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October 24, 2011
Egg and Soldiers
My Dad is a Military Man.
He started off in cadets as a school boy, served his country at war, and retired young as a Colonel to take up Gentleman Farming.
Dad is also a traditional man. Dad did everything outside the home- gardening, growing amazing vegetables, mowing, handyman, even BBQ'ing but rarely anything inside like cooking.
Whenever my Mum was ill, and us kiddies were left to Dads tender mercies, he would invariably fall back on his military roots. You remember MASH, don't you, well remember the chow line? That was our house.
Dad would fire up the electric fry pan, throw in some dripping, rummage through any leftovers in the fridge, chop up lots of cabbage and garlic and fry it all up together.
There would be a stack of plates by his side, the cutlery drawer pulled out, and us kids would line up and file past as Dad ladled a big splat of dinner on our plates.
Dad did have a few more culinary secrets up his sleeve though,- Cockies Joy, Vegemite mixed through mashed potatoes, Chapattis on the BBQ... and Egg with Soldiers.
A perfectly boiled egg with runny yolk and little strips of crisp toast to pull dipping from it's depths and gobbled up in our PJ's before bed. Mmmmmm....
This is a much better food memory of my Dad, than the infamous 'Squish my pills up on a gherkin to get me to eat them' Incident, which got messy- very messy.
This is a twist on the traditional Egg and Soldiers- not for Breakfast, not for Supper, but for Dessert. Yes, Dessert.
A rich and creamy Creme Brulee with shortbread Soldiers, served in the eggshell for fun.
To make the little emptied eggs, crack them very carefully, or use an Egg Topper Tool to make a clean crack around the rim of the egg. Empty the egg and separate as usual. Rinse the shell carefully but don't worry too much as it's going to be baked in the oven.
3 Egg Yolks
50 gr Sugar
250 ml Lactose Free Cream
Place the cram and vanilla in a saucepan on medium heat and bring to the boil, turn the heat down low and simmer for a few minutes to let the vanilla infuse.
Meanwhile beat the eggs and sugar until the sugar is dissolved and they are light and fluffy.
Slowly while beating all the time, pour the hot cream onto the egg mixture. Don't pour too quickly, or stop beating or you'll end up with sweetened scrambled eggs- yuck!
Pour the mix back into the saucepan and heat very gently until the mixture just coats the back of a spoon.
Pour the mix carefully into 6 1/2 cup ramekins, or some cute little emptied eggs.
Place the vessels into a baking tray with a folded kitchen cloth on the base. Make sure the sides of the tray reach to at least 2/3 of their height. The cloth is just to insulate the bottom of the ramekins so they bake evenly, otherwise the metal base heats quicker than the sides once filled with water. For the eggies, I just left them on in their cardboard carton sides as it just happens to be the perfect size for them- go figure!
Fill the baking tray with hot water from the kettle to come halfway up the sides of the smaller containers. The easiest way to do this is to place the tray in the oven FIRST, then moving quickly, pour in the water then shut the door. You can certainly pour the water in elsewhere, but then you run the risk of splashing it into the brulee mix and it not setting well, so why run the risk? The water is to give the little lovelies a nice, gentle bath, without a blast of heat, so they bake slowly and set nicely. Make sure you use hot water, otherwise you'll be waiting hours for the water to heat enough in the oven to start cooking the creme brulees. Trust me, I learnt the hard way.
Bake for about 30 mins at 160*c or until just set but with a soft wobble in the middle. The little eggies take from 15 minutes, but you'll need to keep a close eye on them so they don't overcook, or you'll have the equivalent of hard boiled instead of soft boiled yolks.
When they're done, pull the tray out and let them cool enough to pop into the fridge to cool and set.
Sprinkle the tops with a thin even layer of castor sugar. I prefer to build up my layer of toffee gradually rather than try and melt a thick layer that would be easy to burn before it melted. Use a culinary blow torch to caramelise the sugar so it melts to a crisp layer of toffee.
Pop them back in the fridge for a bit to set again. I never like to rush and serve them straight away, as once I got a creme brulee that had a warm liquidy layer under the toffee that wasn't very nice at all. Just give them a little bit to settle back down.
Serve in an egg cup with little shortbread soldiers on the side for dipping. If you don't have a cute little cutter, just make them into fingers like toast ( Shortbread Recipe coming next post ) Cracking through the crisp toffee is just like cracking the top off the egg with a spoon, but much more satisfying!
Otherwise serve in the ramekin with a spoon, still yummy, but not as cute.
So Dear Readers, so you like cute food and what's your favourite childhood food memory?
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This is super cute, especially the soldier shaped soldiers!ReplyDelete
wow, this is fantastic! How great - a jazzed up nostalgic dish. & I must say, the gherkin pill incident sounds interesting/traumatising haha. As does the vegemite mixed through mashed potatoes :P gotta love that creativity. My favourite childhood dish? pikelets with jam for afternoon tea. 20% for the taste, 80% for the nostalgia :)ReplyDelete
Heidi xo
I love the story. I didn't realise that it wasn't egg and toast until I kept reading. Very clever you are and my favourite - Creme Brulee Yum!ReplyDelete
Love your story, your Dad sounded like quite the man!The creme brulee in the egg shells is a really neat idea. Looks yummy! My favorite childhood food memory (well, one of many) is my grandma's tapioca pudding. Served warm with pineapple. Yum!ReplyDelete
This is just divine. My dad was an expert at french toast. I have such fond memories of eating it in pyjamas next to the heater on cold mornings.ReplyDelete
Love the military story! Hahaha... and I love the twist on this egg and soldiers :)ReplyDelete
This is FRIGGIN amazing, I love it so much!! The literal soldiers too! Hahahaha.. And I like the story at the start you shared of you and your father, it's very sweet. I'm glad food reminds us of good times with the people we love in our lives. Looking forward to more recipes like these. Thanks so much!!ReplyDelete
oh how awesome!!!ReplyDelete
My dad's 'secret' to cooking was addding curry powder to everything lol
When I read egg and soldiers, I was thinking of the toast dipped in the soft boiled eggs that I loved as a kid. But this is WAY WAY more fun!! What an adorable idea! ;)ReplyDelete
When Mom was ill, my dad could cook everything except desserts. He went to the bakery for those and he got 'fancy' ones. Favorite childhood food? Lots of choices, probably Mom's bread, Dad didn't know there were heels to Mom's bread until I left home. Cause there isn't anything better than the heel of a loaf of bread fresh out of the oven with butter all melted in. I wish I could bake bread like she did!ReplyDelete
Your dad sounds great and I can imagine it was easier just to have a queue to be fed. It could be daunting otherwise! What are Cockies Joys? I've never heard of those before! :)ReplyDelete
Becca, this is a fantastic recipe! And soooo cute! I love the little soldier shortbreads, and how brilliant to bake the brulee in eggshells! You're a creative genius, girl. :)ReplyDelete
You are so clever!!! I thought it was boiled egg and toast at first! and I still liked it because the little man was so cute! ...but this is so much better! I can't wait to try my new brulee torch out on this one!ReplyDelete
My dad was exactly the same as yours. Mum rarely got sick but when she did dinner was always a "surprise." It always came out of one frying pan but the washing up afterwards was horrendous!
Oh Bec, this is such a lovely idea - you are very inventive!ReplyDelete
Loved the stories of your Dad, too, especially the chow line. LOL
YUM :) I love these. Such a great tributeReplyDelete
Oh these are just divine! What a fantastic story too! Loved this post :)ReplyDelete
These are seriously cute! Nothing better than a googie egg in the morning :DReplyDelete
My dad was in the Reserves, and he cooks the same way - his culinary triumph is a dish composed of hamburger meat, canned spaghetti and scrambled eggs all mixed up in a sort of stew. Mmmmm. :|ReplyDelete
Enjoyed reading about your Dad. Thanks for sharing the story with us. Hpw did you get the egg shell so uniform? I love creme brulee and it is fun way to serve them in egg shells.ReplyDelete
Your middle name is Heston, right?? :-)ReplyDelete
Very clever, and I love reading about your dad. XO
from NZ (home of the WORLD CHAMPION ALL BLACKS)
I love the soliders. So much better than my cut up bits of toast where you are forced to use your imagination.ReplyDelete
Hello Lovelies! I'm glad we could have some fun with this one, I really enjoyed sharing a little bit of my family with you too :)ReplyDelete
Christie- Thanks! I was so excited to find that cutter too :)
Heidi- Thanks! I can still taste the mixture if I think about it! The vegemite potatoes actually work really well- belive it or not :) Nostalgia wins over taste any day!
Leonie- Thanks, I like to play with my food :) Glad it's your favorite!
April- He is indeed! Thanks! I love tapioca, yummm....
Tori- Mmmmmmm, French Toast! Yumm!
Msihua- My dad is very military, and even runs his farm that way with set hours and routines. I just want to have fun :)
Winston- Thanks so much! It's amazing how food is so connected to memories and nurturing isn't it? You're welcome!
Lisa- He's a clever man, curry powder can cover a multitude of sins :)
Kim- Just for grownups- don't tell the kids!
Judy- I don't remember my dad giving us dessert, you lucky things! My littlej steals them too :)
Lorraine- He is great! I think it was just army and boarding school institutionalisation being too hard to fight maybe? Cockies Joy is a nickname for Golden Syrup- I was never sure why though, but we loved it more than honey and I still do ;)
Celia- Thanks honey! I have had that idea in my notebook for ages, just had to get the right tools. Awww shucks!
GourmetGetaways- I had to buy a quite expensive set just to get my little soldier, but it was sooo worth it :) My husband's the same, uses every tool in the kitchen, maybe its a testosterone thing?
Amanda- Maybe that's why I rebel and love to do the cheffy 'plate up' for family meals?
Nic- Thankyou, I think he was a bit embarrased though!
Anna- Thanks! I'm a story teller at heart :)
Cassandra- I love googie eggs, cackle berries,chook fruit and bum nuts too!
JasmyneTea- Maybe we should have a culinary intervention for them both?
QuayPo- My dad is the best! I have a wonderful little springloaded tool that cuts it perfectly for me.
JanetNZ- :) Well, we have so many wonderful things in Australia,we don't want to be greedy. We'll let New Zealand have this one :P
HotlySpiced- Thanks! Mornings are waaaay to early for imagination :)
I think this is an amazing idea, where did yo get the soldier cutter? I love the image of the MASH line. GGReplyDelete
Your dad sounds amazing! I just hope he didn't give you too much of a militrary drill during education ... Some children aren't made for that.ReplyDelete
OMG, your dad was a legend- mash potato and vegimite. I decided to brave it, and served it with tonights dinner- absoutly amazing!!!ReplyDelete
The creme brulee in eggs is a fabulous idea!


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Nominations and winners of the 85th Academy Awards:
Best Picture
**Winner** Argo (Warner Bros.), Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
Amour (Sony Pictures Classics), Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight), Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
Django Unchained (The Weinstein Company), Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
Les Misérables (Universal), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
Life of Pi (20th Century Fox), Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
Lincoln (DreamWorks), Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Silver Linings Playbook (The Weinstein Company), Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
Zero Dark Thirty (Sony), Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers
**Winner** Ang Lee – Life of Pi
Michael Haneke – Amour
Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Actor in a Leading Role
**Winner** Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman – Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight
Actress in a Leading Role
**Winner** Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible
Actor in a Supporting Role
**Winner** Christoph Waltz – Django Unchained
Alan Arkin – Argo
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Actress in a Supporting Role
**Winner** Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables
Amy Adams – The Master
Sally Field – Lincoln
Helen Hunt – The Sessions
Jacki Weaver – Silver Linings Playbook
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
**Winner** Argo, Written by Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild, Written by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi, Written by David Magee
Lincoln, Written by Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook, Written by David O. Russell
Writing (Original Screenplay)
**Winner** Django Unchained, Written by Quentin Tarantino
Amour, Written by Michael Haneke
Flight, Written by John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom, Written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty, Written by Mark Boal
Foreign Language Film
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Kon-Tiki (The Weinstein Company), Norway
No (Sony Pictures Classics), Chile
A Royal Affair (Magnolia Pictures), Denmark
War Witch (Tribeca Film), Canada
Animated Feature Film
**Winner** Brave (DisneyPixar), Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie (Walt Disney Pictures), Tim Burton
ParaNorman (Focus Features), Sam Fell and Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Sony), Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph (Walt Disney Pictures), Rich Moore
Production Design
**Winner** Lincoln, Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Anna Karenina, Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright
Les Misérables, Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson
Life of Pi, Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
**Winner** Claudio Miranda – Life of Pi
Seamus McGarvey – Anna Karenina
Robert Richardson – Django Unchained
Janusz Kaminski – Lincoln
Roger Deakins – Skyfall
Costume Design
**Winner** Jacqueline Durran – Anna Karenina
Paco Delgado – Les Misérables
Joanna Johnston – Lincoln
Eiko Ishioka – Mirror Mirror
Colleen Atwood – Snow White and the Huntsman
Film Editing
**Winner** William Goldenberg – Argo
Tim Squyres – Life of Pi
Michael Kahn – Lincoln
Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers – Silver Linings Playbook
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg – Zero Dark Thirty
Documentary (Feature)
**Winner** Searching for Sugar Man (Sony Pictures Classics), Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn
5 Broken Cameras (Kino Lorber), Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers (Sony Pictures Classics), Nominees to be determined
How to Survive a Plague (Sundance Selects), Nominees to be determined
The Invisible War (Docurama Films), Nominees to be determined
Makeup and Hairstyling
**Winner** Les Misérables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Hitchcock, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
Music (Original Score)
**Winner** Mychael Danna – Life of Pi
Dario Marianelli – Anna Karenina
Alexandre Desplat – Argo
John Williams – Lincoln
Thomas Newman – Skyfall
Music (Original Song)
**Winner** "Skyfall" from Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
"Before My Time" from Chasing Ice, Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from Ted, Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi, Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
"Suddenly" from Les Misérables, Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Sound Mixing
**Winner** Les Misérables, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
Life of Pi, Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
Lincoln, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
Skyfall, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson
Sound Editing
**Winner (Tie)** Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
**Winner (Tie)** Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson
Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained, Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
Visual Effects
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White
Marvel's The Avengers, Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
Prometheus, Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson
Documentary (Short Subject)
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Kings Point, Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine, Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart, Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
Short Film (Animated)
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Adam and Dog, Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole, PES
Head over Heels, Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare", David Silverman
Short Film (Live Action)
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Asad, Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys, Sam French and Ariel Nasr
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Deepa Govind is a very active Zoho Creator developer who develops custom Zoho Creator applications for clients. Recently she got featured in oDesk's Newsletter
We interviewed her to see what goes on in the mind of a prolific Zoho Creator developer. If you are a Zoho Creator developer reading this, we believe the tips from Deepa will surely help you in getting more customers. Read on …
Tell us about yourself, Deepa
Well, I'm a Life Science postgraduate who could not differentiate between Windows the operating system & the one that looks out of my balcony. It was only after my PG, I was introduced to the world of "computers" via APTECH. This opened up a whole new range of possibilities for me & I haven't turned back since. At the moment, I reside at Bangalore, India and work from home & I have no intention of going back to the brick-and-mortar routine.
Why did you choose to use Zoho Creator?
The drag and drop interface at form-design and at Deluge script won me hands-down. Additionally, the logic command blocks at Deluge Script , along with the help documents were very helpful in the initial stages. I sort of kicked-the-tires by developing some applications for personal use. Like, to keep track of client enquiries, team submissions, so on and so forth. Once this began to fall into a routine, I was all geared to take up projects that are built-to-order.
How do you pitch Zoho Creator to your customers? Has it been an easy sell?
In fact, I didn't have to pitch it at all. Zoho Creator already did it for me! Anyone who has spent at least 30 minutes with Zoho Creator forms & the basic 'Send Mail ' script will be able to comprehend what this could do to their business. So I was fortunate to have well informed clients who had tested Zoho Creator hands on. It has been my observation that, out of every 10 casual signups, at least 8 are willing to harness the developer pool for a decent remuneration. That's 80% conversion rate, guys!
However, my motto had been Blog–Publicize–Connect. I was already having a blog that gave away tips on using blogspot templates. Later, I added Zoho to this and started posting simple how-to-do tutorials. Each of these tutorial posts targeted one aspect of Zoho Creator, and came up with demos (for live experience) and screenshots to explain the code behind the demo. Any comments received were duly attended to. Let us not forget the Zoho Creator forum.
Once the blog posts were out, there was Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn to attend to. I was my own P.R.O. So I began to tweet and post status messages that made clear of the fact that I am ready and available. I even had a 'Get Quote' form (of course, a Zoho Creator form!) all set up to collect enquiries. After that, it was time for me to wait. Any week that went by without a Zoho Creator enquiry, I would make a new post at my blog. And every enquiry was promptly responded with & I promptly connected with all prospective clients in any of the social networking platforms.
There is one more thing that I learnt the hard way. When you work for yourself (read, not associated with any company), there is absolutely no room for modesty. We have to scream at the top of our lungs to sell our skills, else the customer looks the other way.
How are you trying to attract new customers?
The Zoho Creator Marketplace is a great place to start. Plus, I try to stick to the schedule & deliver results with my existing clients, and they get me new clients.
As a designer yourself, how did you find the Zoho Creator experience?
I personally prefer "less is more". So, the form's design elements were pretty much satisfactory. After all, we are using Zoho Creator as a database platform, and not as a website developmental tool. (Oh, I had those shares of enquiries as well – "Design a website for me in Zoho Creator"!). I am not saying, "It can't be done". May be someone with a little more perseverance will do it soon. But, that's not what Zoho Creator is meant to do.
Tell us your favourite Zoho Creator feature and why you like it.
I love the HTML View AND its 'Convert to PDF ' option! Zoho Creator is database oriented, and HTML view coupled with Deluge script's ability to pull out records to be displayed in HTML format is the ultimate report presentation ever. The look-and-feel is tailor made, the requirement decides the logic for data, and the pdf option allows us to save the report. Even without any data, these HTML views allow us to make wonderful dashboards that never fail to impress the client. What could be more alluring than this!
You are featured in oDesk Provider Spotlight. Congratulations! Tell us how it happened.
Thank you! Although, I signed up with oDesk in 2007, it took me almost two-and-a-half years to get to this spot. Thanks to Zoho Creator in all accounts, coz, Zoho Creator is indeed my developmental platform, and it is the users of Zoho Creator to whom I cater to. Without Zoho Creator & the support team, this would not have been possible.
Remember, a short while ago, I told you that I had to wait after writing the how-to-do Zoho tutorial blog posts. Well, I was not exactly waiting for 'something' to happen. I did a little bit of research on freelance marketplaces, and found oDesk to be reasonable and reliable. Profile building and understanding the system took a while, but completely worth it. I even did some gigs that were way out of database management. But, helped me to understand the portal as a whole.
At this time, Zoho Creator was gaining momentum, and the marketplace was not yet integrated. I came across a Zoho Creator job-opening at oDesk, where-in the owner wanted someone who could take his existing application and mould it to produce suitable results. By this time, I also had quite a few number of Zoho tutorial blog posts (See! blogging does help).
I promptly placed my bid for this project, and gave reference to my blog posts. And within 2 days, I officially received the hire notice via oDesk, and the project was successfully completed in 3 months. I still continue to provide ongoing support & attend to any requirements on enhancements.
The success of my first Zoho Creator project gave me the much needed booster dose of confidence. I would watch out for openings that requested for Zoho Creator skills and one thing led to another. Before I knew it, I was fully engaged at Zoho Creator, developing applications for clients. At this time, I was finding it increasingly difficult to maintain my Zoho tutorial blog. I still haven't had time to do justice to my blog. In every sense, they are my silent partner, being there when I needed them the most, moving to the sidelines when my priorities changed.
Any tips for other developers considering building Zoho Creator Apps for their clients?
First off, All the best. You may know that you are the best, but you will have to sell this as well.
Have you seen a sketch artist's scrapbook? All his/her work neatly arranged and bound for easy viewing. That's just about same for us as well. It is not just enough to say "I did this-and-that", you need to show what is "this-and-that". However trivial, collect your work samples, and present them as your developer portfolio. Links are for reference, screenshots are for relevance. Use them wisely.
Frequent the Zoho Creator forum, and bookmark / follow the topics that are relevant to you, even at their tiniest proportion. A frequent forum visitor stands the chance of picking more tips, which might come handy later. Expertise is a journey; we will all get there sometime. It's what you pick along the path that matters.
Watch out at the Zoho Marketplace. It is probably the first place a buyer would present his requirement. Plus, you can be assured that he has personally tested the Zoho Creator environment & understand what "Forms" & "Views" mean. You wouldn't have to deal with explaining how forms / views are different from tables (as in the conventional database model). Believe me, it takes a great load off when the terminologies are understood in their actual sense.
If you are active in any of the freelancing marketplace(s), stick to their TOS. You have greater chance of receiving payment on the work done there for any client who happens to contact you via the same freelancing marketplace. I am not ashamed to admit that I got my share of burnt fingers as well.
Last, but not the least, before you commence the project, confirm the requirements in a manner understandable and executable by both parties. You wouldn't want to end up re-doing the whole application when the buyer says, "Oh! You did this, I thought that".
And beyond that, do what you do the best. Knock yourself out building applications with Zoho Creator. And, don't forget to get feedback from your clients. Need I say, use Zoho Creator forms 😉


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Schools across Europe team up to image an asteroid and its moon
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Last week, a team of schools from across Europe joined forces to use Faulkes Telescope South to image a binary asteroid throughout the course of a day. The schools, from the UK, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and France have been working together since 2010, after receiving funding from the EU's Comenuis programme, to collaborate on an asteroids project named 'In Orbit with Europe'. Earlier this year, the team successfully imaged a single asteroid, named Kariba, and produced an impressive plot of how it rotated in space - this time they've gone one step further and chosen an asteroid with a smaller companion!
The leader of the team, Andre Debackere, from College Le Monteil, France, reports on the team's observations below.
" As in January last year, pupils from different schools in Europe used the Faulkes Telescopes this week to observe a special asteroid called (11264) Claudiomaccone.
The small asteroid "Claudiomaccone", about 4 km diameter, was discovered in 1979 by Nikolai Chernykh, and is a main belt object. In 2003, light curve analysis of this asteroid showed it had a natural satellite about 1 km diameter. An asteroid with a moon!
The weather was clear at Siding Spring this Thursday October 11th and during 4 hours, schools involved in the project took turns to pilot the 2 meter class telescope call FTS. First "Collège Le Monteil FR" then "The Leigh Technology Academy UK", "Moreton Hall school UK", "Escola secundaria da Cidadela PT", "Planetarium i Obserwatorium Astronomiczne, ZST - Grudziadz, PL" and finally " Regina Mundi College IR". In total, 82 images were taken. All the teachers, pupils and Alison Tripp from the Faulkes team were talking by Skype during this session.
It's the first time that we observe a binary asteroid and we hope to bring out the satellite in the light curve we will obtain with our observations…"
An animation of all the images taken by the team of schools was produced by LCOGT's Stuart Lowe, and can be seen below:
Further results, including the lightcurve from the observations are being finalised, and we'll let you know the outcome as soon as we can!
Schools and amateurs help boost ESA's asteroid hunt
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- Written by Sarah Roberts
A partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Faulkes Telescope Project promises to boost the ESA's space hazards research while helping students to discover potentially dangerous space rocks.
ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is keeping watch over space hazards, including disruptive space weather, debris objects in Earth orbit and asteroids that pass close enough to cause concern.
The asteroids – known as 'near-Earth objects', or NEOs, since they cross Earth's orbit – are a particular problem.
Any attempt to survey and catalogue hazardous asteroids faces a number of difficulties. They're often jet black or at least very dark, they can approach rather too close before anyone sees them, and they're often spotted only once and then disappear before the discovery can be confirmed.
Crowdsourcing the astronomy community
So ESA is turning to amateur astronomers to 'crowdsource' observations as part of Europe's contribution to the global asteroid hunt. These efforts will add to the follow-up observations already done at ESA's own telescope on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
This month, the UK's Faulkes Telescope Project will become the latest team to formally support the SSA programme. Spain's La Sagra Sky Survey, operated by the Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca, began helping SSA earlier this year.
These are tough to spot
Sharing expertise and observing time
"The wider astronomy community offers a wealth of expertise and enthusiasm, and they have the time and patience to verify new sightings; this helps tremendously," says Detlef Koschny, Head of NEO activity at ESA's SSA programme office.
"In return, we share observing time at ESA's own Optical Ground Station in Tenerife and provide advice, support and professional validation. We'll assist them in any way we can."
The Faulkes Telescope Project runs both educational and research programmes, based at the University of Glamorgan in the UK.
Public education and outreach
The project has a strong record in public education and science outreach, and is a partner of the US-based Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope network, which owns and operates the two 2m Faulkes telescopes. The Faulkes Telescope Project supports hundreds of schools across Europe.
ESA's Optical Ground Station, Tenerife
"Our new cooperation with ESA is a great opportunity. Use of the 2 m-diameter telescopes in Hawaii and Siding Spring, Australia, will greatly enhance asteroid-spotting for the SSA programme, enabling fainter object detection and tracking from a global telescope network," says Nick Howes, Pro-Am Programme Manager at the Faulkes Telescope.
"For European students, collaborating on exciting ESA activities and possibly detecting new NEOs is very appealing, as it's engagement with one of the world's great space agencies doing critical scientific work."
ESA's SSA programme is developing services and infrastructure to enable Europe to observe NEOs, predict their orbits, produce impact warnings and be involved in possible mitigation measures and civil response.
It will also provide services to monitor man-made debris objects in orbit that can pose hazards to satellites and to monitor the effects of space weather phenomena on space and ground assets.
The original news story can be found here, along with links to ESA's space hazard research programme.
Schools from across Europe join forces on the FTs
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- Written by Sarah Roberts
On Thursday 26th January, schools from across Europe joined forces to observe an asteroid zipping through our Solar System.
The schools from the UK, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and France are part of a Comenius-funded project, which consists of students from all the schools involved working together on Faulkes Telescope data to investigate asteroids.
The observing day on 26th January was organised by Andre Debackere, from College Le Monteil ASAM in France, in collaboration with the Faulkes Telescope Project (FTP), and LCOGT. Andre set a date for their group observations, and the FTP liaised with LCOGT's Edward Gomez to ensure that slots were available on that day for each school to use. After booking up each slot for the schools, the students were ready to go!
On the day of the observations, FTP team members, Sarah Roberts and Alison Tripp were on hand on Skype to answer any queries from the Comenius group schools.
"This was one of the most fun observing days that we've had in a long time" commented FTP's Education Director, Sarah Roberts. "It was really enjoyable watching the students talking to each other on Skype, and was great seeing how excited they were when the images were coming in from the telescopes".
LCOGT's Astronomy web developer, Stuart Lowe made a quick animation of the observations that the schools took - it's clear to see from this that they managed to snap 2 asteroids moving across the field of view of the telescope - a double success for the project!
Watch this space for reports from the school students on how the day went, and how they plan to analyse their data.
You can also read more about the Comenius project on their team website here. The schools involved are: Grudziadz (Poland), The Leigh Technology Academy (UK), College Le Monteil ASAM (France), Escola Secundária da Cidadela (Portugal), Moreton Hall School (UK) and Regina Mundi College (Ireland).
Schools team create asteroid lightcurve
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- Published on Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:14
- Written by Sarah Roberts
Earlier this month we reported that schools from across Europe had joined together to observe an asteroid travelling through the Solar System. LCOGT's Stuart Lowe made a quick animation of the asteroid, but the Comenius-funded schools team have now analysed the data and produced a fantastic light curve of the asteroid as it tumbled through space.
The plot, produced using the free software package, SalsaJ, shows how the light reflected by asteroid Kariba during its journey across the telescope's field of view, changes as it spins in space. From this lightcurve, the rotation period of the asteroid can be obtained and from the data here, it appears that asteroid Kariba takes just under 2 hours to make a full rotation.
"It's fantastic to see what schools can achieve using the FTs when they work together" said Dr Sarah Roberts, the FT Education director, " let's hope that more schools with telescope accounts see what has been achieved in one day by this team, and are inspired to work on some collaborative projects of their own. After all, the sky's the limit!"
For a larger version of the lightcurve, click here to go to Raoul Behrend's (Mathematics specialist of asteroids at the University of Geneva) website.
Fully-funded Teacher Training Courses in March-June 2012
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- Published on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 02:00
- Written by Sarah Roberts
The European Hands-On Universe (EU-HOU) project is offering new 5-day training sessions on 'Bringing Frontline interactive astronomy to the classroom' and 2-day seminars on radio astronomy to all interested teachers.
The dates and links to more information on these courses can be found on this page : http://www.euhou.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=237&Itemid=184
If you are a teacher from the UK, you can apply to the British Council for funding to attend these courses/seminars. The funding will cover everything - course cost, accommodation, subsistence and travel.
If you are a teacher from outside the UK you can apply for funding from your Comenius National Agency.
Read more: Fully-funded Teacher Training Courses in March-June 2012


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33 Ways to Keep Everyone Warm and Dry at Your Fall or Winter Wedding
While Spring and Summer are traditionally the most popular wedding seasons, we're seeing more and more big days falling in the Fall and Winter months. We see the appeal. After all, there is something romantic about the cooler seasons spent snuggling up by the fire with a warm drink, watching the leaves change color or the snow fall, and soaking in spicy scents like pumpkin and cinnamon. So if you're looking to capture the coziness of Winter in your wedding while keeping your guests (and SO!) comfortable and happy, here are 33 ideas for a warm and dry cold-weather wedding.


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Brazil closed November 2011 with 236 million mobile access activations – a 19.51% growth year-on-year, the Brazilian national telecom agency Anatel reports. Out of these lines, 38.83 million are 3G terminals, it adds.
This is quite a feat, considering that the country 'only' has approximately 195 million inhabitants. In other words, there are more mobile lines than people in Brazil; the country's teledensity, as it is called, amounts to 120.81%. That's a rate that has increased almost 2 percent in the last three months alone, demonstrating the huge growth potential of telecom in the country.
South-East and Salvador top the ranking
As it was to be expected with such a huge territory, this average figure masks substantial disparities between states. While density is higher than 200% in Brasilia's Federal District, it drops as low as 78% in the northeastern state of Maranhão. As a result, the majority of mobile access lines are located in Brazil's South and South-East regions:
However, these numbers are still averages, hiding disparities between the city and the countryside, and you may not know after reading this chart that Salvador (Bahia) actually tops the ranking of 'mobile' cities, with 1.86 line by inhabitant.
Vivo, Brazil's leading mobile operator by an inch
According to Anatel, here's the market share of each leading mobile operator in the country:
Pre-paid phones still dominate the market
Another interesting number is the proportion of pre-paid vs. post-paid lines. The Brazilian market is an emerging one, and 192.7 million of its mobile access lines are pre-paid – 81% of the total. While this is an average again, variations are fairly limited, from 90.4% in the North to 77% in the South. Which means that pre-paid clients are still the vast majority all over the country, a characteristic that anyone interested in the Brazilian mobile market should take into account.
What these figures show is that Brazilians from all social classes want to own a mobile phone, even if their budget is still tight. They also reflect the fact that millions of Brazilians are getting out of poverty to join the middle class and start acquiring electronics, including mobile phones.
Feature phones of course, but not only – as we reported, smartphone sales have started to take off across Latin America, and a recent study showed that almost half of feature phone owners in Brazil plan to buy a new cell phone in the near future – which will certainly fuel a further increase in mobile numbers over the holiday season and in 2012.
Still, models like the iPhone, which can cost up to R$3,399 (US$1,830) in Brazil, remain inaccessible to the vast majority, which explains why manufacturers like Motorola and Nokia are looking at this market very closely.
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Everyone is welcome to worship God with us according to the ancient Orthodox Christian tradition at Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado..
The language of our parish is English; all of our services are in English as well as the sermon. Whenever hymns or Psalm verses are repeated in the services, we generally first chant them in their original, New Testament Greek and then in English. The Lord's Prayer is recited in English and in New Testament Greek.
Our services are liturgical:
We follow the Orthodox liturgical tradition. Our services consist of Psalms, prayers, petitions, and Scripture readings. All services are chanted antiphonally by the priest and the congregation, without instrumental accompaniment. The words and melodies are in the traditional Byzantine style.
Our services are ancient:
Our services are ancient in structure and content. The Divine Liturgy we celebrate was compiled, not composed, by Saint John Chrysostom in the fourth century.
We believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church The link titled Our Faith at the top and bottom of this page will provide you with some introductory articles on the Orthodox Church. The best book to read about Orthodox Christianity is The Orthodox Church by Timothy Ware (ISBN 0-14-014656-3), and we highly recommend it to you.
Our congregation consists of the faithful Orthodox Christians from traditionally Orthodox countries such as Greece, Romania, Serbia, Russia and Bulgaria. We also have those born here in America, who are second, third and fourth generation from our forbearers. In addition, many parishioners are simply 'Americans' -- those who have converted from the Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations.
We are under the spiritual and ecclesiastical jurisdiction of His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver. The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Denver is a part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, which is an eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.


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The degrees of Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy are offered in Computer Science.
Admission into the Ph.D. program in Computer Science is normally restricted to candidates holding a Master's Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a closely related area. Others may be considered for admission. See Qualifications for Admission of the General Regulations. International applicants are strongly encouraged to submit results of the (general) Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Test.
Each candidate for the Ph.D. shall complete a program of graduate courses prescribed by the supervisory committee. The normal minimum will be 9 credit hours.
The candidate shall take the Comprehensive Examination within the time limits specified in Comprehensive Examinations of the General Regulations. Students should consult the Departmental guidelines for a detailed description of the content of the Comprehensive Examination.
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- 6713 Software Engineering
- 6714 Functional Programming
- 6715 Logic Programming
- 6716 Concurrent Programming
- 6718-6719 Special Topics in Programming Languages
- Computer Systems
- 6720 Distributed and Parallel Computing
- 6721 Operating Systems Design
- 6722 Advanced Computer Architectures
- 6723 Microprocessor Systems
- 6724 VLSI Design (same as Engineering 9863)
- 6725 Computational Aspects of VLSI (same as Engineering 9864)
- 6726 Modelling and Analysis of Computing Systems
- 6727 Introduction to High Performance Computer Systems
- 6728-6729 Special Topics in Computer Systems - Computer Networks
- Numerical Computations
- 6731 Topics in Numerical Methods
- 6732 Matrix Computations
- 6738-6739 Special Topics in Numerical Methods
- Theoretical Aspects
- 6741 Advanced Automata Theory
- 6742 Theory of Databases
- 6743 Complexity of Computational Problems
- 6745 Special Topics - Advanced Computational Geometry
- 6748-6749 Special Topics in Theoretical Computer Science
- Applications
- 6751 Database Technology and Information Retrieval
- 6752 Applications of Computer Graphics
- 6753 Artificial Intelligence
- 6754 Post-Genomic Computational Biology
- 6755 Knowledge-Based Systems
- 6756 Digital Image Processing
- 6758-6769 Special Topics in Computer Applications
- 6770-6790 Special Topics in Computer Science


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INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA announced Monday that it will pay $20 million to former football and basketball players who had their images and likenesses used in video games, hoping the settlement will help keep amateurism rules intact for college sports.
Hours before the O'Bannon trial began in California challenging the NCAA's the authority to restrict or prohibit payments to athletes, the largest governing body in college sports said it had settled another potentially damaging lawsuit scheduled to go to trial next March. Sam Keller, the former quarterback at Arizona State and Nebraska, filed the class-action suit in May 2009 and contended the NCAA unfairly deprived college players of revenue.
"I think they're going to be pleased that they were the catalyst to being the first (college) athletes to be paid for their performance for the first time in history," Steve Berman, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told The Associated Press shortly after the deal was announced.
The deal comes a little more than a week after Electronic Arts agreed to a $40 million settlement of similar allegations.
The $60 million worth of settlements cover claims made in the Keller and O'Bannon cases against EA, along with two other cases, Berman said. The agreement announced Monday covers Division I men's basketball and Bowl Subdivision football players whose images, likenesses or names were included in game footage or in an EA video game after 2005. The $40 million settlement covers athletes to 2003, even if they were not in the video games.
Final details were still being worked out. How much each player gets will be determined by how many athletes file claims. Based on historical trends, Berman said, he expects the payments to Division I men's basketball and Bowl Subdivision football players to range from $400 to $2,000 each.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in the Northern District of California must approve the settlement.
Last July, the NCAA said it would no longer allow Electronic Arts Inc. of Redwood City, California, to use its logo once the current contract expired this month. That ended a lucrative business deal with the multibillion-dollar gaming industry giant, which is well known for Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer and other games. EA Sports first began making an NCAA Football game in 1998.
Berman estimated that more than 100,000 athletes are now eligible to seek compensation over EA video games they contend relied on close depictions of college football and basketball players.
"With the games no longer in production and the plaintiffs settling their claims with EA and the Collegiate Licensing Company, the NCAA viewed a settlement now as an appropriate opportunity to provide complete closure to the video game plaintiffs," NCAA chief legal officer Donald Remy said.
The NCAA said current players who receive part of the settlement won't be at risk of punishment under rules that generally bar compensation for their athletic skills.
"In no event do we consider this settlement pay-for-athletics-performance," Remy said.
With the NCAA increasingly becoming embroiled in legal cases, the playing field has changed.
CBS and Turner are paying the NCAA an average of more than $770 million per year to televise the men's basketball tournament, some schools are making millions more per year from their own television deals and the BCS has paid out in excess of $175 million per year. So when others profited from the video games, college athletes went to court to get a bigger piece of the pie.
Ed O'Bannon, the former UCLA basketball player, and other plaintiffs are asking U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken for an injunction that would allow athletes to sell the rights to their own images in television broadcasts and rebroadcasts. That trial began Monday in federal court in California.
While the long-term ramifications from the settlement in the Keller case are yet to be determined, the short-term implication is clear.
"Going forward, I think people will be on notice that if they are going to use players likenesses, they will have to pay for them," Berman said.


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Capital Views: Historic Photographs of Washington, DC, Alexandria and Loudon County, Virginia, and Frederick County, Maryland
By James M. Goode
An exquisite selection of rarely seen photographs of landmarks, architecture, neighborhoods, and citizenry of our nation's capital from the city's first expansions to World War II. Capital Views is a treasure trove of undiscovered historical and architectural delights, with new pictorial treasures to uncover on each turned page.
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John O'Brien is a longtime cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine. He's also a senior lieutenant in the North Wildwood Beach Patrol, an illustrator of dozens of children's books, and a banjo/concertina player specializing in Celtic and Dixieland tunes.
John O'Brien, who lives in Delran New Jersey, says his beach work doesn't often inspire his artwork directly: "This job is public safety, the total opposite of drawing."
But the picture on the right, which appeared in the New Yorker on Aug. 13, 2001 had to be inspired by his time in on the beach.
Then there was Beach Patrol that you wrote with Max Bilkins and illustrated. That book came out in May 2004.
It's obvious his job influenced that book, so I am sure the beach will show up again in John's art.
I asked John about his process. This is what he had to say, "I begin my sketches using Bienfang Graphics paper, pencil and kneaded eraser surrounded by research material, text and type, if available.
"When I'm satisfied with the design, I ink over my pencil lines with a Rapidograph pen. Then, I erase the pencil lines and tape down the text.
"For the finishes I trace my sketches in pencil onto Strathore 4-ply 500 Series vellum surface paper, using a light box.
"Next, I ink over the pencil lines with the same Rapidograph pen used for the sketches.
"If color is required, I tape the drawing to canvas board using masking tape.
"I apply color to the inked drawing with Doctor Martin's Hydrus water colors. I occasionally use liquid or low tack frisket to mask out certain areas. A blow dryer is also a useful tool to speed things along."
Sketch to Final
John's latest book.
Sketch to Final.
POOF is my personal favorite!
John tells me the above piece ended up being made into fabric and turned into jackets.
The three cartoons below all appeared in the New York Times.
If you would like to meet John O'Brien he is having a book signing for Blockhead next Saturday at:
Books of Wonder Book Store
Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010
12 noon -2:00 pm
18 W. 18th St., NYC 10011
Hope you enjoyed your visit with John. This is only a fraction of the books he has illustrated. One of these days I am sure he will show off and have a website deveoped, so we can all visit when we want a fix of John O'Brien.
Besides being very talented, he is also a very nice guy. If you can stop by Books of Wonder next Saturday, I am sure you will enjoy your time with him.
Talk tomorrow,


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The honeymoon is over, the presents are unwrapped, now what? If you still like to have fun, but you're over the club the scene, and you're not ready to sit home and watch jeopardy every night, then this is the place for you!
A group of young married and newly married couples in San Diego. We are called young because we are. Our group consists of couples in their 20's, 30's some married for a few months, some for 10 years; some have kids and some don't. Come check us out and learn how to experience the incredible marriage God intended for you to have, while having fun in the process. Child care is provided!
For more info contact us at: (619) 665-3539
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Red coloration—historically seen as costly in vertebrates—might represent some physiological benefit after all, according to research published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.
Pheomelanin, which is responsible for red hair and freckles in humans and orange and chestnut coloration in other animals, is known to increase the damage to skin cells and melanoma risk when present in large amounts. Furthermore, its creation involves the consumption of glutathione, a beneficial antioxidant.
In an attempt to unearth the factors favoring the evolution of pheomelanin in spite of its costs, Ismael Galván and Anders P. Møller of the University of Paris-Sud examined the survival from one breeding season to the next of a wild European population of barn swallows, as well as the annual survival rates of 58 species of American birds.
What the research showed
A recent hypothesis claims that the consumption of cysteine (a component of glutathione) that occurs when pheomelanin is produced can be beneficial under conditions of low stress. Cysteine, which is mainly acquired through diet, can be toxic at high levels, so the production of pheomelanin may help to sequester excess quantities of this amino acid.
Galván and Møller measured birds' blood levels of uric acid and analyzed the coloration of their chestnut throat feathers (an indication of pheomelanin content). When they compared birds that had similar uric acid levels (and therefore similar capacities to excrete excess amino acids), they found that both the European barn swallows and the American birds with larger amounts of pheomelanin in their feathers survived better.
This study is the first to propose that the costs/benefits of pheomelanin may depend on prevailing environmental conditions, and its results suggest that the production of this pigment may even be beneficial in some circumstances. Given that all higher vertebrates, including humans, present pheomelanin in skin, pelage, and plumage, Galván and Møller's findings increase the scant current knowledge on the physiological consequences of pheomelanin and open new avenues for research that will help us understand the evolution of pigmentation.
(EurekAlert, January 2013)
(Photo of woman with red hair from Shutterstock)
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Making Money From a Informational Product
September 13, 2012 8 Comments
Everybody wants information.
This is why we search on Google,watch the news, read blogs, ask for help, etc. Providing useful information online is the best and easiest way to make money on the Internet. Everyone is looking for information, so if you can provide it you have the ability to profit. Think about how much time you spend online each day. How much of that time are you looking for answers or information? My bet it is most of your time.
There are a ton of different methods that you can use to give information to people and generate an income for yourself at the same time. Each method has a unique way of organizing the information and the user experience is different as a result. A lot of profitable websites sometimes provide their visitors with a combination of more than one of these methods. Think about which of the following methods would best suit you :
A Blog
A blog is a great way to easily organize your information online because the blogging
platform does all of the work for you. This website, for instance, is a blog. Whenever I want, I can log into my WordPress account, write in the "new post" area, click Publish and the website updates automatically.
It's quick and easy, and the best part is that you can set up a Blog for free. There are many different blogging platforms, but the most popular seem to be WordPress.com and Blogger.com, so check those out if you would like more information about blogging.
- Easy to start, edit and manage your content
- Builds an online community with your readers
- Establishes you as an expert in your field
- Blog can be used to promote a product of yours ( Ebooks, Software…etc)
- Can be free
- There will be many similar blogs in the same the area already
- It takes time to establish yourself as an expert and add great content to your blog
- Requires upkeep and constant attention to update content and respond to comments
How money is made:
- Advertising. (Google Adsense, Text-Link Ads, Private Advertising, etc.)
- Affiliate Links (Linking to a particular book and getting paid for leading a sale. Amazon.com for example)
- Donations. Yes, if you provide useful information and a donation button, some people may be kind enough to donate to your cause.
Helpful Links:
- 9 Little Known Traits of Successful Bloggers at Copyblogger.com
- How Bloggers Make Money from Blogs at Problogger.net
- How to Get Started with a Blog (and why all writers should) at WritingforyourWealth.com
An Ebook, or electronic book, is also a fantastic way to store information and distribute it to people. Usually Ebooks come in a PDF format and can be easily viewed on most computers. Ebooks are becoming even more popular today, especially with Amazon.com's Kindle or the Apple iPad out on the market.
- If you write and sell it yourself, there is no printing press to pay no publishers and no retailers to take a chunk of the profit. 100% of each sale is all yours.
- There's little or no upkeep once it's finished.
- It can earn you money for a time.
- It's easy to set up an affiliate program to have other websites sell your book for you too.
- An Ebook can take a lot of time to write.
- It's difficult to sell an Ebook from scratch. In other words, if you don't have an established audience already (i.e. from a blog or membership website), finding people to purchase your book can be a challenge.
- Once the Ebook is published and is sold, the information inside cannot be updated if, for example, something you wrote has become outdated. This is why you'll see different editions or versions of books come out sometimes.
How Money is Made:
- Visitors click on a "Buy Now" button on your website, which takes them to a form to fill out with their billing information. After processing, money is put into your account.
- Clickbank.com and E-Junkie.com are the top two methods of selling electronic files online. I prefer E-Junkie, because they will also deliver the product for you, and they don't take any money from your sales. Clickbank, however, has a better affiliate program, which is also important.
- If you start an affiliate program, you can find affiliates who will sell your Ebook for you off of their website. You pay your affiliates a small "finder's fee" for bringing in the sale.
- You can also sell on websites such as Amazon or Ebooks.com.
Helpful Links:
- How to Create Ebooks That Sell at Copyblogger.com
- 11 Tried and Tested Strategies To Market Your Ebook at BloggingBits.com
- How to Create and Publish Your Own Ebook with a $0 Budget at SkellieWag.org
Membership Sites
A membership site is a website that can only accessed with a password. People usually pay a one time or monthly fee to become a member and gain access to the information inside. Membership sites are a powerful way to generate an income online, and I'm hoping to get involved with this soon.
- Immediately creates a sense of membership and community within the site.
- Continuously updating and providing information can guarantee that people will stick around and keep feeding you money each month.
- As an owner and administrator of a membership site, you're immediately seen as "the expert". This is powerful because it can help you bring more members in, and also have the ability to easily sell things to the members you already have.
- The payment system in a membership website, and is kind of a snowball effect. For instance, month one, you have 10 paying members. The next month, you gain 10 more paying members, for a total of 20 paying members.
- Creating a membership site takes a lot of hard work, time, and effort. You want to make sure that you are able to give your members what they are paying for. If you don't, they'll feel betrayed and leave.
- Again, it can be difficult to bring in members if you don't have an established audience or reputation already. Some money may be needed to invest in marketing the membership website to be able to get it off the ground before it takes off.
- Although money is generated automatically, you can't just disappear and leave the content alone and static. It's reassuring to the members if there is new stuff available every once in a while, which is good because it decreases the potential number of people who stop paying for access.
How Money is Made:
- Members will be charged a one-time lifetime fee or a monthly fee for access to the information on the site.
Helpful Links:
- The Continuity Snowball at Continuityblueprint.com (warning: 30 minute video, but it's worth it)
In addition to the methods above, you can also sell tools and templates, newsletters, audio or visual products, and learning methods.
As you can see, you have a lot of options to choose from. You can also combine two or more of the methods to create an even bigger resource for
If you are in no rush to make money, I would recommend starting with a blog, building readership and trust, and then sell an ebook or start a membership program to take your informational marketing to the next level.


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There may be a new type of Trojan Horse attack to worry about.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who sent five Hewlett-Packard laptop computers to West Virginia Governor Joe Mahchin a few weeks ago, with state officials worried that they may contain malicious software.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, other states have been targeted too, with HP laptops mysteriously ordered for officials in 10 states. Four of the orders were delivered, while the remaining six were intercepted, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
The West Virginia laptops were delivered to the governor's office several weeks ago, prompting state officials to contact police, according to Kyle Schafer, the state's chief technology officer. "We were notified by the governor's office that they had received the laptops and they had not ordered them," he said. "We checked our records and we had not ordered them."
State officials in Vermont and Wyoming told him they've received similar unsolicited orders, Schafer said. Representatives from those states could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Schafer doesn't know what's on the laptops, but he handed them over to the authorities. "Our expectation is that this is not a gesture of good will," he said. "People don't just send you five laptops for no good reason."
The computers are now being held as evidence by state police, who are working with the FBI to figure out how the machines were sent to the governor's office, said Michael Baylous, a sergeant with the West Virginia State Police.
The West Virginia laptops were delivered Aug. 5, according to the Charleston Gazette, which first reported the story.
Although there is no evidence that the computers contain malicious code, HP confirmed Thursday that there have been several such orders and that they have been linked to fraud. "HP is aware that fraudulent state government orders recently have been placed for small amounts of HP equipment," spokeswoman Pamela Bonney said in an e-mail message. "HP took prompt corrective action to address the fraudulent orders and is working with law enforcement personnel on a criminal investigation."
With users now more reluctant to install suspicious software or open attachments on their networks, scammers appear to be looking for new ways to get inside the firewall. On Tuesday, the National Credit Union Administration warned that an unnamed credit union had received two fake CDs designed to look like training materials. Installing the CDs "could result in a possible security breach to your computer system," the administration warned.
Scammers have also tried to put malware on USB devices and then left them outside company offices, hoping someone will plug them into a computer and inadvertently install malicious software on the network. Many Windows systems are configured to automatically run software included on CDs and USB devices using a Windows feature called AutoRun.
Many organized criminals would be happy to spend the cost of five PCs in order to access government computers, said Steve Santorelli, director of investigations with security consultancy Team Cymru. "What is a netbook? $700? You send five of them; you're dropping three grand, and say you get into the Congressional e-mail system. How valuable would that be?"


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I love using citris in recipes at this time of year. I love citris, period, although I rarely use it anymore due to my 1 1/2 year old's citris allergy. When I saw this gluten and dairy free recipe for clementine cake by Deb at Smitten Kitchen, I knew I wanted to try it. I ended up making it for our Solstice Party (while my husband pointed out that having people over is not a time to try a brand new recipe which I planned to further alter).
However, it turned out really well. I was quite impressed and happy to have another use for the almond meal leftover from making almond milk.
- 1 pound of celementines.
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1/4 cups leftover almond meal from making almond milk (as opposed to Deb's 2 1/3 cups of almond flour)
- 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder (I use homemade in order to avoid the cornstarch)
According to the original recipe, you cover the clementines with water, bring to a boil, and simmer for two hours, under the raised eyebrows of your husband, who is horrified that the entire clementines will go into the cake. Deb's instructions say to deseed the clementines after they cool, but the seeds were so small it seemed pointless. I dumped them in my trusty Blend-Tec,along with the other ingredients, and blended away.
After pouring in a greased (with canola oil) springform pan, I baked the cake for about 50 minutes at 375.
The cake turned out wonderfully moist with an almost custard like texture and a taste that was more than sweet enough (I may even cut the sugar down next time).


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Jessica Mayhew is a sharp, successful therapist with a thriving practice and loving family. But the arrival of a new client, actor Gwydion Morgan, coincides with a turbulent moment in her life: her husband has just confessed to a one-night stand with a younger woman. The son of a famous stage director, Gwydion is good-looking and talented but mentally fragile, tormented by an intriguing phobia. When Jessica receives a frantic call warning that he is suicidal, she decides to make a house call.
The Morgans live in a grand clifftop mansion overlooking the rocky Welsh coast. It seems to be a remote paradise, but there's something sinister about it too: Jessica learns that the family's former au pair drowned in the bay under mysterious circumstances. In her quest to help Gwydion, to whom she's grown increasingly attached, Jessica becomes ensnared in the Morgan family mystery, which soon becomes an explosive public scandal—one that puts her directly in harm's way. Meanwhile, Jessica is doing her best to keep her marriage and family together, but her growing attraction to Gwydion is impossible to ignore.
Smart, stylish, and suspenseful, The House on the Cliff announces the arrival of a winning female protagonist in Jessica Mayhew and an exciting new crime writer in Charlotte Williams.


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Welcome to IceWolf Photography
Proudly serving the Salt Lake area with photographic services for over 5 years!
IceWolf Photography is owned and operated by photographer Alex Weisman. Having started out providing photographic services to the Pioneer Theatre Company, IceWolf Photography has grown and now provides portraits, headshots, and event coverage in the greater Salt Lake area and beyond.
IceWolf Photography is committed to providing high quality images to all kinds of clients, whether you need senior portraits or a shooting an ad campaign. We even offer special deals for local college and high school students who need headshots or portraits for theatre (or anything else).
Please feel free to browse through the images on our website to get an idea of what we do. If you have any questions, would like to book a shoot, or just need more information, don't hesitate to contact us. We are reachable viaemail, facebook, and phone. We do our best to get back to everyone as quickly as possible.
If you are looking for recent or past photos from theatre productions you can find them under the Theatre drop down in the main menu bar. You can find photos from the Pioneer Theatre Company under the drop down of the same name. If you would like to use IceWolf Photography for your upcomming theatre prformance, you should be able to find all the information that you need under Info & Services.
You can also find IceWolf Photography onfacebook. There I will try to keep people up to date on events and promotions. So please take a moment to "Like" us on facebook and check back often to find out when I have displays up or if there are any deals you would like to take advantage of. You can also send comments and posts to our facebook page from the bottom of this site.
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CLEVELAND — The Warriors will be down three starters — point guard Stephen Curry, center Andrew Bogut and forward Harrison Barnes — as well as key reserve forward Carl Landry as they conclude their four-game road trip against the host Cavaliers.
Bogut, who returned to action Monday at Toronto after a 38-game absence, was scheduled to get the night off. He is still rehabilitating his surgically repaired right ankle
Curry, who sprained his right ankle in the third quarter Monday, has been ruled out, his third missed game this season.
Barnes is knocked out by a sore left knee. He hurt it when he was fouled on a dunk late in Toronto and landed awkwardly. It was initially said to be his calf, but his left knees began to bother him Tuesday.
Landry took a charge late in the game and injured his shoulder.
Reserve guard Jarrett Jack will start in place of Curry. Warriors coach Mark Jackson would not reveal which backup center — rookie Festus Ezeli or Andris Biedrins — would start in place of Bogut.
Nor would Jackson say who is replacing Barnes. The likely candidates are veteran Richard Jefferson or rookie Draymond Green.