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Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is preceded by Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Easter eggs are commonly given as a gift at Easter.

The reason for this is because eggs symbolise new life. The largest decorated Easter egg, built by Freeport in Alcochete, Portugal was 14.79 m (48 ft 6 in) long and 8.40 m (27 ft 6 in) in diameter when measured on 8 March 2008.

What will you be doing this Easter Weekend?

Dear members,

We wanted to post a blog concerning the crediting of points as we have seen an increase in the amount of emails and topics on this subject.  We understand how frustrating this is for you, our members, after you have given us your valuable time and effort.  We make every effort to credit surveys as quickly as possible and work hard with our clients and partners to make this happen.  We are sorry for any delays that may occur and we strive to limit these as much as possible.

Due to the complexities of different surveys and their lifespan (how long a survey stays active) there can be a large swath of wait times until you are awarded your points. Sometimes the delay is very short, within a few hours or days, other times this can take a few weeks or up to a month.  If you happen to take a survey within the first few days of it opening, you could (unfortunately) end up waiting six weeks or more for your points. This is why on all invites you receive we do tell you that points will be awarded within 4 weeks of the closing of a survey.

We don’t want you to become worried that points have been forgotten because they do not appear within a matter of days or weeks.  We will always do our best to provide prompt crediting of points wherever possible.

We hope this helps to understand the crediting of points for Toluna surveys and we thank you for your continued dedication!

See you soon on the site,

The Toluna Team

Dear Members,

On the 20th of February, CD WOW! changed its name to WOW HD.  What does that mean for you?  MORE music, MORE film, MORE TV, MORE Games, MORE entertainment, MORE value, MORE interaction and MORE news!

All outstanding orders from CD WOW! will be fulfilled by WOW HD and all members of CD WOW! will automatically become members of WOW HD. You will be able to login onto WOW HD website with your CD! WOW credentials.

If you still have the CD WOW! credits on your account, they will be transferred automatically onto your WOW HD account.

Electronic vouchers from CD WOW! are valid on the WOW HD website as well.

We hope that you will continue enjoying this great reward partner!

Best regards,

The Toluna Team

Dear Members,

Toluna is an online community dedicated to making your voice heard! At the same time, however, Toluna does not tolerate abusive or offensive posts on the website. We will remove any posts that violate Toluna’s terms & conditions or our moderation guide. This can include any kind of abusive, violent and adult content.  Here at Toluna we take moderation very seriously. We would like to apologise for some of the posts you may have witnessed recently, some including pornographic images. We do not tolerate this type of content and it is being removed immediately (or already has been); in addition, members responsible for posting this content are being systematically removed from our website.

If you do come across any posts that you find offensive, please report this immediately to the helpdesk using our contact form.  You can also visit the Toluna Team EN profile page and leave a brief message for us there.

Once again we apologise for these images and hope it does not ever happen again.

Sincerely,

The Toluna Team

Valentine’s Day is centuries-old holiday, celebrated today in many countries as a day dedicated to showing love and affection towards loved ones. Typical ways of expressing this affection are chocolates, romantic meals, cards, or maybe even a serenade?!…

The origin of Valentine’s Day is not clear it but gets its name from a famous saint and many sources believe that it stems from the story of St Valentine, a Roman priest who was martyred around February 14 in the third century CE.

Did you celebrate Valentine’s Day this year? Tell us how in one of our Toluna Polls!

Or perhaps you have other ideas about February the 14^th? Is it meaningful or over-commercialised? Why not share your thoughts with us on Toluna!

Hello Toluna members,

It’s 26th January 2012, which can only mean one thing- it’s Australia Day!!

Today will be celebrated with a public holiday for all, leaving plenty of time, after all the fireworks and fun, to do some Toluna surveys!

In Australia, this date is celebrated primarily to commemorate the Port Jackson settlement in 1788. There are many music festivals that take place on this date and it is usually celebrated with family, a bbq, and friends.  How will you celebrate it?

From all of us at Toluna, we would like to wish you a very Happy Australia Day a great day to be proud to be Australian.

Dear members,

1. To use your code and receive your Facebook Credits please follow these steps:
2. Go to the website www.creditflipper.com and copy & paste (or insert manually) your code into the white box at the bottom of the page.
3. Once you have entered this information and clicked “Confirm” please then login to your Facebook account.
4. To confirm that your account has been credited with 100 Facebook Credits please click on the following link: https://secure.facebook.com/settings?tab=payments
5. Now you should be able to see your Facebook Credit balance next to your account information.
6. If you encounter any problems while entering your code, be sure to use the copy & paste functions and don’t hesitate to refresh the Credit Flipper website (www.creditflipper.com) for security reasons.
7. The use of Apple’s Safari browser is not recommended, please try to redeem your Facebook Credits using Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firerfox, or Google Chrome.

We hope this helps and once again we apologize for the recent issues that have been affecting the redemption of your Facebook Credits. Please contact our helpdesk with any questions or comments.

Sincerely,

The Toluna Team

Dear members,

Due to a technical error on Toluna.com the winners of the monthly lottery for November were not able to be announced.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

As such, please find the missing list of winners below for the month of November:

	Mollygirl
	faye1017wei@hotmail.com
	FMvanderweg
	hallgeyer
	valeriobisori@yahoo.it
	revalmic
	champson15
	xeverale
	Adicta_al_Malibu
	Honeysuly
	rkadiri17
	Skippy42
	CLERC49
	rince
	magcassem 51
	nathilette
	@loh@
	dizee06
	tocamelmocho
	mapumart

Congratulations to all our winners and we hope you have a happy end to 2011 and a great 2012!

See you soon on the site!

The Toluna Team

We thought we would post a blog to spread the Christmas cheer, so here is a song to get to get you into the Christmas spirit.

Click here for some Christmas cheer!

Here at Toluna, we find the values of Christmas to be special and have great traditions.

In Australia Christmas is never a white Christmas as it is celebrated in the first month of southern summer when the entire continent is parched by the blazing sun.

Christmas in Australia begin in late November and continue through the first week of January. Nativity plays and people singing carols start the holiday spirit off. On Christmas Eve, families attend ‘Carols by Candlelight’, a carol concert, where people from all across the city gather in huge numbers to sing and listen to joyful carols by the candlelight. It is believed that Christmas Eve celebrations in Australia are incomplete without this tradition.

‘Christmas bush’ and ‘Christmas bellflower’ take up a huge chunk of the festive decoration. But Australia also has other typical European decorations such as wreaths and a Christmas tree. In Australia they use a lot of summer scents & colourful decorations. In Australia they also have Kangaroo’s & Koala bears draped in Santa hats.

Christmas dinner in Australia is much like the Traditional UK Christmas Dinner. But as you all know Australia has a hot Christmas so meats like turkey & chicken can be served cold. With salads or roast vegetables. BBQ’s are also very popular in Australia; seafood is also popular to BBQ in Australia such as lobster or prawns. Other meats such as chicken breasts or steak are also a popular choice. A popular desert in Australia is pavlova this was introduced by Italian Australians.

So will you be spending Christmas in Australia this year or elsewhere – we would love to know!?

The team here at Toluna would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

Dear Members,

We are pleased to announce that our iPad2 monthly draw will be extended from 31 December 2011 to 31 March 2012.

This is an exclusive offer for our Asia Pacific community. Members have the opportunity to purchase a ticket to this prize draw for just 1000 points.

New members who completes their registration and becomes a Toluna member before the end of March, 2012 will also receive a free entry into this draw!

At the end of each month a winner will be selected to receive an iPad 2!

For more information please refer to the prize draw rules.

See you soon on the site!
The Toluna Team