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Get ready for virtualization
The benefits of virtualization are apparent, but getting there is another matter. Many products can deliver some form of virtualization, but behind the promises of storage utopia looms vendor lock-in. But even if the rewards are greater than the risks, you still need to assess which virtualization options are mature enough to deploy.
Two major virtualization options have emerged: split path and combined path. Deciding which one is best for your storage environment is just part of the decision-making process.
The benefits of virtualization are plentiful—centralized storage management, increased storage utilization and lower storage costs to name just a few—but behind the thin veil of standards and visions of storage utopia looms vendor lock-in. With so much riding on the implementation of this technology, you need to assess which, if any, virtualization options are mature enough to deploy. And you'll need to prepare your organization for the blessings and curses this technology will be sure to bring.
Storage vendors offer network-based block virtualization in two configurations: combined and split path. Combined-path architectures handle the data and management functions in the same logical design and appear in the following implementations:
- Appliances. Cloverleaf Communications Inc., DataCore Software Corp., FalconStor Software and IBM Corp. provide their virtualization software on off-the-shelf, Intel-based server hardware. Configured to reside in the data path between the server and storage, they're deployed as either clustered pairs or an N+1 configuration. All traffic for virtualized storage is routed through the appliance.
- Fibre Channel (FC) director blade. FC directors from Cisco Systems Inc. and Maxxan Systems Inc. support blades that run virtualization software from IBM and FalconStor, respectively. This eliminates the need for separate appliances and centralizes switch and storage hardware.
- Array-based. Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co., Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. extend their respective StorageWorks XP12000, TagmaStore and StorEdge 9900 arrays' existing virtualization functionality to virtualize other vendors' arrays.
- Host-based. StoreAge Networking Technologies' Storage Virtualization Manager (SVM) uses host-based agents in conjunction with a management appliance that splits the data and control paths at the host level. Management of features like replication and snapshots occur over IP, while write I/Os between the server and storage occur on FC unimpeded by the appliance.
- Storage Services Platform (SSP). Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Cisco and Troika Networks Inc. offer fabric platforms that allow the data path portion of virtualization software like EMC Corp.'s Invista to be loaded onto them. These platforms deliver the high reliability and performance typically associated with FC switches by removing cache from the switch. They use Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to process FC traffic and execute virtualization software delivered by storage vendors.
|Network-based virtualization options
|Click here for a comprehensive list of Network-based virtualization options (PDF).
The devil, of course, is in the details: There are differences in how vendors configure their hardware, manage cache and handle I/O. For example, vendors with split-path approaches leave cache out of the data path. Split-path providers EMC and StoreAge find it simpler and safer to let cache reside closer to the application server or storage array and to remove the hassles of managing the data in the network cache. Virtualization applications that integrate with switch vendors' SSPs turn control of the I/O processing over to the ASICs on the FC ports on these directors. Vendors contend these switches can process I/Os faster and more effectively than the hardware provided by appliances, arrays or blades.
Despite the differences between combined- and split-path architectures, storage administrators will choose a virtualization product based less on its architecture and more on how comfortable they are with moving into a virtual environment and the vendor lock-in that will likely ensue. Ease of implementation, software code maturity and how the virtualization software is licensed will ultimately drive the wide-scale adoption of this technology.
Combined-path architectures
Vendors that provide combined-path architectures offer virtualization software that operates in appliances, FC director blades or array-based configurations. Combined-path configurations handle the processing of I/O and storage service functions such as LUN masking and LUN discovery in the same logical configuration.
|Pros and cons of virtualization options
|Click here for a comprehensive list of the pros and cons of virtualization options (PDF).
A key differentiator among appliance configurations is whether they're implemented in a clustered or N+1 configuration. Clustered configurations such as IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) operate as one logical entity that keeps the content of the cache of each node in the cluster in sync at all times, as opposed to an N+1 configuration that will be briefly out of sync when a management change occurs. The upside of the N+1 approach is that each node has no interdependencies with other nodes. If an error occurs in the core operating system or virtualization software of a node that causes a failure, that error won't replicate to other nodes in the N+1 configuration as would occur in a clustered configuration.
IBM's and FalconStor's virtualization software can operate on a blade that's inserted into an FC director. While delivering the same software management functions, there are some differences in how virtualization runs on an FC director than on an appliance:
- IBM SVC and FalconStor IPStor software can only be implemented on a Cisco MDS 9000 or Maxxan MXV500 director switch.
- FC director blades eliminate the need for another appliance and centralize the physical management of the devices.
- The software on the FC director blade can interact with software on its appliance counterpart on other SANs, regardless of the FC directors present in those SANs, to enable advanced storage management functions such as asynchronous replication.
Conversely, HDS took its existing proven line of microcode from its 9900 series of arrays and carried it over to its new TagmaStore and NSC55 platforms. HDS also mimicked the approach of other vendors by presenting a Windows image to other vendor's storage arrays to discover and virtualize LUNs on those arrays. By doing that, HDS circumvents possible interoperability issues between its array and those of other vendors because most storage vendors certify that their systems operate with Windows.
Using the same microcode on both platforms allows users to have the same storage management console for volume management across the enterprise. It also supports most major multipathing drivers such as EMC's PowerPath, IBM's MultiPath IO and Symantec Corp.'s/Veritas' Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) in addition to HDS' own Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager. The biggest advantage their approach offers over any other virtualization option is the minimal amount of change users will encounter when implementing HDS TagmaStore or NSC55, assuming they're not using the advanced functions on other vendors' storage arrays.
Split-path architectures
Split-path virtualization software runs on hosts or SSPs, and splits the data and control paths with each path running on a different appliance. For host-based configurations, a host agent communicates with the management appliance over an IP connection and serves as a volume manager on the host. With SSP configurations, no agent is required on the SSP, and the control appliance uses FC and the SSP's APIs to communicate with the SSP.
In host-based designs you must prepare the host, management appliance, FC directors and storage array to allow the host to access its storage. The agent on the host communicates with the management appliance over IP, and also inserts itself into the host's data path as a volume manager that accesses and manages the storage over the host's FC connections. A host reboot is usually required to complete the agent's configuration.
Completing access to the array LUNs requires the following steps: First, FC directors must be zoned to allow the FC HBAs on both the management appliance and host to access the array LUNs. Then the array LUNs must be masked to allow the management appliance and the host to access them. Next, the management appliance accesses the LUNs on the storage array and configures them so they can be accessed by the host. The management appliance then sends that volume configuration information over IP to the agent on the host. At that point, the host can access the LUNs assigned to it over the FC SAN.
Successful implementation of this approach is predicated on the following assumptions: First, it's assumed that the same individual or group will be responsible for all aspects of the process—including the configuration on the hosts, FC directors and storage arrays. Second, the virtualization application's agents have to work on all of the different types and versions of operating systems that are—or will be—in the environment. Finally, it assumes that installing an agent on each host is OK and that the agent is permitted by network policies to communicate with the management appliance. Failure to satisfy any of these conditions precludes the virtualization technique from being used on a specific host.
EMC's Invista and Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp.'s Eternus VS900 each offer software that runs on a switch vendor's SSP. An SSP has three unique characteristics:
- Instead of requiring agents on the host or SSP, the management appliance uses FC to communicate with the SSP via APIs and uploads the data path code to the SSP via the FC connection. Exceptions to the data path code loaded onto the SSP, such as the introduction of new worldwide names (WWNs) or LUNs, are routed to the management appliance.
- The data path code resides on ASICs on the SSP in the data path between the server and storage. This configuration allows switch vendors to develop and deploy SSP hardware that optimizes the breaking apart of FC packets and lets storage vendors focus on virtualization software.
- No cache resides on the SSP. Eliminating the cache in the SSP reduces the risk of an appliance outage causing data loss.
With all vendors now implementing some of their software in the data path between hosts and storage arrays, the debate over where data path virtualization will reside is over. Yet a new point of contention has emerged: Is it best to implement virtualization in a combined- or a split-path configuration? The decision will hinge primarily on how comfortable a user is with deploying cache in the data path and how that configuration will affect performance and reliability.
|Virtualization configurations
|Click here for a comprehensive list of virtualization configurations (PDF).
Combined-path providers like HDS and IBM downplay the risk of losing cached data. "Arrays already have multiple layers of cache—main cache, drawer cache, cabinet cache and disk cache," says Claus Mikkelsen, HDS' chief scientist. "Since HDS is extending the functionality of its array to manage other arrays, the only impact of introducing another layer of cache is improved performance."
Alan Petersburg, worldwide brand manager for IBM visual products, says "an IBM SVC presents no more risk than active/active controllers embedded inside storage arrays—if one controller goes offline, the other picks up where it left off."
Each of the three combined-path architectures takes steps to minimize the possibility of data loss. Appliance and FC director blade approaches have a small disk cache on the appliance or reserve some disk on an attached array to de-stage any data in its cache in the event the appliance needs to shut down. Array-based approaches simply take advantage of their own disks to de-stage any data in their caches in the event of a crisis. For any of the combined-path approaches, the main concern is that the data may not reside on the array where the rest of the host's data resides. Until the virtualization appliance or array is brought back online, the disk cache data won't be moved to the array for which it was intended.
Lock-in and implementation issues
Picking a virtualization product is a big step. It becomes almost impossible to avoid vendor lock-in the deeper you get into a virtualization implementation. With the control of an enterprise's storage at stake, vendors are very willing to help users get past their initial implementation concerns. Some vendors provide an easy virtualization exit strategy. Known variously as "encapsulated," "migration in place," "proxy" or "pass-through," this feature allows an existing LUN to be virtualized while remaining the same size and retaining all of its data. EMC's Invista, for example, encapsulates an array LUN and presents it as an Invista LUN to the host.
Both Sadowski and Mikkelsen say this proxy capability appeals to users who want to gradually implement virtualization, but also want a quick exit if things go south. Even though the LUN is encapsulated by Invista or TagmaStore, neither product writes a signature nor any meta data on the LUN because it's now virtualized. However, TagmaStore's USP platform goes one step further and can simply re-present LUNs in their native format. A user could remove the USP platform from the server's data path and allow the host to directly access the LUNs on the storage array without having to migrate out of the virtualized environment.
Yet even when LUNs are in this most basic virtualized state, users still gain some of the benefits of virtualization. For instance, with EMC's Invista, they can non-disruptively migrate data to another device, such as moving data from a Symmetrix to a Clariion LUN. The new virtual Invista LUN has all of the characteristics a LUN presented by a storage array would have, such as the ability to set a SCSI-3 reservation bit that allows for clustering and to interoperate with their multipathing software. However, users who have heterogeneous server environments with a number of different multipathing software packages installed will want to consider storage vendors such as FalconStor and HDS, which support a wider variety of vendor multipathing software packages than EMC currently does.
Of course, back-out strategies work best when you're not too far down the virtualization path. When you begin implementing advanced virtualization features, such as storage volume management and asynchronous replication, the likelihood of lock-in becomes imminent. For instance, implementing a one-to-one mapping of a virtual LUN to an array LUN allows for an easy in and out of the virtualization solution. However, most users will want to take advantage of volume management features that enable LUN groups or meta-LUNs that concatenate or stripe data across volumes on the back end and allow the storage administrator to present five 20GB LUNs as one logical 100GB volume to a host. Once this type of feature is used, users abandon nearly any hope of finding an easy way out of a specific vendor's virtualization solution.
Running backups
The ramifications of backing up in a virtualized environment are also often overlooked. With all backups now running though a single interface, this is a likely spot for bottlenecks to appear. If users decide to use snapshots and asynchronous replication in lieu of or to complement backups, this will require a major restructuring of the way data is protected in the environment.
With the benefits of virtualization well known and the pain of managing SANs growing, this generation of network-based virtualization appliances delivers what the first generation of products didn't—interoperability, integration and the backing of major storage vendors. For enterprise shops, the decision about which virtualization appliance to deploy now depends less on the number of technical features it initially offers than on how stable it is, how easy it is to implement and how willing the vendor is to negotiate favorable terms. Yet with vendor lock-in likely, and the long-term control and management of enterprise data at stake, organizations should bring virtualization into their environments very cautiously.


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If you want to talk about a Human Workplace, you have to talk about sticky human topics, and if we're going to talk about sticky human topics, we have to talk about sex at work. I was a corporate HR VP for ten million years, and at this point I could write a book on the topic of people getting busy in the non-professional sense, even in the most professional settings.
When I became an HR person in 1984, the first thing I asked my boss was "Is there a set of guidelines for dealing with the hard stuff?" "You got me," he said. My boss was VP of Operations. "I'm sure you can call the local employers' council and get what you need. That's what we pay our dues for, right?"
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One of the 'hard stuff' topics I would have loved to have been schooled in back in 1984 was the topic of sex and romance at work. Within a month of getting that first HR job, I was writing written warnings for two sample-room employees, both in their early twenties like me, who took time away from their sample-sorting duties to get it on in the supply closet. I didn't see the allure of supply closet sex myself, but I didn't think my role was to judge. Those two co-workers were the only people I've ever given written warnings to for the crime of at-work sexual activity. In the other dozen or two dozen cases of in-office sex I've had to deal with, the miscreants got fired pretty much on the spot.
We know that work is a place where people bring their emotions, their insecurities and every other complicated feeling they might be experiencing. It shouldn't really surprise us that people get crushes at work, and sometimes act on their feelings, however ill-advised those actions might be. I fell in like and then in love with Michael at work, not long after the supply-room sex incident I just mentioned. We are married with five kids, twenty years later, so there must be more to workplace attraction than just a romp in the supply room, at least for some people.
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Using IP discovery feature
IP discovery feature allow OCS Inventory NG to discover all network connected devices on the network.
For this, Communication server asks a number of most "active" computers running OCS Inventory NG agent to scan for MAC addresses in their sub network at each run. They will not scan the entire wide area network, but only their local network defined by the couple IP address/subnet mask.
Inventory software is very useful for an administrator. It allows them to "take stock" of their network. Today, with the use of TCP/IP, we can say that this is can be done at the same time for the entire enterprise network, especially if, like OCS Inventory NG, work is natively on a network basis.
But, what about devices which for one reason or another (i.e. uncooperative users) do not send their inventory? This could include; all "alive" devices which cannot run inventory agent (printers, switches, routers, WiFi access points…). Computers which do not have to be connected on your network and which are conspicuous by their absence?
IPDISCOVER trys to answer those problems. Even if it is used independently, it works perfectly with the OCS structure. As it is based on a client server based communication, it's easy for the server to order it's "subordinate" client to perform some tasks, such as getting registry keys, doing an inventory or retrieving all devices answering on the IP segment.
How does it work?
Retrieving information
The OCS NG system is based on a dialog between an agent installed on host computers and a Apache module installed on a OCS NG server.The exchange is done in compressed XML and allows configuring the agent to perform tasks.
When a computer sends an inventory result, the server will try to determine if it needs some other computers (number can be configured) to scan hosts in this subnet.By using the Gateway IP address a map of the enterprise network is formed.
If required,the server estimates host quality and decide whether or not to activate the host as an ipdiscovered computer. In this case, computer will systematically send an inventory result, independently of the general configuration parameter 'FREQUENCY'.
Election mechanism
Once the server has determined that there is a need for the selected gateway, it evaluates the following criteria:
- OS: operating system must be Windows XP or Windows 2000 (all versions) or Linux.
- QUALITY: this parameter means the host connection average to the server in days. It is evaluated dynamically by Communication server only when there is more than the number (defined by 'IPDISCOVER' option) of inventoried hosts for a gateway. If the current computer sending inventory results has better quality than another IPDISCOVER enabled computer for this gateway, the current computer will replace the other one. 'IPDISCOVER' option must be greater than zero to enable this feature!
- FIDELITY: total connection number to the server of the computer. This number must be at least 3, to allow QUALITY to be computed from representative data.
- NETMASK: subnet mask. It must describe a maximum of a B class IP network (2 first bytes to 255 => 255.255.X.X).
- LASTDATE: when the Communication server computes QUALITY, if it finds a host which hasn't sent inventory results from number of days defined by 'IPDISCOVER_MAX_ALIVE' option, it will replace this host by a new one.
Note: You can customize agent's ipdiscover settings for each computer from the administration console.
You can totally disable ipdiscover or force ipdiscover on a specific network. These options are
available on the computer properties page, under "Customization" section. However, the election
mechanism is the best way to do the network discovery. Use ipdiscover customization with care.
How do agents work?
Once agent has received order to proceed to discovery of his sub network, it identifies first network interface to use. It tries then to resolve through ARP all IP addresses answering on his segment (delay between 2 hosts scan may be defined using option "IPDISCOVER_LATENCY", see Managing OCS Inventory NG general options). All devices answering to the question are stored in XML inventory result and sent to server.
Server tuning
When doing a new installation of OCS NG, we understand easily that it requires some times to be ready to enable ipdiscovery feature. It requires some times to grab all gateways and to elect computers for ipdiscovery. As a computer can only be elected if it REALLY provides an inventory, it may be wiser to configure at the beginning 'FREQUENCY' option to zero, always generate an inventory. You can increase this value later, when infrastructure will be ready.
Analyzing errors (thought ipdiscover-util.pl used directly or from web interface) will allow you to detect potential problems. More the value of QUALITY will be lesser, more your ipdiscover information will be up to date.
System will be giving you the best in a domain, with a daily authentication and inventory. Tests done with this configuration on 20 000 hosts and 250 sub networks generate a DAILY actualization of 15 000 IP addresses.
To finish, value set for IPDISCOVER will tell to server how many computers are wished by gateway to run this task (if you set this value to zero, feature will be disabled).
Working with results
You can view which computers run the IP discovery scans by clicking on toolbar "Security" menu ("IpDisc" menu if some languages).
Manage names of your networks
Note: You may define your sub networks by a name and a unique ID, to view results easily.
For each network, you will be able to view how many inventoried hosts, non inventoried hosts, IPDISCOVER feature enabled hosts and identified hosts (known hosts manually registered in the database) are connected to this network.
Click on the number of needed column to view each type of devices.
Show inventoried hosts in the network
You can view the list of inventoried hosts (computers with OCS Inventory NG agent installed) on your network by clicking on number in column "Inventoried" in the network list.
If there is, in the list, devices you know as legitimate, you can register them so they will not be displayed next time. For this, just click the icon at the end of corresponding line. Before, you may want to register "Device type" to easily identify known hosts (see §7.3.8 Registering known hosts.).
You may also analyze this network by clicking "Analyze" button. IPDISCOVER-UTIL perl script will be used to determine, for each network device, his NetBios name or DNS name and the type of operating system.
This feature uses IPDISCOVER-UTIL perl script available only under Linux Server which requires the following components:
- nmap (tested on 3.75)
- nmblookup (part of the samba suite, tested on 3.0.7/3.0.10)
- Perl module Net::IP
- Perl module DBI
- Perl module DBD::mysql
- Perl module XML::Simple
The following types are used:
- Windows: host seems to run one version of Microsoft Windows operating system.
- Linux: host seems to run under Linux operating system.
- Network: operating system cannot be determined, so it can be network device such as router, managed switch, printer, or host running Sun Solaris or IBM AIX… Maybe, host is running some firewall software?
- Phantom: host is not responding at this time. Maybe it is powered off or there is a firewall ?
If a network device is legitimate, you can register it by clicking on icon "Register" at the end of corresponding line. You will be able to enter a brief description and to select network device type while registering it (see § 7.3.8 Registering known hosts.).
Show IPDISCOVER enabled hosts
You can view the list of hosts running IPDISCOVERY feature (computers with OCS Inventory NG agent installed, and this agent is elected by server to run discovery of his sub network) on your network by clicking on number in column "IpDiscover" in the network list.
Show known or identified hosts
You can view the list of known hosts already identified by someone on your network by clicking on number in column "Identified" in the network list.
Managing known device types
You can register devices (such as routers, switches, network printers, computers for which there is no inventory agent…) as you know they are legitimate. As is, they will not be displayed in the list of uninventoried devices, to allow you concentrate on suspicious devices.
You may first define some device types to identify them easily.
Click on Manage and then on "Administer" and finally on Manage TYPES menu to manage your device types.
You can add new device type by entering the "Type name" you want and clicking "Send" button.
You can remove any device type by clicking on the red cross at the end of corresponding line.
Registering known hosts
You can add new devices by browsing list of uninventoried devices and clicking the icon at the end of corresponding line. This will bring you to page for adding or removing network devices and "MAC" field will be automatically fill in.
To remove a network device, just click on the red cross at the end of corresponding line.
Script to scan IP address
Operating principle
You can make a request to scan a specific IP address to obtain information about a host. In the tarball binutils directory of linux server, the perl script is ipdiscover-util.pl. It use NMAP & NMBLOOKUP utilities to obtain information about the host (DNS name, NetBios, ...), and also to see if the host is inventoried / discovered.
Note: This feature requires the following components :
* nmap (tested on 3.75)
* nmblookup (part of Samba suite, tested on 3.0.7/3.0.10)
* Perl module Net::IP
* Perl module DBI
* Perl module DBD::mysql
* Perl module XML::Simple
Command line options
|Help menu
|-ip=X.X.X.X/X.X.X.X (ex: 10.1.1.1/255.255.240.0 or 10.1.1.1/20)
|Looks for the ip in a subnet
|Specify a network
|Launch the analyze
|Show all the subnet with up to XX ipdiscover
|XML output
|Show all the networks present in the database with "connected"/"discovered" computers
|Password (default ocs)
|-P=xxxx port
|Port (default 3306)
|Database name (default ocsweb)
|User (default ocs)
|Server (default localhost)
Example of command to scan IP 192.168.1.252 and reach back informations in database named ocsdb of mysql server OCSserveur, witch listen on port 3306, using gui account with password ocsrox:
perl ipdiscover-util.pl -ip=192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0 -net=255.255.255.0 -a -xml -h=OCSserveur -u=gui -p=ocsrox -d=ocsdb
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The Eurail Hungary Pass allows you unlimited travel with the freedom to hit the tracks whenever and wherever you want! You can take as many trains as you like and there is no limit on the distance you can travel within a travel day. All of this at a fixed price.
Hop on and off trains at any time according to your desires and encounters. Just show up at the nearest train station and get ready to go and explore a new destination.
The Eurail Hungary Pass is packed with bonuses to make your trip even more enjoyable. Hotel discounts, reduced museum fares and more are included in your pass.
Whether you are the adventurous traveller or the avid planner the Eurail Hungary Pass is your pass to freedom and the key to an unforgettable trip!


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At Home Beauty Salon in Alberton before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A In Home Hair Stylist is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
Portable Hair Salon Stations For Mobile Hairdressers
1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A Hair Stylist Mobile hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
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4. Always Use a qualified hairdresser. As with Salon hairdressers, your mobile hairdresser should hold formal hairdressing qualifications. The UK national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only recognized qualification system, and more than 60% of mobile hairstylists are now trained to this standard. They should also hold professional indemnity insurance.
Your mobile hairdresser should be happy and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and often make-up to accentuate and compliment the individual looks of the customer, and offer suggestions on what hairstyle or make up should best suit the client.
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If you have an aim to become a successful mobile hairdresser, then this information will be useful to make your dreams come true. You can be a successful hairdresser as well as you can open your business too. There are various ways to become a hairdresser but choosing accurate way will makes you to achieve highest level of success to becoming a successful mobile hair dresser. The best way to become a mobile hairdresser is straight entry into a salon as a trainee. Salons provide the most rewarding start as you will be paid to learn. Many salons permit trainees one day a week to attend college classes. This is a key to accomplish any formal acknowledgment.
1. Requirements:
To become a successful mobile hairdresser you need to accomplish some requirements. Formal qualifications are necessary in a spirited market place. The national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only familiar qualification system. More than 60% of mobile hairdressers are now trained to this standard.
A mobile hairdressing is person whose profession is to cut or style hair, in order or change or uphold person's reflection as they desire. And this is accomplished throughout a permutation of hair coloring, hair cut and hair texture methods. The most important advantage in this job is the simple nature, which agrees to you to constant take out this in your own house.
The above information makes you able to understand about the requirements and the methods you should follow to become a successful mobile hairdresser. This is not too hard to be a mobile hairdresser, once you understand the trends and fashion you will come to know new methods of hairstyles and the skill you should obtain.
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Like any other kinds of types of jobs, profession and career in the world, there are advantages and disadvantages to being a hairdresser. Yet despite the pros and cons, as long as you have the motivation, inspiration and the love for what you do, nothing will hinder you from succeeding as a hair dresser or any other career you choose to pursue.
Hairdresser Pros: What makes the profession enjoyable?
- Interaction with different types of people. A hairdresser always has this opportunity with various types of clients, young or old, male or female. As a matter of fact, it is this dealing with different personalities that add challenge and reward to the job. A hairdresser is prevented from boredom as each client requires specific hair care needs.
- Work Flexibility. If you are a hairdresser, you may choose to work for a salon or for yourself. You may opt to work in an 8-hour shift or by appointment only. You may also establish your own salon or offer home service.
- Variety of services. These days, clients prefer a convenient on-stop salon where they could get different services like hair styling, facials and nail care. If you are a hairdresser working for a salon such as this, you would need to know how to perform other beauty services. Expect that every day, you might be performing a different service and not just the basic hair trimming.
- Options for training. If you want to become a hairdresser, you may choose to attend a training course from a technical school. You may also choose to become an apprentice in a work environment where you would likely be absorbed once the apprenticeship is completed.


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I'm not a huge TV person, but tonight will say goodbye to one of the very few characters I've loved, and a rarity on primetime, a Hispanic woman — Ugly Betty.
If you love journalism and have ever spent time working in New York, the show's plotlines and characters, and exterior shots, will likely have resonated for you as well. She was hardworking, funny, fiercely devoted to her family, constantly bullied by her co-workers (before they grew up) and still managed to climb the greasy pole of success.
There are few prime-time network shows that respectfully and engagingly portray a Hispanic family and reveal the real conflict that many young Latina working women feel between loyalty to their domestic life and a hunger for larger success. Hispanics still have the lowest rate of college attendance and graduation and, when I wrote about this issue for The New York Times, heard firsthand from a number of young Latinas about the opposing demands placed on them by family and ambition.
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On most television shows, the adult characters seem to have been raised by wolves — their family of origin a Thanksgiving or holiday punchline at most. The central theme of Ugly Betty was often family and how much they can still matter, even to a young adult in a demanding job.
I look forward to tonight's final episode, but will miss her (and Justin and Wilhelmina and Daniel and their adventures.) Adios chica!


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Thursday, November 15, 2012
LIC Bar will be closed for awhile
LIC Bar is closed.
It has been shut since Hurricane Sandy, and it will remain that way until Con Edison repairs a major transformer.
"This is costing me a fortune," said owner Brian Porter, who also worries that the bar's popularity will decline, or his employees will leave while he waits on Con Ed.
Until the power is restored, the bands wait, the vendors are on hold and the six staffers are waiting patiently to get back to work.
When the storm hit, the saloon's basement was flooded with seven feet of water that destroyed a piano, an organ and all the amplifiers. The bar's willow tree, a neighborhood icon, was so badly damaged that it had to be cut down.
However, LIC Bar (45-58 Vernon Blvd.) – located inside a 100-year old building– held up well on the whole. The hardwood floors, bare brick walls and antique wood bar all appear undamaged. Nevertheless, everything was coated with salt– mostly from the East River, but also from the rock salt the owner had stockpiled for the winter.
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All the reports called LIC damage as 'light' and the weeklies only showed Rockaways on their front pages.
The crystals are 'salt' as in 'table salt'?
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
I'm sorry, but it just is not in me right now to sympathize with some yuppie/hipster LIC bar. Nobody paid attention to the complaints of longtime residents losing their homes, businesses and entire neighborhood from the vast overdevelopment of the area in the last ten years. LIC Bar and the rest of the new, "up and coming" LIC can cry me a river.
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
Water came up from Anable Basin and along 44th Drive, where River's Edge is located, and blew out a transformer. Besides the LIC bar, a taxi fleet, the New York Blood Center and the School Construction Authority all went dark, although the garage and Blood Center have been running generators.
Also the park behind the 108th precinct saw almost all the trees uprooted; they were cut down and chopped up today.
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
Compared to Breezy Point,
the damage was, indeed, VERY light!
Get some perspective on this.
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
Compared to Breezy Point,
the damage was, indeed, VERY light!
Get some perspective on this.
Sure, getting shot in the arm is traumatic.
Smoking a cigarette and inhaling toxic fumes and getting poisons into your body is not.... for about 40 years.
You and those responsible will not be around when the young hipsters and the young toddlers who are encouraged to live and spend time on a toxic brownfield that gets baptized from time to time by Newtown Creek reap the dividends from your brainstorms.
You got to Brooklyn around the Gowanus Canal and talk like this you would get lynched.
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
I think that Jimmy Van Bramer really needs to talk to the community openly about the potential health risks from Sandy.
Gossiping is already starting about it.
People will eat in those flooded restaurants. Children will play in those flooded playgrouds. People will track all sorts of things into their homes from that water.
If their friends and colleagues from Brooklyn are starting to ask questions how long will LIC buy the bill of goods being fed the the Queens weeklies?
This ain't Glendale. This ain't Ditmars.
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
Even the more intelligent Queensites will find difficulty following your convoluted use of language, Snake.
Your words seem to criss-cross each other and double back upon themselves leaving them lost in a labyrinth.
You insist on salting your rhetoric with $20 words improperly used.
Could you make your points clearer, please?
- Thursday, November 15, 2012
Yea, I know, some people suggested I would make a good politician.
But even I have standards.
- Friday, November 16, 2012
Anyone who thinks the damage in LIC is comparable to the Rockaways is out of his fucking mind. End of story.
- Friday, November 16, 2012
- Queens Crapper said...
I'm not sure who was comparing LIC with Rockaway. There was damage in LIC that was underreported, that's all.
- Friday, November 16, 2012
It goes further than underreporting.
LIC just got bathed in a toxic brownfield soup.
Something tells me that when the city gets hit by a torrent of lawsuits from the inevitable health issues things will start to fall into focus more clearly.
Remember what happened to the first responders on 9/11?
This is the situation we are facing today with the people forced to live with the pixie dust scattered by the drying East River and Newtown Creek.
- Saturday, November 17, 2012


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Martin de Boer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Albelli is part of Albumprinter, the largest supplier of photo books in Europe. An Albelli photo book has something special; it is a collection of your most treasured photos. And during the sophisticated production process, we conduct a multitude of quality checks, thus ensuring that your Albelli photo book stands out from the rest. Make your photo book now and preserve your favourite memories forever!
Our target market is Netherlands. We want to display banners on the time slot of WorldCup football games (except the games of Holland). Men are watching the games of all nations, women are on the internet surfing. We want to attract them to make a photobook. "Enough of the WorldCup, start making a photobook!"
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Explore a land where the sun rises from the clear-blue Coral Sea, and sets behind rugged volcanic peaks of an enchanting hinterland. A world of discovery is illuminated with the dawn of a new day, from the glistening golden sand of one of Mackay's pristine beaches, to the verdant rainforest-clad mountains, lightly veiled in morning mist. From breakfast on the beach sharing a vivid sunrise with wallabies to dining in a modern marina; it is possible to experience the magic of The Mackay Region in three days.
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Start at Cape Hillsborough National Park: Take photos with the kangaroos and wallabies at sunrise and enjoy a bushwalk to Andrews Point to see turtles and other marine life.
Tip: Stop in at the Old Station Teahouse. They serve delicious scones with homemade jam and cream.
Scenic Drive through the Pioneer Valley: Enjoy picturesque views of Mackay's hinterland. Swimming in the fresh water at Finch Hatton Gorge is a must – it's literally breathtaking.
There are also a number of walking tracks and waterfalls to explore.
Tip: Stop at the Pinnacle Family Hotel on the way to Finch Hatton Gorge for a famous Pinnacle Pie.
Eungella National Park: Welcome to Eungella, where the air is clear and the scenery is spectacular!
Travel along the winding EungellaDam Road, surrounded by lush rainforest. You'll soon find Broken River Mountain Resort – a unique family-friendly retreat, offering good accommodation and hearty meals.
Tip: Indulge in a delicious meal at Possums Table Restaurant.
|Route Details
|Mode of Travel
|4x4, Car, Motorcycle
Platypus in the Wild: Can you spot the platypus?
Dawn or dusk are the best times to see them via the viewing platforms near the Broken River Visitor Information Centre. From here, you can also explore more of the spectacular rainforest with a variety of walking tracks.
Tip: Stop in at Platypus Lodge or experience the Eungella Chalet for great food and awesome views.
South to Sarina: Approximately one and a half hours from Eungella.
Enjoy a tour of the Sarina Sugar Shed, a miniature sugar mill and distillery with guided, interactive tours. See how sugar is grown, processed, milled and distilled and taste the products made on site.
Tip: Sarina Beach is just a few minutes away and is fringed by an esplanade park with barbecue facilities. Great spot for fishing or a picnic.
Botanic Gardens in Mackay: On the way back to Mackay, stop in at the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens on Lagoon Street overlooking a freshwater lagoon.
Tip: There's a heap of family-friendly restaurants with vibrant dining options in Mackay's City Centre, or along the river at Caneland Central.
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|4x4, Car, Motorcycle
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The Mackay Marina: A short drive from the Mackay City Centre, the Marina Village offers magnificent views of the Harbour, with breezy walks and contemporary dining options available.
Tip: Breakfast is served at The Clarion Hotel's Latitude 21 Restaurant daily from 6.30am, with spectacular views of the Marina.
Explore the Northern Beaches of Mackay: Take a self-guided drive down the Mackay-Bucasia Road. Stop in at Eimeo Beach, patrolled during the school holidays. It's a little slice of paradise without the crowds!
Tip: 'Lunch with a million-dollar-view' at the historic Eimeo Pacific Hotel is an experience you should not miss!
Fishing and exploring: If you're up for some fishing or water sport activities, head to Shoal Point; the most northern beach along that stretch of coastline. The kids can enjoy the playground on the esplanade or take a dip in the sea. It's worth staying for sunset, as the colours are spectacular.
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|4x4, Bicycle, Car, Motorcycle
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More than 125 years of history. . .
With 125 years of production and expertise in the appliance and metal industries, Blomberg is a quality and trusted name in the European household appliance market. Now owned by Arcelik, the 3rd largest appliance manufacturer in Europe, Blomberg has gained a sizeable presence in the average European home. For years Blomberg has been setting trends in both technology and style, and they continue to employ technologically advanced appliances, while still keeping the everday family life in mind.
Blomberg has always been on the cutting edge of technology, being the first company, in 1947, to produce a machine with less than 100 liters of water consumption. They have recently been given the Energy Award by the leading German consumer reporting magazine for most efficient appliances; as well as awards for innovation and ease of use.
As a widely recognized international name, Blomberg, has established themselves in the United States with production of dishwashers and refrigerators that are reasonably priced and are superior in features and quality. In the coming years, Blomberg, has its sights set on becoming a market leader in the United States, just as it has been in Europe for so many years.
Blomberg is renowned for its environmentally friendly cooling appliances. . .
Treating the environment with care is a constant theme driving the development of Blomberg's appliances from design through to manufacturing. Blomberg's cooling appliances are extremely efficient and kind to the environment, while using compatible technology, user-friendly handling and above all, considering the need for a common sense of responsibility in regards to environmental issues.
As an example, the European Commission judged the Blomberg fridge/freezer CT 1300 A "the most energy efficient refrigerator" at the Energy+ Competition in 2004. With the same daily electricity consumption as a 16 W light bulb, this award-winning Blomberg refrigerator has lower annual average energy consumption than any comparable appliance. In terms of the EU label classification, it qualifies for an A++ label.


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Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014
What To Do This Weekend, August 28–31
Summer may be over soon, but we're certainly going to send it off with a bang!
Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014
Summer may be over soon, but we're certainly going to send it off with a bang!
Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014
It's true – these five milky and sweet concoctions will bring us all to the yard.
Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014
This weekend we plan to do nothing but pig out and drink up. Cheers, Nashville!
Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014
All the reasons we can't get enough of Goo Goo Clusters, and all the local eateries who put 'em to good use.
Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014
TGIF, Nashville! (Also, thank god it's Thursday. And Saturday. And Sunday. We're equal opportunists over here.)
Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014
Tune in, turn on and pig out with these gourmet-grade funk food finds in Music City.
Thursday, Aug. 07, 2014
This weekend's shaping up to be so grand we could howl at the moon.
Tuesday, Aug. 05, 2014
Tired of tourist traps? We feel ya. Leave the guidebooks at home and check out these off-the-beaten path destinations.
Thursday, Jul. 31, 2014
This weekend is a dream for sweet tooths and starving artists in Music City.
Tuesday, Jul. 29, 2014
Maki maniacs agree – Music City is quite the harbor for some dynamite sushi these days.
Thursday, Jul. 24, 2014
Let's soak up this summer sun while we still can, Music City
Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2014
Lookin' for some late-night eats? Try these five Music City restaurants, which keep the kitchen fires burnin' until the wee hours.
Thursday, Jul. 17, 2014
It's the weekend, and there's plenty o' treasure to go 'round. See you scalawags at the the waterpark, the riverfront and the blueberry farm.
Wednesday, Jul. 16, 2014
Since we don't all have the time (or dough) to attend culinary school, we've whipped up a list of the best one-off cooking classes in town.


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Background of College Journal
East Asian Archives of Psychiatry is the official peer-reviewed publication of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists. It is one of the few English psychiatric journals in Asia. The journal publishes psychiatric reports not only from Hong Kong, but also from China, most Asian countries and other parts of the world. It aims to provide a platform for psychiatrists and mental health professionals in the region to share their research output in the field.
Throughout the years, the journal has established a strict peer review process and a wide readership. The Journal is intended for circulation among fellows, members, inceptors, and affiliates of the College, colleagues in psychiatry, and selected readers in other fields of medicine and allied professions, both locally and abroad. The Journal is indexed in MEDLINE, EMBSE/Excerpta Medica ,PSycINFO and Index Copernicus, and can be accessed online at: http://www.easap.asia


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The University of Idaho offers electrical and computer engineering programs at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels, including master's and doctoral programs through distance learning and centers throughout the state.
In a world dependent on a technology that is constantly changing, it is important that you are prepared to change with it. At Idaho, you will develop an understanding of the social ramifications of technological solutions and apply your engineering skills for the overall benefit of society. Teamwork is important to Idaho engineers, but you will also be able to confidently take on individual challenges.
By the time you graduate, you will have designed new products and learned how to solve problems that are waiting to be discovered.


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If you're tempted to hop over to France and bag yourself an unlocked iPhone before Christmas - beware. It may not work over here in quite the way you intended.
Because even though you can buy a contract-free iPhone in France, Apple has applied a country lock, so that it only works on French mobile networks. And that means you'll have to pony for roaming charges in the UK, according to iPhone Atlas.
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France is the only country that currently sells unlocked iPhones. This is because you can't be forced to buy a second product to get hold of a first - like having to take out a mobile contract so can get an iPhone.
Last month Vodafone Germany successfully brought a court injunction against T-Mobile, resulting in unlocked iPhones also being sold there. However the injunction was overturned on appeal and iPhones are once again locked to a T-Mobile contract.
UK iPhones are of course linked to an 18-month O2 contract. The phone costs £269 plus £35-£55 per month for the subscription.
We have asked Apple UK to comment on the substance of this story.


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Just days before Oasis headline the V Festival, the band's frontman said the pair last spoke during a row at an airport which left Noel in tears.
He said they opt to travel separately on tour and only see each other onstage and only contact each other on the micro-blogging site Twitter.
"He doesn't like me and I don't like him, that's it," Liam told NME.
"He hasn't told me what he thinks of anything this year. we've got nothing to say to each other at the moment."
Instead the Gallaghers have been exchanging insults via Twitter and blogs. This week Liam called his brother the "fool on the bill" after the guitarist was pictured on a night out, and accused him of looking like "he had got through to the next round of X Factor".
Noel recently complained that "What'siz'name" was "probably on his man period" during a gig at Camden's Roundhouse last month.
Liam said today that the pair now simply trade insults on the internet rather than face-to-face "to save the------- tour imploding".
He said Noel wouldn't have the nerve to criticise him in person "because he's a ------- lightweight and he knows where he'd end up".
Liam continued: "We don't travel together, do we ... so I never really see him, the only time I see him is onstage and we're a little bit busy that time to be ------- scratching each other."
The brothers have been feuding for years but hostilities appear to have stepped up in recent years. In a recent interview Noel confessed that his two-year-old son Donovan has never even met his uncle.
Liam said the last conversation ended in a row. "I think it might have been about some ------- ---- support band he wanted to play with us and he didn't ask my permission. So we had a ------- ding-dong in the airport and I think he started crying then – that was it – doesn't travel with me anymore."
During the interview with NME, Liam referred to his brother as 'Parker' because of the songwriter's similarity to the chauffeur from 60s puppet TV series Thunderbirds.
And he said he was unsure about the future of the band after Noel had claimed that he would like a five-year hiatus.
"For the first time in my life I haven't got a ------- clue what's going on with Oasis, you know what I mean? It's pretty confusing but I'm not going to freak out about it."
Liam recently branched out into the fashion business, launching his own clothing label Pretty Green.


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The rent is too damn high and it will go higher as the owners of almost 10,000 buildings in New York City who today waste money heating with expensive No. 6 bunker fuel rush to convert to the even more expensive No. 4 or No. 2 oil in response to new city regulations prohibiting the use of No. 6 oil after 2015. If building owners converted to natural gas instead, the cost of heating their buildings would be reduced substantially, rather than increased, and the pressure to raise rents and maintenance fees would be reduced.
Unfortunately, landlords often don't care how much it costs to heat a building since they simply pass these costs to their tenants either as part of the rent or in monthly bills. The tenants, who pay the unnecessarily high heating bills, rarely have enough say in building management decisions to prevent their being saddled with the full costs of building management's wasteful decisions. Ideally, landlords would realize that lowering the percentage of tenant's money that goes to paying for heating gives the landlords opportunities to increase their profits...
Press coverage in the New York Times and other papers has focused on the fact that converting from No. 6 to No. 4 oil can usually be done for less than $10,000. What they don't mention is that No. 4 oil is more expensive than No. 6 oil... Thus, such a conversion not only costs $10,000 but also results in permanently higher heating bills. A vastly better alternative would be for buildings to convert from oil to natural gas. Although the upfront costs of conversions to natural gas are higher, they often result in fuel bill reductions of between 20% to 30% per year! For buildings that are burning thousands or gallons of fuel oil every year (only the largest buildings are burning dirty No. 6 or No. 4 oil today), a conversion from oil to natural gas will result in annual savings that range from $50,000 to 100's of thousands of dollars every year.
The savings that result from converting to natural gas are high enough so that the conversion costs are usually paid back after only one to five years. As anyone familiar with interest rates will recognize, the financial return (Internal Rate of Return) from such an investment in cheaper, cleaner fuel is much better than any reasonably safe investment in the stock or bond markets. Only a building owner who is an unaware of the excellent financial return or who simply doesn't care how much tenants pay for heating would refuse to see the wisdom in converting to natural gas instead of oil.
Of course, even if owners really don't care about the money being wasting, one would hope that they might care about the foul pollution (black smoke) that heating oil produces. These buildings aren't just wasting money, they are killing people! The particulate matter pollution (soot) produced by these 10,000 buildings (only 1% of all buildings in the city) is greater than that which is produced by all the cars and trucks in New York City combined! According to an in-depth study by researchers at NYU, burning bunker fuel for heat rather than natural gas results in over 250 additional annual deaths from respiratory disease as well over $700 million per year in health related economic expenses -- and those estimates don't include the impact of having thousands of buildings save money by using the cheaper natural gas instead of the more expensive oil.
It is clear that natural gas is not only the cheaper heating fuel in the long-term, it is also much cleaner. Unfortunately, it appears that unless community and tenant's groups work hard to encourage conversions to natural gas, many buildings are going to do what is cheapest in the short term and ignore the long-term financial and health benefits of switching away from oil. Thus, NYC's buildings will get a little bit cleaner, they will be dirtier than they have to be and they will waste even more money every year than they do today.
We'd all be better off if all 10,000 dirty buildings in New York not only quit number six oil but also converted to natural gas. If they did, then one day, the rent wouldn't be so damn high!


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Motorcycles and Scooters for sale in the Philippines
The Philippines has a large volume of motorcycles because it is used both as a passenger and as a commercial vehicle. Motorcycles account for roughly 4 million units, or half the country's registered vehicles. The motorcycle industry in the Philippines is one of the country's fastest growing industries. Sales in the first half of 2013 amounted to 354,393 units.
In the Philippines, motorcycles are generally used a family service vehicle, transporting one or two family members per ride. Some parents use them to transport their children to and from school while some young professionals use them to get to their workplaces.
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The Philippines is dominated by Japanese manufacturers Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Korean manufacturer Kymco and some manufacturers from China. In terms of function, motorcycles are categorized as cub, sport, scooter and business motorcycles. Electric bicycles and mountain electric bicycles are also available on the market.
The country is also home to a number of assembly plants who produce motorcycles mostly for local consumption, thus making these types of vehicles cheaper on the market.
Motorcycles that can be converted into tricycles, a three-wheeled vehicle with a customized passenger cabin, have been some of the most popular models in the motorcycle division and include the Kawasaki Barako, the Honda TMX and the Yamaha STX.
Scooters have also been popular modes of transport in many of the country's cities where they are used as service vehicles on short journeys. Because they are easily customizable and have underseat cargo, these small motorcycles are some of the most common vehicles on Philippine roads. Some examples include the Yamaha Mio, the Honda Wave and the Suzuki NEX.
New motorcycles in the Philippines
The price range for brand new business type motorcycles can start as low as P35,000 stretching to P70,000, with the Japanese brands demanding heftier prices. The prices of local motorcycles, however, have become more affordable as more Chinese made units have entered the market in the last few years. Some of the non-Japanese brands that are currently operating in the Philippines include Skygo, Motorstar, RUSI, Racal and SYM.
Buying a motorcycle in the Philippines has been made easier thanks to instalment plans being offered by most motorcycle dealers. Local dealers can take as little as P5,000 as a down payment with flexible payment terms starting from 6 to 36 months.
Used and redesigned motorcycles in the Philippines
Tricycles, a three-wheeled public vehicle made from attaching a makeshift passenger cargo or "side car" to a motorcycle, is a popular form of public transport in the countryside, suburbs and subdivisions. The regular trikes can carry up to four passengers with enough space on the back for additional cargo.
Other modified motorcycles include the habal-habal, which consists of a wooden plank attached to a motorcycle that can seat more than two people or carry additional cargo. There is also a large selection of used motorcycles being sold by individual owners mostly for business purposes.


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The Winnipeg Jets have an interesting off season ahead of them, as several of their key players are pending Restricted Free Agents. A Jets team with a 2012-13 cap payroll of a little over $58.8 million is about to get a lot more expensive.
Blake Wheeler, Bryan Little, Alexander Burmistrov, Zach Bogosian and Paul Postma are all set to become RFAs this summer; a group at currently combines for a total cap hit of just $9,483,333. It's safe to say that the Jets won't get all these players back for such a friendly number, which means some important decisions are coming. Each player will get a raise, but how much?
In order to try to project possible earnings for this group (and the resulting cap crunch for the Jets), we have to look at some comparable players in age, contract situation, point production, importance to their teams, and experience.
Blake Wheeler
Wheeler is trying to build on a 2011-12 season that was the best of his career. The former fifth overall pick collected 17-47-64 in 80 games last season, leading the Jets in scoring, and he's currently scoring at a point-per-game pace. Before this season he had played 326 games and scored 191 points (0.59 points per game). He carries a $2.55 million cap hit and $2.65 million salary for the 2012-13 season. Below are some comparable players:
Teddy Purcell (TBL): Signed a 3 year extension with Tampa Bay in July of 2012 worth $4.5 million per season after scoring 24-41-65 in 81 games for the Bolts. Only one year older than Wheeler, Purcell is in the last year of a contract that has a $2,362,500 cap hit. Before this season he had played 272 games and amassed 150 points (0.55 per game).
Valtteri Filppula (DET): Similar production to Wheeler with 23-43-66 in 81 games last year, and is a career 0.53 p/g player prior to this season. He too is in the last year of a deal that was set to pay him a $3.5 million salary in 2012-13.
Jamie Benn (DAL): Wait, don't stop reading! This comparison isn't as crazy as it sounds. Jamie Benn may be a more high-profile player around the league than Wheeler, but his 2011-12 production wasn't far off of the Jets forward. With 26-37-63 in 71 games for the Stars last year, Benn scored 0.89 points-per-game to Wheeler's 0.79. That landed Benn a shiny new five year contract with a $5.25 million cap hit. So what happens if Wheeler continues to score at a high level for the Jets in 2013?
Bryan Little
The Atlanta Thrashers drafted Little 12th overall in 2006 and the organization has been rewarded with a player who had appeared in 326 games for the Thrashers and Jets before this season, and who had collected 195 points (0.60 per game). He has a $2,383,333 cap hit and $3 million salary this season. Comparables:
David Perron (STL): Perron is six months younger than Little, and is a career 0.59 p/g player over 292 games prior to this season. He scored 21-21-42 over 57 games in 2011-12, compared to Little's 24-22-46 in 74 games for the Jets. Perron is in the first year of a deal that saw his cap hit rise from $2.15 million to $3,812,500 over four seasons.
Jakub Voracek (PHI): Scored 183 points in 319 games before this season (0.57 per game), and 18-31-49 in 78 games last year (0.63 per game). Signed a four year extension with a $4.25 million cap hit.
Drew Stafford (BUF): 246 points in 397 games before this season (0.62 per game), and had 20-30-50 in 80 games for the Sabres last year (0.63 per game). Like Little, Stafford is a former 30 goal scorer. He's in the second year of a four year contract with a $4 million cap hit.
Zach Bogosian
A wrist injury has kept him out of the lineup so far this season, but last year he was third among all Jets players with an average of 23:18 of ice time per game, including significant time in all three game states. He has played 264 career games and scored 89 points (0.34 per game). Bogosian is in the second year of a bridge contract (the one between Entry Level and the Big Kahuna) with a $2.5 million cap hit. Comparables:
Mark Giordano (CGY): Before this season Giordano had scored 0.40 p/g over his 238 game career. His ice time breakdown from last season is very similar to Bogosian, and the two each averaged a little over 23 total minutes per game. Giordano is in the second year of a five year deal with a $4.02 million cap hit.
Andrej Meszaros (PHI): 0.38 career points per game over 524 games before this season, and carries a $4 million cap hit.
GM Kevin Cheveldayoff has shown an ability to sign players to bridge contracts, as he did with Bogosian, which is likely to be the situation with Burmistrov and Postma as the Jets determine what they've got.
But he has also been unafraid to back up the dump truck of cash onto a player's lawn, as he did with former-RFA forward Evander Kane. Kane's second contract is a six year pact with a $5.25 millon cap hit, as he is clearly the player that the Jets are forming their offense around.
Don't be surprised if Wheeler and Little swing for the fences with their new contracts. Each guy could be in line for a fairly significant pay bump. The Jets will potentially be buying UFA years from both players, which comes at a premium in the NHL.
The NHL salary cap is set to drop to $64.3 million next season. The Jets have 11 players signed and a little over $29.5 million to spend. Bringing back Wheeler and Little alone could eat up anywhere from $7-9 million of that space, and there will still be a number of holes on the roster left to fill. There could be some interesting financial maneuvering ahead, especially if the Jets don't want to operate pressed right against the cap ceiling in 2013-14.
Combined with increasing expectations for the Jets going forward, this is the first off season where we'll really see what Cheveldayoff is made of.


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America's Swamp: the Historical Everglades Project: Governor Broward
Interest in draining and "reclaiming" land in the Everglades began as early as the 1880s, but major drainage activities were not undertaken until the first two decades of the 20th century. Two Florida Governors, William Sherman Jennings and Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, would serve as the primary designers and spokespersons for the draining of the Everglades. In 1904 Governor Broward famously promised to create an "Empire of the Everglades." Of course, in fulfilling this promise the state would have to destroy the ecological systems by dredging, creating canals, and altering the flow of water in the world's most famed wetlands. Alarmed at the potential loss of the Everglades several early conservationists, including Florida's May Mann Jennings, began pushing for the preservation of portions of the Everglades.
The drainage work started by Governors Jennings and Broward was of great interest internationally, and soon real estate dealers and settlers from around the world rushed in to profit from the project. The land sales boom in South Florida at the start of the 1920s was almost unprecedented in the history of the world. So was the rapidity with which it had collapsed by the end of the decade. Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 effectively ended the boom, but many people had already declared the drainage program a bust. By the time the Depression began in 1929, sales had ceased and the state was forced to halt drainage and dredging activities.
Each of the six collections provides unique and valuable historical evidence regarding the Everglades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it is difficult to research early drainage and conservation efforts without consulting these collections. The papers of Governor Broward and Governor Jennings form the nucleus of the project as they were the primary architects for the drainage and reclamation project. Jennings started the project rolling during his term, drumming up widespread support and resolving a myriad of legal issues, primarily pertaining to land claims made by the Flagler and Plant railroads. However, it was Broward who became the driving force for the project. His popularity, his larger-than-life persona, his attention to the smallest details, and his passion for the project, all combined to make him the perfect man to spearhead the effort. The two Progressive Era southern democrats were friends and political allies, and their common goals and accomplishments are documented extensively in their papers.


text: Will economic uncertainty overshadow the company reporting season? 4 February 2019 Reece Birtles Australia Share this article: February marks the start of company reporting season in Australia. This is an important period for the market, with much more fundamental company information available than at other times in the year. Leading in to this period, it feels like economic uncertainty globally may be overshadowing the more positive company profit fundamentals that we can see. Global uncertainty driving weaker earnings forecasts World economic data, such as PMI and consensus expectations for world profit growth, have slumped over the last six months on trade war concerns, Fed rate rises and the US government shutdown. As a result of this global economic uncertainty, revisions to Australia company consensus earnings per shares (EPS) forecasts by broker analysts have been particularly weak over the past few months. Cross section variance* of earnings revisions Past performance is not a guide to future returns. Source: Martin Currie Australia, Factset; as of 21 January 2019. Calculated using the weighted average of broker consensus forecasts of each holding – because of this, the returns quoted are estimated figures and are therefore not guaranteed. *Cross section variance: standard deviation of the change in revisions/price across stocks in the market However, we see that these revisions reflect a lower confidence in global economic growth, rather than and any real issues with the underlying fundamentals driving company profits in Australia. Business confidence supportive In fact, actual business conditions don't appear to reflect the weak EPS revisions. The NAB monthly business survey, released in December, showed that while current conditions have softened from mid-year, business conditions in 2018 were the strongest in the last 10 years. Business capacity utilisation also remains high, and companies have demonstrated confidence by continuing to spend on capex and hire more staff. Consumer confidence holding up On the consumer side, confidence is still apparent. The Westpac Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment rose in its December release, marking a full year in which the index was above 100 for the first time in five years. × Newsletter sign-up Consumer spending data through November also points to good non-discretionary (supermarket) performance but a continued soft discretionary spend. Housing activity and price outlooks are likely to be soft given constrained credit conditions, which is also increasing the need for better wages growth to offset weak savings. Opportunities in the disconnect Such times of market disconnect from fundamental profit drivers can offer significant investment opportunities for our research-driven stock-picking capabilities. We think that consumer confidence will flow through to profits for companies that are leveraged to the consumer, and we see opportunities in consumer staples, strongly positioned consumer discretionary and energy stocks. We also expect government infrastructure spending to continue to be strong, supporting profits for real asset companies. Such times of market disconnect from fundamental profit drivers can offer significant investment opportunities for our research-driven stock-picking capabilities. Commodity prices are holding up well, despite the weak China growth data (because of Chinese steel production), but we do believe weaker revenue and profit growth in the resources space may suppress the overall market-growth figures. Focus on the fundamentals As the month unfolds, and companies begin to report their earnings, our analysts will conduct over 100 meetings with management teams. We look forward to seeing company-reported results surprise on the upside relative to the negative consensus expectations leading in, and for our more bullish outlook to prevail. Important information Past performance is not a guide to future returns. The information contained in this presentation has been compiled with considerable care to ensure its accuracy. But no representation or warranty, express or implied, is made to its accuracy or completeness. Market and currency movements may cause the capital value of shares, and the income from them, to fall as well as rise and you may get back less than you invested. The information provided should not be considered a recommendation to purchase or sell any particular security. It should not be assumed that any of the security transactions discussed here were or will prove to be profitable. Martin Currie has procured any research or analysis contained in this presentation for its own use. 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Durbin bails on Jesse Jackson Jr.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has his nose in several Democratic primaries for Congress, but there's one race that he doesn't plan to get involved in.
Durbin has not chosen sides in the Second District, in Chicago and the South Suburbs, where U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Chicago, is being challenged by former Rep. Debbie Halvorson.
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Introducing The AppConfig Community
A community focused on providing tools and best practices around native capabilities in mobile operating systems to enable a more consistent, open and simple way to configure and secure mobile apps in order to increase mobile adoption in business. Users benefit with instant mobile productivity and a seamless out-of-the box experience, and businesses benefit with secure work-ready apps with minimal setup required while leveraging existing investments in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), VPN, and identity solutions. Ultimately, your apps are simpler to configure, secure and deploy.
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If you're part of a small but growing business looking to upgrade your fleet with a 1989 Ford E350, but you're also worried about the high price of diesel, we've got the Craisglist find for you. Sellers Daniel and Annika Ryan have rigged their great white beast with a vegetable oil system that REALLY WORKS. Our only question is why is an Econoline rigged to run on veggie oil "the sex".
Given the behind the back jokes everyone makes of van drivers, especially the ones with wood replacing the back windows, we would be inclined to avoid that particular carnal adjective.(h/t goes out to Alex)[Craigslist]