
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Fri, March 28th, 2014 at 7:00 amHappy Friday, Swag Nation! Now that is a greeting I can get behind! Happy, happy Friday, everyone! It's really been a treat to be able to offer you guys challenges each day this week. I'm certainly sorry it isn't under better circumstances, but don't worry, I happen to know we'll be getting some cool new ... Read More »
Wednesday Game Challenge – Fallin' n' Diggin' for 200 Swag Bucks
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Wed, March 26th, 2014 at 6:00 amHappy Wednesday, Swag Nation! Now that sounds familiar! I hope you guys have been enjoying your daily game challenges. I know that it's a bit bittersweet as we may be having our last challenges on these games, but we will most certainly be keeping some or bringing them back if they need to leave for ... Read More »
Tuesday Game Challenge – Klondike Solitaire and Submarine Puzzle
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Tue, March 25th, 2014 at 7:00 amHappy Tuesday, Swag Nation! If you weren't with us Monday, we're spending the week in tribute to some of the games we might be losing soon due to the closing of Mochi Games. We're working on keeping as many as we can, but in the meantime, we're going to get some last enjoyment out of ... Read More »
Monday Game Challenge – FishMunch and Drop3
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Mon, March 24th, 2014 at 7:00 amHappy Monday, Swag Nation! Whoa. Happy Monday? I don't think I've ever had the chance to say such a thing before. It's great to be able to offer a game challenge on a Monday and I'm excited to be able to offer a new one each day at 7am PT for the rest of this ... Read More »
This One's a Game Changer!
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Fri, March 21st, 2014 at 1:00 pmAttention Swaggernauts – As you may have heard, one of the companies we rely on to provide the necessary backend for the Swagbucks Play or Games area is going out of business by the end of this month. [read the TechCrunch announcement here] What this means in the immediate future is that many of your ... Read More »
Making the Best of Your Hand with Waylanderz for 100 SB
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Wed, March 19th, 2014 at 6:00 amHappy Wednesday, Swag Nation! It's time for another fun gaming challenge and another chance to win 100 Swag Bucks or more! We're going to keep the Swaggernaut Suggested challenges going today, but before we get to today's challenge, I want to let you know that there are March MEGA progressive tournaments on every tournament game ... Read More »
A Few Hands of Blackjack with apk1987 for 100 SB
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Wed, March 12th, 2014 at 6:00 amHappy Wednesday, Swag Nation! I hope you guys are ready for a great Swaggernaut suggested Game Challenge. apk1987 is our host today and they've got us playing a Swag Nation favorite. Not only that, but I really hope they show up and hang out with us because they have a really cool interesting fact it'd ... Read More »
Two Days of Games, Two Shots at 200 Swag Bucks, 20 Shots at More!
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Sat, March 8th, 2014 at 8:00 amHappy Weekend, Swag Nation! It's great to have you all here for another fun challenge and another two shots at winning 200 Swag Bucks and much, much more. I hope your weekends are all already off to a great start. This Weekend's Challenge might just be the best one ever because not only do you ... Read More »
Out of This World Gaming for 100 Swag Bucks or More
Posted by Team Swagbucks on Wed, March 5th, 2014 at 6:00 amHappy Wednesday, Swag Nation! After a weekend of Oscars and odd uses of ketchup, we're back with another fun challenge and another chance to win 100 Swag Bucks or more. Before we get to today's challenge, anyone try that french toast with ketchup business? Now that we know who won, did your favorite movies get ... Read More »
Don't Miss a Single Post
Subscribe to the RSS Feed Or enter your email address
to have our blog delivered to you.
Sign Up for the Newsletter
Enter your email address
to sign up for the newsletter.
Like Us on Facebook
Search By Category
The Blog Roll


text:
Welcome back to the Weekly Comic Pull List!
Let's take a look at this week's slate of upcoming issues, as well as a few of our picks for the week of May 1st, 2013.
In an attempt to defeat Ultron two Marvel Heroes take it upon themselves to create an all-new Marvel Universe. But is the one they have created better or worse than the one they left behind? The event of the year just got INSANE!!
The most acclaimed new book of the year continues! Who pulled the trigger? Where have you seen him before? Have you seen him before? Maybe. But not like this. It's murder, mayhem, and greasepaint make-up for the money, kids — and that means playtime is over, Monsieur Hulot. Caw caw.
Death's Head and Iron Man team-up to hunt down a genocidal criminal. Not the problem. A shipful of dead badoon. Not the problem. What Tony finds in the depths of that ship: the problem. Big problem. The lead into the biggest Tony Stark story of the year.
Iron Man: The Coming of the Melter #1
Iron Man meets his match with the Malevolent Melter! With technology similar to Iron Man's, will the Melter bring the downfall of Stark Industries? It's a battle of wits and might with Iron Man and War Machine leading the charge! Relive an old battle between Iron Man and the Melter in the classic reprinting of Iron Man #72!
The Superior era of Spider-Man comes to a dramatic turning point, which Slott promises will make fans angrier then they were after ASM #700! Such a huge statement obviously makes this the Marvel Pull of the Week! It looks like the showdown between Doc Ock and Peter Parker for control of Spidey's body will happen here, which will set up just who will be the Superior Spider-Man for the foreseeable future. Whose side are you on?
Fortress Utopia! The Mutant Nation is Under Siege! And General Ross is leading the charge!! Can Kitty and Mach Two work together for the good of mutantkind?! Jimmy Hudson prepares for war!!
One Hell Lord stands victorious as the Earth is consumed in fire and brimstone.The few remaining members of X-Factor make one last ditch effort to save the world from its grim future. Not all will survive the final battle. And the last person you would expect winds up sitting on the throne of Hell…
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Digest Vol. 3
Earth's Mightiest action bounds off Disney XD and into your hands! Faced with a meteorite zooming toward Earth, only Ms. Marvel can save the day! Black Widow and the Wasp team up to take down Dr. Doom! When the Leader attacks with an army of monsters, Ant-Man holds the key to victory! Ultron seizes control of the Vision, but the android will prove you can't reprogram a hero! Captain America must fight the deadly Nightmare in his own dreams! It's a battle of mythic proportions as Thor takes on Hercules, the Prince of Power! When Captain America hulks out, only Bruce Banner can help him! Thor and the Avengers show Loki what it means to be a brother!
Cable and X-Force Vol. 1: Wanted Now
Iron Man/ War Machine: Hands of the Mandarin
Iron Man's friendship with War Machine is strained to the breaking point — and his new team, Force Works, is still working out the kinks. And if that wasn't enough, the Mandarin has located the ancient alien artifact known as the Heart of Darkness — and that spells trouble for Tony Stark! Determined to end the age of technology and return the world to a feudal state, the Mandarin and his new Avatars begin an all-out assault on Hong Kong! Will Force Works rise to the occasion? Can War Machine's badly damaged armor withstand the brutal battle? And how can the captured Iron Man possibly overcome the Mandarin's new cosmic power?
Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man Vol. 8
The New Warriors Omnibus Vol. 1
Young, idealistic heroes Marvel Boy, Firestar, Nova, Namorita, Speedball and the mysterious Night Thrasher join forces as the New Warriors – determined to make a difference and fight the kinds of crime other heroes won't touch! But as the naive Warriors dig deeper into a world of grey areas and moral compromises, can they maintain their youthful ideals? And with foes like Terrax, the Juggernaut, Psionex, the Punisher, the Sphinx and more – along with a shocking threat from within – can they even stay alive? Guest-starring Thor, X-Force, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and more!
Wolverine: The Best There Is – The Complete Series
Superman battles an enemy of his own making in the horrible Hybrid—but what else does Lex Luthor have in store for The Man of Steel and the people of Metropolis? Get set to learn some of the secrets behind Luthor's role in The New 52!
The battle against the Rot has left Buddy's family in ruins, and now they must withstand another force trying to subvert him: his own celebrity!
This issue answers the question that's been on everyone's mind: Who is Batwing?
Nelson and Roxie are on the run from the Centipede and The Fixer! Their only hope of rescue lies in the hands of Open Window Man! But who is that masked avenger?
Komodo and The Outsiders have destroyed Green Arrow's life, but how far will Ollie fall before he's forced to take desperate measures?
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #33
Heavy metal rock band "Smooch" is scared silly when the ghost of Johnny B. Badd shows up and puts on a show-stopping performance! Can Mystery Inc. crack the case and bring back the music?
It's Swamp Thing vs. Superman for the fate of Metropolis—and why are all of Swamp Thing's worst nightmares coming true? Plus: Who is the mysterious Capucine?
The DC Pull of the Week! Here's why:
We are faceless. We are limitless. We see all. And we do not forgive. Who defends the powerless against the GREEDY and the CORRUPT? Who protects the homeless and poverty-stricken from those who would PREY upon them in the DARK OF NIGHT? When those who are sworn to protect us abuse their power, when toxic government calls down super-human lackeys to force order upon the populace…finally, there is a force, a citizen's army, to push order BACK. Let those who abuse the system know this as well: We have our OWN super humans now. They are not afraid of your badges or Leagues. And they will not be SILENCED. We are your neighbors. We are your co-workers. And we are your children.
And we are interested.
As Power Girl returns to her classic look, DeSaad wreaks havoc on her tech empire—and PG and Huntress find themselves hunted by the talented torturer from Apokolips.
Superman: Action Comics Vol. 1 – Superman and the Men of Steel
The first collection of GRANT MORRISON'S epic run on ACTION COMICS, with art by RAGS MORALES, ANDY KUBERT and more! In these startling tales, the people of METROPOLIS turn on their new champion! Plus, the SUPERMAN of today and the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES must save the jeans-wearing Superman of five years ago!
Superman: Action Comics Vol. 2- Bulletproof
Collecting more of Jack Kirby's epic tales from the 1970s and 1980s starring The Sandman, The Justice League, Atlas and many more.
World of Warcraft: Dark Riders
Part 1 of a brand new arc! "The Return of the Maharaja" takes us to the exotic Fables world of the Indu (from which our own world's India is but a shadow). We kick off the high-adventure with one of the fairest and most badass women to grace these pages yet. Meet Nalayani from story and song. It starts when her humble village under attack, which sends her on a quest that will transform all of Fables forever.
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book 2
Vertigo presents the concluding volume of the official graphic novel adaptation of THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO! In Book 2, the mystery of Harriet Vanger's disappearance deepens as crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the indomitable Lisbeth Salander join forces to crack the decades-old case. Together they uncover a twisted secret that may end up costing them their lives. Don't miss the gripping conclusion to one of the most thrilling books of all time!
The skies over Vietnam rain liquid fire as Brian Curliss, AKA Jungle Jim continues his epic quest to find the rotting, undead remains of Sergeant Jim Asher. Jim's search carries him across the border into war-torn Cambodia, where the struggling occupants of an isolated French mission hold their own against hunger, madness and the ravenous dead.
In the dripping shadows of the rainforest, human life hangs on a hair trigger and to save himself and those who need him, Jim will have to face more than the living dead and swarms of vengeful Viet Cong… because here there be tigers.
Tom Judge and Tilly Grimes are not the only ones that know the hidden truths of the universe. The Catholic Church knows dark realities kept secret from the world and they have agents to protect us from those secrets, whether we want them to… or not. RON MARZ and new artist MARCO TURINI re-introduce one of Top Cow's most popular characters into the "Rebirth" universe!
The series' EPIC conclusion! Song's uncle, her sole remaining family, is killed while in government custody. Enraged, will Song seek vengeance for his death, or try to find inner peace so she can finally lead a normal life?
Karic and his cause have been betrayed, and the fragile alliance he forged crumbles before him. Faced with ever-increasing loss, the courageous mouse makes a daring decision! Meanwhile, his surviving family and friends in hiding at the capital city face an even greater betrayal by one of their own; and Karic's mother Mornae comes face-to-face with the wrath of the mad king Icarus!
It all ends here as the awful truth behind a multi-million dollar conspiracy is revealed, with deadly consequences. If young Jake is to survive, what kind of man must he become? And is it worth the price?
Who Is In Control? The Man? Or the Monster? "Complex Messiah" is an epic new story arc, serving as a jumping on point for new readers, as well as the next phase in Spawn's evolution. As the worldwide fervor around Jim Downing's miraculous gifts continues to grow, the darkness that lives within him begins to threaten his newfound fame. Meanwhile, a small group of online friends gain insight into their understanding of the Hellspawn, slowly piecing together a dangerous new theory about the world's newest "messiah." And, somewhere in the shadows, an old enemy lurks.
Also featured: Detective Craig Rowand came to New York looking for clues. That journey brought him face-to-face with evil in the form of the demonic temptress, Hel. Haunted by the encounter, a good man's steady spiral into madness begins here.
Joe Fitzgerald was a mob enforcer until the day he met Laura, who convinced him to leave that world behind. Before quitting, Joe agreed to one last job, little realizing that the man he'd been sent to kill was deeply involved in demonlogy. He survived Joe's attempt and came after him, fatally wounding Joe and killing Laura. As he lay dying, an angelic force (who may or may not be what she appears) pointed out that where she is going, he can't follow, and where he is going, he wouldn't want her to follow. But if he will agree to work for them as a different kind of enforcer, they will bring him to life and keep on bringing him to life every time he is killed in a righteous cause. The reward: for those five minutes of death, he will be with Laura again. Would you endure an eternity of pain and death, dying over and over, to be with the woman you love for just five minutes each time you died? Most people might say no. But Joe Fitzgerald isn't most people.
A walled utopia conceived by the elites of the former United States. A barbaric wilderness engulfed in the perpetual strife of tribal warfare. A crack soldier tasked with a clandestine mission to recover a lost comrade. Welcome to the American dark age of the 22nd Century. The first arc of Image's dystopian espionage thriller is collected here! Already acclaimed by some of comics' top creators and released just in time for readers to jump on board with issue 6!
Afghanistan. U.S. Marines face a never-ending onslaught of Taliban. But even hell can get worse. The dead are coming back to life in The Graveyard of Empires, and only together can both sides of the today's conflict survive tomorrow's undead assault. Writer MARK SABLE (Unthinkable, Two-Face Year One) reunites with his GROUNDED co-creator, PAUL AZACETA (Amazing Spider-Man) to tell this critically claimed, controversial tale of terror. Featuring an all-new story created by Paul Azaceta in his comics writing debut!
Great Pacific Vol. 1: Trashed!
Dark Horse
47 Ronin #4
After months of meticulous planning, Lord Asano's retainers launch a daring midnight raid on the man who brought his ruin and death. The moment of reckoning arrives in this penultimate chapter of Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai's authentic take on Japan's greatest historical legend!
Michael Avon Oeming's The Victories #1
Following the Jackal's faceoff with Faustus and an attack on the US infrastructure, the Victories face a plague of new evils threatening their city. Who is trying to destroy our nation? Can the Victories overcome their own spiritual demons to keep the team together and save the world?
Mister X: Eviction #1
Star Wars: Dark Times – Fire Carrier #4
Jedi Master K'Kruhk goes to war against the soldiers of a local militia in order to give the Padawans he's vowed to protect a chance to escape. But the Padawans have encountered a new, unexpected danger in the forest. What's worse is that the Empire has become suspicious of the militia's activities and is bringing in troops to investigate. The Force is a powerful ally, but even a Jedi Master can't fight a battle on three fronts!
Korak, Son of Tarzan Archives Vol. 1
Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms – Cutter #2
Tragedy strikes a peaceful Moon Elf village-and at the heart is Tos'un and Sinnafain's children: their half-drow daughter Doum'wielle and her brother Tos'un. And driving the tragedy is the bloodthirsty sentient sword Khazid'hea-a blade known for driving its wielders into savage madness!
The second story arc comes to a close as little Tommy Bailey and the Nova Viras continue their contributions to the war effort to devastating effect! See science and robot mayhem play out on a global scale! Don't miss any of the action in this runaway hit series from John Layman and John McCrea!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Color Classics #10
Aliens have landed in the separatist town of Carbon Falls… and-worse-they've reanimated the town's dead, too. As Hux Robertson and the rest deal with these crises, they also have to contend with a traitor within and the ATF, too!
The Transformers Spotlight: Hoist #1
Dungeons & Dragons: Neverwinter Tales Vol. 1 The Legend of Drizzt
Jack Davis: EC Stories Artist Edition
Jack Davis is one of the founding fathers of EC Comics, he is a master of horror, humor, and nearly every other genre EC published. Aside from his work at EC, Davis is one of the most prolific and popular commercial artists of all time. His instantly recognizable style has graced covers of Time Magazine and TV Guide, as well as movie posters and stamps. Jack Davis' EC Stories: Artist's Edition will present not only a beautiful selection of some of Davis' best and most memorable stories-such as FOUL PLAY-and an extensive cover gallery-and all at the same size as originally drawn!
Magic the Gathering Vol. 3: Path of Vengeance
Michael William Kaluta Sketchbook Series Vol. 4
Michael Wm. Kaluta has been creating beautiful imagery for more than 40 years. Highlights of his career include what many consider to be the definitive version of The Shadow, the still in-progress Starstruck, and a myriad of stunning covers illustrated for nearly every comics publisher-as well as being part of the legendary The Studio (along with Jeffery Catherine Jones, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Bernie Wrightson).
Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles Ultimate Collection Vol. 2: Red Label Edition
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 5
He is a warlord, a genius, and a squishy pink brain. He is General Krang. One of the most signature villains in TMNT history, Krang has an arsenal and wit unlike any other and his master plan sees the TMNTs come into direct confrontation with one of their mightiest enemies!
The Transformers: Regeneration One Vol. 2
Transported through time to 2013, the original pulp heroine is tasked with hunting down cloaked Nazi secret agents in modern-day Washington. But as she suffers ever worsening mental flashes back to the 1940s and to a war-ravaged future, Miss Fury is forced to question her own sanity. Is any of this real? What are the giant triangular craft hovering over future Manhattan? And is the man she's supposed to assassinate really a Nazi agent, or is this just murder?
A classic pulp from the 30′s returns in this modern take on a seminal character that inspired several well-known comic icons. Tony Quinn is a brash Defense Attorney to the mob who compromises his ethics for financial gain. When he refuses to cross the line and commit murder, he is tortured and blinded by his gangster employers. But when a fortuitous meeting with a covert agency gives him a chance to make amends, Tony transforms into the Black Bat and embarks on a redemptive quest to right the wrongs of his past.
Receiving aid from the most unexpected of places, Vampirella and Janus are back on the trail of the missing angel general as the mystery of what sent the divine military leader into hiding is revealed. Who are the mysterious children that Evanuel has sworn to protect, and what do they have to do with the eventual extinction of the angelic species? And, what terrible fate has befallen the customers of the Club Switzerland? All will be revealed in the thrilling, penultimate issue of the On the Side of Angels story line.
Army of Darkness Vol. 1: Hail to the Queen, Baby!
Army of Darkness Omnibus Vol. 3
Hail to the Third Omnibus, Baby! Dynamite's Army of Darkness saga, based on the cult hit movie, continues with this collection of issues #13-27. Volume Three promises more gory chainsaw action, more buckshot blasts to undead faces, more Deadite threats than ever before… and even more Chosen Ones! Featuring stories written by Mike Raicht (Dark Shadows) and Jim Kuhoric (Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash) with art by Scott Cohn, Mario Gully, Dave Simons, and Pablo Marcos, these tales of heroism gone horribly wrong are sure to amaze and delight.
The Lone Ranger: Snake of Iron
Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm #9
WHAT DANGER LURKS IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE? Still recovering from the terrible cataclysm that rocked the planet, Doctor Zaius tries to maintain the fragile coalition of apes, chimps and orangutans, in an effort to ensure that the rebuilding of Ape City continues apace. But the cataclysm also shook something loose in the Forbidden Zone that could fracture Ape society as we know it…
Heroes are dying, and cops are dying twofold. Humanity is underpowered in the face of their onslaught, and people are suffering untold casualties trying to stem the flow. After barely surviving a super-powered bank heist gone horribly wrong, beat cop Leo Winters vowed to try and find a way to stop them. Following a lead, he discovered two lowlifes who seemed to be able to grant a person powers…for the right price. Thing is: you don't get to choose which power. It's seemingly random, a crap-shoot, a risk. Will Leo decide to take that risk? And why is it that even the heroes in this world eventually break…bad?
Archie #643: Archie Meets Glee, Part 3
Dilton Doiley invented a machine that opened a wormhole between Riverdale and an alternate, mirror-verse with kids exactly like the Archie gang. Now Dilton and his new BFF Artie are trying to rebuild the Portal-Porter before the delicate balance between universes is disrupted by a kiss between star-crossed teens. Even the possibility of a Betty-Puck romance would set off a chain-reaction of cataclysmic events ending with not one, but two worlds imploding!
It's Sonic versus Mega Man – Round One! The fight that every fan of both the Blue Blur and Blue Bomber has been waiting for is here at last, and it looks like Sonic's got the hometeam advantage! Can Mega Man cope with the Blue Blur in a land of loops? Meanwhile, Dr. Wily is concerned his old rival might cause problems, which sets Dr. Eggman's sites on Dr. Light! Don't miss a moment of this historic crossover event as the heroic fights and evil friendships rage on! Continues in this month's Mega Man #25!
Alan Moore's visionary tale reveals the truth and horror behind the lavish trappings of Celestine's fashion empire. As the world teeters on the verge of self-destruction, and Doll witnesses the final moments of her benefactor, a choice must be made. And Doll does the unthinkable by proclaiming who the phoenix of Celestine's empire will be… The end is near and the choices made will either spell the salvation of it or usher in its utter ruin.
Grimm Fairy Tales: The Jungle Book – Last of the Species #3
The jungle adventure continues as Mowglii and Tobaqui find out that they are not alone in the caves under Kipling Island while Baloo and his group continue to search the jungle high and low for their missing friends. Meanwhile, the conflict between Dewan and Bomani escalates to a deadlier new level.
For hundreds of years the Shadowmen have guarded our world from the horrors of the nightmare realm known as the Deadside and opposed the mysterious sorcerer known only as Master Darque. Should Darque make his way to Earth, all life as we know it could cease to exist. But who is Master Darque? Where did he come from? And does current Shadowman Jack Boniface have any hope of defeating this seemingly unstoppable force? Don't miss this special standalone issue and discover why this is the series IGN calls "all kinds of great" right here in Shadowman #0!
One Dollar Debut
On May 1st, jump into all of Valiant's ongoing series for only a dollar apiece! Just in time for Valiant's one-year anniversary and Free Comic Book Day 2013, Valiant is proud to announce a new line of reprints, re-presenting the sold-out first issue debuts of the series that launched the all-new Valiant Universe.
That does it for this week's Comic Pull List! Enjoy New Comic Wednesday and support your LCS! Let us know what's on your personal pull list in the comment section below!
Images from their respective publishers as listed.


text:
TaylorMade R11 Left Irons
In the end TaylorMade last but not least unveiled his or her TaylorMade R11 Left Irons. TaylorMade's latest expansion towards overwhelmingly favorite R11 brand was to make an in terms of iron set that is engineered intended for players that appreciate the contour and refinement of a tour-grade flat iron but need the help of technologies to introduction the basketball high, right, and prolonged with much less effort, no matter handicap. Already tested to be a forgiving as well as easy to kick club. The R11 irons are not blades or a pair of vacation only sets. Designed using more forgiveness in mind they tempt a a great deal larger target market. On this heels involving Ping's large announcement for their new sets for subsequent season I'm sure was simply no coincidence.
They quite simply put all sorts of brand-new technology put on into all these irons. Mixing distance, forgiveness, effortless launch, which has a soft look and sound for a solid striking club. I prefer that that they still own that vintage look, great lines nevertheless , you can certainly tell they need all your high-tech information.
Set that they are priced during $799 plus $999 together with TaylorMade R11 Left Irons graphite shafts. The iron set will present KBS three months shafts and also Graphtie set will have Motore 75S, 65R, 55M, 5 L as well as finished down with Trip Velvet grips. They are going to be available September 1st to get purchased in shops.
Lastly, the R11's limited irons have a very shallow undercut channel between that face and rear to control feel plus CG area, the mid-irons have a very moderate undercut, and also the long irons employ a progressively large undercut this pulls weight farther back from your face pertaining to added forgiveness. Establishing with 3. 0mm thick face in the long irons to be able to 2. 3mm in the mid irons and also 2. 5mm in the short irons, they will bring elevated feel.
General, the brand-new TaylorMade R11 Left Irons are this type of lengend that you must try them on the course. They are engineered to the player which appreciates the form and refinement on the tour-grade metal but needs what of state-of-the-art technology to launch this ball high, straight as well as long having less effort, regardless regarding handicap. Are that they what you are looking at?


text:
- Musician's Friend Best Selection, Price & Service. Guaranteed.
Need Help? Call our Gear Heads at 800-449-9128Private Reserve Guitars 866-926-1923
Need Help? Call our Gear Heads at 800-449-9128
Results 1 - 3 of 3 matches
Ultra Adjustment tom arm with 10 inch down tube. Available in a 3/4" or 7/8" ratchet style tom arm.
Holds Pearl toms.
Our product catalog varies by country due to manufacturer restrictions. If you change the Ship-To country, some or all of the items in your cart may not ship to the new destination.


text:
Forecast International Predicts Bizav Upswing
Industry market analyst Forecast International sees slow but steady improvement ahead for the business aviation industry in its new study released this week. Based on trends, such as increased business jet usage, stabilization in the used jet market, economic growth and strong corporate profits, the company believes the industry has already weathered the worst of the downturn. "Business jet production in 2012 will show some minor improvements over 2011, but more substantial growth in build rates will have to wait until 2013," said Raymond Jaworowski, the firm's senior aerospace analyst. Forecast International estimates industry output for 2011 will be 683 jets and 2012 another 728 jets, which would signal the start of a gradual market recovery. (Other sources have told AIN that 2011 business jet deliveries will number about 625.) According to the report, OEMs will match their 2008 peak of 1,313 jets produced by 2018. The study predicts a total of 10,907 new business jets will be delivered between 2011 and 2020 with an estimated value of more than $230 billion, totals that are in line with those released earlier in Honeywell's annual prognostication. While the market has been split in demand between strong interest in the top end and sluggish sales in the light and medium segments, the study does not see that trend continuing indefinitely.
Please Register
In order to leave comments you will now need to be a registered user. This change in policy is to protect our site from an increased number of spam comments. Additionally, in the near future you will be able to better manage your AIN subscriptions via this registration system. If you already have an account, click here to log in. Otherwise, click here to register.


text:
scalability: All content tagged as scalability in NoSQL databases and polyglot persistence
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Videos from Surge Conference
Even if not focused on NoSQL, the videos from the Surge conference are covering very interesting aspects related to scalability. Here are a couple of examples:
- Theo Schlossnagle: Scalable Design Patterns
- Justin Sheehy: Embracing Concurrency at Scale
- Ronald Bradford: The most common MySQL scalability mistakes, and how to avoid them
- Ruslan Belkin: Going 0 to 60: Scaling LinkedIn
- Robert Treat: Database Scalability Patterns
- Artur Bergman: Scaling and Loadbalancing Wikia Across The World
- Mike Malone: Working with Dimensional Data in a Distributed Hash Table
- Gavin M. Roy: Scaling myYearbook.com - Lessons Learned From Rapid Growth
- Benjamin Black: Go with the flow - Meditations on network infrastructure analysis
- John Allspaw: The "Go or No-Go": Operability and Contingency at Etsy
- Rod Cope: Top 10 Lessons Learned from Deploying Hadoop in a Private Cloud
Last but not least there's also a "SQL vs NoSQL" panel featuring Geir Magnusson Jr (Moderator), Robert Treat, Baron Schwartz, Mike Malone and Justin Sheehy.
Original title and link: Videos from Surge Conference (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Citrix sprinkles apps magic on SQL, NoSQL data
The Register:
Native support for SQL and NoSQL has been added to Citrix Systems' NetScaler, which until now had specialized in high-availability only for applications. […] The change means NetScaler works with Microsoft's SQL Server, MySQL and NoSQL data stores and Yahoo!'s number-crunching platform Hadoop and Google's MapReduce, Citrix said. […] NetScaler sits in front of the web server to mange and balance the traffic. With the addition of SQL and NoSQL, NetScaler will now sit in front of relational and non relational data stores and clusters such as Hadoop and architectures like MapReduce and serve up photos, Tweets, status updates, e-transactions, or enterprise sales reports.
What if you don't believe in magic and ask:
- what NoSQL databases are supported?
- how can NetScaler be more than a load balancer?
When you read about Twitter's Gizzard — the library for creating distributed datastores — there's no mention of magic.
Original title and link: Citrix sprinkles apps magic on SQL, NoSQL data (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/netscaper_citric_data/
Saturday, 2 April 2011
MongoDB, NoSQL, and Web Scale with 10gen CTO Eliot Horowitz
From thechangelog podcast:
- MongoDB roadmap: MongoDB 2.0 will be focusing on concurrency, aggregation, online compaction, and TTL temporal collections
- MongoDB single server durability as the most awaited feature of the recent MongoDB 1.8 release
- MongoDB compared with Riak and CouchDB
- MongoDB geo support
And it is cool that Eliot and 10gen think the Web Scale meme is all in good fun.
Original title and link: MongoDB, NoSQL, and Web Scale with 10gen CTO Eliot Horowitz (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
How Scalable is VoltDB?
Percona guys[1] have run, analyzed, and concluded about VoltDB scalability:
VoltDB is very scalable; it should scale to 120 partitions, 39 servers, and 1.6 million complex transactions per second at over 300 CPU cores
Considering the definition: "A system whose performance improves after adding hardware, proportionally to the capacity added, is said to be a scalable system.", the conclusion should be slightly updated:
VoltDB can scale up to 120 partitions on 39 servers with 300 CPU cores and 1.6 million TPS.
Bottom line:
- if you can fit your data into 40 servers' memory
- you need ACID and SQL
- you are OK precompiled Java based stored procedures
- you don't need multi data center deployments
now you can estimate how far you can go with VoltDB.
The company specialized on MySQL services and behind the MySQL Performance Blog ↩
Original title and link: How Scalable is VoltDB? (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/02/28/is-voltdb-really-as-scalable-as-they-claim/
Monday, 21 March 2011
Scaling Graph Databases: Sharding and Consistent Routing
The subject of scaling graph databases is popping up every now and then proving that sharding highly connected data is still an unresolved problem.
Jim Webber[1] has published a series of posts — here, here, and here — discussing generic graph sharding solutions, the route Neo4j is taking for addressing this problem, and, in the last post, a simple strategy — suggested by Mark Harwood — for deciding a graph database scaling approach:
Dataset size: Many tens of Gigabytes
Strategy: Fill a single machine with RAM
Dataset size: Many hundreds of Gigabytes
Strategy:Cache sharding
Dataset size: Terabytes and above
Strategy: Domain-specific sharding
The cache sharding approach — described here — suggests replacing the problem of graph sharding with "the simpler problem of consistent routing". But I'm not sure how this solution works effectively:
- if there is a way to provide consistent routing isn't that equivalent with having an solution for sharding the graph?
- considering graph databases are chatty — in the sense that most of the time there is a complex traversal happening — how smart should the client and the router be to work effectively and efficiently?
For now I feel that being able to solve the consistent routing in a graph implies having a strategy for sharding a graph. The reverse applies too: having a sharding strategy would provide a routing solution. Thus scaling graph databases remains a subject open for research.
Jim Webber: Chief Scientist with Neo Technology, @jimwebber ↩
Original title and link: Scaling Graph Databases: Sharding and Consistent Routing (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Friday, 4 March 2011
The Story of Scaling Union Station
You think you are ready to scale:
Even before the launch, our software architecture was designed to be redundant (no single point of failure) and to scale horizontally across multiple machines if necessary. The most important components are the web app, MySQL, MongoDB (NoSQL database), RabbitMQ (queuing server) and our background workers.
And then the reality check:
Unfortunately MongoDB's shard rebalancing system proved to be slower than we hoped it would be. During rebalancing there was so much disk I/O we could process neither read nor write requests in reasonable time. We were left with no choice but to take the website and the background workers offline during the rebalancing.
There are a couple of lessons to be learned here:
- there's no silverbullet solution for scaling
- if you haven't tested a specific scenario, you might have surprises when you'll have do to it in the production environment
Original title and link: The Story of Scaling Union Station (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://blog.phusion.nl/2011/03/04/union-station-is-back-online-and-heres-what-we-have-been-up-to/
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
9 Things to Acknowledge about NoSQL Databases
Excellent list:
- Understand how ACID compares with BASE (Basically Available, Soft-state, Eventually Consistent)
- Understand persistence vs non-persistence, i.e., some NoSQL technologies are entirely in-memory data stores
- Recognize there are entirely different data models from traditional normalized tabular formats: Columnar (Cassandra) vs key/value (Memcached) vs document-oriented (CouchDB) vs graph oriented (Neo4j)
- Be ready to deal with no standard interface like JDBC/ODBC or standarized query language like SQL; every NoSQL tool has a different interface
- Architects: rewire your brain to the fact that web-scale/large-scale NoSQL systems are distributed across dozens to hundreds of servers and networks as opposed to a shared database system
- Get used to the possibly uncomfortable realization that you won't know where data lives (most of the time)
- Get used to the fact that data may not always be consistent; 'eventually consistent' is one of the key elements of the BASE model
- Get used to the fact that data may not always be available
- Understand that some solutions are partition-tolerant and some are not
Print it out and distribute it among your colleagues.
Original title and link: 9 Things to Acknowledge about NoSQL Databases (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://www.evidentsoftware.com/nosql-basics-for-the-rdbms-savvy/
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
MongoDB Auto-Sharding
I know this will sound like bashing MongoDB. But I've already said it a couple of times: MongoDB scaling looks complicated.
People coming to MongoDB think their scalability issues are of no concern as MongoDB supports auto-sharding and replica sets. I would advise everyone to check the MongoDB mailing list before relaxing:
- "Huge collection is not balanced across shards" here
- "Questions on Enabling Sharding on a Database (pre-sharded configuration)" here
- "mongodb crash when new shard is added" here
- "Shards Unevenly balanced" here
- "Imbalance on auto-sharding" here
- "Sharding woes - All chuncks stuck on one shard"
- "sharding makes reads/writes slower" here
It takes time to perfect complicated solutions and it is your job to verify the current status. Hopefully the next version, MongoDB 1.8.0 will address many of these issues. As it'll also do with single server durability.
Original title and link: MongoDB Auto-Sharding (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Monday, 21 February 2011
4 Database Technologies for Large Scale Data
Park Kieun (CUBRID Cluster Architect) gives an introduction to 4 large scale database technologies:
- Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or parallel DBMS – A system that parallelizes the query execution of a DBMS, and splits queries and allocates them to multiple DBMS nodes in order to process massive amounts of data concurrently.
Examples: EBay DW, Yahoo! Everest Architecture, Greenplum, AsterData
- Column-oriented database – A system that stores the values in the same field as a column, as opposed to the conventional ow method that stores them as individual records.
Examples: Vertica, Sybase IQ, MonetDB
- Streaming processing (ESP or CEP) – A system that processes a constant data (or events) stream, or a concept in which the content of a database is continuously changing over time.
Examples: Truviso
- Key-value storage (with MapReduce programming model) – A storage system that focuses on enhancing the performance when reading a single record by adopting the key-value data model, which is simpler than the relational data model.
Examples: many of the NoSQL databases covered here.
Even if I came up with the same 5 categories for scalable storage solutions, Park's list is better documented. However we both left out distributed filesystems (sorry Jeff).
Original title and link: 4 Database Technologies for Large Scale Data (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
via: http://blog.cubrid.org/web-2-0/database-technology-for-large-scale-data/
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Scaling with Cassandra
Peter Schuller's Scaling with Apache Cassadra recorded at Oredev:
I watched only the first couple of minutes, so comments and feedback are welcome.
Original title and link: Scaling with Cassandra (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Clustrix Sierra Clustered Database Engine
In the light of publicly announcing customers, I wanted to read a bit about Clustrix Clustered Database Systems.
The company homepage is describing the product:
- scalable database appliaces for Internet-scale work loads
- Linearly Scalable: fully distributed, parallel architecture provides unlimited scale
- SQL functionality: full SQL relational and data consistency (ACID) functionality
- Fault-Tolerant: highly available providing fail-over, recovery, and self-healing
- MySQL Compatible: seamless deployment without application changes.
All these sounded pretty (
too) good. And I've seen a very similar presentation for Xeround: Elastic, Always-on Storage Engine for MySQL.
So, I've continued my reading with the Sierra Clustered Database Engine whitepaper (PDF).
Here are my notes:
- Sierra is composed of:
- database personality module: translates queries into internal representation
- distributed query planner and compiler
- distributed shared-nothing execution engine
- persistent storage
- NVRAM transactional storage for journal changes
- inter-node Infiniband
- queries are decomposed into query fragments which are the unit of work. Query fragments are sent for execution to nodes containing the data.
- query fragments are atomic operations that can:
- insert, read, update data
- execute functions and modify control flow
- perform synchronization
- send data to other nodes
- format output
- query fragments can be executed in parallel
- query fragments can be cached with parameterized constants at the node level
- determining where to sent the query fragments for execution is done using either range-based rules or hash function
- tables are partitioned into slices, each slice having redundancy replicas
- size of slices can be automatically determined or configured
- adding new nodes to the cluster results in rebalancing slices
- slices contained on a failed device are reconstructed using their replicas
- one of the slices is considered primary
- writes go to all replicas and are transactional
- all reads fo the the slice primary
The paper also exemplifies the execution of 4 different queries:
SELECT * FROM T1 WHERE uid=10
SELECT uid, name FROM T1 JOIN T2 on T1.gid = T2.gid WHERE uid=10
SELECT * FROM T1 WHERE uid<100 and gid>10 ORDER BY uid LIMIT 5
- who is coordinating transactions that may be executed on different nodes?
- who is maintains the topology of the slices? In case of a node failure, you'd need to determine:
- what slices where on the failing node
- where are the replicas for each of these slices
- where new replicas will be created
- when will new replicas become available for writes
- who elects the slice primary?
Original title and link: Clustrix Sierra Clustered Database Engine (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Scaling with MongoDB Video
Kristina Chodorow's giving the serious version of MongoDB is web scale in an O'Reilly webcast: scaling with MongoDB:
Most Popular Articles
- Translate SQL to MongoDB MapReduce
- Tutorial: Getting Started With Cassandra
- CouchDB vs MongoDB: An attempt for a More Informed Comparison
- Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King
- A Couple of Nice GUI Tools for MongoDB
- NoSQL benchmarks and performance evaluations
- Ehcache: Distributed Cache or NoSQL Store?
- Document Databases Compared: CouchDB, MongoDB, RavenDB
- Quick Review of Existing Graph Databases
- NoSQL Data Modeling
by Alex Popescu
Ana-Maria Bacalu
- Most read
- Comments